Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 7/7/2003
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of July 7, 2003
- The building of a new Iraq
The US went into Iraq for reasons that it knows itself. What it told the world is that it went into Iraq to liberate it from tyranny, and to give it freedom, democracy, and prosperity. That is certainly a noble objective. Iraq, Editorial, 7/12/2003 - Explosions in al-Ramadi, redeployment in Falouja as US soldiers are killed, attack in Sameraa
A position for the US forces in Sameraa city to the north of Baghdad was exposed to an attack by missiles on Thursday midnight. Witnesses said that several American soldiers were killed or wounded in an attack by missile. This news was not confirmed by the US forces leadership. Iraq-USA, Military, 7/12/2003 - Al-Sahaf: Saddam is in Iraq, he should have resigned office
The former Iraqi minister of information, Muhammad Saeed al-Sahaf, has hinted upon his arrival in the United Arab Emirates on Thursday that he might not return back to Iraq. He expressed conviction that the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is still alive. Iraq-United Arab Emirates, Politics, 7/12/2003 - Bremer discuss formation of ruling council with Iraqi opposition groups; Egypt - US consultations
News reports in Cairo said that an American delegation including 12 persons arrived in Cairo on Thursday evening in order to hold talks with Egyptian officials on the future of the American occupation of Iraq and the extent of Cairo's readiness to take part in political and military missions in Iraq in the coming phase. Iraq-USA, Military, 7/12/2003 - Some 80,000 Palestinians in Iraq
The UNHCR has said it will start next week registering 80,000 Palestinians living in Iraq, many of them were expelled from their houses and do not enjoy legal protection since the collapse of the regime of Saddam Hussein. Iraq-Palestine, Politics, 7/12/2003 - Iraqi resistance intensifies attacks: 4 Americans killed
Iraqi resistance intensified their attacks against the American forces during the past 24 hours and carried out a series of attacks that resulted in killing 4 American soldiers, whereas members of the Iraqi police in Falouja threatened to resign if the occupation units will not leave the city, considering their existence as "constituting a threat on us." Iraq-USA, Economics, 7/11/2003 - Bremer asks Congress for 1.2 billion for fixing the oil industry Iraq-USA, Economics, 7/11/2003
- Two attacks by Iraqi resistance in Falouja; US soldier killed
Witnesses said that members of the Iraqi resistance fired two attacks by over the shoulder RPJ missiles at the headquarters of the American forces and an American military vehicle in Falouja to the west of Baghdad. Iraq-USA, Military, 7/10/2003 - Kurds force 7000 Shiite to evacuate
Several Bashmarka Kurds who returned back to Khanqin in the downtown of Iraq after the collapse of the Iraqi regime three months ago expelled thousands of Shiite families who settled in the area, at the directives of the former regime, 30 years ago. Iraq, Politics, 7/10/2003 - More than 6,000 Iraqis killed by the US war on Iraq
A group of British and American researchers said yesterday that the number of killed because of the American- British war against Iraq reached more than 6,000 following statistics that covered the victims in remote areas in Iraq. Earlier statistics said that 5500 Iraqis were the victims of the war. Iraq, Politics, 7/10/2003 - Kwaiti says it identified four missing Kuwaitis dead in Iraq
The spokesman for the search team for "misssing Kuwaitis and prisoners in Iraq" Fayez al-Oneizi said yesterday that the remains of four Kuwaiti missing were found in a mass grave in al-Samawa area to the south of Iraq. Kuwait-Iraq, Politics, 7/9/2003 - Peking: The Iraqi ambassador, his wife hide with their weapons in the embassy
The implications of the war in Iraq had a new development in Peking where the ambassador is in an armed confrontation with his employees, while the Chinese police stand not far prepared for fighting. Iraq-China, Politics, 7/9/2003 - Occupation wants to privatize oil, Saddam declares himself resistance leader
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has declared himself as a leader for the Iraqi resistance. He called on the Iraqis in a new taped message broadcast yesterday for "the unity of the rank" in order to "expel the invaders" considering that gangs and secret operations are the best way to resist the occupation as well as trade boycott and civilian unrest. Iraq-USA, Politics, 7/9/2003 - Iraqi- Kurdish official visits Damascus Syria-Iraq, Politics, 7/9/2003
- Two American soldiers, one British wounded in two attacks in Iraq
An officer in the US army said that two American soldiers were slightly wounded in an explosion that inflected damage in their vehicles at the outskirts of Baghdad. The army officer who was talking from the explosion site said that an explosive went off on the highway linking Baghdad and Baghdad's International airport. Iraq-USA, Military, 7/9/2003 - EU lifts sanctions from Iraq
The European Union yesterday officially decided to lift most of the sanctions imposed on Iraq, in line with the recent resolution of the UN Security Council but kept several measures like freezing the assets of the toppled Iraqi President and his former regime members. Iraq-European Union, Politics, 7/8/2003 - Two Americans killed, four wounded in Iraqi attacks
Iraqi resistance continued operations against the American occupation forces and killed during in 24 hours two Americans and wounded other 4, at a time when Baghdad's municipal council held its first meetings in the presence of the US administrator of Iraq Paul Bremer. Iraq-USA, Military, 7/8/2003 - British journalist, US soldier killed; four assassination attempt against Bremer
An Iraqi daily disclosed yesterday that the American civil administrator of Iraq, Paul Bremer, was exposed to four assassination attempts at the hands of unidentified persons since he assumed his post in Baghdad in May, at a time when the Iraqi operations claimed the lives of one British journalist and two wounded Americans during the two past days. Iraq-USA, Military, 7/7/2003 - Nizar Hamdoun dies at 59 Iraq, People, 7/7/2003