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No functions will be held on Christmas Eve, nor decorations or ceremonies. A community enduring suffering and losses is preparing to experience the message of hope brought by Jesus to earth because, for Iraqi Christians, Christmas is always a time of joy as well as martyrdom. Mgr Louis Sako, Chaldean archbishop of Kirkuk, bears witness.</p> <p>Baghdad (<a title="Asia News English" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://www.asianews.it/en.html" target="_blank" class="external"><strong>AsiaNews</strong></a>) – Midnight Christmas Mass has been cancelled in Baghdad, Mosul and Kirkuk as a consequence of the never-ending assassinations of Christians and the attack against Our Lady of Perpetual Help Cathedral on 31 October, which killed 57 people. For security reasons, churches will not be decorated. Masses will be sombre and held during the day.</p> <p>A sense of sadness and mourning prevails among Christians. There is much concern for the future of young people. For the past two months, they have been unable to go to university. The same is true for many families that fled north who now must plan a future without any concrete bases. </p> <p>No one expects anything from the government as far as protecting Christians. Political leaders are too caught up in setting up a new administration.</p> <p>Security is slightly better in Kirkuk than in the capital, but here too abductions and threats occur. For this reason, we have decided for the first time since the war began not to celebrate Midnight Mass. We shall simply not have any feast, period. Santa Claus will not be coming for the children; there will be no official ceremony with the authorities proffering their best wishes.</p> <p>For the past six weeks, we have not celebrated Mass because of a lack of security, except late in the morning and Saturday afternoons. For now, we have also stopped teaching the catechism. </p> <p>We do not have the right to put people’s lives in danger. All our parish churches have security guards, but when worshippers step outside the church and into the street, they become an easy target. </p> <p>Yet, despite everything, we shall pray for peace this Christmas and help the poor families of Kirkuk and Sulaymaniyah. So far, 106 families have arrived from Baghdad and Mosul.</p> <p>In my homily, I am going to focus on such problems, on the clashes and on people’s fears but also on the fact that Christmas brings a message of hope. Of course, heaven and earth are two different realities. The Massacre of the Innocents followed Christmas. Thus, for us in Iraq, Christmas is a time of hope and joy as well as pain and martyrdom.</p> <p>Peace is a goal that people of good will should make happen. If we Christians want to be Christian and welcome Christmas and its message, we must be peacemakers, and build harmony among our Iraqi brothers and sisters.</p> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://www.asianews.it/news-en/A-Christmas-of-mourning-for-Iraq’s-Christians-20297.html" class="external" target="_blank">IRAQ A Christmas of mourning for Iraq’s Christians – Asia News</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11862"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/12/05/rudaw-kurdistans-parched-land-in-dire-need-of-rain/#respond" title="Comment on Rudaw: Kurdistan’s Parched Land in Dire Need of Rain">No Comments</a></span> Posted on December 5th, 2010 by Abdus-Samad</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/12/05/rudaw-kurdistans-parched-land-in-dire-need-of-rain/" 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rel="tag">water levels in reservoirs and dams and rivers</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>ERBIL, Iraqi Kurdistan:  An agricultural official from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is warning that if there is no rain by December 15th in areas around Erbil and southern Sulaimani, and by the end of this month in other areas of Kurdistan, 85 percent of farms will remain uncultivated this year.</p> <p><a title="20101205_rudaw_drought_article_photo_witrh_caption by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://www.flickr.com/photos/gorillasguides/5233792677/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: inline; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px" height="214" alt="20101205_rudaw_drought_article_photo_witrh_caption" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046im_/http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5088/5233792677_1b764d63e1_o.jpg" width="375" align="right"/></a>It was this fear that made many Kurds congregate last week in different towns and cities praying for rain, a religious ritual practiced by Muslims worldwide asking God to send His merciful rain.</p> <p>Khaled Suleiman, a 44-year-old farmer, has had his seeds and pesticides ready for nearly two months but he has not been able to cultivate his land because of lack of rain. He fears his land will stay uncultivated this year.</p> <p>Suleiman lives in Qaraj district close to Erbil, the capital of the federal region of Kurdistan. Suleiman’s livelihood depends on his approximately 66 hectares of land. He said that, out of 401 hectares of agricultural land in his village, only 13 hectares of it had been cultivated this year.</p> <p>“We fear we will have a dry year and cannot raise our cattle too. If there is no rain by mid-December then there will be no cultivation here,” he said.</p> <p>There are around 1.5 million hectares of agricultural land in Kurdistan, 88 percent of which depends on rain for cultivation. The Qeraj, Kandinawe and Shemamak plains near Erbil are the areas most under the threat of drought this year.</p> <p>Saeed Mustafa, director of agriculture in Makhmour, said only 668 hectares of the area’s 66,890 hectares of agricultural land had been cultivated this year.</p> <p>According to figures obtained by Rudaw from the Kurdistan Meteorology and Seismology Directorate (KMSD), the highest rate of rainfall in Erbil province this year has been in Choman district, near the border with Iran, which has so far seen 12.3 millimeters.</p> <p>In Sulaimani province, the highest rate of rainfall has been in the Tawela area, also close to the Iranian border, which has reached at 8.7 millimeters.  In Duhok province the highest rate has been 8.1 millimeters in the Graseen area.</p> <p>At the same time last year, Choman had seen 176.8 millimeters of rainfall, Biyare 252.4 millimeters and Graseen 88.8 millimeters.</p> <p>KMSD’s head, Hassan Wehab, said his office did not possess advanced enough technology to forecast several months ahead.</p> <p>“We have 27 weather registration centers and we can only forecast the weather for the next 48 hours,” Wehab said.</p> <p>But he said the delay in rainfall is not necessarily a sign of drought since the rainy season is not over yet. KMSD officials say the rain shortage is mostly due to global warming which has affected other areas of the Middle East, such as Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine/Israel.</p> <p>The looming threat of drought has made some farmers in Kurdistan criticize Kurdistan’s Ministry of Agriculture for failing to implement irrigation projects to reduce their dependence on rainfall.</p> <p>Anwar Omar, director of planning at the Ministry of Agriculture, blamed the low number of irrigation projects on the small budget allocated for this.</p> <p>“In Kurdistan’s five-year strategic agricultural plan, around 70 percent of the budget was earmarked for building dams and irrigation projects, but unfortunately over the past two years only 25 percent of the budget has been injected into the projects,” Omar said. “Because of the budget shortage we have only been able to irrigate 15 percent of agricultural land.”</p> <p>Officials at the Ministry of Agriculture say that, out of 25 proposed dams, only 14 have been approved by the government, and these 14 are only at the stage of signing contracts and surveying.</p> <p>Two dams, one in Koya, south of Erbil, and the other in Garmyan, south of Sulaimani, are currently under construction and are expected to be completed by the end of this year, but they are unlikely to be functioning until after this year.</p> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://www.rudaw.net/english/kurds/3340.html" class="external" target="_blank">Kurdistan’s Parched Land in Dire Need of Rain</a> | By Rawa Abdulla | Rudaw in English</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11525"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/09/30/irin-global-refugees-unhcr-concerned-over-iraqi-deportations-global-iraq-refugeesidps/#respond" title="Comment on UNHCR concerned over Iraqi deportations">No Comments</a></span> Posted on September 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sulaymaniyah/" rel="tag">Sulaymaniyah</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sweden/" rel="tag">Sweden</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/switzerland/" rel="tag">Switzerland</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/unhcr/" rel="tag">UNHCR</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>LONDON, 29 September 2010 (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=90616" class="external" target="_blank">IRIN</a>) – The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has expressed concern about the growing number of deportations of Iraqi asylum-seekers from Western Europe in the last two months. <p>Special charter flights to take failed asylum-seekers home have increased in frequency, and Iraqis are being returned to parts of the country which are still unsafe, in contravention of UNHCR guidelines for the handling of Iraqi asylum applications, it says. </p> <p>The deportations are handled by Frontex, a Warsaw-based agency set up to coordinate operations between European Union (EU) member states in the field of border security, and their planes can carry returnees from several different countries. The most recent (on 22 September) had failed asylum applicants from Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and the UK. </p> <p>One of the UNHCR’s complaints is that the information provided by those countries is usually sketchy, varies from country to country and is given only very late in the process. In the case of last week’s flight, Sweden told the UNHCR the names and dates of birth of those being sent home, but not their destinations. The UK provided details of where its rejected claimants were going but not their identities. </p> <p>No country told the UNHCR how many of the passengers being put on board the plane were going home voluntarily, and how many were being deported against their will, but reports from Baghdad say police had to be called to escort some of them off the plane. </p> <p>A spokesperson for the UNHCR, Sybella Wilkes, called for states sending home asylum-seekers to be more transparent. “We are aware when a flight is leaving,” she told IRIN, “but we don’t know until the last minute who is on board or which countries they are coming from.” </p> <p>The organization does not oppose people being sent back to Iraq in every case. “It’s possible that some people on the plane were going back voluntarily,” Wilkes said. “It’s possible that some were going to areas where we don’t have issues about security. But we don’t know. Having full information would be in everybody’s best interests.” </p> <p>What they do know is that among the passengers leaving Sweden were two women and four children. The British government said all those it was sending last week were single adult males, but their destinations included Baghdad, Ninawa, Kirkuk and Salah ad-Din – all areas the UNHCR considers unsafe. </p> <p><strong>Five governorates unsafe</strong> </p> <p>“We are very clear in our guidelines,” said Sybella Wilkes. “Baghdad, Diyala, Kirkuk, Ninawa and Salah ad-Din are still not safe, in view of serious human rights violations and continuing security incidents in those areas. We specifically ask governments not to return people to those five governorates, and we are disappointed they are ignoring our guidelines.” </p> <p>The general secretary of the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees, Dashty Jamal, blamed the rise in forced removals on the electoral success of right wing parties in a number of European countries. He told IRIN: “Most of the EU countries’ right-wing parties have united together to change their immigration policy, and deport back all Iraqis who apply for asylum in their country.” </p> <p>He said that as well as the charter flights run by Frontex, individual refugees are being sent back almost every night on scheduled flights to Jordan. “I believe that no part of Iraq is safe, even Kurdistan. It is like the UN saying that Berne in Switzerland is safe but Zurich is not safe. This is not the time to send people back. They are playing with the lives of innocent people.” </p> <p>Contacted by IRIN, the UK’s border agency denied there had been any overall policy recently to deport more Iraqi asylum-seekers. Detailed figures of deportations over the past two months are not yet available, but a spokesperson insisted that every case is looked at individually and considered on its merits. “We only ever return those whom the Border Agency and the courts are satisfied are not in need of our protection, and who have failed to comply with a request to leave.” </p> <p>Are the Agency and the courts ignoring the UNHCR guidelines on safe and unsafe areas? “A whole range of factors are taken into account,” the spokesperson told IRIN. “And from the UK’s point of view we have to be satisfied that they don’t need our protection.” </p> <p>The UNHCR has been lobbying since June against the forced removals to Iraq, but says so far they have not seen any shift in position by Western European governments. Sybella Wilkes says she is disappointed. “I would like them to consider that they have a minority of Iraqi asylum-seekers in their countries. And this is not a very positive example when Iraq’s neighbours have much greater numbers, and have been much more generous and welcoming.” </p> <p>Dashty Jamal told IRIN on 28 September that a number of Iraqis in the UK had received tickets for a flight back to Iraq on 6 October, and that a demonstration was being planned that day outside the Iraqi embassy in London to protest at the way returnees are treated when they get to Baghdad.<br/> <table style="margin: 5px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid" bordercolor="#cccccc" height="410" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" width="693" border="1"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold; background-color: silver; text-align: center" colspan="15"><font face="Arial">Refugee Returns September 2009 – August 2010 (Individuals)</font></td> </tr> <tr style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center"> <td style="vertical-align: bottom"><font face="Arial">Governorate <p>of Return</p> <p> </font></td> <td style="vertical-align: bottom"><font face="Arial">Sep-09</font></td> <td style="vertical-align: bottom"><font face="Arial">Oct-09</font></td> <td style="vertical-align: bottom"><font face="Arial">Nov-09</font></td> <td style="vertical-align: bottom"><font face="Arial">Dec-09</font></td> <td style="vertical-align: bottom"><font face="Arial">Jan-10</font></td> <td style="vertical-align: bottom"><font face="Arial">Feb-10</font></td> <td style="vertical-align: bottom"><font face="Arial">Mar-10</font></td> <td style="vertical-align: bottom"><font face="Arial">Apr-10</font></td> <td style="vertical-align: bottom"><font face="Arial">May-10</font></td> <td style="vertical-align: bottom"><font face="Arial">Jun-10</font></td> <td style="vertical-align: bottom"><font face="Arial">Jul-10</font></td> <td style="vertical-align: bottom"><font face="Arial">Aug-10</font></td> <td style="vertical-align: bottom" colspan="2"><font face="Arial">Total September <p>2009 – August 2010</p> <p> </font></td> </tr> <tr style="background-color: gainsboro; text-align: right"> <td><font face="Arial"><strong>Anbar</strong></font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">20</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0%</font></td> </tr> <tr style="text-align: right"> <td style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial"><strong>Babylon</strong></font></td> <td><font face="Arial">90</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">80</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">60</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">110</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">50</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">50</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">50</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">50</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">40</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">60</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">50</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">40</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">730</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">3%</font></td> </tr> <tr style="background-color: gainsboro; text-align: right"> <td style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial"><strong>Baghdad</strong></font></td> <td><font face="Arial">830</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">1,700</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">1,130</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">1,080</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">860</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">780</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">720</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">780</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">780</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">870</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">570</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">890</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10,990</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">40%</font></td> </tr> <tr style="text-align: right"> <td style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial"><strong>Basrah</strong></font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">230</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">100</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">30</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">40</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">30</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">50</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">40</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">20</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">40</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">40</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">640</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">2%</font></td> </tr> <tr style="background-color: gainsboro; text-align: right"> <td style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial"><strong>Dahuk</strong></font></td> <td><font face="Arial">20</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">90</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">160</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">1%</font></td> </tr> <tr style="text-align: right"> <td style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial"><strong>Qadissyah</strong></font></td> <td><font face="Arial">80</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">30</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">30</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">70</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">440</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">410</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">480</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">440</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">510</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">330</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">270</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">100</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">3,190</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">12%</font></td> </tr> <tr style="background-color: gainsboro; text-align: right"> <td style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial"><strong>Diyala</strong></font></td> <td><font face="Arial">130</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">230</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">220</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">160</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">170</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">120</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">70</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">60</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">100</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">80</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">70</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">100</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">1,510</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">6%</font></td> </tr> <tr style="text-align: right"> <td style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial"><strong>Erbil</strong></font></td> <td><font face="Arial">40</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">90</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">50</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">20</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">40</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">300</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">20</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">320</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">80</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">110</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">1,080</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">4%</font></td> </tr> <tr style="background-color: gainsboro; text-align: right"> <td style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial"><strong>Kerbala</strong></font></td> <td><font face="Arial">80</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">150</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">130</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">130</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">60</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">160</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">120</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">170</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">160</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">120</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">100</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">160</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">1,540</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">6%</font></td> </tr> <tr style="text-align: right"> <td style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial"><strong>Kirkuk</strong></font></td> <td><font face="Arial">50</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">30</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">60</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">50</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">40</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">30</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">40</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">50</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">100</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">20</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">50</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">520</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">2%</font></td> </tr> <tr style="background-color: gainsboro; text-align: right"> <td style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial"><strong>Missan</strong></font></td> <td><font face="Arial">20</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">110</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">60</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">530</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">20</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">20</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">20</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">430</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">140</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">1,380</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">5%</font></td> </tr> <tr style="text-align: right"> <td style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial"><strong>Muthanna</strong></font></td> <td><font face="Arial">50</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">50</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">40</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">50</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">60</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">30</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">60</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">50</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">140</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">160</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">710</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">3%</font></td> </tr> <tr style="background-color: gainsboro; text-align: right"> <td style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial"><strong>Najaf</strong></font></td> <td><font face="Arial">70</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">80</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">40</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">130</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">210</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">190</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">240</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">120</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">70</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">100</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">80</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">130</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">1,460</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">5%</font></td> </tr> <tr style="text-align: right"> <td style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial"><strong>Ninewa</strong></font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">30</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">30</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">130</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0%</font></td> </tr> <tr style="background-color: gainsboro; text-align: right"> <td style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial"><strong>Salah al-Din</strong></font></td> <td><font face="Arial">50</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">60</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">110</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">30</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">30</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">40</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">60</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">30</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">40</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">40</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">30</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">530</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">2%</font></td> </tr> <tr style="text-align: right"> <td style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial"><strong>Sulaymaniyah</strong></font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">30</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">30</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">110</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">0%</font></td> </tr> <tr style="background-color: gainsboro; text-align: right"> <td style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial"><strong>Thi-Qar</strong></font></td> <td><font face="Arial">90</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">90</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">170</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">200</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">260</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">240</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">260</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">230</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">210</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">240</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">200</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">80</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">2,270</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">8%</font></td> </tr> <tr style="text-align: right"> <td style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial"><strong>Wassit</strong></font></td> <td><font face="Arial">20</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">20</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">50</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">90</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">30</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">40</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">40</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">10</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">30</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">20</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">40</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">70</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">460</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">2%</font></td> </tr> <tr style="font-weight: bold; text-align: right"> <td style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial">TOTAL</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">1,650</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">3,000</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">2,300</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">2,240</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">2,820</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">2,160</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">2,450</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">2,130</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">2,610</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">2,480</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">1,740</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">1,850</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">27,430</font></td> <td><font face="Arial">100%</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 9px" colspan="15"><font face="Arial"><em>Data source: MoDM, DDM, City Councils Baghdad, Diyala. All data has been collected inside Iraq. All figures have been rounded to the nearest 10</em>.</font></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=90616" class="external" target="_blank">IRIN Global | REFUGEES: UNHCR concerned over Iraqi deportations | Global | Iraq | Refugees/IDPs</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11279"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/07/07/the-razor-and-the-damage-done-female-genital-mutilation-in-kurdish-iraq/#comments" title="Comment on The razor and the damage done: female genital mutilation in Kurdish Iraq">1 Comment</a></span> Posted on July 7th, 2010 by Haleema Al-Azzawi</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/07/07/the-razor-and-the-damage-done-female-genital-mutilation-in-kurdish-iraq/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to The razor and the damage done: female genital mutilation in Kurdish Iraq">The razor and the damage done: female genital mutilation in Kurdish Iraq</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/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/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/category/human-rights/" title="View all posts in Human Rights" rel="category tag">Human Rights</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/category/women/" title="View all posts in Women and Children" rel="category tag">Women and Children</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/asuda/" rel="tag">Asuda</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/chulov-martin/" rel="tag">Chulov - Martin</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/female-genital-mutilation/" rel="tag">Female genital mutilation</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/guardian-the/" rel="tag">Guardian The</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/health/" rel="tag">Health</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/human-rights/" rel="tag">Human Rights</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/human-rights-ministry/" rel="tag">Human Rights Ministry</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/human-rights-watch/" rel="tag">Human Rights Watch</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iraqi-kurdistan/" rel="tag">Iraqi kurdistan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/kurdistan/" rel="tag">Kurdistan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/northern-iraq/" rel="tag">northern iraq</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/rania/" rel="tag">Rania</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/religion/" rel="tag">Religion</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sulaymaniyah/" rel="tag">Sulaymaniyah</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/womens-rights/" rel="tag">Women's Rights</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/world-health-organisation/" rel="tag">World Health Organisation</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/yemen/" rel="tag">Yemen</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>Mixture of motives persuades villages to maintain practice that often leaves lasting effects on young girls</p> <p>The old Kurdish midwife’s hands trembled alongside a bowl that she positions to catch dripping blood. She picked up a razor blade and sliced through a corner of paper, mimicking the ritual cut she has performed at least 500 times, on young girls’ genitals.</p> <div style="border-right: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: lightgrey 1px solid; width: 310px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: lightgrey 1px solid"> <h3>About FGM</h3> <p>• More than 3 million girls under 15 undergo female genital mutilation each year, according to the World Health Organisation. Up to 140 million women and girls are believed to have undergone the practice. </p> <p>•FGM is practised in at least 28 countries, including Yemen, Egypt, and parts of Asia. </p> <p>•A vote in 2008 in the Kurdish national assembly passed a bill outlawing FGM. It has not yet been enacted. </p> <p>•FGM ranges from removal of the clitoris, to removal of the clitoris and labia, to cutting and stitching and, in some cases, cauterisation. </p> <p><em>Sources: WHO; Human Rights Watch</em>  </p> <p>The screenshot below is from the accompanying video</p> <p><a title="20100707_screenshot_guardian_video_female_genital_mutilation" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4771886422/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" alt="20100707_screenshot_guardian_video_female_genital_mutilation" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046im_/http://static.flickr.com/4115/4771886422_f1d0a68575.jpg" border="0"/></a></p> <p>follow this link:</p> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/jun/28/female-circumcision-kurdish-iraq" class="external" target="_blank">Video: Female genital mutilation in Kurdistan: a midwife’s tale | World news | guardian.co.uk</a> </p> <p>to get to it.</p> </p></div> <p>"In the name of God, the most compassionate and merciful," Naksheen Moustafa said. "That’s it! It’s simple. I have never had a problem with this procedure in all the time I have done it."</p> <p>But in a small home on the outskirts of the same village in northern Iraq, Jiana Ali Mohammed sat on the floor, her wide eyes staring into the middle distance. Jiana, now 17, underwent female genital mutilation twice as a seven-year-old; once by a midwife in the morning, and the second time later that day by her grandmother, who thought the job had not been done properly. Her clitoris and labia were sliced away, a procedure far more invasive than the symbolic nip described by Moustafa. Jiana bled for days and lost movement for a while in her lower limbs.</p> <p>She is developmentally delayed and socially backward. Her mother, Nazeka Shemen, blames her daughter’s woes on the trauma of that day.</p> <p>All four of her daughters before Jiana also underwent genital mutilation, but she said she would never put a new daughter through the ordeal.</p> <p>"I have come to accept that it was wrong," said Shemen. "I would not do this to another child and I regret doing what we have done. Everyone has done it in Rania, including me. It is not a practice that has been questioned until recently."</p> <p>There was a widespread feeling among the Kurdish women watching Moustafa’s demonstration that the midwife was deliberately underestimating the cruelty of her cut, perhaps because of wariness about increasing scrutiny from the outside world.</p> <p>For 20 years, the village elder has been the woman that parents take their daughters to in Rania village, in Iraq’s north, to undergo female genital mutilation, arguably in greater numbers proportionally than anywhere else in the Middle East. Around 90% of adult women in at least eight villages in the Sulaymaniyah district alone are believed to been subjected to the practice.</p> <p>Moustafa, 68, learned her cottage craft from another old woman, who, until she died, had been one of the last practitioners of this highly contentious tradition in Iraqi Kurdistan.</p> <p>Judging by the knowledge bestowed, neither Moustafa nor her predecessors could be deemed to be midwives in the true sense of the word. Clinical care appears to have been universally absent in the practice. So too, until very recently, was antiseptic or even basic surgical dressings. Instead, ash is often rubbed into the wound.</p> <p><strong>Family ‘honour’</strong></p> <p>The absence of modern medicine has not deterred many of the families in Rania and a swath of Iraq’s remote Kurdish north from continuing with a tradition that has been disavowed in much of Arab Iraq and by Islamic clerics across the region.</p> <p>Even now, after more than two decades of public awareness programmes in often impoverished villages, parents are still sending their girls in large numbers, believing it to be the fulfilment of a Qur’an instruction, which will cause the girls no harm and will instead help purify the family home.</p> <p>Unlike elsewhere in Iraq, the practice of female genital mutilation became entrenched in the Kurdish north as a convention passed on through the ages.</p> <p>Recent research by Human Rights Watch showed that there are at least four factors driving this: a link to Kurdish identity, a religious imperative, social pressure, and an attempt to control a woman’s sexuality.</p> <p>The mix of motivations has combined to give the custom a hold that prevails in the face of rulings from leading religious figures, a move by Kurdish law-makers to outlaw it, and the scorn of conservative societies outside the north who look down on the Kurds’ ways.</p> <p>Recent studies, including an Iraqi human rights ministry survey conducted last year, show that up to 23% of Iraqi Kurdish girls under 13 have undergone female genital mutilation. However, the report also reveals the figure is sharply higher among girls aged 14 to 18 (45%), suggesting an apparent recent shift in attitudes.</p> <p>Slowly, mothers in Rania and, in some cases, the sheikhs who offer religious authority for the practice, are beginning to reassess their views. A key reason for this is the palpable harm that has been done to girls like Jiana.</p> <p>There is evidence in Rania that comprehensive slicing of a girl’s genitals has been commonplace.</p> <p>Four women spoken to by the Guardian say they bled for many days after their procedures, which took place before any of the girls reached sexual maturity.</p> <p>Two of them say they continue to suffer from infections. All the women said they were told that the procedures had upheld their family honour.</p> <p>Others in the village say they have had no problem with the tradition. The Otthman family’s six daughters have all been attended to by Moustafa. "She came here with a ball of cotton and a razor," said the girls’ mother, Basra Sayed.</p> <p>"I believe that this is prescribed by Islamic tradition and should be done to both boys and girls," she said. "The difference in our society has been that for the boys we get a doctor to do it, and for the girls we get a midwife.</p> <p>"None of my daughters had any complications, but I have heard that there were girls who bled a lot and had to go to hospital. My girls, however, were cut during the morning and were fine by the afternoon."</p> <p>Sayed insists that her daughters were not subjected to the procedure that removes their labia, or clitoris. "It was just like the old lady said, she was very professional and quick.</p> <p>"Two of my daughters are now married," she added. "And they both fully enjoy their sexual lives."</p> <p>Sayed’s words reflect the fact that inroads appear to have been made into at least one taboo – discussion about the impact of the procedure on a woman’s sexual health and enjoyment.</p> <p>Human Rights Watch last year interviewed 31 victims, many of whom described traumatic experiences that have left lasting consequences. A report prepared by Asuda, the women’s rights group, also last year found sexual enjoyment in many victims was greatly diminished.</p> <p><strong>Religious debate</strong></p> <p>The best hope of eradicating female genital mutilation as a convention in the Kurdish north appears to rest with Muslim clerics. On that front, the prognosis appears mixed.</p> <p>"We have seen some clerics prepared to accept that this is not sanctioned by religion," said the director of Asuda’s Suleimaneya office, Khanim Latif. "But there are others who still say strongly that it is."</p> <p>Throughout Rania, there is a sense that more people than ever before are looking disapprovingly at the practice and, by extension, their society.</p> <p>People here seem ready to accept change, but only if it is spelt out wholeheartedly by the clerics they have listened to for generations.</p> <p>"We want the clerics to say, stop doing this," said Jian’s mother. "We are waiting for this and the time is right to do it."</p> <p>The ageing midwife up the road also seemed willing to accept change.</p> <p>"If a sheikh said today to stop this, I would stop it today," she said, dropping the razor blade and cotton wool into her bowl.</p> <p>Her voice trailing away, she added: "This has never hurt anyone, but if it could … I don’t want to be the one responsible."</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/05/female-genital-mutilation-kurdish-iraq" class="external" target="_blank">The razor and the damage done: female genital mutilation in Kurdish Iraq | World news | The Guardian</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10860"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%ac%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%b7%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%8a/" rel="tag">جلال طالباني</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%b9%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%83%d9%8a%d9%85/" rel="tag">عمار الحكيم</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p dir="rtl" align="right">أعرب رئيس الجمهورية والأمين العام للاتحاد الوطني الكردستاني جلال طالباني اليوم الثلاثاء عن أمله في ان تسهم زيارة المسؤولين وأعضاء الوفود اليوم إلى محافظة السليمانية والمشاركة في مؤتمر الاتحاد على تشجيع الاستثمار في العراق. <br/>وأوضح طالباني في كلمته خلال انعقاد المؤتمر الثالث للاتحاد في السليمانية أملنا ان تسهم زيارتكم لكردستان العراق وتشريفكم مؤتمرنا على تشجيع الشركات والاستثمارات في العراق وتعزيز العلاقات الاقتصادية والتجارية والثقافية بين بلادكم وعراقنا الديمقراطي الاتحادي المستقل و الموحد. <br/>من جانبه دعا رئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي إلى مراجعة واقعية ونقدية للعملية السياسية والتجربة  الديمقراطية على اساس الدستور واحترام المكونات بما يعزز قوة الدولة وتماسكها،مبينا ان اضعاف او تهميش او اقصاء اي مكون ليس في مصلحة اي طرف، وأن قوة الدولة تعد رصيدا لجميع العراقيين، فليس من حق احد أن يضع خطا احمرعلى اي عراقي ايا كان انتماؤه الديني او القومي او المذهبي. <br/>كما دعا الشركاء في الوطن والعملية السياسية إلى الكف عن لغة التهديد والابتعاد عن الدخول في لعبة المحاورالاقليمية، لأن مثل هذه السياسة لم تجلب للعراق وشعبه خلال العهد الدكتاتوري سوى مزيد من الحروب والدمار والازمات، وأن اللجوء الى الحوار واعتماد الخيارات الدستورية في حل الخلافات هو الطريق الوحيد لبناء عراق حر مستقل ديمقراطي ومزدهر. <br/>من جانبه دعا رئيس اقليم كردستان مسعود بارزاني الكتل السياسية إلى الاحتكام بالدستور الدائم للبلد في تشكيل الحكومة المقبلة، مبينا أن جلال طالباني هو مرشح الكرد لرئاسة الجمهورية لولاية ثانية. <br/>وقال بارزاني إن البلد شهد بعد عملية الانتخابات التشريعية بعض الاشكالات حول تشكيل الحكومة ورئاسة الوزراء، ويهمنا أن يتم اختيار رئيس للوزراء، لكن يجب الاحتكام بالدستور في تشكيل الحكومة، ونحن مع تشكيل حكومة شراكة وطنية. <br/>وأكد بارزاني أن الكرد في اقليم كردستان لن يكونوا جزءا من المشاكل الدائرة حول تشكيل الحكومة، ونحاول التقريب بين المكونات الاخرى، موقفنا واضح ونحن ضد تهميش اي مكون عراقي، ونحن شركاء فعليون منذ تأسيس العراق الفيدرالي الموحد الحر، مجددا دعوته إلى تطبيق المادة 140 وفقا الدستور. <br/>وحضر المؤتمر رئيس الجمهورية جلال طالباني ورئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي ورئيس الإقليم مسعود بارزاني ورئيس حكومة الاقليم برهم صالح ونائب رئيس الجمهورية عادل عبد المهدي ونائب رئيس الوزراء رافع العيساوي وزعيم المجلس الاسلامي الاعلى السيد عمار الحكيم ، وشخصيات برلمانية من بغداد.</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10492"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/border-security/" rel="tag">Border Security</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/derbandikhan-lake/" rel="tag">Derbandikhan lake</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iran/" rel="tag">Iran</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iranian-cross-border-incursions/" rel="tag">Iranian cross-border incursions</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sulaymaniyah/" rel="tag">Sulaymaniyah</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p dir="rtl" align="right">اعلن مسؤول عسكري عراقي رفيع عن اسر ضابط عراقي اثر تبادل قوات الحدود العراقية والايرانية اطلاق النيران في اقليم كردستان. <br/>وقال امر لواء حرس الحدود في محافظة السليمانية اللواء احمد غريب في تصريح صحافي الخميس ان عملية تبادل اطلاق النيران بين الجانبين استغرقت نحو ساعة و 20 دقيقة اثر تسلل الجنود الايرانية الى عمق الاراضي العراقية في اقليم كردستان. <br/>واكد غريب ان القوات الايرانية قامت باسر ضابط من قوات حرس الحدود العراقية بعد تبادل اطلاق النار واقتادته الى الاراضي الايرانية ، مشيرا الى ان الضابط الاسير كان داخل مفرزته في منطقة غير بعيدة عن بحيرة دربندخان جنوبي شرقي السليمانية. <br/>واضاف انه تم التباحث مع الجانب الايراني لاطلاق سراح الضابط العراقي الاسير كما تمت مراسلة ممثلية اقليم كردستان العراق في طهران. <br/>وقال المسؤول العراقي ان الجانب الايراني تعهد بالافراج عن الجندي العراقي الاسير.</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10438"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/hilla/" rel="tag">Hilla</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/hilla-educational-hospital/" rel="tag">Hilla Educational Hospital</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iskandriyah/" rel="tag">Iskandriyah</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/khalis/" rel="tag">Khalis</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/kokejli-east-mosul/" rel="tag">Kokejli (east Mosul)</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/ninawa-governorate/" rel="tag">Ninawa (Governorate)</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/samarra/" rel="tag">Samarra</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sulaymaniyah/" rel="tag">Sulaymaniyah</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/suleimaniya/" rel="tag">Suleimaniya</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/suwayrah/" rel="tag">Suwayrah</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/tarmiyah/" rel="tag">Tarmiyah</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/youssifiyah/" rel="tag">Youssifiyah</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>لقي ما لا يقل عن 81 شخصاً مصرعهم وأصيب أكثر من  300 آخرين في سلسلة هجمات وتفجيرات لعبوات ناسفة استهدفت عناصر الجيش والشرطة في أنحاء متفرقة من العراق الاثنين.</p> <p>ففي مدينة الحلة، لقي 36 شخصا مصرعهم، ورجح 140 آخرون في تفجير ثلاثي بواسطة سيارات مفخخة، يوم الاثنين، </p> <p>وفي بغداد، شن مسلحون سلسلة هجمات منسقة على قوات الشرطة الحكومية في مناطق من شرقي وغربي العاصمة بغداد</p> <p>وقالت المصادر إن مسلحين فتحوا نيران أسلحتهم الرشاشة على نقاط تفتيش للجيش والشرطة بين الساعتين الخامسة والسادسة والنصف صباحاً بحسب التوقيت المحلي، ما أدى إلى مقتل 7 أشخاص، بينهم 4 من عناصر الشرطة و3 من الجيش.</p> <p>وأضافت أن نحو 12 عنصراً من العناصر الأمنية أصيب في هذه الهجمات.</p> <p>وفي جنوبي بغداد، وتحديداً في بلدة الصويرية، قتل نحو 8 وأصيب 28 آخرين بجروح في انفجار مزدوج، بدأ بانفجار سيارة مفخخة قرب في أحد الأسواق زمسجد شيعي، وتبعه انفجار عبوة ناسفة.</p> <p>وفي الطرمية، شمالي بغداد، استهدفت سيارة مفخخة رئيس البلدية، ما أدى إلى مقتل 3 أشخاص وإصابة 16 آخرين، غير أن رئيس البلدية أصيب في الحادث.</p> <p>كذلك انفجرت ثلاث عبوات ناسفة استهدفت حواجز أمنية ودوريات في بغداد، ما أدى إلى مقتل مدنيين وإصابة 10 آخرين بجروح، بينهم 9 من عناصر الشرطة.</p> <p>وفي مدينة الفلوجة، غربي بغداد، أصيب 10 مدنيين عندما انفجرت 4 عبوات ناسفة خارج منازل 4 من ضباط الشرطة.</p> <p>أما في مدينة الموصل، شمالي العراق، فقد قتل اثنان من عناصر البشمركة الكردية عندما فجر انتحاري نفسه في حاجز أمني.</p> <p>وكان تسلسل الاخبار عن التطورات الامنية كما يلي :</p> <h3>اكثر من 120 قتيلا وجريحا بانفجار سيارتين مفخختين قرب مصنع النسيج في الحلة </h3> <p>قتل 20 شخصا واصيب نحو 125 اخرين اثر انفجار سيارتين مفخختين أثناء خروج عمال مصنع نسيج الحلة من مقر عملهم جنوب المدينة. <br/>مصدر مطلع قال أن سيارتين مفخختين انفجرتا ظهر اليوم أثناء خروج عمال مصنع نسيج الحلة من مقر المصنع الكائن في حي نادر الثاني الواقع على طريق حلة ـ نجف مما أسفر عن مقتل وإصابة نحو  125 شخصا في حصيلة أولية <br/>وأضاف  أن سيارات الإسعاف لا تزال تنقل المصابين والقتلى إلى مستشفيات مدينة الحلة، متوقعا في الوقت نفسه ارتفاع حصيلة الضحايا نتيجة شدة الانفجارين.</p> <p>يذكر ان مصدر مطلع صباح، الاثنين، ان تسعة جنود قتلوا واصيب سبعة آخرون بهجوم شنه مسلحون مجهولون على خمسة نقاط للتفتيش في مناطق شرق وغرب العاصمة بغداد، بينما تسبب انفجار اربع عبوات ناسفة بمناطق متفرقة من العاصمة باصابة سبعة أشخاص بجروح بينهم عناصر أمن. <br/>وقال  إن مسلحين مجهولين شنو هجوما منسقا وبأوقات متقاربـة على خمس نقاط للتفيش تابعة للجيش الحكومي في مناطق بغداد الجديدة، والمنصور، وكراج الامانة، وحي الجهاد، والغزالية. <br/>وأضاف المصدر أن الهجمات المنسقة أسفرت عن مقتل تسعة  جنود واصابة نحو سبعة آخرين بجروح، قبل أن يلوذ المسلحون، الذين استخدم بعضمهم اسلحة كاتمة للصوت، بالفرار الى جهة مجهولة. <br/>وتعد سلسة الهجمات على السيطرات الامنية صباح اليوم الاولى من نوعها في التنسيق والتوقيت تتعرض لها نقاط التفيش التابعة للجيش الجكومي في بغداد منذ أكثر من عامين <br/>الى ذلك، أفاد مصدر جكومي ان سبعة أشخاص أصيبوا بجروح مختلفة بينهم ثلاثة من عناصر الشرطة جراء انفجار ثلاث عبوات ناسفة وأخرى لاصقة صباح اليوم، الاثنين، في مناطق متعددة من بغداد. <br/>وقال إن سبعة أشخاص أصيبوا بجروح مختلفة اصابات بعضهم خطرة نتيجة لانفجار ثلاث عبوات ناسفة واخرى لاصقة في بغداد. <br/>وأوضح المصدر أن العبوة الاولى انفجرت عند مدخل حي الصحة بمنطقة الدورة، والاخرى في جنوبي العاصمة عند مدخل حي السيدية، أما الثالثة فانفجرت بحي الجهاد غربي بغداد، بينما انفجرت عبوة لاصقة كانت مثبتة داخل السيارة التابعة لامانة بغداد بحي اليرموك". </p> <h3>عشرات القتلى والجرحى بهحمات منسقة استهدفت نقاط التفتيش الحكومية في بغداد</h3> <p>ذكر مصدر مطلع صباح، الاثنين، ان تسعة جنود قتلوا واصيب سبعة آخرون بهجوم شنه مسلحون مجهولون على خمسة نقاط للتفتيش في مناطق شرق وغرب العاصمة بغداد، بينما تسبب انفجار اربع عبوات ناسفة بمناطق متفرقة من العاصمة باصابة سبعة أشخاص بجروح بينهم عناصر أمن. <br/>وقال  إن مسلحين مجهولين شنو هجوما منسقا وبأوقات متقاربـة على خمس نقاط للتفيش تابعة للجيش الحكومي في مناطق بغداد الجديدة، والمنصور، وكراج الامانة، وحي الجهاد، والغزالية. <br/>وأضاف المصدر أن الهجمات المنسقة أسفرت عن مقتل تسعة  جنود واصابة نحو سبعة آخرين بجروح، قبل أن يلوذ المسلحون، الذين استخدم بعضمهم اسلحة كاتمة للصوت، بالفرار الى جهة مجهولة. <br/>وتعد سلسة الهجمات على السيطرات الامنية صباح اليوم الاولى من نوعها في التنسيق والتوقيت تتعرض لها نقاط التفيش التابعة للجيش الجكومي في بغداد منذ أكثر من عامين <br/>الى ذلك، أفاد مصدر جكومي ان سبعة أشخاص أصيبوا بجروح مختلفة بينهم ثلاثة من عناصر الشرطة جراء انفجار ثلاث عبوات ناسفة وأخرى لاصقة صباح اليوم، الاثنين، في مناطق متعددة من بغداد. <br/>وقال إن سبعة أشخاص أصيبوا بجروح مختلفة اصابات بعضهم خطرة نتيجة لانفجار ثلاث عبوات ناسفة واخرى لاصقة في بغداد. <br/>وأوضح المصدر أن العبوة الاولى انفجرت عند مدخل حي الصحة بمنطقة الدورة، والاخرى في جنوبي العاصمة عند مدخل حي السيدية، أما الثالثة فانفجرت بحي الجهاد غربي بغداد، بينما انفجرت عبوة لاصقة كانت مثبتة داخل السيارة التابعة لامانة بغداد بحي اليرموك</p> <h3>مقتل واصابة نحو خمسين شخصا بانفجار سيارة في الصويرة</h3> <p>قتل 13 شخصا واصيب نحو 40 اخرين بانفجار سيارة مفخخة داخل سوق قضاء الصويرة شمال المحافظة. <br/>مصدر مطلع قال  إن سيارة مفخخة انفجرت، صباح اليوم، داخل سوق قضاء الصويرة (135 شمال محافظة واسط) مما أسفر عن سقوط عدد من القتلى والجرحى لم يعرف عددهم بعد. <br/>وأضاف  أن "سيارات الاسعاف هرعت الى مكان الانفجار لنقل المصابين، فيما طوقت الاجهزة الامنية مكان الحادث". </p> <h3>مقتل واصابة 77 شخصا بانفجار سيارة ملغومة جنوب بغداد</h3> <p>ذكر مصدر اعلامي  بمحافظة الكوت اليوم ، الاثنين ،ان انفجارا بسيارة ملغومة في قضاء الصويرة شمالي الكوت، اسفرعن مقتل 6 اشخاص واصابة 71 اخرين بجروح . <br/>وقال ان "سيارة ملغومة انفجرت اليوم في سوق شعبي في قضاء الصويرة شمالي الكوت اسفرت عن مقتل 6 اشخاص واصابة 71 اخرين بجروح . <br/>ولم يدل المصدر بالمزيد من المعلومات حول الحادث مكتفيا بالقول انه تم نقل جثث القتلى الى دائرة الطب العدلي في المحافظة (180)كم جنوب العاصمة العراقية بغداد ، فيما تم نقل الجرحى الى المستشفى </p> <h3>31 قتيلا على الاقل في سلسلة هجمات في العراق</h3> <p>قتل ما لايقل عن 31 شخصا بينهم عدد كبير من عناصر الشرطة في سلسلة هجمات استهدفت حواجز امنية ومنازل للشرطة في بغداد والموصل والفلوجة ومسجدا في الصويرة جنوب شرق بغداد.</p> <p>وكانت حصيلة سابقة افادت عن مقتل 24 شخصا على الاقل. وافادت مصادر مطلعة ان "11 شخصا قتلوا واصيب سبعين اخرين بجروح اثر انفجار سيارة مفخخة قرب حسينية الحجاج في الصويرة (60 كلم جنوب شرق بغداد).</p> <p>واوضح المصدر ان عبوة ناسفة انفجرت قرب المسجد دون اضرار، ولدى تجمع الناس انفجرت سيارة كانت مركونة بالقرب منها، ما اسفر عن سقوط الضحايا. وكانت حصيلة اولية افادت عن مقتل ثمانية واصابة ثلاثين اخرين.</p> <p>كما قتل تسعة من عناصر الشرطة واصيب 25 اخرون في عشر هجمات متفرقة بالاسلحة الرشاشة والمتفجرات استهدفت حواجز امنية في بغداد. واوضحت المصادر ان الهجمات وقعت ما بين الساعة السادسة بالتوقيت المحلي (3,00 تغ) والثامنة (5,00 تغ).</p> <p>ناطق حكومي قال  ان العمليات كانت "منسقة". وقال ان هذه العمليات تقع ضمن العمليات الارهابية التي تواجهها قواتنا الامنية مشيرا الى ان الهجمات التي وقعت باسلحة كاتمة للصوت، وعبوات لاصقة، كانت منسقة.</p> <p>وقالت المصادر ان مسلحين اطلقوا النار من اسلحة رشاشة على حاجز تفتيش في شارع الغدير (جنوب شرق بغداد)، ما اسفر عن مقتل اثنين من الجيش واصابة اثنين اخرين.</p> <p>وفي حي الجهاد (غرب) هاجم مسلحون حاجز تفيش تابع للشرطة، وتبع ذلك تفجير عبوة ناسفة ما اسفر عن مقتل ثلاثة من الشرطة واصابة خمسة اخرين.</p> <p>وفي هجوم اخر، قتل احد عناصر الشرطة بهجوم بالاسلحة الرشاشة قرب مرآب امانة وسط بغداد، واصيب اخر. وفي هجمات مماثلة في احياء العدل واليرموك والغزالية (غرب) قتل ثلاثة من عناصر الجيش واصيب سبعة اخرون بجروح.</p> <p>وفي الدورة والزعفرانية انفجرت عبوتان ناسفتان استهدفتا الشرطة، ما اسفر عن اصابة خمسة اخرين، فيما اصيب ثلاثة من عناصر الشرطة بجروح بعبوة ناسفة في منطقة السيدية.</p> <p>وفي الموصل، قتل اثنان من عناصر البيشمركة (مليشيا مخربين وعصاة ) عندما هاجم انتحاري يقود سيارة مفخخة حاجز تفتيش امني مشترك يضم قوات من الجيش الحكومي والاميركي شرق المدينة.</p> <p>وفي الفلوجة قتل اربعة اشخاص بتفجير خمسة منازل لعناصر الشرطة. وفي الطارمية شمال بغداد، نجا قائمقامها محمد جسام المشهداني، من انفجار استهدف موكبه، فيما قتل ثلاثة من حراسه واصيب 16 اخرون. وكانت حصيلة اولية افادت مقتل احد حراسه.</p> <p>وفي محافظة بابل، قتل شخصان واصيب اثنان اخران، بجروح، اثر انفجار عبوة ناسفة في محل لبيع المواد الغذائية في ناحية الاسكندرية (60 كلم جنوب بغداد).</p> <p>كما اصيبت اثنتان من الزائرات الايرانيات بجروح، اثر انفجار عبوة ناسفة استهدفت حافلة تقل الزوار الايرانيين المتوجهين الى مدينة سامراء حيث مرقد الامامين الحسن العسكري وعلي الهادي.</p> <p>واكد مصدر امني ان عبوة ناسفة انفجرت على الطريق العام بالقرب من مدينة بلد (70 كلم شمال بغداد). كما اصيب تسعة مزارعين في مدينة بلد اثر انفجار خمسة عبوات ناسفة داخل بساتينهم.</p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-9895"> <div class="postmetadata"><span 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عمران الحدودي بين إقليم كردستان وإيران بسبب موجة حادة من تساقط الثلوج شهدتها منطقة بالَكايتي ضمن محافظة أربيل ليلة أمس وحتى فجر اليوم الأحد . <br/>وذكرت مصادر في الأنواء الجوية، ان "كمية تساقط الثلوج بلغت في حاج عمران أكثر من 50 سم". <br/>هذا وذكرت دائرة الأنواء الجوية في السليمانية ان نسبة هطول الأمطار في المحافظة خلال الـ 24 ساعة الماضية، بلغت 39.7 ملم، حيث بلغت نسبة المجموع الكلي للأمطار 623 ملم، وهذه النسبة جيدة جداً مقارنة بالعام الماضي حيث كانت كمية الأمطار 431 ملم فقط.</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-8815"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/02/25/%d8%b4%d8%b1%d8%b7%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b3%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%b7%d8%b1-%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%89-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%b4%d8%aa%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%83%d8%a7%d8%aa/#respond" title="Comment on شرطة السليمانية تسيطر على الاشتباكات بين القوائم المتنافسة وسط المدينة">No Comments</a></span> Posted on February 25th, 2010 by Mohammed Al-Hamadani</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/02/25/%d8%b4%d8%b1%d8%b7%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b3%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%b7%d8%b1-%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%89-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%b4%d8%aa%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%83%d8%a7%d8%aa/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to شرطة السليمانية تسيطر على الاشتباكات بين القوائم المتنافسة وسط المدينة">شرطة السليمانية تسيطر على الاشتباكات بين القوائم المتنافسة وسط المدينة</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/election-violence/" rel="tag">Election violence</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124035046/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sulaymaniyah/" rel="tag">Sulaymaniyah</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p dir="rtl" align="right">قال مدير شرطة السليمانية نجم الدين قادر اليوم الأربعاء إن" قوات الشرطة تمكنت من السيطرة على اشتباكات وقعت بين أنصار قائمة التغير المعارضة والتحالف الكردستاني وسط المدينة". <br/>وأضاف نجم الدين أن" قوات شرطة المحافظة تمكنت من إيقاف اشتباكات وقعت بين أنصار حركة التغير والتحالف الكردستاني وسط السليمانية وهدئت الأوضاع"، دون أن يوجه الاتهامات لأي طرف مكتفيا بالإشارة إلى أن" أضرارا حدثت بعدد من المركبات". <br/>وأوضح أن "العملية لن تسفر عن أي إصابات"، منوها إلى أن" الشرطة لم تتلق أي شكوى ولم تعتقل أحدا"، دون التطرق لمزيد من التفاصيل. <br/>يذكر أن محافظة السليمانية تشهد حملات دعائية ساخنة ،الأمر الذي اضطر المفوضية العليا المستقلة للانتخابات لمنع الحملات الدعائية للكيانات السياسية والمرشحين في مدينة السليمانية من الساعة التاسعة مساء وحتى السادسة صباحا بناء على توصية اللجنة الأمنية في المحافظة منعا لوقوع حوادث ولحماية المواطنين.</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="navigation"> <div 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