Thread: Iraq/Dinar News to April 19, 2007 10PM CST

Talabani : our dialogue with the five armed groups in its final stages
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Planning <Islamic Army> specify conditions for negotiating with the United States
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Unveiled Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi government dialogue five armed groups, for inclusion in the political process, and that this dialogue in its final stages, the spokesman for the armed organization called the same <Islamic Army>, their willingness to enter into dialogue with the United States, but according to the conditions.
The site's Media Office on the Internet Talabani, the Iraqi president told a number of reporters the day before yesterday, that there <contacts with the armed groups calling itself the National Resistance for the purpose attached to the political process in the country>. He said <There are five armed groups contacted the British side, and then the Iraqi government, and then contacted the President of the Republic, and we are now in the final stages of completion dialogue with the armed groups and the government to cooperate and lenient towards attached to the political process>.

On the other hand, said a spokesman for the Iraqi armed, in an interview with Al-Jazeera the day before yesterday, that his group was ready to negotiate with the United States if it withdrew from Iraq. The Ibrahim al-Shamri, spokesman for the Islamic Army in Iraq, the Sunni enter into negotiations with the United States under certain conditions, the first condition to host talks outside party, such as the European Union, Russia or Turkey. He pledged to continue Shamari fighters in the Islamic Army of Iraq to resist the American forces to leave the country, but said that the group is ready to engage in negotiations if the American Congress issued a binding decision to withdraw troops from Iraq, and added that the requirement of the second, is that Americans recognized that a legitimate resistance party.

On the other hand, Talabani said that <Political Council for National Security in the government request to the United Nations to extend the survival of the coalition forces in Iraq until the rehabilitation of the security forces and the Iraqi military, to be able to assume its responsibilities in order to achieve security and stability in the country>, as reported by the German news agency (DPA). Talabani said that <a coalition forces in Iraq came request from the government and international decision and that the Iraqi government has the right to claim these forces to leave at any time it deems appropriate for that>. The President of the Iraqi demands for the withdrawal of the coalition forces from Iraq <at the present time is not realistic until the situation settles down security in the country>.

Talabani also criticized the demonstrators, followers of the Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr burned the American flag during demonstrations in the city of Najaf dominated the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad last Saturday. He described this act as <reckless because the flag is the symbol of the State and people and the nation and not only a symbol of the government, and the burning of the flag is an insult to the American people and the nation, in addition to it did not reflect the level of civilization to which we wish to show the Iraqi citizen>. He said that <use slogans such as imported <Death to America> harm to the users of such slogans before offend the other party, because he is not fit and proper to wish death to the people and the entire nation to its contributions to human civilization, and we follow the methods more respectful reflect the cultural level of the Iraqi people>.

And on the relationship with Ankara said that President Talabani <Iraq need to strengthen relations with Turkey in line with the historical depths of the common ties between the two neighboring countries>. He added <explained to the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during a meeting on the sidelines of the Arab summit in Riyadh, many of the facts and information that was hit the wrong way to the Turkish government, with regard to social reality, and the demographic composition of the city of Kirkuk, as well as the nature of Article 140 of the Constitution, which gives citizens the freedom of choice between staying in Kirkuk, or to return to their areas of origin>. The Iraqi president at the end of his statement on <that what is happening now in the city is the normalization of the situation there, and there have been no attempts to attach them to Kurdistan>.

The loss of wealth between the Iraqi oil smuggling
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The loss of Iraqi oil wealth between the smuggling and sabotage ..

- BAGHDAD / voices / report from the Beni Imad


Iraqi oil reserve is estimated at about 115 billion certainly barrels believed to be the largest and the world's reserves after Saudi reserves, with some estimates indicate that the reserve is uncertain for Iraqi oil up to 240 billion barrels. , Said military officials and Iraqi Naftyion that sabotage against the oil pipeline in the northern regions speaking on political and economic motives lead to the loss of the country's resources and help often armed groups as sources of financing, and paid citizen indifference to the fate of his wealth, which did not derive from non-wars. An officer in the Iraqi army brigade to protect the infrastructure of the band Alerabahan most acts of sabotage against pipelines transporting oil from the Kirkuk governorate in northern Iraq to the Baiji area, 200 kilometers north of Baghdad, in cooperation with some military officials, politicians and the officer, who asked to remain anonymous said that high-ranking officers involved in this matter, saying, "I believe that the Kurdish leaders are planning to expand at the expense of the Arab presence in the areas through which the oil pipeline and strategic paying gangs sabotage to create justifications intensify military presence and the dimensions of nearby villages of pipelines as happened in the area near the Khbazh the town of Al-Huwayjah, located 70 kilometers west of Kirkuk. " He pointed out that the theft of large quantities of oil leaking from the pipes is the complicity of some elements of the army charged protected, explaining that "the American side did not react in a balanced manner with the smuggling and sabotage carried out," pointing out that "the reaction of the American forces be rapid when it comes to the reform of the transmission lines to the port of Ceyhan Turkish With whom do not see this cooperation when the sabotage of oil lines moving into Iraq. "

So many farmers complained of the dangers they done to their land due to the leakage of large quantities of oil on the surface of hundreds of dunums of those areas.

A security source in the province of Salahuddin, north of Baghdad, announced last February confiscation of 33 tanks carrying fuel does not carry permits fundamentalist was designed for smuggling to northern Iraq, saying that "Iraqi police forces and intelligence information on the quantities of confiscated fuel, which was intended for smuggling to the region Northern is coming from the Baiji oil refinery, and at the same level, a source in the joint coordination center in the province, that "Iraqi police patrol in the city of Baiji was able to confiscate 92 tanks were loaded with crude oil and ready for smuggling," pointing out that "the theft of a quantity close to the checkpoint batch of 20 in the Brigade for the Protection of the infrastructure in the fourth of the Iraqi army, which falls under the responsibility of protecting the oil pipelines. "

The Inspector General of the Iraqi Oil Ministry had issued a report in 2006 from oil smuggling and said "it represents the greatest threat to the economy and called for urgent government action to tighten the noose on smugglers," the report said, "The smuggling of Iraqi oil is one of the main reasons behind the loss of billions of dollars in export of the country and it has become the most important and most prominent threat to the the national economy, which depends almost entirely on oil sales. "

The report called for taking a serious government to deal with these problems which he said was detrimental to the state budget and weaken the capacity of the country, which is seeking ways to improve the standard of living.

A security source in the town of Baiji, which includes the largest liquidator in Iraq almost "phenomenon became evident looting and smuggling of oil from the Baiji refinery scandalously during this period."

Observers say that the Iraqi citizen is not interested in the fate of the oil to some extent after the calamity brought him not able to enjoy the wealth of natural deems go either way smuggling, theft or vandalism by burning it, with the assistance of what is supposed to be protecting the citizens and not exploit its resources for the expansion phase at the expense of the other, and give this idea analysis of the ethnic conflicts between Arab leaders and the Kurds in northern Iraq.

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Originally Posted by PAn8tv

Same thoughts here Susie, but in this part of the world I just wonder if these parents aren't volun-told by Al-Quaida at the wrong end of an automatic weapon.

I'm having difficulty here. I would like to express my thoughts about this situation but I'm having difficulty finding words that will satisfy the TOS on here and yet get my message through.

Here is the best I can do....

Memo to all members of al-qeada...........

I hope you have the most painfull day imaginable today and every day for the rest of your miserable existence. I hope you die the most horrible and painfull death imaginable and that your soul goes your version of Hades. How can you live with yourselves using innocent children who do not have the mental capacity to even realize what you are doing to them.



If anyone hasn't figured out yet that this world would be a much better place without these fanatics this kind of exploitation of innocent children should surely convince them.

Published: 13/04/2007 12:00 AM (UAE)

Iraq's sectarian leaders plead for unity
Agencies



Baghdad: During a special session on Friday, leaders from across Iraq's sectarian divide pleaded for unity and condemned a suicide bombing in the parliament building.

Security was heavy on Friday as parliament met. All vehicles and their drivers were thoroughly searched.

Mobile checkpoints were set up and streets blocked off as police raided houses inside the sprawling compound.

The US military said eight people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a cafeteria on Thursday.

It was the worst breach of security in the heavily fortified Green Zone that houses parliament and government offices.

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Published: 13/04/2007 12:00 AM (UAE)

Newscaster found dead in Mosul
Agencies



Mosul: A radio newscaster and her husband have been found dead in their car in Mosul, a police official said on Friday.

Iman Youssef Abdullah worked for a radio station of President Jalal Talabani while her husband, Moayad Hamid, was deputy head of the Mosul labourers' union.

Police Brigadier General Abdul Karim Al Jubouri said the two were found shot several times and their bodies burnt in the car.

Abdullah is the 100th journalist killed in Iraq since the US-led war began.

Originally Posted by shotgunsusie

what in the h-e-double hockey sticks is wrong with a parent in the first place who has no more respect for their own child than to sell them??? good god!

Muslim extremists hate their enemies more than they love their own children. Insane and pathetic.

Originally Posted by Cdn Scrooge

I'm having difficulty here. I would like to express my thoughts about this situation but I'm having difficulty finding words that will satisfy the TOS on here and yet get my message through.

Here is the best I can do....

Memo to all members of al-qeada...........

I hope you have the most painfull day imaginable today and every day for the rest of your miserable existence. I hope you die the most horrible and painfull death imaginable and that your soul goes your version of Hades. How can you live with yourselves using innocent children who do not have the mental capacity to even realize what you are doing to them.



If anyone hasn't figured out yet that this world would be a much better place without these fanatics this kind of exploitation of innocent children should surely convince them.

Well said...torture chambers would be a nice thought for them also.

Top general calls for a cross-border operation to northern Iraq
Friday, April 13, 2007








Top general says it would be useful launching a cross-border incursion to northern Iraq to eradicate PKK presence

ANKARA – Turkish Daily News


Turkey's Chief of General Staff Gen. Yaşar Büyükanıt on Thursday called for a cross-border operation to northern Iraq where around 4,500 Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorists are based, underlining that political will is required for such an incursion. “An operation into Iraq is necessary and will be useful,” said Gen. Büyükanıt during a one-and-a-half hour press conference at his headquarters.

Büyükanıt said the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) have started a broad operation against the PKK in Turkish territories as the PKK increased its attacks with spring the spring season.

Top general outlined the top five issues during his conference, namely terrorism and the situation in northern Iraq; efforts to damage the TSK's image, efforts to create new minorities in Turkey, coup claims and the TSK's leaked document on the press.

Büyükanıt said Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani's words are not acceptable, adding, “You can ask this: Should a cross-border operation be launched? There are two dimensions: Firstly, when we look at the matter as the military, it should be launched. Would it be useful? Yes, it would. The political dimension is that in order to carry out a cross-border operation a political decision is needed. If given a task, the TSK has exceedingly the luxury to launch an operation on the legal ground.”

Upon a question whether the TSK asked for permission from the civilian authorities for a cross-border incursion, Büyükanıt said he referred to constitutional requirements mentioning the need of a parliamentary authorization to send Turkish troops outside of Turkey.

The top general indirectly criticized the United States for spoiling Iraqi Kurdish groups saying, “I don't look at who is talking but who makes him talk.”

Originally Posted by danny51

Muslim extremists hate their enemies more than they love their own children. Insane and pathetic.

A sorry excuse for an existance. Those people are never taught love just hate.

April 13, 2007, 8:55AM
South Korea draws up Iraq pullout plan


By JAE-SOON CHANG Associated Press Writer
© 2007 The Associated Press

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SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea, one of the closest U.S. allies in Iraq, is preparing a plan to pull its 1,300 troops out of the country, a Defense Ministry official said Friday.

The South Korean presence in Iraq began in 2003 with a 600-strong contingent. The country sent 3,000 more troops the following year at Washington's request, making it the United States' biggest coalition partner after Britain.

However, the troop levels have since gradually declined amid rising public opposition to the mission. Calls for withdrawing the troops reached their peak when Islamic insurgents beheaded a South Korean civilian working in Iraq in June 2004, after Seoul rejected demands to withdraw its forces. South Korea now has about 1,300 troops in Iraq.

"We're drawing up a mission termination plan and will submit it to the National Assembly in June," the official said on condition of anonymity, citing policy. The official declined to give details.

In December, the National Assembly approved the extension of the deployment for another year, on the condition that the government draws up a troop pullout plan this year.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, on a visit to Seoul, said in an interview with the Hangyoreh newspaper that he believes South Korea could start withdrawing its troops "in the near future."