Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 1/19/2004
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of January 19, 2004
- Two members of the communist party were killed in Baghdad al-Seistani demands halting anti- occupation demonstration
The higher Shiite clergy Ayatullah Ali al-Seisatni in his yesterday ( Friday) sermon called for immediate halting to all anti- occupation demonstration in Iraq. He said that these demonstrations will be stopped until a resolution is issued by the UN on making direct elections. Iraq-USA, Military, 1/24/2004 - Iran to provide electricity to Iraq; damages to Iraqi electricity network due to US past actions are $8 billion
Iraq and Iran on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in the field of electricity, according to which Tehran gives support to Baghdad to rehabilitate its network and provide it with electrical power. Iraq-Iran, Economics, 1/22/2004 - Two explosives dismantled in front of offices of the higher council; Iraqi minister escapes assassination
Ten persons were wounded including three Americans when an explosive went off, implanted on the roadside in Musil, to the north of Iraq, yesterday, while the Iraqi police in al-Najaf said that it dismantled two explosives implanted on Wednesday and Tuesday near offices for the Higher Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, led by Abdul Aziz al-Hakim. Iraq-USA, Military, 1/22/2004 - Qatar decides to chop most of the Iraqi debts
An official in the Qatari foreign ministry announced yesterday that Qatar will chop most of its debts due to be paid by Iraq, and will also discuss chopping the remaining sums. Qatar-Iraq, Politics, 1/21/2004 - Kuwait permits Iraqi pilgrims to cross its lands
Member of the Iraqi Governing Council and chairman of the Iraqi pilgrims mission, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, said that the Kuwaiti authorities permitted all Iraqi pilgrims who have been waiting since several days on the borders between the two states to enter its territories, on their way to Saudi Arabia. Kuwait-Iraq, Politics, 1/21/2004 - Annan studies UN interference in Iraq
Nws reports say that the UN secretary general Kofi Annan is studying a request proposed by the UN and the Iraqi Interim Governing council to send a UN team to Iraq in order to discuss the possibility of making early elections before authority transfer. Iraq-UN, Politics, 1/21/2004 - Coalition forces releases Jordanian prisoners
Some 20 Jordanian prisoners freed by the coalition forces which occupy Iraq arrived on Sunday in Amman in two planes for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Iraq-Jordan, Politics, 1/20/2004 - Powel: Saddam Hussein will not be tried before transfer of authority to the Iraqis
The US Secretary Of State Colin Powell said yesterday that the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein will mot be tried before the transfer of the authority to the Iraqis. Iraq-USA, Politics, 1/20/2004 - Vanguards of the Japanese forces arrive in southern Iraq; A meeting in New York, demonstration in Baghdad over elections
Meetings dedicated to discuss the return back of the UN to Iraq and its contribution to the plans of transferring authority to the Iraqis started at the headquarters of the UN in New York. Iraq-Japan, Military, 1/20/2004 - Al-Youm: Efforts to end human rights violations in Iraq
Iraqi Human Rights Minister, Abdul Basset al-Turki said there is continued contacts with the American occupation troops to end their violation of human rights in the country. Iraq, Politics, 1/19/2004 - Two British soldiers wounded in al-Basra, 25 killed in a suicide bombing in the green area
The American administrator of Iraq, Paul Bremer, condemned the suicide explosion which targeted the headquarters of the occupation forces in the downtown of Baghdad and resulted in killing 15 persons, including two Americans, and wounding 131 persons. Iraq-USA, Military, 1/19/2004 - Erdogan renews Turkey's rejection for an ethnic rule in Iraq Iraq-Turkey, Politics, 1/19/2004
- Turkey for unity of Iraqi parties Iraq-Turkey, Politics, 1/19/2004