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• IRAQ/KILLINGS VOA 21 Sept 2003-- Three American soldiers have been killed and 13 wounded in Iraq in the latest attacks on coalition forces. Meanwhile, police report few leads in their investigation into the assassination attempt on a member of the Iraqi governing council

Deployments

US Policy

• BUSH/IRAQ VOA 21 Sept 2003-- President Bush goes before the United Nations this week to urge more countries to contribute troops and money to the reconstruction of Iraq

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• New Iraqi Army Will Be Force for National Unity, Says Defense Official Washington File 21 Sept 2003-- The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) is building a new army for Iraq that will be a non-political, professional force for national unity, says Walter Slocombe, the Coalition's Special Advisor on Security and Defense. Slocombe spoke at a Pentagon news briefing in Washington on September 17.
• IRAQ/ECONOMY VOA 21 Sept 2003-- A series of sweeping economic reforms for Iraq has been announced at the International Monetary Fund-World Bank meeting in Dubai

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Bremer Condemns Attack Upon Iraqi Governing Council Member Washington File 21 Sept 2003-- The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Iraq is "shocked and saddened" by the September 20 attack upon Iraqi Governing Council member Akila Al-Hashimi, CPA Administrator L. Paul Bremer said in a statement released the same day.
• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 6, Number 39 21 Sep 2003 -- SCIRI OFFICIALS CONFIRM BADR CORPS REMAIN ACTIVE... / ...AS 'SHRINE POLICE' TAKE TO THE STREETS OF AL-NAJAF / U.S. ACKNOWLEDGES HOLDING U.S., U.K. CITIZENS IN IRAQI PRISON / AL-KHALDIYA POLICE CHIEF KILLED / CONSTITUTIONAL-DRAFTING COMMITTEE TO BE ELECTED / IRAQI TURKOMAN FRONT ELECTS NEW LEADER / U.S.-APPOINTED DELEGATES PICK INTERIM COUNCIL IN TIKRIT / REPORTERS OBSERVE NEW IRAQI ARMY / SECURITY STEPPED UP IN AL-SULAYMANIYAH / RELIGIOUS AND TRIBAL LEADERS IN SOUTHERN IRAQ WORKING ON DISARMAMENT, SECURITY / U.S. TO PAY COMPENSATION FOR KILLING IRAQI POLICEMEN / FORMER IRAQI DEFENSE MINISTER SURRENDERS / U.S. OFFERING IMMUNITY TO IRAQI SCIENTISTS / U.S. SAYS THERE'S 'NO EVIDENCE' PRISONERS ARE U.S., U.K. CITIZENS / BRITISH FORCES FIRE AL-BASRAH POLICE CHIEF / PURPORTED NEW AUDIOTAPE OF DEPOSED IRAQI LEADER SURFACES / OPEC APPROVES IRAQI ATTENDANCE AT UPCOMING MEETING / IRAQ-JORDAN BORDER REOPENS AFTER SECURITY CLOSURE / SECURITY COUNCIL'S PERMANENT FIVE MOVE CLOSER TO RESOLUTION ON IRAQ / UN SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR WELL-DEFINED ROLE IN IRAQ / WMD ISSUE IN SPOTLIGHT AS IRAQIS, INTERNATIONAL FIGURES WEIGH IN / UN AWARDS $315 MILLION IN GULF WAR CLAIMS / U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE MAKES FIRST TRIP TO IRAQ / SPAIN'S AZNAR AGAINST UN MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN IRAQ / EU COMMISSIONER VISITS IRAQ / HUTTON INQUIRY RECONVENES / JAPAN MAY PLEDGE $1 BILLION FOR IRAQI RECONSTRUCTION / CONTROVERSIAL RUSSIAN REFORMER HEADS TO BAGHDAD