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  Iraqi Revolution Command Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Established after the military coup in 1968, the Revolutionary Command Council was the ultimate decision making body in Iraq before the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.
With the president and vice president chosen by a two-thirds majority of the council.
The legislature is comprised of the RCC, the National Assembly and a 50-member Kurdish Legislative Council which governs the country.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iraqi_Revolution_Command_Council   (132 words)

  
 [No title]
The commander of the US 101 st Airborne Division centered in Mosul in northern Iraq, General David, Patrius, said on Thursday that what he called “foreign fighters”, by which he meant Arab and international anti-imperialist volunteers, were massing in the region and posing what he called a “terrorist threat” to the American invaders there.
In Baghdad former employees of the Iraqi Ministry of Information who lost their jobs after the US invasion held a demonstration in front of the headquarters of the US occupation regime calling for their rights as government employees to be guaranteed by the occupation authorities and the puppet so-called Interim Governing Council.
The Iraqi sources told the Jordanian newspaper that US occupation forces have lists of names of the crews and units of the Iraqi Rocket Forces as well as where they were stationed, their military ranks, and their roles in the launch of the missiles against the Zionist entity that occupies Palestine.
www.albasrah.net /moqawama/english/iraqiresistancereport_5-70204.htm   (2262 words)

  
 Iraq Chronology
Iraqi oil exports are expected to begin by the Fall of 1996, after a pumping station on the Iraq-Turkey pipeline is repaired and U.N monitoring and aid distribution facilities are put in place.
Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan states, "There is no need for the spies of the [U.N.] inspection teams to return to Iraq since Iraq is free of weapons of mass destruction." The United States has hinted that actions may be taken against the Iraqi government if U.N. arms inspectors are not allowed to return.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri states, "We are for the prosperity and independence of the state of Kuwait and also for the normalization of ties, diplomatic, economic, political." On March 28, delegates at the meeting endorse a peace plan for Israel/Palestine put forward by the Saudi delegation.
www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/cabs/iraqchron.html   (17807 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | Testing defiance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's decision on 5 August to suspend cooperation with the UN weapons inspectors was his most serious act of defiance against the Security Council's resolutions since the end of the 1991 Gulf War.
In explaining the decision, the ruling Iraqi Revolution Command Council said the country had not been rewarded for its cooperation with the inspectors, who were entrusted with dismantling its weapons of mass destruction.
The participants later announced that the Security Council's move was "an unjust decision designed to prolong the unfair sanctions." They also called for a meeting of the 250-member National Assembly to decide on the next move.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /1998/395/re6.htm   (773 words)

  
 CNN.com - Iraqi parliament to discuss U.N. resolution - Nov. 10, 2002
Iraq's National Assembly plans "to discuss and study Security Council Resolution 1441 of November 8 and to give a position with regard to it and to refer their conclusion to the Revolution Command Council," Iraqi television reported Sunday.
The Revolution Command Council, led by the president, is the country's highest authority.
The statement called on Security Council members to stick to a commitment given to Syria that the resolution would not be used as a pretext for war.
edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/meast/11/10/iraq.arabs   (682 words)

  
 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
The official Iraqi agency said that the monthly rice ration had been increased 18 percent, to 7.7 pounds, the sugar allotment by 25 percent to 5.5 pounds, cooking oil by 40 percent to 3.85 pounds, and tea by 67 percent to 250 grams.
PKK Council of Leaders member Osman Ocalan said that the PUK is preparing for war, according to a report in the "Kurdish Observer" on 4 December.
The closest genetic relationships to the Assyrians are with the native populations of Jordan and Iraq.
www.rferl.org /reports/iraq-report/2000/12/41-081200.asp   (2433 words)

  
 Healing Iraq
Three symbolic coffins for the Iraqi police victims of bombings in Baghdad, Ba'quba, and Khan Bani Sa'ad were carried on cars ahead of the demonstrators representing a symbolic funeral for the victims of terrorism in Iraq.
The other one a Lt. General was an Iraqi infantry division commander and one of the last generals to leave their posts on April 9, and I'm damn proud of them even though I was against the regime they served all those years.
Iraqis have been joking among themselves lately about GC members, and how only a handful of them are actually in Iraq, while the rest are back in their London apartments or too busy following their own personal agendas and making deals with huge corporations on the expense of Iraqis.
healingiraq.blogspot.com /archives/2003_11_01_healingiraq_archive.html   (15184 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Iraq 'empties its jails'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Iraqi television has been showing pictures of joyful prisoners leaving jail, shortly after the authorities announced an unprecedented general amnesty.
The amnesty was intended to thank the Iraqi people for their "unanimity" in last week's presidential referendum, the statement said.
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein won 100% support in the poll, in which he was the only candidate.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/2343843.stm   (505 words)

  
 News Archives 1999
The Council of the Turkmen Front, which meets twice a year, is to meet in Irbil in February to work out a strategy concerning the Washington Agreement, brokered between the two leading Kurdish factions in northern Iraq.
A new State Council is to be established which will include members of the Revolution Command Council, the highest ruling authority in Iraq since the 17 July 1968 coup.
The changes in the structure of the Iraqi state coincides with a "serious trend" of openness toward the Kurdish leaders by calling on them to hold talks with Baghdad that would guarantee "autonomy" under the leadership of the central government.
www.iraqfoundation.org /news/1999/ajan/26_radiofree.html   (679 words)

  
 RFE/RL iraq Report
Iraqi military forces have entered areas lying north of the 36th parallel, a reliable Kurdish source in Irbil has told London's "Al-Sharq Al-Awsat" on 10 November.
The paper noted that Iraqi forces are forbidden from entering these regions which have been subject to British and American patrols of the no-fly zone for the past nine years.
No Syrian or Iraqi official has confirmed that oil is now being pumped through the pipeline, but it appears likely that it will shortly begin operations because the pipeline has nothing to do with the sanctions against Iraq.
www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/iraq/2000/41-081200.html   (2425 words)

  
 tribuneindia... World
The statement was issued by the Iraqi Revolution Command Council and the Iraq Command of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party after a meeting chaired by President Saddam Hussein.
Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz sent letters to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the head of the UN Security Council informing them of Baghdad’s decision.
The move came a day after Iraqi President Saddam Hussein froze cooperation with UN inspectors in protest against the eight years of economic sanctions against his country.
www.tribuneindia.com /1998/98aug07/world.htm   (2821 words)

  
 UNAMI: Iraqi Media Monitoring
The Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq [SCIRI] has concluded a strategic alliance with the Islamic Da'wah Party aimed at cooperation in laying down the nucleus of a Shi'i alliance, Voice of Mujahidin radio reported on 25 October.
The Iraqis are resolved to conduct the elections and progress in their efforts to build their institutions for the first time away from the oppression of tyrants," the writer added.
Several hundred disabled Iraqis on crutches and in wheelchairs Monday begged kidnappers to release British-Iraqi aid director Margaret Hassan, saying their lot has worsened since her abduction a week ago, Gathering outside the Baghdad office of CARE International, many clutched photographs of Margaret Hassan, who has led the agency's operations in Iraq since 1992.
www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/iraq/2004/10/imm-041026-unami.htm   (2892 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The collective support to the Iraqi situation of allocating 300 million Euros for the families of martyrs and 700 million Euros for meeting the life-requirements of the Palestinians from the purchases of the food-for-oil pragramme was highly appreciated by all the conferees.
The balanced Saudi situation, as represented by Prince Sultan either in shaking hands with Mr.Ezzat Ibrahim, Vice-President of the Iraqi Revolution Command Council, or in passing Saddam's speech as one of the summit's documents, was an indication of giving up the Kuwaiti fanaticism and its disgusting subordination to America.
What we hope is that the Iraqi leadership will avail this opportunity viewing this positive change as an indication for optimism especially after assigning King Abdullah to go on with the reconciliatory efforts between the two countries.
www.alarabonline.org /TodayPages/Aly/012.htm   (425 words)

  
 CNN - Iraq bans U.S. weapons inspectors - October 29, 1997
In a statement broadcast on Iraqi television, the Revolution Command Council, Iraq's main decision-making body, said that all U.S. citizens working with the U.N. inspection team would be given one week to leave the country.
The Iraqi statement also said Baghdad would ask the United Nations to stop flying American reconnaissance aircraft to monitor its compliance with the U.N. resolutions aimed at forcing Saddam Hussein's regime to destroy its weapons of mass destruction.
The Iraqi announcement came despite a warning by Bill Richardson, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, not to flout the Security Council resolutions passed at the end of the 1991 Gulf War.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9710/29/iraq.un   (488 words)

  
 PART II
Because Centcom is a unified command, the U.S. military chain-of-command went directly from Gen. Schwarzkopf to Secretary of Defense Cheney to President Bush; Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, played an advisory role.
The strategy was designed to paralyze the Iraqi leadership's ability to command and control the operations of its forces both offensively and defensively, to destroy Iraqi capability to threaten the security and stability of the region, to render Iraqi forces in the [Kuwait theater of operations] ineffective, and to minimize the loss of life.
U.S. The Pentagon described the war against Iraq as "the most important test of American arms in 25 years."1 It was also a war in which one side explicitly and repeatedly declared its intention to abide by the rules of war with respect to minimizing harm to civilians.
www.hrw.org /reports/1991/gulfwar/CHAP2.htm   (3711 words)

  
 Terrorism Unveiled
That means mainly controlling the behavior of Iraqi security forces, curbing the use of torture, halting resort to collective punishment and other methods that inflict widespread civilian harm, and ending reliance on sectarian militias.
Ammar Abdulhamid posts on the likelihood of Syrian peoples' unacceptance of a movement led by Khaddam and Bayanouni, and remarks, "all our political choices tend to be between different shades of really dark grey." And he comments that those who are even the lighter shades of "grey" distance themselves from politics or leave the country.
An Iraqi police commander and five policemen were killed in the fighting; none of the attackers were killed, he said.
www.terrorismunveiled.com   (5911 words)

  
 News no. 7156 from www.uruknet.info :: informazione dall'Iraq occupato :: news from occupied Iraq - ch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A true revolution is one where the priorities are to change man himself, to bring forth his hidden talents, and to provide the means whereby he can make a positive contribution to building his life and being master of his fate.
It is true that the revolution may first concentrate on specific fields, such as the political organization of the state or the reformation of the society's economic relations.
He is evidently referring to the disease, which eats away at other "revolutions" as reflected in the discrepancy between their words and actions, between their principles and their applications.
www.uruknet.info /?s1=1&p=7156&s2=14   (3915 words)

  
 Developments
However, while Annan has said it is up to the council to decide what he should do, sources familiar with his thinking say he is very reluctant to go because he believes that this time there is no negotiating room to strike a deal with the Iraqis.
Members demanded that the Iraqi leadership must rescind immediately and unconditionally today's decision, as well as the decision of August 5, to limit cooperation with UNSCOM and the IAEA, as previously demanded by the Council in UNSCR 1194, and must resume immediate, complete and unconditional cooperation with the Special Commission and the IAEA.
The threat of Iraqi chemical and biological weapons is too grave to treat exclusively as a diplomatic matter, as the White House now seems belatedly to recognize.
www.fas.org /news/iraq/1998/11/03/981103-in.htm   (3858 words)

  
 Regnum Crucis
Still, I think that there may be enough reformists who are sufficiently pissed off at their usefulness to the regime has more or less expired that they're going to start dumping some of its dirty laundry out of sheer spite.
Ignoring the fact that if the source of this claim is to be believed, the IRGC let the second most wanted man on the planet enter their territory (and leave?) to have a friendly chat with Zarqawi's minions that was probably a progress report or planning meeting for the Iraqi insurgency.
For those who are curious, it seems the Iraqi regime had Zarqawi's Jordanian prison file, including his early 1990s mug shot, as early as 2002, which tracks with some of the earlier speculation about when he came to their attention.
www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com   (5835 words)

  
 Tariq Aziz, PT 3, Iraq Radio, Jan 13
The Iraqi delegation arrived in Cairo at night on 9 August 1990, and we noticed that our delegation's residence was at the guest house.
He ended the meeting and went out of the hall quickly in a manner that conflicts with the manners for dealing with the presidents and with the rules of action in Arab meetings.
In the period between the Cairo summit in August 1990 and until the start of the aggression on Iraq on 16/17 January 1991, the Saudi rulers and the ruler of Egypt aborted all the attempts, initiatives, and ideas submitted by Arab officials to find a solution within an Arab framework.
www.fas.org /news/iraq/1999/01/990113-in3.htm   (2410 words)

  
 IWPR's Iraqi Press Monitor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Iraqi Press Monitor is published by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, an independent non-profit organisation supporting regional media and democratic change.
Stories for the Iraqi Press Monitor are selected and summarised by Ali Mohammed Jawad and Ali Kadhim Marzook in Baghdad.
IPM is intended to give readers a sense of what Iraqi papers are reporting, and IWPR cannot vouch for the accuracy of the reports.
www.iwpr.net /archive/ipm/ipm_180.html   (862 words)

  
 portland imc - 2004.01.16 - Iraqi Resistance Solidarity Network January 16th Updates
-Newly elected chairmen of the General Student Councils of 12 universities in Gwangju Jeonnam Area, held a joint press conference against the troop dispatch to Iraq calling for the revocation of the authorities' decision on the troop dispatch and the struggle to check the pass of the motion of troop dispatch at the parliament.
The cabinet council meeting held in Chong Wa Dae on Dec. 23 last year voted for a troop dispatch to Kirkuk, an Iraqi oil region, in a scale of 3,000 strong troops next April.
The Iraqi resistance forces have already killed our civilians 2 months ago and horribly warned that "the south Korean troops, if dispatched, would be targeted at any case in disregard of their mission".
portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/01/278536.shtml   (13191 words)

  
 Iraqi Resistance Solidarity Network January 16th Updates : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Iraqis were killed and five others wounded seriously when US occupation forces opened fire on them.
Iraqi Resistance fighters detonated a roadside bomb against US occupation forces in Baghdad on Monday.
Iraqis observed unloading a boat west of ar-Ramadi.
sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1672625   (8111 words)

  
 Egyptian - Iraqi relations beyond diplomatic representation
He said that the aim of his visit to Egypt is to set the steps, which have been recently taken in a legal and organizational framework through the joint free market agreement, which serves as a model for joint Arab cooperation.
And if there are contacts conducted between Iraq and the new American Administration, the Iraqi Vice President said that we cannot say the incoming US government will have a perspective on Iraq different than that of its predecessor.
The Iraqi Vice President had arrived in Cairo Tuesday on a few days' visit to Egypt during which some agreements on joint economic and trade cooperation and setting up a Free Trade Area between the two countries will be signed.
www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/010118/2001011831.html   (724 words)

  
 The Shepherd And The Fox - Luis de Agustin at American Fellowship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In spite of the Bush administration's exquisite preparation to bludgeon Saddam Hussein, the master survivalist has outfoxed them at every turn and could spring the mother of all side swipes.
Or should the fox remain in his den, might he not summon back to Baghdad star TV reporter Dan Rather and show him his written orders to the Iraqi Revolution Command Council not to resist the American-British invasion; anyone firing on the aggressor troops, arrested by Iraqi police.
With Rather in the television studio, Hussein might appeal to Iraqis to go about their business, not forget their several daily prayers, and show the innocents abroad famous Arab hospitality.
www.americanfellowship.net /Article6.html   (334 words)

  
 Iraqi Resistance Solidarity Network January 5th Updates Plus Special Event!!! : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
She was chosen as a member of the Iraqi Scientific Society in 1996.
Dr. Huda Saleh Mahdi Ammash is currently detained under inhumane conditions in spite of the fact that she has cancer and was under medical treatment during the time of her detention.
The Occupation Forces have detained more than 15,000 Iraqis without accusation, and they are subjected to the ugliest forms of torture under almost unbelievable, inhumane conditions.
sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1676250   (8241 words)

  
 Iraq INA: RCC Unanimously Re-Nominate Hussein for Presidency - 8-17-02
According to the provisions of Paragraph (A) of Article (57) of the Constitution, the Revolution Command Council (RCC) held a meeting Thursday chaired by President Saddam Hussein.
The Council again unanimously decided to nominate President Saddam Hussein for the post of President of the Republic of Iraq.
In this regard, a Republican Decree was issued calling on the National Assembly to hold an extraordinary meeting to consider the decision taken by the Revolution Command Council.
www.iraqwatch.org /government/Iraq/INA/iraq-ina-renominate-081702.htm   (119 words)

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