Show of force to purge rogue police units
By Graeme Baker
Last Updated: 12:38am GMT 26/12/2006
Analysis
The flattening of the Jamiat police station in Basra and connected raids last week by thousands of British soldiers was in remarkable contrast to the largely "softly-softly" tactics employed in southern Iraq since the 2003 invasion.
The destruction of the station, and with it the city's serious crimes unit — a name which, British sources said, described its activities perfectly — showed a clear will to rid Basra of rogue police and their associated sectarian mobs.
It is a tactic that is being employed as British forces prepare to "draw down" from the city to eventually hand over to the Iraqis. Leaving it in the hands of the rogues would not only have been a statement of failure, it would have been a disaster for the population.
Unlike Baghdad, with its Sunni-Shia violence, Basra is a Shia battleground for control of the city's oil wealth. Any one who gets in the way – coalition troops and Iraqi civilians – is a target.
The discovery of almost 130 prisoners inside the Jamiat police station before it was destroyed, many bearing signs of torture and unable to walk, served as an example of what locals would face were the city to be in the hands of the mobs. British forces said the raid was conducted on intelligence that they were all due to be executed.
The raid yesterday, and the associated arrest of several members of the police squad on Friday, showed a will to "attack in force" those dangerous rogue elements at source. The soldiers involved constituted a seventh of the total British force in Iraq.
The raids "removed a very significant and nasty part of the police force that has been scaring people in Basra, and ultimately it's going to make Basra a better place", said Maj Charlie Burbridge, a British spokesman.
Not only were senior leaders of the now disbanded unit suspected of involvement in the kidnapping and murder of translators for the British, they were also linked to the attempted sale of two SAS soldiers to insurgent groups.
The question this raises is why were the rogue elements allowed to operate for so long. The two SAS troopers were allegedly minutes away from being sold to insurgents, and certain death, after they were abducted by rogue police at a checkpoint in the Jamiat area of Basra on Sept 19 last year.
The consequent storming of the prison — the same Jamiat compound targeted yesterday — saved the soldiers but the operation led to a breakdown in Britain's relationship with local politicians and police commanders that was resolved only this summer.
The Iraq government has long been unable to control Basra's gangs. With British troops unable to operate effectively without the help of local authorities, the gangs tightened their grip on power. Operation Sinbad, which seeks to "cull and rehabilitate" rogue elements in the police forces in the south, was the response.
Now, with talk of the British occupation of the city drawing to a close and the Iraqi government being pressured by the Bush administration to "stand up" to the gangs, it is of no surprise that British forces are stepping up their efforts to stabilise the city.
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Hope they get this done with no violence
Updated: 04:05 PM EST
Iraqi Court Upholds Saddam's Death Sentence
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, AP
BAGHDAD, Iraq (Dec. 26) - Iraq's highest appeals court on Tuesday upheld Saddam Hussein's death sentence and said he must be hanged within 30 days for the killing of 148 Shiites in the central city of Dujail.
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The sentence "must be implemented within 30 days," chief judge Aref Shahin said. "From tomorrow, any day could be the day of implementation."
On Nov. 5, an Iraqi court sentenced Saddam to the gallows for ordering the 1982 killings following an attempt on his life.
Under Iraqi law, the appeals court decision must be ratified by President Jalal Talabani and Iraq's two vice presidents. Talabani opposes the death penalty but has in the past deputized a vice president to sign an execution order on his behalf - a substitute that was legally accepted.
Raed Juhi, a spokesman for the High Tribunal court that convicted Saddam, said the judicial system would ensure that Saddam is executed even if Talabani and the two vice presidents do not ratify the decision.
"We'll implement the verdict by the power of the law," Juhi said. He did not elaborate.
The appeals court also upheld death sentences for Barzan Ibrahim, Saddam's half brother and intelligence chief during the Dujail killings, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court, which issued the death sentences against the Dujail residents.
The appeals court concluded the sentence of life imprisonment given to former vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan was too lenient and returned his file to the High Tribunal. Ramadan was convicted of premeditated murder in the Dujail case.
"We demand that he be sentenced to death," said Shahin, the appeals judge.
At his trial, Saddam argued that the Dujail residents who were killed had been convicted in a legitimate Iraqi court for trying to assassinate him in 1982.
The televised trial was watched throughout Iraq and the Middle East as much for theater as for substance. Saddam was ejected from the courtroom repeatedly for political harangues, and his half brother once showed up in long underwear and sat with his back to the judges.
The nine-month trial inflamed Iraq's political divide, however, and three defense lawyers and a witness were murdered during the course of its 39 sessions.
Saddam is in the midst of a second trial charging him with genocide and other crimes during a 1987-88 military crackdown on Kurds in northern Iraq. An estimated 180,000 Kurds died during the operation.
Saddam was found hiding with an unfired pistol in a hole in the ground near his home village north of Baghdad in December 2003, eight months after he fled the capital ahead of advancing American troops.
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Bye-Bye Saddam....
Bye-Bye Saddam, Hello Reval!
Could it be possible that the Appeals Court ruling is meant to speed the execution of Saddam?
Could they get that done this week? Sure is possible.
Could they get that done AND enact the HCL and FIL and the Reval all during the same week BEFORE the New Year? Sure is possible.
That way, they would have an entirely CLEAN SLATE to go into the New Year with....???
OK- Pinch me now! This is only a dream.......Do unto others....you know the rest...
Here I am getting my Dinar News Fix waiting for that "Bold Adjustment"
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Minister of Planning : describes the investment budget for the 2007 budget of the status quo
Papan criticized the Minister of Planning and Development Cooperation investment budget allocations in the budget of 2007. He said in a press conference held today, Tuesday, and attended the National Iraqi News / Nina / : "The investment budget allocations, amounting to 12 trillion and 655 billion Iraqi dinars, not the level of ambition ministry. But there are considerations imposed themselves on the public budget and the budget, therefore, is a fait accompli. " Papan added : "The funeral earmarked for investment projects included three trillion dinars to the Ministry of oil and 1,745 trillion dinars to the Ministry of Electricity and 430 billion dinars to the Ministry of Health, and Education Sector Education and 336 billion dinars. As has been allocated 425 billion dinars for rehabilitation of schools, and the Ministry of Housing and Construction to 422 billion dinars. " He explained : "There are considerations imposed on the amounts that had been allocated to the investment budget, including considerations of security and defense spending and the process of rebuilding the armed forces, and the expenses of the ration card blocking needed a large segment of citizens, estimated at 3 trillion dinars." Papan and continued : "The considerations that have affected the budget, inflation in the state apparatus, with n number of employees in government departments currently 1,9 million citizens after the 2003 million citizens and this is a phenomenon unhealthy adversely affect the general budget."
He reported : "The Iraqi economy and the consumer economy is suffering from a decline in productive activities on a continuous basis and this afternoon in the resources of the State budget, as 97% of the 2007 budget revenues from oil revenues. This is a negative indicator must be addressed so that the decisions of courage not to be consumer rely on the oil sector revenues. " And : "There is a deficit in the budget for 2007 is estimated at 10 trillion dinars, but the inability of more theoretical than realistic, as there are cash reserves in the Development Fund for Iraq." And on the high inflation indices,
Papan said : "The price index for the month of November last rose to 3,9% compared with the previous month and by 51 ,9% for the month of November of last year, as the index rose in the prices of foodstuffs to 4,2% from the month before. And compared to the corresponding month last year, they rose by 27,4%. While the ratio of the prices of tobacco and alcohol in the month of November last to reach 0,1%. And compared with the same last year rose by 12,4%, but fabrics and clothing rose increase to reach 8,7%, and compared to last year, by 23,8%, but furniture has recorded a rise in the month of November rose by 8% and 17,6% compared with the same month last year, fuel and lighting rose to reach 10% and 190% from last year, Transport and Communications declined by 3,2% and the year of the past rose by 87,1% and the index rose for commodities medical services by 6,5% and last year by 25%. The miscellaneous goods rose by 0,8% and last year by 38%. As the index rose to rental prices by 1,2% and last year by 31%. "
He added : "There are two ways to address the phenomenon of inflation, either to be paid through monetary policy pursued by the state now or during the life of the productive sectors, which has been adopted by the Ministry of Planning." The Papan : "The monetary policy currently pursued by the State through raising interest rates to remedy something of inflation because that dealers in the banking sector in Iraq and the low percentage Atether inflation as is the case in other countries." And on raising the rate of the Iraqi dinar announced by the Central Bank, pointed to Papan : "The stability of the currency is important but that any increase or decrease in the rate of exchange depends on several considerations imposed by the market and that the stability of the currency on a continuous basis is not in the interest of economy." And : "The reason for raising the rate of the dinar is the International Monetary Fund, which stipulated that for canceling 21 billion dollars of Iraq's debt.
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"The stability of the currency is important but that any increase or decrease in the rate of exchange depends on several considerations imposed by the market and that the stability of the currency on a continuous basis is not in the interest of economy." And : "The reason for raising the rate of the dinar is the International Monetary Fund, which stipulated that for canceling 21 billion dollars of Iraq's debt.
This has got me scratching my head. What are they talking about? For months and even years it has always been about keeping the currency stable. Now that they have proved they can do it, we are told it is no longer in the interest of the economy? I don't know for sure but it seems like some sort of coded green light to pull out the stops and raise the rate of the dinar all head full!!!(which I hope means they are going to give as a big r/v very shortly!!!)
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worfAre we there yet? I'm getting really tired of waiting and I am getting wet from all of the dribbling. Come on you know it is the right thing to do for your country. R/V the thing in 1 large dramtic move to over 1 usd at least (1 sdr will be fine for a start) will ya?
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me too, i thought the word continuous was kind of strange, i took it as meaning the same rate, soooooo.......
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Good point,
It is almost as if this was all written in stone long ago. With the forgiven debt comes a revalue which would allow these countries to erase such forgiven debt with only hook being they had to hold it for five years. Now that makes sense to me, how about everyone else here?
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