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  newsline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Nick Theros, the Washington representative of Iyad Allawi, who headed the Iraqi National Accord in exile, said it was raw intelligence from a single source, part of a large amount of information passed on by the INA to MI6.
He said the Iraqi officer who claims to have been the original source of the intelligence had in fact never seen the purported chemical weapons crates upon which his 45-minute claim was based.
Iraqi scientists realised that they could go to Saddam and present plans for weapons programmes and receive large amounts of money, without making good their promises.
www.prisonplanet.com /270104iraqiwhogave.html   (877 words)

  
 The January 30th Iraqi Elections
The voter registration process consisted of validating and adding names, and correcting information on the provisional voter registration list, which was based on the food ration public distribution database.
The draft constitution is to be presented for approval to the Iraqi people in a national referendum in October 2005.
By the end of 2005, the Iraqi people are expected to elect a new national government under a new, permanent constitution.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/rls/41199.htm   (800 words)

  
 Text of Iraqi Constitution
Iraqis are guaranteed the right to educate their children in their mother tongues, such as Turkomen or Assyrian, in government educational institutions, or any other language in private educational institutions, according to educational regulations.
Article (39): Iraqis are free in their adherence to their personal status according to their own religion, sect, belief and choice, and that will be organized by law.
The issue of confidence in a minister can only be put forth at his request or because of a request signed by 50 members as a result of discussing an interpellation directed to him.
www.voanews.com /english/2005-08-24-voa39.cfm   (4262 words)

  
 Long Live the New Iraq!
A Sunni Muslim, al-Samarrai was a member of the Iraqi exile community in the United States during the 1990s, when he was a member of the executive committee of the opposition group Democratic Centrist Tendency.
Minister of Immigration and Refugees — Mohammed Jassem Khodayyir
A Shia Muslim, al-Hafez was the Iraqi representative to the United Nations from 1978 to 1980; afterwards, he headed the Arab Economic Research Association in Cairo.
www.cpa-iraq.org /government/Iraqi_Ministers.html   (829 words)

  
 Iraqi Interim Government - SourceWatch
At the invitation of the Iraqi Governing Council, and with our full support, the UN is playing a vital role in the formation of the Iraqi Interim Government by June 30 and in preparing for national elections by January 2005.
Iraqis have told us, however, of their desire to have limits on the authorities of this government -- an unelected, short-term interim government.
Paul Bremer and the President of the Iraqi Governing Council Jalal Talabani issued a statement to the Iraqi people December 1 saying that their sovereignty will be restored by June 30, 2004 in the form of a Transitional Iraqi Government.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Iraqi_Interim_Government   (1934 words)

  
 Members of the Iraqi cabinet
Served twice in the monarchical parliament, and was minister of culture and information briefly in 1967.
President of the Iraqi Bar Association from 2003; head of a task force on compensation for victims of the former regime.
Former senior adviser of the Iraqi Reconstruction and Development Council to the Ministry of Planning, supervising provincial affairs; and as an ambassador at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
middleeastreference.org.uk /iraqministers.html   (4785 words)

  
 Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea
Iraqi and U.S. officials say al-Qaida's leader in Iraq was killed in an airstrike on a safehouse near Baquba.
Maliki said intelligence information led U.S. and Iraqi forces to a safe house near Baquba, 65 kilometers north of Baghdad, where Zarqawi was meeting with colleagues on Wednesday evening.
The new interior minister is Jawad al-Bolani, a Shi'ite.
english.chosun.com /w21data/html/news/200606/200606080037.html   (551 words)

  
 UK aid funds Iraqi torture units
Iraqi Police Service officers said that ammunition, weapons and vehicles earmarked for the IPS are being taken by shock troops at the forefront of Iraq's new dirty counter-insurgency war.
Liberal Democrat defence spokesman Michael Moore called on ministers to make an immediate statement in the House of Commons: 'These are serious reports that go to the heart of the question of the coalition's oversight of the security situation in Iraq.
International and Iraqi officials claim the use of torture has become more extensive since the country's first democratically-elected government was sworn in.
www.informationclearinghouse.info /article9362.htm   (733 words)

  
 Jubilee Iraq - Iraqi views on debt
Iraqis believe it is unfair for creditors to ask for interest and arrears, because during the sanctions years the international community did not permit Iraq to earn any foreign currency to service the debt.
Iraqis say that the majority of the debt is odious, relating to the war with Iran, corruption and economic mismanagement by Saddam’s regime.
Some Iraqis are prepared to consider part of the reparations, for example Shaikh Mauyad suggested that claims relating to individuals who were harmed during the occupation of Kuwait may be acceptable, but the claims of corporations and governments are certainly not acceptable.
www.jubileeiraq.org /iraqiviews.htm   (3583 words)

  
 Iraq Reconstruction - Transitional Administration
The CPA is working with Iraqi police to establish law enforcement and civil structures throughout the country.
The coalition will work to engage the Iraqi people as rapidly as possible, and give Iraqis leadership roles in the reconstruction effort -- for it is their responsibility to build the future of their country.
Only if Iraqis are engaged in, and responsible for, explaining to and leading their fellow citizens will broad public support develop that is essential for security.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/iraqi_transition.htm   (2058 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : International
Baghdad, April 4 (Reuters): Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, breaking his habit of avoiding the public gaze, was shown on Iraqi television on Friday being mobbed by cheering Iraqis in a bombed area of the capital threatened by US troops.
Iraqi television has repeatedly shown footage of him in what it says are meetings with ministers, most recently on Thursday.
Iraqi foreign minister Naji Sabri told the BBC that despite nightly bombing of Baghdad, Saddam and his government are intact.
www.telegraphindia.com /1030405/asp/foreign/story_1843718.asp   (695 words)

  
 The true face of Iraqi resistance
This is a propaganda war in which the hundreds of Iraqis killed every week by US bombardment fail to make the headlines, while the horrifying images provided by a Jordanian kidnapper and killer of British and US contractors is portrayed as the true face of Iraqi resistance.
Many even suspect that the occupation forces are somehow encouraging the likes of Zarqawi, or at least failing to prevent their crimes, as a way of obscuring the fact that most Iraqis now actively support a patriotic and widespread resistance movement.
Just as Iraq's 25 million people were reduced, in the public's mind, to the threat from weapons of mass destruction, ready to be unleashed within 45 minutes, the resistance is now being reduced to a single hoodlum.
www.informationclearinghouse.info /article6984.htm   (888 words)

  
 Scoop: Bremer Hails Appointment Iraqi Cabinet Ministers
It is our intention to keep authority and responsibility closely linked, and therefore, as the ministers settle into their positions, the advisers from the coalition will not only yield authority, we will thrust authority on the new ministers.
The path ahead to full Iraqi sovereignty is clear and visible: first, a constitutional convention or some similar mechanism to write a new, permanent constitution for Iraq.
It will be written by Iraqis for Iraqis, and it will then be put to the Iraqi people for their approval.
www.scoop.co.nz /stories/WO0309/S00047.htm   (6137 words)

  
 Generals Offer a Sober Outlook on Iraqi War; Exit from Iraq Could Take 'Many Years'
General Abizaid, whose Central Command headquarters exercises oversight of the war, said the Iraqi police - accounting for 65,000 of the 160,000 Iraqis now trained and equipped in the $5.7 billion American effort to build up security forces - are "behind" in their ability to shoulder a major part of the war effort.
The officer said American military intelligence had information that the car-bombing offensive had been ordered by a high-level meeting of insurgents in Syria within the past 30 days, and that reports indicated that one of those at the meeting may have been Mr.
Arriving at a lunch with reporters from a meeting with Iraqi cabinet ministers and military commanders, the officer said he expected the government to make an early move to revise the defense minister's announcement of a ban on raids on mosques and religious schools.
www.commondreams.org /headlines05/0519-01.htm   (1789 words)

  
 IRAQI ELECTIONS: January 30, 2005
The Iraqi people will participate in democratic elections on January 30 for the first time in more than 30 years to elect a Transitional National Assembly, provincial councils for each of Iraq's provinces, and a Kurdistan Regional Government.
Iraqis living abroad will be able to register and vote in 14 other countries.
Iraqi National Guard and Iraqi military forces will also be engaged.
www.state.gov /r/pa/scp/2005/41206.htm   (582 words)

  
 Iraqi Regime Still Standing After Fiery Onslaught
The US and British air assault targeted a number of buildings at Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's main Republican Palace compound on the Tigris river, the symbolic center of his quarter-century grip on power, as well as a former royal palace which today houses intelligence services.
Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Said Al-Sahhaf said Friday night's bombing blitz on Baghdad had wounded 207 civilians, most of them women and children.
Sahhaf assured that the Iraqi army had inflicted "heavy losses" on US and British forces, fending offer their incursions from the south.
www.rense.com /general35/ggri.htm   (619 words)

  
 Human Rights Watch World Report 2003: Middle East & Northern Africa: Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan
In January, 507 Iraqi prisoners of war captured during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war were repatriated from Iran under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), together with 188 Iraqi servicemen detained in Iran since 1991.
The latter had been detained in Kuwait's Central Prison "for reasons unconnected to the 1991 Gulf war." The Iraqi government continued to limit ICRC prison visits to the foreigners' section at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, where a total of 775 inmates were being held, according to ICRC information released in October.
The Iraqi government responded by renewing its demand for clarification of the fate of some 1,137 Iraqis whom it said were also missing since 1991.
hrw.org /wr2k3/mideast4.html   (3904 words)

  
 Ahmad Chalabi Biography
He is the son of a wealthy banking family whose grandfather, father and brother held prominent posts in Iraqi governments until Saddam Hussein's Baath Party seized power in 1968.
In 1995 he organized an uprising in the Northern Iraq, which was called off by the CIA at the crucial moment, and which subsequently led to the deaths of thousands of INC members.
Dr. Ahmad Chalabi was leader of Iraqi National Congress until April of 1999, when he was demoted to the rank of an ordinary member.
www.iraqinews.com /people_chalabi.shtml   (377 words)

  
 US Investigating Shooting of Two Iraqi Women   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The American military said today that it was investigating the deaths of two Iraqi women who were apparently shot by coalition forces when their car approached an observation post in a city north of Baghdad and failed to stop.
An Iraqi police official, Col. Laith Mohammed, said that Nabiha Nisaif Jassim, 35, and her cousin Saliha Mohammad Hassan were killed by American forces, The Associated Press reported.
The Iraqi prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, said in an interview published by Reuters on Tuesday that Iraqi officials would investigate the killings of the civilians in Haditha last November, and might seek to punish those guilty of wrongdoing.
www.truthout.org /docs_2006/053106R.shtml   (1012 words)

  
 Kuwait, Iraqi Occupation in Gulfwar.
Most information about conditions inside Kuwait came from those who had managed to flee the country and find refuge elsewhere.
The Iraqi forces had the free run of the country.
The oil wells set afire by the Iraqis belched thick fl smoke that clouded their lives like a bad dream they couldn't seem to wake up from.
www.kuwait-info.com /sidepages/gulfwar_iraqioccupation.asp   (576 words)

  
 Press Releases: Iraq, U.S. committed to supporting Iraqi women in diverse areas
Through these grants, we also reached out to Iraqi women to help inform them of the importance of their vote and to encourage them to vote.
In April 2004, seven women were appointed to hold deputy minister positions, and many women have served on district, local, and municipal councils in most other regions of Iraq.
Discrimination against an Iraqi citizen on the basis of his gender, nationality, religion, or origin is prohibited.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EGUA-69VMTU?OpenDocument   (1664 words)

  
 RAND Review | Spring 2006 | Iraq and Beyond: Rebuilding Iraqi Security
Once the CPA agreed in November 2003 to shift power to the Iraqis by the end of June 2004, the CPA was confronted with the challenges of restoring order, rebuilding Iraqi security forces, and building security institutions on an abbreviated timeline.
It is critical that Iraqi leaders and their international advisers not become mesmerized by the fielding of large numbers of security forces.
However, the United States and its coalition partners must realize that Iraqi ministers and senior officials are likely in the near term to be focused mainly on survival.
www.rand.org /publications/randreview/issues/spring2006/rebuild.html   (1097 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Government approves key Iraqi security ministers
Iraq's new defense minister is Gen. Abdul-Qader Mohammed Jassim al-Mifarji, a Sunni Arab.
Members of that formerly dominant minority are the backbone of the insurgency, and many people feel it is crucial to have Sunnis deeply involved in the new government to weaken support for the guerrillas.
Al-Waili is a member of the Iraqi Dawa Party, which is not related to the Dawa party to which the prime minister belongs.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2003049798_iraq09.html   (548 words)

  
 BBC apologises for Iraqi death stats mix-up
Iraq's health minister said the BBC misinterpreted the statistics it had received and had ignored statements from the ministry clarifying the figures.
"Today, the Iraqi Ministry of Health has issued a statement clarifying matters that were the subject of several conversations with the BBC before the report was published, and denying that this conclusion can be drawn from the figures relating to 'military operations'," the BBC said in a news statement on Saturday.
More Iraqi civilians may have been killed by coalition forces and their allies than by insurgents, according to Iraqi Government figures.
www.papillonsartpalace.com /babc.htm   (1113 words)

  
 CNN - Sanction-busting Iraqi pilgrims snub no-fly zone rules-- again - March 17, 1999
The pilot, Capt. Hammed al-Dulaimi, told reporters that his three-hour flight would pass through the southern no-fly zone, which was imposed by the United States and its allies after the 1991 Gulf War to liberate Kuwait.
About 4,000 Iraqis are scheduled to make the pilgrimage this year and most will travel by land.
The spokesman at the Iraqi Ministry of Culture and Information said the statement was worded by the Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Saudi al-Faisal, in accordance with instructions issued by U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen and that it was full of "lies."
www.cnn.com /WORLD/meast/9903/17/iraq.hajj/index.html   (693 words)

  
 STUFF: WORLD NEWS - STORY : New Zealand's leading news and information website
The shooting occurred when a US military convoy passed through a crowd led by up to 2000 former Iraqi soldiers who were protesting at their having been sacked by the new US administration.
The sacked Iraqi soldiers were disgruntled over losing their jobs when US administrator Paul Bremer dissolved Saddam's armed forces last month.
Nauman said the demonstration was the fourth by Iraqi soldiers in the past few weeks and that officials had set up a meeting with some of the protesters for later on Wednesday.
www.prisonplanet.com /us_troops_kill_two_iraqi_protesters.html   (642 words)

  
 Iraqi Interim Government
The TAL ensures that all Iraqis are equal in their rights and without regard to gender, nationality, religion, or ethnic origin and they are equal before the law.
The conference, attended by 1,200 Iraqis representing a broad range of ethnic, religious and tribal groups and including 275 women, was a clear demonstration of democracy in action and an important transitional step.
The Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers will be confirmed in a vote of confidence by the National Assembly and will oversee the day-to-day management of the government.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/ig.htm   (1273 words)

  
 Human Rights Watch: Publications: Middle East and Northern Africa : Iraq
The Iraqi High Tribunal was undermined from the outset by Iraqi government actions that threatened the independence and perceived impartiality of the court.
The torture and mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison was the predictable result of the Bush administration's decision to circumvent international law.
The Iraqi Provisional Constitution (drafted in 1970) formally guaranteed equal rights to women and other laws specifically ensured their right to vote, attend school, run for political office, and own property.
hrw.org /reports/world/iraq-pubs.php   (1721 words)

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