Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 3/28/2005
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of March 28, 2005
- Parliament fails to choose speaker;booby trapped car in Karkouk
The Iraqi National Assembly ( parliament) held its second session on Tuesday after a two and a half hours delay without choosing a speaker for it. Iraq, Politics, 3/30/2005 - Bush meets Iraqi voters on efforts toward democracy
President Bush said the more than 8 million Iraqis who participated in the January 30 Iraqi elections sent "a powerful signal" that they "intend to claim their liberty and build a future of freedom for their country." Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/30/2005 - Mortar shelling hits Green Zone in Iraq Iraq, Military, 3/30/2005
- On the Romanian hostages in Iraq
The President of Romania Trian Basesco said that three journalists from his country disappeared on Monday in the outskirts of the Iraqi capital, and vowed to spare no efforts to solve this problem. Iraq-Romania, Local, 3/30/2005 - Annan says exoneration by Iraq Oil-for-Food report 'great relief'
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said yesterday it was a "great relief," after so "many distressing and untrue allegations," that an independent committee probing alleged misconduct and mismanagement in the United Nations Oil-for-Food program for Iraq had exonerated him of any wrongdoing in the award of a contract to a firm that employed his son. Iraq-UN, Politics, 3/30/2005 - Elyawer rejects the presidency of the parliament
Sources close to the Iraqi president, Ghazi Elwayer, whose term of office has expired, said he had rejected accepting the post of the speaker of the interim National Assembly. Iraq, Politics, 3/29/2005 - Number of foreign fighters among gunmen in Iraq increases
The leader of the American central leadership Gen. John AbiZaid said that the number of foreign fighters in the lines of gunmen in Iraq increased recently. Iraq-Regional, Politics, 3/29/2005 - Continued military attacks in Iraq
The political controversy over the formation of the government in Iraq coincided with continued deterioration of the security situation as seven Iraqis were killed and other 8 injured in a suicide attack in a booby trapped car that targeted a procession heading for Karbala, in the south of Baghdad. Iraq, Military, 3/29/2005 - Seistani denies intervention in politics, a government is expected very soon in Iraq
The Shiite clergy on Iraq Ayatullah al-Seistani said on Sunday he does not interfere in the political life except when it is necessary, especially in crisis times. This was expressed during his meeting with the UN envoy to Iraq, Ashraf Qadhi. Iraq, Politics, 3/28/2005 - Acts of killing continued in Iraq
Three members of the Higher Council For The Islamic Revolution, led by Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, were killed when a car they were riding was exposed to fire to the north of Baqouba to the north east of Baghdad, according to security sources. Iraq, Military, 3/28/2005