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

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Lisa

Well after further review it does look good for this week, when Maliki meets with Bush. A lot of fine details to work out. For me this is the most I have ever been involved in politics. I live in NYC and have recently suffered Food Poisoning during a power outage-- which still continues... during my suffering alone in the dark, I both sympathize and empathize with those suffering in all underdeveloped nations. My heart and prayers are especially the women and children. We take soooo much for granted. I basically had my epiphany in those hours of suffering. Sorry for my momentary lapses into skepticism. All in all I now feel confident and proud to have my money invested in Iraq in the hopes of-- not the big business -- but the average person just living and trying to support a family and feel safe and secure. I have also started making plans for my wealth, as I am sure you all have. Please try to remember and make ourselves and our children - as they will inherit the earth that they are responsible in the outcome of all that happens. I pray that this happens so that I may help with the cause that I think are important to pass on. http://www.invisiblechildren.com/home.php
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sun/ Education starts with our children. Please teach your children well- teach them to love and care and consciences of their environment. GOD BLESS THE DINAR. Xealthy.Please move your links to your signature.-neno

Happy B-day Flockstar.

Best wishes for a wonderful day.

Kozmar

Iraq announces peace plan, refuses foreign interference

7/22/2006


by Paul Schemm 1 hour, 9 minutes ago

Iraq held the first meeting of a homegrown peace initiative, with the country's top leaders vowing to reconcile the warring factions amid protests over US meddling.

"This is an Iraqi initiative for those who are part of the political process," Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told reporters, while the speaker of parliament urged US-led coalition forces not to interfere.

Maliki said Saturday the Supreme Committee for National Reconciliation had already received positive signals from some of the insurgent groups battling security forces and US troops, including one led by a former army officer.

Parliament speaker Mahmud Mashhadani, a conservative Sunni Islamist, said the committee would work to persuade groups which have opposed the political process to lay down their arms.

"We will contact those who oppose us on certain issues and will try to convince them and tell them the detail of the project to win their consent," he said, standing alongside Maliki and President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd.

Soon after the announcement seven Shiite construction workers were gunned down in a Sunni neighborhood of west Baghdad.

Separately, US troops in Musayyib, south of Baghdad, fired back on ambushers armed with automatic weapons and rocket launchers, killing 14 of them, a US spokesman said.

Maliki's government and the coalition have been struggling to contain a wave of sectarian violence in which rival Shiite and Sunni death squads have killed hundreds of civilians around the capital in the past month.

With a month-old security operation apparently making little headway, Iraqi leaders hope the reconciliation committee will draw in those groups prepared to compromise, while isolating violent extremists.

Those who oppose his government's policies are free to do so, the prime minister said, but those who reject the peace process in favor of violence would be "pushed into a corner".

The government announced the reconciliation program on June 25 in response to increasing violence, which has been fueled in part by extremist militant groups aiming to provoke a full-out civil war.

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

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

But parliament speaker Mashhadani ruffled feathers when he gave a combative opening address in which he blamed many of Iraq's problems on US forces, and called for foreigners to end their interference.

"Just get your hands off Iraq and the Iraqi people and Muslim countries, and everything will be alright," he said, addressing coalition forces.

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

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

"What we need is reconciliation between Iraqis only -- there can be no third party," he said.

UN representatives were quick to emphasize that the world body was there to advise and offer examples from other countries in transition, rather than to dictate policy.

In addition to the seven construction workers killed in Baghdad, eight other Iraqis, all but one of them members of the security forces, died in attacks around the country Saturday. The bodies of 12 murder victims were also found.

Two rockets also hit the heavily-fortified Green Zone, the seat of US and government power in the capital, but there were no initial damage reports.


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Political, Religious Leaders in Iraq Hold National Reconciliation Meeting
7/22/2006


Iraqi political and religious leaders have held their first committee meeting aimed at promoting Prime Minister Naouri al-Maliki's national reconciliation plan to end sectarian violence.

But officials say little over half the group's 30 members attended Saturday's talks.

Following the meeting, Mr. Maliki said insurgents guilty of bloodshed should not be included in his proposed amnesty. But Parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani said Iraq should punish American soldiers who killed Iraqi civilians if the country is going to hold insurgents accountable for killing foreign troops.

The meeting was held as Mr. Maliki prepares for a Tuesday visit to Washington for talks with President Bush.

Violence continued in Iraq today, with gunmen killing seven workers in Baghdad. Iraqi police also killed three insurgents during a raid in Mosul. And a roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier in Baghdad.

Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.


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Iraq holds talks amid skepticism

7/22/2006


By Mariam Karouny 50 minutes ago

Iraqi leaders met in a show of sectarian and ethnic solidarity on Saturday before a White House visit by the prime minister, but some were pessimistic about the chances of reducing the bloodshed.

Nuri al-Maliki will visit Washington to meet President Bush on Tuesday and they are expected to discuss ways of improving security in Baghdad, which is gripped by mounting violence between Shi'ites and Arab Sunnis that has raised fears of all-out civil war in Iraq.

So far, Maliki's 24-point reconciliation plan, long on promises but short on details, has failed to stem the rising violence.

"We support Maliki and his initiative and we hope this project succeeds and steps are expected to be taken quickly," said President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, standing beside Maliki at a news conference during a break from the talks.

A senior U.S. official said in Washington on Friday that one option for improving security is to bring more U.S. and Iraqi forces into the capital.

The biggest Sunni party, the Iraqi Accordance Front, has not joined the reconciliation talks, and one Sunni parliamentarian said this was for "administrative" reasons.

He also said leaders of the Sunni community, the backbone of the insurgency against the Shi'ite-led, U.S.-backed government, have little hope that the talks will help ease divisions.

"There have been previous meetings and they have led to nothing," said the parliamentarian, who asked not to be named.

Iraq leaders have admitted they despair of being able to avert all-out civil war.

"Iraq as a political project is finished," a top government official told Reuters on Friday -- anonymously because the coalition led by Maliki remains committed in public to a U.S.- sponsored constitution preserving Iraq's unity.

Iraqi and U.S. officials now believe sectarian militias are killing more Iraqis and pose a greater security threat than the insurgency -- though this is still a major destabilizing force.

SECTARIAN CRISIS

Sunnis accuse Shi'ite militias of running death squads.

Maliki has vowed to disband militias but it is a highly sensitive task because the armed groups are the military wings of political parties, including ones in Maliki's Islamist Shi'ite Alliance.

Bush is under pressure to show progress in Iraq, clearing the way for U.S. troop cuts by the end of the year, as his Republicans face elections in November with their control of the U.S. Congress at stake.

Five weeks after Bush visited Baghdad to bless the new Maliki government and rekindle hopes of better days ahead, hundreds of Iraqis have been killed in suicide bombings and communal attacks.

The senior official in Washington would not say what security agreements Bush and Maliki might reach, but suggested there could be ways to bolster Iraqi forces whose month-old plan to limit violence in Baghdad has been overwhelmed.

U.S. officials insist Iraq is not on the brink of civil war, saying Maliki is pushing ahead with reconciliation efforts and that most Iraqis do not want their country divided along sectarian lines.

The top U.S. commander for the Middle East said on Friday that escalating sectarian violence in Baghdad had become an even greater worry than the insurgency and that plans were being drawn up to move more troops to the capital, according to a report in Saturday's New York Times.

"The country can deal with the insurgency better than it can with the sectarian violence, and it needs to move decisively against the sectarian violence now," Gen. John Abizaid, head of the United States Central Command, told the newspaper.


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FINALLY!!! I have been following this thread for over a year now. I have enjoyed all the wisdom and information shared by everyone.

Unfortunately, for some reason unknown to me I have never been able to post. I finally tried going through foxfire and Finally....I can join in on the fun! I check here several times a day and always find it facinating. I do not think there is an other source of information more balanced and informed. I just wanted to say "HI" and "thank you" to everyone who provides support, encouragement, and information to see us through this roller coster of a ride to the Peg.

May we get there SOON!!!

Hello and Welcome Par77! Things should be getting even MORE interesting in here in the next few days~!

Hi Par... well you made it just in time for the wildest part of the ride!