IRAQ: Jan 17, 2010 - The Press in Baghdad for a Day

TIDBIT:
Time for the "code breakers" to get out their devices and share a tidbit or two.

The Republic of Iraq
Office of the President
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Rebounds Releases: reading in the press in Baghdad for a day
January 17, 2010

1. Union

Mam Jalal: the upcoming elections will determine the destiny and future of the new Iraq.
- The launch of the regional response plan for Iraqi refugees.
- Dhafir al-Ani: apologize to President Talabani about my position.
- Overnmpakulaim Kurdistan denies meeting Baathists in the region.
- Criminal spoken on the issue of governance in the bombing of Halabja martyr
- Capture al-Qaeda leader responsible for the killing of UN envoy.
- Foreign denies reports of Egyptian troops and bring Turkey to Iraq.
- The number will exceed one thousand candidate the names of those excluded from the upcoming parliamentary elections today.

2. Justice
- Finance Committee in the House of Representatives .. We will not rely copy of the revised budget only after approval by the Council of Ministers.
- Sheikh Humaid Malp: Parliament awaiting government's approval of the amended version of the Law to Protect Journalists.
- Fayad: the National Coalition candidate for prime minister is premature.
- Shield: the work of the Electoral Commission has a legal and independent.
- Mr. Ammar al-Hakim: PF aimed at making the political parties and coalitions.
- Amiri: Iraq will not be stable without a genuine partnership between all its components.
- Ambassra during a meeting with Arab ambassadors in Washington .. Vice President Adel Abdel Mahdi stresses the importance of elections in the policy of Iraq's future.
- Raundozi: Hakim's visit to Kurdistan was to assess the political process .. Sheikh Jalaluddin al-Saghir: continue efforts to form a national front and wide.

3. Morning
- In Kirkuk, Talabani discuss election preparations .. Joint forces to protect polling stations in the areas of disagreement.
- Names in the News .. Adel Abdul-Mahdi.
- Maliki emphasizes the need to implement the decisions of the accountability at all .. Office: 60 plus defer to the list the names of the excluded.
- Moses received a report from Ben Helli on his mission in Baghdad .. Arab pressure on Kuwait to remove Iraq from Chapter VII.
- More than 500 Iraqi detainees were still in Saudi Arabia.
- The movement of the British States of the region to create a congenial atmosphere for the success of the elections .. of the European Union decides to strengthen its support for Iraq in its war against terrorism.
- Continue the talks to form a national front after the election.
- Oil: the signing of the final contract for the Majnoon field, today announced .. near a memorandum of understanding with the European Union to develop the sector.

4. Term
- Concern of parliamentary accountability measures and justice .. Resolutions mop raise debate and pave the outbreak of political crisis.
- Qassim Atta: and to the governors, "Dolpalarac group" was Ttiyarave Jawipaerakip fonts.
- Assadoralbraitani for long: my talk about the military coup character completely.
- De-(499) candidates in the forefront of the Minister of Defense .. Mutlak (appeal) decision to deport him.
- Abd al-Mahdi from Washington denies the possibility of success of a military coup in the country.
- Foreign news refute bring in Egypt and Turkey to Iraq.
- Allawi announced the formation of a coalition in Iraq.

5. Middle East
- Allawi: Beware of the politicization of the de-Baathification ... And expand the circle of revenge and Iraqi bloc declares and affirms its commitment to candidates who Hzerthm accountability and justice.
- Baghdad: arrest and to the governors of the Islamic State of Iraq .. And Al-Azzawi was working pilots in the airline.
- Talabani: Kirkuk Kurdistan will not give them up .. He said: without the alliance with Barzani can not achieve our hopes.
- Maliki's coalition: reject the electoral code of conduct .. The wise leadership of the Alliance for the "Middle East": stick to it.
- Kurdistan Prime Minister calls for end to partisan interventions in the work of the government .. Saleh: the budget of the region is ready and focused on the investment.
- Majeed's execution expected soon ... After the verdict in the case of Halabja .. And to invite Baker and Powell and Kouchner to testify in the suppression of the Kurdish uprising.
- Basra: projects suspended, and officials do not adhere to ... Population for the "Middle East": it does not move blessing stagnant waters only promises the governor.

6. Fraternity
- German Ambassador in Iraq calls for the consolidation of relations between the province Kodstan, Germany and highly appreciates the role of the Kurdish leadership in establishing a democracy in Iraq.
- Colin Powell and James Baker and Bernard Kouchner, attending as advisers and experts in the suppression of the uprising the people of Kurdistan.
- Electoral Commission today announced the names of those excluded from the elections and held an important meeting with the United Nations to discuss their fate.
- High Court pronounced today Governing imposed on those convicted in the case of Halabja, the martyr.
- Faryad Raundozi: can not remove any of the owners of the Minister without the consent of the House of Representatives on the impeachment resolution.
- Baghdad operations reveal the arrest responsible for the killing of UN envoy in 2003.
- The announcement of the formation of the Iraqi coalition for the upcoming elections.
- Parliament will not approve the budget in 2010 only after the approval of the Government to modify.

7. Mashreq
- Araji: a large head on top of the pyramid the executive will be announced soon eradicated.
- Judge Savior eat Pharaoh: There is no truth to escape the Baghdad and accusations against me were false.
- Chest official: the days will be pregnant with accidents and incidents surprises because of the approaching elections.
- Ahraat tight after the bombings of Najaf and accusations that the Baathists stand behind them.
- Qais Al Ameri warns of targeting the settled areas of the insurgency.
- The accountability and justice is committing genocide democracy in Iraq.
- Dari: the Iraqis to abandon the idea of the feasibility of the political process.
- MP, we critical of his exclusion from participating in parliamentary elections.

8. The new evidence
- Does Mutlaq and Dhafir al-Ani (pious Shiite) and of the Baath Itbran publicly?.
- The announcement of the formation of a coalition of the Iraqi and watermelons is expected to reconsider the decisions of eradication.
- Electoral Commission today announced the names of those excluded from the next election.
- Dhafer al-Ani, apologizes to Talabani and al-Dabbagh denied excluded.
- For the third year .. Minister of Youth and Sport to prevent (new evidence) from entering the ministry!!.
- Vice-President of the Republic: a military coup in Iraq would not succeed.
- Arrested (4) of prohibited medicine traders in central Baghdad.

9. Time
- Amir Dulaim: the accountability implement agendas ... Dabbagh, and we deny their coverage deracination.
- Calls for the school not to underestimate the blood of innocent people .. Islamic Party Demands Carefully consider the decisions of deportation.
- Raundozi: insist on the prosecution Ani .. Talabani and his party cadres to meet in Kirkuk.
- Abdul-Mahdi to discuss Iraq's relations with Arab ambassadors its own environment.
- Baghdad has been of confessions and to the governors of the rule.
- The installation of a new president of the Chaldean archbishop of Mosul.
- (63) entity engaged in the race through the coalition in Iraq.
- Meeting of Qasr-e Shirin in the border tomorrow.
- Fear of abusing public funds in election campaigns and Talabani wants reelection and the coalition government renews its call for the conduct of the business ... And fear of using public money in the electoral propaganda.

10. By people
- Was a pilot in the airline and oversaw the operations of many terrorist .. A large head of Al-Qaeda is, however, the security forces.
- The Commission ruled out hundreds of candidates in connection with the outlawed Baath .. Covered can appeal the decision.
- Joint forces deployed in the disputed areas ahead of elections.
- Preparation of the presidency and the parliament is expected to discuss .. State law renews rejection of voting behavior.
- Kurdistan: The trial of 350 people for possession and drug smuggling.

11. Statement
- The arrest of Abu Imad pilot and to the governors of the Islamic State.
- Al-Maliki calls for the implementation of the law of accountability and justice for all candidates, without exception.
- Expectations of the adoption of the budget amendment next Saturday to 84 trillion dinars.
- Congress: Allegations of government interference with the work of the accountability and justice discredited by the facts.
- A tribunal to investigate crimes of the detainees who were referred by U.S. forces.
- Today ... Oil sign the final contract to develop the Majnoon field, and tomorrow .. Gharraf.

Press reports
1 - expected to rise to a thousand candidate .. confusion and recrimination after leaking the names of those excluded from the parliamentary elections (Union)

Said the Electoral Commission for elections, "it will announce Sunday gave the names excluded from the masses and the political forces of the next election." It was decided to hold elections next Alaniaibp in the seventh month of March. He said Commission President Faraj al-Haidari told a news briefing, "The Commission received 499 files candidates excluded from the next election from the accountability and justice."

There is confusion and an exchange of accusations in the Iraqi political circles, with names covered by the leak de-Baathification and exclusion from participation in the elections scheduled next March, and who are expected to be about a thousand candidates, including the equivalent of 16% of the total number of candidates who appeared, including ministers and officials from political movements to the various coalitions led by Deputy Prime Minister and ministers of defense, electricity, tourism and antiquities and a representative of Christians in the House of Representatives.

Where the site said "Elaf" said a source close to the government told him that a second list will be issued by the accountability and justice for de-Baathification during the next two days, will include about 600 new candidate would be banned from participating in elections, adding to the 500 other decisions have been taken against them already uprooted more than a thousand candidates from between 6593 applied to contest the election and what constitutes 16% of the total candidates.

And the names of those who make sure their inclusion deracination, or those whose names will appear later, Deputy Prime Minister Rafie al-Issawi, Ministers of Defense Abdul-Qader al-Obeidi, the Electricity Kareem Waheed, Qahtan Jibouri, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities and the representative of the Christian component in the House and the Vice-Chairman of its economic Kanna, in addition to Saleh Mutlaq, leader of the Front national dialogue and Dhafir al-Ani, Abd Mutlaq al-Jubouri MILF Chairman of the independent Arab dialogue, and Khalaf al-Olayan Chairman of the dialogue. The name and government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh that it is covered under deracination, but he strongly denied this, saying that confusion on his reputation as one of the candidates.

And covered by the law belongs to the candidates belonging to the eradication of coalitions and several entities in the forefront of state law, a coalition led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and the coalition of the National Movement led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, Iraq's unity coalition headed by Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani, who stated that 70 candidates had polled the ban participate in the elections, which invited him to form a judicial body, a number of lawyers to ask the candidates decision to remove discrimination and to provide evidence to prove the error in its resolution.

Media sources said that the list of persons excluded from contesting the legislative elections slated for next March, including the name of the current defense minister, Abdul Qader al-Obeidi. The Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh, and many of the characters and political blocs.

For his part, dismissed Khaled al-Shami, media relations manager for the Authority (Iba), to be the Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh is located in the list of excluded, and said that the similarity in names has caused this confusion. Shami said that "this information is the media leaks no truth to it. An official at the High Commission of the elections" another set of names of candidates who were excluded from the reach accountability and justice, explaining that it will be published in all local newspapers. For his part, member of Hasan al-Iraqi coalition that "to exclude all of the entity in the event coverage is not excluded boss deracination collectively as some call, but the law has decided that." He pointed out that the decision of the accountability and justice decisions based on documents and evidence, and the accountability and justice, "noting that" the accountability and justice can not render a decision against a person or entity and the decision is arbitrary, but based on documents and evidence, after the vet and make sure of its credibility and then decide " .

While MP Iyad Allawi, president of the Iraqi National List, "We are with the establishment of justice and accountability on the basis of arbitration law and punish the corrupt before and after 2003, regardless of their allegiances and see that the proper context was to continue to nominate for the accused, until proven him or not. Thus state will be established law, otherwise the State will be here for chaos. " Allawi said in his speech on the occasion of the announcement of the coalition, Iraq on Saturday: "We call upon the people of Iraq to the attention of the seriousness of what is happening now is a deliberate tension in the political climate leading up to elections in the introduction, the campaigns of raids and arrests and the politicization of mop-up and expand the circle of revenge that took thousands of partners, including the political process and national figures. " And includes the new coalition which was announced Saturday by the 63 political entities, including twenty-allied and integrated list of 43 Iraqi national.

A source close to the National Dialogue Front Saturday that despite the removal of Saleh al-Mutlaq, the Front would participate in the elections Aalmqublp. The deputy Taha Lahibi that "Mutlaq appeal that decision through a lawyer in the Federal Court." And the probability of a Mutlaq to participate in the forthcoming elections Lihebi said "Our participation in the elections a political issue and not related to a particular person, so we will participate in the forthcoming elections."

He favored the Christian lawmaker in the House of Representatives Kanna and Co-decision of exclusion from participation in the upcoming legislative elections, and likely parking political motives behind the decisions of the Commission. We were called at the same time the discriminatory problem before the Supreme Judicial Council and mandated to consider appeals of rejected candidates, to take into consideration the positive political positions of candidates. He said we were to "Radio Sawa" that "there is a tendency to support the national reconciliation and re-glue the fabric of society, and perhaps there are political motives other than the legal aspects". He pointed to the possibility we exclude some candidates covered by the decisions of the accountability and justice on the powers of the Prime Minister "Given the public interest," but sources indicated that the exception includes employees only and not candidates for parliamentary elections. He also said we were "that the entities that promoted recently to the law of holistic and my body accountability and justice in the media is trying to reduce the chances of electoral success and create a distaste for the Christian component in Iraq."

"We were Saturday," It is regrettable that such things are transmitted through the media by certain parties without ensuring the safety of the situation to distort the situation to our list that have adopted specific criteria for forming. Noting that the goal was to weaken the existing one hand, and confuse the general political situation on the other hand "As far as prescribed. He noted that he was condemned to death at the time of the rule of the Baath Party and confiscated his money and his home in the city of Kirkuk. "

For its part, reported that the Legal Committee of the National Assembly on Saturday that the Council is not concerned with the body Aitdechl with resolutions that accountability and justice, although they relate to it. Said Mohsen al-Sadoun member of the Legal Committee of the Kurdistan Alliance that "the accountability and justice, an independent body does not interfere with the Iraqi parliament in its resolutions,"

Denied Rep. Nassif high on the list announced by the Iraqi National some media coverage of the law of eradication. She Nassif Saturday: "I deny the false a news altogether, noting that what happened on the information from the parliamentary committee on deracination It is not from the mop itself is error information did not prove."

On the other hand, a source close to the parliamentary committee which monitors the recent measures of the accountability, that the confusion occurred in a number of names that were announced coverage of de-Baathification Given the similarity of names or the absence of full name, the source said that the committee calls on all candidates whose names appeared in the media Kmhmolin deracination for a review of the competent authorities Mstsahpin with personal documents, official archives, which proved to be belonging to the Baath party or affiliation of the repressive organs of the former regime and the source pointed out that there are ten days, where you can challenge the decisions of the accountability and justice, and the time beginning on Monday .

2 - The movement of the British States of the region to create a congenial atmosphere for the success of the elections .. of the European Union decides to strengthen its support for Iraq in its war against terrorism (morning)

The European Union intends to take a decision to increase its support for Iraq in its war against terrorism in a meeting in the French city of Strasbourg this week.

This coincides with the new support to the movement of British countries in the region to urge them to assign the security and stability in Iraq ahead of legislative elections.

And Western diplomatic sources confirmed that the European Parliament will hold working sessions in the coming days to discuss several issues, including the Iraq dossier.

The sources said in a telephone interview, "morning" with her yesterday that the European Union plans to expand areas of cooperation with Iraq and support Iraq security to counter terrorism and conspiracies being hatched against him, especially with the forthcoming parliamentary elections.

According to sources, the support would include increasing cooperation logistical, security and military intelligence and the training of Iraqi forces and provide them with weapons and modern equipment to help stabilize the country.

It is said that sources had announced the "morning" recently, said Iraq and the European Union will sign a strategic partnership agreement involving more than 12 industries, in a move that will significantly contribute to the development of relations and cooperation between the two sides.

In the meantime, a senior British diplomat revealed the existence of the movements and contacts carried out by his government to various countries of the region in order to encourage these countries to build relationships and well-balanced and successful contribute to achieving security and peace in Iraq.

The Deputy British Ambassador to Iraq John Wilkes in a statement to the "morning": that Britain has played a role in encouraging countries in the region to build good relations with Iraq and to desist from interfering in its internal affairs and to emphasize the importance of respecting the neighboring countries for the sovereignty and independence.

Wilkes continued: "The British role in Iraq is focused on providing support area of maritime training and education, as well as to encourage trade delegations to visit Iraq and urge them to invest and participate in the reconstruction work in it," noting that "the British delegation representing the new administrator of the Iraq dossier visited Baghdad last week and met a number of Iraqi officials in order to review developments in security and the political process and the importance of the upcoming elections, as well as promote and develop bilateral relations between the two countries.
The Deputy British Ambassador "The European Union has a plan to send international observers from various countries of the Union to engage with monitoring the legislative elections," stressing the interest of the forthcoming elections to the European carries great importance to the future of Iraq and democracy.

In the meantime, the Committee on Foreign Relations in the House of Representatives orientation of the European Union to support security and stability in the country.

A source in the "morning": "Iraq welcomes any step, whether the European Union or other contribution contingent on security in it," pointing out the great importance of the European Union in the world and their impact on the UN resolution, calling at the same time to support Baghdad the issue of retribution from those involved in recent terrorist bombings through the issuance of a decision by the UN Security Council.

3 - continue discussions to form a national front after the elections (morning)

Considered head of the Supreme Islamic al-Hakim with the current President of the National Independent Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, the idea of establishing a broad national front after the legislative elections.

A statement of the Supreme Council that Mr. Hakim said during his meeting yesterday, al-Mashhadani said the idea of creating a broad national front which would have patched the political parties, coalitions and blocs competing in the upcoming legislative elections.
It was during the meeting discussed the ongoing preparations for the forthcoming parliamentary elections and emphasized the need to coordinate their positions and communicate to enter into and prepare for post-election, along with review of the electoral atmosphere witnessed by the Iraqi arena. "

The two sides stressed the importance of the contest with a positive and negative away from competition and not resort to anything that would harm the political parties that participated in the political process and in building the new Iraq, and to pilot a new model differs from the past. "
In a similar framework, a spokesman for the Kurdistan Alliance parliamentary bloc Faryad Raundozi: The visit of the President of the Islamic Supreme Council to Kurdistan where he met Bkiedath and its parties were "to examine and assess and strengthen the political process after a series of plots are meant to disrupt their structure, especially by the old regime buried and orphans of Saddam's Baath. " Raundozi said in a press statement: "The visit came on the verge of the country's parliamentary elections in the sensitive time witnessing a lot of confusion and intrigues that Thtak here and there to disrupt the political process and try to bring the Baathists to the various joints of the State", indicating that during Hakim's visit to the region discussed the historical relations between Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council and the Kurdistan Alliance and the forces and Kurdish parties all. "

The Raundozi that the head of the Supreme Council dealt with the Kurdish leaders the issue of forming a broad national front after the election in order to form the next government and determine the political framework of the state after the next election.

Al-Hakim concluded yesterday, the first visit to the territory of Kurdistan, where he met President Jalal Talabani and Kurdish regional president Massoud Barzani and the Prime Minister of Kurdistan, Barham Saleh, a number of leaders of political forces and parties in the region.

In turn, deputy leader Jalaluddin al-Saghir of the Supreme Council: "There is great continuity of the political spectrum to form a broad national front that called for by al-Hakim."

The small, quoted by the news agency Iba, "The formation of this front is to cut off the road in front of predators in the political process in the country who are trying to stop the democratic process," adding that "this tendency to form a front directed to all those involved in the new Iraq under the current Constitution.

4 - Maliki's coalition: reject the electoral code of conduct in its entirety .. Hakim, leader of the Alliance confirmed for «Middle East» attachment to the document proposed by the Chair (Middle East)

Hamid denied burdensome, representative for the Iraqi National Coalition, and the leader of the Islamic Supreme Council, an effort to make the coalition government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's caretaker government, he told «Middle East»: «We really adhere to the rules of voting behavior, but at the same time we are not advocates of a government transfer to the current caretaker government ».

Burdensome and added: «We are with the set of rules that limit certain powers, whether executive or other order is not to be used or invested during the forthcoming electoral process», stressing that «our call to recognize and document voting behavior is not directed against anyone, especially that there are points government within the joint electoral rolls and, therefore, advocating the adoption of the electoral code of conduct come to prevent the harness this capacity for the electoral list and not others, as well as to maintain the integrity and objectivity of the electoral scene, and to be good and equal opportunities for all ».

As for reports about their claim to transfer the current government to the caretaker government; MP said the coalition of the Iraqi National: «There was a paragraph in the draft, which read a first reading in parliament, points out, it offset by a dissenting opinion to them as it is contrary to the Constitution, and given that the government rights constitutional, it was confirmed this paragraph and therefore no one is now asking the transfer to the caretaker government », stressing that« the claimant is to determine the powers and some of the material that can be exploited for the benefit of the list without the other », adding:« to form a higher committee under the rules of a variety of voting behavior, set to monitor the electoral scene, along with the Electoral Commission in order to ensure a fair election is not contested in the integrity and credibility »he says. For his part, stressed Khalid al-Asadi, a leader of the coalition of the rule of law, led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that the latter rejects the document in its entirety, adding the «Middle East» that any process of organizing the elections «is a positive process and that any regulation of the conduct of electoral or political according to the criteria legal and constitutional is welcome, but to be the opposite of the process of converting to the legal process of settling political accounts it is outside the law or document on the content of the real », pointing out that« the document to ensure the distribution of constitutional powers by giving the Council new powers to the presidency and this in itself contrary to the Constitution, as well as the government transferred the claim to the Government during the conduct of the elections and we find this is strange, especially as the government tries to control the security situation in the other hand, there are those who call for the withdrawal of government authority, which may lead to further chaos, and this can not be accepted ».

5 - Talabani: Kirkuk Kurdistan will not give them up .. He said: without the alliance with Barzani «can not achieve our» (Middle East)
Iraqi President and the Secretary General of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan city of Kirkuk «Kurdistan, and will not give up on this matter», also stressed the importance of alliance with the Kurdistan Democratic Party led by Massoud Barzani, president of the province.
Media sources quoted belonging to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, said Talabani, who visited Kirkuk on Thursday, held an extensive meeting with the party cadre and discussed with him the ongoing preparations for the upcoming parliamentary elections in Iraq.
Talabani stressed «the importance and sensitivity of the next phase, which requires everyone's efforts to deepen democracy in the new Iraq and the implementation of the Constitution, especially articles on the Kurdish people's rights, notably Articles 140 and 142», pointing out that «two important articles and Masiritan for the people of Kurdistan» .
And the Alliance of National Union and the Democratic Party of Kurdistan, Talabani said he was «Without this alliance can not protect our earnings constitutional, nor can achieve our goals and objectives in the next phase without this strategic alliance».
On the issue of Kirkuk, the disputed between Arabs and Kurds and Turkmen, the sources quoted Talabani as saying that «the city of Kirkuk, Kurdistan can not compromise on this issue, but at the same time, a city of brotherhood and peaceful coexistence among all nationalities and must be on our staff to deal with the regulatory language other friendliness, we need a policy to deal fraternal and democratic and humane toward the rest of ethnic groups in Kirkuk ».

6 - Parliament will not approve the budget in 2010 only after the approval of the Government to modify - (fraternity)
Ruled out the vice in the House of Representatives, the approval of the general budget for 2010 before the introduction of amendments to it by the Iraqi government, stressing that the parliament decided to increase the allocation of a number of ministries.
The MP said the Virtue Party Yacoubi cream in a newspaper interview that the Parliament re-balance back to the government after a number of amendments to them ", stating that Parliament" will not approve the budget without the approval of the Government on these amendments. "
The Yacoubi that among the amendments introduced into Parliament on the budget, "ask the government to transfer 20% of allocations to ministries, provincial councils to activate the work in the fields of reconstruction and services," adding that "Parliament has also demanded the transfer of financial allocations from some ministries to the provincial councils." The city of Najaf, hosted an emergency meeting of the Boards central and southern governorates held on Thursday, and had threatened to reject the proposed budget for 2010 unless it is increased financial allocations to the provinces, and the conversion of 20% of the budgets of ministries to the provincial councils. The Yacoubi, a deputy from the province of Najaf to be the "Parliament also sought through re-balancing to the Government to increase the allocation of ministries of trade and industry," stressing that the parliament a "waiting for the government's response to the vote on the state budget for 2010." He was a member of the Finance Committee in the House of Representatives Sami Atrushi said, that the Commission has received preliminary approval from the Iraqi government on the amendments proposed by the Commission on the state budget for 2010.

7 - Baghdad operations reveal the arrest responsible for the killing of UN envoy in 2003 - (fraternity)
Announced the Baghdad Operations Command, said Saturday that the charge of the bombing of UN headquarters in Iraq in 2003, the detainee has since last June, a senior leader of al-Qaeda and responsible for a number of other bombings in 2007 and 2008.
The spokesman for the Baghdad operations command Maj. Gen. Qassim Atta told a news conference held at the premises of the Council of Ministers, that "the detainee is to the governors of the Islamic State in Iraq named Ali Hussein al-Azzawi, alias (Abu Imad), and the security services arrested last June during a raid in the area New Baghdad. " Atta revealed that "Al-Azzawi was working pilots in the former Iraqi Airways," indicating that "disclosure of his capture was delayed due to a long investigation that took place with the armed cells revealed that work from him." Atta said, "the security services managed during the six months following the arrest of Azzawi, a large number of dismantling militant networks that were linked to it, "referring to" the arrest of a large number of members of these networks. "Atta said," Al-Azzawi is responsible for the suicide truck bomb exploded outside United Nations headquarters in Baghdad in 2003, which led to the death representative in Iraq Sergio Vieira de Mello at the time, "adding that" Al-Azzawi also responsible for connecting the networks of al Qaeda in Iraq with the organization in Europe. "It was a booby-trapped truck exploded in front of the UN headquarters in the Canal Zone in eastern Baghdad on the nineteenth of August, 2003 which led to the deaths of 22 people, including a representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq, Sergio Dimllo.