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Iraq

Iraq Weekly Status Report 6 Feb 2008

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Highlights

- Prime Minister Maliki resided over the first hoisting of Iraq's new national flag over the Iraqi Parliament February 5. (POLITICAL, page 4)

- The Law on Accountability and Justice, allowing many Saddam Hussein-era officials to return to government jobs, was passed February 3. (POLITICAL, page 4)

- MNC-I chief of staff announced that attacks in Baghdad have dropped to their lowest levels since 2005. (SECURITY, page 9)

- Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi told the Iraqi Embassy in Amman that he plans to request that Iraqis leaving Jordan be offered an exemption on exit fees. (DIPLOMATIC, page 23)

- The UN has transferred $161 million from the closed oil-for-food program to a development program for Iraq. (DIPLOMATIC, page 24)