Is Iraq an Arab Country? Islam Online reports a heated debate in Iraq and in the Interim Governing Council over whether Iraq should be identified in the Fundamental Law (the interim constitution) as an Arab state. Iraq’s population is about 24 million, probably. Some 65 % or 15.6 million are Shiite Arabs. Another 15% or […]
Abdul Hamid Shocks Kuwait And Jordan
Abdul Hamid Shocks Kuwait and Jordan with Claims on their Territories
Chinese Excited Over Iraqs Free Market
Chinese Excited over Iraq’s Free Market Growth Those capitalist roaders among the Chinese communists in Shanghai appear to be watering in the mouth over the potential profits to be made from a reviving Iraq. The Shanghai Daily estimates that Iraqis have imported 250,000 new cars in the past 10 months, that demand for electronics is […]
Annan Plan For Iraq London Daily Ash
The Annan Plan for Iraq The London daily ash-Sharq al-Awsat says it has acquired an advance draft of comments UN Secretary General Kofi Annan will make on Monday regarding the future of Iraq and the procedure for elections. It says there are five points: 1) General elections must be held with a guarantee of constitutionality […]
Kurds Demand For Autonomy Roils Igc
Kurds’ demand for Autonomy Roils IGC The Washington Post reports that the issues of the nature of federalism and the rights of minorities and provinces with regard to Iraq’s Kurds are creating a deadlock in the Interim Governing Council as it polishes the Fundamental Law that will serve as a constitution until a new one […]
2 Us Soldiers And Iraqi Killed Near
2 US Soldiers and an Iraqi Killed near Khalidiyah Wire services report: ‘Two US soldiers and an Iraqi have been killed by a roadside bomb near the city of Khalidiya, west of Baghdad. Earlier, an Iraqi policeman was wounded in an attack on an American convoy in Baquba, northeast of the capital.”
Al Zarqawi Rebuffed Nyt Reports That Us
Al-Zarqawi Rebuffed The NYT reports that US suveillance of “chatter” among suspected terrorists suggests to them that al-Qaeda has decided not to get involved in Iraq, as Zarqawi had proposed. al-Hayat profiled Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (i.e. Ahmad Fadl Nizal al-Khala’ilah) today. It says he is from al-Zarqa, a town near the capital of Amman. He […]
Al Karbalai Calls For Resignation Of
Al-Karbala’i calls for Resignation of Provincial Council AFP/ash-Sharq al-Awsat report that Shaykh Abdul Mahdi al-Karbala’i, the representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani in the holy city of Karbala, called on the members of the provincial council there to submit their resignations because “their appointment was by an American decision, and there had been no consultation […]
Demonstrations For Elections In Najaf
Demonstrations for Elections in Najaf The Iranian news agency is reporting that thousands of demonstrators came out in the shrine city of Najaf in Iraq on Friday to demand early elections: ‘In Najaf, thousands of demonstrators clamored in the streets for elections, defying the United States and the United Nations. And Sistani’s representative in the […]