Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 12/1/2003
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of December 1, 2003
- First Iraqi memorandum of arrest against Saddam
The Iraqi National Reconciliation Movement, headed by Eyad Allawi, who is also a member of the Interim Governing Council, announced that one of Baghdad's courts issued for the first time a memorandum of arrest against the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on assassination charges. Iraq, Politics, 12/4/2003 - Visiting US scholars to Iraq: US serious mistakes in approach to security and future elections
Duelfer also said the "American logic" of a representative government based on population numbers of different ethnic and religious groups will not work in Iraq. Iraq-USA, Politics, 12/4/2003 - Iraq will increase oil production to two million barrels daily
The Iraqi oil minister Ibrahim Baher al-Aloum said yesterday that Iraq intends to increase its oil exports to two million barrels daily by the end of the first quarter of 2004. Iraq, Economics, 12/4/2003 - Iraqi police completely corrupt Iraq-USA, Politics, 12/4/2003
- American occupation launches a campaign of research in Karkouk
News reports on the killing or detaining deputy chairman of the Iraqi Revolution Leadership Council in the former regime, Ezzat Ibrahim al-Douri, in Karkouk quoted member of the Interim Governing Council in Iraq, Muwaffaq al-Rubei, saying that the American forces launched on Monday in Karkouk a large operation and it is probable that Ezzat Ibrahim al-Douri,had been killed or jailed. Iraq-USA, Military, 12/3/2003 - American killed, governing council forms committee to deal with election issue
One American soldier was killed near al-Habaneyah, town to the west of Baghdad, after a military vehicle was exposed to an attack launched by resistance fighters yesterday morning. In a statement, the occupation forces said the soldier died because of grave wounds he suffered. Iraq-USA, Military, 12/2/2003 - Iraqi resistance target Washington's allies, occupation kills 46 Iraqis in ambush
A spokesman for the fourth contingent announced that the American forces killed 46 persons and injured other 18 and jailed 8 in Samreaa, following what the occupation leadership said was an ambush that targeted two American military vehicles in the city of Samreaa in the center of Iraq. Iraq-USA, Military, 12/1/2003