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News Analysis
By
Yasser Alaskary
September 22, 2003
- Frustrated
by the seemingly smooth progress of political development,
elements - most likely to be linked to Saddam's secret
services - aim to carry the chaos they have inflicted
on Iraq's security situation to the political arena by
the attempted assassination of one of the Governing Council
members, Akila
al-Hashimi.
- This
week the focus has been on Iraq's economic recovery and
development:
- The
Governing Council-appointed Finance Minister, Kamel
al-Kilani, begins work by breaking the state-monopoly
imposed by Saddam's Ba'ath Party which had, through
years of tyranny, wars and sanctions, devastated Iraq's
economy. The economic reforms will privatise
all sectors of the economy, except natural
resources, aiming to accelerate Iraq's future economic
growth.
- As
the World
Bank has pointed out, these reforms must
be coupled with the development of an efficiently
functioning welfare system that can comprehensively
provide basic services if the negative effects of
privatisation are to be avoided.
- Bush
announces that there is no connection between Saddam
Hussein and the September 11th attacks.
This protects Iraq from any compensation claims that
may have been brought up in the future.
- Bush
is set to address
the UN on Tuesday and ask for help in Iraq
as the US
asks 3 nations, including Turkey, to aid in
peacekeeping. This indicates that an agreement may have
already
been reached after the British,
French and German leaders met, despite their
inability
to hide their differences. However, Turkish
troops need to be excluded from Iraq's north, where there
are major sensitivities between Iraq's Kurds and Turkey,
if friction between locals is to be avoided.
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