The Foreign Service Journal, March 2004

M A R C H 2 0 0 4 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 29 A VETERAN FSO WHO SERVED IN B AGHDAD FOR SIX MONTHS FOLLOWING THE WAR EXPLAINS WHY HE IS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT I RAQ ’ S FUTURE . B Y H UME H ORAN F O C U S O N I R A Q n April 9, 2003, Baghdad fell to the forces of the Coalition Provisional Alliance — to the Third Infantry Division and the U.S. Marines, to be precise. Just a month later, I arrived in Baghdad with Ambassador Jerry Bremer — who succeeded Gen. Jay Garner as the country’s administrator and, in Amb. Bremer’s case, as President Bush’s personal representative in Iraq. I was named a senior adviser to Amb. Bremer at the Coalition Provisional Authority. I continued in that capacity until the end of November, dealing mostly with religious and tribal issues. O Adam Niklewicz R ESTORING A S HATTERED M OSAIC