Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 4/18/2005
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of April 18, 2005
- Kuwait to exchange diplomats with Iraq
The Kuwaiti foreign minister Muhammad al-Sabah announced on Friday that Kuwait has taken necessary measures to exchange diplomats with Iraq, noting that the Kuwaiti embassy will be opened following the completion of the Iraqi government formation. Kuwait-Iraq, Politics, 4/23/2005 - Iraqi president is frustrated over the delay in announcing the iraqi government
Amid drastic security conditions in Iraq, coupled by the repeated failures to form the government, the Iraqi President Jalal al-Talibani expressed his frustration over the delay of announcing the new Iraqi government which he attributed to the differences over the distribution of ministerial bags. Iraq, Politics, 4/23/2005 - Attacks increase in Iraq
The American army announced on Friday that one American soldier was killed and another injured in a bomb explosion targeting an American vehicle while running in TelAfar town near al-Musil to the north of Iraq on Thursday. Iraq, Military, 4/23/2005 - Eight Iraqis killed in clashes
Acts of violence continued in Iraq with the repeated failures to form an Iraqi government, and under the absence of the state's control on security conditions in Iraq. Iraq, Military, 4/23/2005 - Iraq: residential units for the Palestinians who were displaced after the collapse of Baghdad
One Palestinian diplomat in Baghdad announced on Friday that the UNHCR, under the supervision of the Iraqi ministry of immigration and the expatriates, rented housing units for the Palestinians who were expelled from their houses after the fall of Baghdad. Iraq-Palestine, Politics, 4/23/2005 - Neighboring countries of Iraq meeting in Ankara Iraq-Regional, Politics, 4/23/2005
- New Iraqi government formation delay
Talibani ruled out what he called those "whose hands murdered Iraqis" from the pardon he had proposed after he took his constitutional oath on April 7th. Iraq, Politics, 4/22/2005 - Helicopter downed in Baghdad; five westerners killed in two attacks
American military sources said that a trade helicopter of M-A 8 type was downed in Iraq on Thursday and its nine occupants were supposedly killed. Iraq, Military, 4/22/2005 - 11 killed in Bulgarian helicopter downing in Baghdad
Armed attacks escalated in Iraq. Police sources in Beiji to the north of Baghdad said that the body of 19 persons for members of the national guards were found. Iraq, Politics, 4/22/2005 - Kuwait confiscates the last issue of Ara'
the magazine's publication of an opinion poll carried out by the center in Baghdad in March showing that 32% of the Iraqis consider that Kuwait is the country most damaging for Iraq among the neighboring state Kuwait-Iraq, Politics, 4/21/2005 - Allawi survives assassination attempt in Baghdad Iraq, Politics, 4/21/2005
- Talibani: government by today; bodies of 50 hostages found
In a remarkable development, the Iraqi interim President Jalal al-Talibani said that the bodies of more than 50 persons, supposedly for hostages held in al-Madayen town near Baghdad held earlier this week, were found. Iraq, Military, 4/21/2005 - Sunni Waqf chairman, Shiite tribal leader killed in Iraq
scores of the students of the jurisprudence sciences faculty demonstrated in front of the Iranian embassy in Baghdad, and called for the departure of members of the Iranian intelligence from Iraq. Iraq, Politics, 4/21/2005 - 19 Iraqi national guards killed
Some 19 members of the Iraqi national guards were killed by the bullets of gunmen after they were held as hostages in a football stadium in Haditha to the north west of Baghdad. Iraq, Military, 4/21/2005 - Fate of hundreds of missing Kuwaitis in Iraq still unknown
The UN Security Council has commended the new Iraqi government over the help to search for hundreds of missing Kuwaitis, who have been missing since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Iraq-Kuwait, Politics, 4/20/2005 - New mass graves for Kuwaitis in Iraq found Iraq-Kuwait, Politics, 4/20/2005
- The crisis of al-Madayen city in Iraq
The national Islamic resistance in Iraq warned against what it called the attempt to provoke the spirit of sectarianism among the people of the country. It considered in a statement that what had happened in al-Madayen is an attempt to divert the attention of the Arab and Iraqi street of what it described the drastic failure in forming the government. Iraq, Politics, 4/20/2005 - Bloody day in Iraq
Iraq had witnessed yesterday a new bloody day that resulted in killing 18 persons at least and injuring scores most of them killed in two attacks that targeted Iraqi national guards forces in Baghdad and al-Khaledeyah town to the west of the capital. Iraq, Military, 4/20/2005 - Talibani opposes death penalty for Saddam
The interim Iraqi president stressed his intention to refuse signing any death penalty against the toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein if he is convicted to committing war crimes. Iraq, Politics, 4/19/2005 - Al-Madayen crisis ends, resulted in killing 13 Iraqis
They explained that "matters were exaggerated because the Shiite who won the elections and could not translate that to maintain a political force over their rivals, including the Sunnah who had been once a predominant force." Iraq, Politics, 4/19/2005 - Turbulent meeting for the Iraqi parliament
Al-Madayen crisis overwhelmed works of the Iraqi National Assembly (parliament) which resumed its works on Sunday morning. Iraq, Politics, 4/18/2005 - Tension to incite sectarianism in al-Madayen
News reports coming from al-Madayen, south Baghdad, said that hundreds of the Iraqi and American forces took their positions around the town in a large scale military operation to retake control of the city. Iraq, Politics, 4/18/2005