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NEWS IN BRIEF Iraqi Shiite opposition blames US for not including it in offensive TEHRAN (AFP) Apr 01, 2003 The head of Iraq's main Shiite Muslim opposition group said here Tuesday the United States was having difficulties in its war on Iraq because it had refused to let the Iraqi opposition take part in operations. Aid workers bring water, medical supplies to Iraqis: Red Cross GENEVA (AFP) Apr 01, 2003 Aid staff are working round the clock to try to get supplies of drinking water to the Iraqi people and equip hospitals to care for the sick and wounded, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Tuesday. US troops fire at Kuwaiti soldier's car outside military camp KUWAIT CITY (AFP) Apr 01, 2003 US troops fired at a Kuwaiti soldier's car Tuesday as he tried to take a short cut through an American military camp in northern Kuwait, Kuwaiti officials and US military sources said. |
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Iraqi tribal forces fight alongside US troops in Iraq: US military AS-SALIYAH, Qatar (AFP) Apr 01, 2003 Around 100 Iraqi tribesmen have fought alongside US troops in central Iraq and more are expected to join the battle against the regime of Saddam Hussein, a US military spokesman said Tuesday. British FM warns of fierce resistance and setbacks LONDON (AFP) Apr 01, 2003 British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw warned Tuesday that as US and British troops advance on Baghdad they will face fierce resistance and could experience setbacks. Iraq war means Arab League 'can't go on as it is': top official CASABLANCA, Morocco (AFP) Apr 01, 2003 In the wake of the war on Iraq, the Arab League "can no longer go on in its current shape", the secretary general of the 22-member body, Amr Mussa, said in an interview published Tuesday. Thousands of Pakistani tribesmen eager to join 'holy war' in Iraq ISLAMABAD (AFP) Apr 01, 2003 Thousands of Pakistani tribesmen are standing by to fight US and British forces in Iraq, leaders from the country's northwestern tribal region said Tuesday. South African human shields back from Iraq with message for 'invaders' JOHANNESBURG (AFP) Apr 01, 2003 A group of 20 battle-weary South African human shields returned from Baghdad on Tuesday, declaring that the Iraqi people do not want to be "liberated". Coalition-controlled Umm Qasr gets water, but distribution chaotic UMM QASR, Iraq (AFP) Apr 01, 2003 Clean water has returned to this town on Iraq's southern tip controlled by the US-led coalition, but distribution has been chaotic, leaving some of the 40,000 residents still dry. |
UN nuclear watchdog says it, not US, must monitor Iraqi disarmament VIENNA (AFP) Apr 01, 2003 The United Nations' nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday it -- and not the United States -- was responsible for checking that Iraq did not possess any atomic weapons, after a report that Washington wanted to set up unilateral weapons inspections. Rebel Kurdish party accuses Iraqi forces of targeting its HQ ARBIL, Iraq (AFP) Apr 01, 2003 The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), one of two Kurdish groups controlling northern Iraq, Tuesday accused Iraqi government forces of firing three missiles which missed its headquarters in the town of Salahaddin. World tourism body says airlines suffering from Iraq war, killer virus PARIS (AFP) Apr 01, 2003 Airlines worldwide are suffering from the double blow of war in Iraq and the global epidemic of a deadly pneumonia-like disease, the head of the World Tourism Organisation warned on Tuesday. US-British bombing kills 33 civilians south of Baghdad: hospital HILLA, Iraq (AFP) Apr 01, 2003 Thirty-three civilians, including children, were killed and 310 wounded in a US-British coalition bombing on the southern province of Babylon on Tuesday morning, a hospital director said. Iraq war protester climbs Paris office tower PARIS (AFP) Apr 01, 2003 Alain Robert, a 40 year-old Frenchman who has made his name by climbing up the outside of the world's biggest skyscrapers, scaled an office tower in Paris Tuesday to protest against the Iraq war. Black Hawk pilots fly humanitarian aid into central Iraq NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) Apr 01, 2003 Two US army helicopters flew small amounts of humanitarian aid into a captured airfield in central Iraq on Tuesday as an initial step to try to win over the local population and undermine Iraqi resistance, officers here said. |
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