Iraq: Coalition officials reportedly say border guards to be made up of Kurds.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

newspaper Kurdistani Nuwe on 26 August

On the morning of 25 August 2003, the supreme military committees of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan [PUK], the Kurdistan Democratic Party [KDP] and the coalition held another meeting at the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs office in Sulaymaniyah. The PUK delegation comprised Mustafa Sayyid Qadir, Sherdil Hawezi, Muhsin Bayiz, Salah Chawshin, Hamid Haji Ghali, Mamosta Aziz, Gen Jamal and Gen Mansur Hafid; the KDP delegation comprised Hamid Afandi, Staff Gen Azad Miran and Gen Sherwan Abd-al-Rahman; while the coalition delegation consisted of Colonel Harry Schute, Colonel Kamble …