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

**CORY** · 09-12-2006, 08:21 AM

you know if this doesnt rv by the end of this month we wont have to pay capital gains until april 15 of 2008. also dems will get the credit for makeing the money if they wait till next year to rv

**opps50** · 09-12-2006, 08:21 AM

Originally Posted by CharmedPiper

Unless there is a link to the .31 theory it should probably be over in the rumor section. I hopped on to check the posts and was terrified that I might have accidentally got on IIF. What has happened here....all this talk about .31 and slow float.....doesn't anybody read the linked news articles everyone posts about the need for an imminent high reval. I will check back tomorrow when the dark clouds have lifted...come on guys...it's gonna reval next week and high!!!! See everyone tomorrow.

You talk about links, Could we have a link to your statement in the bottom or should it be in the rumor section?

**kiko** · 09-12-2006, 08:47 AM

Originally Posted by Lakeway

it must be passed before the year’s end

Now the 10 million dollar question.......

WHY must it be passed before years end??

Does it have to do with the budget??

Handouts??

Oil Contracts??

WHY???

I know what I hope that means!!

It has to pass because:

* it is required by the IMF which has set a deadline of 31/12/2006

* donor countries gave aid in return for economic reform = HCL

* iraq only depends on the oil revenue as an income.
No oil =No money = no purchasing power = country bankrupt
with high inflation

* the oil industry, needs $20 billion extra besides the current budget
to reconstruct the oil sector which iraq don't have. The only way to
do this is with foreign investment and for foreign investment they
need the Investmen Law and HCL or else it isn't possible.

So you see the pressure is hughe because time is running out now!

**shotgunsusie** · 09-12-2006, 09:08 AM

**shotgunsusie** · 09-12-2006, 09:37 AM

Iraq central bank buys up currency to fight inflation
By THOMAS WAGNER

BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq's dinar currency has risen to a nearly two-year high against the U.S. dollar, as the nation's central bank tries to fend off skyrocketing inflation by buying up the currency with dollars at its daily auctions.

Most of the money the Iraqi government earns is in U.S. dollars because oil exports are the main source of its income, and the bank has about US$14 billion in foreign assets, said Mudher Qassim, the Central Bank of Iraq's director of statistics.

On Thursday, the last day of the work week in Baghdad, the central bank led the way at its daily currency auction, which saw 25 million U.S. dollars sold by about a dozen banks, the central bank said. Even larger amounts of dollars were sold during 10 of the auctions in November.

"Our goal is to reduce inflation, which is now running at about 50 per cent, by improving the dinar and thereby making imported goods cheaper," Qassim said in a telephone interview, adding that more than 80 per cent of all Iraq's tradable goods are imported, he said.

In a report in August, the International Monetary Fund also said inflation was escalating in Iraq. The 12-month rate of inflation ended 2005 at 31.7 per cent, but inflation then accelerated, with 12-month inflation reaching 58 per cent in May 2006, the report said.

Iraq's Central Bank also is trying to fight inflation by raising interest rates. In November it raised its key policy rate to 16 per cent from 12 per cent. Wednesday's report from the bipartisan U.S. Iraq Study Group said that by the end of 2006, the bank will raise rates to 20 per cent and appreciate the dinar by 10 per cent.

The Central Bank's fight against inflation could prove to be an uphill battle, however, since many observers believe the leading contributor to inflation is the high cost of security involved in distributing goods throughout the country.

On Thursday, the dinar was trading at the central bank's auction price of 1,424 against the U.S. dollar, according to the bank's website, its strongest price since March 23, 2004, when it was at 1,420.

Between Nov. 29 and Thursday, the Iraqi currency traded widely at a market price between 1,410 to 1,442 to the dollar, the best market price the dinar had seen Jan. 26, 2005, when it traded at 1,405.

"The dinar has steadily increased against the dollar because of the central bank's efforts to stabilize the currency and control inflation," said Hussein al-Uzri, president of the state-owned Trade Bank of Iraq.

"Iraqi consumers get oil and food that is government subsidized, so the rise in the dinar won't have an immediate effect on them and the economy. It will take some time. But as Iraqis realize the value of the dinar is rising, they will stop immediately exchanging their currency into dollars," he told The Associated Press.

CANOE -- CNEWS - World: Iraq central bank buys up currency to fight inflation

**shotgunsusie** · 09-12-2006, 09:46 AM

Multi-National Force - Iraq - Capture of Terrorist Emirs Gives al-Qaida in Iraq Nowhere to Turn

Capture of Terrorist Emirs Gives al-Qaida in Iraq Nowhere to Turn
Thursday, 07 December 2006
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Capture of Terrorist Emirs Gives al-Qaida in Iraq Nowhere to Turn

BAGHDAD, Iraq – On Wednesday, the Government of Iraq released the names and photos of several suspected senior-level Ansar al Sunna emirs who were captured by Coalition Forces during a series of raids in mid-November.

The AAS network is responsible for improvised explosive device attacks and suicide attacks on Iraqi government, Coalition Forces and Iraqi civilians. The AAS network is also responsible for multiple kidnappings, small arms attacks and other crimes in the central and northern part of Iraq.

One terrorist emir, Abu Mohammed aka Ismail, AAS Emir of Yusifiyah was killed during a raid late November.

The suspected Ansar al Sunna emirs who were captured are:

National level

- Ramadan Muhammad Salih Ahmad ((Bilbas)) aka Abu Mustafa, AAS Emir of Iraq. Abu Mustafa is a founding member of AAS.
- Taha Ahmad Pir-Dawud Ahmad ((Surchi)), aka Hajji Sa’id, Senior AAS representative and al-Qaida facilitator.
- ‘Adnan ‘Abdallah ‘Alaywi Muhammad ((al-‘Ithawi)), aka Abu Jaffar, AAS Secretary. He was Abu Mustafa’s personal assistant and he was responsible for arranging AAS senior-level meetings.

Regional level

- Hatim Abd-al-Ghafar Muslim Muhammad ((al Shimar)), aka Abu Taha, AAS Emir of Al Qa’im and Western al Anbar. He allegedly was a Colonel in the Iraqi Army before the war.
- ‘Abd-al-Basit ‘Abd-al-Razzaq Hasan ‘Ali ((al-‘Abbasi)), aka Abu Asim, AAS Emir of Tikrit.
- ‘Ali Hasayn ‘Ali “Abdallah ((Zandi)), aka Abu Bandar, AAS Emir of Baqubah.
- Amjad ‘Abd-al-Sattar Muhammad ‘Ali ((al-Ta’i)), aka Abu Najila, AAS Emir of Ramadi and Eastern al Anbar.
- Sa’id Jasim Muhammad Khudayyir al-Jadid ((al-Juwaynat)), aka Abu Sayf, AAS Emir of Bayji.
- Husayn Khudayyir ‘Abbas Majid ((al-Zubaydi)), aka Abu Husayn, AAS Emir of Bazayiz.
- Salih Khudayyir Salman Jadi ((al-Juburi)), aka Sajad, AAS Emir of Fallujah.

This is another step closer to defeating al-Qaida in Iraq and helping establish a safe and peaceful Iraq. Coalition Forces will continue to target not only senior al-Qaida in Iraq leaders, but all associated terrorist movements like Ansar Al Sunna. They will be identified, captured and prosecuted for their crimes.

**shotgunsusie** · 09-12-2006, 10:02 AM

Transcript of an IMF Center Book Forum -- Handbook on Fiscal Federalism

Transcript of an IMF Center Book Forum
Handbook on Fiscal Federalism
International Monetary Fund
Washington, D.C.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Moderated by Teresa Ter-Minassian, IMF

Panel Presentations:
Ehtisham Ahmad, IMF
Danny Leipzigers, World Bank
Vito Tanzi, Inter-American Development Bank

Transcript Contents

Introduction by Teresa Ter-Minassian
Presentation by Ehtisham Ahmad
Danny Leipzigers's remarks
Vito Tanzi's remarks
Questions and Answer session
Closing remarks by Teresa Ter-Minassian
Introduction by Teresa Ter-Minassian
(4:00 p.m.)

MS. TER-MINASSIAN: I would like to begin by thanking all of you for coming to this most interesting economic forum to discuss or to present the book on fiscal federalism, which Ehtisham Ahmad together with Georgio Brosio from the University of Turin has co-edited.

Intergovernmental fiscal relations are of course a topic of growing importance around the word, and not only from the point of view of their importance for additional objectives of economic policy, good governments, location of resources, distributional objectives, but also from the point of - Fund standpoint because of their important macroeconomic implications.

And we in the Fiscal Affairs Department have been devoting considerable amount of intellectual resources to studying various aspects of this whole area of the public finances. This work began in the early nineties with Vito's support and at that point culminated in the preparation of The Book on Fiscal Federalism in Theory and Practice, which I edited and the FAD published in 1997, which is frequently referred to as "The Red Book." And I still hear periodically references to it.

It was a bit pioneering in the FAD because it focused especially attention on the macroeconomic dimension of fiscal federalism. And it included a lot of case studies, a survey of the state of - the Intergovernmental of fiscal relations around the world at the time.

It's now a very dated book, but fortunately a number of other important efforts have been made by the Fiscal Affairs Department staff, including a conference, which was conducted in 2000 at the behest actually of the Board. They expressed an interest in such an event and which was then reflected in a book co-edited by Vito and Ehtisham.

And this new book which Ehtisham has co-edited, it's a further step in the analysis of intergovernmental fiscal relations issues. And it is one which perhaps goes further than the previous ones in terms of the focus on political economy, aspects, and also on some of the newer issues that have come to the floor like, you know, distribution of natural resources across levels of government horizontally among members of the same level of government, the relation between intergovernmental fiscal relation and environmental issues, issues of governments and in particular corruption, and it also puts more emphasis on the role of good institutions in determining good fiscal outcomes in the countries that - well, different levels of government have important different functions.

So, I think this is definitely a sort of major new contribution to a growing area. It reflects of course a lot of theoretical contribution, but it also includes some chapters which are more of an applied nature. And some of the fiscal affairs experience with technical assistance in various member countries in the design and the reform of intergovernmental fiscal relation is also reflected in some of these chapters.

So, of course I am quite excited about it and I think this is a very good opportunity this afternoon for you all to hear from first of all, the main author and editor of the book about the main messages that come out from the various staples in it, and then to hear the comments of, on the one hand, Danny Leipziger, the Vice President for PREM and the World Bank. The World Bank has a long tradition of advising countries on various aspects of their intergovernmental fiscal relations, and of course, from my good friend and mentor, Vito Tanzi, who also has written quite a lot on this subject.

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Clearly, fiscal federalism and its bizarre format was a requirement of the Dayton Accords(?) to keep the Bosnia entities together. Clearly, fiscal federalism probably should have investigated more as a means for serving as the spokes of keeping Afghanistan as a viable country. And Ambassador Peter Gallbreth(?) has been speaking lately about how Iraq is already dividing into three sub-country organizations. And it's at a different level pay scale we could say that the decisions have been taken that these countries must remain as individual countries.

So, I'd like to see if there is some further distance we can go in seeing how federalism and it's - how it could be used as the spokes to keep together a wheel of a country that might otherwise fall apart. And I don't think it's always necessarily great. I mean clearly the creature that came out of the Dayton Accords is not a good way to - it's a peace accord but it turns out to be a constitution and it's almost unbearable.

If any of you would address that, I'd appreciate it.

MS. TER-MINASSIAN: Would anybody else like to comment?

MR. AHMAD: I think the value of having Vito on the panel cannot be overemphasized. And again, Thank you very much, Vito.

Just a few points that I'd like to make. One is that most of the points you have raised, most of your authors would agree with. And I think that Tibu Model was referred to so often not so much to recommend it but more as a critique. And indeed, the political economy literature that essentially drives most of the modern literature is based on the critique of the previous literature including Tibu. So, the fact that it's mentioned 23 times or 26 times doesn't necessarily mean that it's being recommended 26 times.

Also, in terms of the background of the authors, there are three Americans out of 29 authors. And the - I would just emphasize that there's a predominance of Italians particularly in discussing the issues of revenue assignments and market failure.

And on the issue of - again, as you said, there is a U.S. bias, I really wouldn't accuse Bourguignonne of having a U.S. bias or perhaps Rivelli, but not necessarily -

MR. TANZI: I was not referring to the book. I was referring to the literature.

MR. AHMAD: The literature, yes. Certainly on the literature, of course. In the literature, there is very much of a bias and new literature is actually coming out in Europe because you're seeing the new constructs in the European Union. And the old structures which people were talking about relating to the United States are no longer relevant to this particular context.

And that's where the new literature essentially has got its impetus. It's largely European. Of course, there's a lot of literature not coming out of developing countries and the two institutions here. I'm partially to blame for that.

As I said, I think many of the points you've raised, the contrast between the United States and Germany, I mean that was very much the central point of Bernschpun's paper. When you're looking at different constitutional constructs and you look at how approaches differ and how you may wish to take different approaches when you have constitutional arrangements, which in Europe and particularly Germany are different from those in the United States.

I won't go into, you know, point by point discussion here, but I think I'll come back to the point that was made by Mr. Gallagher that it's important actually to look at what countries want in the fund and bank, I guess, respond to requests from countries. And I guess there is a presumption that the countries want to stay together, so quite often our technical assistance is looking at ways which improve the functioning of multi-tiered governments, whether it's Bolivia or Peru or it's Bosnia or Iraq.

And indeed, we are engaged with the bank and treasury and others in looking at options for Iraq. And we are doing, you know, sort of beginning the investigations. We've been looking at some of the options for a number of years. We're going back, looking at not just the intergovernmental issues, but in particular how the management of natural resources impinges on the options for decentralized operations. Decentralized operations, as you correctly pointed out, are a natural fact. They have happened.

The question is how do you keep the country together because there is a presumption that the country is being kept together. And then how do you make it work more efficiently? It's not easy. But there are issues involved in - there may be some technical solutions, which might help the political dialogue. And that's quite often really where we begin to do work at the margin.

And I would add that the work done by Amil Sunley(?) and Bob Ebel in the context of Sudan, the technical work essentially helped in getting the agreement between the north and the south. By putting some of the technical solutions on the table, you are then able to see that oh well, these things can actually work, that if there is an equitable sharing mechanism, the Kurds might actually say well, it's okay then to have central management of the petroleum resources.

It's a question of trust and it's a question of being able to demonstrate that some of the technical options are actually workable. And that's really what our day to day concerns are. And it was change of countries.

And you know, you go to Bolivia, you go to Peru, the question is there's been a lot of emphasis on decentralization, but if there's been no impact for the poor in the vast majority of municipalities, then you have a problem. And you have a problem which has a political impact.

And therefore, looking at mechanisms which actually do ensure that you get better service delivery and they may not necessarily be decentralized options, so essentially, you're looking at mechanisms. You're looking at assignments. You're looking at the assignment of responsibilities. You're looking at options for revenues. And revenue assignments at the margin do not necessarily require a local government to administer themselves.

As Vito himself mentioned, you can have a piggybacking on income tax which is administered centrally. Similarly, there may be other options up with (off mike) and so on. A number of options have been tried out in different parts of the world. What will work in each individual case depends on the case. And really, one has to start from the beginning, look at the constitutions, look at the institutional structure, look at the administrative capabilities, and then come up with something that is reasonable and workable.

So our approach in our work going forward is to look at what works and what doesn't. And that comes back to Danny's point in work that the bank has initiated, which we think is actually rather important. What works, how does it work, do you have alternatives? So those are the practical issues that we - I think that this is the work that we've been doing in the Fiscal Affairs Department and under Vito's supervision and now under Teresa's supervision is to look at sensible practical approaches to making the quality of life better, meeting the goals of particular countries, ensuring that the process doesn't result in wastage and corruption but actually gets down to the nitty gritty of improving standards of living.

So I think I'll stop there in terms of the response to you. And we'll have a long discussion bilaterally on specific points, but I think you'll find that most of the individual authors would by and large agree with what you've said with the exception of not many are Americans and many Italians.

MS. TER-MINASSIAN: Okay. Thank you, Ehtisham.

Danny?

MR. LEIPZIGER: I'll make three quick points, one on the trade issue. I mean obviously there's a price to pay for states to conform to international trade agreements, but there's also a benefit. I mean if you're a state, you're not going to be able to ensure quality standards or make sure that the electric plug that you just bought from Canada or Mexico is not going to blow up. So, there are pros and cons.

On the spoke wheel thing, I mean this is a politics issue. But it just seems to me from the fiscal federalism point of view, fiscal federalism, no matter how well designed, is not going to solve a political problem that is not solvable by economic means. So I think the issue here is to make sure that for situations that are viable, you don't create forces that will tear something apart that would normally be held intact. But obviously, if the politics were so overriding, I don't think any fiscal federalism intervention is going to solve some of the problems of the countries that you mentioned.

And just thirdly, on one of Vito's points, I think one could probably put together some reasonably good reasons why - maybe not in Italy, but in other countries - there is a rationale for something in between the municipality the nation. I mean certainly in Brazil, for example, you've got municipalities that are so small that they're just not viable. And there are a lot of scale issues as I'm sure you know.

The elite capture point that you made might be even more valid in a small area than with some checks and balances by a province or a state, whatever you want to call it. And then you have the issue, at least from the World Bank point of view, that the poor can move. So if it comes in an issue of moving the poor from one municipality to another - I mean, but there are many reasons why one could argue that there's something in between. I'm not saying it needs to be a fiscal federal structure, but administratively, there are probably some valid arguments for something in between those two levels of government.

But anyway, that's all I have to say.

MR. TANZI: Maybe just to make the point that I'm very happy to see this book. You know, it will become a reference book for many people. And I hope that it will have a lot of influence. My concern is that maybe I'm concerned that I developed while I was for a while in the Italian Government was the fact that many of the decisions that are made are not made by expert, are made by politicians who very often don't buy this book, not because of the price, but because of their own particular interests.

So, I hope that the book will have an impact on the people that are involved in making decision and will - I'm - somehow I continue to be a firm believer in the market for ideas. I think that the better ideas over time prevail over the bad ones. And I hope that this book will help the better ideas to prevail over the bad ones. Thank you.

Closing remarks by Teresa Ter-Minassian

MS. TER-MINASSIAN: Well, I won't try to sum up such a rich and interesting discussion. I agree with Vito that this book will have - or it has the potential to have a very good impact on moving forward the reflection and the policy advice - at least the policy advice that international institutions or bilateral technical assistance provides - gives to countries.

Maybe it will not have a direct immediate impact on a number of politicians that, as you said, an agenda which is not necessarily dictated by the best public interest, but forming - helping to form a public opinion and including through media, through academic circles and increasingly there is fortunately a sort of two way street between academia and policy making I think holds some promises that the reflections that have been included in this book will have a positive impact.

I think today's forum an initial step in that direction. And I want to thank you again, all of you, for participating. And well, I would not necessarily urge you to buy the book given what I've heard, but maybe we will - at least some libraries will require a sufficient number of copies to make it worth while for the publisher.

**shotgunsusie** · 09-12-2006, 10:04 AM

Kuna site|Story page|GCC summit to focus on instilling Gulf citizenship...12/9/2006

GCC summit to focus on instilling Gulf citizenship - Attiya

POL-GCC-SUMMIT-ATTIYA
GCC summit to focus on instilling Gulf citizenship - Attiya

CAIRO, Dec 9 (KUNA) -- The 27th Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit which kicks off in Riyadh later Saturday will focus on further instilling Gulf citizenship among the people of the six GCC states, the council's Secretary General Abdulrahman Al-Attiya said.

In an interview with the local Al-Ahram daily published today, Al-Attiya stressed the importance of continuing with the GCC plan, as it is a "strategic choice for the people of the Gulf." On how the summit would deal with the violence in Iraq, Al-Attiya said the Iraqi issue tops the agenda and GCC leaders will assert the importance of maintaining Iraq's national unity and territorial integrity.

The leaders will reiterate their rejection of foreign intervention and will call on all Iraqi sects to agree on the Iraqi government's national reconciliation plan away from sectarian and ethnic discrimination, he said while expressing the council's deepest concern over the violent developments in Iraq.

On Lebanon, he said the Gulf countries are keen to retain stability and security there through dialogue and through maintaining national unity and rejecting all that compromises unity.

Saudi Arabian King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz is expected to address the Gulf leaders in the opening session of the 27th GCC summit later this afternoon in Riyadh.(end) rg.

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**shotgunsusie** · 09-12-2006, 10:12 AM

MENAFN - Middle East North Africa . Financial Network News: Bush Sets Conditions for Iran and Syria to Mediate Iraq Talks

Bush Sets Conditions for Iran and Syria to Mediate Iraq Talks

Arab News - 08/12/2006

(MENAFN - Arab News) WASHINGTON, 8 December 2006 — A day after the leaders of the Iraq Study Group handed him its report, President George W. Bush met yesterday with his strongest ally in Iraq war, British Prime Minister Tony Blair. They met at the White House to discuss the war and the recommendations of the group, which bluntly states that the situation in Iraq is "grave and deteriorating and dire," and warned that even a sharp change of policy on Iraq may not avert a regional conflagration.

The two men had an unscheduled breakfast together and held rounds of meetings at the Oval Office in the White House before holding a joint question-and-answer session that lasted almost an hour.

Bush said that neither his administration nor Congress is going to "accept every recommendation" in the Iraq Study Group report, but admitted a "new approach" is needed, and said the report "discussed the way forward."

As for the panel's recommendation that the United States talk to Iran and Syria, both leaders said they have concerns. Blair called it a question of standing up for "the right principles," like not funding terrorists.

"Countries that participate in talks must not fund terrorism, must help the young democracy survive, must help with the economics of the country," Bush said. "If people are not committed, if Syria and Iran are not committed to that concept, then they shouldn't bother to show up."

Blair will launch a Middle East mission to show US and British commitment to ending the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

The Iraq Study Group said that Bush had to launch a new Middle East peace effort to give the United States renewed credibility in the region.

"Prime Minister Blair informed me that he will be heading to the Middle East soon, to talk to both the Israelis and the Palestinians," Bush said.

"I support the mission, because it's important for us to advance the cause of two states living side by side in peace and helping both parties eliminate the obstacles that prevent an agreement from being reached," Bush said.

Middle Eastern countries reacted differently to the report of the Iraq Study Group. While Israel rejected the group's conclusion that a concerted effort to resolve Israel's conflict with its neighbors will help stabilize the situation in Iraq, Syria called it encouraging. Iran said it was in no hurry to mediate.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said there was no connection between Israel's conflict with its neighbors and the situation in Iraq. Olmert also rebuffed the group's recommendation that Israel open negotiations with Syria, but said Israelis want "with all our might" to restart peace talks with the Palestinians.

The Iraq Study Group report, released Wednesday in Washington, calls for direct talks between Israel and its neighbors, Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinians and says resolving the Israeli-Arab conflict would improve conditions in Iraq.

Olmert rejected that finding. "The attempt to create a linkage between the Iraqi issue and the Mideast issue; we have a different view," Olmert said during the prime minister's annual meeting with Israeli journalists.

An official close to Syrian President Bashar Assad said Damascus was encouraged by the report. "We are pleased that the report ties the situation in Iraq with the rest of the region. Our view has been that what goes on in Iraq cannot be isolated from Syria, Palestine or Lebanon," Expatriates Minister Buthaina Shabaan said.

**shotgunsusie** · 09-12-2006, 10:30 AM

Existing Iraqi National supported the call by Ayatollah have deployed to the dismantling of the political forces of sectarianism

The existing Iraqi national support for the invitation of His Eminence Ayatollah Mohammad have deployed in the need to dismantle the existing political blocs on a sectarian basis, and the formation of new political blocks beyond the political stalemate resulting from the sectarian and ethnic tension and believes in his groundbreaking and blessed them faithful to the vision of saving the country.

She said in a statement issued yesterday that the lives of citizens is very important and that any political project must be on the restoration of security and stability for the Iraqi people and restore political forces consider the political process based on sectarian and ethnic quotas that have colored the value of the devastation of Iraq and the bloodshed and introduced the country in the darkness did not see them so far by the glimmer of hope illuminating.

The statement reads as follows : In the name of God the Merciful
We arrived to Iraq is not threatening to aggravate civil war today and the only question left out of the blood that is shed daily from all parties, without exception, and is now threatening the country's unity and the danger of imminent change of the fabric of Iraqi society and reflects negatively on all the neighboring countries and the region as a whole and let us in the spiral of violence is a regional scope only God knows.

The life of the citizens is very important and is submitted to any political project must for politicians Iraqis to draw their attention to restoring security and stability for the Iraqi people and rethink in the way the political process based on sectarian and ethnic quotas that have colored the value of the devastation of Iraq and the bloodshed and introduced the country in the darkness did not see them so far by the glimmer of hope illuminating.

We must address the political situation and reconsider the nature of the political blocs emerge for the Iraqis and Iraqi political tides that would contain the sons of the nation from all ethnic and religious groups and accept the reunification, stop the bloodshed and find hope for coexistence and common Iraqi national forces, which insist on collecting the unity of Iraq and its stability, security and sovereignty, as called for by the Iraqi National list.

On this, we strongly support the call by His Eminence Ayatollah Mohammad have deployed in the need to dismantle the existing political blocs on a sectarian basis, and the formation of new political blocks beyond the political stalemate resulting from the sectarian and ethnic tension and feel blessed to call a new victory in a correct and faithful to the vision of saving the country.

That vision Ayatollah deployed personnel had diagnosed the illness, and suggested medicine, we call on all political parties to unite and synergy together for the success of this project and abandon the concepts of sectarianism and ethnic and partisan interests and consider the highest interests of Iraq first and the interest of the Iraqi citizen, security and stability, which created a political process for the future and praised his performance of our duty.

We will be ongoing with all those who wish to enter this national project which we hope the only country to escape from darkness black cloaked.

Osama Alnjevi
Member of the House of Representatives from the National Iraqi List
2006January 6, 2006
Mubarak confirms Egypt's eagerness to restore Iraq's security and stability

The Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak keen, and Arab leaders, the Arab identity of Iraq, and it must remain a pillar of the Arab nation, Mubarak also stressed Egypt's keenness to restore calm and stability, and reconciliation between all the sons of Iraq one, and pointed out that Egypt does not discriminate between the sons of Iraq, never on the basis of religious or sectarian basis. This came during a meeting between President Hosni Mubarak and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari yesterday.

Almshahadani declaring the end of preventing journalists from covering the meetings of the House of Representatives

Announced by the Speaker of the Parliament Dr. Mahmoud Almshahadani the end of yesterday to prevent journalists from covering the meetings of the House of Representatives. The Almshahadani decided last week to prevent journalists from entering (the Palais des Congrès), which is located in the Green Zone in Baghdad, deprived of the cover meetings of the Parliament grounds that the political council of national security made a recommendation in this regard in order to "stop the escalation and sectarian tension." He accused the President of the House of Representatives of the Iraqi media and foreign "to work on fueling resentment and violence" in the country.
The security situation
Suicide attack in Sadr City

Police sources said that four civilians were killed and eight others injured due to a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a bus in the Al-Sadr City. A security source said that "the suicide bomber wearing a belt of explosives blew himself up yesterday morning inside a bus less large number of civilians, including women and children, near Alciarh popular market in Sadr City." He explained that "the security forces cordoned off the area of the blast while ambulances to transfer the injured to nearby hospitals."

Official Survives protect higher education from an assassination attempt
Police sources said that the official protection of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, survived an assassination attempt yesterday morning in the Mansour. The sources said the unknown gunmen objected car Brigadier General (Qassim Hassan Yasiri) protections official of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research during heading to his headquarters in the Mansour district, and fired a volley of bullets, killing the driver and injuring Yasiri, was slightly injured, while the owner of the scene to an unknown destination. The sources said that security forces cordoned off the scene of the accident immediately and the transfer Yasiri, to the hospital to receive treatment.

The fall of mortar shells at the neighborhood group
Eyewitnesses said residents of Baghdad neighborhood group that a civilian died and five others injured by the fall of a number of mortar shells yesterday morning in a residential area of the district.

According to one eyewitness of the region to six rounds of mortar shells yesterday morning at a residential district in the April 9 in the neighborhood group led to the deaths of civilians and the wounding of five others, all of them civilians, and causing minor damage to four houses in the region, pointing out that the people who transport the injured to hospital near the Yarmouk. He added that a number of mortar rounds fired from an unknown location at the neighborhood group Anfjaratha bang was heard last night.

The fall of mortar shells in the field of battle
Police sources said yesterday that eight people were martyred and four others were injured as a result of the fall of a number of mortar shells in the field. A security source said that "a number of mortar shells on the market commotion in the field in the center of Baghdad early yesterday morning."

Official national organization meet Mr. Abdel-Al Musawi
:Basra-Movdna :
He met with a member of the political bureau official national organization in the Iraqi National Accord Movement, during his visit to Basra Governorate Mr. Abdel-Aal, Mr. Musawi. It was discussed during the meeting on the situation of the Iraq and ways of achieving security and stability and the need to spread the spirit of love and tolerance among the components of the Iraqi people.

The two sides stressed the need to promote the services provided by the citizens of the governorate and the setting up of projects that will promote the economy and especially the Iraqi province of Basra is Iraq's economic artery.

Translated version of http://www.baghdad-newspaper.com/

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