Today’s attack in Nasiriya comes a day after Paul Bremer, the American overseeing the Iraqi occupation, was rushed back to Washington for an emergency meeting on the state of Iraq. He met at the White House with Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and CIA director George J. Tenet. One Defense Department official told the New York Times Bremer was called to Washington to defend his approach in Iraq. According to the New York Times, the leaders discussed the future of the Iraqi Governing Council, the possibility of installing an interim Iraqi leader as the U.S. did in Afghanistan and other means of handing more power to Iraqis.