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Renewed U.S-U.K Violations of Iraqi Airspace

Baghdad, Nov 13, INA (18:00)

Forty-one formations of hostile U.S-U.K warplanes on Friday, November 12,
1999, carried out 100 sorties from Saudi airspace, backed by an AWACS, and
38 sorties from Kuwait, backed by an A-2C.

An Iraqi military spokesman said the enemy planes had flown over the
provinces of Basra, Thi-Qar, Muthanna, Qadissiya, Meisan and Najaf. He added
that Iraqi anti-aircraft fire had forced the planes out of national
airspace, back to their bases.

Since December 17, 1998 up to November 12, 1999, the U.S and U.K military
aircraft conducted a total of 15,460 sorties over Iraq, of which 12,700 from
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and 2760 from Turkey.

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INA 40th Anniversary

November 9, 1999



It was nearly 08:30 p.m. on December 15, 1982, when a powerful blast rocked
the 10-storey building of Iraqi News Agency (INA) in Abu Nu'as Street on the
River Tigris in the heart of Baghdad. A car packed with explosives was
detonated outside the garage beneath the building when the driver's attempt
to force his way through was foiled by the watchman guarding the building.
One staffer was killed and many others wounded. The explosion left a
ramshackle building, with the false ceilings fallen apart and the office
equipment and furniture dilapidated. Out in the street the situation was
even worse. Six people were killed, two of them children. They were in two
cars passing by the building at the time of the explosion.

Among the debris of the office of the then INA Director-General Taha
al-Basri, now Iraq's Ambassador to Yemen, the phone was ringing. A
journalist who was there at the time picked up the receiver to hear a
familiar voice, not only to her but also to millions of Iraqis. It was
President Saddam Hussein calling to ask after them and to see if anybody was
hurt. The next day, the President himself visited the building to see the
staff, speaking few words of encouragement and relief, just as he used to do
with his soldiers in the battlefields.

INA is the first news agency ever to become target of such a terrorist act.
It is a civilian institution, yet armed with national values and
responsibility for conveying the truth and free word to the whole world.


The Iraqi News Agency has been established under Law No. 158 of September
22, 1959, to attain certain aims, among which defending the interests of the
Republic of Iraq, highlighting its achievements and responding to false
propaganda. Under the law, INA should be a semi-official institution linked
to the Ministry of Information and Culture, with an independent budget, a
board of directors in charge of setting the plans and means conducive to
realizing its objectives, and an editorial staff entrusted with studies
necessary to develop INA work.

INA has gone far beyond the purely informative news line. It has become an
effective organ for both home and foreign media. More importantly, it has
turned into an Arab news agency, with a worldwide felt presence.


One room at the Iraqi Radio and Television Station and only three employees�
That was the beginning. The main task was to prepare a news bulletin for
radio broadcast.

The first INA news bulletin was released on November 9, 1959. But the real
start for INA could be marked just after July 17-30, 1968 Revolution, with a
paramount objective devoted to conveying Iraq's new image to the world and
highlighting the development and progress achieved in different walks of
life.

Different publications, such as specialized bulletins and reports covering a
wide range of topics and important events, have been issued since INA has
been first established.


INA has a network of correspondents in Arab and foreign capitals, nearly 33
but reduced to 10 because of the sanctions. However, INA has been trying to
make up for the shortage through intensive radio and TV monitoring. It also
depends on the news it receives from other news agencies with which it has
developed a form of cooperation.

The Iraqi News Agency has not been resigned to the fait accompli. It has
made every possible effort to keep pace with modern technology in media
fields.

Since April 28, 1999, INA has begun its Internet news service to make Iraq's
voice heard all over the world. Satellite transmission is yet another INA
plan to be put into effect in the foreseeable future. A special TV unit has
also been established to provide full TV coverage of the main local events
to world TV networks. A large computer network is already in place, with
services available to INA editorial sections as well as to the institutions
concerned.








INA ambitions know no bounds. It has managed to break the stranglehold of
the cultural and information embargo imposed on Iraq. Visits to Arab and
foreign countries have been arranged. Photograph exhibitions have been
organized to tell the story of a nation that has faced the worst-ever war
targeting its infrastructure and civilian life, but has, notwithstanding,
succeeded to rebuild in a record time all that has been destroyed.
Cooperation agreements with Arab and foreign news agencies have also been
signed.





It is yet another challenge for INA which it has to be up to. Only then will
INA be able to usher in the 21stcentury with confident steps to assume the
position it indeed deserves.








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Baghdad, Nov 13, INA (18:00)

The newspapers issued on Saturday: al-Jumhuriya, al-Qadissiya, al-Iraq and
Babel.

Headlines

-Iraqi workers praise President Saddam Hussein's support to unionists.

-U.S-U.K warplanes keep up attacks on service and residential targets.

-Moroccan PM calls on Arab Leaders to stand by Iraq.

-British MP George Galloway reiterates intention to continue with efforts
for the lifting of sanctions.

-Rabat hosts 6th Arab popular forces conference and international symposium
on sanctions.

-Baghdad celebrates its day.

-Nation-wide celebrations to commemorate people's homage to President Saddam
Hussein.

-Education Ministry warns autonomous Kurdistan teachers and parents not to
join or enroll their children in fake Turkmen schools.

-44 congenital abnormalities, 55 deaths reported in Maternity and Child
hospital in Ramadi over the past 6 months.

-Shurta footballers take the lead in FA league.




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