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Originally Posted by bob1940

OH well there goes the summer Plans of travel, Seems to me that BUSH said something about SEPTEMBER. Danm that sounds so far off. Just wondering if It won't possibly happen before next Sept. Keep up the chins everyone It will Happen--------someday in the future. ----Not today! BOB

Bob. I think the September issue you mentioned is about making Iraq allot more secure by that time frame...and not in a sense of the HCL being passed.


Here is the quote..'' The consultations by the United States, France and Britain with Security Council members on the draft resolution are in their first, and expressed the hope that the Security Council will adopt the resolution by the end of next week.

In regard to the Iraqi situation, renewed link between the security situation and the political front, he said the month of September (September) next is the time to evaluate the security plan.

end quote"

So we still have hope that the HCL can still pass and pass soon.

Preparations for the expanded elements of the security services in the era of Saddam

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Invited by the Ministry of the Interior to return to work ...Preparations for the expanded elements of the security services in the era of Saddam
BAGHDAD - Omar Sattar Hayat-25/05/07 / /

Head «body dissolved entities» Rashid Nasserite that «intensive preparations and contacts by the body to hold a conference expanded to employees of intelligence agencies and private security and public security in the era of Saddam Hussein».

Al-Nasiri told «life» that «Conference to be held for the employees of these devices dissolved comes in the framework of national reconciliation, in the case of the former army officers, which was held in March last (March), The aim is to find solutions which will enable the government to address the situation of the former security services and work on the non-marginalization », adding that« contacts to determine the names and personalities attending the conference ». He added : «that the dissolved entities completed since invitation of the Ministry of the Interior security elements prior to 2217 yesterday treatment to employees of the Intelligence Service and the Special Security Service, the repatriation to the post or retirement or appointed to other posts. There's extensive contacts with former officials in the security services disbanded, some officers of high rank to habits and give them their rights ».

Dan Nasserite «objections of some political parties to the Ministry of Interior's decision to invite members of the security forces dissolved». He said : «There is no justification for the non-return of security elements prior to the service or retired, and there is no justification for fear of being liquidated or arrested, the dissolved entities Ours is ready to provide adequate security guarantees for officers wishing to return to work or retired».

The decision of the Iraqi Interior Ministry to invite members of the security services to consolidate their positions and be retarded «elements engaged in hostile activities against the Iraqi people and prosecuted according to the Anti-Terrorism», was sharp objections from political circles and government, the latest message Baath Party, which warned the «employees of the security services to meet the invitation of former ministry». The «part of this invitation requirements withdrawal of the occupation forces from bases outside the cities to avoid losses one hand and to reduce American public opinion pressure on the government to withdraw its troops from Iraq».

Considered «uprooting the Baath» resolution «coup against the constitutional and democratic process what is the attempt to restore elements and henchmen of the former regime to institutions that are supposed to operate for the security of citizens and territorial not persecuted». He threatened its spokesman on the Al-Alami b «filed a lawsuit against the Interior Ministry in the Supreme Constitutional Court if applied this decision».

The «Accord Front» Sunni sweet that «invitation to the service officers is the issue of voluntary and government had no right to issue a decision by». She stressed that «return in the current circumstances and security violations, a suicide of former officers who would surrender themselves to police stations».

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Originally Posted by stargate-sg13

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this a letter asking the Parliament to please pass the law and pay the retirees.

accelerate the APPLICATION OF.

like i said, just watch and see what happens next.

Originally Posted by rvalreadydang

Not today???? dang it anyway! How bout tommorrow?? I'm up for that.....in all seriousness, I don't see why september is such a huge deal in all this, I'm tellin ya the summit is not the deciding factor , i'm right i tell ya right!!

shes right I TELL YA!!

One year on, Iraq government tries new tack
Sabah Jerges
AFP
May 24, 2007

BAGHDAD -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki nominated six new ministers Thursday in a bid to end the sectarian infighting that paralyzed his beleaguered government during its first year in office.

Maliki told parliament that his candidates to fill the posts vacated six weeks ago by followers of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Al Sadr were chosen for their knowledge and ability rather than party affiliations.

"If we are late in announcing the names it is because we reviewed many names and CVs," he told parliament, days after the first anniversary of his rule. "We believe these nominees are the best we can get."

The premier also thanked Sadr's faction for pulling out of the government and giving him a chance "to select more qualified people for the posts."

Sadr's 30-seat parliamentary bloc was key to Maliki being elected prime minister over other rival Shiite candidates a year ago, but it left government when the premier refused to back a timetable for the withdrawal of US forces.

"I would love to give any future ministry to people from outside the parliamentary blocs," Maliki told reporters after his speech, while the fractious chamber settled down to consider the credentials of his choices.

Just over a year ago, Maliki formed Iraq's first permanent, post-invasion unity government that brought together all the major political forces but proved hamstrung by sectarian bickering.

Ministries were essentially handed out as political prizes to the various factions - many of them sectarian or ethnic - to buy their allegiance to the government, and ministers were rarely chosen for their expertise.

Omar Abdel Sattar Mahmud of the Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party, which has repeatedly threatened to pull out of the government, noted how ministries from rival parties refused to cooperate.

"The responsibility of any failure lies on all parties, each according to his post and position in the government," he said, adding that Maliki was not entirely to blame for the flawed structure.

"The problem is that the political agreements on which the government was formed were not implemented," agreed Hamid Muala Al Saadi, a lawmaker from the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, a powerful Shiite party.

"This is one of the government's deadly sicknesses," he added.

Maliki has repeatedly, most recently in Thursday's address, called for greater unity in the country and insists he is serious about implementing a project of national reconciliation.

The US, in particular, is pressuring Maliki's administration to take action and President George W. Bush said Thursday as lawmakers were set to vote on Iraq war funds that Baghdad "needs to show real progress."

The legislation "reflects a consensus that the Iraqi government needs to show real progress in return for America's continued support and sacrifice," he said at a press conference at the White House.

US ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker for his part congratulated Maliki on his first year in office, while emphasizing the need to pass certain laws and push reconciliation.

"These are tasks that must be completed, and completed soon, to achieve the national reconciliation that the vast majority of Iraqis desire," he said.

Veteran Kurdish lawmaker Mahmud Othman, however, said that this US pressure was not helpful and reflected a double standard in US views towards Iraq which contributed to the failures of the last year.

"On one hand Bush emphasizes his support to the government of Maliki but on the other hand he encourages the efforts against him by the other Arab countries ... with the aim of putting pressure on him," he complained.

"They pressure him and scare him so that he will do what they tell him."

Maliki's nominees are Ali Al Bahadli for agriculture, Sabah Rasul Sadeq for health, Amer Abdel Jabbar Ismail for transport, Thamer Jaafar Mohammed Al Zubaidi for civil society, Kholud Sami Azar Al Maajun for provincial affairs, and Zuhair Mohammed Ridha Sharba for tourism.

The parliament will vote on them Sunday.

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Shahrastani law of Iraqi oil and gas is not granted privileges Americans

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The theft charges revert to the previous ministries ...

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Shahrastani told «life» : the law of the Iraqi oil and gas is not granted privileges Americans ... No differences with the Kurds proceeds

Baghdad-sounded Kazem life-25/05/07

The Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein Shahrastani Act of oil and gas by the Iraqi government and forwarded to the House for approval «does not give the United States any privileges or gains» said in a dialogue with the «life» that the law promotes national unity in the country is the gateway for zoning pointing out that the content of the law depends distribution of oil resources on all the components of the Iraqi people, without exception.

He pointed out that 80% of the reserves discovered Iraqi dedicated to the company, this Iraqi national invalidates the claim that the law will pave the foreign companies monopolizing the oil of Iraq, He pointed out that the limited Iraqi oil sector is not in Iraq's ability to produce, but the inability to export the entire quantity produced because of the disruption transport route via Turkey.

Shahrastani denied the existence of any overlap political or party in the resolution oil also denied the existence of substantial differences with the government of the Kurdistan region of the bill, He pointed out that the charges in relation to waste billions of dollars of Iraqi oil exports may return to earlier eras of his responsibility, he said that the crisis of oil derivatives in Iraq will continue for years to come because of shortage of import allocations.

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This is the text of the interview :

Accused the law of oil and gas by the political parties that the entrance to the division of Iraq, what do you say?

That lie largely on the law, which carries many of the pros and foremost it strengthens national unity, The law focuses on the oil and gas belongs to all sects and components as stipulated in the Constitution and therefore income from the sale of oil and gas extracted from anywhere in the country at the expense of federal deposit at the Central Bank under the control and supervision of the federal government and distributed through the annual budget approved by the Deputies. Therefore, the method by which they were developed draft law of oil revenues strengthen national unity.

Do you believe that the text of the law is a consecration of partnership contracts with foreign companies to become sole beneficiary of Iraqi oil?

There is no mention of partnership contracts in production and this is left to the Federal oil and gas, which is the highest authority in the country headed by the Prime Minister and members of the ministries of oil, finance and planning, the Central Bank Governor, representatives from each province producer of more than 100 thousand barrels per day and those are the ones who decide the supreme interest of the country.

We need a certain type of contract, and we are considering taking the action necessary to implement the law and classified Iraqi fields discovered to the first three supplements include all fields of a giant Iraqi National Oil Company. The second includes the discovered fields and non-productive at the present time but also can be developed and earmarked for the Iraqi oil company. The third oilfields discovered distant from the stage of production and non-productive now be subject to competition and this means that 80% of the reserves discovered Iraqi dedicated to the company, this Iraqi national invalidates the claim that the law will pave the foreign companies monopolizing the oil of Iraq.

Many of these allegations have political motivations and non-professional ratio larger earmarked for the Iraqi National Oil Company and 17 per cent open to competition and the national oil company can submit their bids were also win that ratio.

Some believe that the American pressures exerted on the Iraqi government to approve a bill that oil and gas?

If it is referred to the law to give preference to U.S. companies in the investment law of the most stringent laws including oil Libyan law and the laws of other Arab, Iraq does not negotiate under this law with any company for the same so as to give preference to the company without the other, but working through open competition. Any company granted Iraq is the highest payoff will gain and those requested by the national interest and if the American companies willing to give Iraq a higher yield and accept lower percentage of the profits let them do so.

What are the differences and the Iraqi Oil Ministry with the Kurdistan on investment and the distribution of oil revenues?

Act has been discussed since June (June) 2006 Agreement has been reached on the draft put forward after discussions complex, and there is no disagreement with the government of the Kurdistan region, But there are laws with this law from the National Oil Company Act, which replaced the senior officials of the ministry before I Picture It requires restore life to the National Oil Company and activated and enable them to manage all the major Iraqi fields.

As for the Law of financial resources are brought to the draft Energy Commission and approved in principle but the Kurds have some observations on the draft law is not in the deposit revenue in one box, and distributed to all regions according to population, the mechanism used is that the money comes to the Central Bank and deposited in the account federal and state rate is through the Ministry of Finance which is the focal point of the launch of exchange law would be rejected by the Kurds, who want an automatic mechanism to launch the exchange without the intervention of the Ministry of Finance.

Do you support the Ministry of Oil by Kurds?

We have tried to allay the fears of the government of Kurdistan region and the rest of the governorates through the formation of a new body to oversee this process and includes representatives from all provinces of Iraq on the grounds that there are quotas for each governorate and the Ministry will work that needed regulatory body, the Ministry of Finance opened specialties established in the central budget.

What is the nature and tasks of the National Oil Company, which was founded recently and opposed by the Kurdish side?

Kurds did not object to the restructuring of the National Oil Company, but they were not reported by the Energy Commission in the form of a formal They believe that the proportion allocated to the company of large oilfields.

You will not allow investment outside the Oil Ministry Do You ministry Sttionson political balances used by the Kurds to achieve their demands, especially that there are contracts concluded recently in this regard?

Believe that the oil sector must be run professionally and patriotism have nothing to do with political representation and social components of the Iraqi people and any Iraqi from any sectarian or religious background or nationality, a person of competence, experience and integrity to entrust this task and the basic draft presented based on this basis.

Because of the complex political situation in the country and fears of some components of it is not and must resolution centers in this paragraph was added to the draft and came upon mutual concessions from all the parties and whether the deputies of the parliament did not believe that the need for this text we are with this direction, But if some components that do not represent the majority in the country wished to have a voice and active participation in economic decisions and respond to its request this is not a request of the Ministry of Oil in the United Iraqi Alliance.

Can we get a general picture of the nature of current oil output in Iraq and the reasons for the decline of production and where to access Ttmahoun production during the current year?

Iraq's potential to the current range between 2.8 and 2.9 million barrels per day and possible adjournment As planned to three million barrels per day, But our refining now covers about half a million barrels and efforts are being made to add additional modules to improve the performance of the Iraqi refineries and capacity to make 700 to 750 thousand barrels per day to meet increasing demand on oil derivatives in the country, The remainder must be exported via implementing two major oil port of Basra and the design capacity of this performing 1.6 million barrels per day and we currently export to the full export capacity.

The other outlet is through a pipeline passing through Turkish territory to Ceyhan port and the pipeline issued more than 500 thousand barrels per day, but it constantly exposed to terrorist attacks and acts of sabotage and cadres working in the form of daily ministry to repair the damage caused by such operations Balanbub Accordingly Zeeuw export via the pipeline currently blocked and current production up to two million, two hundred thousand barrels, a total energy production, as well as other amounts given to the electricity generation stations Valmahdodih is not in Iraq's ability to produce, but in our inability to export quantity produced because the pipeline north of repeated attacks.

Overlap issue of Kirkuk outstanding politically with the potential enormous oil city how you have to work there the middle of this spat?

Kirkuk field of giant producing fields and is one of the fields for the national oil company and everyone agreed, including the Kurds on the need to preserve these fields at the disposal of the National Oil Company, which represents all components of the Iraqi people, including the non-producing fields.

What is your comment on the reports about the American loss of billions of dollars through the stages of the production and export of oil during the past four years?

The truth - that the article published in the newspaper «York Times» spoke of the existence of a difference between 100 and 300 thousand barrels a day between what is and what is the source of a product during the last period, but the position of the observers assert that this gap in the form of diminished considerably after the assumption of responsibility for the ministry, The figure talked about is going on readings I believe that the charge from those who preceded me worthy missions ministry.

But these accusations are correct and that the smuggling of 100 thousand barrels needed to port for export is not subject to the control of the Iraqi government, and if there is not subject to a port state control Where is?

Entrepreneurs have been better to those rumors published pictures of the port, but if it does not run through the port inevitably needed to thousands of tankers to smuggle oil How could such tankers to move without restraint or unsupervised?

The indictment generally lacks many precisely because of such quantities of smuggled and cited in the report need to be collusion and international port and now the issue of Iraqi oil from the port of Basra oil to major global oil companies have refineries for refining Iraqi oil does not deal exclusively with smuggling and those companies have counters for reading shipload or tanker not forget that the Oil Ministry newly installed meters to measure quantities exported and the supervision of an international company known not happen that differed between meter readings Iraqi and other meters for those companies.

Is Tanon overlapping political and partisan resolution in oil?

Ministry of course not. because these actors know very well that not only have an impact on the decision of the minister of oil generally, and this does not exercise such as pressures are not responding to any pressure and I do not touch any pressure by any political or partisan and that there was pressure I first Sechehr it, But happen in some governorates through some attempts to influence members of the oil institutions to obtain some of the privileges and benefits. I instructed ministry staff throughout the country to deal within the law and not under any pressure surmounted by armed groups, militia or a political or partisan or by some clans.

Finally listen to the promoters of transnational media on giving coupons for export partisan elements of influential Ammar Hakim example?

It is completely false and there is nothing in the records of the Ministry of Oil after the fall of the former regime any coupons for any quarter. Now that Iraqi oil be announced in the international market and sold to major companies by purchasing price was not controlled by the seller and the buyer, The rate determines the price of Iraqi oil at the oil bulletin «Plates» to the Gulf region, and money is deposited into the account «dfi» «Iraqi Development Fund» abroad and there is no other mechanism for sale and no other party is entitled to sale or contract for Iraqi oil outside the official accredited.

You have projects to build oil refineries criticized by experts for being commended in Karbala and Najaf and cities far from centers oil wells?

Always refineries built near distribution outlets, and not near the fields and the world's largest refineries near applauds export ports or near residential areas for internal distribution as is the case with the Al-Dawra refinery, which was built near the largest urban agglomeration in Iraq and it Valemsafi be constructed in Karbala and Najaf on the ground that it was overpopulated.

How do you see your ministry and experience in providing fuel (kerosene and gasoline) in the market amid crisis unresolved despite repeated Audkam?

Yes, there is a severe shortage of oil derivatives in the country, and several reasons, including increased entry of cars that have reached more than a million cars, as well as the use of generators as well as domestic large generators deployed in the alleys and neighborhoods, in addition to the prescription refineries oil production is reflected negatively on the production, which does not meet the growing demand, and it must cover the shortfall in imports.

The government of Dr. Iyad Allawi imports worth 4.5 billion dollars to bridge the shortfall in fuel. The government of Ibrahim al-Jaafari were imports worth 2.5 billion dollars and fuel. Nor has the Ministry of Oil present such allocations replenishing all that is available in the Ministry's budget for 2007 is $ 300 million to import oil exclusively for the winter, and there are no allocations for petrol and kerosine, Accordingly, we signed new contracts for the development of old refineries and build new ones to improve production and that requires time between 4 and 5 years, which means that the country will suffer from crises in the coming years.

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Originally Posted by whatever

Sus,

Always love your enthusiasm. I know you've been tellin' us that when this thing passes we know it's close. I've never really known why the pension law is a key piece of legislation in the reval puzzle though. Can you take a minute or two and explain it to me? And thanks!

Whatever here is the article sgs refers to in post #129



Baqer Jabr Al : we equate the Iraqi dinar dollar
27.06.06 This is not a new article
Baghdad-Yasser acting Secretary-haven

Finance is operating tens of thousands of unemployed and delivery Retirement Law

The Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank a proposal to lift the value of the Iraqi dinar Iraqi returning to normal, and is this proposal and supported the World Bank. This announcement l (morning), Finance Minister Jabr Al statement said : We have suggested to the Governor of the Central Bank raising three zeroes on the Iraqi dinar and the lifting so that the value of the dinar was equal to the dollar

He pointed out the determination of financial authority to convene a meeting next month comprising experts and spe******ts in finance and the Central Bank of Iraq and Commercial Bank in order to do so.

The boat in a comprehensive interview with the morning on the government's economic programme that the year 2007 will witness the preparation of the budget the quality is the first of its kind in the history of Iraq under a government elected will determine where the new features of the economic plan.

The Minister also spoke about the ministry's intention to complete the Retirement Law nearest public an opportunity to create opportunities for new investment that contributes to the operation of tens of thousands of unemployed referring to the study of unification of the hierarchy and that the procedures required time.

The Baqer Al Minister of Finance supported the initiative of the Prime Minister of dialogue and national reconciliation and expressed the belief that the language of dialogue is the best way to the base to solve all the political issues at stake in the country and unify efforts benevolent towards preserving Iraq's unity land and people.

He said that the Ministry of Finance has allocated funds to pay compensation to those affected by terrorist operations, With the government will be launched within the next year thousands of civil servants at this time to support the implementation of the ministry investment plans Territories and attention we will encourage the private sector leading to the creation of new job opportunities in all parts of Iraq.

This morning, the transcript of the interview published in a number expanded later.

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Originally Posted by dinarminar

It's called ignorant, incompetent greed!

Sounds like the liberals are running there country too.

Originally Posted by shotgunsusie

thanking them for confirming it. thats not asking, thats thanking.

Originally Posted by shotgunsusie

accelerate the APPLICATION OF.

like i said, just watch and see what happens next.

Susie thanks for a better translation. My comprehension of these articles is very low I'm afraid. My brain and my eyes can't take it much longer.

BAGHDAD, May 24 (UPI) -- While Iraq is more known in the energy world for its oil potential, the EU is looking to Baghdad for access to its underdeveloped natural-gas sector.
Iraq has more oil than every country but Saudi Arabia and Iran, but its 111 trillion cubic feet of proven natural-gas reserves is the 10th-largest in the world. Iraq produced nearly 62 billion cubic feet last year, according to the Energy Information Administration, the data arm of the U.S. Energy Department.
"EU representatives held talks this week with Oil Ministry officials, headed by Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani, and expressed EU countries' interest in importing Iraqi natural gas from the Ekas field, a huge field that extends from Ninewa province to the southern borders of Saudi Arabia," ministry spokesman Issam Jihad said.

He said the field can produce 100,000 barrels per day of oil and "large amounts of gas in the western region that may turn Iraq into one of the largest natural gas producers in the Middle East region."

The Voices of Iraq news agency reports the EU delegation is interested in a joint Arab pipeline and having access to possibly the entire natural-gas production.

"Large steps have been taken toward concluding the agreement and the EU delegation is interested in participating to develop Iraq's oil fields," Jihad said.

The sector, however, would need billions in upgrades and investment. A presentation given by Sabah al-Jowhar, manager of the gas department in the Oil Ministry's planning directorate, in February 2006 showed Iraq flares 60 percent of its daily natural-gas production because it lacks facilities to transport it to market or utilize in domestic consumption.

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