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• Iraq: Rumsfeld Visits Hussein's Hometown Of Tikrit RFE/RL 05 Sept 2003-- U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited U.S. military units in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit today.
• IRAQ/RUMSFELD VOA 05 Sept 2003-- U-S Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has flown to Tikrit, the hometown of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, and the northern city of Mosul to visit American troops

Deployments

US Policy

• Iraq: Analysts Say Iraqi Crisis Shows U.S. Can't Always 'Go It Alone' RFE/RL 05 Sept 2003-- The Bush administration, often accused of "going it alone" in foreign affairs, has now turned to the United Nations for help in Iraq after months of disparaging the world body. The decision, which reverses months of U.S. policy in Iraq, appears to underscore the pitfalls Washington faces in pursuing a "unilateralist" foreign policy.

United Nations

• U-N / IRAQ RESOLUTION VOA 05 Sept 2003-- The United States is intensifying its campaign to win United Nations Security Council support for a new draft resolution on Iraq
• POWELL/IRAQ/MIDEAST VOA 05 Sept 2003-- Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday the Bush administration is ready to work with other U-N Security Council members on its draft U-N resolution on Iraq. That resolution is aimed at expanding the international security presence in Iraq. But he said the U-N-sanctioned force must be under United States command
• UN: Powell Seen As Author Of U.S. Iraq Initiative RFE/RL 05 Sept 2003-- A U.S. proposal for a new UN Security Council resolution on Iraq runs counter to long-standing American insistence that it needs only marginal UN involvement in that country. The draft resolution being circulated at the Security Council is seen by experts as having the fingerprints of Secretary of State Colin Powell.
• POWELL/IRAQ/MIDEAST VOA 05 Sept 2003-- Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday the Bush administration is ready to work with other U-N Security Council members on its draft U-N resolution on Iraq. That resolution is aimed at expanding the international security presence in Iraq. But he said the U-N-sanctioned force must be under United States command

Reconstruction Issues

• Rumsfeld Says "Amazing Progress" Has Been Achieved in Iraq Washington File 05 Sept 2003-- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld says "amazing progress" has been achieved in Iraq during the past four to five months with the creation of city councils across the country and a national governing council.
• U.S. Proposal Aims at Maximum World Participation in Iraq Washington File 05 Sept 2003-- Secretary of State Colin Powell and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Negroponte are working with colleagues at the United Nations on a U.S. draft resolution on Iraq "that builds on the progress that has already been made based on U.N. Security Council Resolution 1483," National Security Council spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters September 4 at a briefing at the State Department's Foreign Press Center in Washington.
• Bremer Says Iraq Moving on Path to Full Sovereignty Washington File 05 Sept 2003-- The administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority, L. Paul Bremer, says Iraq has taken three of the seven steps on the path to regaining full sovereignty.

Foreign Reactions

• Khatami hopes for speedy end to Iraq`s occupation IRNA 05 Sep 2003 -- President Mohammad Khatami Thursday hoped for a speedy end to Iraq`s occupation and installation of a broad-based government in the country free from any ethnic differences.
• Iraq: Paris, Berlin Raise Objections To U.S.-Backed UN Resolution RFE/RL 05 Sept 2003-- French and German leaders are raising objections to a planned United Nations resolution seeking international support for U.S. attempts at stabilizing and reconstructing Iraq. They say the draft does not go far enough to ensure a rapid transfer of power to the Iraqis. The UN Security Council -- of which France is a permanent member -- is due to discuss the U.S.-backed draft resolution later today in New York.

News Reports

• Iraq: U.S. Occupation May Shift Sunni-Shi'a Balance Of Power In Middle East RFE/RL 05 Sept 2003-- The U.S. occupation of Iraq did more than remove Saddam Hussein from power. It has also, for the first time, given the Shi'a Muslim majority the opportunity to rule the country. Iraq may become the first major Shi'a-led Arab country in the predominantly Sunni-governed Middle East -- a change whose potential consequences are still unclear.
• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 6, Number 37 05 Sep 2003 -- IRAQI GOVERNING COUNCIL APPOINTS CABINET / TERRORIST ATTACKS CONTINUE IN IRAQ / AS CARS PACKED WITH BOMBS DISCOVERED / GOVERNING COUNCIL PRESIDENT CRITICIZES U.S. OVER SECURITY / PURPORTED HUSSEIN AUDIOTAPE DENIES CONNECTION TO AL-HAKIM ASSASSINATION / BA'ATHIST ELEMENTS THREATEN AIRLINES USING AL-BASRAH AIRPORT / DAILY COUNT AT BAGHDAD MORGUE GIVES INSIGHT INTO VIOLENCE / LEADER OF UBAYD TRIBE ARRESTED FOR PIPELINE ATTACKS / AL-KUBAYSI INTERVIEWED ON U.S. OCCUPATION, AL-SADR / WIFE OF TARIQ AZIZ SAYS HUSBAND WAS LOYAL TO COUNTRY, NOT HUSSEIN / POLISH-LED FORCE TAKES CONTROL OF CENTRAL IRAQ / TRIBAL CHIEFS SANCTION THE KILLING OF VIOLENT CRIMINALS / KIRKUK GOVERNOR COMMENTS ON PRESS REPORTS ON CLASHES / KUWAIT IDENTIFIES SIX MORE POWS / TURKEY TO SUPPLY ELECTRICITY TO IRAQ / FROZEN IRAQI ASSETS IN JORDAN MAY GO TO JORDANIAN BUSINESSMEN / KUWAITI NATIONAL BANK PART OF CONSORTIUM TO RUN TRADE BANK / CPA HEAD COMMENTS ON SECURITY SITUATION IN IRAQ / UN SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE LAID TO REST IN GENEVA / UN ORDERS INDEPENDENT INQUIRY INTO IRAQ BOMBING / UNMOVIC HEAD SAYS U.S., U.K. WMD CLAIMS UNFOUNDED / U.S. PRESIDENT EXPANDS EXECUTIVE ORDER ON PROPERTY CONFISCATION / WIFE OF ARMS EXPERT TESTIFIES AT HUTTON INQUIRY / BRITISH ARMY OFFICER CLEARED OF ABUSE CHARGES / U.S. TO FORMALLY SEEK UN RESOLUTION FOR MULTINATIONAL FORCE / AS FRANCE, RUSSIA VOICE SUPPORT / WHO KILLED MUHAMMAD BAQIR AL-HAKIM?