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Baghdad is Preparing for Multiple Surprises in the Coming days
Baghdad is preparing for multiple surprises in the coming days
Details of meetings with leaders of Maliki Baath in Arbil, the political council seeks to resolve constitutional differences
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Baghdad prepares for multiple surprises in the coming days, it was revealed political sources informed that the first of these surprises will be in a node constitutional by the political council for national security, after the political blocs agreed to activate its role to solve the dilemmas facing working government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. To reflect that, the agenda included several points of compromise to find formulas to resolve differences in the constitutional amendments first, and then work on the evaluation of the initiative of national reconciliation, and to study the possibility of issuing a general amnesty and to identify covered and how to apply them, consult the Supreme Judiciary Council, According to these sources Medhat Mahmoud participation of the President in some meetings of this Council in the coming days. It also will discuss how to reach a new understanding of the participation of some wings of the Baath Party in the political process of the gate reconciliation conference hoped held during the month of July.The sources said that al-Maliki had met during his stay in Arbil over leadership of the Baath party from different wings. The balloon in one of the leading organization of the Iraqi Baath Party, which includes among its leaders some of the famous names in the Baath Party, the Syrian wing, al-Maliki has met more than once. sources confirmed that al-Maliki said during the meeting that there was no discrepancy between the return of "Baathists" to the political process, as opposed to the insistence of leading Baathist hubs to meet the requirements of political pluralism, and even change the party's name to "Baath Democratic Party," which Maliki refused to approve it and saying that this decision was due to the House of Representatives, but the Baathist leadership, according to the source link between participation in this wing reconciliation conference expected, and the issuance of a general amnesty includes a long list of Baathists, leading them in what is known as the National Islamic Front for the Iraqi resistance. and sources close to the talks table to the second meeting with al-Maliki's leading wing Azza periodic stressed the importance of dealing with the new reality in its current form and not seeing, because the home involved in the history of Iraq, both sides did not emerge from this meeting despite a Kurdish mediator which alleviated the debate, the result not of any agreement on continuing consultations to find solutions acceptable to the participation of Izzat al-wing Baathists in the reconciliation conference next
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Intensive Talks on the Annexation of the Draft National Reconciliation
Political first : continue talks with representatives in the framework of reconciliation
Government sources : the demands of the armed groups - incapacitating
بغداد - الصباحBaghdad-Sabah.
.Government sources revealed to "Assabah" that the intensive talks have been underway for several weeks between representatives of armed groups and advisers to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on the annexation of the draft national reconciliation, and the face of terrorist acts of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
The sources said : that the contacts made by a number of advisers to the Prime Minister for clans in Baghdad recently shown a willingness large number of armed groups to play a positive role in the political life in Iraq, particularly as it showed a general resentment against the actions of Al Qaeda and its existent in Iraq, which is not compatible with the culture of Iraqis. especially that the rule made Iraq an arena for settling accounts integrity. She explained that the requests made by representatives of the armed groups during the continuing talks is positive, and there is not impossible to accept about 80% of applications especially that contacts are being held knowingly Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, In light of the success of his efforts to draft national reconciliation in Iraq. those sources indicated that certain groups need reassurances regarding political participation and how to deal with the family members after throwing arms and the way annexation of the political life. The sources pointed out that the government had taken effective action plan for maintaining contacts with the leaders of the tribes present in the Arab States or with the clan leaders who have interlocking relationships with Iraqi tribes across the border, in order to restore the relations of tribalism that they stand in terrorist acts and prevent the infiltration of terrorists across borders from neighboring countries.
جريدة الصباح - تواصل المباحثات مع ممثلين لها في إطار المصالحة
Al-Qaida Cease-Fire
Published: 6/6/07, 6:45 PM EDT
By NADIA ABOU EL-MAGD
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - A Sunni insurgent group said Wednesday it has reached a cease-fire with al-Qaida in Iraq.
The claim comes as the conflict between the Islamic Army in Iraq and al-Qaida in Iraq, which is also Sunni, has intensified in recent months. Last week, the two groups were believed to have clashed in the Baghdad neighborhood of Amariyah.
"This agreement is based on a cease-fire between the two parties that bans all armed acts and all other activities that could cause attrition," Ibrahim al-Shimmari, spokesman for the Islamic Army in Iraq, told Al-Jazeera television in a telephone interview. "The armistice started at dawn Wednesday."
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Iraq calls for Arab embassies to open
June 07, 2007 07:53am
Article from: Reuters
IRAQ'S Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi today called on Egypt and other Arab states to reopen their embassies in Baghdad to help preserve what he termed Iraq's 'endangered' Arab identity.
"It is important to us that Arab and Egyptian representation (in Iraq) be permanent and complete, to preserve Arab identity in Iraq because this identity is in danger," Mr Hashemi said after talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
"A responsible Arab stance is necessary to confront this danger."
A meeting of Iraq's Arab neighbours in December issued a statement that contained veiled references to the fears of Arab governments that Iranian influence is growing in Iraq and that Iraq might break up or lose its Arab identity.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said at the conclusion of that meeting: "Some foreign and regional parties are trying to affect the internal situation in Iraq by extending their political influence and through cultural penetration."
Mr Aboul Gheit has in the past used the expression "cultural penetration" in Iraq in connection with Iran, which has longstanding cultural and social links with southern Iraq.
Iraqi premier warns against foreign 'conspiracies'
Militants abduct chaldean catholic priest as car bombings rock baghdad
Iraq's beleaguered Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki warned on Wednesday against "conspiracies" in foreign capitals against his government calling on his generals to wield "iron fists" against those who would "lay the red carpet" for outside interference in Iraq. Violence continued unabated with the abduction of a Chaldean Catholic priest and five of his parishioners were kidnapped in Baghdad and the separate kidnapping of an Iraqi official in a raid on a ministry.
Car bombings shook the streets leading to Baghdad's most revered Shiite shrine on Wednesday, and police reported at least seven people killed while a local representative of revered Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani was gunned down outside his home.
In his toughly worded speech, at a conference of Iraqi Army division commanders, Maliki didn't specify which Iraqis or foreigners he fears may be working to oust him, but his largely ineffectual, year-old leadership has been under criticism both at home and abroad, including in the US Congress.
Former Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, a Parliament member, is believed to be working to gather additional political support to try to replace Maliki, whom he regards as a sectarian Shiite Islamist.
Allawi is believed to have the support of Egypt, whose leaders have expressed concern about the rise of Shiite political power in Iraq.
"There won't be any chance for conspiracies in this or that capital of Arab countries," Maliki told the division commanders.
"I feel astonished when I hear some politicians under the shadow of democracy talking frankly saying that there is nothing wrong with Arab and Islamic countries interfering in Iraq's affairs," the prime minister said.
Meanwhile, military spokes-man Brigadier General Kevin Bergner announced on Thursday that American forces have killed a senior Al-Qaeda leader in western Baghdad and arrested three of his associates.
"Mohammad Mahmoud Abdel-Kadhem Hussein al-Mashhadani, also known as Abu Abdullah, was the terrorist killed during the operation," the general said, showing a photograph of the suspect to reporters.
Bergner described Mashhadani as a "known Al-Qaeda emir" and the leader of a car bomb network in the Hay al-Jamaa area in the west of the city, where local Sunni residents have recently turned against the militant group.
Meanwhile, a key Iraqi militant group said on Wednesday it had reached a cease-fire deal with Iraq's wing of Al-Qaeda to end clashes between the two Sunni insurgent groups.
"A deal has been reached between the Islamic Army in Iraq and Al-Qaeda in Iraq that stipulates an immediate end to all military operations between the two sides in all sectors including capture operations," the Islamic Army in Iraq said in a statement.
The two groups have exchanged accusations over killings and the Islamic Army in Iraq had accused Al-Qaeda of seeking to dominate through its self-styled Islamic State in Iraq.
Wednesday's twin blasts hit traffic in the Kadhemiyya district of north Baghdad, a Shiite enclave in a mixed Sunni-Shiite area huddled around a holy shrine and protected by a combination of Iraqi security forces and local militia.
Iraqi medics told AFP that seven civilians were killed in the explosions, but US military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Scott Bleichwehl denied this, saying the attacks wounded four bystanders.
Elsewhere, Raheem al-Hasnawi, who represented Sistani in the town of Al-Mishkhab, 40 kilometers south of the holy Shiite city of Najaf, was killed late on Tuesday.
A spokesman for Sistani's office said three gunmen riding in a car shot Hasnawi outside his home in Al-Jazeera, on the northern outskirts of Najaf, just before midnight.
The Catholic news service AsiaNews said the Chaldean Catholic priest, whom it named as Hani Abdel-Ahad, was seized with the five in Suleikh, a Sunni neighborhood in northern Baghdad. It was not immediately clear when the kidnapping took place.
The report cited unconfirmed rumors that a ransom demand had been made to the patriarch of the Chaldean church, Emmanuel Delly.
On Sunday, gunmen killed Chaldean priest Ragheed Aziz Kani and three of his assistants in Iraq's northern city of Mosul.
Pope Benedict XVI condemned the murders as "senseless killings."
Elsewhere in the capital, gunmen raided an office of the Ministry of Immigration and Refugees, seizing Tofan Abdel-Wahab, the department head, a security official said. - Agencies
Iraqi group says reaches ceasefire with al Qaeda
Wed Jun 6, 2007 2:45PM EDT
DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iraqi militant group said on Wednesday it has reached a ceasefire deal with Iraq's wing of al Qaeda to end clashes between the two Sunni insurgent groups waging a violent campaign against U.S.-led forces in Iraq.
"A deal has been reached between the Islamic Army in Iraq and al Qaeda in Iraq that stipulates an immediate end to all military operation between the two sides in all sectors including capture operation," the Islamis Army in Iraq said in a statement on a Web site used by militants including al Qaeda.
The two groups have exchanged accusations over killings and the Islamic Army in Iraq had accused al Qaeda of seeking to dominate through its self-styled Islamic State in Iraq.
It said the two sides have agreed to form a "judicial committee to look into pending issues between the two sides".
Earlier this month Qaeda fighters fought fierce battles and rival Sunni Arab insurgents in a Baghdad district. It was the first time growing tensions between al Qaeda and other Sunni insurgent groups in western Anbar province, the main bastion of Sunni insurgents, have exploded into open warfare on the streets of Baghdad.
The Islamic Army of Iraq has repeatedly said it was a Sunni Muslim group fighting "occupation forces" and vehemently denies a perception that it is dominated by former army officers and supporters of the Baath party of executed former President Saddam Hussein.
Al Qaeda, which relies on local and foreign fighters, is seen by the United States as the main reason of instability in Iraq.
The arrest of a gang trading oil derivatives in Najaf
(Voice of Iraq) - 06-06-2007
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Najaf-Iraq votes
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Security source said that in Najaf governorate directorate to combat economic crime were arrested Wednesday afternoon, the seven persons chapel with a kerosine and possession (45) barrels northern province.
The source, who refused to reveal his name, the Independent News Agency (Voices of Iraq) "dropped detachments Combat Economic Crime Directorate arrested a gang of seven persons chapel with a kerosine after receiving intelligence information about the whereabouts stores kerosine intersection in the military (10 km north of the city of Najaf).
He explained, "were confiscated mentioned in the article one, am Wednesday, which amounted to (45) barrels capacity per barrel of 220 liters and transfer of indictees to the investigating judge." Pointing out that the investigating judge decided to detain them, according to Article 240 (a) of the Penal Code is still ongoing legal proceedings against them.
And after the fall of Najaf (160 km south of Baghdad).
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Maliki Yastkhaddam force looms over invitations intervention affairs
(Voice of Iraq) - 06-06-2007
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Maliki Yastkhaddam force looms over invitations interference in the Iraqi
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A new Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Wednesday to use force to the calls by Iraqi political demanded the intervention of Arab and Muslim in the Iraqi issue to contribute to derail the political process from the bottleneck was passing through.
Al-Maliki said in a speech delivered by the announcement during the first conference of the leaders of the military, "I am surprised when I hear some politicians talk frankly .. Why the intervention of Arab States in the Iraqi issue and another says Why interference from Muslim countries in the Iraqi affair."
He added : "Where are Iraq and say where the will and ethnic dignity for these."
He called Maliki Iraqi military commanders about the use of force such invitations and said, "It secretariat developer in your responsibility Dear brothers army commanders that you bang the iron hand of the red carpet or simplifies Evrch and Roda generally wants to intervene in the matter of Iraq."
His "that those who want to interfere in Iraq do not feel that the Iraqi people have the correct national grope a bear so much suffering in order to build a democratic, federal and free Iraq confederation."
Maliki warned of external interference in Iraqi affairs and said "we regret that the countries that support them feel that Iraq is weak is the opportunity to live in the region and an opportunity for the emergence of the regional theater site address and challenge the will of nations and peoples."
He added that in the interests of all states "and ours is a strong, cohesive unified Iraq .. in the government involving all the components of the people .. according to the principles of democracy which we have adopted."
He said that "Iraq is weak for grabs will be a chance for interference affairs, which will allow it never will be so long as you are and you are behind and disarmament are behind the national will to turn Iraq into an area of influence of any regional party in the region."
He described the Maliki government as "the government, army and people to address and challenge all conspiracies (which Towns Agency to remove) those who want to restore life to .. back to the days of ignorance, oppression and marginalization and dictatorship."
He added : "We vanquished and ended ... and ended only those days of continuous efforts and the support of our brothers and friends who stood by side in Iraq to save it from insignificant that ruled Iraq for more than three decades."
He called Maliki fortitude and said that time and patience is an important factor in achieving victory "and that the first signs is a victory of will and persistence on the road and maintenance."
He added, "had long time and this is not functions but the important thing is that our must not break .. This was achieved despite difficult challenges and despite the fact that Iraq has become an area of feed by external interventions with great regret."
He continued, saying that "Iraq will be victorious again when we stick to democratic mechanisms and resorting to the collective will to democracy."
He added that "national responsibility that we have today is not for the sake of building a new Iraq for this generation where we are but for the sake of Iraq a final exit from the days of coups, plots and circumvent fraud and conspiracy ... and known by the former regime, or who have lived in and nurtured by the media's ideas."
He said "there will be no room for conspiracies hatched here in this Arab capital or that Iraq today .. rejects conspiracy and welcome to change based on the foundations of democracy."
He added that what comes across the "fraud, conspiracy and circumventing it must be rejected, but much of that accountant him."
He criticized Maliki parties that are trying to create sectarian sedition and described them as follow this path in order to reach their own objectives.
He said, "but they are ignorant of the disease if sectarian raised will remain nothing Christrk green and the ground because it is never possible to defeat the other sect or nationality at the other but this sedition cultivators devil and the devil's advocates."
The new Maliki refused attempts by the Iraqi government to "introduce sectarian even in the security services corps and the army."
He said : "This red and taboos that holds them accountable, which should recognize that it does not only lead us to the abyss and we reject not only at the level of the army, but at the level of departments and divisions and the cultural and religious life."
He added that his government had succeeded in "removing the specter of sectarian war and the civil war which he spent so much." He considered that "the victories we achieved."
He said that among the achievements of his government "Allataeveh mainstream culture and the culture of equality."
Maliki warned of the continuing attempts to partition Iraq and said "we are still in the red in point goal, which is to divide Iraq on the basis of the order to stabilize some States."
Saleh Al-Maliki Neil Alaakili government approval of parliament before
(Voice of Iraq) - 06-06-2007
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Saleh Alaakili member of the House of mass sternum trend : the government of Maliki Neil House approval before extending the presence of foreign forces
06/06/2007 19:34 (GMT)
A member of the House of Representatives from the mainstream sternum favor Alaakili some attempt to disrupt the House bill requires the government to refer to the Council in the event wanted to extend the stay of the multinational force in Iraq, describing it as a victory for the House of Representatives.
Reviewed Alaakili in an interview with "Radio Sawa" positions of the political blocs to vote on the resolution, pointing out that the issuance of this resolution commits the government to return to the legislature.
The following is the text of the interview conducted with him on June 5, 2007 :
O-Congress approved the bill Tuesday, the Iraqi government needs to return to the Council in the event wanted to extend the survival of the multinational forces in Iraq. In your opinion, why was the meeting of the Council of Deputies closed?
C - because we offered a very important decision and therefore won the majority of 85 votes out of 144 deputies who attended the session, as I consider this vote authorized to give the Council the right to preserve the sovereignty of Iraq.
Read the resolution deputy Mahmoud Almchidani and that we prevented the Iraqi government from extending the stay of the multinational force only after obtaining approval by the House and sent to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has sent a letter to the Security Council asking him to extend the American forces will stay in Iraq.
O-became the House's decision on the question of extending the presence of the coalition forces, what is your comment?
C-Try some deputies introduction tenuous interpretations of the Constitution to avoid that vote, but we opposed that and allow the Council to regain part of the powers given to it by the Iraqi Constitution, in particular the issue of control over the performance of the executive authority.
What happened is the victory of the bloc chest and the Iraqi parliament and a real achievement and historic.
Question-Who is the blocs that voted?
C - I do not want to challenge the patriotism of those who did not vote, but within the united Iraqi coalition did not vote more than two blocs in the list of the Kurdistan Alliance did not vote majority, But the bloc chest and brotherhood in the Accord Front and the Front dialogue voted all means that there is a majority in favor of such a decision, and I emphasize once again that we do not want to challenge not treachery but our help is that all deputies to get American forces from Iraq.
O-will come later when a letter extension Does the government to return to the House of Representatives?
C - is now at stake and the government will subject the Iraqi parliament despite the attempt to blackout our new.
What we want is clear and irreversible and the government into the House of Representatives, which is the highest legal and authority to revert to the will of the people and to consider the question of the survival of occupation or not.
O-Is there anew the question of the nomination?
C-more than once tried to convert the list of candidates to vote but are not voting.
O-Is there any signals that he would demand the return of the Minister?
C-resigned from the government as they are promoted to the bloc Chest list, it is not true and I Anver.
We do not have any nomination is not likely to return Minister bloc Chest independents.
We are still at the letter of Mr. Muqtada al-Sadr is that the Cabinet of independents and technocrats.
O-Is there any new escalation in Diwaniyah Or perhaps in any other provinces?
C-in fact, the trend sternum to the heavy pressure to explain his desire to bring American forces from Iraq. A meeting between Samaha Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr and governors has been agreed to obtain the presence of His Eminence coordination between the offices of Muqtada al-Sadr and the Civil Administration in order to quell any problem that could arise.
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