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Expansion will create 7 500 mining jobs in five years

March 17, 2004

By Sherilee Bridge

Welkom - Harmony Gold would create 7 500 jobs at its mines by 2009, it said yesterday.

The company is spending R3.2 billion on five local gold expansion projects.

"The mining industry last year produced 5 percent less gold and if productivity stayed the same, we should have 5 percent less jobs," said Bernard Swanepoel, the chief executive of Harmony.

The local mining industry employs half the number of people it did 10 years ago. This is in line with the declining gold production from ageing mine shafts.

Reversal of this trend comes as Harmony replaces lost ounces, as mines reach the end of their lives, and the jobs lost along with those shaft closures.

Harmony said its 2004 capital expenditure was R1 billion and would be followed up by R800 million next year.

Briefing analysts and media on a two-day trip to its Witwatersrand and Free State operations, Swanepoel said the five growth projects at Doornkop, Elandsrand, Tshepong, Phakisa and Masimong would produce 1.6 million ounces of gold a year.

He said 1.1 million ounces of the amount was replacement ounces, which meant Harmony would increase its production by 500 000 ounces to 4.5 million ounces a year by the end of the decade.

That is without the possible addition of Target North, the massive expansion potential Harmony will inherit as a result of its acquisition of Avgold.

"The projects represent a significant step change in the recovery grade," said Ferdi Dippenaar, the marketing director of Harmony.

Each of the five projects has a life of 15 to 20 years, giving Harmony's local operations staying power in an industry just learning to navigate its way through lower rand gold prices.

Swanepoel said the gold price and exchange rate had had the biggest impact on jobs in the South African mining industry.

On threats by the National Union of Mineworkers to call a nationwide strike to protest against industry job losses caused by the stronger rand, Swanepoel said he had to agree with the union.

"I'm on the union's side. I want them to tell the government that the strong rand hurts but I don't want them to do it in working time," Swanepoel said.

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MARCH 16, 2004 - 09:15 ET

Pacific Rim Mining Corp.: El Dorado Gold Project Drill
Program

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--Pacific Rim Mining Corp. has shifted
the focus of its scout drilling program on the El Dorado gold
project in El Salvador to a series of compelling targets along
strike with and proximal to the Minita vein system. Initial
targets now being tested include strike extensions of the Minita
vein both north and south of the Minita deposit, which contains a
measured and indicated resource of 1.6 million tonnes averaging
11.4 g/t gold and 70.3 g/t silver, for a total of 585,200 ounces
of gold and 3.6 million ounces of silver. Other high priority
targets include a number of veins parallel, related and proximal
to Minita, including the 'El Dorado' vein that was mined
alongside Minita in the mid-1900's. This phase of the drilling
program is expected to continue for the coming months. The Minita
area targets were identified through Pacific Rim's
three-dimensional computer modeling of the Minita vein area
developed over the past 18 months.

The Company has moved the Gonso vein area target down the
priority list after erratic results were encountered in scout
drilling designed to follow up on promising results from hole
P03-268, the first drill hole to have tested this area of the
project (see NR #03-13 dated December 8, 2003). Several vein
intercepts in the Gonso area contain gold values above the 5.0
g/t cutoff grade, as outlined in the table below. However, this
target area was found to be geologically and structurally
complicated, with poor continuity between drill holes. Holes
P03-270, 272, 273, 276, 277 and 279-283 drilled in the Gonso vein
area encountered no significant mineralization. Drill holes along
the San Matias vein in the North District (P03-269, 271, 274, 278
and 284), have not encountered bonanza grades and this area has
also been given a lower priority for future drilling. A complete
listing of all drill holes, and drill plan maps are available at
the Company's website http://www.pacrim-mining.com.

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DRD gets institutional nod

By: Stewart Bailey

Posted: 2004/03/16 Di 18:17 | © Mineweb 1997-2004

JOHANNESBURG (Mineweb.com) – A glance at the Durban Roodepoort Deep presentation to shareholders made earlier this week, at the announcement of its bid for control of Emperor Gold Mines, reveals a radical change in the make-up of the mid-tier gold miner’s shareholder register.

In little over a year, the share traditionally known for its attractiveness to gold-crazed North American retail shareholders, has grown its institutional shareholding from 5 percent to 40 percent. Retailer shareholders, who had traditionally given the group its seemingly bullet-proof ability to raise fresh equity at the drop of a hat, regardless of the state of its operations, have made some room for professional investors.

Ilja Graulich, DRD’s investor relations executive, says the same elements of the company’s profile the gained it a foothold in Middle America – gearing, gearing and more gearing - has given it increasing cachet among fund managers.

Graulich says he first noticed a large uptick in institutional shareholding in June last year, when international investors took a bet that the rand’s remarkable rally against the dollar had ended. An end to the South African currency’s run against the dollar – it gained more 50 percent against the dollar since the beginning of 2002 – would mean a sharp rise in the profitability of South Africa’s miners. In any event, the fall of the rand never happened.

“But the international funds have hung on,” says Graulich. Their patience, he says, was helped by DRD’s diversification out of South Africa, with two purchases in Australasia over the past year. The two deals – one for a 15 percent stake in Placer Dome’s Porgera mine in Papua New Guinea and the other the latest bid for control of Emperor Gold Mines – will raise the proportion of the company’s production outside of South Africa to about 40 percent.

The offshore production base is something that foreigners, who hold 95 percent of DRD’s stock like. Graulich is quick to add, though, that they’re no less enthusiastic about DRD’s pronounced gearing to the rand; a weakening rand sees not only profitability rise for DRD, but also the size of its reserve and resource base, as more ounces become profitable to mine. Resource bases are the basis for calculations of relative value for many gold investors, particularly in a gold bull market. Market capitlisation per resource ounce valuations are also an area in which DRD and many of its South African peers, with their mammoth resource bases, fair especially well.

But when all’s said and done, the share’s gearing to the gold price is what gets investors excited. One Johannesburg mining analyst calls DRD a “sex and violence, full frontal gold share”, a tribute to its ability to climb remarkably quickly when the gold price rises. The reverse is also true on the downside of course, making the stock an exhilarating investment, to say the least.

Graulich does not shun the description. “If you believe in gold, you may as well take the outperformance, which is what DRD gives…but at least there’s also stability,” he says.

For the past year, Graulich and the DRD’s executive pair of Mark Wellesley Wood and Ian Murray, have pounded the streets of financial districts in North America, Australia and Europe, sending the message to investors. Some have listened.

Graulich admits, however, that the massive gearing in the stock makes it attractive to the more transient hedge funds; it’s an attraction he’s happy with.

“We’re liquid enough for them to come and go undetected and they cannot take a strong enough position in us to influence the share price,” he says. DRD is one of the most traded ADR’s on the NASDAQ exchange, turning over more than 500 percent of its shares in issue each year, making it easy for punters of all sizes, to enter and exit.

Graulich says DRD did face some fallout from its US shareholders in December last year, however, after its smaller compatriot, the marginal Afrikaner Lease, closed its only operating asset. The mine was shut down after the strong rand sent the open cast operation into serious financial difficulty. Aflease too has a strong retail shareholder base and DRD was a logical victim of collateral damage. Aflease lost more than half its value in a matter of days, while DRD’s stock fell as far at $2.15.

It has since staged a recovery, first primed by Gold’s January run to the mid-$420/oz range, and is now sitting fairly comfortably at $3.35 a share.

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Aflease-Harmony deal fails

By: Stewart Bailey

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JOHANNESBURG (Mineweb.com) -- The Afrikander Lease, the punch-drunk junior gold miner, received another body blow on Tuesday after final negotiations around its purchase of the Kalgold open-cast mine from Harmony Gold, collapsed. Aflease said Harmony would not accept the R275-m financing package it had proposed to pay for the open-cast Kalgold mine.

“Aflease shareholders are advised that Aflease successfully secured a credit facility to fulfil its obligations in relation to the acquisition. The terms of the facility are not acceptable to Harmony,” Aflease said in a statement. Aflease shares fell 2,9 percent today, as the JSE gold index dropped 1,3 percent.

The deal’s failure leaves Aflease burning cash for at least another 13 months, until it builds a small underground mine on the Witwatersrand. Neal Froneman, Aflease’s chief executive, confirmed that discussions with Harmony had been “terminated”. He said certain details relating to the deal could not be agreed on. He told MinewebHarmony would not allow Aflease leeway to pay the cash component of the deal, which would not be paid by the deadline agreed to earlier.

Senior industry sources, who are close to the deal, confirmed that last-gasp talks this morning, aimed at breathing life back into the Kalgold purchase had failed. The R275-m purchase of the mine, first announced last year, was thought to have been a dead certainty – after all, the price had been agreed to and Froneman told Mineweb earlier this month, that debt and equity funding for the cash component of the deal had been secured from an unnamed third party.

The deal

Harmony was then to have been paid for Kalgold in equal cash and equity tranches. The first leg of the deal would see Harmony paid R137,5-m in Kalgold shares priced at R5,35 each. Harmony had earlier agreed to receive the shares at that price, before Aflease’s stock collapsed in December, following the closure of its only producing mine.

The second tranche would see Aflease pay Harmony R137.5-m in cash by the end of February. It missed that deadline after a bureaucratic delay in receiving ministerial approval for the deal. That, Froneman said at the time, was no problem as the original sale agreement provided for the transaction deadline to move to the end of March.

Mineweb believes, however, that the minister had given the deal the go-ahead last Tuesday, which in turn triggered a provision compelling Aflease to make payment for the deal within three days. That deadline came and went. Aflease, then had another five working days to rectify its putative breach of contract, giving it until this Friday (19 March) to make good on the purchase price. As it turns out, though, Harmony did not like aspects of the Harmony financing package.

Bernard Swanepoel, Harmony’s chief executive, would not be drawn on the specifics of the negotiations with Aflease, but said it was unlikely Kalgold would now be sold.

“The deal is not formally dead, but I do not see how it can be resuscitated,” said Swanepoel.

What now?

So what now? For Harmony, the failure of the deal is hardly a dilemma. Swanepoel says Harmony was never eager to sell Kalgold, but was rather made the proverbial offer he just could not refuse. “We are very-comfortable holders of Kalgold,” he said. And despite the inevitable protestations to the contrary, the chance of kicking the deal into touch after the equity component of the deal had lost 44% of its value, must have made good sense to Harmony’s board.

For Aflease, the future is perhaps a little less cut and dried. The group will now have to tough it out without a producing asset or any positive cashflow to speak of, until at least the middle of next year, when its 60 000-ounce a year Bonanza South underground mine is slated to come into production. When that mine opens, Froneman says, Aflease will also re-open high-grade, open-cast portions of the inner and outer basin to supplement the mill feed and to boost production still further. Mineweb spoke to a senior Johannesburg fund manager who reckons the group could make a good fist of the projects, provided management ensures they come on stream by the promised date.

Froneman says the R82-m Aflease received after a cash-for-shares deal with Randgold & Exploration in February, would be enough to tide it over until it pours gold from Bonanza. Randgold also has a series of options over three years – the first of which comes due midway through next year – which could see it pumping as much as R411-m into Aflease in exchange for more shares.

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UPDATE - Gold steady above $400 in Europe, eyes dollar

Wednesday March 17, 10:44 am ET

LONDON, March 17 (Reuters) - Gold was stable above $400 an ounce on Wednesday, with the market poised to gain further despite a weakening euro against the dollar that would normally dull the
metal's allure to European investors.

The euro fell against the dollar (EUR=), hurt by the single European currency's losses against the yen amid talk of an end to aggressive yen sales by Japan.

But dollar (EUR=) bulls were knocked after a U.S. Federal Reserve statement late on Tuesday left U.S. interest rates unchanged as expected, with fading prospects for any dollar-boosting rises in months to come.

Dealers said bullion was looking far more positive, with physical demand emerging to bolster the market. "Liquidity is rather thin this afternoon but gold is looking well supported despite the euro weakening -- in euro terms gold is at its highest levels since late January," a European trader said.

Spot gold (XAU=) was at $402.10/402.90 an ounce by 1540 GMT, compared with $402.00/402.80 last quoted in New York on Tuesday.

Dealers said the market needed further currency impetus to break out of its $395-405 range.

"Despite yesterday's move, which strengthened the precious metal's recent light positive bias, a more significant change in the dollar is necessary for gold to find a new more major direction," Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein's Alexander Zumpfe said in a daily report.

Currency was the major driver for bullion in early January, when the metal struck a 15-year peak of $430.50 as the euro surged. A recovering dollar pushed gold down to a 15-week low of $387.60 earlier this month.

Silver (XAG=) was steady at $7.15/7.17 from $7.13/7.15 in New York on Tuesday. Dealers said the market was still consolidating last week's run to six-year peaks around $7.25, with further rises on the cards despite weak fundamentals.

Platinum (XPT=) was firmer at $903.00/908.00 from $899.00/904.00 previously, while palladium
(XPD=) cooled off to $264.00/269.00 from $277.00/282.00.
Dealers said the market's speculative-driven uptrend was still intact but some consolidation was needed before it moved towards resistance at $300.00.

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EMERGING MARKET WATCH
Wednesday, March 17, 2004
Weekly Report
By Commerzbank
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Looming national strike in the mining sector may hurt Rand sentiment

In the absence of important domestic data the rand should continue to move in line with EUR/USD. The rand rose earlier this week on increased evidence that the Madrid terrorist attacks might have an Islamist background. South Africa could be seen as a safer place relative to Europe and the US in this regard. Suggestions that Japan may scale back its large scale interventions as soon as end of March have led to downward pressure on USD/JPY but also on the dollar crosses. The euro, however, underperformed other major currencies on deteriorating growth prospects for the eurozone and speculation that the ECB may cut interest rates later this year. This has had also a negative impact on the rand that often broadly tracks the euro, the currency of South Africa's largest trading partner.

Fundamentally the rand remains well underpinned. The US FOMC issued a surprisingly dovish statement, suggesting that there is no rate hike on the immediate horizon. This keeps positive carry for the rand intact, regardless of whether the SARB raises interest rates or not later this year. The persistent high yield differential also reduces the likelihood of large-scale rand selling by the central bank as this would be very costly. The pressure on the SARB has risen in recent days as the National Union of Mineworkers said it may call a national strike to protest against job-losses resulting from the strong rand and the threat of the strike is causing some risk for the currency. Not only the currency, but also the struggling economy would suffer under a strike in the mining sector, a key industry for South Africa. As the biggest gold and platinum producer in the world, a strike would do some damage to the trade balance.

The data lull will continue until next week. There is only one economic release this week, the BER business confidence for Q1. As we had highlighted last week, the risks are skewed to the downside here. There is some uncertainty, however, whether the deterioration of global economic picture is already reflected in that number. Taking into account the current strength of the rand and with no significant softening to expect in the foreseeable future, we believe SARB rate hike expectations are premature. A possible spike of the CPIX inflation rate in February should not change this view necessarily as this would be primarily a result of an unfavourable base effect (CPIX fell on a monthly basis in last February).

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INTERNATIONAL

France weighs sale of gold to fund research

March 17, 2004

By AFP

Paris - Taking its cue from Germany, the French government is looking at the pots of gold sitting in central bank vaults as a possible means to finance research, despite the likelihood of stiff political and legal opposition.

The need to invest in research to remain competitive internationally has pushed first the German government and now the French one to consider selling central bank reserves to generate funds for projects.

The Bank of France has 3 000 tons of the precious metal in the form of ingots worth more than €30 billion (R245 billion).

Zitat

"These gold reserves are managed by the Bank of France but they belong to the nation,"

a French ministerial source said

'It is selling the family jewels to pay researchers, says ruling party politician'

Gold prices have been soaring - hitting 15-year highs in January - at a time when the French government has promised researchers e3 billion.

German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder was in early February the first to raise the subject of selling gold to fund research, an idea that occasionally is brought up in Germany, where the Bundesbank holds the second-biggest gold reserves in the world with 3 400 tons.

Several days later Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin of France took up the idea, backing the sale of "gold surplus stocks to finance research" under the slogan "Today's gold for tomorrow's gold".

Then on March 4, former socialist finance minister Laurent Fabius suggested that gold should be sold to finance social housing.

Nevertheless, the proposition faces numerous obstacles.

Firstly, the Bank of France cannot simply sell as much gold as it wants, because of internationally binding agreements.

Last March, 15 European central banks, including France and Germany, agreed that as of next September they would sell no more than 500 tons of gold each per year for the period from 2004 to 2009.

At the political level, central banks - the guardians of gold reserves - are all independent from governments in the euro zone. They are also generally wary of seeing gold sold to finance spending.

But the German Bundesbank, which openly wants to sell gold in order to diversify its holdings, has suggested that some of the gains from selling bullion reserves could be reinvested in a national foundation to support research and education.

The idea was rejected by all German political parties, which want to use potential proceeds from a gold sale for the reduction of the national public debt.

In France, the central bank has signalled its opposition to selling gold for research spending. A high-ranking official at the Bank of France was quoted by the French business newspaper Les Echos as describing the idea as "crazy".

In addition to the reticence at the central bank, Raffarin does not have universal support in his party for the idea.

"I don't think it's a good idea," said senate finance commission head Philippe Marini, who belongs to Raffarin's centre-right party, the Union for a Popular Majority.

Adding that "there is no miracle formula" for public spending, Marini voiced opposition to "selling the family jewels to round off researchers' monthly paycheques."

Despite the opposition, the idea is making the rounds in the circles of power in Paris.

An official from the prime minister's office said: "The idea raised by the Germans is being studied. It is been taken up for consideration, but nothing has been decided."

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Why Buy Gold? Up-date #15

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1987 to 2003: From bear to bull: the multi-year trends

The chart below clearly shows one thing: long-term trends often last many years. The bear market that started in 1988 ended in 1993. The up-swing that followed lasted from 1993 until 1996 and culminated in what may be called a false break-out. Then another bear-market unfolded taking the gold price down to

$ 250 over a period of almost four years.

Then came the spike in the gold price as a consequence of the central banks’ announcement that they would be limiting their gold-sales.

The 1999 bottom was tested again at the beginning of 2001. At that time, when few believed that any money should be put into precious metals, the present bull market started; a bull market we deem is still in its infancy.

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The gold price hit $ 430.50 on January 5, 2004, and has been consolidating this price surge, which in our opinion, is a healthy development in a bull market.

But let us first examine the weekly long-term-trend.

The long-term picture

When a market reaches a heavily overbought condition, the end consequence is often a heavily oversold condition. Both conditions, overbought and oversold, are exceptions to the trend, so we can disregard them when estimating the long-term tendency.

“Looking at the long-term trend that began in March 2001, we can clearly observe that the gold price has once again exceeded the upper-trend line, just as it did in March of this year. Given this, we conclude that the market is overbought and expect a correction down to the $ 360-level”, we wrote on December 10 of last year.

In early January, the market jumped to $ 430.00, and from there the consolidation set in and has not yet ended. Therefore, we are still faced with the question as to where the consolidation will finally end.

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At this junction, technical analysis is probably of little help, as external factors, which you find in no chart, can propel the gold price to much higher levels or bring it down again towards the $ 350 level. Whatever happens short-term should only concern the short-term speculator, but not those who are convinced that we shall see much higher gold prices in a not-too-distant future.

The medium-term picture

Back in February, the gold price briefly touched $ 388.90, a quick spike probably caused by some short covering.

We mentioned before that an overreaction to the up-side is often followed by an overreaction to the down-side. This is what happened when the gold price fell to $ 320 in April or by 18%.

The gold price approached the $ 380 level again in June, but was unable to push higher. An orderly correction followed which stopped at $ 340, some 10%.

This time the correction from high to low was also 10% but from a less overbought level for which reason we would argue that it has likely run its course this time.

We would also wish to point to the fact that other precious metals, silver, platinum and palladium have reached new highs during the past week suggesting that, at present. Gold is rather the exception to the rule.

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The short-term picture

The short-term picture does not look very promising as the short-term trend is down. Short-term trends should, however never be analyzed separately from the long-term picture, since the short-term reflects short-term moods which can change overnight, simply reflecting the action of short-term traders who only wish to cash in on a quick profit.

At the same time, while the short-term trend is down, the price has been holding well above the

$ 390-level for more than one month, an encouraging development if not conclusive.

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Are US markets fundamentally cheap?

Historically, a FAIR valuation of US markets has indicated a dividend yield of 4% to 5%. Dividend yields at present, however, are still at less than 2%. Historically cheap US markets yield upwards of 6%. The answer to the above question is therefore simple: NO! As pessimism spreads, gold will rise, the dollar will fall, as will the major US indexes .

The chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average also suggests that the Bear Market Rally that started in March of last year and has many taken by surprise, seems drawing to its inevitable end. And while it is not yet known who caused the terror in Madrid, 911 days after 9-11, it is a painful reminder that we are far from victory in this distressful matter.

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and may no longer be pertinent at the time of reading.

Our recommendations for Gold ($ 395.50)

Long-term (several months)

GO LONG

Medium-term (several weeks)
GO LONG

COMPANIES WE FOLLOW:
Price March 12, 2002
Price March 12, 2004
% Change In 2 Years

GAM: GAMMON LAKE RESOURCES (CAD)
0.83
7.04
748%

LNXGF: LINUX GOLD CORP (USD)
0.03
0.24
650%

TRC: TERYL RES CORP (CAD)
0.08
0.55
588%

PMV. PMI VENTURES LTD (CAD)
0.10
0.63
530%

SJD: ST. JUDE RESOURCES (CAD)
0.32
1.95
509%

SEA: SEABRIDGE GOLD INC (CAD)
0.95
4.40
363%

MFL: MINEFINDERS LTD (CAD)
2.80
12.74
355%

WRM: WHEATON RIVER MINERALS LTD (CAD)
0.90
3.89
332%

DSM: DESERT SUN MNG COPR (CAD)
0.37
1.45
292%

RNG: RIO NARCEA GOLD MINES LTD (CAD)
0.82
2.74
234%

MGR: MEXGOLD RES INC (CAD)
1.25
3.91
213%

DNT: CANDENTE RESOURCES CORP (CAD)
0.32
0.98
206%

GLG: GLAMIS GOLD LTD (CAD)
7.33
21.64
195%

AGI: ALAMOS GOLD INC (CAD)
0.96
2.65
176%

IWA: INTL WAYSIDE GOLD (CAD)
0.09
0.24
167%

CRJ: CLAUDE RESOURCES INC (CAD)
0.63
1.65
162%

PMZ: PACIFIC MINERALS (CAD)
0.78
1.85
137%

VGZ: VISTA GOLD CORP (CAD)
2.80
6.12
119%

NGX: NORTHGATE EXPL LTD
1.36
2.98
119%

CBJ: CAMBIOR INC (CAD)
1.65
3.55
115%

PEM: PERILYA LIMITED (AUD)
0.61
1.26
107%

K: KINROSS GOLD CORP (CAD)
5.05
8.33
65%

NRI: NOVAGOLD RES INC (USD)
2.88
4.74
65%

G: GOLDCORP INC NEW (CAD)
12.09
18.08
50%

MR: METALLICA RES INC. (CAD)
1.88
2.37
26%

AGE: AGNICO-EAGLE MINES LTD (CAD)
18.60
19.43
4%

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27 Tote bei Hotel-Explosion in Bagdad

BAGDAD - Bei der Explosion eines Hotels in der irakischen Hauptstadt Bagdad sind am Abend nach Angaben des arabischen Nachrichtensenders El Dschasira 27 Menschen getötet worden.

Der Sender berichtete unter Berufung auf das US-Militär, über 40 weitere Menschen seien verletzt worden. Betroffen ist das Hotel «Dschabal Lubnan».

CNN zitierte einen US-Militärsprecher mit den Worten, nach bisherigen Erkenntnissen habe es sich um eine massive Autobombe gehandelt. Die Explosion habe sich in der Nähe eines grösseren Gebäudekomplexes ereignet, in dem amerikanische und ausländische Firmenvertreter untergebracht sind. In dem Hotel brach ein grosses Feuer aus.

Augenzeugen berichteten von einem Sprengstoffauto, das vor dem kleinen Hotel im Stadtzentrum abgestellt worden sei. Das Hotel, das in unmittelbarer Nähe des Büros von El Dschasira liegt, war im Gegensatz zu grossen Hotels der Stadt nicht mit meterhohen Betonwänden und Stacheldraht gesichert gewesen.

Der irakische Übergangsregierungsrat sprach sich zuvor für eine baldige Rückkehr der UNO in das Land aus. Das Gremium will in Kürze ein Schreiben an UNO-Generalsekretär Kofi Annan richten. Darin werde eine Rolle der UNO in Irak gewünscht, wie ein Mitarbeiter des amtierenden schiitischen Ratsvorsitzenden Mohammed Bahr el Ulum in Bagdad mitteilte.

Insbesondere werde die UNO um Beratung bei der Vorbereitung der geplanten Wahlen gebeten. Regierungsratsmitglied Ahmed Tschalabi sagte, dass alle Mitglieder des Gremiums «für eine Rolle der UNO in Irak» seien. Die UNO werde dem politischen Prozess «Legitimität geben».

Ein weiterer Vertreter der schiitischen Mehrheit forderte die UNO auf, «so bald wie möglich» zurückzukehren. «Wir wollen nicht, dass sie in letzter Minute kommen», sagte Hamed el Bajati von der grössten Schiitenpartei, dem Obersten Rat der Islamischen Revolution (SCIRI). April sei der beste Zeitpunkt. 172004 mar 04

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Nicht nur der Gold Chart macht Freude anzusehen, der Silber Chart steht dem vom Gold heute in nichts nach!

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Streit ums Gold der Deutschen Bundesbank

Haushaltsexperten von SPD und Grünen forderten einem Bericht der "Financial Times Deutschland" zufolge, den niedrigeren Gewinn der Zentralbank durch Goldverkäufe auszugleichen und diese Erträge künftig zur Schuldentilgung einzusetzen. FDP und CSU lehnten dies am Dienstag ab. Die Deutsche Bundesbank wollte die Vorschläge am Dienstag nicht kommentieren. Ein Sprecher verwies auf die Bilanzvorlage der Notenbank am kommenden Mittwoch (24. März). Dann würden auch die Spekulationen über den Gewinn beendet, der nach Medienberichten deutlich geringer als die im Bundeshaushalt eingeplanten 3,5 Mrd. Euro ausfallen soll.

Erschienen am: 17.03.2004