1.   The Iraqi authorities insisted upon defining the detained foreign nationals as guests.

2.   US and British citizens in Kuwait are ordered to surrender themselves to the Iraqi authorities or face unspecified difficulties.

3.   The Iraqi authorities claimed to have launched a major reconstruction campaign in early March.

4.   Jenny Stenton and Christine Pedley were recorded by a Palestinian doctor who was invited into Kuwait by the Iraqi authorities.

5.   According to Hamdoon, Iraqi authorities also confiscated evidence establishing that Hindawi was about to leave the country illegally.

6.   Additionally, Iraqi authorities blame thousands of civilian cancer deaths and deformities in babies on contamination by Western DU weapons.

7.   By then, the site had been excavated, presumably by Iraqi authorities, officials said.

8.   Crude oil rose after a team of United Nations weapons inspectors were forced to postpone a visit to a suspected weapons site after Iraqi authorities refused to cooperate.

9.   Crude rose after United Nations weapons inspectors in Iraq postponed a visit to a suspected weapons site after Iraqi authorities refused to cooperate with them.

10.   Iraqi authorities have refused foreign journalists access to sites where they say significant civilian casualties were recorded.