Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 5/12/2003
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of May 12, 2003
- UNICEF finds nutrition and health falling among iraqi children
"These findings make clear that not enough is being done to turn the situation around. Instead it has gotten worse," UNICEF Representative in Iraq Carel De Rooy said. Iraq, Health, 5/16/2003 - US promise to tighten security; Iraqis call for foreigners to get out
Thousands of the Iraqis celebrated the Prophet Muhammad Birth Anniversary (May 15th) in demonstrations calling for the departure of the Anglo- American occupation from the country. Iraq-USA, Politics, 5/15/2003 - Nine Iraqi children killed in an explosion in Missan
Nine Iraqi children were killed and seven wounded in the south of the country when unexploded ordnance they were playing with detonated, a UN spokesman said Wednesday. Iraq, Local, 5/15/2003 - Al-Assad, Blair review ME developments Iraq-UK, Politics, 5/15/2003
- Al-Itihad: Saddam Hussein's daughters want to be identified by the Coalition forces
The al-Itihad paper of the Kurdistani National Federation party said yesterday that daughters of the toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein are willing to let the coalition forces know about the place where they stay. Iraq, Politics, 5/14/2003 - Rabat denies Tareq Aziz's presence in morocco
Morocco flatly denied on Saturday the presence in the Kingdom of Tareq Aziz, former Iraq's deputy premier. Morocco-Iraq, Politics, 5/13/2003 - British minister resigns over PM plans concerning Iraq Iraq-UK, Politics, 5/13/2003
- The USA decieved the world on Iraq
In its rush for making a case for war against Iraq, the US made several claims, most important of which were related to Iraq owning and developing weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, biological and chemical. Also links to terrorism were made. Iraq-USA, Analysis, 5/12/2003 - Hakim outlines vision of elected and modern Iraq government
Iraq's most prominent Muslim leader said on Saturday the country's future government should be a freely elected one that "respects Islam" and upholds unity while recognizing the rights of the various Iraqi ethnic and religious groups. Iraq, Politics, 5/12/2003 - Moroccan political leader insists on international legality in Iraq construction
First secretary of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP), Abderrahmane Youssoufi, called on Friday the International Socialist to endeavor for the respect of international legality -embodied by the UNO and the security council- in Iraq's reconstruction process Iraq, Politics, 5/12/2003 - Another shipment of Syrian aid for Iraq
Volunteers of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent Organization delivered on Saturday the Syrian aid to the Iraqi people. Syria-Iraq, Local, 5/12/2003 - Iraqi antiquities seized at the Jordanian borders Jordan-Iraq, Local, 5/12/2003
- Al-Rai al-Am: Arab fund to monitor coalition forces spending in Iraq
The Kuwaiti daily al-Rai al-Am yesterday quoted diplomatic sources that the draft resolution proposed by the US to the UN Security Council on Friday gives authorities to the Arab Fund for Economic Development which takes Kuwait as a headquarters to monitor the spending of the coalition forces in Iraq, including oil sales. Regional-Iraq, Politics, 5/12/2003