Thread: Archive News - Iraqi Dinar Think Tank - 28/03/10 - 21/06/10

Originally Posted by Seaview

Theft of six and a half billion dinars from the Rafidain Bank branch Mashkhab

Committee chairman unveiled the Security Council of the province of Najaf, on Friday, reported the theft of the amount of six and a half billion dinars from the Rafidain Bank branch Mashkhab.

Said Luay Yasiri that "a group of thieves have robbed Thursday evening the amount of 6.5 billion dinars from the Rafidain Bank branch Mashkhab," noting that "the theft was discovered today."

He Yasiri that "the robbery, according to preliminary information, it was planned by some members of the bank protection, and an investigation was still ongoing on the subject," without giving further details.

According to government sources in the area Mashkhab, "the security forces blocked all roads leading to the bank and blocked the movement of vehicles entering and leaving from and to the point."

http://www.uragency.net/index.php?aa=news&id22=7781

Interesting,

I was wondering how long it would take for the terrorists to turn into bank robbers as their revenues are being restricted more and more from traditional terrorist support from Iran, so I expect to see the banks as a major new target which we are starting to see more and more. Should make it interesting for how do you protect a bank with all these suicide recruits they have? I wouldn't want to have any of my dinar in any Iraqi banks at this time. Think about it, they could blow up all the banks one by one and drain them, crushing them with losses, and easily put them out of business. It has always been about money and greed, as to who is most greedy, terrorists or gov., this we don't know yet. lol

Success to all, Mike

Legal Expert: the oldest member, will chair the first meeting of parliament

Legal expert said Tariq Harb in an interview that according to the Iraqi Constitution, the oldest member, will head the first meeting of parliament, as sources indicate that it will be the Iraqi leadership in the list of good top.

Harb added that the Federal Court in the event of ratification of the results, it is entitled to the Presidency Council convene a new parliament after an hour of authentication on results and not to prolong the duration of the call from / 15 / days according to the Constitution, in the first session will elect a speaker and two deputies, and then President of the Republic and after The president assigns the largest bloc to form a government.

The war, said he could resolve things in the first session of parliament if the agreement between the political blocs on the posts.

http://radionawa.com/ar/NewsDetailN....547&LinkID=151

Barzani may give a speech to the Parliament of Kurdistan region tomorrow

Media adviser to the President of the Parliament of the Kurdistan region to deliver the region's president Massoud Barzani in the parliament session scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday, a speech on the general situation in the region and the post after the parliamentary elections in Iraq and the formation of the new government.

And the relocation of the regional government-mail Tariq substance "is expected to deliver the region's president Massoud Barzani in the meeting of the Parliament of Kurdistan regular and scheduled to be held, tomorrow (Saturday), a political speech deals with the general situation in the region, in addition to post-Iraq's parliamentary elections and speed up the formation of the new government."

http://www.uragency.net/index.php?aa=news&id22=7793

Bremer: British officials have backed the resolution and de-Baathification

Chairman of the Coalition Provisional Authority that ran Iraq in 2003, Paul Bremer, that "British officials supported the decision to purge the Iraqi state officials of Saddam's regime."

According to BBC News that "the British diplomats, senior military officers blamed for Iraq's descent into chaos after the war to a policy of Bremer in the de-Baathification," Bremer "has informed a committee Chilkot British fact-finding in the Iraq war, said British officials had agreed on a resolution de-Baathification in that time."

The network showed that the "Commission of Inquiry headed by Sir John Chilkot met with 15 leading figures during her visit to the United States last week as long as five days."

It added that "unlike what happened in the United Kingdom, where it was transferred the majority of meetings of the Committee through the television, the discussions which took place from 17 to 21 of the May in the United States took place behind closed doors."

A spokesman for the British commission that they were mean of the visit of the United States "to allow the Commission to identify from a global perspective to the wider British intervention in Iraq in the period examined by the Commission of Inquiry."

Bremer touched a lot of issues that had previously been in the book, the general who took over its management of the Coalition Provisional Authority, saying that "Coalition forces were not able to provide appropriate security for Iraqi citizens at the time."

http://www.radiodijla.com/cgi-bin/ne...-28%2022:02:57

Al-Maliki in Najaf to meet Sistani

The president of the outgoing government, Nouri al-Maliki on Saturday, the city of Najaf and held upon arrival in a meeting with the Shiite cleric Ali al-Sistani, the visit comes less than a week after a similar visit by Iyad Allawi, the first rival to Najaf and met with the bookmark.

A source familiar with in the province of Najaf, in an interview with "Alsumaria News," that "Maliki's visit aims to inform al-Sistani on the latest political developments in the country, and the reasons for delaying the formation of the Iraqi government", noting that the visit also aims to urge Al-Sistani supported the right of coalition rule of law and the Coalition the formation of the national government. "

Maliki's visit comes less than a week after a visit by the first opponent for the chairmanship of the next government, Iyad Allawi, who met with Sistani, said after the meeting that the religious authority in Najaf, called for the establishment of a national government without exclusion or marginalization of any party.

The source, who requested anonymity, that "al-Maliki held a press conference after the meeting with Sistani."

The debate currently on the eligibility of forming the government, especially after the Federal Supreme Court in a statement on the twenty-sixth of the current month of March in response to the request of Iraqi Prime Minister outgoing Nuri al-Maliki's interpretation of Article 76 of the Iraqi Constitution, which refers to the largest bloc in parliament, which is Government, the parliamentary bloc, the most numerous means either a cluster that formed after the elections through the electoral list and one ran, and won many more seats, or that the cluster resulting from the Alliance of two or more of the lists, which entered the elections and merged into a single bloc, to become the cluster the largest in parliament, which rejected the Iraqi List and a preference clause and considered a circumvention of the Constitution and the "curvature" of the Iraqi judiciary to the Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who leads the list of competition.

The results of the elections issued by the High Commission in the twenty-sixth of March last declared victory coalition Iraqi led by Iyad Allawi, the first place after winning 91 seats, followed by a list of coalition rule of law led by Nuri al-Maliki won 89 and the National Coalition of Iraq in third place winning 70 seats, the Kurdistan Alliance 43 seats IV.

http://www.alsumarianews.com/ar/1/71...-details-.html

Abawi: the decision to host the next Arab Summit in Baghdad, "final decision"

Assured, however, Abawi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the decision of the recent Arab summit Baghdad granting the privilege of hosting the next Arab Summit is a "final decision". Speaking Abawi said in an interview with "Radio Sawa" on the functions of the Ministerial Committee formed to prepare for the Arab Summit, saying that there were many sites may be some need to rehabilitate or build some apartments or villas. The Abbawi that the selection of Iraq's capital to host Arab League summit came at Tests on the political, logistical and corporate. Abawi said that the Committee also examined the option of hosting the summit in Egypt, where the headquarters of the Arab League.

http://alforattv.net/index.php?show=...ticle&id=45542

Maliki, after meeting Sistani Certificate: You must form a government in Baghdad and are concerned Alaitlavan formed

N site correspondent that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki arrived in Najaf had met shortly before the highest religious authority, Sayyed Ali Husseini Sistani at his headquarters downtown.

Maliki said after meeting with His Eminence the reference that the Iraqi government must be formed in Baghdad, we do not accept the intervention of neighbors and others."

"In a news conference attended by a reporter shortly before the N site that" coalitions are involved in forming the next government, according to the Constitution, saying that he is not a state of law a compromise candidate only candidate only."

The coalition of the rule of law has been nominated Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as prime minister to come."

He also said the reference Eminence Sistani calls to speed up formation of the Iraqi government to start underlines its commitment to the constitution and laws and does not accept any Ciie opposed to the law and the Constitution."

http://non14.net/display.php?id=9043

U.S. Ambassador: We have not discussed so far to keep a part of our forces within NATO after the withdrawal from Iraq

U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Christopher Hill, said his government had not been discussed so far is to maintain some of its troops in Iraq within the NATO mission after the complete withdrawal from the end of 2011, that the NATO mission in Iraq have a separate agreement on the Convention which entered into by our government Iraqi.

Hill said in an interview with "Alsumaria News", that his country "had not been discussed so far is to maintain some of its troops within NATO after full withdrawal of troops from Iraq by end of 2011."

But Hill said that "a relationship of NATO with the Iraqi government after the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq is positive," according to his words.

The U.S. ambassador to Iraq that "the mission of NATO forces in Iraq have a separate agreement for the Convention, which entered into by us with the Iraqi government, including an agreement to train and equip Iraqi security forces".

The Governments of the United States and Iraq signed in 2008, security agreement includes identifying the rules and requirements which regulate the temporary presence of U.S. military forces in Iraq, activities, and withdrawal from Iraq.

The agreement states that to withdraw all U.S. forces from all Iraqi territory no later than 31 December 2011.

The U.S. forces in Iraq announced on the ninth of this month, there is the desire of the NATO mission to stay in the country following the withdrawal of U.S. forces, including in the full year 2011, confirmed that the Iraqi security forces are still not able to defend Iraq against external threats .

Said at the time deputy commanding general of U.S. forces in Iraq, General Michael Barbero, head of the NATO mission in Iraq in an interview for a number of media, from "Alsumaria News" said, "the NATO mission a desire to stay in Iraq after the withdrawal of U.S. troops the end of 2011," noting that "the cause of their desire to stay is to continue training Iraqi security forces land, air and sea power."

And the form of NATO, "NATO" in 1949 to counter the threat of communist expansion that followed World War II, when the former Soviet Union sought to extend its influence over Europe. And dominate the United States of America against the Alliance, which now includes 25 countries, chiefly Britain, France, Germany and Turkey.

He stressed Barbero on "the need for a strategic relationship between the NATO mission in Iraq and the Iraqi government," pointing out that "Iraqi security forces are now able to maintain security against threats from extremists within the country, but they are not able to defend the country against external threats."

http://www.alsumarianews.com/ar/2/71...-details-.html

Nuri al-Maliki: Alliance is the largest bloc coalitions are constitutional and state law, insisting on its candidate for prime minister

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said the integration of coalition rule of law and the National Coalition represent the largest bloc in line with the opinion of the Federal Court and the opinion of the Iraqi Constitution.

He said al-Maliki at a press conference in Najaf after his meeting with top religious authority, Mr. Ali al-Sistani that the coalition of the state of law of Egypt for its candidate to head the next government.

Maliki said Sistani stressed the need for political components interact with one another to form the next government on solid foundations.

He said al-Maliki that it is possible to form a government based on a wrong by expediting and shortening the contexts of constitutional, noting that the case of delay in Iraq has witnessed a lot of European countries including Italy, which has delayed the formation of its government to 6 months, pointing out that should not be forgotten that the adoption of a law elections delayed up to three months.

He added that efforts were being made to reach the final steps to agree on the details of the Alliance, which brings together the state of law with the National Coalition such as the name of the new coalition and the identification of a joint committee between the two blocs.

He told the interpretation that the constitutional meaning of the largest bloc is the validity of the Federal Court opinion and its obvious, and if the violation of this resolution will mean so skeptical of all its previous decisions regarding the government, noting that when he asked Mr. Sistani's opinion on the nature and meaning of the parliamentary bloc of the largest and which will to form the government replied that this is not a specialist.

Maliki stressed the need not to outside interference in the affairs of the country and the formation of the Iraqi government in Baghdad, not in the capitals of Arab or European countries, stressing that the next government will fall to bear the responsibilities of considerable internal and external.

http://www.ipairaq.com/index.php?nam...itics&id=25909

Deputy Clinton »: we reject a request to neighboring countries to speed up the formation of the government, and expresses the hope to form a government, non-sectarian

U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq, Michael Corbin told the "world" and that Washington rejected the request of some neighboring countries

Rapid formation of the Iraqi government because it will make the new ministry prone to failure.

In an interview with a reporter, "the world" in Washington, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq that the United States believes that the acceleration in the formation of the next Iraqi government will lead to the inability to continue and which would make it prone to failure.

CORBIN revealed that some of the neighboring countries of Iraq, "called for the acceleration in the formation of the government," declining to give details about the names of those States, but said that "the point of view of the United States was against these trends."

He added, Corbin said discussions continued between the political leaders and give them enough time to give more chances for the birth of a strong government to meet the wishes of all parties, continued to Maigal that a delay in forming a government will hinder the functioning of the security services and security "is not true because all the governmental institutions in Iraq continue to work and we have work and projects with these institutions and bodies under the strategic agreement signed between the two countries."

And by Corbin hoped to form a government, non-sectarian Iraqis meet the requirements of services, especially through respect for the politicians of votes cast in elections last March, said that Washington was seeking to have a real partners in the rebuilding of Iraq.

He cautioned that the challenges are still great and the political leaders that Intbho to those challenges, particularly with regard to the security aspect. He said the al Qaeda, despite defeats he suffered, but he was trying to drag the country into a sectarian war, so the Iraqi nation to make efforts to foil all such projects desperate. And on concerns relating to the return of violence to coincide with the start of the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, he said that the United States "will not withdraw from Iraq under the current circumstances where the reduced number of troops to 50 000 troops in early 2011, would be to withdraw at this stage, Iraq will have an elected government, strong and capable to carry out its functions well."

He noted that before the next government, "many tasks such as improving Iraq's relations with its Arab environment, regional and it will prevent additional interventions from those parties will contribute to some extent in reducing the violence."

According to Corbin, that the effort of the U.S. administration after the withdrawal of troops from Iraq will be to strengthen their security and strengthen its economic and development because of the objectives of the agreement between the two sides is to support Iraq, "and restore its potential to be a strong country able to build its capacity to be self and have a positive role in the region the Middle East. "He continued that we clearly support the Iraqi government in all international forums, especially the Arab League, the United Nations We support Iraq's efforts to reacting with the international resolutions.

http://www.baghdadtimes.net/Arabic/index.php?sid=61516