] LINDA MOTTRAM: As we've been hearing in John's report,
] the former American Lieutenant General chosen by the
] Americans to run post-war Iraq, Jay Garner, is set to
] make his first public appearance in Kuwait today.
]
]
] But he still does not have the open chequebook that he
] needs to rebuild Iraq. What he wants is access to cash
] from the Iraq's oil, the world's second largest supply.
]
]
] The United Nations though, still controls the
] Oil-for-Food Program, which is currently the only legal
] avenue to sell Iraq's oil, and it is resisting American
] demands for access to the program.
]
]
] The UN is demanding a central role for itself and it's
] nervous about Washington's appointment of a former US oil
] executive to run Iraq's oil industry.
]
]
] Rafael Epstein reports.
]
]
] RAFAEL EPSTEIN: The man who'll negotiate with the UN and
] others over international help for Iraq is US Assistant
] Secretary of State for International Organisation, Kim
] Holmes.
]
]
] KIM HOLMES: The oil reserves of Iraq will be intended for
] and used for the purposes of the Iraqi people and that is
] just a bottom line, bedrock principle.
]
]
] RAFAEL EPSTEIN: The US has in mind the former head of
] Shell USA, Philip Carroll, and the deputy chief of BP
] USA, Rodney Chase to run Iraq's oil industry. Rebuilding
] will cost billions of dollars, much of which will flow to
] private companies.
]
]
] Bu

AM - Battle over who can sell Iraq's oil

] DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) Peter Arnett, fired by
] NBC earlier this week for giving an interview to
] state-run Iraqi television, is reporting for pan-Arab
] satellite channel Al-Arabiya, the station said Saturday.
]
] ''He (Arnett) is an able reporter who has covered wars
] before and who knows Iraq well,'' the Dubai-based
] station's editor-in-chief Salah Nejm told The Associated
] Press.
]
] ''I think he is unbiased and has a lot of experience,''
] Nejm said.
]
] Arnett started reporting for Al-Arabiya on Friday,
] becoming its third correspondent in Baghdad. His reports
] are voiced over in Arabic.

Peter Arnett now reporting for Arab channel Al-Arabiya

] CNN war correspondent was told to shut down his popular
] site, touching off an ongoing debate on blogging as a
] legitimate form of journalism.
]
]
] Susan Mernit
]
] posted: 2003-04-03
]
]
] Are Weblogs one more tool in the arsenal used by online
] journalists to report the news? Or does a blog%u2019s
] typically individualistic voice and unfiltered attitude
] place it outside the journalist%u2019s palette? These
] rhetorical questions have exploded into a raging debate
] among online journalism watchers following CNN%u2019s
] decision to force war correspondent Kevin Sites to stop
] posting items to the popular blog he created while on
] assignment in northern Iraq.
]
] To blog or not to blog? The controversy has helped blogs
] jump up on the public%u2019s radar screen, but it has
] also divided the working press into separate and distinct
] camps.
]
] Some big media companies -- notably MSNBC, Fox News,
] Knight-Ridder and Advance Publications -- believe that
] blogs are a new and exciting form of journalism. These
] companies are actively bringing new blogs by reporters
] and columnists onto their Web sites.
]
] %u201CWeblogs are journalism,%u201D says Joan Connell,
] executive producer for Opinions and Communities at
] MSNBC.com. %u201CThey can be used to great effect in
] reporting an unfolding story and keeping readers
] informed.%u201D

OJR article: Kevin Sites and the Blogging Controversy

] Colin Powell yesterday swept aside demands from European
] leaders for United Nations primacy in Iraq's post-war
] settlement, insisting that Britain and America had earned
] the right to set policy by sacrificing blood.
]
] Speaking at Nato headquarters during a day of 20 meetings
] with European foreign ministers and top officials, the US
] secretary of state said: "It was the coalition that came
] together on the difficult mission, at political expense,
] at expense of money and treasure, and the expense of
] lives as well.
]
] "When we succeed and look down the road to a better life
] for the Iraqi people to rebuild their society after these
] decades of devastation wrought by Saddam Hussein, the
] coalition has to play the lead role in determining the
] way forward."

Powell rules out UN lead role in rebuilding of Iraq

] LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged on
] Friday that a post-war Iraq would be run by Iraqis, not
] Britons or Americans and that UK troops would not stay in
] the country any longer than necessary.
]
] His promise came in an open letter to the Iraqi people
] which will be handed out by British troops on the ground,
] posted on Web Sites and sent out by e-mail.
]
] "As soon as Saddam Hussein's regime falls, the work to
] build a new, free and united Iraq will begin," Blair says
] in the letter. "A peaceful, prosperous Iraq which will be
] run by and for the Iraqi people, not by America, not by
] Britain, not by the U.N.
]
] "Our troops will leave as soon as they can," he said.
] "They will not stay a day longer than necessary."

Blair Says Iraq to Be Run by Iraqis, No One Else

] Music is the focus of the "American Masters" film on Joni
] Mitchell -- songwriter, singer, painter and poet.
]
] "We use her songs as part of the narrative," said Susan
] Lacy, who produced, directed and wrote the documentary.
] "The lyrics are very much a part of the narrative.
]
] "I try in all of our films to have a style that is
] appropriate to the subject," Lacy said. "For this film, I
] went for a lyrical, impressionistic and poetic style."
]
] "Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind" will have its
] U.S. premiere today on PBS as part of the "American
] Masters" series.

Joni Mitchell is subject of PBS special

] Veteran reporter Peter Arnett is back on air from Baghdad
] reporting for the private Belgian network VTN.
]
] He has joined the channel within days of being fired by
] NBC.
]
] VTN said it will have daily reports from "one of the
] world's most famous reporters" until the end of the war.
] A state-run television channel in Greece also said Arnett
] would soon be providing nightly dispatches for it, too.
]
]
] NBC sacked Arnett on Monday for giving an unauthorised
] interview with state-run Iraqi TV, during which Arnett
] said the American-led war effort had initially failed
] because of Iraq's resistance.
]
]
] Arnett, who apologised for his "misjudgement," told VTM
] he was a "casualty of the information war".
]
]
] "There are two wars taking place. You have the war of
] bullets and bombs, then you have the information war," he
] said.

Peter Arnett Is Back

] In the battle to influence public opinion, the antiwar
] movement's worst enemy may prove to be the television.
]
] Daily reports from the front lines put the troops
] foremost in American thought - an omnipresence that makes
] it easier for taxi drivers and hairdressers, white-collar
] workers and televangelists, to sympathize with the
] servicemen and -women, and to argue that protesters
] should be supporting those fighting in Iraq instead of
] holding rallies to oppose the war.

Antiwar protesters in a PR fix | csmonitor.com

] MIAMI (AP) - Surviving members of a family whose van was
] fired on by troops in Iraq said they were traveling
] toward allied lines because they thought an air-dropped
] leaflet had advised them to flee for safety.
]
] In a report published Wednesday in the Miami Herald and
] other Knight Ridder newspapers, Bakhat Hassan said
] American soldiers had waved his family's car through a
] checkpoint as they left their village Monday. But at the
] next checkpoint, the soldiers fired.
]
] ``We were thinking these Americans want us to be safe,''
] Hassan, 35, said through a translator.
]
] Hassan, interviewed Tuesday by a Knight Ridder
] correspondent at the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital near
] Najaf, said 11 members of his family were killed in the
] incident - his daughters, aged 2 and 5, his son, 3, his
] parents, two older brothers, their wives and two nieces,
] ages 12 and 15. His wife, Lamea, who is nine-months
] pregnant, said she saw her children die.

Family Slain at Checkpoint Sought Safety

] ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico - Two high school teachers said
] they have been placed on leave for refusing to remove
] war-related student artwork posted in their classrooms.
]
]
] Highland High School teachers Allen Cooper and Geoffrey
] Barrett said Tuesday they were told Monday night that
] they would be suspended if they did not remove the
] posters.
]
] Barrett, who teaches history and current events, said the
] student art carried both anti-war and pro-war messages,
] and was created as part of a class assignment.
]
] "I think this is mostly a violation of the students'
] rights to have a voice and express their opinions,"
] Barrett said. "Asking me to take down the posters was
] taking away the voice of the students and I was not going
] to do that."

Two New Mexico teachers placed on leave over war posters