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<p>وقالت الطبيبة جنان حسن خلال مراسم افتتاح المستشفى ان "حالات الاصابة بسرطان الدم (<a title="اللوكيميا" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://www.iraq-beituna.net/show.php?sho=25194" class="external" target="_blank">اللوكيميا</a>) بين الاطفال دون 15 عاما، ارتفعت اربعة اضعاف".</p> <p>واكدت خلال الاحتفالية التي حضرها اباء وامهات الاطفال الذين فقد بعضهم شعر رأسه بسبب العلاج الكيمياوي، ان "معظم الحالات خطيرة، ما يعني ان املهم ضعيف بالبقاء على قيد الحياة".</p> <p>واشارت الطبيبة الى ان المستشفى الذي افتتح رسميا الخميس، بدعم دولي كان يعمل بشكل جزئي لعدة اشهر" قبل ذلك.</p> <p>وقالت "افتتاح المستشفى انجاز مهم. اشكر جميع الذين ساعدوا من اجل بنائه".</p> <p>واضافت انه "انجاز جيد جدا، لكننا ما زلنا بحاجة الى معدات متطورة ومختبرات وادوية كثيرة، نامل الحصول عليها لاحقا".</p> <p>وما زالت المستشفى لا تمتلك المعدات الطبية لمساعدة المرضى وبينهم منتظر ابن الثلاثة اعوام الذي كان يحدق بصمت بعينيه الخضراوين وهو بين ذراعي امه، ايناس.</p> <p>وقالت ايناس احمد انه "تم تشخيص اصابة منتظر بورم سرطاني قبل عام".</p> <p>واضافت "اخذناه الى ايران قبل اشهر، وفتحوا الورم هناك لمساعدته" ووضع الاطباء ابرة في وريد قدم الفتى لادخال الامصال والعلاج.</p> <p>وتابعت وهي ترفع رداءه البرتقالي الذي يحمل صورة "ميكي ماوس" للكشف عن فجوة عميقة في بطنه، ان الاطباء في ايران "قالوا انهم لايستطيعون فعل شيء ونحن الان نحاول نقله خارج العراق ربما الى تايلاند".</p> <p>واشارت الطبيبة جنان الى ان "تزايد حالات الاصابة بالسرطان في البصرة قد سجلتها دراسة اعدت هذا العام من قبل جامعة واشنطن في سياتل، باستخدام معلومات من قبلنا واخرى من مستشفى ابن غزوان التعليمي".</p> <p>ووجدت الدراسة ان حالة الاصابة باللوكيميا لدى الاطفال دون 15 عاما، قد تصاعدت تدريجيا منذ عام 1993 حتى 2007.</p> <p>واوضحت "لاحظنا ان حالات الاصابة بسرطان الدم لدى الاطفال بلغت 698، بين عام 1993 و 2007، لقد تراوحت بين 15 حالة اصابة في العام الاول و56 حالة في العام الاخير".</p> <p>ولفتت الانتباه الى ان "اعلى معدل للاصابات كان 97 حالة في عام 2006" وفقا للدراسة التي اعدت من قبل امي هاغوبيان و تم تاكارو ونشرت في "مجلة الصحة العامة" الاميركية.</p> <p>واكد الطبيب محمد كامل مساعد مدير المستشفى الجديد، ان "الدراسة اظهرت ان حالات الاصابة بسرطان الدم لدى الاطفال في البصرة ازدادت ثلاثة او اربعة اضعاف، لكنها لم تكشف عن السبب" وراء ذلك.</p> <p>وركزت التكهنات على التلوث الصناعي، والكميات الكبيرة من الغازات المنبعثة من ابار النفط في المحافظة الغنية بالابار النفطية، اضافة الى وقوع البصرة على خط المواجهة في الحروب الثلاث التي خاضها العراق.</p> <p>وخاض العراق في 1980-1988 حربا مع ايران ثم حرب الخليج الاولى عام 1991 اعقبها اجتياح العراق للاطاحة بنظام صدام حسين عام 2003.</p> <p>وتطرقت الدراسة التي اعدها تاكارو-هاغوبيان، الى "افتراض كون المواد المتفجرة التي تعرضت لها البصرة كانت سرطانية".</p> <p>واعتبرت الدراسة انه يصعب التكهن بنوع الاسلحة التي استخدمت في تلك الحروب ومن قبل صدام حسين لكبح الانتفاضة الشيعية في جنوب العراق عام 1991.</p> <p>وركزت بعض التكهنات، حول سبب ارتفاع حالات الاصابة باللوكيميا الى اليورانيوم المنضب الذي استخدمته الولايات المتحدة ودول التحالف في حرب عام 1991، لتحرير الكويت ولدى اجتياح العراق عام 2003.</p> <p>ولكن الدراسة لم 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/uranium/" rel="tag">uranium</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>Iraq’s first specialist cancer hospital for children could not have opened in a needier location — since 1993, Basra province has seen a sharp rise in the incidence of childhood cancer.</p> <p>"Leukaemia among children under 15 has increased by about four times," said Dr. Janan Hasan of the Basra Children’s Hospital.</p> <p><a title="20101022_child_cancer_patient_Basrah_childrens_hospital by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/5104629263/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="border-right: black 1px solid; border-top: black 1px solid; display: inline; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: black 1px solid; border-bottom: black 1px solid" height="289" alt="20101022_child_cancer_patient_Basrah_childrens_hospital" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542im_/http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1222/5104629263_c977988c92_o.jpg" width="350" align="right"/></a>"Most are high-risk cases, which means that they do not have a high survival rate," she told AFP on the sidelines of the opening ceremony, where hapless parents with sick children in tow, many with the tell-tale baldness of chemotherapy, clustered around the paediatrician.</p> <p>The facility, which was built with multinational assistance and funds, officially opened on Thursday but has been partially operational for several months, Hasan said.</p> <p>"This hospital is a very important achievement, and I thank everyone who helped build it," she said.</p> <p>"This is a very good effort, but we still do not have advanced equipment, labs and many medicines. We hope to acquire them over time."</p> <p>Three-year-old Muntadhar, his green eyes staring dolefully from his mother’s arms, is one of the patients the hospital cannot help because it does not have the equipment.</p> <p>Muntadhar, an intravenous insertion needle bandaged to his foot, was diagnosed with a cancerous tumour a year ago, his mother Inas Ahmed said.</p> <p>"We took him to Iran a few months ago and they cut him open to try to help him," she said, lifting his orange Mickey Mouse T-shirt to reveal a deep scar across his belly.</p> <p>"But they said they couldn’t help and now we are trying to take him abroad, maybe to Thailand," she said with a look of resignation. A hospital official said they were working through some charities to arrange the operation, which Muntadhar’s poor parents cannot afford.</p> <p>Halima Mukhtar, draped in a loose black veil that showed her traditionally tattooed face and hands, carried her four-year-old son Musa on her right shoulder.</p> <p>"Thank God for this hospital, otherwise I wouldn’t know where else to turn," she said, a bottle of medicine in one hand.</p> <p>"In this world I have only God and the people at this hospital," she added," as Musa, wearing flip-flops on his feet and a surgeon’s mask that covered most of his face, stared down blankly from his perch.</p> <p>Hasan said the increasing cases of cancer in Basra were best documented in a study published this year by the University of Washington in Seattle, conducted with input from her and the Ibn Ghazwan teaching hospital.</p> <p>The report found leukaemia in Basra among children under 15 had grown year to year from 1993-2007.</p> <p>"We observed 698 cases of childhood leukaemia between 1993 and 2007, ranging between 15 cases in the first year and 56 cases in the final year, reaching a peak of 97 cases in 2006," said the study, authored by Amy Hagopian and Tim Takaro, and published in the American Journal of Public Health.</p> <p>"Basra’s childhood leukemia rates compare unfavourably to those of neighbouring Kuwait and nearby Oman, as well as the US and the European Union and other countries," the study said.</p> <p>"The incidence of cancer is significantly higher in Basra province than in other parts of Iraq," said Mohammed Kamil, deputy director of the hospital.</p> <p>Speculation has focused on industrial pollution, the huge volumes of burning gas from oil wells in the energy-rich province, and Basra’s position in the frontline of wars in past three decades: the 1980-1988 conflict with Iran, the 1991 Gulf War and the US-led invasion that overthrew dictator Saddam Hussein.</p> <p>"We hypothesise that hazardous exposures during these wars may have been leukaemogenic," said the Hagopian-Takaro study.</p> <p>What weapons were actually used in those wars, and by Saddam himself against his own people to put down a 1991 Shiite uprising in the south, is anyone’s guess.</p> <p>Some of the conjecture has centred on depleted uranium weapons used by US and coalition forces in the 1991 war to liberate Kuwait and the 2003 US-led invasion.</p> <p>But in Iraq the possible link between the radioactive metal and health problems has not been proven.</p> <p>The hospital, decorated with portraits of Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse prancing about with his girlfriend Minnie, was built with help from the United States, Spain, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, the UN Development Programme and Project Hope.</p> <p>"This project will have a capability to serve the people of Iraq and its people and children of Iraq for many years to come," said Brigadier-General Randal Dragon, Deputy Commander for Support of the US army base in Basra.</p> <p>"From that perspective, all of us should be proud and hope this project will pay big dividends," he told AFP.</p> <blockquote></blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://www.france24.com/en/20101022-iraq-city-with-soaring-child-cancer-gets-new-hospital-0" class="external" target="_blank">France24 – Iraq city with soaring child cancer gets new hospital</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-9870"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><span>Comments Off</span></span> Posted on April 18th, 2010 by Khalil Ibn Hussein</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/18/18-04-2010-selected-english-language-coverage/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to 18-04-2010 Selected English Language Coverage">18-04-2010 Selected English Language Coverage</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/afghanistan/" rel="tag">Afghanistan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-iraqiya/" rel="tag">Al-Iraqiya</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/allawi-vs-maliki/" rel="tag">Allawi vs. Maliki</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/american-war-criminals-gw-bush/" rel="tag">American War Criminals (G.W. 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Sheikh Salah al-Ubaydi, spokesman for the Al-Sadr Trend, said that "the trend continues to ask all the winning parties to sit on a roundtable to reach a solution to the crisis of forming the next government." </p> <p>On whether the expected alliance between the State of Law Coalition, led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, and the Iraqi National Alliance would lead to the exclusion of the Al-Iraqiya Bloc, led by Iyad Allawi, from the next government, Al-Ubaydi told Asharq Al-Awsat that any alliance between the two coalitions "does not mean abandoning the roundtable for forming the government and choosing the candidate for the post of the next prime minister," adding: "We have sent reassurance messages to all parties, which say that any alliance of this kind does not mean excluding or marginalizing others." He emphasized that "one of the most important points which we emphasized is to avoid and not to repeat the mistakes of the previous experience, particularly since the concern of the Iraqi street focuses on the need for stabilizing the security situation and also improving the living condition. Therefore, the negative phenomena that prevented the implementation of these positive points should be overcome, in addition to our demand that there should be no partisan appeasement , particularly concerning the issue of financial and administrative corruption even if the accused is a leader or affiliated to this of that party." He emphasized: "We want a real partnership government and not a government that is concerned with the interests of one party as happened in the past." </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=20626" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>: </p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Iraq remains a long way off from forming a new government – The Globe and Mail: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>He may have “won” last month’s Iraqi election, but there is little chance that Iyad Allawi will head the next Iraqi government. <br/>Six weeks after Iraqis braved threats of violence to cast ballots, giving Mr. Allawi’s Iraqiya party two more seats than Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the country is still a long way from having a new government. <br/>Unfortunately for Mr. Allawi, the demographics of the country and the role of outside parties have conspired against him. The best the one-time provisional prime minister can hope for, say observers in Baghdad, is a relatively minor role in cabinet for some of his people. <br/>It’s not for want of trying. “[Mr.] Allawi has done everything he could,” said one veteran analyst with an international organization in Baghdad. “But he had to play the hand he was dealt.”</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/iraq-remains-a-long-way-off-from-forming-a-new-government/article1538381/" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>: </p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Security Coverage:</font></h3> <p><strong>Violence highlights fears of Iraqi security forces taking over after U.S. leaves </strong></p> <blockquote><p>By Leila Fadel Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, April 18, 2010; A12 </p> <p>RADWANIYAH, IRAQ — Raw welts and purple bruises run down the backs of dozens of Sunni Muslim men in a small village west of Baghdad — evidence, local residents say, of abuse by the Iraqi army that threatens to widen a sectarian rift. </p> <p>The wounds came from beatings administered last month by soldiers from the predominantly Shiite force charged with protecting the Sunni community here, villagers said. One by one, they said, the Sunni men were questioned, beaten and shocked with electricity in a roundup by mostly Shiite Iraqi soldiers, who were reeling from the killing of five comrades at a checkpoint. </p> <p>The violence comes at a time when the performance and professionalism of Iraq’s security forces are facing a crucial test. With U.S. troop levels scheduled to drop to 50,000 by summer’s end, Iraqi security forces control the streets. But they face deep mistrust in particular from Iraqi Sunnis, who in some areas consider the Army a less-than-neutral instrument of a Shiite-dominated government. </p> <p>In Radwaniyah, Sunni tribal leaders say the beatings have cemented fears about what might happen when the U.S. military leaves for good. They worry about being caught between the Sunni insurgents they turned against and a Shiite-led government they do not trust. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/17/AR2010041702704_pf.html" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>: </p> </blockquote> <div style="border-right: silver 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: silver 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: silver 1px solid; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: silver 1px solid"> <table cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" width="580" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="285"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63G06Z.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Reuters AlertNet – FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 17</a>: </p> <ul> <li><strong>*</strong>BAGHDAD – A bomb attached to a car exploded, severely wounding five people in the Saydiya district in southern Baghdad, police said. </li> <li><strong>*</strong>MOSUL – Police found the body of man who had been shot in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. </li> <li>BAGHDAD – Iraqi police killed a gunman who opened fire on a police checkpoint in the Amiriya district in western Baghdad, Baghdad security command said in a statement. </li> <li>BASRA – A bomb planted in the house of a leader of the local government-backed council leader exploded in central Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad on Friday night, killing his wife and wounding his son, police said. </li> </ul> </td> <td valign="top" width="285"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63H0O9.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Reuters AlertNet – FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 18</a>: </p> <ul> <li>Following are security developments in Iraq at 1900 GMT on Sunday. </li> <li>MOSUL – Armed men wounded two retired senior army officers after they left a mosque in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. </li> <li>MOSUL – A roadside bomb exploded in the centre of Mosul, wounding seven civilians, police said. </li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" colspan="2"> <p><strong>*</strong> Denotes new or updated item.</p> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63H0D4.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Reuters AlertNet – One US soldier dead, three injured in Iraq crash</a>:<br/> <blockquote>A U.S. soldier was killed and three were injured when their helicopter crashed in northern Iraq late on Saturday evening, the U.S. military said on Sunday. <p>In a brief statement, the military said the incident had not been attributed to enemy fire and was under investigation.</p> </blockquote> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> <p><strong>KUNA : U.S. on target to reduce forces in Iraq to 50,000 by August — Odierno – Military and Security – 18/04/2010: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>The U.S. military remains on target to reduce its forces in Iraq from about 95,000 today to around 50,000 by mid-August, U.S. Army General Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, said on Sunday. <p>In an interview on "FOX News Sunday," Odierno said there was no move under way by the United States to revisit the Security of Forces Agreement with Iraq, which calls for all remaining U.S. forces to be out of that country by the end of 2011. </p> <p>If the Iraqi government wants U.S. forces in Iraq longer than that, "we can discuss it. … then we (U.S. officials) will make our own decision on that based on our policies," Odierno said.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2076685&Language=en" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Economic Coverage:</font></h3> <p><strong>Trade Arabia – Iraq cbank cuts rates to boost lending: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Iraq’s central bank slashed its base rate by 100 basis points to six per cent as of April 1 in reaction to subdued inflation and to boost bank lending, senior advisers at the bank said. </p> <p><em>[snip]</em></p> <p>The IMF forecasts economic growth of 7.3 per cent this year, accelerating from estimated 4.2 per cent growth last year but well off 9.5 per cent growth in 2008 when oil prices were at record highs.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://www.tradearabia.com/news/newsdetails.asp?Sn=BANK&artid=177888" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>: </p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Etihad to Commence Services to Iraq: </strong><br/> <blockquote>Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has announced it will commence flights from Abu Dhabi to Baghdad on April 26, subject to government and regulatory approvals, becoming the first airline in the UAE to fly to Iraq. <p>Etihad will operate five return services per week to Baghdad, operated by two-class Airbus A320 aircraft, and will expand its operation with two additional A320 return services to a second Iraq destination – Erbil – from June 1, subject to government and regulatory approvals. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2010/April/theuae_April450.xml&section=theuae&col=" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>: </p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Anham replaces Agility as US military supplier – Emirates Business 24|7: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Dubai-based Anham has won a $2.2 billion (Dh8.08bn) contract to provide food and support services to the US military in Kuwait, Iraq and Jordan after Kuwait-based logistics firm Agility was replaced as the main supplier following indictments for overcharging</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://www.business24-7.ae/companies-markets/logistics/anham-replaces-agility-as-us-military-supplier-2010-04-18-1.109319" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Argus Media :Analysis – Baghdad plans refinery spree: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Iraq is drawing up plans to expand its effective refining capacity by 150pc to 1.2mn b/d at a cost of $10.5bn.</p> <p>The additional 740,000 b/d of capacity will come from four planned refineries (see table). A fifth planned refinery with a capacity of 100,000 b/d close to the 800mn bl East Baghdad heavy oil field is on the back burner because the field was not awarded to a foreign oil company in Iraq’s second bidding round in December.</p> <p>Cash-strapped Iraq will be unable to fund its planned downstream expansion alone and will seek private-sector investors. “We are open to discussing any type of investment. These can be joint ventures, build-operate-transfer agreements, build-own-operate agreements, or engineering contracts with deferred payment,” Iraq’s deputy oil minister for refining and gas processing Ahmad al-Shamma told Argus.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://www.argusmedia.com/pages/NewsBody.aspx?id=704433&menu=yes" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>: </p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Peninsula On-line: Turkey’s TPAO plans to bid for Iraq fields: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>The state-run Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) is planning to bid for development of Iraq’s Akkas, Mansuriyah and Siba natural gas fields, TPAO Chief Executive Mehmet Uysal said in an interview yesterday.</p> <p>Uysal said TPAO aims to bid for the Akkas field in partnership with Italy’s Edison, and added that Chevron and Chinese firms are interested in gas and oil exploration in the Black Sea.</p> <p>“We have already started preparations seriously for oil exploration license tenders for which there will be invitations from now on. We can bid in partnership with consortia,” Uysal said.</p> <p>TPIC, the foreign exploration unit of state-run Turkish Petroleum, won a $318m contract to drill 45 wells in Iraq’s supergiant Rumaila oilfield in March. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=Business_News&subsection=market+news&month=April2010&file=Business_News2010041704135.xml" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a> </p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Commentary and Analysis</font></h3> <p><strong>Green Scare: The Making of the New Muslim Enemy | by Deepa Kumar | CommonDreams.org: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>The events of September 11 laid the basis for the emergence of a vicious form of Islamophobia that facilitated the U.S. goals of empire building in the 21st century. This form of Islamophobia focused on the enemy "out there" against which the U.S. supposedly had to go to war to protect itself, from Afghanistan to Iraq. </p> <p>As George Bush famously put it, "We’re fighting them there, so we don’t have to fight them here." Or as he stated in his West Point speech in 2002, "We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats." In short, an endless "war on terror" on the enemy beyond U.S. borders was now justified, according to Bush. </p> <p><em>[snip]</em></p> <p>The most virulent expression of this "Green Scare" was articulated by NYU professor Tunku Varadarajan. In a Forbes.com article titled "Going Muslim" (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/08/fort-hood-nidal-malik-hasan-muslims-opinions-columnists-tunku-varadarajan.html)" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/08/fort-hood-nidal-malik-hasan-muslims-opinions-columnists-tunku-varadarajan.html)</a> published in November 2009, Varadarajan argued that what precipitated the tragedy at Food Hood–when Major Nidal Hasan turned a gun against his co-workers and killed 13–was not the racist harassment that Hasan faced in the Army or the emotionally debilitating nature of being an overworked Army psychiatrist, but rather a condition that he sees as inherent to all Muslims: the tendency towards violence. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/04/17-6" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>:</p> </blockquote> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-7471"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><span>Comments Off</span></span> Posted on October 11th, 2009 by Editors</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/10/11/anbar-bangladeshi-workers-in-double-trouble/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Anbar: Bangladeshi Workers in Double Trouble">Anbar: Bangladeshi Workers in Double Trouble</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-anbar-governorate/" rel="tag">Al Anbar (Governorate)</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/anbar/" rel="tag">Anbar</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/bangladesh/" rel="tag">Bangladesh</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/bangladeshi-workers-exploitation-of/" rel="tag">Bangladeshi workers - exploitation of</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/fallujah/" rel="tag">Fallujah</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/features/" rel="tag">Features</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/foreign-workers-exploitation-of/" rel="tag">Foreign workers - exploitation of</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iwpr/" rel="tag">IWPR</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/poverty/" rel="tag">Poverty</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/ramadi/" rel="tag">Ramadi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/unemployment-levels/" rel="tag">unemployment levels</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/united-arab-emirates/" rel="tag">United Arab Emirates</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/western-anbar/" rel="tag">western Anbar</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>They are kept under lock and key by their employers and face resentment from province’s unemployed. </p> <p>Hasan’s 14-hour day starts before dawn, when he gets up to clean his employer’s house and prepare breakfast. </p> <p>As one of a number of servants for a prominent family in Iraq’s western Anbar province, Hasan scrubs floors, polishes desks, baby-sits, serves tea to foreign dignitaries and even cares for the family’s pets. </p> <p>Hasan has worked for the family for eight months but has never left the property to explore Ramadi, the capital of the once-volatile Anbar province. He knows little of what goes on outside of the compound, which is exactly the way his employer wants it. </p> <p>The routine can be dull. But what irritates him most is the traditional Arab clothing – including a box hat and a dagger slung through his belt – he must slip into when guests arrive. </p> <p>In his home country of Bangladesh, Hasan only ever saw the uniforms in movies. </p> <p>“I never imagined that I would work in Iraq in the house of a VIP,” he said. “I didn’t even like to see these clothes on television, let alone wear them. But I’ve gotten used to this new situation, even with the difficulties I face.” </p> <p>Hasan earns 400 US dollars per month. The pay is generous, he says, compared to the salaries of other migrant servants in the city. </p> <p>As in other Iraqi cities, thousands of foreign workers are taken to Anbar to do low-wage, unskilled work. Desperate for employment, Bangladeshis are snapping up such jobs in western Iraq, despite the region’s reputation for violence. </p> <p>According to the Anbar labour commission, an estimated 15,000 male and female workers have been brought to Anbar province this year. Nearly 90 per cent are Bangladeshis, who work as waiters, servants, nannies, cleaners and farmers. </p> <p>Many of the foreign labourers in Anbar were employed in the United Arab Emirates until the global financial crisis hit last year, leaving unskilled employees scrambling for work. </p> <p>Iraq was one of the few places offering “good jobs and good salaries”, said Khaleda, a woman from Bangladesh who works for a family in Ramadi. </p> <p>The employment of foreign workers has bred resentment among some in Anbar. The provincial council estimates there are 15,000 unemployed Iraqi men in the region, a former al-Qaeda stronghold now controlled by Sunni tribes. </p> <p>Some worry that unemployment may threaten security in the province, driving young men to join gangs and extremist networks. While the United States and Iraqi militaries have stemmed the flow of weapons and fighters entering Anbar from Syria, trafficking along the western border remains one of Iraq’s top security concerns. </p> <p>Sunni tribes that backed insurgent groups turned on them in exchange for financial backing and power from the US military and the Iraqi government. But their new alliances made them vulnerable to retaliatory attacks, and some of Anbar’s tribal elite worry Iraqi employees cannot be trusted. </p> <p>Bangladeshi workers have gained a reputation for having a strong work ethic and making few demands. More importantly, as outsiders they are reliant on their employers. </p> <p>“Foreign workers don’t ask for leave, and they don’t ask to be exempted from any duties,” said Hasan’s employer. “They’ll do anything from cleaning the toilet to serving guests. And they don’t reveal the secrets in the house like Iraqi workers, who always dawdle and chat about the fortunes and personal relationships of the households they work in.” </p> <p>“One of my former Iraqi workers was a spy for my ex-wife. I fired him after I found out he was telling her about my relationships and my travels,” he added with a smile. “Another servant seemed sympathetic to insurgents, so I fired him too. One can remain at ease when hiring Bangladeshi workers.” </p> <p>The employer’s household is spacious and lavishly decorated, but his servants say they sleep on the floor and eat the family’s leftovers, while the gruelling work and long hours leave them exhausted. </p> <p>"[My boss] or one of his assistants usually wakes me up with a kick if I’m late,” said Syed, another Bangladeshi servant in the household. </p> <p>“Spitting in my face is one of worst things that I have to deal with. [My boss] doesn’t use his hands, but he spits and uses bad language if he’s angry.” </p> <p>Bangladeshi workers often speak English and broken Arabic. Syed says they are mocked by their employers and their guests. </p> <p>“They think we can’t understand what they say,” he said. “But we have to take it because we’re paid well compared to what workers get in other places.” </p> <p>He says he believes he has a good relationship with his employer and, defying the stereotype of a passive Bangladeshi worker, complains openly and regularly to him. He says his boss can be insulting but values his excellent tea and hubbly-bubbly. </p> <p>Syed’s sister works for another elite family, but both are not allowed to leave their homes to visit. </p> <p>“The only reason that I would leave this house is if I died,” he said. “Then they will send me home, at my expense.” </p> <p>The employer says he is protecting his servants by keeping them inside the compound. </p> <p>"Servants here don’t understand how dangerous the streets are,” he said. “I’m sometimes hard on them out of concern for their own safety. My safety is connected to theirs. They could be kidnapped by the armed groups that we’ve been fighting for years and could question them about my personal life and that of my family. That’s why I treat them like that." </p> <p>“I haven’t left this house since the moment I arrived eight months ago, because all of the workers could be killed by armed men,” Hasan said. “[My boss] and his men are all al-Qaeda targets, which is probably one of the reasons he hires foreign workers.” </p> <p>The influx of foreign workers has not sat well with some unemployed Iraqis. </p> <p>Ahmad Taha, a Falluja resident, says he and seven other Iraqis were laid off from their hotel jobs and replaced by Bangladeshi workers. </p> <p>“I’m out of work because of them,” he said. “I swear if I see any one of them I’m going to beat him severely, and I won’t mind going to jail.” </p> <p>Anhar Ali says she was fired from her 700-dollar-per-month nanny job. </p> <p>“The family that hired me brought a Bangladeshi baby-sitter, saying she doesn’t mind being with the babies for longer hours, and she is teaching them English,” she said. “But the truth is that families are hiring Bangladeshi workers for two reasons: first, the low wages, and second, they want to appear wealthy to other tribes in the province." </p> <p>The foreign workers say that, even behind closed gates, they are aware of that some Anbar residents resent them. Many say they do not want to be in Iraq but have few other options. </p> <p>Khaleda, the servant from Ramadi, says she earned one dollar a day collecting aluminium cans and selling them as scraps at home. She now works for 350 dollars per month, but is not allowed to leave the house without an armed guard and sleeps on the kitchen floor. </p> <p>Her boss’s wife watches her like a hawk, checking on her in the middle of the night because she worries that her husband will not be faithful, she says. </p> <p>Khaleda speaks and writes English and dreamed of being a nurse but could not pay for her education. Her fiancé works in Kuwait, and they hope to marry. </p> <p>“I think that two years will be enough for me to get enough money to marry and have a baby,” she said. “Maybe we can save him from the suffering that we have known.” </p> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://www.iwpr.net/?p=icr&s=f&o=356385&apc_state=henh" class="external" target="_blank">Anbar: Bangladeshi Workers in Double Trouble</a> By Uthman al-Mukhtar in Ramadi (ICR No. 308, 7-Oct-09). Uthman al-Mukhtar is an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://www.iwpr.net/" class="external" target="_blank">IWPR</a> trainee in Fallujah.  The names of the servants have been changed to protect their identities. </p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-6402"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><span>Comments Off</span></span> Posted on June 1st, 2009 by Editors</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/06/01/doubts-over-malikis-anti-graft-crusade/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Doubts over Maliki’s anti-graft crusade">Doubts over Maliki’s anti-graft crusade</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/analysis/" rel="tag">Analysis</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/asia-times/" rel="tag">Asia Times</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/corrupt-politicians/" rel="tag">Corrupt politicians</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/corruption/" rel="tag">Corruption</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/corruption-arrests/" rel="tag">Corruption Arrests</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/corruption-charges/" rel="tag">corruption charges</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/dawa-party/" rel="tag">Dawa Party</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/embezzlement/" rel="tag">embezzlement</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iran/" rel="tag">Iran</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iyad-al-samarrai/" rel="tag">Iyad al-Samarrai</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/maliki-nouri-al/" rel="tag">Maliki - Nouri al-</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/oil-ministry/" rel="tag">Oil Ministry</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/oil-prices/" rel="tag">oil prices</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/oil-production/" rel="tag">oil production</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/political-libel-suits/" rel="tag">political libel suits</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sadrist-bloc/" rel="tag">Sadrist Bloc</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sami-moubayed/" rel="tag">Sami Moubayed</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/saudi-arabia/" rel="tag">Saudi Arabia</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/shahristani-hussein-al/" rel="tag">Shahristani Hussein al-</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/trade-ministry-corruption-cases/" rel="tag">Trade Ministry corruption cases</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/transparency-international/" rel="tag">Transparency International</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/united-arab-emirates/" rel="tag">United Arab Emirates</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%ad%d8%b1%d9%83%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d8%af%d8%b1/" rel="tag">حركة الصدر</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>Iraq is abuzz with stories of new arrests, but not of former Ba’athists or members of the so-called Sunni insurgency, rather it is officials who are part of the post-Saddam Hussein era. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has launched a massive anti-corruption campaign, promising to bring senior officials to justice be they Sunni, Shi’ite or Kurd. </p> <p>If his words are translated into action this would be the first major anti-corruption campaign in Iraq since 1979, when Saddam arrested – and executed – dozens of officials on charges of embezzlement. </p> <p>On May 30, Iraqi authorities arrested Abdul Falah Sudani, a former ally of the prime minister who had been minister of trade since 2006. Sudani, who was forced by parliament to resign on May 14, was detained on an Iraqi airplane bound for the United Arab Emirates this weekend, with the plane forced to turn back in mid-flight. The direct order came from the Ministry of Interior, and Sudani is now in an Iraqi jail awaiting trial over corruption charges related to the nation’s food assistance program involving his two brothers. </p> <p>Interior Ministry officials told The Washington Post that the order to turn around Sudani’s plane and arrest him came from Maliki’s office on Saturday. </p> <p>Sabah Sudani, the minister’s brother, was also arrested this month after apparently trying to bribe a police officer with US$50,000 for his freedom. A third brother, Majid, is still in hiding. The "Sudani three" seemingly topped the prime minister’s wanted list. </p> <p>Ordinary Iraqis are pleased with the arrests, but many say the anti-graft campaign should have started when Maliki first came to office in 2006. Last Wednesday, the government announced the start of the campaign, which could bring nearly 1,000 officials to court on corruption charges. </p> <p>"We will not keep silent about corruption after this day and we will chase all the corrupt and bring them before the judiciary," said the premier. Last April, Maliki’s government issued 387 arrest warrants, 51 for senior officials, all below the rank of minister. Another 997 are waiting to be signed by Maliki. </p> <p>The Iraqi government estimates that billions of dollars have been embezzled in bribes since the downfall of Saddam in 2003. Watchdog group Transparency International ranked Iraq in 2008 as the world’s third-most corrupt country behind Somalia and Myanmar. </p> <p>The anti-corruption campaign was triggered by the Sudani scandal. Charges he was stealing public money and mismanaging the ministry by importing expired foods and employing his relatives, including two brothers, first surfaced in early May. </p> <p>Later last month when police went to a Trade Ministry building to serve arrest warrants on nine officials, they were fired on by the ministry’s guards. During the 15-minute gun battle, all but one of the wanted officials, the ministry’s spokesman, escaped out a back door. </p> <p>Two of the escapees were Sabah and Majid, who were employed as guards in the ministry and who are both accused of skimming millions of dollars from food-import contracts. The fallout from the scandal was worsened when a video surfaced on YouTube which showed the brothers apparently drinking alcohol, cavorting with prostitutes, and deriding the premier. </p> <p>Maliki has ordered that his office take control of the ministry’s functions until further notice. </p> <p>Inspired by the new atmosphere in Iraq, an Iraqi blog, www.kitabat.com (which means "writings"), ran an article accusing one of Maliki’s aides of corruption, calling on the prime minister to sack even his closest advisors if found to be guilty. The writer, Ali Hussein, was immediately sued by the prime minister, who demanded compensation of a staggering one billion Iraqi dinars (over US$800,000), claiming that nepotism charges brought against his aide-de-camp were untrue. It must be noted that the blog’s creator, Iyad al-Zamili, who has been residing in Germany since 2003, was himself a former supporter of Maliki, most notably during the provincial elections of January 2009. </p> <p>The striking contrast between the story of the "Sudani three" and that of Maliki’s aide, raises doubt about the prime minister’s commitment to the anti-graft drive. One of the reasons why the prime minister is so furious is that the 62-year-old Sudani is a member of Maliki’s own Da’wa Party. If Maliki was aware of Sudani’s wrongdoings – but ignored them – then he is guilty. If he had no idea what was taking place, then he is equally guilty. </p> <p>This is the 10th time a ministerial seat has become vacant under Maliki, after members of the Iraqi Accordance Front and the Sadrist bloc stepped down in 2007. </p> <p>People are starting to wonder whether Maliki is heading a real cabinet, or a wobbly coalition where ministers resign – or fall – with no prior notice? The trade minister, after all, was originally brought down by parliament, which is headed by the new Sunni speaker Iyad Samarrai, and not by the prime minister. </p> <p>Samarrai, a newcomer to the post of speaker, had once pledged to bring down the entire Maliki cabinet, claiming that most of its members were sectarian and corrupt. He was believed at first to be nothing but a figurehead, but has proven that he is taking his job seriously. Last Thursday, he summoned Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani, another Maliki ally, to stand before parliament for failing to boost crude exports to above 2.2 million barrels per day. </p> <p>Samarrai managed to gather 140 signatures needed to drag Shahristani before the assembly. If a vote of no confidence emerges on Tuesday, Maliki will have to fire a minister he has leaned on since 2006. </p> <p>Oil prices, after all, have dropped from a high $147 a barrel last July, and are now at a about $60. Maliki is not pleased at having Samarrai flex his muscles so much by targeting member after member of the cabinet. As much as he is embarrassed by Sudani’s wrongdoings, Maliki is also not pleased that it was the legislative branch, rather than the prime minister’s office, that originally brought down the trade minister. </p> <p>A closer look at the anti-corruption campaign suggests that it is directly related to the parliamentary elections scheduled for January 30, 2010. Nothing pleases voters as much as a serious anti-corruption campaign, after all. Others believe, however, that Maliki is being forced into these steps to show that he can stand up to Samarrai. </p> <p>Shahristani and Sudani are both considered close to the prime minister, and close to Iran. Samarrai, however, is believed to be close to Saudi Arabia. Maliki came out with loud words against Saudi Arabia this weekend, amid plenty of talk within Iraq about anti-corruption. </p> <p>Maliki said, "Iraq has no intention of making new goodwill gestures towards Saudi Arabia because my initiative has been interpreted in Riyadh as a sign of weakness." Iraqi journalists interpreted this as reference to a May 2007 summit in the Egyptian resort of Sharm al-Sheikh where King Abdullah refused to meet Maliki, accusing him of "embodying sectarian divisions". </p> <p>"There will be no other initiatives on our part as long as there is no sign from Saudi Arabia that it wants to have good ties [with Baghdad]", said Maliki. He even repeated old accusations that Saudi Arabia was behind the insurgency in Iraq. This prompted the powerful Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef to respond, coming just short of accusing the Iraqi premier of lying. </p> <p>The Iraqi premier is angry that despite his opening of an embassy in Saudi Arabia in 2007, the Saudis have still not sent an ambassador to Baghdad. They cite sectarian and security problems, claiming that it is too early for such a step. While highly critical of the prime minister, the Saudis are supportive of Sunni heavyweights in Iraq like Samarrai and members of the Iraqi Accordance Front – who are all now gloating at the downfall of Sudani. </p> <p>It is still unclear if Maliki’s anger against Saudi Arabia was related to the anti-corruption campaign in Iraq and if it is merely hoped to drum up support ahead of the elections. But some observers feel Maliki is using the drive as a means to save his own neck, as many of those under investigation are members of his own team.</p> <blockquote> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KF02Ak03.html" class="external" target="_blank">Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-6284"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><span>Comments Off</span></span> Posted on May 24th, 2009 by Editors</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/05/24/eighteen-us-troops-in-kuwait-have-swine-flu/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Eighteen US troops in Kuwait have Swine Flu">Eighteen US troops in Kuwait have Swine Flu</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/category/early-warning/" title="View all posts in Early Warning" rel="category tag">Early Warning</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/category/health-crisis-iraq/" title="View all posts in Health" rel="category tag">Health</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/h1n1/" rel="tag">H1N1</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/kuna/" rel="tag">KUNA</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/kuwait/" rel="tag">kuwait</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/swine-flu/" rel="tag">Swine flu</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/united-arab-emirates/" rel="tag">United Arab Emirates</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/who/" rel="tag">WHO</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/world-health-organisation/" rel="tag">World Health Organisation</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>KUWAIT, May 24 (<a title="Reuters" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LO289568.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Reuters</a>) – Eighteen U.S. soldiers in Kuwait have H1N1 influenza, the first cases of the so-called swine flu in the Gulf Arab oil-exporting region, a government official said on Sunday. </p> <p>"(The troops) were confirmed with the virus upon their arrival from their country to the military base (in Kuwait)," Ibrahim al-Abdulhadi told Reuters. </p> <div style="border-bottom: silver 1px solid; border-left: silver 1px solid; padding-bottom: 10px; background-color: transparent; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 10px; width: 360px; padding-right: 10px; float: right; margin-left: 15px; border-top: silver 1px solid; margin-right: 0pt; border-right: silver 1px solid; padding-top: 10px"> <p>Editor’s note: KUNA’s English report below:</p> <p><strong>KUNA : US soldiers infected with swine flu arrive in Kuwait but country is flu free – Health – 23/05/2009</strong> </p> <p>US soldiers who used Kuwait as a transit point were infected with swine flu, Kuwait Health Ministry said Saturday. <br/>Health officials discovered that the US soldiers were infected with swine flu once they arrived in Kuwait, so they were completely quarantined in their military base, Health Undersecretary Dr. Ibrahim Al-Abdulhadi told KUNA. <br/>He said the American soldiers, whose names or ages were not disclosed, arrived in Kuwait on transit, they were examined and given appropriate medication, he affirmed. <br/>Most of infectees left Kuwait already and the rest were treated in the hospital of the military base, whose name nor location were not mentioned, and they would be leaving the country later, said Al-Abdulhadi. <br/>Kuwait is safe, he confirmed, and was following recommendations and measures of the World Health Organization (WHO). <br/>He said the Health Ministry would be holding a news conference tomorrow to give more details about the US soldiers’ case. (end) mah.bs KUNA</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2000380&Language=en" class="external" target="_blank">KUNA : US soldiers infected with swine flu arrive in Kuwait but country is flu free – Health – 23/05/2009</a></p> </p></div> <p>On Saturday, the state news agency KUNA had quoted a government official as saying the virus had been detected in an unspecified number of U.S. soldiers passing through Kuwait. </p> <p>Kuwait is a logistics base for the U.S. army in support of its troops in Iraq. </p> <p>More details were due to be given at a news conference later on Sunday. </p> <p>"We are aware that H1N1 influenza cases have been tentatively confirmed among U.S. military personnel assigned abroad, including soldiers transiting via U.S. military bases in Kuwait," the U.S. embassy said in a statement on KUNA. </p> <p>"They have not come into any contact with the Kuwaiti population," it said. </p> <p>The United Arab Emirates said on Thursday it had placed an air passenger from Canada in isolation over concerns he might have the H1N1 flu. </p> <p>The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday it would not hesitate to raise the global pandemic alert to the top of the six-point scale if the H1N1 flu was spreading globally. </p> <p>The flu has killed 86 people and infected more than 11,000 in 42 countries, according to health officials.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LO289568.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Reuters AlertNet – Eighteen US troops in Kuwait have H1N1 – official</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-4129"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><span>Comments Off</span></span> Posted on June 10th, 2008 by Editors</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/2008/06/10/20080610/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent 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style="margin-top: 0px; font-weight: normal; float: right; padding-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 20px; width: 48%; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: rgb(255,255,255)" align="right"> <p>أفادت مصادر أمنية أن 15 شخصا قتلوا، واصيب 26 آخرين بجروح، فيما اعتقلت القوات الأمنية 59 شخصا، في إطار أعمال عنف وقعت في مناطق متفرقة من العراق من الساعة الثانية من عصر أمس الاثنين وحتى عصر اليوم الثلاثا</p> </div> <div dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; width: 48%" align="justify"> <p>15 people were killed, 26 others wounded, while GZG security forces arrested 59 people, in the violence that occurred in various parts of Iraq from two o’clock yesterday afternoon from Monday until two o’clock Tuesday afternoon.</p> </div> <div dir="rtl" style="margin-top: 0px; font-weight: normal; float: right; padding-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 20px; width: 48%; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: rgb(255,255,255)" align="right"> <h2>عناوين الاخبار</h2> </div> <div dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; width: 48%" align="justify"> <h2>Headlines</h2> </div> <div dir="rtl" style="margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 10px; font-weight: normal; float: right; padding-bottom: 5em; margin-left: 20px; border-left: rgb(0,0,0) 1px solid; width: 50%; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: rgb(255,255,255)" align="right"> <h3>مدينة الصدر عام 1999 </h3> <p>أعلنت المحكمة الجنائية العراقية العليا، الثلاثاء، أن اربعة عشر متهما سيمثلون امام المحكمة اواخر شهر تموز يوليو المقبل، بتهمة “قمع الانتفاضة” في مدينة الصدر عام 1999، على خلفية اغتيال المرجع الشيعي آية الله العظمى محمد محمد صادق الصدر، والد زعيم التيار الصدري مقتدى الصدر.</p> <p>وقال القاضي منير حداد، قاضي التحقيق في المحكمة الجنائية العراقية العليا, للوكالة المستقلة للانباء (اصوات العراق) إن “اربعة عشر متهما سيمثلون امام المحكمة يوم 21 تموز يوليو المقبل, بتهمة قمع الانتفاضة الشعبية في مينة الصدر (شرقي بغداد) عام 1999, على خلفية اغتيال المرجع الديني اية الله العظمى محمد محمد صادق الصدر.”<br/>وتابع حداد قائلا إن من ابرز المتهمين “نائب رئيس الوزراء الاسبق طارق عزيز، واخوي النظام السابق صدام حسين, وطبان ابراهيم الحسن، وسبعاوي ابراهيم الحسن، فضلا عن عكله صكر عضو قيادة قطرية في النظام السابق، وصابر عزيز الدوري مدير الاستخبارات العسكرية.”<br/>وشهدت مدينة الصدر انتفاضة شعبية قام بها انصار المرجع الديني محمد محمد صادق الصدر، على خلفية اغتياله في مدينة النجف عام 1999 في ساحة ثورة العشرين لدى عودته وولدية مصطفى ومؤمل, الذين اغتيلا بذات الحادث، الى منزلهم, على يد المخابرات العراقية آنذاك، الامر الذي ادى الى تدخل اعضاء حزب البعث وعناصر الامن لقمع الانتفاضة قرب مسجدي المحسن والحكمة في مدينة الصدر، والتي راح ضحيتها حينها المئات من انصار الصدر.<br/>ومحمد صادق الصدر، هو والد الزعيم الشيعي الشاب مقتدى الصدر، زعيم التيار الصدري الذي يحوز على 30 مقعدا في البرلمان العراقي، من  275 مقعدا، هي مجموع مقاعد البرلمان.<br/>ع ف (خ) – م ر</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=82009&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" class="external" target="_blank">اصوات العراق – مثول 14 متهما بـ”قمع الانتفاضة” في مدينة الصدر عام 1999</a></p> <p><b>الجيش الامريكي يسلم الجهات العراقية 7 مسؤولين في النظام السابق</b></p> <p>اكد المحامي بديع عارف الذي يتولي الدفاع عن نائب الرئيس السابق طارق عزيز ان الجيش الامريكي سلم الجهات العراقية المختصة سبعة من كبار المسؤولين في النظام السابق. <br/>وقال عارف في اتصال هاتفي مع وكالة الصحافة الفرنسية ان القوات الامريكية سلمت سبعة من كبار المسؤولين السابقين الذين كانوا معتقلين في سجن كروبر قرب مطار بغداد الى الاجهزة العراقية المختصة. <br/>واضاف ان المسؤولين الذين تم جلبهم من المعتقل الامريكي الي المحكمة قبل نحو شهرين ونصف من اجل محاكمتهم في قضية الانتفاضة لم تتم اعادتهم الي السجن كما جرت العادة وظلوا محتجزين في احدى قاعات المحكمة. <br/>والمعتقلون السبعة هم رئيس المخابرات السابق صابر الدوري والمدير السابق في جهاز المخابرات اياد طه الدوري ووزير الدفاع السابق سعدي طعمة عباس ومرافق الرئيس السابق عبد حمود وعضو قيادة سابق عبد الغني عبدالغفور واحد قادة الحرس الجمهوري لطيف محل حمود وقائد فيلق سابق قيس الاعظمي. <br/>واوضح انه ليس من بين الذين تم تسليمهم علي حسن المجيد او سلطان هاشم احمد المحكوم عليهما بالاعدام شنقا في قضية حملات الانفال ضد الاكراد خلال عامي 1987 و1988 .</p> </div> <div dir="rtl" align="right"> <h3>المالكي يدعو تركيا الى تدريب القوات العراقية وتجهيزها</h3> <div dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>دعا رئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي تركيا الى مساعدة القوات العراقية المسلحة في مجالات التدريب والتجهيز والدعم اللوجستي. <br/>وقال بيان لمكتب المالكي صدر اليوم الثلاثاء ان رئيس الوزراء ركز خلال استقباله مبعوث الحكومة التركية الخاص الى العراق مراد اوزجليك ، على اهمية قيام تركيا بمساعدة العراق عسكريا وتدريب القوات الامنية وتجهيزها . <br/>ونقل البيان عن المالكي قوله ان تطوير العلاقات بين العراق وتركيا في جميع المجالات ضروري جدا من اجل أن تسهم الشراكة بين البلدين الجارين في تحقيق الأمن والاستقرار في المنطقة ،وأن يؤدي تبادل الزيارات بين المسؤولين الى تعزيز العلاقات ودعم عملية البناء والاعمار التي يشهدها العراق. <br/>واوضح البيان ان اوزجليك نقل الى المالكي تحيات رئيس الوزراء التركي رجب طيب اوردوغان وإعجابه بالتقدم الحاصل في العملية السياسية وإستعداده لزيارة العراق قريبا.</p> </div> <div dir="rtl" align="right"> <h3>اعتقال 6 جنود عراقيين يشتبه بتواطئهم مع المسلحين في كربلاء</h3> <p>اعتقلت القوات الامنية اليوم الثلاثاء ستة جنود عراقيين يشتبه بتواطئهم مع مجموعة مسلحة حاولت اختطاف عائلة وسط مدينة كربلاء. <br/>وقال قائد عمليات كربلاء ومدير شرطتها اللواء رائد شاكر جودت ان الأجهزة الأمنية اعتقلت ستة جنود عراقيين تبين انهم متورطون مع مجموعة مسلحة حاولت اختطاف عائلة في منطقة قريبة من مستشفى الحسين العام وسط كربلاء. <br/>واضاف جودت ان الجنود الذين تم اعتقالهم كانوا على مقربة من مكان الحادث الذي جرت فيه محاولة الاختطاف دون ان يقوموا بواجبهم ويهبوا لإنقاذ العائلة المكونة من رجل وزوجته وابنهما اثناء خروجهم من المستشفى ، مشيرا الى ان التحقيقات مع الجنود المعتقلين مستمرة.</p> <h3>مقتل شيخ عشيرة البو ناصر بإنفجار عبوة وسط تكريت</h3> <p>قتل شيخ عشيرة البو ناصر علي النده الذي تسلم جثة الرئيس السابق صدام حسين بعد اعدامه اثر انفجار عبوة ناسفة اليوم الثلاثاء وسط مدينة تكريت.</p> <p dir="rtl" align="right"><strong>التفاصيل…</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/2008/06/10/saddam-clan-chief-killed-in-tikrit-%d9%85%d9%82%d8%aa%d9%84-%d8%b4%d9%8a%d8%ae-%d8%b9%d8%b4%d9%8a%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d9%88-%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%b5%d8%b1-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b0%d9%8a/">Saddam’ clan chief killed in Tikrit | مقتل شيخ عشيرة البو ناصر والذي تسلم جثة صدام بانفجار ناسفة في تكريت | Gorilla’s Guides</a>:</p> <h3>رئيس لجنة متابعة المادة 140 ينفي حل اللجنة</h3> <p>نفى النائب عن كتلة التحالف الكردستاني سعدي البرزنجي ورئيس لجنة متابعة المادة 140 في مجلس النواب الانباء التي تحدثت عن حل هذه اللجنة. <br/>وطالب البرزنجي في تصريح صحفي نشر اليوم الثلاثاء هيئة رئاسة مجلس النواب إستبدال اعضاء اللجنة باعضاء اخرين يؤمنون بالمادة 140. <br/>واوضح ان ماصرح به النائب فوزي اكرم عن حل لجنة المادة 140 من الدستور العراقي لا اساس له من الصحة ، مبينا انه سيتم اعادة تشكيل اللجنة المذكورة بسبب اعضائها السابقيين غير الملتزمين بالحضور باجتماعات اللجنة.</p> </div> </div> <div style="clear: both"> </div> <div dir="rtl" align="right"> <h3>المتعددة الجنسيات تنفي افلات قيادات القاعدة من الموصل</h3> </div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/2008/06/10/20080610/#more-4129" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-4090"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><span>Comments Off</span></span> Posted on June 5th, 2008 by Editors</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542/http://gorillasguides.com/2008/06/05/%d9%88%d8%b2%d9%8a%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ae%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%ac%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%aa%d9%8a-%d9%8a%d8%b5%d9%84-%d8%a8%d8%ba%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%af-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%b2/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to وزير الخارجية الاماراتي يصل بغداد في زيارة مفاجئة">وزير الخارجية الاماراتي يصل بغداد في زيارة مفاجئة</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a 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src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130729032542im_/http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3259/2552740391_7ed16616b6_s.jpg" width="75" align="right"/></a>وصل وزير الخارجية الأماراتي الشيخ عبد الله بن زايد آل نهيان صباح اليوم الخميس الى العاصمة بغداد في زيارة مفاجئة لم يعلن عنها مسبقا. <br/>وقال المتحد ث الرسمي باسم الحكومة العراقية علي الدباغ بإن زيارة وزير الخارجية الأماراتي جاءت تلبية لدعوة وزير الخارجية العراقي هوشيار زيباري. <br/>واوضح ان زيارة ال نهيان تستغرق يوما واحدا ، مؤكدا بانه سيلتقي رئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي ويبحث معه إعادة التمثيل الدبلوماسي الكامل للأمارات في العراق. <br/>وأضاف الدباغ أن هذه الزيارة هي الأولى لوزير إماراتي بعد سقوط النظام السابق وان وزير الخارجية الأماراتي سيبحث آفاق العلاقات وسبل تطويرها ما بين العراق والامارات.</p> </div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="navigation"> <div class="alignleft"></div> <div class="alignright"></div> </div> </div> <div id="sidebar" class="span-10 last"> <div class="span-10" id="tabs"> <ul> <li class="ui-tabs-nav-item"><a 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