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Includes the Supreme Council and the Islamic Party and the Kurdistan Alliance

(Voice of Iraq) - 09-12-2006
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A new political bloc includes the Supreme Council and the Islamic Party and the Kurdistan Alliance

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The Minister of State for reconciliation situation of child labor Akram Hakim that Iraq would soon form a new political bloc of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the Iraqi Islamic Party and the Kurdistan Alliance.

In press statements from Washington, Hakim said that the aim of the bloc was to address the sectarian tension that has ravaged the country through coordination among the most important parties within the political blocs President, he said :

In response to a question as to whether the alliance will include the Sadri movement and the Al-Dawa Al-Hakiem said that the door is open to all the political blocs, pointing out that contacts were made with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

Al-Hakim said the aim of the new alliance is to face daunting challenges in the country, pointing to the need for a solid bloc represented by the Chairperson of the coalition forces and the Kurdistan Alliance and the Accord Front.

For his part, a leader of the Iraqi Islamic Party Alaa Makki of talks with the various political blocs to reach a solution to the Iraqi crisis, but pointed at the same time that these blocs have yet to the agreement is clear and explicit in the Declaration, saying that this is premature.

He Makki in an interview with "Radio Sawa" that the goal of these talks is to reach a national park and leave a real Iraqi lead, which he described ditch sectarian and ethnic :

However, the leadership in the Dawa Party MP Haidar Al-Ebadi denied knowledge of such alliances, which he described as far from reality. In an interview with "Radio Sawa" Ebadi said :

Ebadi warned of the dangers of a new political divisions, pointing out that this step if true would raise problems of another kind, and it will not be the solution to the problem of sectarian grouping in the parliament, he said :

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Political Council of the National Security Council will convene a meeting to provide an opinion on the report of the Baker-Hamilton

A variety of positions politicians there. And Bush was considered non-binding Baghdad-Sabah Via closed-circuit television broadcast direct satellite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki report of the Baker-Hamilton without made no official comment on what is in it. As declared by the President Jalal Talabani expressed his reservation on some of the points contained in the Committee's report.

At a time when a variety of views and positions of the Iraqi politicians of the Committee's recommendations, informed sources said the political council of national security will hold a special meeting to study the report of the Baker-Hamilton date has not been set so far in order to reach a unified position toward it. Observers believe that the delay in the government's declaration of its position on the report is due to reach a consensus expected to emerge by the Political Council for National Security, which will be held soon the invitation of the President Talabani to crystallize a unified position and exit recommendation express the point of view of the Iraqi side.

In the meantime, have made President George Bush's commitment to and accept all the recommendations of the Commission other than British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who welcomed the report and announced his intention to undertake a tour of the Middle East before the end of this year for the points of contention in the negotiations with the regional parties concerned. The spokesman for President Talabani : yesterday, Friday, that the president supports the position of the president of Iraq's Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani to a report of a study of Iraq. He added Kamran Qarah temple that Talbani in spite of the support for the position of Barzani but he pointed to the presence of specific points in the report, such as the recommendation to transfer the security dossier to Iraqis and opening a dialogue with the neighboring countries, which coincide with the government's policy which calls always so.

The government of the Kurdistan region of Iraq issued a statement in which it expressed the view of the Committee's recommendations, describing it as inapplicable and unrealistic declared its rejection of the imposition of any recommendations contradict the Constitution and the interests of the country and the region.

The head of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Abdel Aziz al-Hakim described some of the information cited in the report as inaccurate, stressing that the solution to the Iraqi problem must be in Baghdad and through the Iraqis themselves. Praising the Speaker of the Parliament Dr. Mahmoud Almshahadani recommendations and believed that the Committee examined the situation in Iraq and deep well explaining it is consistent with many of the recommendations in Iraq.

The emergence of Christians report was broadly welcomed by a number of political leaders who see the decisions of the country a way out of the current security crisis and strengthening of the foundations of national reconciliation and the confirmation of sovereignty to the Iraqis through their receipt of the security file.

He Adnan Al-Dulaimi President Accord Front believed that the report would reform the current situation in Iraq and expressed reservations about the official position of all its clauses. For his part, President George W. Bush took the position away from the recommendations of the President contained in the report and disagreed with the Commission in one of two Alison request the withdrawal of American forces from Iraq after 15 months from now, and the other a direct dialogue with Syria and Iran.

Bush said in a press conference Friday with Prime Minister Tony Blair : It needs to be greater flexibility and more realistic in making decisions on the re-deployment of American forces, pointing to the existence of conditions for a dialogue with Iraq's neighbors Syria and Iran, which refused those conditions. Bush said in answer to questions from journalists : we want to achieve success more quickly. Unlike Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair welcomed the report saying : that the only way in the course of Iraq is the acceptance of the UN resolutions on Iraq in favor of a regional peace initiative starts from Iraq include the region.

He thought that the new realism must rely on ambitious ideas is the compromise to the crisis in Iraq. In New York, was the secretary-general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, following the publication of the report, looked forward to further discussions between the United Nations and the Iraqi government and the American President and the parties in the region on the future role of the organization in Iraq commended the role of the Arab League and a study of Iraq. Observers see that the recommendations made by the Baker-Hamilton would lead the Iraqis to light at the end of the tunnel if they took seriously and disposed of equivalents of the former enemy, and that the success of the government of Mr. al-Maliki is a double success of both Iraq and the United States as a success Stratijia.
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I just caught up with all the new posts...

One question :

How come that CBI says that at today's dinar exchange rate , now the inflation is only 50%? Have you noticed the two or three articles saying that?

Did 1470 to 1428 cover 20% inflation??? ( 70% minus 50% that they are talking about as of today's date)???


See the posts:

pipshurricane http://www.rolclub.com/146620-post140.html
"Our goal is to reduce inflation, which is now running at about 50 percent, by improving the dinar and thereby making imported goods cheaper," Qassim said in a telephone interview.

Is that possible?

The Baghdad governorate, card-based oil to the ration

In the distribution of oil derivatives Each station devoted distribution of the country Baghdad Najla Al-Khalidi Dedicated to the petroleum and energy of the Baghdad governorate to the station distribution of the oil products each municipal council to be distributed among vendors who deliver to the citizens dependent on the oil card

The part the ration card in the distribution and said official source in the Council that the Council demanded During an expanded meeting of the Energy Commission bringing together the heads of municipal councils and the six districts affiliated to the city of Baghdad the presence of the President of the Baghdad governorate a certain-Sadir and the Chairman of the Energy Commission Nizar-Sultan the need to protect the stations of terrorist operations during the gathering citizens and the transfer of Media Bureau in the governorate Baghdad in a press statement the President of the Council as saying at the beginning of the meeting that there multiple problems suffers municipal councils lies in the mechanism adopted by the Ministry of Oil for the distribution of oil products, especially and potatoes. Paraffin and gas. He added we want to be the agreement of all parties in this meeting to appropriate mechanism for distribution
For his part, the Chairman of the Energy Commission that the problems that impede the delivery of petroleum products to the citizen - is the lack of the existence of a special section in Baghdad and the lack of the product and the absence of control over the carriages, oil the Rangers from his part, Zaidun Khalaf representative of the Ministry of Oil Director of Branch-Karkh of petroleum products, member of the emergency committee that the Ministry of Petroleum continue in cooperation with the Council of Baghdad governorate and municipal councils in order to find appropriate solutions to deal with the paucity of Products oil in the city of Baghdad and districts affiliated to it.

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Monitoring billion and the allocation of one hundred thousand pieces of housing to be distributed among beneficiaries

After the ratification of the Council of Ministers on the National Housing Project Baghdad morning The Council of Ministers approved yesterday the first project, the biggest national housing after that has been allocated $ 1 billion in the 2007 budget to implement the project.

A statement issued by the Information Office of the Prime Minister received the "morning" copy that The project, the first phase of the families of martyrs, prisoners and politicians, immigrants and migrants during the Principles and the staff and the disabled, while the second stage includes all citizens who wish to acquire housing units. The statement pointed out that the National Housing Project includes four advantages are owning a plot of land housing a token amount and rate of grant in the amount of three million dinars and one-time to build a house, as well as facilitating the access of the beneficiaries on loan from the housing fund $ 18 million dinars, or a loan from the Land Bank worth thirty million dinars, in addition to facilitate the acceptance of the requests by the beneficiaries through the opening centers take upon themselves the completion of applications distributed among all provinces. The statement added that it has been allocated nearly one hundred thousand pieces housing screened and ready for sale as well as directing the ministries concerned with the administration of the infrastructure of the housing units and the provision of prefabricated building designs free of charge to beneficiaries.
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It looks like they were working on Friday....gotta' give them credit there.

9/12/2006

Political leaders and security officers discussed the problems and outstanding issues

In order to unify the national front Baghdad-Sabah The Deputy Prime Minister Sallam Alzobai that held an enlarged meeting yesterday with the first President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a number of leaders and prisoners, ministers and parliamentary figures come in Under the tireless efforts of political opponents in order to consolidate the national front and to find appropriate solutions to the outstanding issues. He pointed to Alzobai that this political movement that reflected positively on the Iraqi street, in order to eliminate the effects of all that threaten national unity, adding that the permanent need for such meetings contribute actively in bringing viewpoints option frank and direct communication between the leaders of blocs and Iraqi currents are paid to resolving the problems that stand in the way of achieving security and stability in the country. The meeting was attended by the President of the Kurdistan region Masoud Barzani, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih and Dr. Adnan Al Dulaimi, head of the Iraqi Accord Front, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, former Prime Minister Dr. Muwaffaq Rubaie, national security adviser to the American ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, as well as the ministers of interior and national security, finance, higher education, electricity, a number of members of parliament and the government and security officials.

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Notice the numbers in this article. These numbers would not get much accomplished if a significant revalue was not imminent..WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!

9/12/2006

Completion rates for advanced projects for the modernization of the basic designs of the Iraqi cities

Baghdad-Mahdi Karim Al-Taee Completed General Directorate of Physical Planning in the Ministry of Municipalities proportions advanced projects for the modernization of the basic designs of cities in Iraq working on the preparation of a new law on urban planning and a study to assess the reality of urban development in cities throughout the country.

The transfer advisor ministry of information on the Director of Physical Planning, Eng appeal return of Hussein saying that the Directorate continue to implement projects modernization of the designs core of the cities of Hillah at two billion and 175 million dinars, or delivery reached 60% and Najaf cost of two billion and 445 million dinars rates completion of the 25% of Hamam al-Alil a cost of 25 million dinars, or 50%, Mashkhab appointed with a cost of 45 million dinars, or 25% of both Shatrah a cost of 20 million and by the completion of 50%, on the eastern The cost of 20 million at a rate of 50% completion. It added that the Directorate ended of the analysis and negotiation with the companies the competent for the modernization of Basic design for the city of Amarah a cost of two billion and 25 million dinars is under of assignment and there for modernizing the the foundation design for the city of Samarra a cost of two billion and 400 million dinars, and the Directorate was also the Urban Renewal for the city of Mosul a cost of two billion and 470 million dinars and preparation of a study structural for Muthanna Governorate a cost of billion and 843 million and rural development in the Wasit a cost of 250 million dinars and the proportion of achievement in 60% and develop the banks of the river the Special in Kirkuk a cost of 20 million at a rate of the completion of 85% and urban renewal for the goat a prophet God ever Kefl a cost of 20 million dinars and a rate of the completion of 60% and modernize the Basic design for my part Al Bedier and an array Diwaniyah a cost of 40 million dinars and the city of Alsidnawih in Thi-Qar a cost of 12 million dinars, has been referred to the Advisory Board the University of Dhi Qar Governorate preparation of a study of the area recreational activities in the Muthanna a cost of 12 million dinars and the preparation of the design of a recreation center in Kut. She said the appeal that the Directorate was preparing a law on urban planning for the legislative base to work on this issue throughout the cities of Iraq, as well as the completion of a study to assess the reality of urban development in the Iraqi cities, especially in the wake of all the four provinces as a case study for this project.

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Saturday, December 9, 2006:

The slain terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi purportedly believed that Iraq's Shiite Muslims were more dangerous than US forces, according to a posthumous interview published Friday on the Internet.

He also believed they were more evil than dictator Saddam Hussein, according to the interview.

The 33-page interview, conducted sometime before a US fighter-bomber killed the former Iraq al-Qaida leader in June, could not be immediately authenticated.

It was posted on a Web site known to be a clearing-house for al-Qaida material.

The posting, which comes amid ongoing sectarian violence in Iraq, said the interview had been kept in al-Qaida's archive but did not explain why the terror group had decided to release it six months after his death.

The satan

In the interview, al-Zarqawi is quoted as saying the leader of Iraq's Shiites, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, is a "satan" who publicly tells Shiites to stay above the violence but secretly tells them to attack.

"Al-Sistani has ordered his followers not to fight the Americans ... and yet they hit Sunnis with assassinations, forcing them to flee their homes and attacking their mosques," said al-Zarqawi, a Sunni from Jordan. "For us, the Shiites are far more dangerous than the Americans."

"The mass graves that Saddam perpetrated, and all his other crimes over the past decades, do not amount to one-tenth of what the Shiites have done in the last three years," al-Zarqawi is quoted as saying.

Earlier this week, a bipartisan commission in the United States warned "the situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating" and recommended fundamentally different U.S. policies to combat the sectarian violence roiling the country.

The Iraq Study Group report also concluded that al-Qaida in Iraq is now largely made up of Sunni Arabs. Some 1,300 foreign fighters are believed to support the group or be available to carry out suicide bombings, the study found.

In the interview, Al-Zarqawi condemns the attacks of Iraq's Shiite Muslim militiamen on the country's Sunni Muslim community.

Yet it was al-Zarqawi who had fomented Shiite-Sunni strife as the best way to scuttle the U.S. plans to rebuild Iraq as a democratic state after Saddam's overthrow.

Vicious attacks

Al-Zarqawi, whose real name was Ahmad Fadhil Nazzal al-Khalayleh, was responsible for the most vicious of the wave of attacks that occurred in the first years of the Iraqi insurgency.

He is believed to have personally beheaded at least two American hostages. The U.S. had put a $25 million bounty on his head, the same amount as for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

In the interview, al-Zarqawi also rails against the leader of the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah, implicitly accusing Sheik Hassan Nasrallah of being in league with Israel.

Al-Zarqawi accuses Nasrallah of being two-faced in his opposition to Israel and suggests it is not an accident that Israeli aircraft have not killed him as they have killed several leaders of the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

"Hassan Nasrallah sits for hours at a military parade and Israeli aircraft don't bomb him. Who is he kidding?" al-Zarqawi is quoted as saying. (AP)

Al-Zarqawi said Shiites most dangerous - NDTV.com - News on Al-Zarqawi said Shiites most dangerous

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Economic Curfews: Led to the rise in food prices and scarcity in the market

Economists and artisans and merchants told (morning) : Baghdad-Imad Principality A number of economists and professionals and traders expressed concern that the actions of the government to impose curfews have frequent and sudden economic problems and retirement burden citizens, especially self-employed persons and farmers. They pointed in the poll conducted by (morning) that the procedures the curfews brought about a negative results in the structure of (the Iraqi economy) and led to major losses in agricultural production in particular also the payment of some brokers to raise the prices of agricultural products and food and some necessities and especially fuel, and explained Muhammad Qasim owner of the agricultural that the Farms exposure to significant losses the fact that the this product can afford to remain for a long time after, highlighting the To she exhibits is for the case of damage especially fresh agricultural produce such as fruits and vegetables, which are sold throughout the day and can not be stockpiling for the following day, which has brought about great material losses of the peasants and the grocer what forced the these to raise the prices of those agricultural products to the weaknesses after the days of (the curfews) to compensate their losses and thus withdraw those consequences upon Iraqi consumer in addition to the loss of (the Iraqi markets) for a number of agricultural products across the border, The reason for this is apprehension the importer the Iraqi fluctuations security and a repetition of the situation itself, and if we consider that most of the actions prohibition are sudden ... Private transport subjected to numerous problems, the driver (Mohamed Badawi) talked about the situation, saying : caused embargo measures to prevent the arrival of Iraqi trucks loaded with agricultural products such as (tomato, option, bananas, oranges) imported from neighboring countries, the presentation of such goods to the damage, since there are no alternatives for the conservation of these products due to the lack of warehouses equipped Balbaradat large, and if the electric power outages Be impediment of conserving and storing agricultural products, this situation has led to significant losses brought to bear on the importer the Iraqi, in addition parking hundreds of trucks for a long time awaiting Fatah the entrances of the capital Baghdad-Ahmed Hashim (Qassib) talked about this situation saying : which happened was the high great price because of impassable roads and the closure of many (bread ovens and freezer), as it has become difficult to get those articles They are necessary as a meal Chairperson of the citizen, and arrived situation pension for workers and of wage earners to develop tragically especially for those who rely (daily wages), and which have been severed altogether due to curfews, the forced the many of those to (the borrowing) of the owners, and friends in the market in order to copes the needs of his family daily Citizen (Jawad Kadhim) has a special transport vehicle (pickups) is the source of livelihood basis talked about the suffering day ban, saying : The impact of a ban on many ordinary citizens ... I am the driver of the transfer of goods and small adopted in response Emory (pension) and need a 15 thousand dinars, so I can pay living expenses, rent addition to the requirements of the vehicle repair and pay high petrol, this month bore the financial loss amounted to 200 thousand dinars because of the curfews sudden what I had to borrowing from friends, and I say frankly I am afraid of the coming days. Through this poll deadline for some segments of society seem the adverse economic impact they have left situations the curfews orderly and the sudden, the owners of the Economic Affair was say in this situation summarized in of saying : We are not against security procedures actors in the fight against terrorism But which call upon him to not be the purely security at the expense of Rizq the citizen and the daily bread and be there delicate balancing by the government of the benefits of the curfews security and economic losses caused by those procedures, and that successful political who is putting economic issues one of his priority in order to achieve prosperity and stability to the Division ..

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Saudis 'funnelling' funds to Iraq rebels


CAIRO: Private Saudi citizens are giving millions of dollars to Sunni insurgents in Iraq and much of the money is used to buy weapons, including shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles, according to key Iraqi officials and others familiar with the flow of cash. Saudi government officials deny that any money from their country is being sent to Iraqis fighting the government and the US-led coalition. But the US Iraq Study Group report released Wednesday said Saudis are a source of funding for Sunni Arab insurgents. Several truck drivers interviewed by AP described carrying boxes of cash from Saudi Arabia into Iraq, money they said was headed for insurgents.

Two high-ranking Iraqi officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the issue's sensitivity, told the AP most of the Saudi money comes from private donations, called zakat, collected for Islamic causes and charities. Some Saudis appear to know the money is headed to Iraq's insurgents, but others merely give it to clerics who channel it to anti-coalition forces, the officials said. In one recent case, an Iraqi official said $25m in Saudi money went to a top Iraqi Sunni cleric and was used to buy weapons, including Strela, a Russian shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missile. The missiles were purchased from someone in Romania, apparently through the black market, he said.

Overall, the Iraqi officials said, money has been pouring into Iraq from oil-rich Saudi Arabia, a Sunni bastion, since the US-led invasion of Iraq toppled the Sunni-controlled regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Saudi officials vehemently deny their country is a major source of financial support for the insurgents. "There isn't any organised terror finance, and we will not permit any such unorganised acts," said Brig. Gen Mansour Al-Turki, a spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry. About a year ago the Saudi government set up a unit to track any "suspicious financial operations," he said.

But the Iraq Study Group said "funding for the Sunni insurgency comes from private individuals within Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states." Saudi officials say they cracked down on zakat abuses, under pressure from the United States, after the Sept 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington. The Iraqi officials, however, said some funding goes to Iraq's Sunni Arab political leadership, who then disburse it. Other money, they said, is funnelled directly to insurgents. The distribution network includes Iraqi truck and bus drivers.
Several drivers interviewed by the AP in Middle East capitals said Saudis have been using religious events, like the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and a smaller pilgrimage, as cover for illicit money transfers. Some money, they said, is carried into Iraq on buses with returning pilgrims. "They sent boxes full of dollars and asked me to deliver them to certain addresses in Iraq," said one driver, who gave his name only as Hussein, out of fear of reprisal. "I know it is being sent to the resistance, and if I don't take it with me, they will kill me." He was told what was in the boxes, he said, to ensure he hid the money from authorities at the border.

The two Iraqi officials would not name specific Iraqi Sunnis who have received money from Saudi Arabia. But Iraq issued an arrest warrant for Harith Al-Dhari, a Sunni opponent of the Iraqi government, shortly after he visited Saudi Arabia in October. He was accused of sectarian incitement. Saudi Arabia is a key US ally in the Middle East. The Iraq Study Group report noted that its government has assisted the US military with intelligence on Iraq. But Saudi citizens have close tribal ties with Sunni Arabs in Iraq, and sympathise with their brethren in what they see as a fight for political control - and survival - with Iraq's Shiites.

The Saudi government is determined to curb the growing influence of its chief rival in the region, Iran. Tehran is closely linked to Shiite parties that dominate the Iraqi government. Saudi officials say the kingdom has worked with all sides to reconcile Iraq's warring factions. They have, they point out, held talks in Saudi Arabia with Shiite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr, whose militia is accused of killing Sunnis. These officials say zakat donations are now channelled through supervised bank accounts. Cash donation boxes, once prevalent in supermarkets and shopping malls, have been eliminated.
Still, Iraq's foreign minister expressed concern about the influence of neighbouring Sunni states at a recent Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo. "We hope that Saudi Arabia will keep the same distance from each and all Iraqi parties," Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari later told the AP. Last month, the New York Times reported that a classified US government report said Iraq's Sunni Arab insurgency had become self-sufficient financially, raising millions from oil smuggling, kidnapping and Islamic charities. The report did not say whether any money came from Saudi Arabia.

Allegations the insurgents have purchased shoulder-fired Strela missiles raise concerns that they are obtaining increasingly sophisticated weapons. On Nov 27, a US Air Force F-16 jet crashed while flying in support of American soldiers fighting Anbar province, a Sunni insurgent hotbed. The US military said it had no information about the cause of the crash. Gen William Caldwell, a US military spokesman, said he would be surprised if the jet was shot down because F-16's have not encountered weapons capable of taking them down in Iraq. But last week, a spokesman for Saddam's ousted Baath party claimed that fighters armed with a Strela missile had shot down the jet.
"We have stockpiles of Strelas and we are going to surprise them (the Americans)," Khudair Al-Murshidi, the spokesman told the AP in Damascus, Syria. He would not say how the Strelas were obtained. Saddam's army had Strelas; it is not known how many survived the 2003 war. The Strela is a shoulder-fired, low-altitude system with a passive infrared guidance system. The issue of Saudi funding for the insurgency could gain new prominence as the Bush administration reviews its Iraq policy, especially if it seeks to engage Iran and Syria in peace efforts.

Bush's national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, wrote in a recent leaked memo that Washington should "step up efforts to get Saudi Arabia to take a leadership role in supporting Iraq, by using its influence to move Sunni populations out of violence into politics." Last week, a Saudi who headed a security consulting group close to the Saudi government, Nawaf Obaid, wrote in the Washington Post that Saudi Arabia would use money, oil and support for Sunnis to thwart Iranian efforts to dominate Iraq if American troops pulled out. The Saudi government denied the report and fired Obaid. - AP

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