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Iraqi government
cancels airport security contract- Media monitor
28.9.2005
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Iraqi Government
Cancels Airport Security Contract
(Al-Sharq al-Awsat)
The Iraqi government has canceled its contract with
the British company Global, which provides security
at Baghdad International Airport, after the company
twice shut down the airport and blocked
transportation activities. Transportation Minister
Salam al-Maliki said the government will train Iraqi
forces to provide airport security. Global has shut
down the airport twice, saying the Iraqi government
owed the company money.
(London-based
Asharq al-Awsat, a pro-Saudi independent paper, is
issued daily.)
Pension Law for Interim Assembly Members Approved
(Al-Ittihad) The National Assembly approved a law
Tuesday allocating pensions to the members of the
interim parliament during the assembly's sixty-ninth
session.
(Al-Ittihad is
published daily by the Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan.)
Top Iraq Al-Qaeda Leader Killed in Raid
(Azzaman)
Abu Azzam, second-in-command of al-Qaeda in Iraq,
was killed in a raid by Iraqi and American forces,
Mwafaq al-Rubai'i, Iraq's national security adviser,
said. Al-Rubai'i said Azzam was killed Monday when
Iraqi and U.S. forces raided a Baghdad house based
on information from an Iraqi citizen. A Pentagon
official also confirmed Azzam's death. American
forces had offered a $ 50,000 reward for anyone who
provided information that led to Azzam's arrest or
death.
(London-based
Azzaman is issued daily by Saad al-Bazaz.)
Sistani: Violence and Threats Meant to Instigate
Feud
(Mada)
Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the highest Shiite
Marji'iyyah in Iraq, responded Tuesday to a letter
from Muqtada al-Sadr asking Sistani to put an end to
threats Iraqi Shiites are receiving. In a statement
issued by his office, Sistani called for restraint
and caution.
"The main goal of making these threats and the criminal acts before them
that targeted tens of thousands of innocent people
throughout of Iraq is to instigate feud among the
generous Iraqi People and to ignite the fire of a
civil war in order to prevent Iraq from regaining
its sovereignty, security and its well being," the
statement said.
(Al-Mada is
issued daily by Al-Mada institution for Media,
Culture, and Arts.)
Deploying Arab Troops to Iraq Dangerous,
Parliamentarian Says
(Al-Iraq al-Yawm)
Jawad al-Maliky, head of the National Assembly's
defense and security committee, warned of the
possible dangers of other Arab countries deploying
forces to Iraq and stressed the importance of
relying on Iraqi forces to protect security. "If the
military troops of any country enter Iraq, they do
not serve the Iraqi security agenda because they
will have a bias for a certain party," al-Maliky
said. "We want Iraq to be empty of any foreign
forces."
(Al-Iraq al-Yawm
is a weekly newspaper issued by Isra Shakir.)
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