IRAQ: AN ARAB LEAGUE DELEGATION IS HOLDING TALKS WITH IRAQI OFFICIALS IN BAGHDAD/NEW POLICE OFFICERS GRADUATE FROM ACADEMY

Record ID: 647298

  • Title: IRAQ: AN ARAB LEAGUE DELEGATION IS HOLDING TALKS WITH IRAQI OFFICIALS IN BAGHDAD/NEW POLICE OFFICERS GRADUATE FROM ACADEMY
  • Date: 20th December 2003
  • Summary: (W5) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (DECEMBER 20,2003) (REUTERS-ACCESS ALL) 1. SV MEMBERS OF THE ARAB LEAGUE DELEGATION STANDING BESIDE A CAR 0.03 2. SV OF POLICE OFFICERS/SECURITY (2 SHOTS) 0.13 3. SV MEMBER SOF ARAB LEAGUE DELEGATION 0.20 4. SV MEMBERS OF THE ARAB LEAGUE DELEGATION, INCLUDING ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS, AHMED BIN HELLI (ON LEFT OF SCREEN) 0.32 5. MCU AHMED BIN HELLI TALKING TO ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE ARAB LEAGUE DELEGATION 0.40 6. SV/MVU MORE MEMBERS OF THE ARAB LEAGUE DELEGATION (2 SHOTS) 0.51 7. MCU (Arabic) ARAB LEAGUE ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS, AHMED BIN HELLI, SAYING: "We are visiting Iraq as a delegation from the Arab League to see what's going on in Iraq and to discuss and talk with Iraqi officials, with the governing council and with the political forces to see how we can help the Iraqi people, and what to see what the Arab League and Arab countries can offer to Iraq. 1.33 8. SV MEMBERS OF ARAB LEAGUE DELEGATION TALKING (2 SHOTS) 1.46 9. SLV CARS CARRYING ARAB LEAGUE DELEGATION LEAVING 2.06 10. LAS/SLV NEW POLICE OFFICERS DANCING IN LINE AT GRADUATION CEREMONY (2 SHOTS) 2.25 11. LV POLICE WATCHING FROM ROOF OF POLICE ACADEMY (SIGN READING 'POLICE ACADEMY' ON FRONT OF BUILDING) 2.30 12. LAS POLICE GRADUATES DANCING/DRUMMER 2.37 13. CU OF FEET AS GRADUATES DANCING 2.41 14. SLV OF GRADUATES DANCING 2.50 15. MCU/LAS DEPUTY MINISTER OF INTERIOR AHMAD KATHEM FIXING STARS TO GRADUATE'S SHOULDER (3 SHOTS) 3.28 16. MCU GRADUATES CONGRATULATING EACH OTHER 3.34 17. MCU (Arabic) IRAQI DEPUTY MINISTER OF INTERIOR AHMAD KATHEM SAYING: "On this occasion I call for all the Iraqi police and Iraqi people for unity." 3.45 18. MCU OF THE GRADUATION CEREMONY 3.50 19. LV OF DEMONSTRATION TO PROTEST THE KILLING OF SHI'ITE MUSLIM MUHANNAD AL-HAKIM, A MEMBER OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF ISLAMIC REVOLUTION 3.58 20. SLV/SV OF THE DEMONSTRATORS CHANTING ANTI-BA'ATH SLOGANS AND CARRYING PICTURES OF AL-HAKIM (2 SHOTS) 4.10 21. LAS OF THE DEMONSTRATION (2 SHOTS) 4.35 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA65WJCRK1W22QGB65C36A1I0AK
  • Story Text: An Arab League delegation is holding talks with
    Iraqi officials in Baghdad; new police officers graduate
    from academy.




    A delegation from the powerful Arab League visited
    Baghdad on Saturday (December 20) to hold talks with Iraqi
    officials and Iraq's U.S.-backed Governing Council.

    The delegation, headed by assistant secretary general
    for political affairs Ahmed Helli, met with the Iraqi
    foreign ministry officials before
    heading to the interior ministry to meet the minister.

    Ahmed bin Helli said that the delegation was visiting
    Iraq "to see what's going on in Iraq...and to see how we
    can help the Iraqi people and what the Arab league and Arab
    countries can offer Iraq."
    The delegation's visit is a sign that tensions have
    eased since the Cairo-based organisation said it would not
    recognise Iraq's new government.

    Arab countries have recently welcomed the capture of
    the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and said it has
    to be the first step towards transferring power to the
    Iraqi people.

    Many Arab states have publicly refused to accept the
    25-member council, set up by U.S. administrators in July as
    an interim authority after
    American-led forces brought down former Iraqi President
    Saddam Hussein's rule.

    Meanwhile, a graduation ceremony took place in Baghdad
    on Saturday for new police recruits.

    Deputy Interior Minister Ahmad Kathem congratulated the
    graduates and pinned stars on their shoulders.

    The trainees are graduating at a time when police seem
    to have become targets for much of the insurgent activity.

    Suicide bombers have staged several attacks on Iraqi police
    to punish them for working with American soldiers, who hope
    to hand over security to the Iraqis. Some 116 Iraqi
    policemen and security forces have been killed since May 1.

    And, in a sign of the continuing violence gripping
    Iraq, hundreds of Shi'ite Muslims marched in Baghdad on
    Saturday to protest the assassination of a Shi'ite leader
    three days ago.

    Muhannad al-Hakim, a representative of a major Shi'ite
    party and a member of a prominent political family, was
    shot dead on December 17 in Baghdad.

    Al-Hakim, a member of the Supreme Council for the
    Islamic Revolution in Iraq, was killed Wednesday while
    leaving his home, party official Latif al-Rubaie said.

    Al-Hakim, in his mid-30s, was head of security at the
    Education Ministry and was a cousin of Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim,
    who currently holds the rotating presidency of the
    U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council.


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