Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 2/21/2000
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of February 21, 2000
- Armed attack on house of Iraqi deputy prime minister
Iraqi sources stated yesterday that the home of Mohammed Hamza El-Zebaidi, the Iraqi deputy prime minister, was exposed to an armed attack by unknown people. Iraq, Politics, 2/26/2000 - Concluding meetings of the joint committee between Iraq and Belarus Iraq-Belarus, Politics, 2/25/2000
- Clinton: We should consider ideas regarding easing sanctions Iraq-USA, Politics, 2/25/2000
- Iraq: death of a generation
The numerous death cases and those of killer diseases befalling Iraqi children in the dramatically poorly equipped hospitals stand witness to the death of a whole generation in the sanction-stricken Arab country. Iraq, Health, 2/24/2000 - New statistics on Iraqi deaths under UN embargo
The Iraqi Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday that some 11,000 Iraqis died in January this year, bringing the number of Iraqis who have died since the beginning of the embargo imposed on Iraqi since 1990 to 2.173 million. Iraq, Politics, 2/24/2000 - Iraqi, Iranian immigrants apply for political asylum
Some 61 immigrants from Iraq and Iran arrested by the Indonesian police on February 15 while trying to slip into Australia were trying to seek political asylum in Britain, Australia and the United States. Iraq-Iran-International, Politics, 2/24/2000 - Iraq criticizes oil-for-food program
Iraq said yesterday that the resignation of two UN officials this month came because they saw that the UN oil-for-food program did not fulfill Iraq's needs and that it is not an alternative to lifting the sanctions. Iraq-International, Politics, 2/23/2000 - Aziz welcomes call of US congress members to ease sanctions on Iraq
Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Aziz the welcomed the call addressed by 70 members of the US Congress in which they asked US President Bill Clinton to lift the economic part of the sanctions imposed on Iraq for 10 years. Iraq-USA, Politics, 2/23/2000 - Drought threatens Iraq
Iraqi Agriculture Minister Abdallah Hamid Mahmud al-Salih warned yesterday of the possibility of Iraq being exposed to a disaster due to the drought which threatens Iraqi agriculture, saying that Iraq is suffering for the second year from a severe drought, and he called for economizing the use of water. Iraq, Economics, 2/22/2000 - Iraq: UN resignations call for lifting of sanctions Iraq-UN, Politics, 2/22/2000
- Mandela, Gorbachev, Dalai Lama urge world leaders to help the Iraqi people
35 international personalities and organizations urged yesterday world leaders to move to help the Iraqi people and lift the sanctions imposed on it since August of year 1990. Iraq-International, Politics, 2/21/2000 - US: Iraq fires missiles at no-fly zone aircraft Iraq-USA, Military, 2/21/2000