Thursday, 30 Sep 2004
DEFENCE/SECURITY
Radio Dijla - Iraq's first independent talk radio station, Radio Dijla (Tigris Radio) 29 Sep 04: One person was killed and a woman wounded when a missile fired by a US helicopter at a car in Al-Sadr city landed near them, Radio Dijla reported. Multinational forces carried out an air strike on a vehicle laden with weapons and ammunition in Al-Sadr city on the night of 28 September, destroying it in an open area
Al-Diyar Satellite Channel In Arabic, Baghdad, 29 Sep 04: Police said they had captured the driver of a booby-trapped car, Iraqi Al-Diyar TV reported on 29 September. The vehicle was also laden with 12 RPG-7 rockets. The explosive charge was connected to the fuel tank to maximize the explosion. The car bomb was defused and the driver interrogated to find out who he worked for.
Al-Sharqiyah Satellite Channel, Baghdad, in Arabic, 29 Sep 04: Police have apprehended a gang and seized gold and jewellery and cash belonging to Mrs Saddam Husayn, also known as Sajidah Khayrallah Talfah, Al-Sharqiyah reported on 29 September. Police stormed five houses in Baghdad's Al-Harithiyah area and arrested 11 people along with a quantity of gold and jewellery. Police said the suspects also had 20,000 dollars and furniture believed to have been stolen from the home of Talfah.
Al-Diyar Satellite Channel In Arabic, Baghdad, 29 Sep 04: A minor reshuffle in the Iraqi cabinet is likely to take place on Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's return from abroad, Al-Diyar TV said on 29 September quoting unspecified sources. The sources said Minister of Planning Mahdi al-Hafiz could assume the position of deputy prime minister for economic affairs. The TV also said that four ministers had threatened to resign if the "perpetrators of military operations in Iraq" were not tried in court.
Al - Dustur, independent daily published by former journalist Basim al-Sheikh29 Sep 04: The Iraqi daily Al-Dustur contended on 29 September that for more than a month the southern city of Basra had been run by Iranian intelligence agents. It has "become the closed area of an extremist Islamic group that is run by the Iranian intelligence organ Itla'at", the paper said. "A police officer confirmed to us that he receives orders from an officer at the Badr Forces Center, who does not speak Arabic well," the report continued. "This officer is ordering him to command a detachment to close the theatres, clubs, and hostels and he is afraid for his job, so he is forced to carry out the orders, after noticing the collusion of the British forces with them [i.e. the Iranians]." The paper also quoted a local bank employee as saying that Iranians were "spreading a lot of money around to their helpers... to grab the souls of the people of Basra".
Al-Zaman [daily, independent, Baghdad edition of London-based Al-Zaman] 28 Sep 04): : A federation of 33 political groups has been formed and is preparing to campaign as a single unit during the general elections, Al-Zaman newspaper reported on 29 September. In its draft plan, the Federation of Forces of Democratic Society said its main goal was to unite democratic forces as quickly as possible in order to have greater influence in the polls. The parties include the Democratic Building Party, the Kurdistan Democratic Labour Party, the Kurdistan Democratic Solution Party, the Call of the Homeland, the Grouping for Democracy Party, the Iraqi Commission of Civil Society Institutions and Democratic Labour Movements, 6th of December, Free Yazidi Democracy, Kurdistan Woman for Liberation, the New Iraq Youth Federation, the Iraqi National Union, as well as women's, cultural, and tribal associations.
Al-Sharq al-Awsat [Baghdad edition of London-based daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat] 29 Sep 04: Iraqi Planning Minister Mahdi al-Hafiz has denied that Iraqis living abroad will not be allowed to take part in the country's forthcoming national elections, London-based Arabic-language newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat reported on 29 September. During a recent visit to London, the minister told the paper that any decision on this issue would be taken not by his government department, but by the Independent Higher Elections Commission (IHEC). But in the same article, the paper quoted IHEC member Abd al-Husayn al-Hindawi as saying that the issue depended on financial allocations from the UN. However, he added that the commission would do all it could to ensure that Iraqis living abroad would be able to take part. He also said that the commission intended to use ration cards and a number of other documents in order to identify voters.
Al-Sharqiyah Satellite Channel, Baghdad, in Arabic, 29 Sep 04: The Iraqi cabinet has endorsed a draft law to compensate families of state employees who are killed in terrorist attacks or in accidents while performing official duties, Al-Sharqiyah TV reported on 29 September. Ministerial sources said the draft law would ensure that the family of a dead employee would receive his monthly salary in full without any tax or other deductions. The draft law also stipulates that the families will continue to benefit from salary increases and promotions enjoyed by peers who are still on active duty.
Al-Sharqiyah Satellite Channel, Baghdad, in Arabic, 29 Sep 04: Oil Minister Thamir Abbas Ghadban has said that foreign investment is being encouraged in Iraq not in an attempt to privatize the oil sector but to boost it, Al-Sharqiyah TV reported on 29 September. He said the future of Iraq's oil was in the hands of Iraqis. Ghadban said that Iraqi oil production was estimated at 2.6m barrels per day after the resumption of exports via the northern oil fields. He added that there were plans to raise oil production to 4m barrels per day by the end of the year.
Baghdad [Baghdad, daily newspaper in Arabic published by the Iraqi National Accord Movement] 29 Sep 04: [From commentary by Rif'at Sayyid Ahmad]: "The true resistance knows how, when and who to resist. It should be a kind of resistance that can rally the people around, not drive them to hate it Any resistance that does not have a clear programme against a clear enemy is by no means resistance. Rather, it is indiscriminate terrorism of which the multinational forces are the first and probably the only beneficiary
Al-Sharq al- Awsat [Baghdad edition of London-based daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat, Saudi-owned] [From opinion by Adnan Husayn] 29 Sep 04: "The situation in Iraq will not be the decisive factor in US President George Bush's defeat or success in the forthcoming elections. However, it will certainly be one of the secondary factors that will decide whether the Republican president will stay in the White House for another four years, or will leave it for his Democratic rival John Kerry President Bush could have made the Iraqi situation a powerful card to achieve a very easy win, compared to his difficult victory four years ago over Democrat Al Gore, had his administration well run the Iraqi situation after the fall of Saddam Husayn's regime and avoided the big mistakes it had been committing in Iraq "
Al-Zaman [daily, independent, Baghdad edition of London-based Al-Zaman] [From commentary by Muhsin Dabit al-Jaylawi] 29 Sep 04: "There is enough time for an action by all anti-terror forces, parties, unions and civil society organizations to close ranks and consider that their major battle and challenge is to defeat the killing plan This is the battle of democracy against backwardness and barbarism, a battle where there is no room for neutrality. Otherwise, all will be the victims, and our people will pay for it with more blood and riches, thereby making deadly mistakes that render greater service to those killers "
Hawal, Kurdish newspaper, 25 Sep 04: Armed men dressed in Iraqi police uniforms entered Kirkuk's General Hospital on 22 September and kidnapped an injured Ansar al-Islam member, Hashim Ali, the Kurdish newspaper Hawal reported on 25th. An eyewitness said he saw Ali being chased by a Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) unit, adding that Hashim had opened fire and injured the driver of a KDP official. The official's guards returned fire and injured Ali, who was later arrested and taken to hospital. The paper said the incident had been reported in the Arab media as a failed murder attempt on a Kurdish official.
Hawlati, Kurdish newspaper, 25 Sep 04: Representatives from around 10 Arab tribes met at a conference in Tikrit on 27-29 September and passed a resolution calling for "the reversion of the status of Kirkuk to its state before the collapse of the Iraqi former regime", the Kurdish newspaper Hawlati reported on 29th. It said the tribes, from Ba'qubah, Tikrit, Kirkuk and Mosul, set a one-month deadline for the removal of the city's new officials. Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih said the conference was unlawful and "again summoned the governor of Salah-al-Din regarding this issue".
Kurdistani Nuwe , Kurdish newspaper 29 Sep 04: Kurdish peshmerga forces on 26 September started military exercises involving live ammunition, under the command of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) leader Jalal Talabani, Kurdish newspaper Kurdistani Nuwe reported on 29 September. Heavy artillery, tanks and armoured vehicles are being used in the exercises, codenamed "Kurdistan Manoeuvres", which are taking place at the Saray Subhan Agha military base. The paper added that these were the first exercises of their kind to be conducted by peshmerga forces.
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Helicopter kills one in Al-Sadr city- Radio Dijla
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Baghdad police defuse car bomb, arrest driver- Al-Diyar TV
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Eleven arrested for stealing Saddam's wife's jewellery - Al-Sharqiyah
POLITICS , ELECTIONS
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Minor cabinet reshuffle mooted- Al-Diyar TV
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"Secret government" said running Basra- Al-Dustur
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New political alliance formed- Al-Zaman
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UN funding to determine whether Iraqis abroad to vote- Al-Sharq al-Awsat
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Bill approved to compensate kin of slain government staff- Al-Sharqiyah TV
RECONSTRUCTION
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Minister says oil sector not to be privatized- Al-Sharqiyah
IRAQI BROADCAST MEDIA SUMMARIES, 29 SEP 04
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Al-Diyar Satellite Channel In Arabic, Baghdad
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Al-Iraqiah Satellite Channel, Baghdad, in Arabic,
IRAQI PRESS HEADLINES, 29 SEP 04
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Al-Zaman [daily, independent, Baghdad edition of London-based Al-Zaman]
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Al-Adalah [Baghdad, twice-weekly newspaper in Arabic published by the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI)]
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Ishraqat al-Sadr [Baghdad, weekly newspaper in Arabic published by the Sadrist Movement]
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Al-Mu'tamar [Baghdad, daily newspaper in Arabic published by the Iraqi National Congress]
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Al-Sharq al-Awsat [Baghdad edition of London-based daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat, Saudi-owned]
IRAQI PRESS QUOTES, 29 SEP 04
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True resistance knows how, when and who to resist- Baghdad
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Situation in Iraq is a secondary factor in the US elections- Al-Sharq al- Awsat
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Civil society organizations major battle, democracy against barbarism- Al-Zaman
UPDATES FROM IRAQI KURDISH MEDIA ,29 SEP 2004:
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Armed group member reportedly snatched from Kirkuk hospital
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Deputy PM rejects Arab tribes resolution on Kirkuk
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Kurdish peshmerga engaged in war games
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One person killed and another wounded while trying to plant explosive charge in Al-A'zamiyah area of Baghdad this morning
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Prime Minister Iyad Allawi says military operation will soon be carried out in Al-Fallujah should efforts to find a political solution fail. Allawi also says no armed group other than Iraqi Army, National Guard, and Iraqi police will be allowed to carry weapons in Iraq.
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Sources close to Iraqi government say minor cabinet reshuffle may take place after return of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi to Iraq.
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Iraqi Council of Ministers endorses draft law to protect rights of state employees killed in terrorist attacks.
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Al-Diyar correspondent in Diyala Governorate says that US forces opened fire on civilian car that passed checkpoint in Al-Ghalibiyah area, killing driver and wounding a passenger
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Iraqi Interior Ministry source says an explosive-rigged car seized in Al-Mansur area of Baghdad
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Germany says it will deliver 20 armoured personnel carriers to Iraqi Army
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Report on difficulties facing Iraqi Civil Defence forces
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Iraqi oil minister says Iraqi oil industry run by Iraqi engineering and technical teams.
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At meeting organized by UN agency for human settlements (UN-HABITAT) in Jordan, Iraqi planning minister criticizes corruption in projects carried out within framework of Iraq's reconstruction process
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Iraq allows Iranian delegations to visit holy sites in Al-Najaf and Karbala.
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French mediator says an agreement reached with abductors of two French journalists in Iraq for their release.
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Two released Italian hostages arrive in Italy
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Iraqi Journalists Union and Central Council of Iraq's Chieftains and Dignitaries held meeting on 28th on importance of national unity
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Iraqi Electricity Ministry studies plans to increase price of electricity in attempt to make citizens reduce electricity consumption
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National Guard storms positions of terror suspects in Baghdad's Hayfa Stree
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Two members of National Guard killed in Alexandria; car bomb blast injures six American soldiers and two Iraqi policemen in Mosul
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Civilian killed in US raids on Al-Sadr City
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Minster of the Interior Falah al-Naqib says there is link between terrorists and criminals
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Vice President Ruz says poll to be held on schedule
Freed Italian women greeted back home
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Police tighten security in Karbala ahead of Shi'i holy celebrations
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Victims of 1991 uprising call for compensation.
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Interview with Vice President of High Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Dr. Sa'ad Jawad, who says there were other uprisings against former regime
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Al-Najaf holy site to be reopened to visitors
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Basra police free child kidnapped by gang.
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Forum on scientific research held in Baghdad
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Courses in transparency and integrity for Iraq civil servants
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Ministry of Culture holds conference in honour of Muhammad Bahr al-Ulum
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Training sessions for professionals in Biqar
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Civil servants call for pay hikes
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Oman requests participation of armed groups
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Iraqi president rejects partial elections; Al-Yawar confirms peaceful coexistence in Kirkuk, praises Kurdish leadership
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Three wounded, hospital damaged in roadside bomb explosion in Baghdad
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Arab, European capitals busy with Iraq hostage dossier;
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Arafat joins efforts for release of Briton
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Two injured in suicide attacks on US convoy in Al-Ramadi
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Talks with World Bank top release grants for 12 irrigation projects
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Muslim cleric puts forward political proposal for the remaining transitional period;
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Timetable for foreign troop withdrawal with guarantees for fair elections
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Unknown gunmen killed while trying to plant explosive device in Kirkuk
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No government intention to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr
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Who will save Al-Sadr City from daily destruction, bloodshed?
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National Assembly request to question PM;
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[Fu'ad] Ma'sum confirms elections will be held as scheduled
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Planning minister: Glaring facts upon analysing reconstruction project cots
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Iraqi Lawyers Union chairman: Cannot secure protection for Saddam's defence team
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G7 meetings to focus on Iraq, debts [news agencies quoted]
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Romania shows readiness for economic cooperation with Iraq
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Migration minister: Continuing measures to ensure participation of Iraqi exiles, residents abroad in elections
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Electronic chips to abort kidnappings via satellite;
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Abductions obstruct efforts to improve economic situation, curb unemployment [Elaph website quoted]
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Proposals to turn military camps into residential complexes
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Naval force resume protection of territorial waters
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Border forces step up patrols to control borders
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Huge investment prospects in Iraq despite insecurity
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Wasit rejects low compensation payments to victims of recent events
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Ministerial committee bans meat imports from several world states
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Kirkuk for all Iraqis, not only Kurds
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Al-Zurfi threatens to demolish Al-Mahdi Army cemetery
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Talla'far, continuation of attrition war
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Barzani statements, Talla'far events denounced Sadrist trend and prospective view of new Iraq history
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Suffering of Al-Shabak Shi'i ethnic group Al-Sistani between peace and occupation
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Defence minister dreams of Saddam's Qadissiyah
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Lie aired by American, applauded by Iraq enemies
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Al-Sistani-Al-Sadr deal: Peace or capitulation?
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Allawi's handshake with Zionist FM: beginning of greater Middle East project starting from Iraq
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National expertise internationally recognized;
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Ports ready to receive incoming ships
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Egyptian engineers' kidnap over;
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One million dollar for freedom of two Italian aid workers
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Kirkuk residents, official confirm: Displacement could ignite civil war
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Wasit governor refuse to receive compensation payments for victims of US operations
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US jet fighters pound Al-Sadr City, killing 5, wounding 46
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Multinational forces provide grains for Ninawa farmers
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Iraqi-French cooperation agreement on medical education
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Twelve thousand families return to marsh lands
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Iraqi oil exports record highest levels
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Omani companies display products for Iraqi market at Damascus trade meeting
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Arafat tries to secure freedom for UK hostage .
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Night of heavy bombing in Al-Sadr City, Al-Fallujah
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US army kill leader of fundamentalist ring in Kirkuk
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Egypt offers to host international conference on Iraq
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SCIRI leader quoting Al-Sistani: Conditional unavailable to hold fair elections
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Iraqi defence minister: We work to enlarge army; Our weaponry is "eastern" for the time being
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Blair: The world is a better place with Saddam in prison, not in power
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Iraq repays IMF debts [Reuters quoted]
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Iraqi Planning minister criticizes corruption in reconstruction projects
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Control of Iraqi-Syrian borders still far-fetched demand [AFP quoted] I
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raqi civilians pay high price for multinational military operations, gunmen attacks
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Public works minister: World Bank grants ministry 115m dollars for reconstruction projects
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