Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 9/29/2003
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of September 29, 2003
- Iraqi council consider return of Baathists; six months not enough to draw constitution
The Interim governing council in Iraq yesterday considered that the period of six months speculated by the US secretary of state Colin Powell to formulate a constitution is not enough, and announced simultaneously it studies returning back members of the former ruling Baath party to their posts in the state administration. Iraq, Politics, 10/1/2003 - US soldiers attacked in Baghdad
One American soldier was strongly wounded yesterday when a bomb went off as an American military convoy was running on a bridge near Beirut circle to the north of Baghdad, while one Iraqi was killed and other 4 wounded during clashes with the occupation soldiers after which 11 Iraqis were arrested in Sameraa to the north of Baghdad. Iraq-USA, Military, 10/1/2003 - King Abdulah: Jordan will train 30,000 Iraqis
The Jordanian King Abdulah II has called on the USA and the European Union to pressure both the Palestinian and Israeli sides to urge them to resume their negotiations. After he had ruled out sending Jordanian forces to Iraq, Abdullah announced that Jordan has received thousands of Iraqis to train them. Jordan-Iraq, Politics, 9/30/2003 - Jordanian premier confers with member of the Iraqi interim council
The Jordanian prime minister Ali Abul Ragheb yesterday met with member of the Iraqi interim governing council Eyad Allawi and stressed "Jordan's care to maintain the unity and territorial integrity of Iraq and the importance of achieving its peace and security as well as enabling the Iraqis running their own affairs by themselves." Jordan-Iraq, Politics, 9/30/2003 - Iraqis assume Iran's border control; Washington build up 15,000 troops
At a time when the "police" of the oil pipelines which is basically composed of former Iraqi military men trained by the American and British occupation forces started yesterday to position in areas of northern Iraq where the oil pipelines are exposed to continuous attacks, the occupation forces on Saturday assigned a new Iraqi force the responsibility of guarding part of the borders with Iran of 335 Km length of the area which is mostly dominated by the Kurds to the north in Eastern Baghdad area, to be the first time in which Iraqis maintain full control on part of their borders since toppling Saddam Hussein. Iraq-USA, Politics, 9/29/2003 - Khaddam confers with member of the Iraqi governing council
Syria's Vice President Abdulhaleem Khaddam received in Damascus on Sunday Secretary General of the Iraqi National council and member of the Iraqi Interim Governing Council, Eyad Allawi. Syria-Iraq, Politics, 9/29/2003 - Bremer says Iraqis not ready for a quick turnover of power
The civilian administrator in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer, says the current Iraqi Governing Council recognizes that it is not ready to assume governing powers in Iraq, despite calls from some for a quick turnover of power to the Iraqis. Iraq-USA, Politics, 9/29/2003 - Bremer wants Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to stop asking Iraqis for money
US Administrator of Iraq asked Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and others to forgive or delay request for payments from financially strapped Iraqis. Iraq-USA, Politics, 9/29/2003 - Kuwait rejects US and Iraqi Council to forgive debts
Kuwait's minister of information Muhammad Abu al-Hassan said that the issue of compensating damages resulting from the invasion of Iraq in 1990 is an "indisputable matter at the UN Security Council which had its say and submitted the matter to the compensations committee which approved the allotted sums, not only for Kuwait, but also for the damaged countries." Kuwait-Iraq, Politics, 9/29/2003 - No Saudi forces to Iraq Saudi Arabia-Iraq, Politics, 9/29/2003
- Arab al-Youm: Al-Saadi rejects bribe offer from US to say to say Iraq had mass destruction weapons Iraq-USA, Politics, 9/29/2003