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• IRAQ / ATTACKS VOA 21 Nov 2003 -- In Iraq, the U-S military says Friday's rocket attacks on the oil ministry and two hotels in central Baghdad were part of a larger plan by its opponents to cause widespread damage and casualties.
• Baghdad Rocket Attacks Are 'Militarily Insignificant' AFPS 21 Nov 2003 -- Unconventional rocket attacks that struck the Iraqi oil ministry and two hotels in Baghdad today indicate insurgents' increasing difficulty in carrying out assaults against U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq, according to a senior U.S. military officer.
• Task Force 1st Armored Division Troops Combine Efforts to Hire New Police Force AFPS 21 Nov 2003 -- Several hundred Baghdad-area residents arrived early in the morning Nov. 13 to begin what could be a career as an Iraqi police officer.
• Despite Attacks, Soldiers Continue Crackdown on Insurgents AFPS 21 Nov 2003 -- Though some attacks against them continue to take place, U.S. soldiers and Iraqi security forces continue to round up insurgents and their weapons.
• Iraq: Baghdad Hotels Rocked By Early-Morning Explosions RFE/RL 21 Nov 2003 -- Two Baghdad hotels known to house Westerners and the Iraqi Oil Ministry came under rocket attack early this morning. The assaults, which come after several days of relative calm, claimed no lives. But they delivered an unmistakable message that foreigners are increasingly unwelcome in Iraq.
• Iraq: Operation Iron Hammer May Turn Many Iraqis Against U.S. Troops RFE/RL 21 Nov 2003 -- U.S. troops have resumed a modified air war in Iraq, using satellite-guided bombs, and other heavy arms to battle guerrilla fighters in Operation Iron Hammer. But many Iraqis say the immoderate use of force is targeting more ordinary citizens than insurgents. They say in the end, Iron Hammer will make the situation even less secure and turn even more Iraqis against the American occupation.
• IRAQ / ATTACKS VOA 21 Nov 2003 -- In Iraq Friday, several rockets hit two hotels used by American officials and foreign media in central Baghdad. The attacks on the hotels occurred minutes after eight rockets hit the oil ministry a few kilometers away.
• Iraq: Baghdad Hit By Rocket Attacks RFE/RL 21 Nov 2003 -- Rockets hit two hotels as well as the Oil Ministry building in the Iraqi capital Baghdad this morning.
• IRAQ / ATTACKS VOA 21 Nov 2003 -- In Iraq Friday, several rockets hit two hotels used by American officials and foreign media in central Baghdad. The attacks on the hotels occurred minutes after rockets hit the oil ministry a few kilometers away.

Deployments

US Policy

• Bush Explains Dual Track Strategy for Iraq Washington File 21 Nov 2003 -- President Bush says U.S. efforts to transform Iraq into a stable, prosperous democracy are proceeding on two separate tracks -- political and security.
• Iraq: U.S. Allows Arms Exports To Iraqi Forces RFE/RL 21 Nov 2003 -- The U.S. State Department says it has repealed a ban on arms exports to Iraq so that the United States can supply weapons to a new army and police force.
• EDITORIAL: TOWARD AN INDEPENDENT IRAQ VOA 21 Nov 2003 -- The transfer of power to democratic institutions in Iraq is well underway. The Iraqi Governing Council has been operating since July and has appointed the heads of Iraqi ministries. There are more than two-hundred fifty governing councils at the local level. An Iraqi runs the central bank, and an Iraqi council of judges has been established to supervise the judicial system. The next step will be to draft a constitution.

United Nations

• U-N / IRAQ VOA 21 Nov 2003 -- Three vocal critics of the U-S led invasion of Iraq are calling for a greater role for the United Nations in the transition to Iraqi self-rule. France, Germany and Russia told the U-N Security Council that Iraqi citizens and other countries in the region should be given more say in the process.
• Deal on political transition a step towards Iraqi sovereignty, Security Council told UN News Centre 21 Nov 2003 -- The Iraqi Governing Council's announcement last weekend that it had created a political process for choosing a transitional national assembly was a dramatic step in the country's move to full sovereignty in 2004, the United States told the United Nations Security Council today.

Reconstruction Issues

• Coalition Provisional Authority's Iraqi Infrastructure Reconstruction Office Industry Day Co-Sponsored by Trade Partners UK - The Department for Trade and Industry - 21 November 2003
• CPA Takes Over Oil-For-Food Program from U.N. Washington File 21 Nov 2003 -- The State Department said the November 21 transfer of responsibility for the Oil-for-Food program from the United Nations to the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) marks "another important step towards economic self-sufficiency for Iraq."

Foreign Reactions

• Koreans Called Upon to Reject U.S. Pressure for Troop Dispatch KCNA 21 Nov 2003 -- Minju Joson today in a signed commentary accuses high-ranking officials of the U.S. Departments of State and Defense, the U.S. ambassador to south Korea and others of pressurizing south Korea to send combatants of a divisional scope to Iraq as early as possible.

News Reports

• Iraqi Women Say Life in Iraq Has Improved since Saddam's Ouster Washington File 21 Nov 2003 -- Representatives from a delegation of Iraqi women leaders said their country's politics and infrastructure were much improved since Saddam Hussein's regime was ousted by Coalition forces in April.