Thursday saw the first major bombing since the so-called transfer of power. Although U.S. soldiers were among the first on the scene, Iraq’s interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi toured the area.
Allawi has been attracting the attention of observers there simply because he does not appear to be managing the country’s affairs as an agent of the U.S. He has met secretly with insurgent leaders, and offered limited amnesty. The others he says will be pursued and killed as enemies of Iraq.
Guests:
Peter Greste, Baghdad Correspondent for the BBC
Dan Murphy, Baghdad correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor
Daniel Byman, assistant professor at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.