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25 September 2006

Iraq on Track for Meeting Police Goals, U.S. General Says
Strong, capable civil law enforcement institutions beginning to develop in Iraq

With less than four months left in the coalition-designated “Year of the Police,” Army Major General Joseph Peterson, the coalition’s top officer dedicated to training Iraqi police, told reporters September 20 that there are now 128,000 police officers on the streets nationwide – 95 percent of the Iraqi Interior Ministry’s goal of 135,000 by year’s end.

“We see no reason why we will not achieve 100 percent and, in fact, in some categories exceed 100 percent of what was promised before December,” Peterson said during a videoconference briefing from Baghdad.

REGAINING PUBLIC TRUST AN INITIAL CHALLENGE

As in many other transitional societies, where police forces once served as an instrument of repression, Iraqi authorities first challenge was to regain the public’s trust in their police officers.

This task was complicated by the fact that as the post-Saddam government was forming, armed groups were invited to join the country’s new security forces, adding to concerns as violence among the country’s Shi’ite, Sunni and Kurdish communities gradually increased in 2006, Peterson said.

In the wake of the February 22 bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra, efforts to build public trust in the police were further set back by allegations that some police failed to fully discharge their security duties and that some officers might even have participated in attacks on civilians.

In response to these charges, Peterson said, coalition officials have supported an aggressive series of investigations by the Iraqi Interior Ministry into alleged police misconduct, which has resulting in the dismissals of individual officers, mid-level commanders – even entire units – for corruption and other types of misconduct. (See related article.)

Peterson added that these investigations have also shown that there have been far fewer confirmed incidents of police involvement in sectarian violence than had been alleged – yet another positive indicator of police loyalty to the new Iraq’s democratic ideals.

Other initiatives, such as sending former militants to newly established police academies and establishing an evaluation program to assess police performance and provide unit-specific training, are also helping Iraqi officers as they work through the ongoing challenges of becoming part of a modern law enforcement institution, he said.

A second challenge facing Iraqi law enforcement was the imperative to build national, provincial and local police forces while simultaneously confronting a complex array of threats, including Sunni insurgent groups, foreign terrorists such as al-Qaida in Iraq, militants engaged in sectarian violence and other well-armed criminal gangs.

This challenge, Peterson said, led Iraqi authorities and their coalition allies to pursue a two-tiered strategy which focused first, on mobilizing large numbers of prospective officers, and then using a combination of training, embedded advisers and joint operations to mold them into a modern, effective police force.

In all, 6,000 coalition police professionals, mainly from Italy, Poland, the United Kingdom and the United States staff 185 of these police transition teams across the country, with another 39 teams supporting the Iraqi National Police.

The next phase for improving the quality of Iraqi police, Peterson said, will require more training for officers in community policing techniques as well as identifying and developing the force's future leaders.

This has been a good year for the Ministry of Interior in terms of increasing its “ability to administer, support and manage the ministry and its forces,” Peterson said, “and it's also been a great year from the standpoint of creating the capability in the police forces themselves to assist the Iraqi army in providing a safe and secure environment in the country of Iraq.”

Iraq on Track for Meeting Police Goals, U.S. General Says

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Iraq police station is seized by Kurds

9/26/2006 Militia objects to a new Sunni Arab commander

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Kurdish militiamen seized a police station in northern Iraq yesterday to prevent its transfer to a new Sunni Arab commander, igniting a daylong standoff that echoed the parliament's continuing unease over territory-sharing in the final administrative map of Iraq.

The clash in the town of Jalawla underscored the potential for violence as parliament prepared to study the contentious issue of creating autonomous regions in this multiethnic and heavily armed nation.

While most of the biggest political disputes are likely to center on oil fields in the south, in largely Shiite areas, and the northern city of Kirkuk, an oil-rich area claimed by the Kurds, the clash in Jalawla was an early warning flash in what many fear could be a turbulent battle for the frontiers of a future Kurdish zone.

Authorities said the former Kurdish police commander in Jalawla, who was recently removed from his job by the Diyala provincial council, arrived at the station Sunday night, accompanied by a force of Kurdish armed men, and laid siege.

The Kurdish forces opened fire at the police station with heavy machine guns and rocket launchers, police sources said, destroying three cars and entering the building. The new commander and his men were reportedly locked in a room, but police had only sporadic communications through the day and did not know whether any were injured or killed.

Authorities in the nearby regional police headquarters had established a command post and were preparing a plan to retake the station, police sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Kurdish leaders say Jalawla, about 95 miles northeast of Baghdad, near Iran, was primarily a Kurdish town years ago. Hundreds of Kurds were driven out during the 1980s by former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's "Arabization" campaign in northern Iraq.

Kurds have been pushing to include such lands within the boundaries of an officially designated and largely autonomous Kurdistan. Most prominent has been the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, the scene of violence this month when six bombs exploded and killed 24 people. More than 80 people were injured.

The regional parliament of Kurdistan forwarded a draft constitution to the government in Baghdad on Sunday that includes Kirkuk and other disputed areas within Kurdish-controlled territories. As now organized, the northern Kurds have their own president, taxing powers and militia, and they exercise primary authority over natural resources, including oil and water. Many Shiites want similar powers in the south.

Like Kirkuk, Jalawla is a mixed city, with Arabs and Turkmen living alongside Kurds. The local council insists that the town, on the southern edge of the Kurdish-dominated north, remain part of the Diyala province and outside an eventual Kurdistan.

As the dispute has mounted in recent months, Arab residents have complained of harsh treatment at the hands of Kurdish militia forces. Those complaints were followed by the Kurdish police chief's ouster Sunday, setting the stage for the clash over the installation of the commander.

The broader scope of the debate was under way in Baghdad as the parliament began setting up a committee to review the constitution in preparation for proposed legislation that could clear the way for semiautonomous regions not only in Kurdistan but all over Iraq, including oil-rich Shiite areas of southern Iraq.

Sunni Arabs, concentrated in the resource-poor central and western regions, have sought to block the creation of more federated regions. They fear it would cut them off from oil revenues and splinter the country.

An agreement over the weekend put off a political crisis by calling for the constitutional review and a delay in creating any such regions for at least 18 months after any new federalism law is enacted.

But parliament deputies argued yesterday morning over the timing of the constitutional review. Kurdish deputies at one point walked out in the face of accusations from one lawmaker that Kurds had driven Arabs out of the northern city of Mosul.

The parliament ultimately agreed to the proportional composition of the review committee and was set to name its members today. Parliament speaker Mahmoud Mashadani, a Sunni, urged lawmakers not to lose sight of the significance of the compromise in an issue that had threatened Iraq's four-month-old national unity government.

Iraq police station is seized by Kurds

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Currency Conversion Results

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

1 Iraqi Dinar = 0.0007091 US Dollar
1 US Dollar (USD) = 1410.22 Iraqi Dinar (IQD)

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Trade leave will be granted export local products

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Baghdad / long
The company's general opposition to the Iraqi import and export issued (22) leave the importation of Iraqi merchants included ((hatching eggs, beef or frozen meat, milk Bauder, frozen chicken, frozen fish, dairy products) from Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, and America, Belgium, Myanmar and India).
The company also issued eight leaves export products and goods to Iraqi traders Iraqis included industrial machinery and material Almach to Syria, Jordan, the United Arab. A source in the company that was also the ratification of certificates of origin for the export of goods and products and goods by another Iraqi, The company's general opposition Iraqi study requests submitted to it by private and government for the establishment of international exhibitions outside Iraq. further follow-up activity on the Federation of International Exhibitions UFI), which headquarters in Paris, said a source in the company said that authorized the company's management of the Iraqi opposition started to implement procedures to participate in the Tunis International Fair will be held in the month of November next.

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Maliki identifies trends in the work of the government in the face of terrorism

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Maliki identifies trends in the work of the government in the face of terrorism : the security force. The support of reconciliation. Improving economy


Baghdad / long
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in his office in Baghdad, South Korean Ambassador to the Musa, A statement issued by the Information Office of the Prime Minister received a (long) copy-Maliki said yesterday that during the meeting the importance of the relations between the two friendly countries, Welcome any opportunity to develop bilateral cooperation in the fields of reconstruction, economy and investments.
The statement said that the Prime Minister said that there is a development in the security situation that the government in three directions in the face of terrorism. a security force, and the continuation of the political process and national reconciliation, and improve the economy and the provision of services. And all factors activated in the face of terrorism, pointing out that the terrorists are trying from behind the heinous crimes with obstruction of the political process and national reconciliation.
Meanwhile, Korean ambassador said : said that the cooperation agreement between the two countries include the areas of science and technology and that his country was keen to invest in Iraq in order to contribute to the reconstruction of Iraq. builders and the development of infrastructure in the sectors of oil, science and technology, He called for a joint Korean joint Iraqi in the coming months to discuss investment projects.

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Kurds accuse the Minister of the Interior of obstructing the application of Article 140

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D Kirkuk. B. A : criticized Kurdish member of the Supreme Committee for the application of Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution and the Iraqi Interior Minister, accusing him of trying to obstruct normalization of the situation in the province of Kirkuk. He said Babiker friend member of the Supreme Committee Kirkuk, the head of the Office for the application of Article 140 of the Constitution that Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad Kadhim who is absent for the third time on the meetings of the supreme committee, which held its first morning yesterday in the Secretariat building of the Council of Ministers in Baghdad, sent by Undersecretary of the Ministry of the Interior Ahh D-Khafaji, who is trying to stall the meetings and make it more difficult and create obstacles to facilitate discussions.
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Sadri trend is Talabani's statements about the survival of forces

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Sadri trend is Talabani's statements about the survival of the American forces that is not binding »

Iraqi Parliament end the first reading of the draft law on the formation of regions

Baghdad : Haidar Najm, Numan Alhimus
Deputy mass chest in Parliament yesterday that Iraqi President Jalal Talabani welcomed the American forces to stay long term that is not binding »for the government, at a time when the House ended the Iraqi (parliament) yesterday, a first reading of the draft law submitted by the coalition about the "unified Shiite mechanisms and procedures for the formation of regions».
The deputy said Hazem Al-Araji of the bloc chest (30 deputies) that the statements of Talabani that is not binding on the government and the Iraqi people have now is the Constitution and the Parliament on the basis of constitutional ». He added, "We in the Parliament to represent the will of the people who oppose the presence of occupation forces both at the distant or near Al ...» These statements are not binding on the government not to do with it in violation of the Constitution ». The New Middle East »had been transferred from Talabani's statements in which he said," I believe we will need to American forces for a long time, and even to military bases to prevent foreign interventions ». He added, "I do not ask Talabani hundred thousand soldiers. Ten thousand military bases flights will serve ». He explained that the Iraqi president could be reproduced in the Kurdistan region, which enjoyed autonomy in northern Iraq since the Gulf War in 1991. He pointed out that the Sunni Arabs support the American military presence in Iraq long term, Al adding that they now believe that the main threat comes from Iran ». The Iraqi parliamentary source announced that the House of Representatives yesterday concluded a first reading of the draft law submitted by the coalition about the "unified Shiite mechanisms and procedures for the formation of regions». It should be noted that the Al mechanisms and procedures for the formation of regions »becomes effective 18 months after approval in Parliament, according to the agreement which was reached between the parliamentary blocs three days ago.

The draft unified coalition of seven chapters In the first, "The Territory consists of the governorate or more, or two or more». The second chapter addresses the means of the formation of the province which are either Al application by one third of the members in each of the district councils, which wants the composition of the territory »or" request by ten% of the voters in each district, which wants the composition of the territory ».

Chapter III and the procedures so that the formation of the Non Al lift demand to the Council of Ministers by the provincial assemblies on the government to entrust the Office of the High Commissioner for elections during the period of 15 days from the application action referendum in the territory to be established ». The first reading in the wake of understanding between the most parliamentary blocs, which also included the formation of a committee to review the Constitution, to meet the demand of Sunni Arabs. It should be noted that the bills are subject to two readings before referring them to vote. In the event of the Nile simple majority (half of the votes of those present plus 1), the drafts of these laws.

The parliament had approved the day before yesterday for the formation of a committee of 27 deputies to the revision of the constitution under the chairmanship of Deputy on the Islamic Party, Iyad al-Samarra'i. The Commission was as follows : 12 of the Shiite coalition consolidated and five of the Kurdistan Alliance and four members of the Accord Front Al Sunni Arabs »and three other components and two from the list of the Iraqi Al» secular and one of the National Dialogue Front, the Sunni Arabs ».

The coalition has 128 seats and unified Kurdistan Alliance 53 seats and the Accord Front 44 seats and 25 seats and the Iraqi components 14 seats and 11 seats Front dialogue. The meeting rose to the next Sunday for a second reading of the draft before it is referred to a vote after four days. no Limits V of the next month.

Prior to the meeting, Deputy Zafer Al-Ani Islamic Party within the Accord Front »Chairman of the Committee of the Regions of the Council his resignation from his post without means," This is an infringement of my conviction that the compromise made everything it can to reach an agreement acceptable political ». He told reporters that the agreement "may not fully reflect our national" ... » And found it inappropriate to name associated with the consequences and responsibilities of national, ethical, I wanted to disassociate myself from disadvantages ». In accordance with domestic law, a first deputy chairman of the standing in the case to tender his resignation. Therefore replace Salim Abdullah (Accord Front) Place Ani. At the outset of the meeting, obtained a verbal edges was President of the Council, Mahmoud Almshahadani (consensus), MPs of the National Dialogue Council, led by Khalaf Al-Alyan WIN within compatibility are also Aldaine and Mohamed Abdel-Nasser al-Janabi. The Chairman of the Council answering Aldaine after repeatedly asked him to silence there is why is many satellite channels a not choose one to make your opinion ». Hence, the presidency of the Council out of the media room. The first deputy chairman of parliament, Sheikh Khaled al-Attiyah said last Sunday for the French news agency to reach an agreement between blocs include Al decision to set up a committee to amend the Constitution on Monday that, pending the completion of procedures within a period not exceeding one year from the date of its formation ».

He added that a draft put forward for the formation of regions in the first reading Tuesday that the work would be carried out by law after 18 months from the date of approval in the House of Representatives within the constitutional period provided for in Article 118 ».

It should be noted that Article No. 142 parties insisted that the Sunni Arabs to include in the draft constitution calls for the formation of a committee to review the constitution after the legislative elections, as stipulated in Article 118 on the principle of the right of Al »formation of regions and provinces.

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Iraq could create trouble for its neighbors unless they stop

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Talabani warns Maliki relations linking respect for the inviolability of Iraqi blood
Iraq could create trouble for its neighbors unless they stop interfering in its

27 / 09 / 2006, Baghdad, Basra, and the Washington-Reuters, AFP-warned Iraqi President Jalal Talabani reiterated Tuesday that Iraq could 'trouble' to its neighbors unless they stop interfering in its internal affairs. at the time he said Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that 'Iraq's relations with its neighbors is governed by the extent of their respect for the sanctity of Iraqi blood and seeking serious steps to prevent the infiltration of terrorists through their borders'.
Meanwhile, work continued on the most mobile in Iraq claimed the lives of at least 12 people dead, including three American soldiers, With the British forces killed level aide to the Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and the Americans described 'the man very, very important'.
Retortion
In an interview with the public radio station broadcast in the United States yesterday (Tuesday) said the Iraqi president, Syria, Iran and Turkey to interfere in the affairs of Iraq. He warned that the three countries' patience Iraq is about to lose '. He added Talabani 'We ask them to stop interfering in our internal affairs and respect for the sovereignty and independence of Iraq, but we will be forced to say something'.
And accuses American President George Bush also Syria and Iran of interfering in Iraq's affairs, and urges them to stop the flow of armed men across the border.
He threatened that the Taliban would Similarly, 'the same way. We will support the opposition in other countries. And we will try to raise it, as do a lot of us'.
He continued, 'We can do this in Iran, Syria and Turkey, but we do not do. Our policy is the non-interference in the internal affairs of others and we ask those countries and begged not interfere in our internal affairs, because this is chaos in the Middle East '.
In turn, the Iraqi prime minister, during his meeting Arab League envoy Mokhtar Lamani, , seeks to open up to all nations, especially Arab ones' that the exchange of respect Iraq does not interfere in its internal affairs'.
Suicide bombers in Baghdad
The ground, Iraqi police announced the killing of four people and injuring others, including a large number of policemen, in the explosion of a booby-trapped car driven by a suicide bomber targeted a building containing the offices for communications and other releases in the Spring Street in the Alzewneh (east Baghdad).
Having rushed police forces and the American forces to the scene to dismantle the bomb explosion that was wrapped around the side of the suicide bomb, killing two American soldiers and injuring three others including American soldiers and a large number of police.
Also targeted was another suicide bomber driving a motorcycle headquarters of the Communist Party in Andalus Square (downtown Baghdad), killing five Iraqis and injuring 15 others.
In Mosul, north, the American army announced the killing of one of its soldiers was shot by the 'rebels' car was ambushed on the road as he was involved routine patrol.
The killing of a man 'very, very important'
On the other hand, British forces announced they had killed Omar Faruq, a senior aide to Osama bin Laden, leader of Al Qaeda, already escaped from an American prison in Afghanistan last year, and was found during the raids in Basra (south). And Farouq was one of four people who fled the Bagram air base (north of Kabul) in July last year. It was seen as a day that the main interface between the followers of Osama bin Laden, leader of Al Qaeda and the Islamic group accused of responsibility for bombings in Indonesia.
A spokesman for the British Army Maj. Charlie Berberidj that Umar Farooq was killed after being shot while resisting arrest during a raid carried out early in the morning, about 200 British troops in the city of Basra, the second largest Iraqi cities.
He described the American leaders as a big activist Farouk Al Qaeda in Southeast Asia. It was arrested in Indonesia in 2002 and imprisoned in the detention center surrounded by tightened security measures at Bagram to be able to escape last year.
He said Berberidj 'This person was prosecuted in all parts of Iraq and was hiding in Basra'. He described it as' a very, very important '.

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