Women demand death for Saddam
(Addaawa) – Many women's organisations and societies yesterday demonstrated in front of the Thee Kar governorate headquarters demanding the execution of Saddam Hussein. The demonstrators included wives, sisters and daughters of those executed by Saddam, who raised pictures of the victims and banners demanding the death penalty for Saddam. Some of the women met with the governor and handed him the declaration of the demonstration.
(Addaawa is a daily paper issued by the Islamic Dawa Party.)

Foreign lawyers approved for Saddam
(Al-Mashriq) – The Iraqi Lawyers Association has agreed to have 16 Arab lawyers to defend Saddam in accord with the amended Iraqi lawyer law of 1965. As for the six foreign lawyers, they have to get the approval of the minister of justice through an Iraqi lawyer, said Kamal Hamdoon, Secretary General of the Iraqi Lawyers Association. The foreign lawyers have been collecting evidence to defend Saddam.
(Al-Mashriq is published daily by Al-Mashriq Institution for Media and Cultural Investments.)

Chalabi lashes out at US
(Asharq Al-Awsat) – The Head of the Iraqi National Congress, Ahmed al-Chalabi, said UN Envoy Lakdhar al-Ibrahimi was behind the US campaign against him. Chalabi said his disagreement with the US came to a head when the Americans insisted on Ibrahimi's help in forming the transitional Iraqi government. Chalabi accused the former top civil administrator L. Paul Bremer III of violating different aspects of the Security Council Resolution and misusing Iraqi funds. Chalabi confirmed the deterioration of his connections with the US administration.
(London-based Asharq al-Awsat, an independent Saudi paper, is issued daily.)

Sadr militia clashes with government forces in Najaf
(Al-Sabah al-Jadeed) – Armed elements of Muqtada al-Sadr's militia assaulted Najaf police headquarters, while police and national guardsmen returned fire. The fight lasted 30 minutes without any casualties reported. Movement has stopped in the sites of the city where the clashes took place. Elements of the police and the national guard patrolled the main streets while the militia deployed near the area of the city's main shrine. Shia group representative Ibraheem Bahrul Uloom denied reports spread in the city about Shia groups ending their efforts at mediation after failure in applying the truce.
(Al-Sabah al-Jadeed is an independent daily paper.)

Power plan posed by electricity ministry
(Al-Adala) – The Ministry of Electricity (ME) plans to apply a new mechanism of reducing the power-off hours to areas rationing the use of electricity by 50 percent. A ME source said it was aimed at creating a kind of cooperation between the people and the electricity sector, which has suffered from increasing demands of power that have adversely affected power stability. The Zayyouna and al-Muhendessen areas were cited as sample areas for practicing the new mechanism.
(Al-Adala is issued daily by the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq.)

Monarchists, republicans commemorate the past
(Azzaman) – Supporters of the constitutional monarchy yesterday eulogised the anniversary of the assassination of King Faisal II July 14, 1958. Meanwhile, the ministerial council has decided the occasion of the revolution led by Abdul Kareem Kasim to be an official holiday that changed Iraq from a monarchy to a republic.
(London-based Azzaman is issued daily by Saad al-Bazaz.)