Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 6/23/2003
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of June 23, 2003
- Al-Hakim calls for resisting occupation by negotiations
The chairman of the "Higher Council For the Islamic Revolution in Iraq" Muhammad Baqer al-Hakim yesterday expressed his rejection to what he called acts of violence against the US-led coalition forces. He said he prefers peaceful means to put an end to occupation. Iraq-Iran, Military, 6/28/2003 - UNHCR: Syrian refugees expelled from their houses in Iraq
The spokeswoman for the UNHCR said yesterday that Syrian refugees were expelled from their houses in Iraq under the threats of weapons since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime in April. Syria-Iraq, Politics, 6/27/2003 - Iraqi resistance intensify with 3 Americans killed; al-Sahaf freed after interrogation
At last the former Iraqi minister of information Muhammad Saeed al-Sahaf appeared on the scene to occupy the Arab space satellites, but this time he did not exaggerate, nor falsified facts, rather left gray color sweeps his head. He promised to write down the history of the fall of Baghdad which he did not admit to that day on April 7th when he disappeared. Iraq-USA, Military, 6/27/2003 - Arab human rights commission urges for suing authors of genocide in iraq
The Arab Permanent Human Rights Commission condemned on Wednesday, at the end of its extraordinary session, the genocide discovered in Iraq and urged for taking legal action against their authors. Regional-Iraq, Politics, 6/27/2003 - Future Iraq army to be limited in size; Former soldiers to receive monthly stipends
The chief U.S. administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, announced June 25 that the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) would begin to pay interim monthly stipends to former Iraqi soldiers and their families by mid-July. Iraq-USA, Politics, 6/26/2003 - Rebuilding Iraq is the toughest of all missions, Abizaid says
Resolving reconstruction and stability issues in Iraq presents a complex set of problems that are not strictly a military concern, but instead require a vast array of support, says President Bush's nominee to lead the U.S. Central Command. Iraq-USA, Politics, 6/26/2003 - Planning begun for Iraq's reconstruction
The international community and a Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) delegation that includes senior Iraqi bureaucrats began moving toward a new era of assistance for Iraq June 23 with a session to prepare for a major, formal reconstruction conference to be held later in the year. Iraq-USA, Politics, 6/26/2003 - Pentagon denies arresting al-Sahaf
The US defense department yesterday denied news reports published by a British daily that the American forces arrested the former Iraqi minister of information Muhammad Saeed al-Sahaf. Iraq-USA, Politics, 6/26/2003 - New oil explosion to the north west of Baghdad Iraq, Local, 6/26/2003
- Iraq's AL representative must be Iraqi national Regional-Iraq, Politics, 6/26/2003
- Annan recommends ending UN observer mission along Iraq-Kuwait border Iraq-Kuwait, Politics, 6/26/2003
- U.S. Treasury moves to freeze funds of Iraq's 'Most Wanted'
The US Treasury Department added the 55 names of Iraq's "Most Wanted" regime figures to the Office of Foreign Assets Control's Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list, freezing any accounts in U.S. Iraq-USA, Economics, 6/26/2003 - 14 British soldiers killed, injured in southern Britain
Six British soldiers were killed and other 8 wounded after they were exposed to a double attack near al-Amara city to the south of Iraq, in the first incident of the kind since the end of the war in this country. Iraq-UK, Military, 6/25/2003 - Pipeline explosion was an attack, two US soldiers killed, injured in Baghdad
One US soldier was killed and another was injured in an attack by mortars that targeted an American military vehicle to the south of Baghdad. Iraq-USA, Military, 6/23/2003 - Bremer sees economic freedom as vital to Iraq's future
The successful reconstruction of Iraq will require that newly acquired political freedoms be accompanied by economic freedoms and the reversal of "decades of economic mismanagement" by the former Ba'athist regime, says Ambassador Paul Bremer, the top U.S. civilian administrator in Iraq. Iraq-USA, Economics, 6/23/2003