Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

The students at the Medical College of Salahuddin University staged a peaceful demonstration in front of Kurdistan Parliament House Sunday morning demanding the shut down of Ayinda University in Sulaymanya and launching an investigation into the incident in Bani Maqan checkpoint [between Kirkuk and Chamchamal]. Two MPs received representatives of the demonstrators and promised to study their demands adding that the law must take its course regarding the projects of Ayinda private university. A number of Salahuddin University students were traveling via Kirkuk to Sulaymanya about two weeks ago to support their colleagues who demanded the shut down of Ayinda private university but the checkpoint elements fired in the air to deer them.
¾         The two-day conference on gender equality that a local NGO advocating for women organized in Erbil in cooperation with the [US-based] IRI organization and other NGOs ended its activities on Sunday. The conference discussed addressing a memo to the Iraqi parliament in order to change the laws tat stipulate differences between men and women, in addition to separation of religion from the state.
¾         The Transparency Commission that the Iraqi government established to eradicate corruption in government institutions prepared a from to be distributed to ministers and other senior civil servants asking them to detail their fortunes as a means to track their financial dealings and determine if they were legal or not.