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Current Operations

• Iraq: New Suicide Bomb Attack On UN In Baghdad RFE/RL 22 Sep 2003 -- The U.S. military says a suicide car bomber blew himself up outside the UN headquarters in Baghdad today, killing an Iraqi security guard and wounding several people.
• Iraq: Suicide Car Bomb Underscores Continuing Violence RFE/RL 22 Sep 2003 -- The violence in Iraq continues. Today a bomb exploded near the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad. A member of the Iraqi Governing Council was seriously injured in a shooting attack on 20 September; several more U.S. soldiers were killed during the weekend.
• IRAQ/BOMB VOA 22 Sept 2003-- A suicide bomber has blown up a car outside the already bomb-damaged United Nations headquarters in Baghdad. The blast killed two people and wounded at least eight others
• IRAQ / BOMB VOA 22 Sept 2003-- The U-N office in Iraq has been the target of another apparent suicide car bombing, the second time in a month the institution has been attacked. The blast killed the attacker and an Iraqi policeman, and left 12 people wounded

Deployments

US Policy

United Nations

• BUSH / U-N Overnighter VOA 22 Sept 2003-- President Bush goes before the United Nations today (Tuesday 10:30am) for the first time since the U-S-led invasion of Iraq
• Powell Sees "Pretty Good Support" for U.N. Iraq Resolution Washington File 22 Sept 2003-- Secretary of State Colin Powell said the United States and other members of the United Nations Security Council had "a pretty good idea" of what a forthcoming Security Council resolution should say, as well as "pretty good support" among council members for the resolution.
• BUSH / U-N VOA 22 Sept 2003-- President Bush is preparing for a crucial speech to the United Nations
• IRAQ: UN Secretary-General condemns bomb attack IRIN 22 Sep 2003 -- UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan condemned Monday's suicide bombing in the car park of the UN headquarters in Baghdad, in which two people were killed and 19 others injured, according to a UN statement published the same day.

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq: Bremer Asks Congress For Funds RFE/RL 22 Sep 2003 -- L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator for Iraq, urged Congress today to swiftly approve President George W. Bush's funding request to deal with Iraq.
• IRAQ / POLICE VOA 22 Sept 2003-- The police in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf are training a special force to guard the major Shi'ite Muslim shrine in the city, in hopes of preventing a repetition of the devastating attack on August 29th. That attack killed 80 people, including one of Iraq's leading Shi'ite clerics
• IRAQ POLITICS VOA 22 Sept 2003-- It has been six months since the war on Iraq began and nearly five months since coalition forces declared victory and began efforts to rebuild the country. The international community is currently debating how quickly the U-S-led authority should hand power back to Iraqis. France, Germany, most Arab governments and many other countries want the return of sovereignty to happen as soon as possible, within months. But coalition leaders and some Iraqis are saying the process will take time because the task is enormous and there are important differences over how it should happen
• State's Larson Praises Iraqi Decision To Allow Open Investment Washington File 22 Sept 2003-- Under Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Alan Larson said the Iraqi Governing Council's decision to have an open investment regime is "a very wise decision."
• CONGRESS / IRAQ VOA 22 Sept 2003-- The top U-S official in Iraq has appealed to U-S lawmakers to approve President Bush's 87 billion dollar request for U-S operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ambassador Paul Bremer made his comments before a Senate panel Monday in the first of a series of hearings this week into the package
• IRAQ: Interview with Director General of the Electricity Ministry IRIN 22 Sep 2003 -- Mohsen Hassan has a tough task at hand. As Director General of Iraq's fledging Electricity Ministry, he now has to deal with the regular power cuts in the city of Baghdad, blamed on sabotage, while trying to restore electricity to millions of Iraqis and extend the grid to millions who never had power.

Foreign Reactions

• FRANCE/IRAQ VOA 22 Sept 2003-- French President Jacques Chirac says his country is unlikely to veto a U-S resolution at the United Nations on Iraq's reconstruction, even if France opposes the proposal.

News Reports

• Tom DeLay, Ander Crenshaw See Democratic Iraq Emerging Washington File 22 Sept 2003-- (This column by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Texas Republican, and Rep. Ander Crenshaw, Florida Republican, was published in the Washington Times September 22 and is in the public domain. No republication restrictions.)
• Bush Meets With Iraqi Officials at the White House Washington File 22 Sept 2003-- President Bush welcomed two members of the new Iraqi government to the White House September 22 and praised their spirit and dedication as they attempt to reform the centralized and corrupt system left by Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party.
• BRITAIN / INQUIRY VOA 22 Sept 2003-- In London Monday, two major figures in Prime Minister Tony Blair's government faced a grilling at the inquest into the death of leading British weapons expert David Kelly. Mr. Blair's outgoing communications director and his defense secretary were both called to give evidence for a second time
• IRAQ WRAP VOA 22 Sept 2003-- For the second time in a month, the United Nations office in Baghdad has been the target of a terrorist bombing. An Iraqi policeman and the suicide bomber were killed Monday and at least a dozen others were injured in the bombing