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Iraqi flag hoisted in Washingt
to launch new era in relations
By Barry Schweid
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WASHINGTON — In a show
of independence even from
American liberators, two Iraqi
diplomats raised the country’s
traditional Arab red, white and
black flag Wednesday over their
reopened embassy — rather than
a new flag that the U.S. occupy
ing authority had chosen.
There were broad smiles and
applause from expatriate Iraqis as
the country’s incoming ambassa
dor, Rend al-Rahim Francke, and
Abdul-Latif Rashid, minister of
inigation and water resources,
hoisted the flag under sunny skies
only hours after the Iraqi authori
ties in Baghdad took legal cus
tody of former President Saddam
Hussein and 11 of his top lieu
tenants.
Rather than the symbol of a
new Iraq chosen by the U.S.-
appointed Iraqi Governing
Council, with a blue Islamic cres
cent on a white field, the flag sent
fluttering in an early summer
breeze is the same historic nation
al flag that flew through the rule
of Saddam until he was deposed
last year in the U.S.-led war.
Stitched on the flag’s white
stripe in green is the Koranic
verse “Allahu Akbar” (God is
Great), which Saddam added
after the 1991 Persian Gulf war
that forced him to reverse Iraq’s
annexation of Kuwait.
Technically, full diplomatic
relations between the United
States and Iraq have not been
restored, but that move is con
sidered imminent once Rahim
presents her credentials to
President Bush.
Before the ceremony. President
Bush offered a favorable progress
report on Iraq and pledged anew
that America is committed to fin
ishing the job there despite a new
wave of violence.
Bush threw his arm art
former top U.S. occupation
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week after formally hant
over power Monday — at
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Powell visits victims
of Darfur crisis
AL-FASHER, Sudan (AP) -
Clambering onto donated sacks of
grain, Sudanese refugees strained
Wednesday for a look at Secretary
of State Colin Powell, who came to
tour camps and press the govern
ment to end ethnic violence and a
humanitarian crisis he has called
“catastrophic."
Powell’s visit came as the United
States increased pressure on
Sudan with a draft resolution call
ing on the United Nations to
impose an arms embargo and
travel ban on the Arab militias that
are blamed for attacks in Sudan's
western Darfur region.
Powell and U.N. Secretary-
General Kofi Annan met in
Khartoum during a rare coordinat
ed visit aimed at making sure the
crisis that has forced more than 1
million people to flee their homes
and killed 30,000 over the last 16
months is not ignored as Rwandan
killings were a decade ago.
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