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United Nations

• IRAQ: UN pledges to assist spinal injury hospital following blast IRIN 01 Sep 2003 -- A spinal injury hospital opposite the United Nations headquarters that was wrecked by a car bomb nearly two weeks ago, will be brought back into operation with United Nations assistance, IRIN learnt on Sunday. The hospital was also badly damaged in the explosion that killed 23 people, including UN Special Representative Sergio Vieira de Mello, and injured more than 80.

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq: Al-Najaf Bombing Raises More Questions About Iraqis' Future RFE/RL 01 Sep 2003 -- Many questions remain unanswered from the 29 August bomb blast in the southern Iraqi city of Al-Najaf that killed at least 83 people, including a leading Shi'a cleric. It's not yet clear who carried out the car bomb attack at the country's holiest shrine or what the motive was. It's also not clear how the attack -- the worst since the end of major combat operations in Iraq -- will change the political landscape for the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority.
• IRAQ / Cabinet VOA 01 Sep 2003 -- The Iraqi Governing Council has named a Cabinet of 25 ministers, the first since the fall of the Saddam Hussein government nearly five-months ago. The provisional authorities hope the Cabinet will allow Iraqis to take on increasing responsibility for governing their country.
• IRAQ / CABINET VOA 01 Sep 2003 -- The Iraqi Governing Council has announced a cabinet of 25 ministers. The provisional authorities hope the cabinet will speed up the process through which Iraqis assume more responsibilities for governing the country.

Foreign Reactions

• Judiciary chief blames US for failing to guarantee least security in Iraq IRNA 01 Sep 2003 -- Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi said here Monday that the US troops, who invaded Iraq five months ago, have failed to guarantee the least security in the war shattered country.
• Belgian PM says position on Iraq was right IRNA 01 Sep 2003 -- Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt said Monday that developments in Iraq show that the anti-war position of his country was right.
• Kharrazi: US has made mistake in drawing up Iraq strategy IRNA 01 Sep 2003 -- Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said on Monday that the United States has made mistake in drawing up its strategy on Iraq.
• BRITAIN/IRAQ VOA 01 Sep 2003 -- Speaking publicly for the first time since the apparent suicide of her husband, leading weapons expert Dr. David Kelly, Janice Kelly has told a judicial inquiry in London he felt betrayed by the British defense department. It was the Defense department press office that fingered Dr. Kelly as the source of a news report that the British government exaggerated the threat posed by Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction.

News Reports

• Iraq: Latest Bombing Further Complicates U.S. Occupation RFE/RL 01 Sep 2003 -- The death on 29 August of prominent Iraqi Shi'a leader Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim in a bomb blast that killed at least 83 other people further complicates Washington's already troubled efforts to stabilize and rebuild Iraq.
• Iraq: Tape Said To Be From Hussein Denies Al-Najaf Bomb Link RFE/RL 01 Sep 2003 -- The Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television channel played an audiotape today, purportedly from ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, denying involvement in last week's deadly Al-Najaf bombing.