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Parliament of the Kurdistan discuss amendments to the Iraqi Constitution

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Irbil (June 12) and the agency (Lucky) Italian News-Rudeinah confirmed for the Kurdistan Parliament in a telephone conversation this afternoon, "The parliament will meet tomorrow to discuss the reports of four committees charged by the governing body of the Parliament on prospective changes to the Iraqi Constitution, will host tomorrow's meeting in the Prime territorial government to listen to its views towards those amendments, to formulate a unified position toward those amendments. " He said Tariq essence Sarmme "The parliamentary debates will include files on article 140 and provincial authorities, water sources and the Iraqi Constitution in order to break a unified position between the government and parliament, particularly since there was possibility of holding another round of talks between the regional and central governments on prospective changes." Sarmme He pointed out that "the second part of the meeting tomorrow will be allocated to complete discussions on the achievements of the parliament during the previous session of Parliament, which held a closed meeting yesterday, which, But tomorrow's meeting will be open to the local media "and tried Agency (Lucky) today communicating with a number of parliamentarians to explain the reasons for closing the meeting yesterday, but none of them shows a statement on the matter pointing out that the request presidency of the parliament members not to make any statement to the media on the issues to be discussed at the closed meeting. However, sources revealed Brelmalenet special, "The meeting was noisy and drew much criticism to the presidency of the parliament because of delays amendments to the rules of procedure of Parliament and delayed discuss several draft laws before Parliament.

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32,000 Iraq police 'lost,' more on payroll...

Source: UPI

WASHINGTON, June 12 (UPI) -- About 32,000 Iraqi police who have been trained and equipped are no longer on the job, having left for various reasons over the last 18 months.

And as many as 12,000 police not on the job are drawing salaries anyway, said U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey, who has just returned from more than two years in Iraq overseeing the development of Iraqi security forces.

...

Between 8,000 and 10,000 Iraqi police have been killed in action. Another 6,000 to 8,000 have been severely wounded, Dempsey told a House Armed Services subcommittee Tuesday.

At least 5,000 Iraqi police have deserted and the rest are unaccounted for.

That means there are at most 162,000 trained and equipped police in Iraq. But there may be as many as 75,000 more policemen drawing a salary.

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The Presidency ratified the Law of accession to the Protocols

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The Presidency ratified the Act on accession to the Optional Protocols

June 12, 2007

June 12, 2007

Sadik of the Presidency, its penultimate meeting on 6-11-2007, the Act on accession to the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
And in the following text :
The name of the people
The Presidency
Decision No. (22)

Based on the approved by the House in accordance with article (61 / IV) of the Constitution, based on the provisions of articles (73 / II), (138 / VI) of the Constitution.
Council decided the presidency penultimate held on June 11, 2007
Passage of the law follows :

No. (23) for 2007
The accession to the Optional Protocols
Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child

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Article (1) : The Republic of Iraq to :
First : the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations No. 54/263 dated March 25 May 2000, which entered into force on September 18 in January 2002.
Second-Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations No. 54/263 of 25 f / May 2000, which entered into force on 12 September February 2002.
Article (2) :
This law implemented from the date of publication in the Official Gazette.

Tariq Al-Hashmi Adel Abdul Mahdi, Jalal Talabani

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The vice president, the vice president, president of the republic "

Reasons

For the purpose of the accession of the Republic of Iraq to the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child ratified by law No. (3) for 1994, with the aim of protecting children's rights in the face of exploitation for the purposes of trade and means of exploitation or prostitution and pornography is involved in the prevention of armed conflict, initiated this law.

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Alcord are the most solicitous of Iraqi Kirkuk Alcordstanih and neighborly relations

ماجد الدباغ

Majed Skinner

HOT presented in a dialogue channel free space, spoke of people who were away, and unscrupulous Ojedana, the historical facts concerning Kirkuk and national identity, geographic and labeling in a distorted manner, and the racist directive may put together, forgetting that we live in an age of information permitted for all.

I will try as far as possible a decent reader in the form most important aspects of this dialogue is to be the sole judge in those directions, at the outset us pictures of Osama Alenjevi member of the House, federal Iraqi, the Iraqi List, that what has been until now of the implementation of Article (140) Special normalize the situation in Kirkuk came violation of the Constitution and said the Iraqi meaning : that the application of this article grave injustice done to the parties involved in land and the determination of violations of all international laws and the spirit of the Constitution and added : they tried to jump on many articles of the Constitution and the facts on the basis of the application of this article, but the evidence suggests, according to Alenjevi, Article (140) inapplicable because of the movement (Tchrid) wide debate on the demographic situation of the city and forced displacement of people on behalf of (re-entrants to their areas), and the injustice of finding more Alenjevi while allegedly : (600) A. Cordy brought to Kirkuk for this purpose along with disputes over ownership is a fundamental rule, as well as the repercussions of determining Alcord border areas unilaterally, which he said : started operations demographic change and the identity of nationalities and cultures assets exist in these areas and other irregularities ...

Here's the question : Why is this late hour to raise such accusations particularly since time is sullies everyone considers effects of any attempts to prevent the implementation of Article (140) on schedule individual Alenjevi saying : all these irregularities Under lawlessness and weak governance and the issuance of unlawful decisions we have accumulated and we had to move, especially when the brothers wanted Alcord application is inapplicable and cause internal problems in Kirkuk and throughout Iraq and allows the neighboring countries of interfering in Iraqi affairs ...

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In intervention fair said Dr. Mohammed Ihsan, minister for territorial areas outside the territory of Kurdstan : for your information has formed a special committee in time the government of Dr. Ayad Allawi (your Iraqi President) and his eagerness in all the time to say that the implementation of Article 140 as it is today "arch" front of Cairo Alenawiyeh dispersing the crowd on the Iraqi supreme body for the normalization of the situation in Kirkuk, according to the mechanism agreed upon now, such a mechanism that have not been implemented so far and therefore talk about injustice any party is premature and all what happened so far is to try to repair the destroyed infrastructure of the former regime in Kirkuk and put the national and geographical, The official government statistics prove beyond a shadow of doubt over the great injustice that occurred on Alcord and Turkmen also Cordstanih in many areas, particularly Kirkuk (records of the Iraqi Planning Ministry supports this) explained Dr. Mohammad Ihsan constitutional mechanism for the implementation of Article (140), namely :
The normalization of the political situation and the geographical and demographic status of Kirkuk and other areas Alcordstanih misunderstood by the Baathist regime remnants and pride in all forums and reiterate, we did not dismiss one forcibly and the implementation of article back in time to official government statistics for the year (1957) on the stabilization of the original housing for the people of Kirkuk and the Arabs Alcord Very, Turkomen and Assyrians ..

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In general, we have repeatedly stated that we consider Kirkuk city and the national fraternity of those decisions has been ratified by the Federal Cabinet, said Ali Mahdi Party Vice-Chairman Eli Turkmen in Kirkuk :
That injustice previous day in Kirkuk addresses another injustice and unfair according contexts by Mr. Mahdi himself who said that he returned to Kirkuk after the fall of the regime Here, the question arises salt :
How those grievances and information did not live in Kirkuk days before the fall of the regime and set arguments and excuses made in fragile defense failed on the issue of invalidity think he knows in advance when he said : "Yes, we are with the normalization, but not Baltkowinh new, which alleged that Alcord created in the city. When hundreds of thousands of Alcord from other regions and, if what he said is true, why Ali Mahdi demanding Alcord adoption Census (1957) basically all normalization or plebiscite or self-determination, with expert reviewed Senor Taghmabai, in the analysis appears from colonial times, reason adopted entirely on oil. to develop backward and black resulting from (control Alcord) to Kirkuk from the political, financial, administrative and the other with its neighbor Turkey, and here it was suggested Alenjevi : abolition of Article (140), voted by more than (12) million Iraqis, and to replace it with something else and not join any territory to Kirkuk and the possibility of addressing the issues publicly, as he alleges, inside Iraq, including regional intervention, but after treatment justifications interference ...

In summary of the topic, said Dr Mohammed Ihsan, the concerns and fears (Alcord separation and control of the oil) are matters that history has proved it is not true and said : Kurdstan all oil wealth and Kirkuk or without only that the issue we are facing now is the issue of historic and fateful We recall saying Barzani, the late (Would not the city of Kirkuk oil we satisfied and satisfied people in the city Alcordstanih) and add : Time will tell those who do not want to understand today that the gross Alcord faith in this direction in all areas that the Iraqi city of Kirkuk and the identity Cordstanih want their sons from Cord, Arabs, Turkomen and Assyrians CldU to live in brotherhood and harmony and walk together to build a secure and stable life for their children in the city and Kurdstan and throughout Iraq.

With an earnest call for neighborly Puk respond with the orientations of the political leadership to conduct dialogue Alcordstanih basis for mutual relations and not to resort to any other exercise proved futile as she Turkey days before the bombing of some border areas of Kurdstan Iraq.

Editor-in-Chief another voice

KRG, Kurdistan Regional Government

Originally Posted by Offshore-Wealth.com

Excellent,

Finally the news is getting out and Iraq will take over the number one spot for proven oil reserves from Sadi Arabia which technically are unproven at this point in time. Saudi's are keeping a dark secret over declining reserves, so there will be no contest when all the explorations are completed in Iraq. They will soon be the wealthiest country in middle east and to think they cannot get along knowing that. Sad, very sad. The sooner the wealth goes to the people, the sooner violence will end.

Good luck and health to all, Mike

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RIG COUNT YTD AVERAGE
Middle East Apr 2007 Prior
Month Change Through
Apr 2007 Prior
Year % Change from
Prior Year
ABU DHABI 29 29 0 29 29 0%
Offshore 13 13 0 13 14 ( 7)%
Land 16 16 0 16 15 7%
BAHRAIN 1 1 0 1 2 ( 50)%
Offshore 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Land 1 1 0 1 2 ( 50)%
DUBAI 1 1 0 1 1 0%
Offshore 1 1 0 1 1 0%
Land 0 0 0 0 0 0%
ERITREA 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Offshore 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Land 0 0 0 0 0 0%
ETHIOPIA 1 1 0 1 1 0%
Offshore 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Land 1 1 0 1 1 0%
IRAN 54 55 ( 1) 55 49 12%
Offshore 7 8 ( 1) 8 11 ( 27)%
Land 47 47 0 47 38 24%
IRAQ 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Land 0 0 0 0 0 0%
ISRAEL 0 1 ( 1) 1 0 100%
Offshore 0 1 ( 1) 1 0 100%
Land 0 0 0 0 0 0%
JORDAN 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Offshore 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Land 0 0 0 0 0 0%
KUWAIT 21 20 1 21 22 ( 5)%
Offshore 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Land 21 20 1 21 22 ( 5)%
NEUTRAL ZONE 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Offshore 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Land 0 0 0 0 0 0%
OMAN 50 50 0 50 39 28%
Offshore 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Land 50 50 0 50 39 28%
PAKISTAN 28 27 1 27 22 23%
Offshore 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Land 28 27 1 27 22 23%
QATAR 16 17 ( 1) 16 15 7%
Offshore 16 17 ( 1) 16 15 7%
Land 0 0 0 0 0 0%
RAS AL KHAIMAH 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Offshore 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Land 0 0 0 0 0 0%
SAUDI ARABIA 90 89 1 88 64 38%
Offshore 11 10 1 10 8 25%
Land 79 79 0 78 57 37%
SHARJAH 0 0 0 0 1 ( 100)%
Offshore 0 0 0 0 1 ( 100)%
Land 0 0 0 0 0 0%
SYRIA 29 28 1 29 25 16%
Land 29 28 1 29 25 16%
YEMEN 18 18 0 18 15 20%
Land 18 18 0 18 15 20%
Total Middle East 338 337 1 336 0 33600%
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Saudi Arabia has 88-90 rigs running now..
They had an average of 64 making hole last year..
The chart shows a 38% increase of rigs 'turning to the right' this year
compared to last year in Saudi Arabia..[hard to read it though, the way it copied for me]

So it looks like SA is punching more and more holes to try to keep their export BPD steady..

Iraq shows 'o' rigs working[which can't be correct]

Dubai only needs '1' rig drilling year round to build their cities and ISLANDS...

Its on the Schlumberger web site............ Adios

In Iraq, benchmarks look more like obstacle course

Published: June 12, 2007

BAGHDAD: Iraq's political leaders have failed to reach agreement on nearly every law that the United States has demanded as a benchmark, de****e heavy pressure from Congress, the White House and top military commanders. With only three months until reports on progress are due in Washington, the deadlock has reached a point where many Iraqi and U.S. officials now question whether any substantive laws will pass before the end of the year.

Kurds have blocked a vote in Parliament on a new oil law. Shiite clerics have stymied a U.S.-backed plan for re-integrating former Baathists into the government. Sunnis are demanding that a constitutional review include more power for the next president.

And even if one or two of the proposals are approved - the oil law appears the most likely, officials said - doubts are spreading about whether the benchmarks can ever halt the cycle of violence.

For the handful of party leaders with the power to make deals, the promise of compromise now carries less allure than the possibility for domination. Long-suppressed Sunnis and Kurds now see total victory within their grasp. Previous U.S. benchmarks like elections have failed to bring peace, and after four years of unfulfilled promises, bloodshed and sprawling chaos, wary glances have turned into cold, unblinking stares.

The same forces of entropy have severed links between the party leaders and their constituencies. In Shiite areas of the south, Sunni areas of the west and Kurdish areas of the north, Iraq's central government has become increasingly irrelevant as competing groups maneuver at the local level for control of public money and jobs. In many cases, Iran and other foreign powers provide more support than Baghdad does.

Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki told a U.S. military commander Monday, "There are two mentalities in this region: conspiracy and mistrust."

Iraq's political limitations raise difficult questions for the United States. President George W. Bush's stated mission for the increase in troops this year was to create an atmosphere of security that would lead to political reconciliation. But if broad-based compromises fail to emerge or have little impact, what comes next? Most Western political officials in Iraq and Washington refuse to discuss a Plan B publicly.

But Iraqi leaders and those who work with them admit that their days are often filled with angst and frustration. Some have turned their attention toward risky local alliances with militants who say they will now fight Al Qaeda. Even among the most hopeful, expectations have diminished.

"Being here, you can't be optimistic until things happen," said Ashraf Qazi, special representative for Iraq from the United Nations. He said a broad national reconciliation program based on a series of new laws might be possible this year but added that even signs of momentum would earn a "passing grade."

"There are no guarantees," he said. "In fact it would be overambitious to say all these things can be solved."

The challenges to reconciliation include the personal, the sectarian and the systemic. The stalled laws regarding de-Baathification and a constitutional review highlight the distrust over the petty and profound disputes that have undermined the process.

THE CONSTITUTION The document is a product of the last ambitious U.S. effort to inspire a grand compromise among Iraq's belligerent factions. Approved by a referendum in October 2005, it set the stage for elections and was widely praised by the White House, but it failed to address many of the country's most vital issues.

There was so little agreement on how to share revenue - with minority Sunnis fearing they would be left out - that the charter even failed to give the government a right to collect taxes.

Iraq's government formed a constitutional review committee in October to address potential amendments. The group was given four months to come up with recommendations for changes.

Nicholas Haysom, a constitutional expert with the United Nations, worked closely with the committee. He said the group's 31 participants met regularly. Members said the initial gatherings were cordial.

"We felt there is an ethical commitment," said Humam Hamoudi, one of three committee chairmen and a member of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, the largest Shiite political party. "We have a mission to accomplish."

The discussions, however, soon gridlocked over a number of issues, including many of the same problems that arose during the last constitutional effort. Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds, for example, could not agree on how to divide revenues and responsibilities between the federal government and regions. The future of oil-rich Kirkuk was left in limbo, with Kurds holding out for a referendum scheduled for the end of this year, which they hope will grant them control.

There were also bitter disputes over whether the new constitution should define Iraq as an Arab country, and whether the powers of the presidency should be expanded.

The process shows no sign of a speedy finish, with major issues still outstanding and other recommendations tied to controversial proposed laws and a census, which is intended to allocate revenue according to population.

"We have not committed to doing it by September," Hamoudi said. "Maybe the American Congress has made such a commitment, but we have not."

DE-BAATHIFICATION Ever since the Americans purged members of the Baath Party from the government soon after the invasion in 2003, they have been trying to reform the policy.

Some changes were made in 2004, bringing back teachers and people with technical expertise, but the hope has been that a broader plan to rehire low- to mid-level Baathists would drain the Sunni-led insurgency of support.

The latest de-Baathification campaign began this spring with the grandly titled Reconciliation and Accountability Law, a proposal backed by Zalmay Khalilzad, who was the U.S. ambassador until April. The draft decreed that all former Baathists who had worked in the government could collect their pensions. It opened government jobs to thousands more, and set a three-month time limit for Iraqi citizens to bring lawsuits against former members of the Baath Party, which Saddam Hussein had run.

Sunnis supported the overhaul, and Shiites and Kurds were expected to fall into line after the prime minister, a Shiite, and the president, a Kurd, announced the plan on March 26.

But the law included a change that would later become its undoing. Within a year, the law said, Iraq's De-Baathification Commission - headed by Ahmad Chalabi - would be disbanded.

Chalabi, the former Pentagon protégé, relies on the commission for an official role in Iraq's government. Having just renovated a spacious office in the Green Zone of Baghdad, he has strongly opposed any effort to weaken his position or the country's policy on former Baathists.

According to a senior official with the commission, Chalabi and members of his organization sabotaged the plan by rallying opposition among Shiite government officials in southern Iraq then displaying their complaints to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most powerful Shiite cleric.

On April 1, Chalabi visited Sistani's office in Najaf. At a news conference later, Chalabi declared that Sistani had told him the law was incomplete and that "there would be other drafts."

A day later, an aide to Sistani confirmed that there was "a general feeling of rejection" about the proposal. Since then, the original draft has gone nowhere.

The Americans have met with several groups responsible for additional drafts that address de-Baathification. Iraqi officials said they are working on a compromise law combining various elements of the U.S. law and other proposals, primarily a softer alternative backed by Chalabi.

But without clear support from Sistani, no final draft of the law has been submitted. It remains unclear how much support such a proposal could attract. Hussein al-Falluji, a member of Parliament with the Iraqi Consensus Front, the main Sunni bloc, said the prime minister did not fully support reconciliation with former Baathists.

Moreover, some Sunnis in the current government fell afoul of Baathists under Saddam and may not be eager to bring back members of the former regime.

Even if the law passes, it may not be enforced. In many provinces, officials have little respect for laws passed in the capital. In the South, various Shiite parties have already divided the spoils of government: the Fadhila Party controls much of the oil industry; the Border Police are tied to the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council.

Baathists looking for work need not apply; residents say that merely mentioning that someone was once a Baathist is usually enough to get him killed.

In Iraq, benchmarks look more like obstacle course - International Herald Tribune

America warns Maliki : concrete political actions required before

(Voice of Iraq) - 13-06-2007

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America warns Maliki : concrete political actions required before the end of next month

Falun General of the Iraqi Prime Minister : should build bridges with your opponents

BAGHDAD : Michael Gordon * London : «Middle East»

Warned the American Central Command commander responsible for the Middle East, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to the concrete political steps before the end of next month, to face D escalating opposition to the war in Congress. In the discussion between them was last Sunday, told Admiral William Falun Maliki that the Iraqi government should strive to complete the law on the division of oil revenue on a national level before the end of next month.
Falun Admiral said that the Iraqi government, dominated by Shiite religious parties, was able to enhance its power, and it must have sufficient confidence to build bridges with its opponents. He added the owners : «You you possess power. And to you that you initiative ».

The petition Admiral presence of the United States in Iraq, Ryan Crocker and writer of the article, as a result of al-Maliki said that he hoped to make progress in the coming weeks, but at the same time stressed the difficulties faced by the Iraqi government, including the difficult security situation and the skeptical Sunni neighbor and its complex legislation. Maliki said : «A lot of the difficulties that had been understood from the outside. However, we try to maximize what we can ».

Used Admiral Falun visit as a message from Washington, complaining of the slow progress in Iraq; A message was delivered to the owners by a number of American officials, but the absence of last resort for specific allowing Iraqi officials to escape. The correspondent of this newspaper present at the meeting did not allow American officials published a report only after the voting.

It seemed at times that officials were working according to different timing of two hours; While under Admiral Falun stresses the importance of achieving concrete results, putting Maliki opinion that the political process in Iraq is a long journey from dictatorship to democracy.Maliki said : «final result will store history».Al-Maliki was accompanied by a conciliator spring national security adviser, and two of his aides.

When President George W. Bush decided in February (February) last increase in the number of American units in Iraq, the aim is not to achieve military victory, but to improve security, so that the leaders of Iraqi political reconciliation. But now with the arrival of these units to Iraq and start playing their scheduled, the Iraqis need to show some progress in the political process. But there seems to be on the horizon decisive progress in the political process; Some assistants Maliki afraid of the Year by members of the government of conspiring against them with support from Sunni Arab countries, while dealing with Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Iraqi Islamic Supreme Council of lung cancer, while it seems that the Kurdish leaders are busy threats Turkey to intervene militarily in northern Iraq. The Iraqis realize that the Bush administration has promised to submit a report on Iraq to Congress, and they need to success strategy in Iraq. It is necessary to provide the American administration report to Congress in July (July) next on developments inside Iraq.

At the meeting focused on the Falun Admiral oil of Iraq, assuming that it is about to expire. He asked : «Is it reasonable to expect completion in July next? We have to show some progress has been made in July within the next report ». Maliki said Kurds have raised concerns regarding arrangements to participate in oil revenues, but noted that some progress had been made about the oil.Ambassador Crocker emphasized that it is necessary to include progress solution to such thorny issue.

Maliki raised questions as to whether Congress will truly Iraqi efforts that are able to tackle thorny issues such as the Law of oil. Admiral and assured him that every Falun what it wants most Americans is that the Iraqi government succeed. Admiral raised the issue of Falun Iraqi security forces, and said that the acquisition of army and police forces is not a matter of training units and providing them with weapons, but the Iraqis must feel that there are some units that are moving according to a sectarian; A fundamental problem in the past year.Maliki agreed with him that the units are moving in line with the feelings of sectarian pose a threat.

The Iraqi Prime Minister always emphasizes that he agreed with many of the goals of Washington in Iraq, and that is what makes American officials questioned whether the lack of progress due to lack of implementation on the lower level officials, or that there is any hidden agenda or because of the difficulties arising from the state of siege experienced by the government.

The meeting also dealt with Iraq's neighbors. The American military command has been accused Iran provided several of the extremist groups in Iraq with sophisticated weapons, including advanced bombs planted at the edges of roads, all caused the victims high among Americans. Admiral Falun wondered whether the Iraqis have started to put pressure on Iran to stop the diversion of such weapons; The situation of instability resulting from the arms shipments sent by Iran to Iraq continuing, and all this, according to Admiral Falun derail efforts by American forces on the tasks to achieve security. This pushed al-Maliki wondered done by the Americans to convince Syria stop the infiltration of foreign fighters into Iraq, including suicide bombers across the border. Ambassador Crocker said that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had raised the issue with Syrian counterpart, but so far no decision has been taken.

Maliki said : «We need the cooperation of Iran and Syria. We will not allow the Iranians to enter. We will not allow to become a safe haven for terrorists ». He said Maliki tones placate, to build trust with the neighbors of Iraq will not be easy.
He added : «There Aklitan in this region.
Conspiracy and lack of confidence ».

So, Maliki said that his government «going to enact bills that serve the Iraqi people in the present and future, such as oil, gas and Law and Justice and Accountability Act governorates, in addition to expanding their efforts in the national reconciliation de****e regional interventions and plots that are hampering the political process».

According to a statement of the Iraqi government, al-Maliki added during a reception at his official Baghdad yesterday, John Negroponte, Assistant Secretary of State and the American «We have many tasks including the development of our security and our armed forces to play their role in addressing national Qaeda terrorist organization, and Sadamien, militias and extending the authority of law throughout the country». He Maliki to «success of the government of national unity in eliminating the greatest danger of sectarian war through the initiative of national reconciliation ongoing support of all components of the people and political forces».

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Opening the founding conference of the Assembly of First Bischmaraka Kurdistan veterans

(Voice of Iraq) - 13-06-2007

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Ibrahim Murad / under the slogan "struggle for lifting and elevating s name and revive their" heroic "Kosert Rasul, in the presence of Vice-Chairman of the Kurdistan province, Adnan Mufti, head of the Kurdistan Parliament, Hero Ibrahim Ahmed Iraq, the first lady and a number of heads of Kurdish parties and a number of members of the political bureau of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, political personalities and patriotism opened on June 12 at Club hall in Sulaymaniyah s founding conference of the First Assembly of Kurdistan Bischmaraka veterans.
The congress standing moment of silence for the martyrs of Kurdistan Bischmaraka then played the national anthem "any unsupervised" and the anthem Special Balbeschmaraka then gave a nice speech Arab Society Bischmaraka Kurdistan veterans

Highlighting the march s role in the struggle and national struggle, and to increase national awareness of the people of Kurdistan and added : us proud that one s old office of President of the Republic of Iraq and another assuming the presidency of the Kurdistan region, Kosert Rasul then gave the word Co Jalal Talabani, President of the Republic of Iraq, and Massoud Barzani, head of Kurdistan region, and stressed that the achievements made at the Iraqi Kurdistan due to the s heroes, who dearly for access to the experience of democratic, parliamentary and these achievements are the result of hard work to struggle Peshmargas in the difficult days and said : rests with today s responsibility to maintain these gains and development forward.
Then, Adnan Mufti, head of the Kurdistan Parliament word Kurdistan Parliament highlighted the role s in the delivery of our region and to the Intifada added : that struggle has yielded today to achieve gains and pushed Iraq to the advanced stage of a federal Iraq, then speech Political Bureau of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan by Mullah Bakhtiar, She Boukhchan Zankenh word Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Kurdistan, highlighting the heroics of Kurdish women lived with men in most phases of the struggle, echoed the difficult days in the mountains, and gave lions Haji Mahmoud, President of the So******t Party of Kurdistan Democratic Party speech, and gave capable Aziz Prime Kurdistan Toilers Party word party, Criticisms and cable personalities and party and government institutions to the conference and wished him success in his work, and at the close the morning meeting, a documentary contained passages and testimonies about the struggle and march s heroes.
It is noteworthy that the number of members of the Assembly of 550 members, comprising four parties are the Kurdistani National Union of Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Toilers Party, the So******t Party of Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Communist Party of Kurdistan and the conference continues for two days.
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Prime Minister of the government of the Kurdstan : We want to be judicial institutions in a free and independent Kurdstan

Today Najirfan said Mr. Barzani, Prime Minister of the government of the Kurdstan that the territorial government seeks to build institutions of a free and independent judiciary to be a legal guarantee for all citizens. This came during a speech today in the ceremonies began work founding conference of the Union of Kurdstan judges held the auspices of Mr. Massoud Barzani, President of Kurdstan region.

The Prime Minister said the government in the province : it is important to give legal security for all and to you that you can provide the guarantee for the territorial government and your people, in reference to judges participating in the Conference.

He added : important to us that reliable citizens and local companies and foreign capital to invest in Kurdstan in legal terms are protected.

He stressed the need to be impartial judiciary in the province and have transparent and said : We must work to ensure transparency with you and your institutions and want the judicial system to be a high level of your decisions are respected and appreciated by everyone at home and abroad.

He added : want access to high level proud when our judiciary, and I am sure that we will achieve success in these steps if we all work together.

He also pointed to the need for judges to the territory of training courses to raise the level of education, said during his speech : We need a special training courses for judges and the need to continue our judges to education and work always raise their practice.

He added : We need to special courses on social issues in Kurdstan and also on how to deal with women and domestic violence against them as well as on how to deal with the issue of administrative and financial corruption in the private and public sectors.

He appealed to the coalition in Iraq and the European Union to open the sessions of the judges Kurdstan He added : "I demand the Coalition States and the European Union who can help us in this area because we are working hard to address these problems.

Participants in the conference, more than two hundred of Kurdstan judge of the founding of the special judges Kurdstan and lasts three days, the conference held under the slogan (independence of the judiciary to ensure the rule of law).

KRG, Kurdistan Regional Government

Brigades call for the withdrawal of Kurdish

Fried Rohandzi

The Iraqi newspaper :

When he was head of the Kurdistan Mr. Masoud Barzani objected to the idea of sending troops "s" to Baghdad and other hot spots, and gives reasons for this objection, there were many of the dimensions and the concept Eissetsegun Barzani objection to that. Some even accused the Kurds of being spectators and move to resolve the conflict between Shiites and Sunnis and beaten by the terrorists on the other, without consideration of the unforeseen consequences of sending these troops under the sectarian strife in those areas.

When the Prime Minister moved in coordination with the Head Kurdish territory brigades within the Iraqi army in Kurdistan to Baghdad to support the government's plan (a law), heartened by the arrival of people in Baghdad brigades Kurdish probably be able to convert the security situation in Baghdad to uncontrolled stable security situation, similar to those existing situation in Kurdistan. Even the presence of these forces in some areas of Baghdad brought joy in the hearts of the population and has become popular brigades Kurdish people unlike aversion to the militias and the terrorists and even aversion to the peacekeeping force and other security forces of the Ministry of Interior, which people no longer feel it because of its unsound and hacking outrageous in the ranks.

Militias have realized that the presence of the Kurdish brigades in some areas of Baghdad would be an obstacle to implementation of its plans to divide Baghdad into areas and the revival confined to a range without the other, Therefore, the militia leaders had availed themselves of the methods of spreading terror and fear among the people in slum areas, which were guarded by Kurdish brigades and give warning to the inhabitants of these areas not to deal with members of these forces and to refrain from selling their basic needs and the statement of the death penalty for those who violate these instructions, but they had used acoustic places of worship to disseminate these instructions.

The banners and writings that appeared on the walls of these areas labeled brigades Kurdish separatists and American agents and the various epithets that Atlik only to militias unleashed against Kurdish brigades which came to relieve the burden on the troops depends Prime Minister to implement the plan "to impose the law" and leaving behind their families and McHattie Kurdistan landscape and the security situation stable in support of the national government, which together constitute a part.

Did not stop harassment of Kurdish militias against the brigade at this point, but were pasted by sectarian charges, while the widely acknowledged in Iraq knows that there are no communal feeling among the Kurdish people, but the purpose of these charges was to incite feelings of hostility not only against these brigades, but also against the Kurds.

The government of the Kurdistan of Iraq are now in coordination with the federal government, to give serious thought to withdraw those forces and returned to the Kurdistan region of Iraq, not only to protect Iraq's borders in the region against the Turkish threats or to strike terrorists who are trying to resume their activities, but also to control things before they get out of sensible people and turn this lobby and escalation against the Kurdish brigades to the fighting between them and the militias that the government has taken so far Maliki serious steps to deal with the file, Why must make these brigades as a scapegoat, without the looming hopes to end the situation Almelliciatih in Baghdad? ! .

KRG, Kurdistan Regional Government