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Mon Apr 21, 2:24 PM ET Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo!
By Mona Megalli
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United States does not recognize a former exile who says he is governor of Baghdad and Washington thinks his deputy cannot represent Iraq (news - web sites) at an OPEC (news - web sites) meeting this week, a senior U.S. official said on Monday.
Barbara Bodine, coordinator for central Iraq in the U.S. civil administration overseeing reconstruction, said the United States did not recognize Mohammed Mohsen al-Zubaidi, who said last week he was made chief of an interim council to run the capital.
"We don't really know much about him except that he's declared himself mayor," said Bodine, a former U.S. ambassador to Yemen. "We don't recognize him. There hasn't been a process of selection. Once there's a process, then whomever."
Mon Apr 21, 2:24 PM ET Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo!
By Mona Megalli
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United States does not recognize a former exile who says he is governor of Baghdad and Washington thinks his deputy cannot represent Iraq (news - web sites) at an OPEC (news - web sites) meeting this week, a senior U.S. official said on Monday.
Barbara Bodine, coordinator for central Iraq in the U.S. civil administration overseeing reconstruction, said the United States did not recognize Mohammed Mohsen al-Zubaidi, who said last week he was made chief of an interim council to run the capital.
"We don't really know much about him except that he's declared himself mayor," said Bodine, a former U.S. ambassador to Yemen. "We don't recognize him. There hasn't been a process of selection. Once there's a process, then whomever."
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