Glad to see this guy leave! Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage U.S. Imposes Will on Iraq's Kut After 'Mayor' Flees
Sun April 27, 2003 08:27 AM ET
By Saul Hudson
KUT, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces have imposed their will on the strategic eastern Iraqi city of Kut, forcing out a cleric who had taken charge and seizing the mayor's office in a symbolic show of power.
Marines stood guard on the perimeter walls at Kut city hall on Sunday and a U.S. administrator held meetings inside it, after self-styled mayor Abbas Abu Ragef -- also known as Saed Abbas -- quit town.
Calling himself "the father of the people" and removing a portrait of Saddam Hussein from the mayor's office, Abbas had until late on Friday taken up residence as leader of the 380,000 people in Kut, an agricultural hub near the Iranian border.
Sun April 27, 2003 08:27 AM ET
By Saul Hudson
KUT, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces have imposed their will on the strategic eastern Iraqi city of Kut, forcing out a cleric who had taken charge and seizing the mayor's office in a symbolic show of power.
Marines stood guard on the perimeter walls at Kut city hall on Sunday and a U.S. administrator held meetings inside it, after self-styled mayor Abbas Abu Ragef -- also known as Saed Abbas -- quit town.
Calling himself "the father of the people" and removing a portrait of Saddam Hussein from the mayor's office, Abbas had until late on Friday taken up residence as leader of the 380,000 people in Kut, an agricultural hub near the Iranian border.
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