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BBC Monitoring Headlines, Quotes From Iraqi Press 2 July 05

Posted on: Saturday, 2 July 2005, 06:00 CDT

The following is a selection of headlines and quotes taken from the Iraqi press published on Saturday, 02 July, 2005:

HEADLINES

Al-Bayyinah [Baghdad, general cultural and political daily newspaper temporarily published twice-weekly by the Hezbollah Movement in Iraq]: Serious files, scenarios detrimental to Iraqi Shi'is tacitly tackled at Brussels conference \ Classified CIA report: Syria backing up insurgency in Iraq \ New Ba'th leadership sets five conditions for laying down arms \ What role is Allawi playing in secret negotiations? \ Talabani rejects US accusations implicating Iran, avers Saudi Wahabism source of terror (gripping Iraq) \ Iran liberation venture on hold for now \ Israel reviving plan to have two million Palestinians settle in Iraq \ Salah al-Din police chief in grip of Interior Ministry \

Al-Dustur [Baghdad, independent daily newspaper]: Attempts to set up Sumer autonomous region in the south rejected by Al-Sistani (Agencies quoted) \ Kurds refuse to have Kirkuk issue deferred, preparations under way for 2007 public census (Agencies quoted) \ PM meets Al-Hakim to discuss results of Brussels conference (Agencies quoted) \ Al-Ja'fari's party office targeted in car bombing \ Arms deal with Iraq funded by Emirates (Agencies quoted) \ Edict issued by armed groups calls for eliminating Al-Samarra'i (Agencies quoted) \

Al-Sabah al-Jadid [Baghdad, independent political daily newspaper]: Car bomb detonated at entrance to Al-Da'wah Party headquarters in Al-Mansur district, Al-Sistani representative assassinated, mosque preacher kidnapped in Al-Duriyyin neighbourhood (Agencies quoted) \ Emirates presenting Iraq with gift of 180 armoured vehicles (Agencies quoted) \ Suicide attacks attributed to foreign operatives (CNN quoted) \ New Yemeni ambassador to be accredited to Iraq \ Arrest warrant issued for capture of Mizhir al- Juburi on genocide charges \ Paris having no intention of freezing Syrian assets (AFP quoted) \

Al-Mada [Baghdad, independent daily newspaper published by Al- Mada Corporation for Media, Culture and Art]: Kurdish politician accuses 'Alliance' parliamentary bloc of procrastination, voices support for dialogue with armed groups \ Border Guard positions, stations built along Iraqi-Iranian borderline \ Discovered in Kirkuk: biggest arms depot so far \ A hundred car bombings in two months, Syria says it has prevented 70,000 foreigners from crossing into Iraq (Reuters quoted) \ Lawmaker on Kurdish Coalition slate roughed up by police \ Security forces on full alert in Al-Hillah, number of Ba'thists detained \ Islamic states pledge to aid in reconstructing Iraq, finishing off insurgency (Reuters quoted)

Al-Mu'tamar [Baghdad, comprehensive daily newspaper published by the Iraqi National Congress]: Surprised at Al-Ja'fari's statements, Kurds reject putting Kirkuk issue on hold \ Iraqi death toll down by one third \ Iraq calls for international conference on war reparations \ Factions in Iraqi resistance threaten to kill Al- Samarra'i, accusing him of working for US, Israeli intelligence (Al- Hayat quoted) \ Canadian ambassador tells Al-Mu'tamar Canadian government will continue to support Iraq \ Ashraf Qadhi tells Al- Mu'tamar UN has no magic wand \ Euphrates water flow to be released for three months, with Baghdad, Damascus exchanging diplomatic representation (Elaph quote) \

Al-Zaman [Baghdad edition of London-based independent daily newspaper]: Charged by parliamentarians with inefficiency, impotence, Trade Ministry responds by pointing out security risks, insufficient allocation of funds by way of justification as food- ration voucher threatens to spark crisis between government, National Assembly \ Timetable set for payment of disbanded former presidency office staff entitlements \ Arms caches dug out in Ba'qubah, Samarra \ Al-Mutlaq seeking to persuade those who have walked out to rejoin constitutional panel \ Multinational forces deny handing over Green Zone security to Iraqi force, release Al- Dhari in response to request by VP \ Fifty-six detained in six areas in Baghdad \ Nine fall victim to assassination in Mosul, Ba'qubah, Tikrit \ Al-Dulaymi receives invitation to visit Tehran from Iranian counterpart \ Supreme Council of Shi'i Kurds announced formed

Al-Adalah [Baghdad, general political daily newspaper published by the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq]: Constitutional panel gone a long way, Iraq to resort to court at the Hague to reclaim border areas (taken by neighbour states) (Agencies quoted) \ Sayyid Al-Hakim calls upon UN to play designated role in activating Iraq reconstruction projects \ PM: Tyrant to be brought to justice in three months, at most (Agencies quoted) \ Drinking water supply station in Baghdad sabotaged (AFP quoted) \ Iraqi- Saudi border control agreement concluded \

QUOTES

Al-Bayyinah [From editorial]: "The coming days are pregnant with dramatic events, while former regime criminals continue to live, safe and sound, in their comfortable prison cells, mocking our bafflement at the secret behind this US insistence to keep them as prisoners of war despite Iraqi public restlessness at having their trial continually delayed and collective impatience to see their heads chopped off. Such unintelligible US conduct does not only raise more than a question mark; it can even boomerang at the slightest miscalculation and may blow up in the face of the Americans themselves."

Al-Dustur [From editorial]: "The average Iraqi is crushed between the terrible injustices he suffered at the hands of the defunct regime and the more terrible and far more mysterious horrors he is subjected to today- between a former ruler who is yet to pay for ruining countless Iraqi lives and present rulers who may still get away with ruining many more."

Al-Sabah al-Jadid [From editorial]: "Even as the air at Faruq Al- Shar'a's headquarters is full of talk about Syria's keenness to keep its borders tightly sealed and its sincere efforts to stop the influx of foreign terrorists and die-hard Saddam loyalists infiltrating to continue the blood bath in Iraq, the Syrian government has chosen to plant a dagger in our side by closing its border with Lebanon in the face of Iraq-bound imports."

Source: BBC Monitoring Newsfile

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