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• Iraq: Mounting Civilian Casualties Underscore Coalition Struggle RFE/RL 30 Sep 2003 -- The mounting coalition casualty count in Iraq has cast a shadow on continued U.S.-led efforts to restore security some five months since Washington declared an end to major combat operations. But the country's civilian death toll -- which some estimate may be nearing 10,000 -- receives far less attention.
• PENTAGON/IRAQ/NUCLEAR VOA 30 Sept 2003-- U-S-led coalition forces in Iraq will turn over security at a large part of the Tuwaitha nuclear complex to Iraqi guards next week

Deployments

US Policy

• Remarks by Senator John Kerry: Winning the Peace in Iraq. September 30, 2003 - Our country is paying a high price for the Bush failures. The clearest symbol of that price is the target on the back of young Americans serving in a distant desert. Today a soldier in Iraq fears getting shot while getting a drink of water. A squad at a checkpoint has to worry whether the old station wagon driving toward them is a mobile bomb. And the price is paid not only in their security and too often their lives, but in the erosion of American's international standing, the prospect of new dangers down the road, and an endless drain on our national treasury
• CONGRESS / IRAQI COUNCIL VOA 30 Sept 2003-- Members of the Iraqi Governing Council met with U-S Senate leaders on Capitol Hill Tuesday to press for congressional passage of President Bush's 87 billion dollar request for Iraq and Afghanistan
• CONGRESS / IRAQ UPDATE VOA 30 Sept 2003-- The U-S Congress is holding more hearings on President Bush's 87 billion dollar request to fund U-S military operations and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan. Richard Armitage, the number two official in the State Department, testified before a House appropriations subcommittee.

United Nations

• UN: Oil-For-Food Program Set To Expire In November RFE/RL 30 Sep 2003 -- Iraq's oil-for-food program, set up to feed Iraqis under lengthy UN sanctions, is due to be phased out in eight weeks. The head of the program, Benon Sevan, affirmed yesterday he will close down the program. Sevan told the UN Security Council that the reduction in UN international staff in Iraq due to security concerns is making the process more difficult. But UN officials express confidence that local staff can maintain the distribution network that feeds most of the country.
• U-S-Iraq Resolution VOA 30 Sept 2003-- The United States says it expects to distribute a revised draft resolution to U-N Security Council members by the end of this week that would give the U-N a broader role in peacekeeping and the political transition in Iraq. U-S officials hope for adoption of the measure before the end of October

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq: Dispute In Committee Could Delay Drafting Of Constitution RFE/RL 30 Sep 2003 -- An Iraqi technical committee is taking its first step toward creating a constitution for the post-Saddam Hussein era. But a dispute has emerged between Shi'a, Sunnis, and Kurds about how to form the group that will draft the document.
• IRAQ/SCHOOLS VOA 30 Sept 2003-- Millions of Iraqi children will begin returning to school this week (starting on Wednesday). Many will find refurbished classrooms and textbooks that make no mention of Saddam Hussein

Foreign Reactions

• Pak opposition in senate opposes sending troops to Iraq IRNA 30 Sep 2003 -- The combined opposition in Pakistan`s Senate (Upper House of the Parliament) on Tuesday in unequivocal terms opposed sending of Pakistani troops to Iraq.
• BRITAIN / BLAIR VOA 30 Sept 2003-- British Prime Minister Tony Blair has vigorously defended his decision to go to war in Iraq and said he would make the same decision again

News Reports

• IRAQ: Focus on Arab IDPs IRIN 30 Sep 2003 -- Tribal leaders sat on carpets discussing their plight in an unfinished building that had a sheet as an outside wall to guard against the elements. Most in the group were rewarded with plots of land and houses in Kirkuk and Khanaqin in northern Iraq for fighting in the eight year Iran/Iraq war. But when the Saddam Hussein regime fell after US-led coalition troops entered Iraq, people living in those cities told them to leave.