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Saudis aged America they might support year in Iraq

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.WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House said on Wednesday that Saudi Arabia to join the United States concern about the future of Iraq and denied that Riyadh had threatened of being biased to a party in sectarian violence in Iraq if the United States withdrew its forces.

The statements came in response to a report published in The New York Times said that Saudi Arabia informed Washington that it had provided financial support for Iraq in their fight against the Shiites if the United States withdrew its forces.

And Tony Snow said White House spokesman told reporters "This is not the policy of the Saudi government."

He added : "The Saudis that they committed the same goals. Namely, the establishment of an Iraq able to promote itself ... I will leave it to the Saudi government to make any other comments. But certainly the declared policy and the policy that they agree with us that do not reflect that. "

The New York Times said that King Abdullah gave the letter to Vice-President Dick Cheney during his visit to the American Riyadh last month.

The newspaper that American officials and Arab diplomats asked not to reveal their names.

When Cheney visited Saudi Arabia strong ally of the United States in order to discuss the situation in Iraq and how to overcome the crisis in the peace process between the Arabs and Israel.

The newspaper said that King Abdullah during the visit through its strong opposition to diplomatic talks between the United States and Iran.

"Snow said that the Saudis "share our fears with regard to the role played by the Iranians in the region."

He added that any speculation on what was discussed by Cheney and King Abdullah "no basis" for Monday enjoyed a close and careful to protect the confidentiality of their talks.

The New York Times reported that King Abdullah called on Washington to encourage the resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.

So far longer Saudi officials and Washington that they would refrain from supporting armed year in Iraq. However, the paper of America noted that this undertaking is still in question as long as the United States in Iraq.

The newspaper went on to say that the Saudis vehemently rejected the withdrawal of American forces from Iraq and expressed fears of the year for the massacres if this happened.

The newspaper quoted American officials say that those fears escalated amid increasing pressure the United States to withdraw American forces in addition to the calls for direct talks with Iran.

The Saudi ambassador to Washington, Prince Turki faction told embassy officials on Monday that he had tendered his resignation. The resignation came a few days after his expulsion adviser, writes an article in the Washington Post newspaper points out that Saudi Arabia would support year in Iraq if a wider sectarian conflict erupted.

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Originally Posted by ErelisLT

Hello Everyone! Haven't been here for a couple of days. Just wondering if RV is still on for this Sunday? Please let me/us know if something has changed. Thanks.

everything is still a go as far as I know

might even see it before that ;)

The failure of the negotiations between Baghdad and Kurdistan on contracts

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The failure of the negotiations between Baghdad and Kurdistan on the oil contracts

The Reuters quoted political sources said yesterday that the Iraqi government develop a draft bill for oil differed on the granting of the right of the conclusion of transactions of foreign investment or regions to the central government is the solution to this dispute to the political leaders.

Political sources said close to the talks that the main element of the dispute was the insistence of the Kurds, who with their northern oil fields on the region's right to control the unused reserves.

Barham Salih, said Deputy Prime Minister and a Kurd heads the oil is a key issue and one which needs to be a political agreement. He added trying to reach a settlement.

He said Assem Jihad, spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Oil law now awaits further talks between the Iraqi government and Kurdish area.

The oil sector needs strongly to foreign investments to revive the devastated economy, which depends heavily on oil export revenues. The territory of Iraq, the third largest oil reserves in the world.

A key source of the oil sector the first round of talks failed and we are now waiting for the second round.

And never favor of optimism about the Iraqi officials to overcome difficulties facing them and said that the talks would resume within a few days.

He said that the committee agreed on the sharing of oil revenues and to restructure the sector which is considered key issues.

He did not fail. The talks will resume in a few days, pointing out that the oil is a priority for the government.

He said Iraqi officials have repeatedly claimed that the law be submitted to parliament for ratification by the end of December (December). Saleh said that the officials are working hard to stick to that date.


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Originally Posted by shotgunsusie

GO KURDS GO!!!!

The Kurds seem to "carrying" the rest of Iraq, and showing them the way. Now if the other two thirds of iraq could see toward the future,instead of "killing for the past". What a great country IRAQ WOULD BE !!!!!!!!

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Bush stresses his support for Talabani of the federal democratic Iraq

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.14 / 12 / 2006-Baghdad KUNA-American President George Bush in a telephone call yesterday with his Iraqi counterpart Jalal Talabani his country's support for a federal, democratic Iraq.

The official Iraqi television in the urgent news that Bush assured the support Talabani's government of the United States of America for a federal, democratic Iraq, explaining that this support will not stop.

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Minister of the Interior and lead an Iraqi delegation to Damascus Friday

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Minister of the Interior and lead an Iraqi delegation to Damascus Friday to discuss the security file

Baghdad (December 14) and the agency (Lucky) Italian news-sources announced that the Iraqi government and high-level security delegation will visit the Syrian capital, following his current visit to Jordan, to hold talks on the security file and the measures taken by Damascus to tighten control of its borders with Iraq. The sources told (Lucky) that the Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad who is the day after tomorrow, Friday, will start a visit to Damascus at the head of a delegation comprising senior security, also, the Minister of State for National Security Shirwan Alowaeli, and a number of senior officers of the Ministry of the Interior in the first visit of its kind to discuss the security issue with the Syrian Interior Minister Major General Bassam Abdul Majid and other officials. According to the sources, the delegation would meet representatives of the Syrian people to discuss "stopping the flow of foreign fighters across the Syrian border and ways to reduce the continuing deterioration of the security situation inside Iraq." She noted that the resumption of relations between the two countries after a long break "will facilitate the task of consultation and coordination between officials of the two countries to improve the deteriorating security file in Iraq." They expected to meet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his deputy, Farouk Al-Shara with the Iraqi delegation at a later time next Saturday. The Baghdad and Damascus have decided to re-establish diplomatic relations were severed between them since more than a quarter of a century after the visit by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallim to Iraq about two weeks ago, was lifting the two countries on scientific each embassy official the day before yesterday, Monday,. The accused American officials and Iraqi constantly Syrian government to "turn a blind eye and allow for armed foreigners crossing the border to carry out terrorist acts inside Iraq," while the American administration refuses to use both Damascus and Tehran to assist in finding solutions to this issue pending. The Committee for study conditions in Iraq, headed by the former American Secretary of State James Baker that the use of these two countries to find solutions to the intractable problems of Iraq.

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U.S. not involved in internal Iraqi political talks -- Snow

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U.S. not involved in internal Iraqi political talks -- Snow

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (KUNA) -- The Bush administration is not involved in ongoing internal Iraqi political discussions, other than consulting and encouraging those already involved in a process of trying to build a moderate consensus among Shia, Sunni and Kurds, White House spokesman Tony Snow said on Wednesday.

The real business of coalition-building in Iraq is being done by the Iraqi government itself, Snow said during a White House briefing.

"We are consulting people who have been working with the Maliki government, " Snow said, referring to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. "This government is not in the business of putting together such an assemblage. That has been done already".

Told that Maliki, a Shiite, perceives U.S. involvement with the Iraqi figures as a threat to his power, Snow said, "No, I do not think so." The efforts by Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, a Sunni, and Iraqi Shia leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, as well as Iraqi Kurdish leaders, are to support the Maliki government, Snow said.

The readout the White House gets from the Iraqi discussions, Snow said, are that "these are people who have said that they support the Maliki government, and that they support efforts to broaden across sectarian lines and also geographic lines support for that government, and also a commitment to help that government fight the terror forces who are trying to destabilize it by acts of violence against innocents".

Bush supports the Maliki government, Snow said, especially its efforts "to get more aggressive in going after those who have been trying to destabilize it, and at the same time build a consensus within the country that is going to provide greater strength to the government and more support for it".

For instance, Snow said the Iraqis seem to be moving close to adoption of a hydrocarbon law to share oil and gas revenues, "which is enormously important because it gives everybody a real financial stake in the success of the government".

The Bush administration also continues to see signs that Iraqi forces are eager to gain the capability to have full responsibility for security and other vital national functions, Snow said.

Addressing U.S. critics of Bush for delaying his speech on the future course in Iraq from this month until January, Snow said much is going on right now in Iraq.

"It is not the case that the people have returned to barracks and corked up the cannons and said we will just await further orders," Snow said.

In fact, there are continuing aggressive, ongoing operations against terror cells within Baghdad; there have been very active operations within Anbar province in recent weeks; and the effort to build up civil capacity in Iraq, from court systems to justice systems to business creation, continues, he said.

"In addition, you have overlaid with that an Iraq government that is busy doing a lot of things as well, including a lot of statements in recent weeks by the prime minister about the real importance of going after all the sources of violence within Iraq, whether they be Sunni, Shia or otherwise," Snow said.

Bush believes that more needs to be done in Iraq, and it needs to be done better, Snow said.

The most important obligation Bush has "is to do it right, and he is not satisfied that he has everything before him that enables him to make that judgment," Snow said. "And so he is asking the people who are working the problem to give him more, to answer questions, and he has tasked them with a number of assignments".

There are a lot of considerations, not just military but also diplomatic ones, he said.

People are not only working with the Iraqi forces to deal with violence, but also are "actively engaged in the business of creating hope and opportunity in the form of jobs, and building homes, and dealing with infrastructure," Snow said.

Also under way are dealings with Iraqi military readiness, problems of police corruption, and creating a legal system that has the trust and faith of all Iraqis, he said.

Property rights in Iraq are also at issue, and Maliki has announced a plan to build thousands of homes, Snow said. "At the same time, they have an investment law," and "if you are going to invest in Iraq, you have got to make sure that your property rights are going to be defended," he added.

Asked about a report in the New York Times on Wednesday that Saudi Arabia has told the Bush administration it might provide financial backing to Iraqi Sunnis in any war against Iraqi Shiites if the United States withdraws its military forces from Iraq, Snow refused to confirm that account, but said, "the Saudis are rightfully and rightly concerned about the adventurism of Iranians in Iraq".

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Government forces assume responsibility for security in Baghdad early

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Government forces assume responsibility for security in Baghdad early in 2007
:New York homeland agencies :

The Iraqi national security adviser Muwaffaq Rubaie that the Iraqi government troops intend to take security responsibilities in Baghdad, as from early next year, and a plan submitted to the United States, during the meeting which took place between President George Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Amman late last month.

The Rubaie, who was talking to the New York Times »« America said that the American forces will be deployed, under the new plan, because stationed around Baghdad, and will focus on the face of the gunmen, who were allegedly supported by by Al Qaeda, as well as armed groups carried out military operations against the American forces.

The newspaper said that the American government forces, which consist mostly of Shiites, will assume responsibility for extinguishing sectarian tensions in Baghdad, which involves the risk that the exercise of these forces of repression against the Sunni neighborhoods, and that year forced to leave the city forcibly.

Will be strengthened Iraqi forces brigades Krdien of Sulaymaniyah and Irbil, in northern Iraq, a procedure that increases the Kurdish role in the security file on the role of the Shiite and strikes it.

The leaders do not feel satisfied with that plan, and said they could not accommodate the United States to transfer security responsibility to the government in Baghdad, accusing it of being sectarian «».

The newspaper quoted the American Chamber of Deputies Speaker Mahmoud Almshahadani, which is boycotting the meetings of the Political Council for National Security, as saying : »that« this will be a catastrophe, but added that he did not believe that the Americans »« ***** to a degree to do so, warning that Baghdad would then be a safe haven for »« militias.
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Maliki : new security procedures soon

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Asked when he received a delegation American speed arming Iraqi forces

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Iraqi Prime Minister promised Nouri Al-Maliki, yesterday to announce soon the new security procedures «». The new Maliki during his meeting with a delegation from the American Congress, led by Senator John McCain, claim arming Iraqi forces and strengthen its powers.

An official statement that «Maliki will announce new security measures in the coming days that would develop a security plan». The statement, reported by Agence France Press, the prime minister reiterated the claim «speed in arming Iraqi forces and give more powers and training to be able to take over security functions in all parts of the country». The security plan faces more difficulties amid the escalation of violence. The statement «proceed with the project of reconciliation (...) Expanding the base of political participation to include all those who believe outweigh the language of dialogue, lay down their arms and respect for the rule of law and rejected the armed rallies outside the scope of the state and all its inventory carrying weapons ». In addition, MP in the Islamic party participating in the political process of «combustible vegetation and the ground in Iraq» in the event of continuing the revival of Sunni Arabs to attacks from Shiite militia. The deputy said Omar Abdel Sattar that «outlet Baghdad from the southern towns and even Suwayrah exposed to attacks by the Mahdi Army is insane», «accused commandos of the Ministry of the Interior to provide support to these terrorist militias that abuse the security of the homeland and citizens». He added that «this matter if it continues Sehrk vegetation and the ground».

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Iraqi Interior Minister discuss in Amman 6 files

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Iraqi Interior Minister discuss in Amman 6 files in the field of security cooperation

Who is the issue of recovery of the effects of the wanted ways to confront terrorism

Oman: Mohamed Aldamh
The Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad who is currently visiting Jordan, the security delegation discussed with Jordanian officials highlighted the recovery of six files wanted and how to confront terrorism, which has been plaguing the region. And who is said to reporters, the morning meeting, held at the headquarters of the Jordanian Interior Ministry resulted in the formation of a committee to recover the supreme security wanted by the Iraqi government and stressed that the Iraqi judiciary independent judiciary and must activate the Riyadh in 1983, has also been discussing the file of borders and points of entry and residency and passport and file Iraqi community.

According to Iraqi statistics that 60 Iraqi detainees in the prisons of Jordan. On the other hand, there are 27 «» Jordanian prisoners in four camps belonging to the American Army and the Iraqi government, including Abu Ghraib, documented by the Chairman of the Committee on public freedoms in the professional syndicates Jordanian soft Mals.

.Mals pointed out that the majority of students detained, some of them since March 2003, a few days after the outbreak of the American war on Iraq. And Iraq also wants to facilitate the movement of citizens across outlets and the removal of obstacles to the extension of their stay in Jordan. The estimated number of Iraqis living in Jordan by 800 thousand people, according to unofficial estimates.

The Iraqi sources in Amman, the security talks aimed at facilitating the establishment of thousands of Iraqis in Jordan, as well as control infiltration across their common border. The government wants the Iraqi Jordan also silencing the voices of opponents residing on its territory, especially the daughters of the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, according to the same source. And also wish to ease restrictions on the entry of Iraqis into Jordan, in addition to facilitating procedures to send their children to school. The Jordanian authorities since the dawn of three Iraqis associated with Al-Qaida hotels in Amman, which led to the death of 60 people in the autumn of last year reduced the entry of Iraqis and reduced extended stays, linking strict conditions.
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