Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 6/30/2003
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of June 30, 2003
- Talibani: the next Iraqi government will not establish relations with Israel
In a press interview, the chairman of the Kurdistani National Federation, Jalal al-Talibani, said the attacks against the American occupation forces in Iraq "are not organized resistance" and are limited to certain areas of Sunni majority, while the Kurdish areas in the north and the Shiite in the south are characterized of being calm. Iraq-Israel, Politics, 7/5/2003 - In a taped message, Hussein urges Iraqis to expel occupation
The toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has urged the Iraqi people to resist the American and British occupation and expel them from Iraq, just one day after the US allotted a sum of 25 million dollars as a prize for his capture. Iraq, Military, 7/5/2003 - One American killed; 11 Iraqis killed in clashes with US forces
The US occupation forces announced they killed 11 Iraqi resistance fighters while trying to implant an ambush for a military patrol near Balad town to the north of Baghdad, in a clash which is the largest with Iraqi resistance since the collapse of Saddam Hussein regime, it came just hours following an attack by the resistance by mortars against an American base in the same area resulted in wounding 18 American soldiers. Iraq-USA, Military, 7/5/2003 - Kurdish woman acquires high position in Iraq
In a remarkable development, Mubeira Abu Baker has assumed her post as a governor for Doukan district to the north of Iraq, to be therefore the first Iraqi Kurdish woman to assume this administrative post since the foundation of the modern Iraq in 1921. Iraq, Politics, 7/4/2003 - Nine Americans wounded in explosion in al-Ramadi, an attack in Baghdad
An American military spokesman announced yesterday that 6 American soldiers were wounded in an explosion that took place in al-Ramadi city to the west of Baghdad. Iraq-USA, Military, 7/4/2003 - Talibani meets Khaddam, al-Ahmar: View points are identical concerning Iraq
The Syrian Vice President, Abdul Halim Khaddam, and the assistant secretary general of the Baath Arab Socialist Party, Abdullah al-Ahmar, received the chairman of the Kurdistani National Federation, Jalal al-Talibani, in two separate meetings in Damascus yesterday. Syria-Iraq, Politics, 7/3/2003 - Iraqi Shiite make assurances to the Sunni: we will not revenge. Saddam's atrocity was on all
Al-Shahamani continued that the essence of repression was interests, rather whether the oppressor was a Shiite or Sunni. Iraq, Politics, 7/3/2003 - Le Figaro and the USA
French daily Le Figaro has stressed that American companies' monopolization of all projects of construction in Iraq affirm that the American war on Iraq aimed only at controlling Iraq's economy. Iraq, Politics, 7/3/2003 - Talibani in Damascus: occupation prevents fighting
The leaders of the Kurdistani National Federation Jalal Talibani yesterday in Damascus said that the American occupation forces have to stay in Iraq in order to avoid disorder and to prevent inter- fighting and the regrouping of partisans of the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Syria-Iraq, Politics, 7/2/2003 - Eye- witnesses say five US soldiers killed in two attacks, Pentagon denies it
A spokesman for the the Pentagon denied the killing of any American soldier in Iraq on Monday, but admitted that six were wounded in attacks launched by Iraqi resistance men. Iraq-USA, Military, 7/2/2003 - Al-Khaleij: Al-Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein to visit Syria
Al-Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein, the chairman of the Royal constitutional movement in Iraq said he might visit Syria in the context of his current tour on several Arab states he had already started last week in the United Arab Emirates UAE. Iraq-Syria, Politics, 7/1/2003 - Explosions in Iraq: scores killed, wounded
The Iraqis yesterday had two bloody incidents, the first was near al-Haditha city where scores were killed in an ammunition warehouse and the second in al-Falouja, which is rebellious against the Americans, where 3 explosions took place and resulted in killing 8 persons and 15 wounded, including Fiqh ( Islamic jurisprudence students), a mosque Imam, speculated to be a result of American air raids. Iraq, Local, 7/1/2003 - Wafiq al-Samaree searched for Saddam Hussein; Sunday Times: al-Rawi is hiding in the desert
The British daily Sunday Times said yesterday that the chief of staff of the Iraq's disbanded Republican Guards army units in the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein, Seif Eddine Faleih Hassan Taha al-Rawi, is hiding in a small city in the heart of the desert after he had pretended he was dead and organized a fake funeral for himself. Iraq, Politics, 6/30/2003