they need to ""HURRY UP"" and implement this because we have been hearing the same thing for over a year now...no more delays....no more haggling.....GIT ER DONE...RV.....GO DINARS...Pat:nunu:
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Interesting,
As we have all seen, inflation continues to be a big issue with Iraqi poor the ones getting hit the hardest. There is no way monetary adjustments from CBI are going to stay ahead of this inflation, so with that, there is only one way to put an end to it forever, yet the delay and delay, sure is frustrating.
What really makes it inacceptable is how they are taking care of the wealthy in Iraq first, as in pension law, parliament raises and such before attacking the real problem, high unemployment, dirt poor people who have nothing to live for, so they join in on terrorist activity to demonstrate their disgust with current governments lack of progress on the real issues.
Everyone here has to see this by now, and we all have to wonder, why are they so slow to recognize the real issue of violence in Iraq is directly tied to the economics, not anything else, it is all about the poor who have been ignored, so the restoration of dinar along with sharing the oil wealth with the poor is the only solution, yet here we are still waiting.
Simply amazing how easily security issues would be resolved if they put all these people to work and get them some financial relief in the mean time. So simple to see this is the only answer, so it has to happen sooner or later, hopefully for everyone's sake, sooner. (g)
Good luck and health to all, Mike
Muwaffaq al-Rubay'i, the most prominent candidate for the presidency of the Committee of 140 (Voice of Iraq) - 06-06-2007
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Al Agency (File Press) that the talks held by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki official with the Kurdistan Massoud Barzani dealt with the appointment of personal gain acceptance from all parties for the presidency of the competent implementation of Article 140 of the Constitution relating to the oil-rich city of Kirkuk.
Among the dignitaries candidate for this position sensitive d. Muwaffaq al-Rubay'i, the National Security Advisor, which is balanced personalities, which enjoys the respect of all parties. I tried Agency (File Press) Balerabiei communication, to make sure the news, but the library said, "This proposal is still under consideration."
But the high-level Kurdish sources said, "Muwaffaq al-Rubay'i one of the most prominent candidates for this post, and the Kurdistan Alliance bloc welcomes if received Rabbai this job."
It was Iraqi Justice Minister Hashem resigned Shebli Chairman of the Committee on the implementation of Article 140.
The Cabinet authorized the validity of Baghdad activating
(Voice of Iraq) - 06-06-2007
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The Cabinet authorized the validity of Baghdad activating decisions to impose fines and the seizure of money due vehicles on public roads
Given the Council of Ministers Secretariat Baghdad validity activating previous resolutions relating to the imposition of fines and the seizure of a car wash in the squares and public roads.
An official source of the secretariat of Baghdad that the secretariat of Baghdad has become the right to impose financial penalties on the act of money vehicles on the roads or on the shelves causing wasteful water net addition to distort the image of the region as well as damage to streets and sidewalks, Mudevaan right secretariat also contrary to the seizure of the vehicle until payment fine then released.
The secretariat of the Baghdad daily follow-raising abuses, especially from those who go over the net and water pipes used in the car wash, which leads to depriving a large number of families from the water, especially in the summer.
An official spokesman for the Iraqi government d. At Skinner
(Voice of Iraq) - 06-06-2007
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Date : 6/6/2007
An official spokesman for the Iraqi government d. Skinner including the following :
The cabinet held its fourth ordinary session Tuesday, 5/6/2007 adopted the following resolutions :
1. Approve the accession of the Republic of Iraq to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol and to allocate it to the House to take it deems appropriate.
2. Approval of the completion of 150 wells in the North Rumaila field.
3. Approval of the bill ratifying the Agreement on International Roads in the Arab Mashreq and forwarded to the House of Representatives to take it deems appropriate on the subject.
4. Approval of the implementation and processing equipment Water Project Mosul / Sahel right, in the amount of $ (149.500.000), a hundred and forty-nine million, five hundred thousand dollars.
5. Approval of Iraq's accession to the institution of the regional fisheries and forwarded to the House of Representatives to take whatever action he deems appropriate based on the provisions of Articles 80 / II, 61 / IV.
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South Oil officials demanding change their headmaster and General corridor
(Voice of Iraq) - 06-06-2007
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South Oil officials demanding change their headmaster General glass corridor and $ 100 million for Sharistani
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Officials accused the South Oil Company omission from the Iraqi government to meet their demands posed recently through their delegates to the Council of Ministers, and they had to be a general strike two weeks ago.
And our correspondent in Basra, the transfer of some officials saying that the applications is the need to change General Salah Aziz, it is not linking their voices to the officials at the Oil Ministry, and the testimony in this ministry confined to the technical department and studies and influential people in the words of one of them. in addition to their allocation of plots of land are most needed.
In the same context, accused officials in the Ministry of Oil Minister Hussein Shahrastani not work his ministry They point out that the days before the opening of a new refinery in the province of Najaf, but that the liquidator has been linked to pipe crude oil (feeding tube) to the liquidator works normally.
As one staff in the Ministry of Oil, our correspondent in Baghdad, said the minister Shahrastani the recent establishment of a corridor of lead glass counter at the entrance of the ministry at a cost of 100 million dollars, in order to secure the minister himself shot while moving from his anti-bullets also and he said : "This is a provocation to the feelings of employee and citizen facing death and is Mvkhkhat queues in front of fuel stations mobilization."
Furthermore, a correspondent in Basra, some 110 fuel tanker, had disappeared on the road to the port of Basra towards Baghdad, and no one knows the fate of the tankers until now.
A press-office of Iraqi Prime Minister
(Voice of Iraq) - 06-06-2007
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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Prime Minister General Commander of Armed Forces Nuri Kamel al-Maliki that the days of coups had gone with the former regime, but no return "to the days of ignorance and marginalization, oppression, but no room for conspiracies will never accept only Bmatversh democracy.
Addressing sovereignty sons of the armed forces during the announcement today of the first leaders of the military in 2007 saying : the dignity of Iraqis, the secretariat under your responsibility, tips iron hand of Evrch red carpet or sprinkled flowers by those who want to interfere fallen, These young plotting to stage to disrupt security and to stand side-terrorism, and tell the states that support them to a unified Iraq from north to south and from east to west in the government involving all the components of our people and their interest. Iraq should be sovereign, and a partner in the national security and not in the national security, but we will not allow to turn to the area of influence.
He added sovereignty : "We the government and people of the army and addressing the challenge, and victory signs and displaying consistency on the road, and will not be defeated and will not relent despite the difficult challenges and foreign interventions, the feeling of our people the right way to build a free, democratic, federal Iraq based on justice and resorting to the ballot boxes.
He warned sovereignty leaders in the armed forces of sectarianism, adding that it taboo in the armed forces and even at the level of government departments and institutions and the people, religious and cultural life, calling for renunciation and unite under the banner of a united Iraq.
ANKARA, Turkey — Several thousand Turkish troops crossed into northern Iraq early Wednesday to chase Kurdish guerrillas who operate from bases there, Turkish security officials told The Associated Press.
Two senior security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, said the raid was limited in scope and that it did not constitute the kind of large incursion that Turkish leaders have been discussing in recent weeks.
"It is not a major offensive and the number of troops is not in the tens of thousands," one of the officials told the AP by telephone. The official is based in southeast Turkey, where the military has been battling separatist Kurdish rebels since they took up arms in 1984.
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Baghdad, KRG and the differences over draft oil law
Wednesday, 06 June 2007
The differences over the draft oil law continue between the central government in Baghdad and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq.
Last week, Iraqi PM Nuri Al-Maliki met with KRG President Massoud Barzani in Salahuddin resort in northern Iraq to discuss the issue with him among other issues.
Kurdish sources say PM Al-Maliki told Barzani that he could not approve a Kurdish plan to set up an Oil Ministry in northern Iraq completely independent of the Oil Ministry in Baghdad.
According to these sources, Barzani showed understanding, but asked to amend the draft oil law to provide the KRG’s Oil Ministry the right to sign preliminary contracts with foreign companies, without referring to the Oil Ministry in Baghdad.
PM Al-Maliki told Barzani that he would discuss the matter with his advisers following his return to Baghdad.
The draft oil law is still under debate by the Iraqi Parliament. It was expected to pass last month, but Oil Minister Hussein Al-Shahrastani expects it to pass this month.
Iraq Information Report - June 6, 2007 - 8th year, No 8/959
Tactical Report - Iraq - Baghdad, KRG and the differences over draft oil law
Eye on Iraq: Kurds in a crunch
Martin Sieff
UPI Senior News Analyst
June 5, 2007
WASHINGTON -- For four years, the enthusiastically pro-American enclave of Kurdistan in northern Iraq has been portrayed as the one shining beacon of hope in the sinister chaos of Iraq. But that bright beacon now threatens to set off a regional fire that could wreck NATO's southern flank.
Bush administration policymakers and their US media cheering section held out the Kurdish enclave as proof that - with a vastly disproportionate US investment in money, diplomacy, and "nation-building" - a stable, pro-American democracy could be established in the heart of the Middle East, to serve as an example to the surrounding region.
They all ignored two constants of the previous 80 years of Middle East history. The first is the chaotic inability of the Kurds to get along with each other and build any kind of stable or self-sustaining state structures, a pattern that has been clear since the Treaty of Sevres in 1920. The second is the implacable hostility of giant neighboring Turkey to allowing them to do so.
The one issue Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran could usually always agree on was the need to keep their Kurdish minority populations under control. Turkey has 12 million to 16 million Kurds, Iran has 4.8 million to 6.6 million and Syria has 900,000 to 2.8 million. Iraq's Kurdish regions have 4 million to 6 million Kurds.
Since the US armed forces with British help toppled Saddam Hussein and occupied Iraq in early April 2003, Turkish leaders have watched closely the activities of the Kurds in their northern enclave. They have especially been concerned about any Kurdish moves that threatened the status of the Turkoman community in the Kurdish-controlled, US-protected areas.
Now, Turkish leaders are furious over the increasing activism of the Kurdish Workers Party (KWP) in southeastern Turkey. They fear that Kurdish extremists could seek to revive the ferocious guerrilla/terror conflict that cost at least 40,000 lives before it was finally ended. They also accuse the United States of failing to rein in the Kurdish authorities in Northern Iraq and failing to force them to crack down on the KWP.
The Kurds have reacted predictably. On Saturday, the ruler of Kurdistan, President Massoud Barzani, said flatly, "Turkey does not have the right to interfere in Kurdistan."
Turkey has traditionally ranked with Israel as the United States' most loyal ally in the region. For more than half a century it has been a member of the NATO alliance and proved crucial throughout the Cold War in blocking major Soviet expansion into the Mediterranean region.
But Turkey for several years has been run by an Islamist government. Its previous warm relations with Israel have cooled. But the biggest reason for the growing strains between Washington and Ankara has been the US support for the independent Kurdish enclave over the past four years.
The Kurds are also under attack from the Sunni insurgents who continue to wreck havoc in Iraq. The Sunnis hate them for embracing the United States and for having fought so long against Saddam's oppression. The Sunnis also resent being left impoverished while the Kurds refuse to share the oil revenues from their region with the Sunnis.
In parliamentary maneuvers over the past 18 months in Baghdad, the Kurds have generally sided with the main factions of Iraq's 60 percent majority Shiites to shut out the Sunnis. And the short-term, apparent success of their exercise in self-government has been used as an argument for recognizing a de facto partition of Iraq between Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds by American advocates of the idea.
But the Kurds cannot automatically rely on the Shiite political factions for support forever. Iran's influence is already very strong in Shiite movements like the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq and in the Mehdi Army led by Moqtada Al Sadr. Now Sadr is trying to make common cause against American forces in Iraq with Sunni insurgent and other groups. If he succeeds, the Kurds could find themselves isolated in their landlocked enclave.
Even with US support, it appears highly unlikely that the Kurds could maintain their de facto independence if the Shiite majority in Iraq, as well as the Sunnis, turned against them. Turkey and Iran, historic enemies, agree at least on their hostility to Kurdish independence.
Turkey's grievances against the Kurds run from a desire to reclaim the oil-rich territories that they lost more than 85 years ago when the British Empire unilaterally created the Kingdom of Iraq and drew its borders to include the oil-rich regions of the north, to anger over the perceived Kurdish threat to the Turkomans. But any perceived support by the Kurds for groups like the KWP that Ankara fears may revive the guerrilla war in southeastern Turkey tops everything else.
White House and Pentagon policymakers have paid the Kurds relatively little attention in recent months. They have been lulled by the steady stream of success stories coming out of Kurdistan. But that dream enclave could turn into a nightmare - and soon.