Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 1/26/2004
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of January 26, 2004
- Iraqi resistance escalates; Annan sends a delegation
Armed men attacked yesterday four American armored vehicles procession in al-Musil city to the north of Iraq. Iraq-USA, Politics, 1/31/2004 - Berri meets with the Iraqi Interim governing council delegation Lebanon-Iraq, Politics, 1/31/2004
- The Saudi al Watan: Saddam Hussein's health deteriorating
The Saudi Arabian daily al-Watan said yesterday that health of the toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is deteriorating, and that he suffers a disease in his stomach that makes him unable to take food he used to eat. Iraq-USA, Politics, 1/30/2004 - Al-Assad receives Iraqi delegation led by governing council member
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad received yesterday an Iraqi delegation headed by Member of Iraqi Transitional Governing Council, Muwafaq al-Rubai. Talks dealt with the current situation on the Iraqi arena and the Syrian-Iraqi relations and the possibility of coordination between both states in various fields. Syria-Iraq, Politics, 1/30/2004 - One killed, 11 wounded in two attacks at the Iraqi civil defense
One member in the Iraqi civil defense forces was killed and another one wounded yesterday in an attack by anti- tanks weapons in al-Muradeyah village, 83 Km to the south of the city of Karkouk. Iraq-USA, Military, 1/30/2004 - One Iraqi killed in an explosion in Baghdad
The American army said that one Iraqi was killed and several persons wounded yesterday morning in an attack by a booby trapped car, in what seems to be in front of a hotel in the downtown of Baghdad. An America military spokesman said he does not have information that the explosion is made by a " suicide attacker." Iraq-UN, Military, 1/29/2004 - Independent: invasion of Iraq lacked humanitarian and logical justification
The British Independent daily stressed Tuesday that the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq lacked human and logical justification. The daily cited a report by the Human Rights Watch organization that the failure to find weapons of mass destruction(WMD) in Iraq would push the U.S. President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair to hide behind humanitarian reasons. Iraq-USA, Politics, 1/28/2004 - Hours after three American soldiers are killed, two Iraqis working for CNN killed
Two workers in the US TV network CNN were killed and a third was wounded in an ambush implanted against them at the outskirts of the capital Baghdad. Iraq-USA, Military, 1/28/2004 - Occupation forces vow to protect UN mission; Three American soldiers killed in an explosion to the west of Baghdad
The American occupation forces said that three US soldiers were killed in an explosion which shook al-Khaledyeah area to the west of Baghdad. The explosion which targeted an American military vehicle also resulted in wounding three Iraqi civilians. Iraq-USA, Military, 1/28/2004 - Occupation forces release 10 Jordanians held in Iraq
The Jordanian foreign minister, Marwan Mausher, said yesterday that ten Jordanians detained by the American occupation forces in Iraq will return on Thursday to Amman after they were released from Um Qaser camp, in southern Iraq. Iraq-USA, Local, 1/28/2004 - New York Times: Kay denies evidence of moved Iraqi unconventional weapons to Syria; or WMD in Iraq
The former Chief of the Committee for hunt for the alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, David Kay, denied any the existence of proof that Iraq had moved unconventional weapons into Syria. Iraq-USA, Politics, 1/27/2004 - Human rights Watch: Iraq's war was not a humanitarian intervention
The Human Rights Watch said that it is a mistake to describe the invasion launched by the US and Britain against Iraq in March as a humanitarian interference. Iraq-USA, Politics, 1/27/2004 - Nine Iraqis killed, the first attack against the Japanese in Iraq claims the life of one Jordanian
The Japanese forces which were deployed in Iraq recently were exposed to the first attack yesterday, and this resulted in the killing of one Jordanian driver, while four members of the Iraqi police were killed, and a fifth wounded, when armed men opened fire at an Iraqi police center in al-Ramadi city, to the west of Baghdad. Several others were wounded when an explosive went off to the south of Baghdad. Iraq-USA, Politics, 1/27/2004 - American occupation release al-Jazeera photographer in Iraq
The American occupation forces in Iraq released al-Jazeera TV station Suheib al-Samerei after two months of his detention. Iraq-USA, Politics, 1/26/2004 - Two Iraqis killed in Karkouk and one American soldier in Tikrit; One American helicopter crashed in al-Musil
Witnesses in al-Musil city to the north of Iraq said that one American helicopter crashed yesterday evening in the city. Iraqi police men and American soldiers said that one helicopter crashed after it collided with an electricity column. The occupants fell in the water of the Tigris. Iraq-USA, Military, 1/26/2004 - Al-Ahram: Turkish Premier and the situation in Iraq Turkey-Iraq, Politics, 1/26/2004