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• 10 Iraqis Reported Killed In US Air Strike VOA News 05 Jul 2004 -- Iraqi witnesses say at least 10 people have been killed in Fallujah in a U.S. air strike on a suspected hideout of alleged al-Qaida-linked militants.

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Reconstruction Issues

• IRAQ/WRAP VOA 05 Jul 2004 -- Iraq's interim government has delayed announcing measures designed to quell violence by insurgents.
• Interim Iraqi Government Again Delays Announcement on Security VOA News 05 Jul 2004 -- Iraq's interim government for the second time has delayed an announcement on measures to fight insurgents and militants in the country.
• Iraq: Deputy Foreign Minister Says Baghdad Seeks New Links With International Community RFE/RL 05 Jul 2004 -- A week after the handover of sovereignty to Iraq's new interim government on 28 June, diplomats there say they are working to restore the country's international ties. But it is a delicate process. Baghdad has already rejected offers from several neighbors to send peacekeepers to Iraq, saying such a move could add to the country's unrest.
• Iraq: Bremer Says Trial Of Saddam Hussein Could Calm Some Insurgents But Incite Others RFE/RL 05 Jul 2004 -- Former top U.S. administrator in Iraq L. Paul Bremer says trying Saddam Hussein could have a mixed effect on the insurgency in Iraq. He says it could cause some groups of Saddam loyalists to admit defeat. But he warns that other groups may become further enraged and try harder to disrupt Iraq's reconstruction.

Foreign Reactions

• Malaysia: Islamic Nations Should Consider Sending Troops to Iraq VOA News 05 Jul 2004 -- The chairman of the world's largest Muslim organization says he thinks Islamic countries should consider sending troops to Iraq to help stabilize the interim government now in place there.
• ARABS/IRAQI TRAINING VOA 05 Jul 2004 -- Some Arab nations have begun making separate offers of military assistance to Iraq, but analysts say they are not getting an eager response from the new interim government in Baghdad.
• Iran to deliver complaint to Iraqi court about Saddam`s crimes IRNA 05 Jul 2004 -- Iran will put forward a complaint to the Iraqi court about Saddam Hussein`s crimes against Iranian nation by imposing war in September 1980 and launching chemical attacks against Iranian soldiers.
• Iran, Syria presidents demand an end to occupation in Iraq IRNA 05 Jul 2004 -- The presidents of Iran and Syria have demanded that the occupation of Iraq be ended as soon as possible and that the Iraqi people be granted the right to determine their fate themselves.
• Iranian, Syrian Presidents Urge Foreign Troops To Leave Iraq RFE/RL 05 Jul 2004 -- The Iranian President and his visiting Syrian counterpart called today for the rapid departure of foreign troops from neighboring Iraq.
• Turkey Withdraws Military Monitors From Northern Iraq RFE/RL 05 Jul 2004 -- Turkey is withdrawing a small number of military monitors from northern Iraq, where they have been stationed since 1997 to monitor a ceasefire between Kurdish groups, according to reports from AFP and AP.

News Reports

• Iraqi Media Monitoring UNAMI 05 Jul 2004
• Iraqi Kurds Demand Saddam's Execution VOA News 05 Jul 2004 -- Thousands of Iraqi Kurds have marched in the northern town of Halabja to demand the death penalty against Saddam Hussein for a chemical attack in 1988.