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For the first time in four years, the forces of the Iraqi army
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For the first time in four years, the forces of the Iraqi army in the streets of Heat
Heat - (Voices of Iraq)
Roamed city streets Heat Anbar Governorate today, Monday, the preparation of the new Iraqi Army, Volunteers of the city's residents to operate for the first time in the city four years ago.
He said local residents of the town of Hit News Agency (Voices of Iraq) Independent, a number of cars (pickups) modern Japanese manufacture carries preparing new members of the army who have volunteered in a campaign volunteer organized in the city of Hit in the month of February last and marched along the streets of the city for the first time since the events April 2003.
Witnesses also stated that the distribution of preparing them to other Alcetarat supervised by the police Heat in the city and its surroundings and entrances at the east and west.
The nearly 500 volunteers from the city's residents have engaged in Cecchebel new Iraqi army has been set up this year to come after the first step was بتطوع more than 800 component of the city's residents to the police and are close first batch, which is training in a camp in the city of Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq to end training.
With batches trained Iraqi army in Habbaniyah airbase east of Ramadi, the Anbar governorate by officers from the former army and others from the American forces.
The town of Hit is 180 kilometers west of Baghdad, witnessing a situation relatively stable.
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Originally Posted by cooldolphins

I agree that should have been deleted, and thanks for that!!! I just didn't think he/she should be banned.

How's the dinar today???

Me too...i know this isn't the right place to discuss, but i agree, deleting was right on the money, and i know we can't tell truth from lies via the web, but i can't help but think we should have given Llon a second chance?

Iraqi Cultural Council held its inaugural congress in Amman
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The Dietary Dawood
Amman - (Voices of Iraq)
Held in Amman today, Monday, the founding conference of the Iraqi culture of the presence of 180 personality so years of Iraqi cultural elites in all spheres of literature and culture.
It created the Preparatory Committee for the documents curriculum program and proposed rules of procedure of the Council.
The founders declared that the basic objectives of the Council is to support the aspirations of the Iraqi people in all its factions to build a prosperous and democratic future security and the protection of its national independence on the basis of separating religion from state, and strengthen the Iraqi national identity in the context of diversity and multiculturalism, and deepening the sense of Iraqi citizenship, land, history and future. addressing intellectually creative and the negative effects of globalization on national identity.
The basic principles of the collaboration are in a separate entity is not associated with any political organization, and did not reflect the opinion of any party or political or religious bloc, and adheres to the Board as institutional renounce sectarian intolerance in all its forms, and wherever spreading liberal democratic thought, and the development of the spirit of tolerance, acceptance opinion and the other opinion, belief in the independence of Iraq and the unity of its people and its identity, and to benefit from the achievements of human civilization and keep up the spirit of the times and contribute to the development of global cultural movement of all schools, the National Progressive variants.
The activities of the militants, confirmed that it was developing detailed plans for achieving principles and objectives, and holding meetings, symposia and conferences, in addition to a separate location for the international network of contacts (the Internet) is the level of cultural and media decent, disseminates news of Iraqi intellectuals and publicize their activities and their achievements and their identities, and to provide an information base on Iraqi artists in various fields and work to make the Guinness documented biographical and achievements.
The Council also hopes to establish branches inside Iraq and in countries abroad, which are located intellectuals Iraqis, and the main center of the Council at the present time outside Iraq, to move to Baghdad when conditions permit.
The Board hopes to turn its branches in Britain, the Netherlands and the United States of America and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates to the homes of the All Iraqis meet and engaged in their various cultural, social, and cultural contact with securing Iraqi, Arab and international cooperation and to participate in the work of intellectual, literary and artistic common. In addition to participating in cultural activities and conferences Iraqi, Arab and international.
The council seeks to honor educated Iraqis, and establish an annual prize awarded on behalf of the Council of distinguished artists, in addition to establishing publishing house (on behalf of the Iraqi House of Culture for Publishing and Distribution) mission to produce and distribute literature educated Iraqis.
Committee members noted that they had resided Constituent symposium in Amman on Sunday 11th March last discussed the principles and objectives of the Council attended by more than 145 Iraqi and Arab personality.
It is hoped that the meeting to elect the President and the Secretary-General and members of the Secretariat and member reserve in the conference is being held tomorrow, Tuesday, in Amman.
The conference continues until the 17th of this month.

Nice to see the THANKS button up and running again :

Originally Posted by rvalreadydang

Me too...i know this isn't the right place to discuss, but i agree, deleting was right on the money, and i know we can't tell truth from lies via the web, but i can't help but think we should have given Llon a second chance?

Llon should have been banned a long time ago. If you remember, he was the one who was causing a ruckus a few months ago posting that an rv occurred, but didn't..... He has always been a troublemaker!!

hunter

Originally Posted by rvalreadydang

Me too...i know this isn't the right place to discuss, but i agree, deleting was right on the money, and i know we can't tell truth from lies via the web, but i can't help but think we should have given Llon a second chance?

Agreed, especially after they came back on and offered an explanation and an apology. Unless of course they were doing the ole Jeckyl and Hyde thing

Japan extends support for U.S. in Iraq war
May 15, 2007

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's parliament on Tuesday passed a bill extending air force support for the U.S.-led war in Iraq for another two years, despite opposition calls for the troops to be brought home.

Japan, whose military activities are strictly curtailed by its pacifist constitution, pulled its 600 ground troops out of a non-combat reconstruction mission to southern Iraq last year.

Under the current law due to expire in July, about 200 Japanese air troops have been operating cargo and personnel flights for the United States and its allies into Iraq from a base in Kuwait since 2004.

The bill easily passed the powerful lower house thanks to the overwhelming majority held by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its junior coalition party New Komeito, who also voted down an opposition bill that would have ended the mission.

The main opposition Democrats and other opposition parties argued that since no weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq, there was no justification for the war.

"We cannot accept the spurious argument that the evidence was wrong, but the decision was right," one opposition politician told parliament.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a staunch ally of the United States, was grilled by a parliamentary panel on Monday about his motives for continuing to support President George W. Bush's Iraq policy.

Abe, who visited the Kuwait base to thank the troops earlier this month, replied that since Japan imported nearly 90 percent of its oil from the Middle East, the region's peace and stability was a matter of Japan's national interest.

Asked when Japan would withdraw its troops, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki said Tokyo would decide "pro-actively" what it should do to help the Iraqis rebuild their country.

The bill's passage came a day after Japan enacted a law outlining steps for a referendum on revising the constitution. The LDP wants the charter to make clear Japan's right to maintain a military, as the government tries to boost the country's role in international security.

Opinion polls showed that the public largely opposed the dispatch to Iraq, but rated the ground troops' performance highly after they returned without suffering casualties or firing a shot.

I wonder if tomorrows auction will bring us too 1260..i know it's been tossed around a bit that something may happen with that number,what are some thoughts on it guy's?What do you all think about it?I would love to wake up tm and see a new and improved rate..like maybe 1 or more!!!!!
Sarah!!

Cheney Satisfied With Mideast Trip

SHANNON, Ireland, May. 14, 2007
(AP) Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that he generally got good responses from Arab allies in his appeal for more help in stabilizing Iraq. He also said he recognizes that advancing the Israel-Palestinian peace process is a related issue that also must be addressed.

"You don't get to pick and choose," the vice president told reporters aboard his plane as he returned from a weeklong tour of the Middle East, including an unannounced two-day visit to Iraq and stops in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Jordan.

Of his meetings with rank-and-file U.S. troops in Iraq, Cheney said, "I thought they were amazingly positive. They believed in what they were doing."

As evidence of progress, Cheney cited a decrease of violence in volatile Anbar Province. Sunni Arabs and others who live there "got tired of al-Qaida and have been willing to oppose al-Qaida's activities in that part of Iraq," he said.

Still, Cheney said, despite President Bush's military buildup and what he sees as a new seriousness on the part of Iraqi leaders, "I can't predict precisely what will happen."

While sectarian violence seem to be decreasing, there is still a high level of truck bombing and suicide bombing, Cheney said.

The vice president defended his hard-line rhetoric on Iran during the trip and said he sees no conflict with diplomatic overtures to Iran by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and others.

"They're separate issues," Cheney said.

He said that Iran's defiance of the United Nations on curbing its nuclear activities is separate from the issue of whether it can play a useful role in stemming the violence in Iraq.

The administration announced on Sunday that there will be talks in Baghdad within the next few weeks between U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and his Iranian counterpoint. The talks will focus solely on Iraq.

"I don't want to predict" the outcome, Cheney said.

The vice president said he did not want to say exactly what leaders in the region told him during their private meetings. "I apologize in advance for the fact that I won't talk about my conversations with the folks I visited with. That's why they talk to me," he said.

He noted that he had known many of them for many years, going back to the first Gulf War when he was defense secretary in the administration of Bush's father.

But Cheney said that, generally, he felt his trip was a success in getting moderate Arab states to do more to support the fragile government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and to promote reconciliation among rival factions.

Cheney talked with reporters after leaving, Jordan _ where he met with King Abdullah _ and before a refueling stop in Shannon, Ireland.

On some stops on his tour, Cheney found an eagerness to talk as much about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process as the situation in Iraq.

In Aqaba, for instance, the king told Cheney of the importance of doing something to reverse the "stagnation" in the peace process. "We know there's a lot of challenges there," he told Cheney during a picture-taking session.

Asked later by reporters about whether concerns for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict interfered with his message on Iraq, Cheney said, "I think these are all important issues and we need to work on all of them."

"I do not think it's everything or nothing. I do believe there are a number of issues that need to be worked on simultaneously," he said.

Cheney said he recognizes that the Bush administration's decision to extend deployments from 12 to 15 months is a burden on military men and women and their families.

Still, he said, "there appeared to be pretty widespread understanding why that was necessary. I didn't receive a lot of complaints about it."

He said that there now seems to be a "something of a consensus on the agenda" among Iraqi officials. "There's not agreement on all of the issues obviously, but there wasn't a lot of dispute with respect to the issues that needed to be addressed."

Cheney said that part of his message to al-Maliki and other Iraqi leaders "was that they need to be actively and aggressively getting after solutions to these problems. There's not a lot of time to be wasted here, and it's important to move aggressively on the business of the day."

On his final stop, Cheney met with King Abdullah at the king's vacation compound overlooking the Gulf of Aqaba, part of the Red Sea. Cheney stayed at a villa on the grounds, and the king, driving his own SUV, picked up the vice president and brought him to a building containing offices and meeting rooms for about two hours of talks and lunch.

I think that it may hit 1260 tomorrow but thats not the majic number that everyone thinks that it is it will take some more time!!