Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 12/9/2002
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of December 9, 2002
- Tunisia prevents a demonstration against the war on Iraq Tunisia-Iraq, Politics, 12/14/2002
- Kuwaiti paper: Iraq plans destruction acts against Kuwait
A Kuwaiti paper said well-informed intelligence sources concerning internal Iraq said that the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has issued a decree for reactivating field work of groups that are so called "the Kuwaiti right league," chaired by Shaalan al-Shummari, through preparing destruction plans inside Kuwait Kuwait-Iraq, Politics, 12/14/2002 - Iraq will present a list in the names of scientists
The chairman of the Iraqi national control department, lt. Gen. Husam Muhammad Amin, said that Iraq will hand over to the UN, at its own request, a list including names of Iraqi experts who will be interrogated about the military programs of Baghdad, according to UN security Council resolution no. 1441. Iraq, Politics, 12/13/2002 - Iraq accepts a visit of a UN delegate for the Kuwaiti missing
The UN yesterday announced that the Iraqi government approved for the first time the visit to be carried out by the Russian Yuli Foronitsof to Iraq. He is the UN coordinator for the prisoners and properties that have been missing since the invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Iraq-UN, Politics, 12/13/2002 - Iraqi opposition held a preparatory meeting in Tehran
Officials representing four main Iraqi opposition organizations held a preparatory meeting for the opposition's plenary conference which will be held in London on Saturday. Iraq-Iran, Politics, 12/12/2002 - US finalized preparations for attacking Iraq
The Kuwaiti daily al- Anbaa reported yesterday quoting well-informed British sources that the US and Britain are intending to call on the UN security council to convene a meeting before the fall of the Christmas, considering that the American forces have become ready to launch a war against Iraq by the fall of January, 2003 instead of February. Iraq-USA, Politics, 12/11/2002 - Al-Rafeydeen: Blix, al- Barad'e to visit Iraq Iraq, Politics, 12/11/2002
- Kuwait complains to the AL about the Iraqi apology Kuwait-Iraq, Politics, 12/11/2002
- Iraqi criticism for al-Ateyah statements
A spokesman for the Iraqi National Council (parliament) yesterday criticized statements made by the secretary general of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Abdul Rahman al-Ateyah, who described the message of the Iraqi President to the Kuwaiti people as disappointing. Iraq-Gulf, Politics, 12/10/2002 - Draft recommendations of the opposition conference in London
Well-informed sources at the Iraqi opposition said that the preparatory committee of the opposition conference which will be held on Saturday in London has reached the draft of the conference's final recommendations. Iraq, Politics, 12/10/2002 - Kuwaiti FM refuses to comment on Saddam's speech addressed to the Kuwaitis Kuwait-Iraq, Politics, 12/9/2002
- Iraq's denies connection to killing of opposition member, al-Mayahi
A well-informed source at the Iraqi embassy in Lebanon has denied any connection for the Iraqi authorities to the killing of the Iraqi opposition member, Walid Ibrahim al-Mayahi, whose body was found in an apartment he lives in al-Sader Islamic complex in the Lebanese southern city of Tyre. Iraq-Lebanon, Politics, 12/9/2002 - As new UN arms experts arrive in Iraq, inspectors visit chemical factory
With new United Nations weapons experts arriving in Baghdad, teams from the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today continued their operations in Iraq. Iraq, Politics, 12/9/2002