Thread: Iraq/Dinar News. 09/05 to 01/14/07

Parliamentary delegations differed in the description facing Iraq now
From the hushed Abdulamir
Baghdad - (Voices of Iraq)
Two different Iraqi parliament today, Thursday, in the characterization of the situation in Iraq, where he saw one that Iraq may have entered into a civil war. With other opinion that what is happening is only class sectarian conflicts caused economic decline, Deputies agreed that part of the solution is to improve the economic situation of the Iraqis.
"The deputy said Hussein Alvluji a list of the Iraqi Accord Front, "in practical terms, the volume of material and human losses and recriminations among politicians, it may be Iraq has entered into a civil war. "
"He added in a telephone conversation with the News Agency (Voices of Iraq) Independent saying, "it is still a hope of seeking to avoid civil war."
"Alvluji view that the solution to emerge from the crisis is one of two things, first, "the departure of the occupation forces of the country to remove the excuses for parties that advocated the departure of the occupation of being behind the acts of violence in the country. ""He continued : "The other solution is a central agreement is the conflicting parties and the conflicting through the resurrection neutral body acceptable to all parties and credible and the ability to deal with all the files in order to bridge the gap in viewpoints between the adversaries."
"He added, "this organization is working to discuss all economic and other files, In the end, the study of all the problems would put an end to the violence in the country. "For his part, the deputy Mustafa al-Hiti, a list of national dialogue that what is happening in the country is grappling with sectarian caused the bad economic situation.
"He said that "what is happening in Iraq is today's sectarian class used some of the parties who have an interest, but in the real sectarian sectarian conflict, any Sunni Sunni, Shiite Shiite, Kurdish Kurdi, The differences in class between the community one result of the deterioration of the economic situation. "
He added that "the solution to the economic problem is one of the forms of a sectarian conflict in the country."
And Iraq is a state of sectarian tension following a series of explosions that took place in the suburb of Sadr City's last week and led to the deaths (202) and the wounding of more than (250) people had an effect on the Iraqi government to impose curfews for three days.

Translated version of http://www.aswataliraq.info/index.php

Originally Posted by CharmedPiper

WOW YOU SCARED ME THERE FOR A MINUTE....I STILL CAN GET A NOVEMBER ANNOUNCEMENT WITH A LITTLE LUCK......NO "D" WORD YET.......! Come on Shibibi.....announce it today make it effective on Sunday.....at least give me that!!!!

i meant to skeer ya!

Parliamentary delegations differed in the description facing Iraq now
From the hushed Abdulamir
Baghdad - (Voices of Iraq)

Two different Iraqi parliament today, Thursday, in the characterization of the situation in Iraq, where he saw one that Iraq may have entered into a civil war.

With other opinion that what is happening is only class sectarian conflicts caused economic decline, Deputies agreed that part of the solution is to improve the economic situation of the Iraqis.

The deputy said Hussein Alvluji a list of the Iraqi Accord Front, "in practical terms, the volume of material and human losses and recriminations among politicians, it may be Iraq has entered into a civil war. " He added in a telephone conversation with the News Agency (Voices of Iraq) Independent saying, "it is still a hope of seeking to avoid civil war."

Alvluji view that the solution to emerge from the crisis is one of two things, first, "the departure of the occupation forces of the country to remove the excuses for parties that advocated the departure of the occupation of being behind the acts of violence in the country. "
He continued : "The other solution is a central agreement is the conflicting parties and the conflicting through the resurrection neutral body acceptable to all parties and credible and the ability to deal with all the files in order to bridge the gap in viewpoints between the adversaries."

He added, "this organization is working to discuss all economic and other files, In the end, the study of all the problems would put an end to the violence in the country. "

For his part, the deputy Mustafa al-Hiti, a list of national dialogue that what is happening in the country is grappling with sectarian caused the bad economic situation.

He said that "what is happening in Iraq is today's sectarian class used some of the parties who have an interest, but in the real sectarian sectarian conflict, any Sunni Sunni, Shiite Shiite, Kurdish Kurdi, The differences in class between the community one result of the deterioration of the economic situation. "

He added that "the solution to the economic problem is one of the forms of a sectarian conflict in the country."

And Iraq is a state of sectarian tension following a series of explosions that took place in the suburb of Sadr City's last week and led to the deaths (202) and the wounding of more than (250) people had an effect on the Iraqi government to impose curfews for three days.

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New committee to supervise oil distribution
[14:34 , 28 Nov 2006]

Kirkuk, KURDISTAN (The Globe)

PNA-Kirkuk's Governor Abdul Rahman created a committee to supervise the distribution of oil and gas to the people, local media reported.

According to a source in the Governor's office, the committee has already met with the oil distributor to discuss the price and lack of all oil products.

Governor Rahman informed the distributors that they must follow specific rules to prevent having their licenses revoked, said the source.

Bush calls Maliki "right guy" for Iraq - Yahoo! News

Bush calls Maliki "right guy" for Iraq By Tabassum Zakaria and Suleiman al-Khalidi
1 hour, 41 minutes ago



AMMAN (Reuters) - President Bush praised Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as the "right guy" for Iraq on Thursday and said he agreed with the Iraqi leader that partitioning the country would only increase violence.

Bush declared support for Maliki after U.S. officials insisted the Iraqi leader was not offended by a critical White House memo and had not snubbed Bush in Amman on Wednesday when the two had been expected to hold an initial meeting.
"He's the right guy for Iraq and we're going to help him and it's in our interest to help him," Bush told a joint news conference with Maliki in the Jordanian capital.

"It's in our interests to help liberty prevail in the Middle East, starting with Iraq. And that's why this business about graceful exit simply has no realism to it at all."

Bush said he and Maliki had ruled out any idea of dividing Iraq as a way to halt rampant sectarian violence.

"The prime minister made clear that splitting his country into parts, as some have suggested, is not what the Iraqi people want and that any partition of Iraq would only lead to an increase in sectarian violence. I agree," he said.

Bush said they had also agreed to speed up the training of Iraqi security forces and handing over security authority to Iraqis. U.S. troops were in Iraq to "get the job done" and would stay as long as the Baghdad government wanted them there.

"It's not easy for a military to evolve from ground zero," he said of Maliki's efforts to build Iraqi forces, acknowledging that the Iraqi leader was "frustrated by the pace."

Bush was speaking after reports the Iraq Study Group will recommend the U.S. military shift from combat to a support role in Iraq, and will call for a regional conference that could lead to direct U.S. talks with Iran and Syria, both accused by Washington of fomenting violence in their neighbor.

Maliki said his country wanted good ties with its neighbors but warned against external meddling.

"Iraq is for Iraqis. Its frontiers are defended and we will not allow them to be violated or let people interfere in our internal affairs," he said.

REDEPLOYMENT

A source familiar with the deliberations of the independent, bipartisan group said the idea was for U.S. combat forces to pull back to bases in Iraq and in the region over the next year or so. "It's basically a redeployment," the source said.

The panel is to present its report to Bush on December 6.

The emir of neighboring Kuwait was quoted as saying a U.S. pullout would not stabilize Iraq. "On the contrary, the situation would worsen and we would see a civil war of great intensity for which the whole world would pay the price," Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah told the French daily Le Figaro.

Bush had expected to see Maliki on Wednesday, along with Jordan's King Abdullah. He was told on the way from Latvia, where he attended a NATO summit, that the Jordanians and Iraqis had decided against a three-way meeting, a U.S. official said.

In the end, Abdullah met both leaders separately.

U.S. officials insisted the change had nothing to do with a memo by White House national security adviser Stephen Hadley that questioned Maliki's ability to control the turmoil in Iraq.

Bush had only kind words for the premier, who has been criticized for not curbing militias run by his Shi'ite allies.

"I'm talking to the man face-to-face and he says that he understands that a unified government, a pluralistic society, is important for success and he's making hard decisions to achieve that," he said, calling Maliki a man of "courage."

"No question it's a violent society right now. He knows that better than anybody. He was explaining to me that occasionally the house in which he lives gets shelled by the terrorists who are trying to frighten him," he said.

Bush is under pressure at home and abroad to change strategy on Iraq, where sectarian violence shows no sign of abating although the White House does not describe it as a civil war.

In Dubai, an Iraqi militant group urged its Sunni followers in Baghdad to wage holy war against Shi'ite militias.

"Baghdad is your city. Do not leave it for the strangers who intend to expel you. It is a battle of destiny now," the Islamic Army in Iraq said in a statement posted on an Islamist Web site.

The group has claimed responsibility for several attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq and the kidnapping of some foreigners, as well as attacks on Shi'ite militias in recent months.

(Additional reporting by Caren Bohan and Dean Yates in Amman, Arshad Mohammed in Washington and Francois Murphy in Paris)

With other opinion that what is happening is only class sectarian conflicts caused economic decline, Deputies agreed that part of the solution is to improve the economic situation of the Iraqis.

Do it now, do it now, do it now!!!!

Originally Posted by Jola

Translated version of http://www.alsabaah.com/

Baghdad-interpretation morning
متى ما تبدد الدخان عن العراق سيرى العالم اخيرا معجزة مصغرة، هذا هو ما يقوله مسؤولون في البنتاغون.يقول دين بوبس، مساعد سكرتير الجيش للشؤون اللوجستية والتكنولوجية : " لا يدرك معظم الاميركيين أن شيئاً يعادل خطة مارشال قد تم انجازه في العراق".الجيش الأميركي هو مدير برنامج بقيمة 20 مليار دولار من اموال دافعي الضرائب الاميركيينWhen the smoke had dissipated on Iraq Seri world finally mini miracle, That is what the Pentagon officials. Pops says religion, Assistant secretary of the Army for logistical and technological : "Most Americans do not realize that something equivalent to the Marshall Plan has been achieved in Iraq."

Where did we hear about something like this before???

jola. we have had several discussions about this within the last week or so. looks like a good find to me. was there a date?

Boycotting Iraqi lawmakers, Cabinet ministers set conditions for returning to work

Boycotting Iraqi lawmakers, Cabinet ministers set conditions for returning to work

11/30/2006 AP
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki must improve security and provide more reliable electricity and other basic services before Shiite politicians end a boycott of the government launched to protest the premier's summit with U.S. President George W. Bush, a top legislator said Thursday.

The boycott by ministers and lawmakers loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is not affecting many vital ministries, and one striking minister said work continues at his office even with him gone.

But the walkout has driven home the fragility of al-Maliki's coalition government of feuding Shiites, Sunni Arabs, Kurds and secularists.

Top Shiite legislator Baha al-Aaraji said in a telephone interview that to end the boycott there must be an increase in the number of well-trained Iraqi security forces, and the government must provide more electricity, gas and other basic services, especially in southern provinces that are less violent than central and northern Iraq. In Baghdad and other cities, residents often have no electricity or water supplies for much of the day.

Al-Aaraji would not answer further questions.

One of the main goals of the U.S. coalition is to train enough Iraqi soldiers and police to take over its security responsibilities, especially in particularly violent areas such as western Iraq, where al-Qaida in Iraq is powerful, and Baghdad, where fighting between Sunni militants and Shiite militias is escalating.

After his summit with al-Maliki in Jordan on Thursday, Bush said they both have agreed to speed a turnover of security responsibility to Iraqi forces, but that U.S. troops would remain in Iraq as long as needed to strengthen the prime minister's authority.

"One of his frustrations with me is that he believes that we've been slow about giving him the tools necessary to protect the Iraqi people," Bush said during a joint news conference with al-Maliki in Amman. "Today we had a meeting that will accelerate the capacity for the prime minister to do the hard work necessary to help stop this violence."

In Iraq, the U.S. military said Thursday that Iraqi forces had found 28 bodies the day before in what may be a mass grave south of the city of Baqouba. For about a week, heavy fighting between Iraqi police and Sunni insurgents has killed scores of people in and around Baqouba, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad.

In the southern city of Basra, gunmen killed Nasir Gatami, the deputy of the local Sunni Endowment chapter, and three of his bodyguards in an attack on their two-car convoy, police said. The Endowment, which confirmed the attack, was created to care for Sunni mosques across Iraq. In the past four months, 23 employees of its employees have been kidnapped in Baghdad, reportedly by suspected Shiite militias.

The U.S. command said Thursday that an American soldier was killed the day before during combat in Baghdad, raising to at least 2,884 the number of U.S. service members who have died since the beginning of the Iraq war.

The boycott by Shiite legislators and ministers doesn't affect top ministries in al-Maliki's government such as foreign, defense, oil, finance, interior, justice or trade. The boycotting Shiite Cabinet members include the ministers of agriculture, health, transport and public works.

Liwa Smeism, one of the boycotting Cabinet ministers, said Thursday that the Shiite boycott wouldn't stop all work at government offices such as his Ministry of State of Tourism and Archaeological Affairs.

"We are protesting, not closing the ministries. The undersecretaries and other officials are running them. If my decision is needed at my ministry, my staff can call me up at home," he said in a telephone interview.

Smeism said the participating ministers are "suspending our participation in the Cabinet meetings until we get new directions from our leaders of the boycott."

Like, al-Aaraji, Smeism declined to comment on the decision by al-Maliki and King Abdullah II of Jordan to abruptly back out of a meeting with Bush in Amman on Wednesday night.

In announcing the boycott Wednesday, the 30 lawmakers and five Cabinet ministers said their action was necessary because the summit in Jordan constituted a "provocation to the feelings of the Iraqi people and a violation of their constitutional rights."

The Sadrists had threatened to quit the government and the 275-member parliament if al-Maliki went ahead with the summit. But by downgrading their protest to a suspension of membership, they left open a return to their jobs.

Originally Posted by Nomrah I View Post
I watched it too. I actually find it fascinating watching history unfold. I feel better about my investment after watching it too. I can't believe how incredibly difficult it must be to create a democracy from ground zero. We sure as hell didn't do it from ground zero here in America, yet we want results NOW, and are impatient that it isn't up and running smoothily all ready. If we look at what has been accomplished and what the long term effects of democracy in Iraq will be for the Middle East - heck, for the world, it is breathtaking. And no, I'm not talking about the RV. It's all about perspective. Ask my kids, they hear me say it all the time, "patience, perspective, perseverance, and prayer" that's mom's motto.

This should be all our motto! Thanks, Nomrah.

Originally Posted by CharmedPiper

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The report said that all indicators show that the oil sector in Iraq can not stand on its own feet without the help of foreign companies to develop oil fields and increase export rates.

All major international oil companies are reluctant to invest in Iraq until the drafting of the long-awaited law to regulate the oil sector.

That is important!
Any time now!