I'm in Charge Here...

Mildly amusing/indicative of the problems of transition:

Confusion reigns over who will represent Iraq at this week's emergency meeting of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), after a former Iraqi general declared he would attend.

The US said it does not recognise Jawdat Obeidi, who claims he is deputy governor of post-war Baghdad and leader of an Iraqi delegation to Vienna on Wednesday.

"He can't," said Barbara Bodine, the Pentagon's civil coordinator for the reconstruction of central Iraq.

Source: Confusion over Iraqi 'oil minister'