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COALITION PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY
BAGHDAD
INFO MEMO
March 5, 2004
THE ADMINISTRATOR
FOR:
Don Hamilton
FROM:
SUBJECT: 24 February IRI Focus Group in Nasariyah The report reaches you late because technical communications failures prevented delivery to As usual, Steve Moore's report contains important nuggets.
• As before, "making and keeping promises," is a resonant theme.
• IGC adequate interim solution, but not a substitute for elections.
• Chalabi seen as an American who arrived in Nassariyah on an American tank in an American uniform.
• Nasariyahns want someone who will work not just for Iraq, but for them.
• They are pleased that the Italians moved out of the center of town, but now deride them as cowards who use the Iraqi Police to protect them.
• They like 15-minute speeches more than Saddam's long ones, but only if you have something to say.
• / They said they would probably tune-in your speeches if they knew ahead of time when you were speaking and what the subject was to be.
ATTACHMENTS:
IRI focus group report: "Local Politics and Perceptions of Amb. Bremer in Nasariyah COORDINATION: NONE