Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 3/21/2005
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of March 21, 2005
- Iraq's parliament convenes again on Monday
Shiite negotiations stressed that the list of the United Iraqi Coalition list which is supported by Ayatullah Ali al-Seistani and the Kurdish list agreed in principle to convene the next session of the Iraqi National Assembly ( parliament ) next Monday in order to choose a speaker for the parliament and two of his deputies and the presidential council which is composed of the President of the republic and two of his deputies. Iraq, Politics, 3/26/2005 - Bloody attacks in Iraq
Several Iraqi cities witnesses in the past hours new attacks and explosions, the most violent of which were the attack by a booby trapped car that targeted an inspection point for the Iraqi police at the eastern entrance of Ramadi city to the west of Baghdad and inflicted 11 killing in the line of the Iraqi police. Iraq, Military, 3/26/2005 - Iraqi scholars see legitimate constitution as key to the future
Three prominent Iraqi scholars say that the formation of a successful democratic government in their homeland will depend very much on how the new Iraqi constitution is framed. Iraq, Politics, 3/25/2005 - Exports resumption from Basra port following strike's end
Normal work was resumed in the Basra oil port after the return back of employees of naval guide in the port to their work ending a strike that resulted in obstructing the exports, according to a naval agent. Iraq, Economics, 3/25/2005 - American soldier killed, attacks by gunmen in Iraq
A spokesman for the American army said on Thursday that one American soldier was killed in an attack that took place on Wednesday evening to the south of Baghdad, giving no details on the conditions and implications of the attack. Iraq-USA, Military, 3/25/2005 - Inclination to appoint a Sunni minister of defense in Iraq, scores of gunmen killed
Heavy losses were inflicted on gunmen in Iraq as 86 of them were killed in a violent battle to the west of Tikrit city, to the north of Baghdad, and they thereby lost the largest number in their lines in a single day since the Falluja fighting in November 2004. Iraq, Politics, 3/24/2005 - King Abdullah sends back the Jordanian charge de affairs to Iraq
The Jordanian King Abdullah II ordered the return back of the Jordanian diplomatic mission from Iraq amid expectations of the return back of the Iraqi ambassador to Amman. Jordan-Iraq, Politics, 3/23/2005 - Anti- war demonstrations in London and U.S. cities
Protesters placed a coffin outside the American embassy in London with the words "100,000 dead" written on it. Iraq-Regional, Politics, 3/21/2005 - Nearby Shiite- Kurdish agreement on the government in Iraq Iraq, Politics, 3/21/2005
- Iraqi- Jordanian diplomatic crisis Iraq-Jordan, Politics, 3/21/2005
- Iraqi police man killed, al-Sader demands the evacuation of the Americans
Gunmen assassinated yesterday a senior official in Musil city police. This was in an operation which targeted the directorate of administrative corruption fighting and resulted in killing several persons. Iraq, Military, 3/21/2005 - Iraqi minister denies kidnapping Iraq, Local, 3/21/2005