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Shiite Goals Complicate U.S. Timetable for New Iraq

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By Ivan Watson

Published April 24, 2003 at 12:00 AM EDT

Retired Gen. Jay Garner, U.S. civil administrator for Iraq, seeks to speed efforts to form an interim administration. But Shiite clerics press for an Islamic state similar to neighboring Iran. NPR's Guy Raz and NPR's Ivan Watson report.

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