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Washington has warned al-Maliki drop it within minutes if he refuses to accept the loss

According to Elaph electronic that the U.S. administration brought the letters to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki drop it within minutes if they do not hand over power peacefully in the event of losing the elections

The newspaper, quoting sources, said the Americans are very resentful of the statement by Maliki's recent wave when using fitness as commander in chief of the armed forces in the absence of a recount of ballot papers for the last legislative elections which took place on the seventh of this month.

He added that the Americans and, after a number of leaders from the coalition, the rule of law, including Maliki's what they called "popular uprising" if not win-Maliki has delivered the threatening letters to him confirmed that their forces would intervene in three minutes to sink it in the event of losing the elections and refusing to hand over power officially.

The center had published a story earlier that one of the members of the list of the rule of law had threatened to UNHCR officials through a phone call, was quoted by UNHCR audio recording of the call to the UN representative in Iraq

http://www.wasatonline.com/index.php...7-54&Itemid=99

Sources for Baghdadi (UR): The Aldta Allawi and Abdul-Mahdi carrying Iraqi citizenship since the forties

Baghdadi-informed sources scoffed at the allegations that have been promoted recently that both of Iyad Allawi and Adel Abdul-Mahdi would be able to become prime minister because of the fact that their mothers to Lebanese sources wondered about how to take d. Adel Abdul Mahdi, Vice-President of the Republic, if the articles 68 and 77 of the Constitution, they prevent it.

Sources in particular, has ample knowledge of Bawail Baghdad, told the (UR) that both the mother d. Iyad Allawi, which belongs to the family of Asiran Lebanese, one of the oldest families in southern Lebanon, and the mother of d. Adel Abdul-Mahdi, had obtained the nationality of Iraq before more than sixty years.

The sources pointed out that Iraqi law since the days of King Faisal I was not allowed even to those who do not carry his Iraqi citizenship, and that they are Arab, to take over portfolio or special degree, noting that father d. Mr. Adel Abdul-Mahdi Almentfji was minister of education during the monarchy, so the mother and Lebanese citizenship in Iraq.

The sources say the same: The same applies to the mother of d. Iyad Allawi, as his father d. Hashim Allawi, one of the first consultants Medicine Chest Institute and the founder of tuberculosis disease in Iraq in the thirties of the last century, which was based Tuwaitha hospital in Salman Pak, and chaired for a long time, and therefore, his wife is Lebanese acquired other Iraqi nationality.

The sources said that raising this issue, not just storm in a teacup, and said his first raise the issue of dual nationality who hold positions of sovereignty, including membership of the House of Representatives, noting that about 100 members of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, outgoing, with dual citizenship, one of their parents and others non-Iraqi.

It should be noted that paragraph IV of Article 18 of the Iraqi constitution in force provide for: (may have multiple citizenship to Iraqis, and the one who occupies a sovereign or high security abandon any other nationality shall be regulated by law). The site characterization does not require the sovereign to legal opinions because most of the world unanimously agreed that each address assuming the job requires the issuance of Presidential Decree no (presidential decree or will ownership) is a website that is classified to the sovereign laws of those States the Director General positions and men of the armed forces, ambassadors and ministers and are by far Minister or higher sovereign sites are not allowed from the assumption of dual-nationals unless they are giving up their nationality acquired or waiver to accept the post to retain foreign nationality, and those States France Her long experience in the jurisprudence and legislation in the school excellence.

Sources believe, who spoke to the Agency (UR) that a government lawyer to take the back of the controversial Tarek Harb, raising the subject of sexual and mother of Allawi and Abdul-Mahdi, to interference on the progress of the Iraqi List, after the electoral commission rejected government requests to re-counting and sorting by hand, particularly because these actors, As sources say, has exhausted all Bdjaptha arguments.

The sources went on to say: that the war, unaware of who the assets of families Baghdadiya ancient acknowledged in a statement to Asharq al-Awsat that the candidate who could one parent naturalized Iraqi nationality to stand for office, and denied to be the candidate for the post of President of Parliament or Members of Parliament of the items covered by this Constitution.

On the candidate for the position while retaining the other nationality as well as Iraqi citizenship, said the war, that many of the former parliamentarians and the current candidates have more than one nationality and the right to practice their work in the office, as long as they were Iraqi nationals, as well as foreign, forgetting that the Constitution necessitated the organization of the law, but the outgoing House of Representatives did not discuss over the four years of dual nationality law, as incompatible with the interests of the Albip politicians in the new Iraq.

On his part, the legal expert Tareq al-Adli, the belief that the nominations to the positions of sovereign and grades of whether in government or in the House of Representatives, must be assigned to someone born in Iraq and Iraqi parents kept the Iraqi citizenship, and not others. He added that multiple nationality would be a way to escape the wrath of the national law and circumvent it, as places who stands up for those positions in the problem to prove their loyalty to his motherland.

He stressed the need not to ignore the House of Representatives next to the law that regulates multiple nationality for the Iraqis, and to accelerate the legislation, like the rest of the material contained in the Constitution that have been organized in the form of laws and legislation, especially since the Constitution went on to pass five years.

Some of the political blocs have raised, on Monday, the issue of lack of some terms in the mass of the Iraqi president of a coalition of Iyad Allawi as prime minister because his mother was of Lebanese descent, which is inconsistent with the articles of the constitution for the positions of candidates for sovereign. The leader of the Islamic Dawa party Keywords "The Iraqi Constitution expressly provided special conditions for each of the offices of The Presidency and the Minister," adding that the coalition of the rule of law adheres to the implementation of those conditions. "He added that" the coalition examine the truthfulness of the information reported in the media on the nationality of the mother of Allawi to hold on to enforce the terms of the nomination for the post of prime minister."

http://www.uragency.net/index.php?aa=news&id22=5865

stuck in front of each block position .. threatening to enter the country a new political crisis over the position of Prime Minister

With the approach of the Electoral Commission declared the elections final results of parliamentary elections next Friday, took the dispute and the conflict of the post of prime minister, the expected room between the political blocs, and began to overwhelm the Iraqi political scene and the shouts of the views of convulsive Which threatens to enter the country in a political crisis and an obstacle to holding the position of each block.

At a time when claims for expanded political blocs agency is re-counting and sorting, including manually block the rule of law coalition led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, accused the Iraqi List led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's rival, state law is an attempt to fix the results from this requirement. A member coalition and the rule of law MP Khalid al-Asadi of the existence of talks with the coalition fought his list of the Iraqi National To form the next government, he stressed that his coalition would not run other than (Nuri al-Maliki) For this job, and there is a consensus within the coalition of the rule of law on this matter was not put any other name.

Asadi said that "the dialogue process with blocs and coalitions will produce a good mechanism on the formation of the next government and the issue of performance and will also lead to the process of selecting the right people for important positions in the state, indicating There participants must agree upon on the important issues in the next phase He stressed that it was not the right of any political bloc demanded that the coalition of state law to submit another candidate."

He also a member of the Iraqi National Coalition MP Hamid Malp that the meeting took place between his coalition and the destruction of the state of law dealing with important policy challenges in the country and the situation on the outcome of the elections and emplace coalitions are also inter-address graders find a rapprochement between the coalitions and form a committee Be a gateway to interact with other blocs to form the next government.

Sadr, a milestone in the national coalition and winning about 65% of the vote, denied the coalition, for its part And on the lips of the current political body Is an agreement between the Iraqi National Coalition and a coalition of law To re-merged again, also denied the Commission at the same time a reference to the impact of Najaf, National Coalition to hold alliances with other lists.

The head of the political body of the Sadrist movement Karar al-Khafaji, in an interview that "dialogues conducted by the National Coalition with a coalition of law focused on discuss the issue of alliances, and forming a government after the announcement, denied that the conversations that took place have dealt with the integration of coalitions , Noting that the coalition make decisions collectively and can not be to any pressure on him to impose an alliance with other entities to form the next Iraqi government, while denying the existence of pressure from the religious authority to form an alliance between the National Coalition and some other bodies."

He also a member of the National Coalition Wael Abdul Latif difficult to give Nuri al-Maliki for a second term as prime minister, stating in a press statement saying that "the assumption of Nuri al-Maliki as prime minister is very difficult because there are Political blocs major obstacle to it."

Iraqi List, said in more than one occasion, in the words of their leaders that the only candidate for prime minister is the leader Iyad Allawi's list, and the last speaker was a member of the San Iraqi and jumpy Shakir, who stated "There is consensus within the coalition, Iraqi Iyad Allawi is the only candidate and does not have any alternative for him no matter the position of the other blocs."

Allawi, the Iraqi leader met in Arbil, in turn yesterday with the President of Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani and discussed with him Mechanics of forming the next government And ways to strengthen relations between the Kurdistan Alliance list and Iraqi forces also resulted in the refusal of the meeting, Barzani To Maliki's call to recount the votes manually He called to provide conclusive evidence about the additional fraud. Observers point out that these statements indicate the comfort of the Kurdish lists of results, although Sweep of Allawi's list of the votes in Nineveh province, where Kurdish influence receded. The statement came just a day after Barzani's refusal to re-counting and sorting manually as demanded by President Jalal Talabani and Minister Nuri al-Maliki. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani denied his claim in turn, also promised to recount the votes in the whole of Iraq, saying during his meeting with Iyad Allawi, said his claim was in a few areas and limited.

A statement issued by the Iraqi National List "The president told them he was not demanding manual re-count for the whole of Iraq, but he had some doubts the results declared in limited areas and few." Which draw attention to the obvious change in the political situation Kurdish especially after the remarks of the Iraqi leader Tariq al-Hashemi, who expressed a desire the position of the Presidency and the discomfort of the Kurds, where he was Barzani, Talabani, has been nominated for the presidency again, following the declaration Hashemi his desire to run for office.

Allawi's candidacy for the presidency of the future Iraqi government rejecting reactions by existing competition The President (state law) and some clusters, while second-placed Allawi at the same time Broadly supported by the neighboring Arab states and a rejection of Nuri al-Maliki took office again.

In the absence of the U.S. real-time face of this political struggle to a post Observers Of the scene that the U.S. intervention, Will happen (if necessary) to impose a new face for the prime minister agreed upon by all clusters. This is referred to by a member of the National Coalition Zainab Kanani Told her when she said, "The The U.S. administration has the upper hand in the distribution of seats and quotas between blocs. "

Kanani said, "Everyone knows that Iraq is under occupation and that the administration would not get out of the political process and have the upper hand in the distribution of seats and quotas between the parliamentary blocs, noting That there is external pressure from some neighboring countries, which suffered the security of Iraq and one of them threatened to disrupt the political process and to sabotage the election a month before conducting a Gulf state, indicating that all of this has to be casting doubt on the final results."

It expresses some political analysts and observers of the political landscape of the belief that the failure of the Iraqis to resolve the situation, you may pay in the United States to intervene as the guardian of the political process and as usual, to intervene to solve all the political crises that have occurred in the last minute through Imposition of a new face on the ground instead of Allawi, Maliki, or may be the solution.

http://al-iraqnews.net/new/report/59543.html

Abdel Mahdi stresses Iraqi parents and Allawi refused to comment on the nationality of his mother

Spokeswoman said the official Iraqi list that may not be Allawi for prime minister to the fact that his mother, of Lebanese nationality is unconstitutional came in a statement carried by Al-Hurra Iraq space.

Iraqi List, did not comment or show validity or invalidity of the report and noted that some legal experts confirmed the inadmissibility of the assumption of the presidency minister, but by an Iraqi from Iraqi parents as provided in the current Iraqi constitution, which in this case the health of non-Iraqi, the mother of Iyad Allawi, the constitution is to be excluded it from his high office of prime minister.

The doubts which dealt Ahamhorip Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi, the false statement from Iraq Net library got a copy of it.

Iukd that his mother holds Iraqi citizenship since the establishment of the Iraqi state early twentieth century.

http://www.aliraqnet.net/news_view_4412.html

Al-Dabbagh: No truth to the reports to ensure a peaceful transition of power away from the Prime Minister, and it was premature to talk or look in the mechanisms of power transition

Iraqi government denied news leaked of Iraqi security leaders yesterday held a security meeting Iraqi - U.S., apart from the commander of the armed forces of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, to secure the country and ensure a peaceful transition of power after the declaration of the results of parliamentary elections.

The Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said in connection with the «life» that «no truth to the reports circulated to a meeting, Iraqi security - to ensure that U.S. peaceful transfer of power away from the Prime Minister». He said «We are not in the stage of research and deliberation on the mechanism of trading and transfer of authority that it does not need to hold such meetings as that things are going within their natural». He warned that «the promotion of such allegations come in the door but propaganda for the benefit of some parties tendentious» He stressed that «it was too early to talk or look in the mechanisms of power transition».

The source confirmed a high-level security, he stressed the lack of reference to be named «expanded meeting was held in Baghdad two days ago was attended by senior commanders and military advisers as well as some American side in the military sphere to discuss what will the situation after the announcement of election results and that will not devoid of political crises may reflect negatively on the security done».

The source added that it was followed by a series of meetings last Wednesday, Iraqi security «during which a plan has been very important and confidential to control security in Iraqi cities, especially worried them».

The source pointed out that «Adhamiya, Al-Ameria, Sadr City and Kadhimiya in Baghdad, Karbala, as well as some southern provinces will be the focus of the proposed plan for fear of an emergency if it did not comply the election results and the expectations of the supporters of certain lists, and the large blocs».

He added that «the meeting was held in isolation from the General Commander of the Armed Forces, Prime Minister Maliki as fall within the circle of competitors or candidates for the new government, and therefore shall be held separately from the candidates of the next government to ensure the success of the security plan that was agreed upon».

http://www.baghdadtimes.net/Arabic/index.php?sid=59625

Iraq's divided vote may deepen Kirkuk dispute

(Reuters) - A dispute between Kurds and Arabs over Iraq's oil producing city of Kirkuk may deepen after a strong election challenge by Iyad Allawi's Arab nationalist Iraqiya to the Kurdish ruling bloc.

Preliminary results from the March 7 parliamentary election show strong Sunni Arab and Turkmen support has pushed the secularist Iraqiya list led by Shi'ite former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi slightly ahead of the powerful Kurdish alliance.

Kurds claim Kirkuk as their ancestral homeland and want to wrap it into their largely autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq. The idea is rejected by the city's Arab and Turkmen residents as well as the central government in Baghdad. The vote in Kirkuk, where Allawi's secular list was ahead by about 3,000 votes, could weaken the longstanding Kurdish claim and spark new tension as Iraq is trying to shake off years of violence and rebuild its battered economy.

"It is a blow to Kurdish morale," IHS Global Insight Middle East analyst Gala Riani said. "The Kirkuk dispute will inevitably deepen with time and as it becomes more pressing to resolve the issue. Basically, the closer push comes to shove, the more intense we can expect the dispute to become."

Iraq's Arabs and Kurds are locked in a long-running dispute over land, oil and the constitutional shape of the federation. The row is seen as a chief threat to Iraq's fragile security and young democracy. Kirkuk sits atop one of Iraq's key oil producing fields. The Kirkuk fields contain about 13 percent of Iraq's proven reserves, which in turn are the world's third largest. The feud has destabilized some areas in Iraq, including the violent city of Mosul, the capital of the northern Nineveh province, and allowed al Qaeda insurgents to gain a foothold.

"The results of the parliamentary election will lead to a big change in Kirkuk's political map due to the emergence of new powers in the scene such as the Arabs and Turkmen," political analyst Abdul-Karim al-Khalifa said.

Kurds flatly reject a compromise with Baghdad on Kirkuk despite the election results and say that Allawi's list is the one more likely to fracture. The Kurdish alliance, which includes Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and Kurdish President Masoud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), is ahead across the largely autonomous Kurdistan region. But the alliance is facing an unprecedented challenge from the Kurdish reform-minded Goran group, which was threatening to split Iraq's Kurdish establishment. When it comes to Kirkuk, however, it is more likely that the alliance and Goran will form a united Kurdish front to wrest concessions from Baghdad on the ethnically divided city.

"Whatever the results of the election are, we as Kurds will not give away the Kurdish identity for the city of Kirkuk," Adnan Kirkouki, a candidate with the Kurdish alliance, said.

"The Kurdish alliance will remain united, despite the difference in opinion between the various parties. All of them agree on the Kurdish identity of the city."

PRE-NUPS AND COALITIONS

Allawi and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki are in a neck-and-neck election race nationwide with no one expected to get an outright majority, meaning that both will be forced to seek political alliances to form a government.

"To some extent this should set the stage for the coalition negotiations," said analyst Reidar Visser of www.historiae.org. "With such a good result for Allawi in Kirkuk it makes no sense for him to give too many concessions to the Kurds and the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (ISCI), the most pro-Kurdish Shi'ite party."

Kurds, who see themselves as kingmakers in forming a new government, are asking for written assurances from potential coalition partners on revenue sharing and disputed territories, Kurdish sources say. The future of Mosul, which lies close to territory disputed by the Arab majority and minority ethnic Kurds, is another thorny issue in the relationship between Baghdad and Kurdistan.

Allawi, who won over minority Sunni Arabs with his non-sectarian message, led in five provinces, including Kirkuk and Nineveh, sweeping western and northern areas that are home to large numbers of Sunnis. Maliki led in seven provinces in central and southern Iraq, six of them mainly Shi'ite. A win by Allawi is likely to intensify Kurdish demands for the control of Kirkuk even more and could aggravate territorial disputes in Nineveh, said Wayne White, a scholar at the Middle East Institute.

Kurds made substantial inroads in Nineveh in a 2005 election after Sunnis largely stayed away from the poll. But friction worsened after voting last year put control of the provincial council in the hands of Arab nationalists. The KRG is also at loggerheads with Baghdad over the legality of contracts the KRG signed independently with foreign oil firms, a dispute that resulted in the halting of oil exports from Kurdistan last year.

"During the bitter maneuvering over who will become the next prime minister, Maliki -- or another competitor -- might reach out to the Kurds in an effort to form a kingmaking coalition," White said. "Should that happen, Baghdad's position on Kurdish territorial claims could shift somewhat."

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62M19H20100323

Bid for Iraq vote recount intensifies
Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's camp warns of southern Shiites' threat to sever ties with Baghdad

Reporting from Baghdad — Senior politicians from Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's ruling coalition warned Tuesday that Shiite Muslim-dominated southern Iraq could severely loosen its ties with Baghdad if the nation's electoral commission failed to meet its demand for a manual recount of ballots in parliamentary elections.

The politicians, who also echoed Maliki's warning Sunday that sectarian violence could return without a recount, accused the U.S. Embassy of working against them. In turn, Western diplomats and advisors to the Iraqi government described Maliki's circle as terrified of losing power and said Iraq was entering a dangerous period.

Preliminary results of the March 7 balloting are due Friday, but the Independent High Electoral Commission has already made it clear it does not intend to conduct a ballot-by-ballot recount. The U.S. Embassy and the United Nations have said that the elections appeared to have been carried out in a credible fashion, with no evidence of widespread fraud.

An analysis of the latest figures by the U.S. military has projected that Maliki's slate will lose the popular vote but win 90 parliamentary seats, compared with 87 seats for the Iraqiya list of his rival Iyad Allawi, a secular Shiite and previous prime minister. Such a narrow outcome would make it difficult for Maliki to cobble together a ruling coalition in parliament, observers say, explaining the unease among Maliki supporters.

Sami Askari, a member of Maliki's inner circle and his State of Law election slate, described the electoral commission as a U.N. puppet. He also accused the CIA and elements of the State Department of working to bring Allawi, who has ties to the U.S. intelligence community, back to power.

"The Americans told me six months ago that the CIA and State Department are working on bringing back Allawi," Askari said. "Within State of Law, many believe this."

Askari referred repeatedly to a plot to bring down Maliki's coalition and install Allawi's slate, which includes figures associated with the late dictator Saddam Hussein's Sunni Arab-dominated regime. Askari said if there was no recount, many Shiites would refuse to support a central government that they feared heralded the resurrection of Hussein's Baath Party, which tormented the Shiite majority for 35 years before being toppled in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar...aq24-2010mar24

Turkey says Iraq oil deal talks underway
Yildiz said on Tuesday that a new agreement would be signed with Iraq soon about Kirkuk-Yumurtalik crude oil pipeline.

Turkish Energy & Natural Resources Minister Taner Yildiz said on Tuesday that a new agreement would be signed with Iraq soon about Kirkuk-Yumurtalik crude oil pipeline. Speaking to reporters in Ankara, Yildiz said that talks were underway with Iraqi government and Iraqi Petroleum Ministry about the pipeline, and a new agreement would be signed within a week or ten days.

He recalled that the existing agreement about the pipeline expired in March. Noting that one last meeting would be held with Iraq about the pipeline, Yildiz said that if the two countries reached a consensus on two remaining issues, the new agreement covering the next 15-20 years would be signed.

Regarding natural gas issue, Yildiz said that only 2-2,5 percent of the natural gas, which was consumed in Turkey, was met by local resources, adding that currently a study was underway on coal gasification, and talks were continuing with the U.S. officials about the issue. Yildiz said that there was a cooperation agreement between Turkey and the U.S. about coal gasification, adding that Turkey sent a sample to the U.S. to examine how appropriate Turkish coal was for gasification.

Yildiz also said that a very important meeting would take place in Mexico in the weekend with participation of energy ministers from 30 countries as well as EU energy commissioner, adding that he would also attend the meeting.

http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=55891

CBI sells $266m on Wednesday

The Central Bank of Iraq’s (CBI) dollar sales registered $266.160 million in its daily auction on Wednesday.

“The demand hit $5.810 million in cash, covered at an exchange rate of 1,183 Iraqi dinars per dollar, and $260.350 million in foreign transfers outside the country, covered at an exchange rate of 1,173 Iraqi dinars per dollar,” according to a CBI news bulletin received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

None of the 17 banks that participated in today’s session offered to sell dollars.

http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=129053

Kuwaiti company seeks to invest in Karbala

A delegation from a Kuwaiti company expressed desire on Monday to implement investment projects in the province, a senior local official said.

"A delegation from Kuwaiti Bukhamseen Holding paid a visit on Monday to the Karbala council, where it expressed desire to implement projects in the province," Engineer Zuhair al-Karieti told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

"The group has branches in several Arab capitals and has a great desire to invest in Karbala," he added.

http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidZAWYA20100323072253/Kuwaiti%20company%20seeks%20to%20invest%20in%20Kar bala