| U.S. and Iraqi officials will meet in southern Iraq on Saturday to begin planning for an interim Iraqi government, Vice President Dick Cheney said on Wednesday. "We will bring together representatives of groups from all over Iraq to begin to sit down and talk about planning for the future of this Iraqi interim authority and getting it up and running," Cheney told a meeting of U.S. newspaper editors. He said the meeting would be held near Nassiriyah in southern Iraq. Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Monday that Washington would send a team to Iraq this week to assess what is needed to set up an interim Iraqi authority. |