15 - 21 March 2001
Issue No.525
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Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 15 - 21 March 2001 Issue No.525 |
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Ties resumed
THE IRAQI Embassy in Beirut, closed since 1994, reopened on Tuesday following a decision by the Lebanese government to re-establish diplomatic ties with Baghdad. Nabil Jinabi, previously Iraqi representative for trade and consular relations in Beirut, told AFP that he has been named head of Iraq's diplomatic mission, but was unable to specify at what diplomatic level Lebanon would be represented in Baghdad. Lebanon severed diplomatic ties with Baghdad after an Iraqi dissident was assassinated in Beirut in 1994, but relations have improved since 1997. Last year, representation offices for trade and consular affairs were opened in the two respective capitals.Accident probe
AN AMERICAN investigating team arrived in Kuwait yesterday to examine how a US jet on an exercise mission bombed an observation post near the capital of Kuwait City, killing five American soldiers and a New Zealander. Seven others -- five Americans and two Kuwaitis -- were injured. US officials in Washington said a forward air controller directing the night-time bombing run tried to stop the F/A-18 Hornet dropping its load of 227 kg bombs but was too late to prevent the accident. The Kuwaiti defence minister told reporters such accidents were expected during training but New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said her government was shocked that a training exercise could go so terribly wrong, Reuters reported. The US investigators are expected to be joined by a three-man Kuwaiti investigating team.
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