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Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)


25 September Iraq Special Weapons News

Operations
Deployments
US Policy
United Nations
Reconstruction Issues
Foreign Reactions
News Reports

Current Operations

Deployments

  • ADAMS-IRAQ VOA 25 Sept 2003-- Dr. Gordon Adams, Director of the Security Policy Studies Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs discusses the Bush administration's calls to increase military forces in Iraq.

US Policy

  • Transfer of Authority to Iraq Must Follow Elections, U.S. Official Says Washington File 25 Sept 2003-- Secretary of State Colin Powell discussed Iraq and Afghanistan with presidents, foreign ministers and permanent U.N. representatives from at least 45 countries before attending a dinner with members of the Group of Eight (G-8) industrialized nations on September 24, according to a State Department official.
  • CONGRESS / IRAQ VOA 25 Sept 2003-- Senate and House committees have been holding another day of hearings on the Bush administration request for 87-billion more dollars for stabilizing Iraq and Afghanistan. The top U-S administrator in Iraq, and the Number Two official in the Defense Department, told lawmakers Congress must move quickly to approve funds for Iraq, or risk a deterioration of the situation there.

United Nations

  • Iraq: UN To Withdraw Some Staff RFE/RL 25 Sep 2003 -- UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has ordered some international UN staff to leave Iraq due to security concerns.
  • Security, Governance Must be Iraqi Responsibility, Rumsfeld Says Washington File 25 Sept 2003-- This op-ed by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was first published in the Washington Post September 25, and is in the public domain. No republication restrictions
  • Chalabi Tells Powell "We're on Same Page" on U.N. Iraq Resolution Washington File 25 Sept 2003-- Ahmad Chalabi of the Iraq Governing Council told Secretary of State Colin Powell September 25 that the United States and the council are "on the same page" concerning a U.N. resolution on Iraq, according to a senior State Department official.
  • Security Council Members Moving Toward Agreement on Iraq Washington File 25 Sept 2003-- The five permanent members of the Security Council are "seeing some convergence of view with respect to a new resolution" on Iraq, Secretary of State Colin Powell said September 25.
  • Draft Resolution Would Expand Role of U.N. in Iraq, Official Says Washington File 25 Sept 2003-- The United States is working with its friends and allies in the United Nations on a new Security Council resolution that will expand the U.N.'s role in Iraq and further the restoration of Iraqi self-government, a senior U.S. official said September 24.
  • United Nations Still Has "Vital Role" in Iraq, White House Says Washington File 25 Sept 2003-- The United States understands the United Nations' decision to temporarily withdraw some of its remaining international Iraq staff to Amman, Jordan, for security reasons, but the world organization still has "a vital role" to play in Iraq, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan told reporters September 25.
  • POWELL / U-N / IRAQ VOA 25 Sept 2003-- Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday he believes the major powers are moving closer together on a proposed U-N Security Council resolution giving the United Nations a bigger role in peacekeeping and the political transition in Iraq. Mr. Powell is continuing an intensive lobbying effort for a U-S draft resolution on the sidelines of the U-N General Assembly in New York.
  • Powell Sees "Convergence" on Iraq Resolution Washington File 25 Sept 2003-- Secretary of State Colin Powell says the views of the permanent members of the Security Council are beginning to converge on the details of a new resolution on Iraq, especially on the issue of a timetable for self-governance.
  • IRAQ: Security around UN compound beefed up IRIN 25 Sep 2003 -- Two days after a suicide bomber blew up his Mercedes car, killing two people and injuring 19 others near the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, more UN workers have left the country, and all roads to the building are now blocked to regular traffic.

Reconstruction Issues

  • Investigators Assess, Retrieve Stolen Iraqi Artifacts Washington File 25 Sept 2003-- Through international detective work and delicate negotiations within Iraq, U.S. authorities have recovered more than 3,400 artifacts that were stolen or looted from the Iraqi museum in Baghdad following the coalition military actions in April.
  • Majority Of Baghdad Citizens Approve Saddam Hussein's Removal Washington File 25 Sept 2003-- Residents of Baghdad "overwhelmingly believe" -- by nearly a two-to-one margin -- that removing Saddam Hussein from office was worth the hardships they might have personally endured since the coalition military action began in their country, according to a poll by The Gallup Organization released September 24.

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

  • IRAQ VOA 25 Sept 2003-- A woman member of Iraq's Governing Council has died of gunshot wounds she suffered when assassins ambushed her car on Saturday. In another development, a bomb exploded outside a Baghdad hotel used by an American television network, and killed a security guard
  • IRAQ REPORTERS NOTEBOOK VOA 25 Sept 2003-- In Iraq, violence and crime seem to be part of everyday life, as the country emerges from decades of war and repression. But the people are getting on with their lives and some normality is gradually returning
  • BRITAIN / INQUIRY VOA 25 Sept 2003-- Lawyers in London made their closing statements Thursday at an inquiry into the death of leading British weapons expert Dr. David Kelly, who apparently killed himself. But after 22 days of testimony, 74 witness interviews and thousands of pages of documents, the debate goes on over whether Prime Minister Tony Blair's government exxagerated a key intelligence report last year that propelled the country into war in Iraq
  • IRAQ/WMD VOA 25 Sept 2003-- C-I-A officials say an interim report being prepared by the chief American weapons inspector in Iraq will contain no firm conclusions about whether Baghdad possessed weapons of mass destruction at the time of the U-S-led war in March.
  • Kelly`s family accuse UK government of cynical abuse of power IRNA 25 Sep 2003 -- The British government Thursday was accused by the family of David Kelly of "duplicity" in the way it treated former Iraq arms inspector before his assumed suicide in July.
  • RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 6, Number 40 25 Sep 2003 -- GOVERNING COUNCIL MEMBER DIES FIVE DAYS AFTER ATTACK / GOVERNING COUNCIL BANS AL-JAZEERA, AL-ARABIYAH FOR TWO WEEKS / KURDISH PESHMERGA CONTINUE TO ARREST MILITANTS / CAR BOMB DETONATED OUTSIDE UN HEADQUARTERS IN BAGHDAD / IRAQIS INVITE FOREIGN INVESTORS AT G-7 MEETING IN DUBAI / SHI'ITE CLERIC DISCUSSES HIS ARMY, RELATIONS WITH IRAN / TELECOM MINISTER SAYS PHONE SERVICES WILL BE BACK IN MONTHS / NEW CPA APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED / U.S. TRANSFERS AUTHORITY OVER AL-NAJAF TO SPANISH / EXPLOSIONS ROCK HOTEL, MOVIE THEATER IN IRAQ / WORLD BANK/IMF MEETINGS FOCUS ON IRAQ / IRAQI TRIBAL DELEGATION MEETS WITH SYRIAN PRESIDENT / IRAQIS REPORT BEING TRAPPED IN SYRIA / TURKEY COOLING TO IDEA OF SENDING TROOPS TO IRAQ? / IRAQI INTERIM GOVERNMENT TAKES SEAT AT THE OPEC TABLE / IRAQ ON THE AGENDA OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY OPENING SESSION / UN SECRETARY-GENERAL 'DISMAYED' OVER SECOND UN BOMBING IN IRAQ / UN: 13 MILLION IRAQIS STILL IN NEED OF FOOD ASSISTANCE / GOVERNING COUNCIL PRESIDENT SAID TO BE CHALLENGING U.S. PLAN IN IRAQ / CPA HEAD ADDRESSES SENATE ON U.S. SUPPLEMENTAL AID PACKAGE FOR IRAQ / HUTTON INQUIRY WRAPS UP TESTIMONY




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