Extractions: International Edition MEMBER SERVICES The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Autos SERVICES Video E-mail Newsletters Your E-mail Alerts RSS ... Contact Us SEARCH Web CNN.com Iraqi Shiites march in support of Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Najaf on Friday. Sistani had disrupted the U.S. elections plan by calling for a direct vote. Story Tools VIDEO A bomb killed two U.S. soldiers and one Iraqi west of Baghdad. CNN's Brent Sadler reports. PLAY VIDEO SPECIAL REPORT Timeline: A new government Flash: Government structure Chart: Iraq's National Assembly Interactive: Iraq's population Coalition Casualties Special Report YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Follow the news that matters to you. Create your own alert to be notified on topics you're interested in. Or, visit Popular Alerts for suggestions. Manage alerts What is this? WASHINGTON (CNN) The White House on Friday acknowledged that the administration's plan to use a caucus-style election to choose an interim Iraqi government has been shelved. That point has been conceded in private conversations for at least two weeks, but Friday marked the first time the White House said so publicly.
Extractions: Languages Spanish Portuguese German Italian Korean Arabic Japanese Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW InStyle Business 2.0 BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) Iraqi officials announced on Thursday that an agreement had been signed between the Iraqi government and the Iraqi-Turkish committee for economic cooperation. Oil Minister Amer Rasheed said Turkish companies will provide equipment and build an oil field in south central Iraq. The deal also calls for work on an Iraqi-Turkish gas pipeline project and for Turkish help in developing truck manufacturing and railway lines in Iraq. A delegation of 300 Turkish business leaders arrived in Baghdad for the signing of the agreement. Negotiations over the agreement were complicated by the fact that coalition aircraft use a base in Turkey to patrol the northern no-fly zone in Iraq. But Rasheed praised the agreement saying it was the first time Turkish businesspeople had been "so cooperative with Turkish development in Iraq."
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Extractions: The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-mail Newsletters CNNtoGO SEARCH Web CNN.com Story Tools SPECIAL REPORT War Tracker On the Scene Map U.S. Iraq ... Special Report WASHINGTON (CNN) President Bush Saturday outlined his post-war plans for Iraq, assuring the American people that the United States "will remain in Iraq as long as necessary, and not a day more." In his weekly radio address, Bush said the United States, along with its coalition partners, would "stand ready to provide vital help" to the people of Iraq after any war. "The lives and freedom of the Iraqi people matter little to Saddam Hussein, but they matter greatly to us," he said. "In order to minimize the suffering of Iraq's people," the U.S.-led coalition would stock food distribution sites, deliver medical and relief supplies and provide nearly 3 million emergency rations to feed the hungry, Bush said. "We will deliver medicine to the sick, and make sure that Iraq's 55,000 food distribution sites, operating with supplies from the oil-for-food program, are stocked and open as soon as possible," he said. The United States would also provide security, rid the country of chemical and biological weapons and ensure that Iraq's natural resources including oil will benefit the Iraqi people.
Extractions: Languages Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW By CNN U.N. Producer Ronni Berke BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) The U.N. Security Council has approved a one-month extension of the Iraqi oil-for-food programme. The extension is intended to give members more time to consider a U.S.-British proposal to modify economic sanctions. In a rare show of unity on Iraq, the council voted 15-0 to adopt the resolution. In Iraq, Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz called in ambassadors from China, Russia, and Tunisia before the vote and told them that Iraq will reject the extension. Iraq has already said it will not accept the proposed new British sanctions scheme. In the resolution, the council expressed its intention to consider new arrangements for the sale of humanitarian goods to Iraq, and to adopt the new measures by July 4. Britain's original intention had been to wrap the new proposals into a six-month extension of the oil-for-food programme, which expires June 4. The programme allows Iraq to spend oil revenues on humanitarian goods by channeling the money through a U.N.-controlled escrow account.
Extractions: The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-mail Newsletters CNNtoGO SEARCH Web CNN.com A U.N. weapons inspector examines a milk truck on Sunday Story Tools VIDEO Chief U.N. weapons inspectors Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei will be heading back to Iraq for a new round of talks. CNN's Nic Robertson reports (February 2) PLAY VIDEO SPECIAL REPORT War Tracker On the Scene Map U.S. Iraq ... Special Report IRAQ: WHAT'S NEXT? Wednesday: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell goes before the U.N. Security Council to make case against Iraq. RELATED Highlights of the Bush, Blair news conference Powell to go for broke at U.N. BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) U.N. chief weapons inspectors Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei have accepted Iraq's invitation to return to Baghdad on February 8 for a new round of talks with Iraqi officials. "We have accepted this invitation to go to Baghdad with the clear expectation of action that needs to be taken by Iraq prior to the visit," IAEA spokeswomn Melissa Fleming said Sunday.
Extractions: SPECIAL REPORT Timeline: A new government Flash: Government structure Chart: Iraq's National Assembly Interactive: Iraq's population Coalition Casualties Special Report YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Iraq Lebanon Israel Violent Demonstrations or Create your own Manage alerts What is this? BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) The radical Shiite cleric wanted by U.S.-led forces in Iraq said in a TV interview Tuesday that he is ready to die to end the U.S. "occupation." Although he said he isn't negotiating with what he called the "occupation forces," Muqtada al-Sadr indicated that intermediaries are doing so and that he is leaving room for compromise.
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Extractions: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) As U.S. troops prepare for a potential war in Iraq, an international coalition of archaeologists, lawyers, researchers and art collectors believe some of the world's most important archaeological sites are at risk. Iraq a cradle of ancient civilization is the home of such fabled cities such as Ur, Babylon, Kabala and Nineveh. Many scholars believe that cuneiform writing, glass, accounting and even bureaucracy were invented there. Archaeologists are apprehensive that a U.S.-led bombing and land campaign might damage Iraq's tens of thousands of archaeological sites.
Extractions: Story Tools SPECIAL REPORT War Tracker On the Scene Map U.S. Iraq ... Special Report RELATED India raps U.S. over Iraq, Pakistan policy Iraq's foreign minister: Blix report meager Blair: U.N. will back war in weeks Powell likely to reveal highly sensitive intelligence BERLIN, Germany (CNN) Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan told a German newsmagazine published Saturday that Iraq is prepared to deploy "thousands of suicide attackers" against the United States if Iraq is bombed. That report came one day after President Bush said a new United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing war would be welcome, but not necessary if Iraq fails to prove it has disarmed itself of weapons of mass destruction. He also said the issue needs to be solved in "weeks, not months." In an interview published Saturday on the Web site of Der Spiegel, Ramadan was asked how long Iraq would be able "to fight the biggest military machine in the world."
Extractions: PLAY VIDEO RELATED U.N. aerial searches stalled Bush: Pyongyang, Baghdad issues not comparable What would war with Iraq cost? Coalition aircraft bomb Iraqi defense site SPECIAL REPORT War Tracker On the Scene Map U.S. Iraq ... Special Report LONDON, England (CNN) A former UK foreign secretary has accused the Anglo-U.S. coalition of "breathtaking ... self-deception" in its policy on Iraq. Douglas Hurd, who served under Margaret Thatcher and John Major between 1989 and 1995, also said the aftermath of winning a war against Baghdad posed "the greatest danger." He said London and Washington were deluding themselves if they believed a victory over President Saddam Hussein's regime would result in sweeping democratic change across the Arab world. "This forecast strikes me as a breathtaking example of the human capacity for self-deception," he wrote in London's Financial Times newspaper on Friday.
Extractions: RELATED Top Bush officials push case against Saddam U.N. inspectors at Baghdad complex UK dossier slams Saddam on torture SPECIAL REPORT War Tracker On the Scene Map U.S. Iraq ... Special Report LONDON, England (CNN) Iraqi officials have told U.N. weapons inspectors that Iraq tried to import aluminum tubes in violation of U.N. sanctions, CNN has learned. But the Iraqi officials said the tubes were not intended for use in a nuclear weapons program, as U.S. and British officials have charged. CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour spoke Monday from London with CNN anchor Bill Hemmer about Iraq's admission. AMANPOUR: Officials (say) they are awaiting ... further information by the time of the December 8 declaration when Iraq has to come up with a full, formal and credible list of information about its weapons of mass destruction program. But what we've been told by a high-ranking official is that Iraq, during meetings with U.N. weapons inspectors in Baghdad two weeks ago, did admit to having tried to import aluminum tubes. This would amount to a violation of the existing U.N. sanctions.
Extractions: The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-mail Newsletters CNNtoGO SEARCH Web CNN.com Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al Sahaf Story Tools SPECIAL REPORT War Tracker On the Scene Map U.S. Iraq ... Special Report BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) Iraq's information minister accused U.S. forces Tuesday of "indiscriminately" killing their own citizens in a bus attack and killing nine Iraqi children in a central neighborhood of Babylon. "Yesterday, an American warplane attacked two buses on the highway between Baghdad and Ahman," Mohammed Saeed al Sahaf told reporters. "Those people on those two buses are human shields coming to participate in defending civilian installations like water sanitation stations, electricity generation stations, and so on." Sahaf said: "The 'brave' Americans start shooting the Americans [in the buses]. They are indiscriminately killing people." He said Iraqis are awaiting more details on the incident., and the U.S. Central Command said it is investigating the claim. Describing what Sahaf said was the attack in southern Babylon, 60 miles south of Baghdad, he said, "This morning, the villains bombarded a civilian quarter." He said the children who died lived in adjacent houses.
Extractions: Languages Spanish Portuguese German Italian Korean Arabic Japanese Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW InStyle Business 2.0 Blair: Saddam is a threat that needs to be dealt with SEDGEFIELD, England (CNN) British Prime Minister Tony Blair has vowed to publish within the next few weeks a dossier revealing intelligence on Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Blair, speaking at a press conference in his constituency in Sedgefield, Durham, said: "Saddam is a real and unique threat to his region and the rest of the world that needs to be dealt with." He said Saddam was continuing his efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction in defiance of U.N. resolutions, adding that how that threat should be dealt with had yet to be decided but that the issue did have to be addressed. Asked why the dossier of evidence had not been published yet, Blair replied: "Whatever timelines we've been working on as leaders ... it is clear that the debate has moved on. EXTRA INFORMATION Where Europe stands Where Iraq's neighbours stand "Originally I had the intention that we wouldn't get round to publishing the dossier until we had actually taken the key decisions, but I think probably it's a better idea to bring that forward."
Extractions: International Edition MEMBER SERVICES The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Autos SERVICES Video E-mail Newsletters Your E-mail Alerts RSS ... Contact Us SEARCH Web CNN.com A U.S. soldier prepares a mortar during a training exercise Friday in Tikrit, Iraq. Story Tools VIDEO CNN's Karl Penhaul on the outlook for 2004 in Iraq. U.S.: Bomb by Saddam loyalists 'People were blown apart' Bindra: Baghdad somber ... Saddam's defense tactics SPECIAL REPORT How Saddam was captured Saddam's brutal regime Saddam's capture Site of capture ... Most-wanted Iraqis YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Iraq Military Saddam Hussein or Create your own Manage alerts What is this? BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) Insurgent fire downed a U.S. Army helicopter near the Iraqi town of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, killing an American soldier and wounding another, a coalition military spokesman said.
