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<div class="IPBDescription">more good news! it's a good week so far!</div> <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><a href='http://www.cnn.com//2004/WORLD/meast/07/07/iraq.main/index.html' target='_blank'>Iraq adopts emergency powers law</a>
Wednesday, July 7, 2004 Posted: 3:22 PM EDT (1922 GMT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- With new violence flaring, Iraqi officials announced Wednesday a national security law that gives the interim government the power to declare martial law and detain suspects during anti-terror sweeps.
The announcement took place while a deadly battle raged in central Baghdad between insurgents and Iraqi security forces.
Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi signed the plan into law earlier Wednesday.
The move gives the interim government the power to declare martial law, set curfews and detain suspected insurgents, according to Justice Minister Malik Dohan al-Hassan.
"The deteriorating security situation ... urges these laws," al-Hassan said. "[The insurgents] are trying to derail the democratic process."
Any state of emergency order issued by the prime minister should be agreed upon unanimously by the Presidency Council, which includes the president and two vice presidents.
A state of emergency also requires the majority approval of the Council of Ministers, which consists of the prime minister, his deputies and the Cabinet.
The law also provides that if martial law is declared, it cannot exceed 60 days or continue if the conflict has ended unless the government has renewed it with the approval of the Cabinet.
"We realize that this law might restrict some liberties, but there are a number of guarantees within this law ... that guarantee the rights of the people," al-Hassan said.
Human Rights Minister Bakhtiar Amin likened the law to the U.S. Patriot Act -- passed in the aftermath of 9/11 -- and said it was prepared "to protect the lives of the Iraqi people."
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<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><a href='http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/07/iraq.nuclear/index.html' target='_blank'>U.S. removed nuclear material from Iraq</a>
Wednesday, July 7, 2004 Posted: 1:55 PM EDT (1755 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States removed nearly two tons of radiological and nuclear materials from Iraq last month, the Energy Department said.
The material could have potentially been used to make a "radiological dispersal device" -- a so-called dirty bomb -- "or diverted to support a nuclear weapons program," the department said Tuesday.
Radiological sources for medical, agricultural or industrial purposes were not removed, the department said. Less-sensitive materials were repackaged and remained in Iraq.
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<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><a href='http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/07/06/blair.wmd/index.html' target='_blank'>Blair: WMD may never be found</a>
Tuesday, July 6, 2004 Posted: 7:55 PM EDT (2355 GMT)
(CNN) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said that weapons of mass destruction may never be found in Iraq, but he insisted former leader Saddam Hussein had posed a threat to "the wider world."
"We know that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and we know that we haven't found them," Blair told a committee of British lawmakers Tuesday.
"I have to accept we have not found them, that we may not find them.
"But what I wouldn't accept is that [Saddam] was not a threat and a threat in WMD terms."
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The British leader said evidence uncovered by the group showed that Saddam had the "strategic capability" and intent to use such weapons.
"Whether they were hidden or removed or destroyed even, the plain fact is that he was in breach of United Nations resolutions," Blair said.
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all positive news. it ain't the end of the world, folks!
Wednesday, July 7, 2004 Posted: 3:22 PM EDT (1922 GMT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- With new violence flaring, Iraqi officials announced Wednesday a national security law that gives the interim government the power to declare martial law and detain suspects during anti-terror sweeps.
The announcement took place while a deadly battle raged in central Baghdad between insurgents and Iraqi security forces.
Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi signed the plan into law earlier Wednesday.
The move gives the interim government the power to declare martial law, set curfews and detain suspected insurgents, according to Justice Minister Malik Dohan al-Hassan.
"The deteriorating security situation ... urges these laws," al-Hassan said. "[The insurgents] are trying to derail the democratic process."
Any state of emergency order issued by the prime minister should be agreed upon unanimously by the Presidency Council, which includes the president and two vice presidents.
A state of emergency also requires the majority approval of the Council of Ministers, which consists of the prime minister, his deputies and the Cabinet.
The law also provides that if martial law is declared, it cannot exceed 60 days or continue if the conflict has ended unless the government has renewed it with the approval of the Cabinet.
"We realize that this law might restrict some liberties, but there are a number of guarantees within this law ... that guarantee the rights of the people," al-Hassan said.
Human Rights Minister Bakhtiar Amin likened the law to the U.S. Patriot Act -- passed in the aftermath of 9/11 -- and said it was prepared "to protect the lives of the Iraqi people."
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<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><a href='http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/07/iraq.nuclear/index.html' target='_blank'>U.S. removed nuclear material from Iraq</a>
Wednesday, July 7, 2004 Posted: 1:55 PM EDT (1755 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States removed nearly two tons of radiological and nuclear materials from Iraq last month, the Energy Department said.
The material could have potentially been used to make a "radiological dispersal device" -- a so-called dirty bomb -- "or diverted to support a nuclear weapons program," the department said Tuesday.
Radiological sources for medical, agricultural or industrial purposes were not removed, the department said. Less-sensitive materials were repackaged and remained in Iraq.
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<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><a href='http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/07/06/blair.wmd/index.html' target='_blank'>Blair: WMD may never be found</a>
Tuesday, July 6, 2004 Posted: 7:55 PM EDT (2355 GMT)
(CNN) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said that weapons of mass destruction may never be found in Iraq, but he insisted former leader Saddam Hussein had posed a threat to "the wider world."
"We know that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and we know that we haven't found them," Blair told a committee of British lawmakers Tuesday.
"I have to accept we have not found them, that we may not find them.
"But what I wouldn't accept is that [Saddam] was not a threat and a threat in WMD terms."
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The British leader said evidence uncovered by the group showed that Saddam had the "strategic capability" and intent to use such weapons.
"Whether they were hidden or removed or destroyed even, the plain fact is that he was in breach of United Nations resolutions," Blair said.
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all positive news. it ain't the end of the world, folks!
Comments
well the 2 tons isn't "mass".
<a href='http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5310187/' target='_blank'>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5310187/</a>
Im such an error of bad news :/
well the 2 tons isn't "mass". <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I was talking about the third article where Tony Blair says they won't be found for a while, until some radical group unearths them and holds the world hostage before nuking Washington D.C. He didn't say it in so many words though.
<a href='http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/07/06/marine.utah/index.html' target='_blank'>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/07/06/marine.utah/index.html</a>
edited to make it not say "my webpage" o_O