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June 2000

• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 3, Number 21 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 30 June 2000 -- GORE REPEATS THAT SADDAM MUST GO / IRAQ URGES ARABS TO BREAK AIR EMBARGO / ITALIAN MPS MEET WITH IRAQI MINISTERS / PAKISTAN-IRAQ TIES TO GROW STRONGER / IRAQI, SYRIAN FOREIGN MINISTERS DISCUSS TIES / IRAQ REOPENING EMBASSY IN ABU DHABI / ARMENIA TO APPOINT CHARGE D'AFFAIRES IN IRAQ / UDAYY IN CONFLICT WITH HOUSE SPEAKER? / IRAN-IRAQ TRADE AND SMUGGLING EXPAND / CAIRO DENIES RECEIVING INC DELEGATION / BAGHDAD SAYS TURKEY 'KEY PARTNER' OF U.S.-LED AIR STRIKES / IRAQI BORDER POSTS TO GRANT VISAS? / NEW MINISTER OF JUSTICE APPOINTED / TERRITORIAL COMMANDS IN IRAQ SUSPENDED
• Generals Discuss Saddam, Joint Operations At Hearing By Chuck Vinch European Stars and Stripes June 29, 2000 -- The recent announcement from Baghdad that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had suspended a decree he issued in late 1998 to split the country into four decentralized military zones will not significantly alter the threat to U.S. forces in the region.
• COALITION FORCES STRIKE SAM, AAA SITES UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND June 29, 2000 -- U.S. Air Force F-16 "Fighting Falcons" and British Royal Air Force GR-1 "Tornado" aircraft used precision-guided weapons to strike a surface-to-air missile site and anti-aircraft artillery sites in southern Iraq.
• IRAQI OPPOSITION Voice of America 28 June 2000 -- Leaders of the Iraqi National Congress, the main opposition group to Saddam Hussein, have come to Washington to make their case for more U-S help.
• IRAQ / KILLING Voice of America 28 June 2000 -- A gunman has killed two workers in Baghdad at the office of the U-N Food and Agriculture Organization, F-A-O. Seven people were injured.
• JOINT STATEMENT BY VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE AND LEADERS OF THE IRAQI NATIONAL CONGRESS June 26, 2000 - The Vice President reaffirmed the Administration?s strong commitment to the objective of removing Saddam Hussein from power, and to bringing him and his inner circle to justice for their war crimes and crimes against humanity.
• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 3, Number 20 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 23 June 2000 -- BAGHDAD CALLS FOR OVERTHROW OF GULF LEADERS / BAGHDAD'S 'BABIL' SAYS ARAB REGIMES 'ISOLATED.' / IRAQI 'EXPAT ORGANIZATIONS' FRONT FOR IRAQI INTELLIGENCE / SADDAM RELEASES SOME PRISONERS... / ...EXECUTES OTHERS / U.S. COMMITTED TO PEACE IN IRAQI KURDISTAN / WASHINGTON AGREEMENT TO BE REVIEWED / NEW BA'TH REGIONAL COMMAND TO BE ELECTED / BELARUS-IRAQ COOPERATION COMMITTEE TO MEET / YEMENI, IRAQ TRANSPORT MINISTERS TALK TRADE / IRAQ MAY PAY KUWAIT $16 BILLION IN REPARATIONS / QUSAYY INSPECTS TROOPS ALONG KRG BORDER / TURKEY MAY UPGRADE BAGHDAD REPRESENTATION / PUK-TURKEY TIES IMPROVING / CAR BOMB EXPLODES IN SULAYMANIYAH / TURKMEN FRONT NAMES NEW LEADER
• COALITION AIRCRAFT STRIKE IRAQI RADAR, AAA SITES UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND June 21, 2000 - US aircraft enforcing the Southern No-Fly-Zone used precision guided weapons to strike an Iraqi military radar and AAA site in southern Iraq.
• U-N / IRAQ / KUWAITI PROPERTY Voice of America 19 June 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council is urging Iraq to return the remaining property it seized after its 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 3, Number 19 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 16 June 2000 -- IRAQI REACTION TO AL-ASSAD DEATH MUTED / WATER IS PRETEXT FOR INVASION OF NORTH / SCIRI RELEASES 1992 BAGHDAD PLANS FOR MARSH DRAINAGE / INDIA NOT GIVING IRAQ SUPPORT / EGYPTIAN EXPORTS TO IRAQ RISE / OIL-FOR-FOOD PROGRAM EXTENDED / VIETNAM BACKS BAGHDAD ON SANCTIONS ISSUE / KURDS COMPLAIN TO UN ON PALESTINIAN RESETTLEMENT PLAN / IRAQI OPPOSITION IN IRAN URGES SCIRI LEADER TO STEP DOWN / KURDISH TELEVISION ON INTERNET / PUK MARKS 25TH ANNIVERSARY / KURDISH REGION IN RUSSIA /
• Iraqi AAA fired at ONW aircraft UNITED STATES EUROPEAN COMMAND (14 Jun 00) -- Iraqi forces fired anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) from sites west of Mosul.
• Iraqis fire AAA at ONW aircraft UNITED STATES EUROPEAN COMMAND (12 Jun 00) -- Iraqi forces fired anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) from a site northeast of Mosul.
• AIRSTRIKES IN IRAQ 28 DECEMBER 1998 - 31 MAY 1999 11 Jun 2000 -- Since the US and UK renewed their bombing of Iraq in December 1998, the UN has been attempting to catalogue these incidents. At least two reports have been prepared to date, the first covering from December 1998 to May 1999 and the second continuing from there. This is a version of that first document.
• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 3, Number 18 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 9 June 2000 -- GCC MINISTERIAL COUNCIL TAKES HARD LINE ON IRAQ / IRAQ, MALAYSIA MOVE TOWARD CLOSER COOPERATION / IRAQ DENIES RESETTLEMENT OF PALESTINIANS FROM LEBANON / THE ASSASSINATION THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN / YUGOSLAV-IRAQ URANIUM DEAL IN THE OFFING? / DINARS FOR DRUGS / Q'S ARDOR REBUFFED BY SYRIA, CHINA / TURKEY, IRAQ TO SMOOTH RELATIONS? / DEMOCRATIC CENTRIST TENDENCY TO MEET IN CHICAGO / KIRKUK IDENTITY PROTECTION CENTER ESTABLISHED / KDP DENIES PLAN TO ATTACK PUK CAPITAL / JOURNALIST MURDERED IN IRBIL
• Iraq Oil-For-Food Program Extended By Judy Aita Washington File 09 June 2000 -- The Security Council June 8 voted unanimously to extend the Iraq oil-for-food program for another six months.
• Text: Boucher's Statement on Renewal of Iraq Oil-for-Food Program 09 June 2000 -- The United States welcomes the unanimous adoption by the U.N. Security Council on June 8 of the eighth renewal of the Oil-for-Food program for Iraq, State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher said in a statement June 9.
• PICKERING PROTESTED Voice of America 09 June 2000 -- A top U-S diplomat found himself before a hostile audience of Arab-Americans in Washington Friday as he tried to defend U-S policy toward Iraq.
• IRAQ - U-N Voice of America 09 June 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council has agreed to extend the oil-for-food program to Iraq for another six months.
• SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS IRAQ 'OIL-FOR-FOOD' PROGRAMME FOR FURTHER 180 DAYS Press Release SC/6872 - 8 June 2000 -- Resolution 1302 (2000) Adopted Unanimously. The Security Council decided tonight to extend the Iraq "oil-for-food" programme for a further 180-day period beginning tomorrow.
• Iraqi AAA fired at ONW aircraft UNITED STATES EUROPEAN COMMAND (8 Jun 00) -- Iraqi forces threatened Operation Northern Watch (ONW) coalition aircraft again today. This time, the Iraqi forces fired anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) from sites west of Mosul
• U-N / IRAQ WEAPONS INSPECTION Voice of America 07 June 2000 -- The head of the U-N Weapons Inspection team for Iraq said today (Wednesday) his office will be ready to go to work by late August, but there is still no indication that Iraq will allow such inspections.
• COALITION AIRCRAFT STRIKE IRAQI AAA SITES June 6, 2000 - Navy F-14 "Tomcat," aircraft used precision-guided munitions to strike Iraqi military anti-aircraft artillery batteries in Southern Iraq.
• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 3, Number 17 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 2 June 2000 -- UNMOVIC ADVISORY PANEL BEING STAFFED / ACADEMIC 'BRAIN DRAIN' LEADS TO FIRING OF MINISTER / IRAQ RIVER PROJECT POSES ECOLOGICAL THREAT TO GULF / AL-SAHHAF MEETS WITH RUSSIAN, UKRAINIAN OFFICIALS / IRAQI, SERBIAN ASSEMBLY SPEAKERS MEET / SYRIAN-IRAQI TIES EXPAND / GERMAN INDUSTRIALISTS DEVELOPING BILATERAL RELATIONS WITH IRAQ / PRO-SADDAM COMMUNIST PARTY BEING ESTABLISHED / PRO-BAGHDAD FORCES MASSING IN NORTH / KPD RESPONDS TO PUK CRITICISMS / ROLE OF WOMEN IN IRAQI SOCIETY HIGHLIGHTED / IRANIAN KURDISH DELEGATION IN SULAYMANIYAH
• ONW aircraft targeted UNITED STATES EUROPEAN COMMAND (1 Jun 00) -- Iraqi forces fired anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) from sites near Bashiqah and Tall 'Afar.