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• Iraq: Rumsfeld Defends Reconstruction Progress RFE/RL 11 Sep 2003 -- Senior U.S. government officials continue to face tough questioning about the situation in Iraq. On 9 September, U.S. senators demanded fuller details about U.S. plans for the occupation. And yesterday, Donald Rumsfeld, the man who heads the Pentagon, answered questions about the pace of progress following a speech in Washington. Rumsfeld suggested that concerns about the occupation are generated more by impatience than by any systemic trouble in Iraq.

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• Rumsfeld Defends Reconstruction Progress RFE/RL 11 Sept 2003-- Senior U.S. government officials continue to face tough questioning about the situation in Iraq. On 9 September, U.S. senators demanded fuller details about U.S. plans for the occupation. And yesterday, Donald Rumsfeld, the man who heads the Pentagon, answered questions about the pace of progress following a speech in Washington. Rumsfeld suggested that concerns about the occupation are generated more by impatience than by any systemic trouble in Iraq.
• Rumsfeld Says Coalition Forces Paving the Way for a New Iraq Washington File 11 Sept 2003--As the United States marks the second anniversary of September 11, al-Qaeda is "on the run" and terrorists are beginning to understand that the United States and other nations awakened to the threat that day, says Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
• In a Key Step on a Long Road to a New Iraq, Cabinet Assumes Office Washington File 11 Sept 2003-- Cabinet members took the oath of office Wednesday, inaugurating a transition from U.S. to Iraqi rule and freeing Iraq's Governing Council to tackle the next big challenge: convening a constitutional assembly to define a new national vision.
• IRAQ / FOREIGN MINISTER VOA 11 Sept 2003-- The U-S-appointed Iraqi Governing Council has won a measure of recognition from its Arab neighbors, with the decision this week to allow the council's foreign minister to represent Iraq at the Arab League. In an interview with V-O-A's Kurdish Service, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari says it is the first step toward re-establizhing Iraq's place in the global political arena
• IRAQ: Damage to power lines hits Baghdad residents hard IRIN 11 Sep 2003 -- Interruptions to the electricity supply in Baghdad, lasting for two or three hours at a time, several times a day, are causing havoc for thousands of residents of the Iraqi capital, particularly during the stifling summer heat that regularly soars to 45 degrees Centigrade.

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• BRITAIN / IRAQ VOA 11 Sept 2003-- A British parliamentary committee says Prime Minister Tony Blair's government did not deliberately exaggerate Iraq's weapons threat before the war, but it says his defense ministry was not helpful and potentially misled the panel in its investigation
• Blair under pressure to sack Hoon, Defence Secretary IRNA 11 Sep 2003 -- Prime Minister Tony Blair was under pressure Wednesday to sack his Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon following a leaked report that he will stand accused of "misleading" MPs over the government`s controversial dossier on Iraq`s arms threat.