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Iraqis burn US flags on Baghdad fall anniversary
Sadr calls on Iraqis to protest US occupation of Iraqi four years after fall of Saddam Hussein.
By Hassan Abdul Zahra
NAJAF, Iraq, 09 April 2007 (Middle East Online)

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Hundreds of thousands of Shiites burned and trampled on US flags on Monday as they gathered in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf for an anti-American rally called by firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on the fourth anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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The four years have also been brutal for the US forces in Iraq.
On Monday, the military reported the deaths of six more soldiers in a series of attacks, taking its toll for the month alone to 27 and 3,275 since the invasion, according to Pentagon figures.

The press...I saw articles on this stating HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of Iraqis participated, then in other articles - TENS OF THOUSANDS, then only THOUSANDS...

I would guess a couple of thousands of people came out on the street...and those probably from the Mahdi's Army... Burning American flags is nothing compared to what they usually do : killing people. So, yeah, the press makes a big deal out of it - but no real news here. Sadr & his people always opposed the Americans.

Look at the article below: it specifies that THOUSANDS went out on the street.

Big anti-U.S. protest in Iraq, Baghdad under curfew
By Khaled Farhan

NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Baghdad was under curfew on Monday, the fourth anniversary of the fall of the capital to U.S. forces, as Iraqis gathered in the city of Najaf for a big anti-U.S. protest called by fiery cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

"No, no, to the occupation, no, no to America," thousands of marching Iraqis, mainly men and young boys waving Iraqi flags, chanted as they marched through the southern Shi'ite holy city.

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His Mehdi army fought gunbattles with U.S. and Iraqi forces in the southern city of Diwaniya at the weekend after the troops swept into neighbourhoods to hunt for militiamen.

Oh, and tens of thousands here:
Rally marks anniversary of Baghdad's fall

April 9, 2007, 5:23AM
Rally marks anniversary of Baghdad's fall


BAGHDAD — Tens of thousands marched through the streets of two Shiite holy cities Monday to mark the fourth anniversary of Baghdad's fall.


So, I think the real thing here was that Sadr took a couple thousands of his army and put them on the street for this demonstration. The Iraqis that we care about - and their opinions - stayed home.

Low bids in foreign transfers bring demand for dollar down in auction
Baghdad, 09 April 2007 (Voices of Iraq)


Demand for the dollar was down in the Iraqi Central Bank’s daily auction on Sunday, reaching $49.825 million compared with $82.670 million on Thursday, as today's session saw low bids in foreign transfers.

In its daily statement, the bank said it had covered all bids, which included $13.915 million in cash and $35.910 million in foreign transfers, at an exchange rate of 1,272 dinars per dollar, unchanged from last week.

None of the 14 banks that participated in Sunday's auction offered to sell dollars.

Ali al-Yasseri, a trader at the auction, told VOI "the decline in today's demand for the dollar was due to the low rate of bids in foreign transfers, which were less than $36 million compared with $68.500 million on Thursday."

He added, "the decrease in today's foreign transfers was due to the decline in government foreign transfers to meet the Iraqi government's commitment to cover its contracts with international companies."
The Iraqi Central Bank runs a daily auction from Sunday to Thursday.

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Low bids in foreign transfers bring demand for dollar down in auction | Iraq Updates

Iraq loses 165 million dollars daily as oil exports cease
Baghdad, 09 April 2007 (Voices of Iraq)

Iraq is losing 165 million dollars a day as a result of halted crude oil exports via the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, an Iraqi oil ministry official said on Sunday.

"Exports of Iraqi crude oil via Ceyhan – 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) – are now defunct due to acts of sabotage targeting export-oriented pipelines," the official told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).

Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahrestani had appealed to the Kirkuk local council on Friday to protect the ministry's oil facilities and pipeline networks from sabotage.

Shahrestani said, "the production capacity in Kirkuk is sufficient to meet the needs of the northern refineries in Kirkuk and Baiji but exporting via Ceyhan has been stopped because of constant acts of sabotage, which cost Iraq millions of dollars in daily losses."

The Kirkuk council had accused the oil ministry of dereliction and failure to upgrade Kirkuk's oil installations that date back to the 1950s.

Meanwhile, a ministry official said that the Iraqi-Kuwaiti Oil Company will start pumping 3500 tons of oil derivatives to Iraq, in accordance with a contract between the two countries, to meet Iraq's fuels needs.

Salah Fallah al-Aamiri, director of the Iraqi Oil Marketing Company, told VOI "negotiations are underway with Turkish companies to secure the needs of the northern parts of Iraq."

Aamiri indicated that operations to import oil from Iran are now facing technical problems, adding that Iraq was reconsidering the contracts signed with Iran because of the latter's failure to honor the signed agreements.

Another Iraqi oil ministry official told VOI that the rate of Iraqi crude oil exports hit 1.561 million bpd in March, from which 12,000 barrels were being marketed via Syrian territories while the rest via Iraq's southern oil terminals.

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Iraq loses 165 million dollars daily as oil exports cease | Iraq Updates

The Prime Minister, Mr. Nouri Kamel al-Maliki that the Iraqi market is open to Japanese investment companies a way that serves the Iraqi citizens and raise the level of living, and its riches rich Iraq is determined to move forward towards economic reform and construction and reconstruction This came during the meeting of sovereignty to the Minister of Economy, Industry and Trade Japanese Mr. AMARE at his residence in the Japanese capital of Tokyo this afternoon. . He added that there sovereignty safe areas in Iraq that could provide the appropriate conditions for investment and receiving foreign companies for the advancement of services and relaunch the reconstruction of Iraq in the country.
من .From his part, Minister of Economy, Industry and Trade hoped consistently achievements security as it gives more opportunities to attend international companies in general and Japan in particular for the reconstruction and rebuilding Iraq.
.On the other hand, Mr. Prime Minister, received at his residence in Tokyo, and the Defense and Foreign Ministers Japanese both individually and there was an exchange of views and ways of developing relations between the two countries at all levels. .It also signed an agreement to exchange documents between the Ambassadors of Iraq in Tokyo, Japan in Baghdad Bakhos launch granted Japanese loan to Iraq.
Translated version of http://www.sotaliraq.com/

Originally Posted by Jola

The press...I saw articles on this stating HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of Iraqis participated, then in other articles - TENS OF THOUSANDS, then only THOUSANDS...

I would guess a couple of thousands of people came out on the street...and those probably from the Mahdi's Army... Burning American flags is nothing compared to what they usually do : killing people. So, yeah, the press makes a big deal out of it - but no real news here. Sadr & his people always opposed the Americans.

Look at the article below: it specifies that THOUSANDS went out on the street.

Big anti-U.S. protest in Iraq, Baghdad under curfew
By Khaled Farhan

NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Baghdad was under curfew on Monday, the fourth anniversary of the fall of the capital to U.S. forces, as Iraqis gathered in the city of Najaf for a big anti-U.S. protest called by fiery cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

"No, no, to the occupation, no, no to America," thousands of marching Iraqis, mainly men and young boys waving Iraqi flags, chanted as they marched through the southern Shi'ite holy city.

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His Mehdi army fought gunbattles with U.S. and Iraqi forces in the southern city of Diwaniya at the weekend after the troops swept into neighbourhoods to hunt for militiamen.

Oh, and tens of thousands here:
Rally marks anniversary of Baghdad's fall

April 9, 2007, 5:23AM
Rally marks anniversary of Baghdad's fall


BAGHDAD — Tens of thousands marched through the streets of two Shiite holy cities Monday to mark the fourth anniversary of Baghdad's fall.


So, I think the real thing here was that Sadr took a couple thousands of his army and put them on the street for this demonstration. The Iraqis that we care about - and their opinions - stayed home.

Exactly,

Typical anti Bush negative reporting. Sadr needs to go to martrland along with Saddam. First, he was one of the biggest crooks in parliement, plus we know Maliki was protecting him, then he was warned the heat was being turned up on his militia, and what does he do, runs to Iran, so this thug needs to be made a martr and be done with it, hang this trader now before it does turn into tens of thousands marching. Put the money in the hands of the peaceful citizens only, this is how you solve these issues.

Good luck and health to all, Mike

Former oil minister : oil and gas law still in the corridors of the State Consultative Council





/ بنت الرافدينHaider Alzerkani-Najaf / daughter Rafidain

, Ibrahim Bahr Al-Uloom, the former oil minister that the bill of oil and gas by the government, still in the corridors of the State Consultative Council was not presented to the House and the Sea Sciences said in a symposium panel Agamenha Chamber of Commerce Najaf today, Sunday, that the oil and gas faces new media onslaught from abroad calling for that there could be interviewed to explain the law by opening a dialogue with segments of Iraqi society, which has the right of access to the facts during a symposia at the level of civil society and the provincial assemblies and the Parliament surprising that the parliament or the government administration Thus seminars abroad, and stressed that the science set sail for this law positives as the negative aspects of it needed several paragraphs of the discussion, amendment and the Sea of Sciences said that the law provided regulatory environment for the oil and gas production in Iraq on the basis of the principle and added that the federal law has Monoclinic first axis, it has basically extraction, production and operations of oil and not liquidation and distribution The proceeds of the distribution of proceeds spot, to be deposited into the account of the Central Bank provided for by the law of another one of the most important guarantees for the unity of Iraq and the second axis of the axis of the restructuring of the oil sector through the restructuring of the National Oil Company
Aspens third organizational relationship between the center and regions and productive foreign investment and added Sea Science and this will mean that 95% of the oil Althro management from the central government through the creation of the Federal Council of oil and gas, which will be oil policy, management and conclude contracts with the right of veto and said that the law leaves 92% of However, the reserve national oil company and 85% of the producing fields in addition to the 27 field-developer and the Sea of Sciences suggested that the largest share of the company in a contract and the future could materialize their share basic share and the right of the citizen in the process by giving the shares according to economic fundamentals, 30% are distributed The horizontal Sea Sciences at a symposium on the need to strengthen the role of the private sector to participate in this industry and stressed the importance of developing a number of claimant fields that can be invested perceived as Zulkifli, who could reach its production to 25000 barrels per day and 85 million Bakhzin Brlmell He said that the Negev desert where more than 35 installation Jeloji speaks of having a Alhadro Karbunat and extended in the areas of maintaining the current limits on the area of 11000 meters Kplo between Najaf and Anbar, 12000 Kplo meters between Najaf and Samawah and 17000 kilometers on the border with Saudi Arabia, for the governorates of Anbar, Najaf and Samawah


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Hundreds of thousands of Shiites burned and trampled on US flags on Monday as they gathered in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf for an anti-American rally called by firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on the fourth anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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I wonder where they got the flags. They can't even feed there families but they can sure find the cash to buy flags. We need to take out Sadr what an *****! JMO

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Oil expert calls for the rewriting of the law of oil and gas




بغداد- الملف برسBaghdad-file Press

قال الخبير . the oil expert said Dr. Kamel We want to request a review or rewrite the law of oil and gas because it simply does not serve the interest of the Iraqi people, for many reasons, the first of which is that the law is not incompatible with the current constitution, despite the shortcomings of the last second and it is not balanced with objectivity and fairness between the interests of the Iraqi people make up different hand, and the foreign investor on the other hand.

وتنبثق.The first reason stems from the essential issues, unnecessary supreme interest of the Iraqi people, the first is the geographical unity in the framework of the country's sovereignty and the second is, as one on the whole wealth of mineral and hydrocarbon, and other natural resources on the surface and in the soles of their national soil.

غاز.And Article 111 of the Constitution stipulates that oil and gas is the property of the Iraqi people in all regions and provinces, as stipulated in Article No. 1 of the draft law on oil and gas before the House, too, that oil and gas is the property of all the Iraqi people, but the irony is that limit that this text has changed in the English language version of the law to be that oil and gas is the property of the Federal oil and gas. فالفارق .The difference is not large, meaning flagrant, but cause surprise, and more than that raises doubts, that bear the distribution system in the ownership of the wealth of basic, and because the composition of the Federal Council itself, according to the texts, will be based on quotas, that the purpose of any residence in the event of the adoption of the text contained in the English version the direction is the application of this system of distribution of wealth, rather than make the property is not a conflict in which the entire Iraqi people, according to the text of the Constitution itself, in spite of its imperfections present.

و .And the expert want to fully to the question of the distribution of powers between the center and regions and provinces criticized the manner in which he has addressed the law and determine the division of powers, as it will lead to fragmentation and division instead of the unity of Iraq and its wealth management on sound foundations.

:It also addressed the issue of the loss of balance between the interests of the Iraqi people on one hand and foreign companies on the other hand highlighted three key observations are :

1.1. .Contained in the text of the rules governing the activity of exploration and development of oil fields in the oil expressions of exclusive rights (monopoly) may be granted to investors over the long time of over thirty years, is the maintenance of the interests of the Iraqi people? .

2.2. .Not subject to the foreign investor, according to the legislation of Iraqi laws, and that the investment law may exempt from paying taxes. هذا .Is this the protection of the interests of the Iraqi people? .

3.3. ان .The content of article 13 of the activity of exploration and development fields is not fully disclosed on the form and nature of contracts awarded, but to cover up, and because of the length of time granted for such contracts, with extensions, it would mean the establishment of contracts for the production, in addition to prospecting and exploration. فهل.Does the law protect the interest of the Iraqi people in such contracts? .

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Oil expert calls for the rewriting of the law of oil and gas




بغداد- الملف برسBaghdad-file Press

قال الخبير . the oil expert said Dr. Kamel We want to request a review or rewrite the law of oil and gas because it simply does not serve the interest of the Iraqi people, for many reasons, the first of which is that the law is not incompatible with the current constitution, despite the shortcomings of the last second and it is not balanced with objectivity and fairness between the interests of the Iraqi people make up different hand, and the foreign investor on the other hand.

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IMO I don't think we need to worry about this one. They may request it, but when you look at the benchmarks that they have from IMF, UN and for ICI, there is no time for rewriting such an important law. Plus, if it is not approved by the Parliament by May 31, then Maliki will enforce it as it is ( I am not sure though if he's got the power to do that).

What some of these old oil experts from the previous regime want is debt forgiven and keep the oil. Not in 1000 years. Every company, country or investor that will put money in there or will forgive debt will want a good deal in exchange. And it is only fair. Some of these "experts" believe that pigs fly. JMO

Billion and $ 200 million the cost of implementing the project of the Center for Irbil
(Voice of Iraq) - 09 - 04-2007
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Billion and $ 200 million the cost of implementing the project of the Center for Commercial Irbil

Fouad Othman / Irbil :
A special symposium held Shraton Hotel in the city of Irbil on the project to establish a commercial center Irbil, and attended the symposium, Mr. Othman Shwani, Minister of Planning and Minister of Sports and Youth, Mr. Falah Mustafa official Relations Service of the Council of Ministers and a number of officials and senior traders and businessmen.
During the symposium was to shed light on the project, which is being implemented by the Development Authority Cordstan conjunction with the National Kuwaiti Karat.
At the beginning of the seminar welcomed the statement Sami Rahman attendees, and indicated that the area of the project cost 104000 m 2 and is located near Arbil International Airport and the United Nations compound.
The project includes 300 hotel rooms, office buildings and large markets and three residential buildings and recreational Square. According to the statement, Sami Rahman to the importance of this project to provide job opportunities for local laborers, and thanked the government of the territory Cordstan and Investment Authority and the Ministry of Municipalities of the facilities provided for the project.
The engineer supervising the implementation of the project, Sharif Kamal to the road project and its implementation plan, pointing out that the project cost one billion and 200 million dollars and take three to four years.