Arabic News Daily Page for 3/13/2004
Weekend Edition - Saturday, March 13, 2004
- Two Americans were killed, al-Seistani disapproves of the constitution
Ahmad al-Safi, the representative if the Shiite clergy Ayatullah al-Uzma Ali al-Seistani in Karbala city described the provisional state law as a historical farce and a grave tragedy. Al-Safi said in Friday's prayers sermon in Karbala yesterday that this law was composed by the hands of occupation in a way that permits the return back of Jews to Iraq to "assume governmental posts." Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/13/2004 - Two contracts in 1.1 billion for two American companies in Iraq
One American spokesman announced in Baghdad yesterday that the US defense department ( the Pentagon) gave two contracts at a total value of 1.1 billion dollars to two American companies in the context of rebuilding Iraq. Iraq-USA, Economics, 3/13/2004 - On Muscat's Islamic Philology Assembly Statement
The Islamic Philology Assembly called upon the international community to stop the Israeli terrorism and massacres perpetrated against the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian lands. Regional-Oman, Politics, 3/13/2004 - New oil finds in Western Desert
Geologists have uncovered indicators of oil in the Egyptian Western Desert within juristic formations extending in an area of hundreds of kilometers. Egypt, Economics, 3/13/2004 - Arab, European bodies to finance new power station
"The Arab Economic and Social Development Fund (AESDF) agreed to loan Egypt $ 100 million to build an additional power plant in Talkha," said Egypt's Minister of Electricity and Energy. Egypt, Economics, 3/13/2004 - Washington calls on US citizens in Jordan to be cautious
The American embassy in Amman addressed a call through its website on the Internet to the US citizens in Jordan to be cautious. This followed information saying that what it had called terrorists are preparing to make attacks against hotels in the Kingdom. Jordan-UN, Politics, 3/13/2004