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20/11/2003
Food-for-oil winds up as US offer $10m bounty
The multi-billion dollar United Nations Oil-for-Food programme will finally wrap up its activities on Friday.
The programme, the largest the UN has ever administered in financial terms, will transfer operational responsibility, including all humanitarian projects funded by oil revenues to the United States-run Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) as of midnight Friday.
The programme became obsolete after resolution 1483 in May lifted sanctions imposed on the country for its 1990 invasion and subsequent occupation of Kuwait.
Elsewhere, the US military has put a US$10 million bounty on the head of the highest ranking member of Saddam Hussein's inner circle still at large - former vice president Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri.
Al Douri is No 6 on the coalition's most-wanted list, and is believed to be behind recent attacks against coalition forces in the north of the country.
In the Defense Department's 55-card deck depicting wanted former regime officials, al-Douri's picture appears on the king of clubs.
A $25 million reward remains outstanding for the killing or capture of Saddam Hussein.
The US administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, will advertise the reward in a weekly televised address to the Iraqi people.
Elsewhere, the US has claimed further successes against insurgents as Operations Iron Hammer and Ivy Cyclone II continue in Iraq.
Brig Gen Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of operations for Combined Joint Task Force 7 in Iraq, said that 101 anti-coalition suspects had been captured in the previous 24 hours, as coalition forces conducted 1,588 patrols and 19 raids.
The US has also reported that their forces had attacked suspected terrorist targets with 120mm mortars, AH-64 Apache attack helicopters, Bradley fighting vehicles and Abrams tanks. An USAF F-16 also dropped two 500-pound bombs.
The US said afterwards that it had destroyed 12 "anti-coalition safe houses and buildings", and suppressed 14 "mortar-firing locations" and four "ambush sites".
(gmcg)
The programme, the largest the UN has ever administered in financial terms, will transfer operational responsibility, including all humanitarian projects funded by oil revenues to the United States-run Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) as of midnight Friday.
The programme became obsolete after resolution 1483 in May lifted sanctions imposed on the country for its 1990 invasion and subsequent occupation of Kuwait.
Elsewhere, the US military has put a US$10 million bounty on the head of the highest ranking member of Saddam Hussein's inner circle still at large - former vice president Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri.
Al Douri is No 6 on the coalition's most-wanted list, and is believed to be behind recent attacks against coalition forces in the north of the country.
In the Defense Department's 55-card deck depicting wanted former regime officials, al-Douri's picture appears on the king of clubs.
A $25 million reward remains outstanding for the killing or capture of Saddam Hussein.
The US administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, will advertise the reward in a weekly televised address to the Iraqi people.
Elsewhere, the US has claimed further successes against insurgents as Operations Iron Hammer and Ivy Cyclone II continue in Iraq.
Brig Gen Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of operations for Combined Joint Task Force 7 in Iraq, said that 101 anti-coalition suspects had been captured in the previous 24 hours, as coalition forces conducted 1,588 patrols and 19 raids.
The US has also reported that their forces had attacked suspected terrorist targets with 120mm mortars, AH-64 Apache attack helicopters, Bradley fighting vehicles and Abrams tanks. An USAF F-16 also dropped two 500-pound bombs.
The US said afterwards that it had destroyed 12 "anti-coalition safe houses and buildings", and suppressed 14 "mortar-firing locations" and four "ambush sites".
(gmcg)
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UN calls for calm after Afghan car bomb
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