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Links of Interest - IRAQ & IRAN:

DAILY STAR.com.lb - LEBANESE NEWS: "LEBANESE DESK WILL BE BIGGEST AT BAGHDAD TRADE FAIR" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Earlier this year, Lebanon signed a long-awaited trade agreement with Iraq that will allow Lebanon to increase its exports to its former No. 1 trading partner. According to the agreement, all Lebanese-made goods will enter the Iraqi market duty-free. Syria, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey have already signed similar trade deals with Iraq.") (090502)

MEMRI.org - MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE: "IRAQ NEWS WIRE No. 8" (090102)

WORLD TRIBUNE.com: "BOLTON: IRAQ, CUBA SEEK MATERIALS BANNED BY BIO WEAPONS PACT" (090202)

WASHINGTON POST.com: "FUGITIVES SOUGHT BY U.S. FIND A PROTECTOR IN CUBA" (090202)

FOX NEWS.com: "TRANSCRIPT: SADDAM HUSSEIN'S SPEECH" (080802)

GLOBAL SECURITY.org: "FALLUJAH/HABBANIYAH"

MEMRI.org - MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE - Special Dispatch Series No. 415: "PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY AND IRAQI MEDIA ON IRAQI SUPPORT OF THE INTIFADA" (082702)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "IRAQ DEFENDS AID TO BOMBERS" by Joyce Howard Price (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations yesterday defended his country's aid to families of Palestinian suicide-bombers, saying the payments are an expression of Arab solidarity." (082502)

JERUSALEM POST.com: "SADDAM GIVES $120,000 TO FAMILIES OF HEBRON 'MARTYRS'" (081302)

ALBAWABA.com: "SADDAM SAYS AMERICAN TARGETS ALL ARABS; HAILS PALESTINIAN BOMBERS" [ARTICLE SNIPPET: "...Saddam also praised suicide attacks against Israel saying they will be "recorded in our history with shining letters."
"Whenever a (suicide) attack occurs against the enemy, I feel as if I carried it out myself and every Arab should look at these acts this way," Saddam said (Albawaba.com)"](071602)

FOX NEWS.com: "TRANSCRIPT: SADDAM HUSSEIN'S SPEECH" (080802)

AFTENPOSTEN.no: "MORE REFUGEES UNDER TERROR INVESTIGATION At least three more men who arrived in Norway in the 1990s as refugees are under investigation, suspected of having ties to the al-Qaida terror network. All are involved to some degree in Islamic groups." (082602)

AFTENPOSTEN.no: "TERROR SUSPECT SPREADS FEAR IN IRAQI VILLAGES A suspected terrorist who still has permanent resident permission in Norway, and whose family is in Oslo, is accused of imposing Taliban-like rule on villages he now allegedly controls in northern Iraq. Mullah Krekar is reportedly both feared and despised." (082602)

YAHOO! News (AP): "LEADER OF ISLAMIC EXTREMIST GROUP LINKED TO AL-QAIDA LIVED IN NORWAY AS A REFUGEE" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad, who goes by the name of Mullah Kreekar") (082202)

BBC News: "'AL-QAEDA' INFLUENCE GROWS IN IRAQ PUK Fighters Have Clashed with the Ansar Militants" (SNIPPET: "MULLAH KREKAR: 'Democracy is rejected by Islam.'" (072402)

GOOGLE Search Term: "MULLAH KREKAR"

NewsMax.com: "CHINA AND IRAN TEST-FIRE MISSILES" by Charles Smith (090602)

IRNA.com - ISLAMIC REPUBLIC NEWS AGENCY: "IRAN SUCCESSFULLY TEST FIRES SURFACE-TO-SURFACE FATEH MISSILE" (090602)

SOFTWAR.net

MEMRI.org - MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE Special Dispatch Series No. 417: "IRANIAN CONSERVATIVE DAILY: 'AMERICA IS THE NEW NAZISM'" (083002)

NewsMax.com NewsMaxWires: "RUSSIA BEGINS WORK ON IRAN NUKE PLANT" (090202)

ALBAWABA.com: "600 RUSSIAN EXPERTS START WORKING ON KEY PHASE OF IRAN NUCLEAR REACTOR" (090102)