6 - 12 September 2001
Issue No.550
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Al-Ahram Weekly Online 6 - 12 September 2001 Issue No.550 |
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Out of Iraq
Iraqui authorities ordered four Nigerians and a Bosnian working for the United Nations "oil-for-food" programme in Baghdad to leave the country. The four Nigerians, (three men and a woman) left Iraq yesterday; the Bosnian, a woman, left a while ago.Security Council members suspect Iraq is protesting the entire UN programme. According to the council, Iraq believes that the programme has prolonged the sanctions regime. The Iraqi authorities gave no details of the complaints against the five, simply calling them "persona non grata."
Meanwhile allied attacks against Iraq continued. On Tuesday, US jets attacked anti-aircraft guns, missile sites and radars in "no-fly" zones in northern and southern Iraq. F-18 attack planes, based on the aircraft-carrier Enterprise, stationed in the Gulf, and Air Force F-16 fighters, based near southern Iraq, conducted the raids, using both bombs and missiles, said the US defence department.
The US military's Central Command in Tampa, Florida, which is responsible for operations in the Gulf, said the strikes were in response to recent threats and not any specific action by Iraq that day. Three other attacks, some also involving British planes, have been conducted against air defences in southern Iraq since 25 August, in response to increasing attempts by the Iraqi military to shoot down the planes that have patrolled the no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq for a decade.
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