By Kenneth M. Pollack and Michael E. O’Hanlon
Published: January 17, 2010
Washington
WITH Washington’s attention understandably focused on the tragedy in Haiti, Iraq has slipped onto the back burner. Yet there is a major problem brewing there — one that could jeopardize President Obama’s plan to draw down American forces and even reignite sectarian conflict.
Last Thursday, Iraq’s Independent High Election Commissionupheld a ban on nearly 500 Sunni politicians handed down (possibly illegally) some days earlier by the Accountability and Justice Commission. They were accused of having had ties to the Baath Party of Saddam Hussein. Among those proscribed from running in the nationwide elections scheduled for March 7 were Defense Minister Abdul-Kader Jassem al-Obeidi and Saleh al-Mutlaq, one of Iraq’s most influential Sunni politicians. Although confusion reigns, it is rumored that the brief appeal process will end Tuesday and, at present, it seems unlikely to ameliorate the situation.
The two commissions are dominated by officials appointed by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, so it’s not surprising that many Iraqis believe that the prime minister’s Shiite-dominated government is disqualifying large numbers of political rivals, particularly Mr. Mutlaq, who had already allied himself with Ayad Allawi, a former prime minister widely considered Mr. Maliki’s most dangerous foe. There is no evidence of this, but the perception is widespread and in Iraq, perception can do as much damage as reality. Meanwhile, many informed Americans and Iraqis are pointing to Ahmed Chalabi, the one-time political favorite of the Bush administration, as the real culprit. Mr. Chalabi, they say, is trying to manipulate the elections to become prime minister by default.
It’s true that many of the disqualified politicians were once Baathists. But Iraq needs reconciliation, not payback. Any bans must be careful, selective and well-explained. They should not disqualify people like the defense minister — a former Baathist, but one who turned against the party in the 1990s and was imprisoned and tortured by the regime. Moreover, in recent years he has served the new Iraqi government loyally.
Before the surge of American troops in 2007 and the so-called Anbar Awakening, many Iraqi Sunnis boycotted Iraq’s elections in the belief that the system was rigged against them. This created a self-fulfilling prophecy when the elections took place without them and the resulting government was dominated by Shiite and Kurdish groups. This vicious cycle helped fuel civil war.
All of that changed after 2007, when American-brokered cease-fires and political shifts convinced Sunnis that they would have a fair opportunity to elect their own leaders and participate in government at no disadvantage. In the provincial elections of January 2009, Sunnis finally voted in large numbers. Their return to the political process has been a key element in the rapid erosion of sectarianism from Iraqi politics. The end of the civil war and the need to focus on political and economic reconstruction had revealed sharp differences among the various Shiite groups, which have been heightened by the emergence of Sunni parties with similarly varied views.
As a result, there has been a complete reorganization of Iraqi politics over the past year, with Shiite, Sunni and even some Kurdish groups creating cross-sectarian alliances that have largely replaced the previous sectarian blocs. It was a sign of this progress that Sunni parties, particularly Mr. Mutlaq’s, were being courted avidly by a number of Shiite and secular parties, including those led by Mr. Maliki and Mr. Allawi.
If the ban is allowed to stand, it will do more than just throw a wrench in the works. It will persuade a great many Iraqis that the prime minister or other Shiites, like Mr. Chalabi, are using their control over the electoral mechanics to kneecap their rivals. It may also convince many Sunnis that they will never be allowed to win if they play by the rules, and that violence is their only option.
That is an extraordinarily dangerous message to send right now, when the United States is trying hard to withdraw tens of thousands more American troops from Iraq and shift 50,000 or so from combat operations to advisory and training roles. If this ban remains in effect, the likelihood of electoral violence will skyrocket, and American soldiers will inevitably be called on to halt it.
All is not yet lost — over the past few years, Iraqi politicians have developed a penchant for last-minute compromise that has turned a number of near-catastrophes into mere close calls. In every one of those instances, however, it required rapid and determined American pressure to avert disaster.
The American Embassy in Baghdad is working feverishly to persuade the Iraqis to change course. Time is of the essence — especially if the Accountability and Justice Commission’s appeals process ends on Tuesday. If the United States doesn’t act before the deadline, the bans will become much harder to roll back.
The threat of crisis is real enough that Vice President Joe Biden, who has played a useful role in backing up Ambassador Christopher Hill on several occasions lately, will have to help. It even merits direct involvement by President Obama. It is just this kind of seemingly small problem that could unravel the entire political fabric of Iraq.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/op...18pollack.html
Sunday, January 17, 2010
WHY THE U.S. OWES HAITI BILLIONS - The Briefest History
January, 18 2010
By Quigley, Bill
Why does the US owe Haiti Billions? Colin Powell, former US Secretary of State, stated his foreign policy view as the "Pottery Barn rule." That is - "if you break it, you own it."
The US has worked to break Haiti for over 200 years. We owe Haiti. Not charity. We owe Haiti as a matter of justice. Reparations. And not the $100 million promised by President Obama either - that is Powerball money. The US owes Haiti Billions - with a big B.
The US has worked for centuries to break Haiti. The US has used Haiti like a plantation. The US helped bleed the country economically since it freed itself, repeatedly invaded the country militarily, supported dictators who abused the people, used the country as a dumping ground for our own economic advantage, ruined their roads and agriculture, and toppled popularly elected officials. The US has even used Haiti like the old plantation owner and slipped over there repeatedly for sexual recreation.
Here is the briefest history of some of the major US efforts to break Haiti.
In 1804, when Haiti achieved its freedom from France in the world's first successful slave revolution, the United States refused to recognize the country. The US continued to refuse recognition to Haiti for 60 more years. Why? Because the US continued to enslave millions of its own citizens and feared recognizing Haiti would encourage slave revolution in the US.
After the 1804 revolution, Haiti was the subject of a crippling economic embargo by France and the US. US sanctions lasted until 1863. France ultimately used its military power to force Haiti to pay reparations for the slaves who were freed. The reparations were 150 million francs. (France sold the entire Louisiana territory to the US for 80 million francs!)
Haiti was forced to borrow money from banks in France and the US to pay reparations to France. A major loan from the US to pay off the French was finally paid off in 1947. The current value of the money Haiti was forced to pay to French and US banks? Over $20 Billion - with a big B.
The US occupied and ruled Haiti by force from 1915 to 1934. President Woodrow Wilson sent troops to invade in 1915. Revolts by Haitians were put down by US military - killing over 2000 in one skirmish alone. For the next nineteen years, the US controlled customs in Haiti, collected taxes, and ran many governmental institutions. How many billions were siphoned off by the US during these 19 years?
From 1957 to 1986 Haiti was forced to live under US backed dictators "Papa Doc" and "Baby Doc" Duvlaier. The US supported these dictators economically and militarily because they did what the US wanted and were politically "anti-communist" - now translatable as against human rights for their people. Duvalier stole millions from Haiti and ran up hundreds of millions in debt that Haiti still owes. Ten thousand Haitians lost their lives. Estimates say that Haiti owes $1.3 billion in external debt and that 40% of that debt was run up by the US-backed Duvaliers.
Thirty years ago Haiti imported no rice. Today Haiti imports nearly all its rice. Though Haiti was the sugar growing capital of the Caribbean, it now imports sugar as well. Why? The US and the US dominated world financial institutions - the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank - forced Haiti to open its markets to the world. Then the US dumped millions of tons of US subsidized rice and sugar into Haiti - undercutting their farmers and ruining Haitian agriculture. By ruining Haitian agriculture, the US has forced Haiti into becoming the third largest world market for US rice. Good for US farmers, bad for Haiti.
In 2002, the US stopped hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to Haiti which were to be used for, among other public projects like education, roads. These are the same roads which relief teams are having so much trouble navigating now!
In 2004, the US again destroyed democracy in Haiti when they supported the coup against Haiti's elected President Aristide.
Haiti is even used for sexual recreation just like the old time plantations. Check the news carefully and you will find numerous stories of abuse of minors by missionaries, soldiers and charity workers. Plus there are the frequent sexual vacations taken to Haiti by people from the US and elsewhere. What is owed for that? What value would you put on it if it was your sisters and brothers?
US based corporations have for years been teaming up with Haitian elite to run sweatshops teeming with tens of thousands of Haitians who earn less than $2 a day.
The Haitian people have resisted the economic and military power of the US and others ever since their independence. Like all of us, Haitians made their own mistakes as well. But US power has forced Haitians to pay great prices - deaths, debt and abuse.
It is time for the people of the US to join with Haitians and reverse the course of US-Haitian relations.
This brief history shows why the US owes Haiti Billions - with a big B. This is not charity. This is justice. This is reparations. The current crisis is an opportunity for people in the US to own up to our country's history of dominating Haiti and to make a truly just response.
http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/commentaries/4113
By Quigley, Bill
Why does the US owe Haiti Billions? Colin Powell, former US Secretary of State, stated his foreign policy view as the "Pottery Barn rule." That is - "if you break it, you own it."
The US has worked to break Haiti for over 200 years. We owe Haiti. Not charity. We owe Haiti as a matter of justice. Reparations. And not the $100 million promised by President Obama either - that is Powerball money. The US owes Haiti Billions - with a big B.
The US has worked for centuries to break Haiti. The US has used Haiti like a plantation. The US helped bleed the country economically since it freed itself, repeatedly invaded the country militarily, supported dictators who abused the people, used the country as a dumping ground for our own economic advantage, ruined their roads and agriculture, and toppled popularly elected officials. The US has even used Haiti like the old plantation owner and slipped over there repeatedly for sexual recreation.
Here is the briefest history of some of the major US efforts to break Haiti.
In 1804, when Haiti achieved its freedom from France in the world's first successful slave revolution, the United States refused to recognize the country. The US continued to refuse recognition to Haiti for 60 more years. Why? Because the US continued to enslave millions of its own citizens and feared recognizing Haiti would encourage slave revolution in the US.
After the 1804 revolution, Haiti was the subject of a crippling economic embargo by France and the US. US sanctions lasted until 1863. France ultimately used its military power to force Haiti to pay reparations for the slaves who were freed. The reparations were 150 million francs. (France sold the entire Louisiana territory to the US for 80 million francs!)
Haiti was forced to borrow money from banks in France and the US to pay reparations to France. A major loan from the US to pay off the French was finally paid off in 1947. The current value of the money Haiti was forced to pay to French and US banks? Over $20 Billion - with a big B.
The US occupied and ruled Haiti by force from 1915 to 1934. President Woodrow Wilson sent troops to invade in 1915. Revolts by Haitians were put down by US military - killing over 2000 in one skirmish alone. For the next nineteen years, the US controlled customs in Haiti, collected taxes, and ran many governmental institutions. How many billions were siphoned off by the US during these 19 years?
From 1957 to 1986 Haiti was forced to live under US backed dictators "Papa Doc" and "Baby Doc" Duvlaier. The US supported these dictators economically and militarily because they did what the US wanted and were politically "anti-communist" - now translatable as against human rights for their people. Duvalier stole millions from Haiti and ran up hundreds of millions in debt that Haiti still owes. Ten thousand Haitians lost their lives. Estimates say that Haiti owes $1.3 billion in external debt and that 40% of that debt was run up by the US-backed Duvaliers.
Thirty years ago Haiti imported no rice. Today Haiti imports nearly all its rice. Though Haiti was the sugar growing capital of the Caribbean, it now imports sugar as well. Why? The US and the US dominated world financial institutions - the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank - forced Haiti to open its markets to the world. Then the US dumped millions of tons of US subsidized rice and sugar into Haiti - undercutting their farmers and ruining Haitian agriculture. By ruining Haitian agriculture, the US has forced Haiti into becoming the third largest world market for US rice. Good for US farmers, bad for Haiti.
In 2002, the US stopped hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to Haiti which were to be used for, among other public projects like education, roads. These are the same roads which relief teams are having so much trouble navigating now!
In 2004, the US again destroyed democracy in Haiti when they supported the coup against Haiti's elected President Aristide.
Haiti is even used for sexual recreation just like the old time plantations. Check the news carefully and you will find numerous stories of abuse of minors by missionaries, soldiers and charity workers. Plus there are the frequent sexual vacations taken to Haiti by people from the US and elsewhere. What is owed for that? What value would you put on it if it was your sisters and brothers?
US based corporations have for years been teaming up with Haitian elite to run sweatshops teeming with tens of thousands of Haitians who earn less than $2 a day.
The Haitian people have resisted the economic and military power of the US and others ever since their independence. Like all of us, Haitians made their own mistakes as well. But US power has forced Haitians to pay great prices - deaths, debt and abuse.
It is time for the people of the US to join with Haitians and reverse the course of US-Haitian relations.
This brief history shows why the US owes Haiti Billions - with a big B. This is not charity. This is justice. This is reparations. The current crisis is an opportunity for people in the US to own up to our country's history of dominating Haiti and to make a truly just response.
http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/commentaries/4113
UNKNOWN CHAT
There has been so much that has been accomplished that set up this moment coming. Now i have no update from the banks at all except what i said earlier today.
That the banks have given some kind of heads up to the branch levels now seems nobody can say why they jumped on this and passed it down, but it came from the corporate level.
Now I can say that all that transpired last week in Iraq has had an impact on the RV. There was an attempted coup.
- There was a massive bombing planned and foiled.
- There was an assassination of some kind.
- Now we also know that a delegation from Iraq has been at the white house, and has met with either Joe Biden or the president.
- Now we also know that Kuwait’s foreign minister said today that they are willing to forget all the money owed them if Iraq can provide and guarantee there will be no more aggression to other gulf nations.
- Also we know that parliament will not support the removing of CBI's foreign currency assets to cover the budget deficit. They said they will use the IMF for additional loans, which is great news.
- Also we just find out that they have added another 1 trillion in spending to the budget. It is now over 84 trillion IQD. Last years budget was only 58 billion USD or approximately 58 trillion IQD.
- Now last years budget deficit was 27% budget shortfall.
- So do the math, and they are going to increase it 26 trillion IQD.
- Just what do they know?
- You can't approve a budget with a known deficit of 20 plus trillion IQD unless you know there is a way it will be covered.
- That they do know something that will get them out of this deficit, and it will not be increased oil revenues
- Now I don't want idiotic reasons like today that someone sees oil rigs being built, so they will have new oil revenues coming in Iraq, and as we know they have to be shipped set up and they don't even have the facilities built yet to increase production at any of the new fields.
- Heck the ink isn't even dry on the contracts.
- Something is up I can say this I know.
- I cannot go into anymore detail than that I have only asked to continue with being patient and very soon I will be able to tell you we are done.
- This is coming to an end.
- This is not I feel it in my bones thing. It is based on information provided and is trusted.
- Now I don't care what Forex says or doesn't say.
- I do not care if they have an auction or not.
- And please stop with the smoke and mirrors.
- It has never been about that ever. It is exactly what it is.
- What you see and here is really how it seems my confidence level is at an all time high right now, and i feel better now than ever about the dinar rv'ing.
- All done
That the banks have given some kind of heads up to the branch levels now seems nobody can say why they jumped on this and passed it down, but it came from the corporate level.
Now I can say that all that transpired last week in Iraq has had an impact on the RV. There was an attempted coup.
- There was a massive bombing planned and foiled.
- There was an assassination of some kind.
- Now we also know that a delegation from Iraq has been at the white house, and has met with either Joe Biden or the president.
- Now we also know that Kuwait’s foreign minister said today that they are willing to forget all the money owed them if Iraq can provide and guarantee there will be no more aggression to other gulf nations.
- Also we know that parliament will not support the removing of CBI's foreign currency assets to cover the budget deficit. They said they will use the IMF for additional loans, which is great news.
- Also we just find out that they have added another 1 trillion in spending to the budget. It is now over 84 trillion IQD. Last years budget was only 58 billion USD or approximately 58 trillion IQD.
- Now last years budget deficit was 27% budget shortfall.
- So do the math, and they are going to increase it 26 trillion IQD.
- Just what do they know?
- You can't approve a budget with a known deficit of 20 plus trillion IQD unless you know there is a way it will be covered.
- That they do know something that will get them out of this deficit, and it will not be increased oil revenues
- Now I don't want idiotic reasons like today that someone sees oil rigs being built, so they will have new oil revenues coming in Iraq, and as we know they have to be shipped set up and they don't even have the facilities built yet to increase production at any of the new fields.
- Heck the ink isn't even dry on the contracts.
- Something is up I can say this I know.
- I cannot go into anymore detail than that I have only asked to continue with being patient and very soon I will be able to tell you we are done.
- This is coming to an end.
- This is not I feel it in my bones thing. It is based on information provided and is trusted.
- Now I don't care what Forex says or doesn't say.
- I do not care if they have an auction or not.
- And please stop with the smoke and mirrors.
- It has never been about that ever. It is exactly what it is.
- What you see and here is really how it seems my confidence level is at an all time high right now, and i feel better now than ever about the dinar rv'ing.
- All done
IRAQ COMPLETES THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE ARAB FREE TRADE AREA
Iraq - Economy - the business
17/01/2010 15:52
Cairo January 17 (AKnews) - Iraq completed its membership in the Greater Arab Free Trade leading up to the entry in the Arab Customs Union, according to an Iraqi diplomat.
Ali Abdul-Zahra commercial attache at the Iraqi embassy in Cairo told Kurdistan News (AKnews) said on Sunday that "joint Arab economic action consists of five stages we are now in the second phase after the first stage of which concluded that an area greater Arab free trade."
And "became all the Arab countries have a unified customs tariff of the goods all the Arab, and this tariff based on the common customs framework that begins to deal with it in preparation for entry into the Arab Customs Union."
He added that Abdul-Zahra "The second stage is the stage of the Customs Union is the stage of complex and require political will is present but vary in the levels of starting the process of development and levels of industrial and economic progress in developing a major obstacle in the completion of the customs union in accordance with specific time frames."
(AKnews) Q p 17/1/2010
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17/01/2010 15:52
Cairo January 17 (AKnews) - Iraq completed its membership in the Greater Arab Free Trade leading up to the entry in the Arab Customs Union, according to an Iraqi diplomat.
Ali Abdul-Zahra commercial attache at the Iraqi embassy in Cairo told Kurdistan News (AKnews) said on Sunday that "joint Arab economic action consists of five stages we are now in the second phase after the first stage of which concluded that an area greater Arab free trade."
And "became all the Arab countries have a unified customs tariff of the goods all the Arab, and this tariff based on the common customs framework that begins to deal with it in preparation for entry into the Arab Customs Union."
He added that Abdul-Zahra "The second stage is the stage of the Customs Union is the stage of complex and require political will is present but vary in the levels of starting the process of development and levels of industrial and economic progress in developing a major obstacle in the completion of the customs union in accordance with specific time frames."
(AKnews) Q p 17/1/2010
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SNAPLINK POST
The ICI or the international Compact with Iraq was the international; plan for the total recovery of Iraq it is an international agreement that was signed and is over seeing the debt forgivness and other issues it has to do with the humanitarian and economic recovery of the nation it is the frame work of this Marshal Plan for Iraq, so it appears that we may have something being announced or said about this on Monday at the UN. yes...it may be nothing (but i doubt that). But with everything going on that Medic has shared, and all of the banks being closed on Monday, I find the timing interesting, so we will just see, so thats it...
http://www.iraqcompact.org/en/default.asp
http://www.iraqcompact.org/ici_docum...h_final_2_.pdf
http://www.iraqcompact.org/en/default.asp
http://www.iraqcompact.org/ici_docum...h_final_2_.pdf
IRAQ TO SIGN 7 OILFIELD DEALS THIS MONTH
Jan. 17, 2010
AMMAN (MarketWatch) -- The Iraqi oil ministry will finalize by the end of this month seven deals for oil fields won in Iraq's second round of bidding held in December as all winning companies have agreed to new amendments, a senior oil ministry official said Sunday.
Lukoil Holdings /quotes/comstock/11i!lukoy (LUKO.Y 58.35, -0.25, -0.43%) , China National Petroleum Corp. and Gazprom led consortiums were the latest foreign companies to agree to new changes made by the Iraqi oil ministry to these deals, Abdul Mahdy al-Ameedi, head of the oil ministry's Petroleum Contracts and Licensing Directorate told Dow Jones Newswires by telephone from Baghdad.
Meanwhile, a consortium led by Italian energy giant Eni SpA (E) has accepted Iraqi government amendments to a service contract to develop the giant southern Zubair oil field, sources close to the Iraqi oil ministry said. The Eni group is expected to sign for the Zubair oil field on Friday.
Discussions regarding an ExxonMobil-led group to upgrade West Qurna Phase 1 is taking place Monday, the sources added.
Earlier this month, the Iraqi cabinet ratified four oil field deals, including the supergiant Majnoon oil field. It had also given its previous approvals for the remaining deals provided that companies accept the new changes.
The signing sessions for the seven oil fields will start Sunday and continues until the end of the month. On Sunday, the ministry will sign a final service deal for the Majnoon field, which holds oil reserves of 12.8 billion. It was awarded to a consortium comprising Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA) and Malaysia's Petronas.
On Monday, it will finalize a contract with Petronas and Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. Ltd (1662.TO), or Japex, for the smaller Garraf oil field and on Jan. 26, it will sign with final deals with Angola's national oil co., Sonangol, for the northern Qaiyarah and Najmah oil fields.
The second super giant West Qurna Phase 2 oil field, which holds oil reserves of 12.9 billion barrels, will be signed on Jan 31 with a consortium consisting of Russia's OAO Lukoil and Norway's Statoil (STL.OL), and on Jan. 27 Halfaya oil field, with 4.1 billion oil reserves, will be signed with CNPC, Petronas and Total SA (TOT).
On Jan. 28, the ministry will sign the smallest Badra oil field in the south with Russia's Gazprom, Turkish Petroleum Corp., known as TPAO, South Korea's Korea Gas Corp. and Petronas.
Iraq aims from all these deals to bring its oil production to 11 million barrels a day in six to seven years from now, nearly five times what it produces now and could even exceeds its fellow OPEC's largest oil exporter, Saudi Arabia.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ira...nth-2010-01-17
AMMAN (MarketWatch) -- The Iraqi oil ministry will finalize by the end of this month seven deals for oil fields won in Iraq's second round of bidding held in December as all winning companies have agreed to new amendments, a senior oil ministry official said Sunday.
Lukoil Holdings /quotes/comstock/11i!lukoy (LUKO.Y 58.35, -0.25, -0.43%) , China National Petroleum Corp. and Gazprom led consortiums were the latest foreign companies to agree to new changes made by the Iraqi oil ministry to these deals, Abdul Mahdy al-Ameedi, head of the oil ministry's Petroleum Contracts and Licensing Directorate told Dow Jones Newswires by telephone from Baghdad.
Meanwhile, a consortium led by Italian energy giant Eni SpA (E) has accepted Iraqi government amendments to a service contract to develop the giant southern Zubair oil field, sources close to the Iraqi oil ministry said. The Eni group is expected to sign for the Zubair oil field on Friday.
Discussions regarding an ExxonMobil-led group to upgrade West Qurna Phase 1 is taking place Monday, the sources added.
Earlier this month, the Iraqi cabinet ratified four oil field deals, including the supergiant Majnoon oil field. It had also given its previous approvals for the remaining deals provided that companies accept the new changes.
The signing sessions for the seven oil fields will start Sunday and continues until the end of the month. On Sunday, the ministry will sign a final service deal for the Majnoon field, which holds oil reserves of 12.8 billion. It was awarded to a consortium comprising Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA) and Malaysia's Petronas.
On Monday, it will finalize a contract with Petronas and Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. Ltd (1662.TO), or Japex, for the smaller Garraf oil field and on Jan. 26, it will sign with final deals with Angola's national oil co., Sonangol, for the northern Qaiyarah and Najmah oil fields.
The second super giant West Qurna Phase 2 oil field, which holds oil reserves of 12.9 billion barrels, will be signed on Jan 31 with a consortium consisting of Russia's OAO Lukoil and Norway's Statoil (STL.OL), and on Jan. 27 Halfaya oil field, with 4.1 billion oil reserves, will be signed with CNPC, Petronas and Total SA (TOT).
On Jan. 28, the ministry will sign the smallest Badra oil field in the south with Russia's Gazprom, Turkish Petroleum Corp., known as TPAO, South Korea's Korea Gas Corp. and Petronas.
Iraq aims from all these deals to bring its oil production to 11 million barrels a day in six to seven years from now, nearly five times what it produces now and could even exceeds its fellow OPEC's largest oil exporter, Saudi Arabia.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ira...nth-2010-01-17
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
Press Office
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.
Time for the "code breakers" to get out their devices and share a tidbit or two.
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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.
BAGHDAD KEEN ON FRIENDLY BONDS WITH KUWAIT
Baghdad keen on friendly bonds with Kuwait -- official
1/17/2010
Jan 17 (KUNA) -- A visiting Iraqi official said here Sunday his country is willing to build bridges of amity and friendship with Kuwait just in harmony with historical and brotherly bonds tying both countries' peoples.
"Iraq is keen on extending bridges of amity and friendship with the State of Kuwait," Basra Governor Shaltagh al-Myah told a joint news conference with Al-Ahmadi Governor Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Duaij Al-Sabah.
He said he is here at the invitation of Sheikh Ibrahim to bolster and beef up brotherly ties and to promote joint interests between Iraq and Kuwait.
Asked about the current situation in Basra, he said his governorate is now witnessing a stage of security, stability and reconstruction, noting that there are good investment opportunities in Basra. Basra is close to the border with Kuwait and produces 90 percent of Iraqi oil, he said, urging Kuwaiti companies to run investments in Basra.
For his part, Sheikh Ibrahim said he is looking forward to building distinguished relations between both brotherly countries based on clarity and frankness, exceeding earlier obstacles and ensuring a bright present and future to both neighborly peoples.
The Iraqi delegation's visit to Kuwait is part of continuing contacts and visits by Iraqi officials, mainly the head of state, to the State of Kuwait, mainly aiming to confirm deep brotherly and neighborly relations between both sides.
He urged more cooperation between Kuwait and Iraq, and a genuine and sincere will to tide over crises and relevant psychological impacts. (end) nfa.rf.mt KUNA 171828 Jan 10NNNN
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1/17/2010
Jan 17 (KUNA) -- A visiting Iraqi official said here Sunday his country is willing to build bridges of amity and friendship with Kuwait just in harmony with historical and brotherly bonds tying both countries' peoples.
"Iraq is keen on extending bridges of amity and friendship with the State of Kuwait," Basra Governor Shaltagh al-Myah told a joint news conference with Al-Ahmadi Governor Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Duaij Al-Sabah.
He said he is here at the invitation of Sheikh Ibrahim to bolster and beef up brotherly ties and to promote joint interests between Iraq and Kuwait.
Asked about the current situation in Basra, he said his governorate is now witnessing a stage of security, stability and reconstruction, noting that there are good investment opportunities in Basra. Basra is close to the border with Kuwait and produces 90 percent of Iraqi oil, he said, urging Kuwaiti companies to run investments in Basra.
For his part, Sheikh Ibrahim said he is looking forward to building distinguished relations between both brotherly countries based on clarity and frankness, exceeding earlier obstacles and ensuring a bright present and future to both neighborly peoples.
The Iraqi delegation's visit to Kuwait is part of continuing contacts and visits by Iraqi officials, mainly the head of state, to the State of Kuwait, mainly aiming to confirm deep brotherly and neighborly relations between both sides.
He urged more cooperation between Kuwait and Iraq, and a genuine and sincere will to tide over crises and relevant psychological impacts. (end) nfa.rf.mt KUNA 171828 Jan 10NNNN
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OBAMA RENEWS COMMITMENT TO THE CONVENTION ON THE WITHDRAWL OF U.S. TROOPS FROM IRAQ
TIDBIT:
Now why do you think Obama would need to "renew his full support of withdrawing US troops, and for the political process, after they've had their SOFA agreement with the U.S. signed for over a year? To me, this would signal Iraq needing ONE MORE REASSURANCE by the U.S. that they support their sovreignty. Why would they need it now? If I were Iraq, I'd want that reassurance one more time if I were about to officially sign my country's future away for the sole purpose of joining the international financial community... kinda like signing your life away for the purpose of gaining protection from the world powers wouldn't ya say? Just some thoughts...
U.S. President Barack Obama his full support for the political process in Iraq, and a commitment to full implementation of the agreement to withdraw US troops from Iraq and the Strategic Framework Agreement signed between the two countries, And help get Iraq under Chapter VII, and an end to all outstanding issues, including compensation and debt, in order to assist Iraq to a fresh start, and to take advantage of the potential human and natural large. And help get Iraq under Chapter VII, and an end to all outstanding issues, including compensation and debt, in order to assist Iraq to a fresh start, and to take advantage of the potential human and natural large.
Obama's remarks came during a meeting with Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi in Washington, where they discussed the presence of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, the bilateral relations between the two countries Obama's remarks came during a meeting with Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi in Washington, where they discussed the presence of US Vice President Joe Biden, the bilateral relations between the two countries
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Now why do you think Obama would need to "renew his full support of withdrawing US troops, and for the political process, after they've had their SOFA agreement with the U.S. signed for over a year? To me, this would signal Iraq needing ONE MORE REASSURANCE by the U.S. that they support their sovreignty. Why would they need it now? If I were Iraq, I'd want that reassurance one more time if I were about to officially sign my country's future away for the sole purpose of joining the international financial community... kinda like signing your life away for the purpose of gaining protection from the world powers wouldn't ya say? Just some thoughts...
U.S. President Barack Obama his full support for the political process in Iraq, and a commitment to full implementation of the agreement to withdraw US troops from Iraq and the Strategic Framework Agreement signed between the two countries, And help get Iraq under Chapter VII, and an end to all outstanding issues, including compensation and debt, in order to assist Iraq to a fresh start, and to take advantage of the potential human and natural large. And help get Iraq under Chapter VII, and an end to all outstanding issues, including compensation and debt, in order to assist Iraq to a fresh start, and to take advantage of the potential human and natural large.
Obama's remarks came during a meeting with Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi in Washington, where they discussed the presence of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, the bilateral relations between the two countries Obama's remarks came during a meeting with Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi in Washington, where they discussed the presence of US Vice President Joe Biden, the bilateral relations between the two countries
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PARLIAMENT REFUSED TO WITHDRAW ANY PART OF CASH RESERVES OF CBI
Parliament Refuses to Withdraw Any Part of the Cash Reserves of the Central Bank to Meet the Budget Deficit
Denied a member of the Finance Committee in the House of Representatives Sirwan Zahawi vote for a resolution to withdraw part of the cash reserves of the Central Bank of Iraq to fill deficits in the budget of public finances.
Zahawi said the independent press agency said Sunday that the foreign exchange owned by the CBI is a reserve to support monetary policy and to give strength to the local currency, and any step to Parliament to pressure the Bank to release part of its reserves to bridge the budget deficit was inconceivable and unacceptable. He added that the CBI has achieved clear success over the past years and could raise up to € (80) billion dollars, a result of the strategy contributed to the devaluation of the dollar against the dinar by half compared to 2003.
Zahawi and that the proper utilization of loans provided by a number of countries, in addition to the International Monetary Fund is the most important means that can be made by the government to cover the deficit, stressing the implementation of the customs tariff law in an economical way to ensure greater financial returns.
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Denied a member of the Finance Committee in the House of Representatives Sirwan Zahawi vote for a resolution to withdraw part of the cash reserves of the Central Bank of Iraq to fill deficits in the budget of public finances.
Zahawi said the independent press agency said Sunday that the foreign exchange owned by the CBI is a reserve to support monetary policy and to give strength to the local currency, and any step to Parliament to pressure the Bank to release part of its reserves to bridge the budget deficit was inconceivable and unacceptable. He added that the CBI has achieved clear success over the past years and could raise up to € (80) billion dollars, a result of the strategy contributed to the devaluation of the dollar against the dinar by half compared to 2003.
Zahawi and that the proper utilization of loans provided by a number of countries, in addition to the International Monetary Fund is the most important means that can be made by the government to cover the deficit, stressing the implementation of the customs tariff law in an economical way to ensure greater financial returns.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
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KUWAIT NOT REQUIRING IRAQ TO PAY THEIR DEBTS AT THE PRESENT TIME
TIDBIT:
Is it just me, or are Iraq and Kuwait being awefully chummy lately? Weren't they at eachother's throats as short as last June/July 09? Things that make you go... hmmm...
Iraq Says Kuwait Not Be Required to Present Their Debts and To Call for the Cancellation of the Vice -
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
The Minister of Finance of Iraq not be required to pay the State of Kuwait for Iraq debt at the present time, as invited by the Deputy in the Iraqi parliament the Kuwaiti government to cancel the debt "taking into account the good-neighborliness."
He said Finance Minister Bayan Jabr said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "The issue of debt and compensation Kuwait will be resolved in a timely manner," explaining that "there are efforts being made by both sides to resolve the issue as soon as possible," he said.
The Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad al-Sabah said in previous statements that his country "does not want Iraq to pay its debts, estimated at billions of dollars, but wants assurances it on good-neighborliness and security, because of deep skepticism in a large sector of the Kuwaiti directions for the new Iraq," as he put it , adding that "Money is the last thing we think."
Zubaidi stressed that "the Kuwaiti government will not ask us at the moment to pay its debts", which avoided mentioning the size.
For his part, said member of parliament Jaber Habib Jaber, "The issue of debt cancellation and reparations Kuwait is one of the priorities of the Iraqi government at the present time," afterthought by saying that "the two sides are currently working on other areas of common interest, such as border demarcation carried out by joint committees , the search for the remains of Kuwaitis missing in Iraq, setting the stanchions in the shared waters. "
Jaber said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", that "the debt that Iraq owes Kuwait belonged to the former regime," and urged Kuwait to "cancel their debts taking into account the good-neighborly and historical relations between the two countries," he said.
It is noteworthy that Iraq pays 5% of its oil revenues in compensation for a special international compensation fund for damage caused by the invasion of Kuwait in 1991, while Baghdad is seeking to adopt a Security Council that it no longer represents a threat to international security, a justification that has underpinned the sanctions imposed to the former regime, after the invasion of Kuwait, specifically in the context of Chapter VII of the United Nations Act.
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Is it just me, or are Iraq and Kuwait being awefully chummy lately? Weren't they at eachother's throats as short as last June/July 09? Things that make you go... hmmm...
Iraq Says Kuwait Not Be Required to Present Their Debts and To Call for the Cancellation of the Vice -
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
The Minister of Finance of Iraq not be required to pay the State of Kuwait for Iraq debt at the present time, as invited by the Deputy in the Iraqi parliament the Kuwaiti government to cancel the debt "taking into account the good-neighborliness."
He said Finance Minister Bayan Jabr said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "The issue of debt and compensation Kuwait will be resolved in a timely manner," explaining that "there are efforts being made by both sides to resolve the issue as soon as possible," he said.
The Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad al-Sabah said in previous statements that his country "does not want Iraq to pay its debts, estimated at billions of dollars, but wants assurances it on good-neighborliness and security, because of deep skepticism in a large sector of the Kuwaiti directions for the new Iraq," as he put it , adding that "Money is the last thing we think."
Zubaidi stressed that "the Kuwaiti government will not ask us at the moment to pay its debts", which avoided mentioning the size.
For his part, said member of parliament Jaber Habib Jaber, "The issue of debt cancellation and reparations Kuwait is one of the priorities of the Iraqi government at the present time," afterthought by saying that "the two sides are currently working on other areas of common interest, such as border demarcation carried out by joint committees , the search for the remains of Kuwaitis missing in Iraq, setting the stanchions in the shared waters. "
Jaber said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", that "the debt that Iraq owes Kuwait belonged to the former regime," and urged Kuwait to "cancel their debts taking into account the good-neighborly and historical relations between the two countries," he said.
It is noteworthy that Iraq pays 5% of its oil revenues in compensation for a special international compensation fund for damage caused by the invasion of Kuwait in 1991, while Baghdad is seeking to adopt a Security Council that it no longer represents a threat to international security, a justification that has underpinned the sanctions imposed to the former regime, after the invasion of Kuwait, specifically in the context of Chapter VII of the United Nations Act.
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BAGHDAD KEEN ON FRIENDLY BONDS WITH KUWAIT -- OFFICIAL
Jan 17 (KUNA) -- A visiting Iraqi official said here Sunday his country is willing to build bridges of amity and friendship with Kuwait just in harmony with historical and brotherly bonds tying both countries' peoples.
"Iraq is keen on extending bridges of amity and friendship with the State of Kuwait," Basra Governor Shaltagh al-Myah told a joint news conference with Al-Ahmadi Governor Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Duaij Al-Sabah.
He said he is here at the invitation of Sheikh Ibrahim to bolster and beef up brotherly ties and to promote joint interests between Iraq and Kuwait.
Asked about the current situation in Basra, he said his governorate is now witnessing a stage of security, stability and reconstruction, noting that there are good investment opportunities in Basra. Basra is close to the border with Kuwait and produces 90 percent of Iraqi oil, he said, urging Kuwaiti companies to run investments in Basra.
For his part, Sheikh Ibrahim said he is looking forward to building distinguished relations between both brotherly countries based on clarity and frankness, exceeding earlier obstacles and ensuring a bright present and future to both neighborly peoples.
The Iraqi delegation's visit to Kuwait is part of continuing contacts and visits by Iraqi officials, mainly the head of state, to the State of Kuwait, mainly aiming to confirm deep brotherly and neighborly relations between both sides.
He urged more cooperation between Kuwait and Iraq, and a genuine and sincere will to tide over crises and relevant psychological impacts. (end) nfa.rf.mt KUNA 171828 Jan 10NNNN
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"Iraq is keen on extending bridges of amity and friendship with the State of Kuwait," Basra Governor Shaltagh al-Myah told a joint news conference with Al-Ahmadi Governor Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Duaij Al-Sabah.
He said he is here at the invitation of Sheikh Ibrahim to bolster and beef up brotherly ties and to promote joint interests between Iraq and Kuwait.
Asked about the current situation in Basra, he said his governorate is now witnessing a stage of security, stability and reconstruction, noting that there are good investment opportunities in Basra. Basra is close to the border with Kuwait and produces 90 percent of Iraqi oil, he said, urging Kuwaiti companies to run investments in Basra.
For his part, Sheikh Ibrahim said he is looking forward to building distinguished relations between both brotherly countries based on clarity and frankness, exceeding earlier obstacles and ensuring a bright present and future to both neighborly peoples.
The Iraqi delegation's visit to Kuwait is part of continuing contacts and visits by Iraqi officials, mainly the head of state, to the State of Kuwait, mainly aiming to confirm deep brotherly and neighborly relations between both sides.
He urged more cooperation between Kuwait and Iraq, and a genuine and sincere will to tide over crises and relevant psychological impacts. (end) nfa.rf.mt KUNA 171828 Jan 10NNNN
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PHOENIX CHAT - After The Gold Rush 1/16/10 @ 10:33pm EST
[22:33] Phoenix3333: Heads UP!
[22:33] Boo: He heard me!
[22:33] Phoenix3333: UNSC meeting on monday the 18th on Iraq
[22:33] homie: there up
[22:33] Phoenix3333: http:// articles ofintere st-kelle y.blogsp ot.com/2 010/01/3 30-pm-cr -5-speci al-event s-united .html
[22:34] K8GJGB: hello sir thought you weren't gonna be here tonite
[22:37] homie: thanks for the link Phx
[22:38] landinar: good news thanks Phoenix
[22:38] Dreamway: I like this part ,,, Lessens learned from the Iraq Compact and the way forward"
[22:41] Corvette1: Are we stiil looking for a rate change Sunday or not this weekend?
[22:43] Phoenix3333: Yes that is nice
[22:47] Dreamway: seems they cannot go to far forward till sanctions lifted....
[22:47] GameBall: Phx
[22:48] GameBall: Have you heard how ******'s wife is doing? we have been praying for her.
[22:49] CC: what is being said about the banks?
[22:49] homie: maybe sanctions will be lifted???
[22:49] CC: didnt Citi get heads up that there might be a rate change?
[22:50] Phoenix3333: yes CC
[22:50] Phoenix3333: a few banks did
[22:50] CC: who else besides citi?
[22:51] Phoenix3333: Meds wife is still ill
[22:51] Phoenix3333: she see the doctor this wed
[22:51] CC: we will pray for her
[22:51] Phoenix3333: CC not a liberty to say
[22:52] Phoenix3333: but we started getting reports of this around noon on friday....
[22:52] Phoenix3333: I did not get them but ****** did
[22:52] CC: well as long as different banks are hearing this is good
[22:52] Phoenix3333: I checked our contact with the one bank but found nothing with them
[22:52] Phoenix3333: yes different
[22:53] K8GJGB: so when will we know if and when the rate actually changed
[22:53] CC: lets just hope his sources are telling him the truth we are good
[22:53] Phoenix3333: ok I just popped in to share that UN info
[22:53] CC: then
[22:53] Phoenix3333: when will we know?
[22:53] Phoenix3333: That will be right after the teller hands you the deposit slip
[22:53] CC: cuz all heck will break loose or freezes over l ol
[22:54] CC: lol
[22:54] CC: yep until the fat lady sings we r not done
[22:54] Phoenix3333: I am waiting on a heads up that I should get but have heard nothing
[22:54] Phoenix3333: so we will see....but with the UN meeting this monday it is looking good
[22:55] CC: so then it should be done after the meeting?
[22:55] Phoenix3333: ok...going to read....
[22:55] Phoenix3333: see everyone later
[22:55] Phoenix3333:
[22:55] CC: adios amigo
[22:55] Phoenix3333: has left the room
[22:33] Boo: He heard me!
[22:33] Phoenix3333: UNSC meeting on monday the 18th on Iraq
[22:33] homie: there up
[22:33] Phoenix3333: http:// articles ofintere st-kelle y.blogsp ot.com/2 010/01/3 30-pm-cr -5-speci al-event s-united .html
[22:34] K8GJGB: hello sir thought you weren't gonna be here tonite
[22:37] homie: thanks for the link Phx
[22:38] landinar: good news thanks Phoenix
[22:38] Dreamway: I like this part ,,, Lessens learned from the Iraq Compact and the way forward"
[22:41] Corvette1: Are we stiil looking for a rate change Sunday or not this weekend?
[22:43] Phoenix3333: Yes that is nice
[22:47] Dreamway: seems they cannot go to far forward till sanctions lifted....
[22:47] GameBall: Phx
[22:48] GameBall: Have you heard how ******'s wife is doing? we have been praying for her.
[22:49] CC: what is being said about the banks?
[22:49] homie: maybe sanctions will be lifted???
[22:49] CC: didnt Citi get heads up that there might be a rate change?
[22:50] Phoenix3333: yes CC
[22:50] Phoenix3333: a few banks did
[22:50] CC: who else besides citi?
[22:51] Phoenix3333: Meds wife is still ill
[22:51] Phoenix3333: she see the doctor this wed
[22:51] CC: we will pray for her
[22:51] Phoenix3333: CC not a liberty to say
[22:52] Phoenix3333: but we started getting reports of this around noon on friday....
[22:52] Phoenix3333: I did not get them but ****** did
[22:52] CC: well as long as different banks are hearing this is good
[22:52] Phoenix3333: I checked our contact with the one bank but found nothing with them
[22:52] Phoenix3333: yes different
[22:53] K8GJGB: so when will we know if and when the rate actually changed
[22:53] CC: lets just hope his sources are telling him the truth we are good
[22:53] Phoenix3333: ok I just popped in to share that UN info
[22:53] CC: then
[22:53] Phoenix3333: when will we know?
[22:53] Phoenix3333: That will be right after the teller hands you the deposit slip
[22:53] CC: cuz all heck will break loose or freezes over l ol
[22:54] CC: lol
[22:54] CC: yep until the fat lady sings we r not done
[22:54] Phoenix3333: I am waiting on a heads up that I should get but have heard nothing
[22:54] Phoenix3333: so we will see....but with the UN meeting this monday it is looking good
[22:55] CC: so then it should be done after the meeting?
[22:55] Phoenix3333: ok...going to read....
[22:55] Phoenix3333: see everyone later
[22:55] Phoenix3333:
[22:55] CC: adios amigo
[22:55] Phoenix3333: has left the room
UNDERDOG727 POST
My wife has worked for BOA for 8 months, her bank has never mentioned the dinar...friday she passed the managers to say goodnite and she heard one manager say to theother the dinar is changing...she didnt ask what they meant because it was a privateconversation, i hope it means what we hope it means. I just found it interesting that they have never even mentioned the word dinar in the time she has worked there
ANNOUNCEMENT: Fine... I'll come back! ;)
All,
Thank you for the wonderful comments, and for reminding me of WHY I started this site. To help my friends, family, and their friends and family understand this investment better. I only post those topics from the news and from self-professed "gurus" that I deem mean something to me in this investment. Like Frank "I see patterns", and that is why I post what I do. It's to help each of you read what I feel you should know so that you can have your OWN points of reference in trying to understand all that is happening in the world that would impact us in our investment. My style is obviously different than his however. I'm more direct and to the point.
Sharing this, I propose the following... I will continue to post certain articles and some posts and rumors for your reference to maintain your understanding of this investment. I won't post "certain" people's posts/chats, as it obviously bothers them. My intent is not to upset anyone. I will, however, post snipets of information shared that I feel is important for reference and knowledge. I just won't post their ENTIRE CHATS... That would probably be viewed as a blessing for ALL of you. lol! Sometimes the ramblings can be too much, and we don't want to read them anyway.
So, I'll post quick chats that are out there. I will post pertinent news articles. My postings will be more infrequent and random, as I need to take care of other things. Believe it or not, I do feel the responsibility to share what I've uncovered with each of you, but I just can't make this constant anticipation of an RV part of my life. This has really taken its toll of many, including me. I'm just fried, and candidly physically, emotionally, and spiritually don't feel right.
The governments of the world have done their job making this very difficult to follow. I wave the white flag and say I give. To those who really are "in charge", please just do what you're going to do and we'll all respond according to your rules. We are well over our heads in this wicked game called greed, manipulation, mis-information, self-centeredness, personal favors, threats, and deception. I just pray we can somehow figure out how to handle what is thrown at us when it comes. The more I learn and read, the more I realize we need His help. To overcome such darkness, we will need such divine intervention, as "L" and his followers truely have a grip on this world further than any of us could have ever imagined.
I will maintain my faith. I will remain...
Dinar Daddy
Thank you for the wonderful comments, and for reminding me of WHY I started this site. To help my friends, family, and their friends and family understand this investment better. I only post those topics from the news and from self-professed "gurus" that I deem mean something to me in this investment. Like Frank "I see patterns", and that is why I post what I do. It's to help each of you read what I feel you should know so that you can have your OWN points of reference in trying to understand all that is happening in the world that would impact us in our investment. My style is obviously different than his however. I'm more direct and to the point.
Sharing this, I propose the following... I will continue to post certain articles and some posts and rumors for your reference to maintain your understanding of this investment. I won't post "certain" people's posts/chats, as it obviously bothers them. My intent is not to upset anyone. I will, however, post snipets of information shared that I feel is important for reference and knowledge. I just won't post their ENTIRE CHATS... That would probably be viewed as a blessing for ALL of you. lol! Sometimes the ramblings can be too much, and we don't want to read them anyway.
So, I'll post quick chats that are out there. I will post pertinent news articles. My postings will be more infrequent and random, as I need to take care of other things. Believe it or not, I do feel the responsibility to share what I've uncovered with each of you, but I just can't make this constant anticipation of an RV part of my life. This has really taken its toll of many, including me. I'm just fried, and candidly physically, emotionally, and spiritually don't feel right.
The governments of the world have done their job making this very difficult to follow. I wave the white flag and say I give. To those who really are "in charge", please just do what you're going to do and we'll all respond according to your rules. We are well over our heads in this wicked game called greed, manipulation, mis-information, self-centeredness, personal favors, threats, and deception. I just pray we can somehow figure out how to handle what is thrown at us when it comes. The more I learn and read, the more I realize we need His help. To overcome such darkness, we will need such divine intervention, as "L" and his followers truely have a grip on this world further than any of us could have ever imagined.
I will maintain my faith. I will remain...
Dinar Daddy
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