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Current Operations

• ANOTHER "IRAQI TOP 55" IN COALITION CUSTODY CENTCOM Release 19 Sept 2003-- Sultan Hashim Ahmad Al-Jabburi Al-Tai, number 27 on the coalition's list of most wanted government officials, is now under custody of coalition forces.
• 3rd COSCOM truck drivers take a break in the Iraqi shade USAREUR Release 19 Sept 2003-- On a sunny Sunday afternoon with the temperature almost comfortable by Iraq standards - a mere 110 degrees - three members of the 1498th Heavy Equipment Transport Company relax next to a wrecker parked strategically under a tree.

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United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• UK firms given 18 per cent of Iraq`s reconstruction contracts IRNA 19 Sep 2003 -- British companies have so far been given 18 per cent of sub-contracts awarded by US firm, Bechtel, in Iraq, Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt has revealed.
• IRAQ/ELECTRICITY VOA 19 Sept 2003-- One of the main complaints of people living in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, aside from the continuing violence, is the lack of reliable electricity. And many people feel the electricity situation has gotten worse in the last few months
• IRAQ /SURRENDER VOA 19 Sept 2003-- The former Iraqi defense minister has reportedly surrendered to U-S military officials in the northern Kurdish city of Mosul. A mediator says the former general, Sultan Hashim Ahmad, has been promised special treatment

Foreign Reactions

• Iraq: Schroeder, Chirac, Blair To Meet In Berlin To Hash Out Rifts Over Policy RFE/RL 19 Sep 2003 -- The leaders of Britain, France, and Germany are due to meet in Berlin tomorrow to try to develop a common approach to the future of Iraq. British Prime Minister Tony Blair on the one side, and French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on the other, have been far apart on Iraq. Blair's active support for the United States in the Iraq war has contrasted with the antiwar stance of the two continental leaders. Now, when Washington is seeking more international involvement in Iraq to deal with an increasingly difficult situation there, these three have once again become key players.

News Reports

• IRAQ: Nearly two million mt of food ferried in through neighbouring states IRIN 19 Sep 2003 -- In the largest food aid operation in the history of the World Food Programme (WFP), just under 1.9 million mt of food has been delivered to Iraq since the start of April from neighbouring Turkey, Jordan, Kuwait, Syria and Iran. Food agency officials in Jordan have so far managed to transport the highest tonnage to the volatile nation, sending in about 512,645 mt of food aid to needy Iraqis.