Iraqi Reaction to U.S.-British Plan for Power Transfer

NPR | By Alex Chadwick,

Deborah Amos

Published June 9, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to NPR's Deborah Amos, reporting from Baghdad, about the reaction in Iraq to the United Nations resolution supporting the American and British plan for handing over power in Iraq. The U.N. Security Council unanimously passed the resolution on Tuesday.

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