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

Originally Posted by ourhouse37

Oh my God, next you're all going to be calling me "teach." Discipline! discipline my darlings!
Neno, I just have to ask, what is your language of origin? You have me fooled.
xoxoxoxox

Pig Latin....No, I am kidding. Honestly, what does it seem to you teach? Give me a ideal of how bad it is.. Then I will let you in on it.

it's about 8:00 AM in Baghdad right now. July 22 2006.

Originally Posted by zugdor

question to Mike or Adster .... What is your view on last post by PH. Especially July 19th. On 19 July, Al-Sharqiyah reported that the Iraqi Government and the UN have reached an agreement to postpone the implementation of an international project aimed at reviving the Iraqi economy. The channel cited Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih as saying that escalations in Lebanon forced prominent diplomats and officials due to take part in meetings in Baghdad, to reschedule their visits until late August or early September.

Here the full article of this one:

Iraq, UN postpone launch of economic programme

BAGHDAD, July 18 (Reuters) - The Iraqi government and United Nations have postponed the high-level launch of a major economic recovery programme for several weeks, officials said on Tuesday.

Senior diplomats and officials of international institutions had been due in Baghdad on Thursday to launch the International Compact for Iraq but the senior Iraqi minister involved said the war in Lebanon obliged key participants to change their plans.

"It has been postponed because of difficulties in getting high-level people into Baghdad, especially because of what's happening in Lebanon," Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih told Reuters. He denied there were any fundamental problems.

Israel pounded Lebanon for a seventh day on Tuesday in response to the kidnapping of two soldiers by Hizbollah guerrillas, who have also fired rockets on northern Israel.

U.N. officials and Western diplomats closely involved in preparing the meeting confirmed the postponement, saying it could now take place in late August or early September.

The Compact is, broadly speaking, a five-year plan, involving Iraq's neighbours and wealthy foreign powers, to revive the potentially oil-rich economy after decades of war, sanctions and now vicious communal bloodshed.

Among key initial goals is winning relief on debts run up by Saddam Hussein with Gulf Arab states. Western states have already forgiven Iraq much of its debt but Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, the biggest Gulf creditors, have been taking their time.

From correspondents in Baghdad

July 22, 2006


IRAQ'S president and prime minister announced the formation of a 30-member commission Saturday to promote national reconciliation, even as the speaker of parliament said coalition forces should leave the country.
"The commission will immediately begin its work, holding conferences and meetings, and it will prepare a media campaign for reconciliation," President Jalal Talabani told a joint news conference with the prime minister.

"This is an Iraqi initiative for those who are part of the political process," Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said, adding that there was much interest in the initiative from people outside the process, including disaffected army officers.

The announcement moves forward Mr Maliki's program of reconciliation first presented on June 25 to bridge sectarian gaps that threaten to tear the country apart and have taken it to the brink of civil war.

"I don't think al-Qaeda has been successful in its objective (to promote civil war)," said National Security Advisor Ahmed al-Rubaie, "but I admit there are cracks in national unity."

Parallel with the announcement, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) opened a conference on transitional justice and national reconciliation meant to support the government efforts.

Parliament speaker Mahmud Mashhadani gave the opening speech and made very clear that he did not see much of a role for foreigners, especially coalition forces, in any reconciliation process.

"Just get your hands off Iraq and the Iraqi people and Muslim countries, and everything will be all right," the conservative Sunni Islamist said, addressing coalition forces.

"What has been done in Iraq is a kind of butchery of the Iraqi people," he said in a long-winded speech that criticised the tactics of the coalition forces in Iraq and US support for Israeli strikes against Lebanon.

The two-day conference, which was originally to have been opened by Mr Maliki, will address the issue of dealing with the crimes of previous Iraqi regimes and a plan to reconcile the country's warring factions.

Mr Mashhadani bluntly told his audience of UN officials, foreign experts, politicians and civil society representatives that the Iraqi people had little use for foreign advice on running the country or foreign-sponsored conferences.

"If a reconciliation project is going to work it has to talk to all the people," he said. "It must go through our Iraqi beliefs and perceptions. What we need is reconciliation between Iraqis only - there can be no third party."

The speaker invoked the revered Shiite figures Hassan and Hussein, grandsons of the Prophet Mohammed, as the example for Iraqis - a significant gesture by a conservative Sunni.

The UN representative who then opened the conference subsequently referred to Mashhadani's speech as "spirited", but was quick to emphasize that the UN was not interested in dictating any reconciliation policy to Iraq but was rather there to advise and offer examples from other transitional countries.

"Transitional justice is the key to creating the conditions for national reconciliation and dialogue," said Gianni Magazzani, head of the UNAMI's human rights office.

An Iraqi politician at the conference, who declined to be named, said that while Mashhadani's sentiments echoed those of most Iraqi people, they did not necessarily help the situation.

"You can't imagine how difficult it is to solve Iraq's problem with people with this mentality leading," he said, adding that people in power are appealing to narrow sectarian bases rather than for the good of the wider people.

"This is an educational process for the people - the people in power need to know about transitional justice and the steps that have to be taken," he said, lamenting the absence of senior officials at the UN conference.

National Security Advisor Rubaie, one of the few senior officials at the conference opening, maintained that the UN still had a role to play in Iraq.

"I think the UN has been perceived as a very impartial partner and they don't have any particular agenda to push and they are well respected," he said.

Saturday also saw at least six members of the Iraqi security forces and one civilian killed in insurgent ambushes and bomb attacks around the country, security officials said.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117...-23109,00.html

Baghdad-morning
Prime Minister Nuri Maliki importance of international support for Iraq in order to achieve victory in the area of democracy and to ensure the success of the new Iraqi experiment.
This came during his meeting with the official in his office in Baghdad on Thursday Deputy US Treasury Secretary Robert Cabot


He pointed out that some countries need to encourage the United States in this area, Some Arab countries have debts of Iraq could be partners in the reconstruction process. It is reassuring that we States during my visit to the Gulf last expressed willingness to participate in the International Decade and still needs to be further addressed.
He went on : The United Arab Emirates has promised that it will make efforts to encourage Arab states to provide assistance in the areas of reconstruction and debt reduction.
Maliki added that there was a correlation between security and reconstruction, there can be no reconstruction unless there is security. So driven together security and reconstruction, that the goal of the enemies of the new Iraq is to disrupt the wheel ages through undermining security and stability.
He stressed that the government is serious in the economic development of energy, through the completion of a bill investment, He pointed out that political reforms would be an incentive to attract foreign investment and international partnership contract with Iraq, We have political initiatives such as the national reconciliation process and this is related to our success in bringing investments.
For his part, Deputy US Treasury Secretary Robert Cabot during the meeting : His country was committed to the success of the International Decade partnership with Iraq, and that it is keen to have a broad partnership with the international community, and that this partnership acceptable to the Iraqi entities This shows the importance of the interrelationships between the support of external and internal forces, which sends a strong message to the international community and to assure investors that it will not be sentenced to politicians, but businessmen as well. He pointed out that the American government would cooperate with the friends with the Europeans and the World Bank with regard to Iraq. and that it will work in various ways and with different people for the success of this task.

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Al-Maliki, Talabani discuss national reconciliation plan with political
POL-IRAQ-RECONCILIATION-PLAN
Al-Maliki, Talabani discuss national reconciliation plan with political

blocs By Mohammed Al-Ghezi BAGHDAD, July 22 (KUNA) -- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki will discuss on Saturday with representatives of the Iraqi parliamentary and political blocs practical means to launch the national reconciliation plan. Al-Maliki received at his office this morning Talabani in addition to representatives of political blocs among them Dr. Hassan Al-Shahrastani, Ayad Jamaleddine, Mahmoud Othman, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Rafea Al-Assawi, as well as Minister of National Dialogue Akram Al-Hakeem and Sheikh Sami Azzara Al-Maajoun.

Spokesman of the Prime Minister's office described the meeting as very important since it will outline the national reconciliation plan.

He told KUNA that field and sub-committees will be formed to expand communications to reach all Iraqi cities and towns in order to activate the plan.

Conferences will also be held for leaders of Iraqi tribes to sign the code of honor to prevent bloodshed and a conference will be held for clergy men of all religions in Iraq for the same purpose, he added.

The Iraqi prime minister is expected to pay a visit to Washington after tomorrow to meet with US President George Bush to discuss issues on security in Iraq, the results of the national reconciliation plan and the Iraqi economic comprehensive investment initiative.

The 24-article reconciliation plan announced by Al-Maliki last month calls for making the armed forces independent and not under the influenced of any political power. It calls for disbanding the militias and illegal armed groups by political, economic and security means.

Al-Maliki pointed out that the more progress was made in fighting terrorism the more progress was made in the fields of construction and improvement of the services in the country.

http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/story.as...en&DSNO=889085

Interesting briefing by a senior administration official on Maliki's visit:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...0060721-7.html

Originally Posted by neno

Pig Latin....No, I am kidding. Honestly, what does it seem to you teach? Give me a ideal of how bad it is.. Then I will let you in on it.

uh oh, now I've alarmed you. Maybe it's that you type so fast that sometimes it looks like a translation? Could be that words like slain and merking sound a little foreign to me. Merking! What a great word. Looks like something I would have made up.

Originally Posted by nej

Interesting briefing by a senior administration official on Maliki's visit:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...0060721-7.html

Great find nej

Definitely an Awesome find Nej!