Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 3/15/1999
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of March 15, 1999
- King Fahd to pay the expenses of Iraqi pilgrimages which they rejected
The Saudi minister of the Interior Prince Nayef Bin Abdul Aziz has announced that 18,000 Iraqi pilgrimages arrived at Hdidat Arar border area of the Saudi Northern border district with Iraq on Friday morning. Saudi Arabia-Iraq, Politics, 3/20/1999 - United Nations employee accused of smuggling carpets to Iraq
Iraq accused a United Nations employee of attempting to smuggle prohibited Iranian carpets into Baghdad. Iraq-UN, Politics, 3/20/1999 - AL session avoids mention of prisoners, missing and no-fly zones
The decision assigned the AL chief to create a mechanism to settle humanitarian issues between Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. It avoided mentioning the no-fly zones in the northern and southern parts of Iraq. Regional-Iraq, Politics, 3/19/1999 - UN - Iraq - compensation Iraq-UN, Economics, 3/19/1999
- Abdul Meguid condemns US - British attacks on Iraq Regional-Iraq, Politics, 3/18/1999
- Baghdad attacks the Gulf statement
Baghdad strongly attacked a statement released by the Gulf Cooperation Council member states and accused Washington of seeking to divide Iraq. Iraq, Politics, 3/18/1999 - US: Oil-for-food increases would help sanctions remain
US Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson, former US representative to the United Nations, said before a joint hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that the Iraqi oil-for-food program could be increased without posing a threat to international oil prices in part because Iraq cannot meet the current dollar levels of the program due to its production capacity. Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/18/1999 - Baghdad: Four persons arrested on charge of killing al-Sader
The Iraqi authorities said it detained 4 persons on charge of assassinating Ayatollah Muhammad Sadeq al-Sader in Najaf City last month. Iraq, Politics, 3/18/1999 - Saudi Arabia denies Iraqi claims Saudi Arabia-Iraq, Politics, 3/18/1999
- Saudi Arabia refuses US request to seize Iraqi pilgrimage plane Saudi Arabia-Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/18/1999
- US planes strike Iraqi artillery positions Iraq-USA, Military, 3/17/1999
- Iraq calls on the Arab states to break the embargo imposed on it
The Iraqi daily al-Jouhureyah (the Republic) on Tuesday called on the Arab foreign ministers who will meet today in Cairo to break the embargo imposed on Iraq by all means and to condemn the US and British aggression against it. Iraq-Regional, Politics, 3/17/1999 - Abdul Meguid and al-Dakhil discuss Iraq's demands
Arab League Secretary General Esmat Abdul Meguid discussed with Kuwaiti Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Abd al-Aziz al-Dakhil the Kuwaiti refusal of Iraq's demand to list two items on the meetings agenda of the Arab foreign ministers: the no-fly zone imposed on Iraq and the Iraqi, Kuwaiti and Saudi missing. Regional-Iraq, Politics, 3/17/1999 - Baghdad defies embargo by pilgrimage plane to Mecca
Once again Baghdad has defied the UN embargo by sending a plane carrying elderly pilgrims to Mecca and asserted its determination to send a second shift today. A Saudi source said the Iraqi plane arrived on Tuesday afternoon. Iraq, Politics, 3/17/1999 - Increasing exports of Iraqi petroleum
The United Nations in Baghdad released a statement announcing that Iraqi petroleum exports have recorded an increase amounts to 1.9 million barrels daily today after it was 1.7 million barrels in mid-1998. Iraq, Politics, 3/17/1999 - US - Iraq attacks Iraq-USA, Military, 3/17/1999
- Iraq participates with biggest delegation to meetings of Arab foreign ministers Regional-Iraq, Politics, 3/17/1999
- 12,000 Iraqi captives in Iran Iraq-Iran, Politics, 3/17/1999
- Arab follow-up committee on Iraq to meet on March 17
The Arab ministerial committee charged by the meeting of the consultation committee of the Arab foreign ministers to follow up on moves with the UN Security Council to lift the economic sanctions imposed on Iraq will convene its first meeting on March 17 and 18 in the framework of the meetings of the 111th session of the Arab League to be held under the chairmanship of Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa. Iraq, Politics, 3/16/1999 - U.S-British shelling continues against Iraq
Despite the US - British air strikes launched against Iraq that have lasted for three months, joint air strikes are still continuing against the sites of Iraq's anti-aircraft missiles almost daily. Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/16/1999 - Smuggling Iraqis to Australia
Australian immigration officials said on Monday that a network for smuggling Iraqis to Australia for $10,000 US per person was discovered. Iraq-Australia, Politics, 3/16/1999 - Eight Iraqis executed over assassinating clergy in 1998 Iraq, Politics, 3/15/1999
- Over 10,000 Iraqi children and elderly died of malnutrition Iraq, Health, 3/15/1999
- Opposition: 23 Iraqi army officers executed for conspiring against the regime
The Higher Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq has announced that some 23 high-ranking Iraqi army officers were executed at the beginning of this month under charges of conspiring against the government. Iraq, Politics, 3/15/1999 - Indyk and on the no-fly zones in Iraq
US Undersecretary of State Martin Indyk said, "The no-fly zones in the northern and southern parts of Iraq are very necessary to help and protect the Iraqi people and to ensure the implementation of UN resolutions 687 and 688, especially those resolutions forcing Saddam to halt repression against the Iraqi people." Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/15/1999 - Iraq stresses rejection of no fly zones, Arab condemnation of US strikes
Amid great Arab concern about continued aggressions, US warplanes renewed their strikes on positions in northern Iraq. Iraq, Politics, 3/15/1999