IRAQI NATIONAL COUNCIL MEETS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN BAGHDAD, 2003-07-13 (photo)

(From L-R) Adnan Pachachi, 81, head of the Independent Iraqis for Democracy (IID) sits next to Shiite Muslim Shiekh Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, number two in the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Jala Talabani, (3rdR), 70, head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), Ibrahim Jafari, spokesman for the fundamentalist Shiite Dawa party, and Yonnandam Yussef Kanna, 50, a Christian who heads the Assyrian Democratic Movement, during the 25-member Iraqi national council in central Baghdad July 13, 2003. Iraq's new Governing Council said on Sunday its first decisions were to cancel all holidays related to Saddam Hussein and his outlawed Baath Party and to declare April 9, the day of his downfall, a national holiday. Uloom was chosen by council members to chair the first ever meeting. REUTERS/Pool/Marwan Naamani jh