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| IWR - Iraqi Press Summary |
| 2004-06-23 |
| EFL Sadr ’current’ invited to participate in national congress (Al-Taakhi) - Head of the Supreme Committee for the Iraqi National Congress Foud Masoum said a representative of Muqtada al-Sadr’s current would be invited to participate in the committee’s preliminary works, but that nobody has yet been invited to the congress. Masoum added, "the committee is studying the rules of choosing the one thousand members who would participate, and that is why nobody has yet been invited". Masoum admitted, however, that he invited Ali Smaisim, a well-known figure of the Sadr’s current, to participate, and that Smaisim had not attended the preliminary meeting on Sunday. (Al-Taakhi is issued daily by the Kurdistan Democratic Party.) US says Sadr should not participate in politics (Al-Mashriq) - Coalition Provisional Authority spokesman Dan Senor has criticized the invitation to Muqtada al-Sadr to participate in the political process through the Iraqi national conference to be held in July. Senor said he does not think Muqtada will hold a political post because there is an arrest warrant out for him. Anybody who has a military militia or a connection to armed groups, has no right to participate in the political process as per the administrative law, added Senor. Sheikh Ahmed al-Shibani, close to Muqtada, said Muqtada has been officially invited to participate in the Iraqi national conference and that Muqtada is still studying the invitation. Sadr spokesman Kais al-Khazali said today, Tuesday, that they will make a special declaration about the invitation. (Al-Mashriq is published daily by Al-Mashriq Institution for Media and Cultural Investments.) Chalabi ’not a fugitive’ says spokesman (Asharq al-Awsat) - The information published by al-Nahdhah paper of the Independents Democrats Movements last Sunday and Monday upset the Iraqi National Congress. Al-Nahdhah said an arrest warrant was issued against Ahmed al-Chalabi. The INC said this was an organised campaign because al-Chalabi supported appointing al-Yawir as president. Al-Nahdhah Editor-in-Chief Salwa Zaku said the paper got its information from a trustworthy security source. Zaku emphasised that Chalabi is currently a fugitive. INC Spokesman Haider al-Moosawi denied al-Nahdhah’s report. "There is no arrest warrant. Chalabi is not a fugitive. He is in Kurdistan to meet Jalal al-Talabani and Masoud al-Barazani to discuss the political process and will be back in two days" said al-Moosawi. (London-based Asharq al-Awsat, a Saudi independent paper, is issued daily.) PM ’annoyed’ over Peshmerga (Al-Mutamar) - Disagreement between the Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and his deputy for the national security Barham Salih is still simmering and might end in to two choices: either Salih’s resigns or the Kurds are in conflict with Allawi over administration of the security file. An informed Kurdish source in Baghdad said Salih might have presented a security plan for Allawi where organised Kurdish intelligence plays the biggest role in keeping security in Iraq. Allawi was very annoyed after the Peshmerga’s leadership informed Salih it is a military and security force that has nothing to do with Baghdad government. (Al-Mutamar is issued daily by the Iraqi National Congress.) Terrorists target Kurds in Samarra (Al-Ittihad) - After terrorist henchmen of the old regime in Samarra killed five Kurds who joined the new Iraqi army, a group of terrorists bombed a Kurdish residential area which resulted in the injury of one man named Waleed Rustem. Some 400 Kurdish families from Khanakeen reside in Samarra, where they were displaced in 1975 by the old regime aiming to change the demographic features of the area. A source said the terrorists have warned brokers not to buy Kurd properties in Samarra, saying they should leave with nothing as they came with nothing. |
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