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border-left: black 1px solid; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; padding-left: 5px; width: 325px; padding-right: 5px; float: right; border-top: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; padding-top: 5px"> <p><strong>Editor’s Note:</strong> John Reynolds’s visit to Basra with Irish film-maker Dearbhla Glynn was supported by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.savethechildren.net/alliance/index.html" target="_blank" class="external">Save The Children</a>. </p> <ul> <li>Save The Children’s USA site is here: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.savethechildren.org/" target="_blank" class="external">savethechildren.org</a> </li> <li>Save The Children’s USA <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6146369/k.95B8/Ways_To_Give.htm" class="external" target="_blank">"Ways To Give"</a> lists how donations are used and various ways of supporting Save The Children. </li> <li>Save The Children’s USA donations page is here: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/https://secure.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6239401/k.C01C/Global_Action_Fund/apps/ka/sd/donor.asp" target="_blank" class="external">Donate using "Save The Children" USA site</a> </li> <li>Save The Children’s UK site is here: <a title="http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/" target="_blank" class="external">savethechildren.org.uk</a> </li> <li>Save The Children’s UK donations page is here: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/donate.htm" target="_blank" class="external">Donate using "Save The Children" UK site</a> </li> </ul> <p>Save The Children have a well deserved reputation for running very effective campaigns that really help the children they’re aimed at. They also are known for being very efficient in how they use any donations they receive. You can visit their <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6146417/k.6241/Financial_Responsibility.htm#cn" target="_blank" class="external">Awards and Rankings</a> page to see how they are rated by various charity monitoring organisations. If you can please make a donation to Save The Children.</p> </p></div> <p> They provide a rare contrast to the greyish-brown city streetscape, whose dusty, fume-filled air will reach 60 degrees this summer and is some of the most polluted in the world. <p>Brightness and colour might inspire initial hope in the minds of concerned parents here, but both hospitals still lack vital machines and laboratory equipment needed to provide radiotherapy or to diagnose the numerous conditions that mean up to 10 babies die every day in the Ibn Ghazwan maternity ward.</p> <p>“We are blind,” says Dr Ahmed Jafer, a paediatric specialist. “Ours is the only neo-natal unit in this region but we cannot quickly diagnose what exactly we are dealing with. Our children are dying from malnutrition, diarrhoea, TB, meningitis, leishmaniasis, chronic liver disease, pneumonia, anaemia and congenital heart disease, all of which are easily preventable outside of Iraq.”</p> </p></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/06/13/children-pay-ultimate-price-of-iraqs-poisonous-wartime-legacy/#more-13508" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13196"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/04/30/afp-april-deadliest-month-for-us-in-iraq-since-2009/#respond" title="Comment on AFP: April deadliest month for US in Iraq since 2009">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 30th, 2011 by Suleiman Aydin</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/04/30/afp-april-deadliest-month-for-us-in-iraq-since-2009/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to AFP: April deadliest month for US in Iraq since 2009">AFP: April deadliest month for US in Iraq since 2009</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/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/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/attacks-on-american-invaders/" rel="tag">Attacks on American Invaders</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/bombings/" rel="tag">Bombings</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/mortar-attacks/" rel="tag">mortar attacks</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/roadside-bombings/" rel="tag">roadside bombings</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/southern-iraq/" rel="tag">southern iraq</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>The AFP report below tells us that 11 American invader troops have been killed in Irak during April 2011. Of these 11 six died in what the Americans call "non hostile" incidents and five died either as a result of bombings or of mortar fire.</p> <p>If you don’t want your troops attacked don’t concoct a pack of lies to "justify" invading a country, behave like a pack of murderous rampaging barbarians when you get there, and try to stay after your government agrees to leave.</p> <p>Suleiman Aydin</p> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/04/30/afp-april-deadliest-month-for-us-in-iraq-since-2009/#more-13196" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12081"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/01/03/sumerian-era-site-discovered-in-nassiriya/#respond" title="Comment on Sumerian Era Site discovered in Nassiriya">No Comments</a></span> Posted on January 3rd, 2011 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Archaeology &Heritage, Qais Rashid Hussein said on Sunday.</p> <p>“Our excavation teams have discovered an important site in a Sumerian position, dating back to the Dawn of the Ancient Strains – Third Century BC, south of Nassiriya city,” Hussein told Aswat al-Iraq news agency, adding that “the site, carrying the name ‘Umm al-Aqarib (Mother of Scorpions) consists of a worshipping position, housing units and about 600 archaeological antiques, that were handed over to the Iraqi Museum.”</p> <p>The archaeological sites in Thi-Qar Province, comprising amazing ancient archaeological sites, date back to the ancient historic eras of Misopotamia (Ancient Iraq), some of them dating back to the Somerian era and others to the Acadian, Babylonian, Firthian, Akhmenian, Sasanian or Islamic eras, whilst it comprises the world’s most ancient archaeological hill, called “Al-Obali Hill”, dating back to 6,000 BC.</p> <p>Among the most ancient positions in Thi-Qar Province is the ancient city of Ur, the birthplace of Prophet Ibraim al-Khalil (Prophet Abraham), the site of the 1st Flood, as well as its King Ornmo, who laid the first law in the world, preceding King Hamouraby’s law, and its ancient Ziggorat, its Royal Semetery, that comprised the world’s largest trearsure, dating back to the Sumerian Kingdom, with its Queen Shaabad, where the world’s most ancient worshipping place, known to have the first relationship of human beings with Heavens exists.</p> <p>Thi-Qar also comprises the Kingdom of Lagash, where the first expressions in the world history were laid down by the Revolutionary Leader, Uro Kajina, who cancelled taxes and demanded equality among the people’s classes, and where the first use of the word “Freedom” was used in the history of mankind.</p> <p>Among Thi-Qar’s ancient Kings had been King Antmina, who had been behind the digging the world’s first canal to connect River Tigris with the city of Lagash, considered the world’s most ancient irrigational project.</p> <p>Nassirya, the center of Thi-Qar Province, is 380 kms to the south of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.</p> <p>Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=140259" class="external" target="_blank">Archaeological site, dating back to Iraq’s Ancient Sumerian Era, discovered in Nassiriya: : Aswat Al Iraq</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10997"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/06/10/iraqi-farmers-told-to-abandon-cultivating-rice/#respond" title="Comment on Iraqi farmers told to abandon cultivating rice">No Comments</a></span> Posted on June 10th, 2010 by Fatima Jameel</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/06/10/iraqi-farmers-told-to-abandon-cultivating-rice/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Iraqi farmers told to abandon cultivating rice">Iraqi farmers told 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-level/" rel="tag">water level</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-volume/" rel="tag">water volume</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>Iraqi farmers can no longer grow rice in their fields as water levels from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers have become dangerously low, a senior agriculture official said. </p> <p>“We have ordered the farmers to stop growing rice across the province for this year’s summer season,” said Nasser Manatti, head of the Agriculture Department in the southern province of Missan. </p> <p>Most of Iraq’s rice yields, estimated at 150,000 tons a year, come from Missan. </p> <p>“We have taken this measure in order to ration the use of irrigation water,” Manatti said. “We have instructed the farmers to swap to other summer crops. Rice needs a lot of water and we are afraid we cannot meet the water volume necessary for cultivation.” </p> <p>It is not clear how rice growers could suddenly swap to other crops and whether the new crops they grow will be as lucrative. </p> <p>But Manatti said his department has taken several measures to facilitate the change from rice to other crops. </p> <p>Iraq imports more than 80% of its cereal requirements which include more than 1 million tons of rice a year. </p> <p>Local rice produce, which used to meet Iraq’s domestic needs and those of the Gulf states a few decades ago, has slumped and many farmers cultivated the crop for their own needs. </p> <p>Iraqi rice is known for its fragrance and excellent flavor. Today it has turned into something like a delicacy. </p> <p>Iraqi cereal imports are expected to reach 5 million tons this year. </p> <p>Agriculture Ministry officials blame low water levels in the Euphrates and the Tigris, but the country’s agriculture has suffered badly from decades of war and insecurity, underinvestment and the unchecked felling of trees, particularly date-palms in southern Iraq. </p> <p>Iraq’s date-palm groves are estimated to have lost more than 20 million trees. </p> <p>As a result, salinity now affects nearly half the arable land in central and southern Iraq. More arable land has been lost to desertification in other areas.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news/2010-06-10/kurd.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Iraqi farmers told to abandon cultivating rice</a> by Talib al-Zamili <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?code=ennewsen" class="external" target="_blank">Azzaman in English</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10698"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/25/najaf-cemetery-witness-to-iraqs-tragic-history/#respond" title="Comment on Najaf cemetery witness to Iraq’s tragic history">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 25th, 2010 by Erdla</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/25/najaf-cemetery-witness-to-iraqs-tragic-history/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Najaf cemetery witness to Iraq’s tragic history">Najaf cemetery witness to Iraq’s tragic history</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/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/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/category/features/" title="View all posts in Features" rel="category tag">Features</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/battle-of-najaf/" rel="tag">Battle of Najaf</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/burial/" rel="tag">burial</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/casualty-levels/" rel="tag">Casualty levels</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/cemeteries/" rel="tag">cemeteries</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/features/" rel="tag">Features</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/graveyard/" rel="tag">graveyard</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/gulf-war/" rel="tag">Gulf War</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/history/" rel="tag">History</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/invasion/" rel="tag">invasion</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iran-iraq-war/" rel="tag">Iran-Iraq War</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/islam/" rel="tag">Islam</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/mahdi-army/" rel="tag">Mahdi Army</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/mahdi-army-militia/" rel="tag">mahdi army militia</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/mahdi-army-vs-americans/" rel="tag">Mahdi Army vs. Americans</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/muqtada-al-sadr/" rel="tag">Muqtada al-Sadr</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/najaf/" rel="tag">Najaf</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/saddam-hussein/" rel="tag">Saddam Hussein</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sadrists-vs-americans/" rel="tag">Sadrists vs. Americans</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/southern-iraq/" rel="tag">southern iraq</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/un-sanctions/" rel="tag">U.N. sanctions</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/wadi-us-salaam/" rel="tag">Wadi-us-Salaam</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a5%d8%b3%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%85%e2%80%8e/" rel="tag">الإسلام‎</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%ac%d9%8a%d8%b4-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%87%d8%af%d9%8a/" rel="tag">جيش المهدي</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 42px; float: left; margin: 2px 1px 0px 0px; line-height: 36px; font-style: normal! important">P</span>ictures of the two brothers stare out, side by side, separated by the gulf of a quarter century. Rahim Jabr died in 1981, a foot soldier in the bloody eight year war with Iran, while Naeem was a casualty of the savage sectarian fighting that gripped Baghdad in 2006.</p> <p>They were reunited in the end, their tombstones placed side by side surrounded by a decorative metal cage in the vast Shiite graveyard of Najaf in southern Iraq.</p> <p>There is no holier place on earth for Shiites to be buried than this city of the dead, stretching to the horizon from the doorstep of the tomb of Imam Ali, the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad and Shiite Islam’s most sacred martyr. While Sunnis put their dead in local plots, Shiites for a 1,000 years have been burying their fallen here and everyone has at least one relative in the graveyard.</p> <p>That has made it a kind of map to Iraq’s history, at least that of its Shiite majority. Its natural disasters, wars and tragedies are etched across the tombstones densely packed into every square foot of the dusty, sun-blasted expanse.</p> <p>The violence that has overwhelmed Iraq since 2003, much of it directed against Shiites, fed a massive expansion of the graveyard, swelling it by 40 percent to about three square miles (7.5 square kilometers) – triple the size of the U.S.’s Arlington National Cemetery – according to Ihsan Hamid Sherif, the official in charge of receiving bodies.</p> <p>But in a measure of the country’s gradual return to stability, those working at the cemetery say in recent years the flood of bodies has slowed.</p> <p><a title="20100525_wadi_as_salaam_caption" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4638265163/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" height="394" alt="20100525_wadi_as_salaam_caption" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702im_/http://static.flickr.com/3024/4638265163_725936e72d.jpg" width="575" border="0"/></a>"We used to receive 200 to 250 bodies a day, now it’s less than a hundred," said Najah Abu Seiba, the patriarch of a family that have been gravediggers here for three centuries. "We used to work 24 hours a day."</p> <p>On a recent day this month, the cemetery was peaceful, the wind whipping colorful flags flying over the graves, with only the occasional three-wheeled transports buzzing by, taking relatives to graves.</p> <p>"My mother, father and brothers are buried here," said Mouayed Hamed al-Lami as he brought the wife of his uncle to be buried in the cemetery’s newer section. His relatives clambered out of the minibus hired to carry the body from Baghdad, a three hour drive away.</p> <p>"We are burying her here because it is the place of Imam Ali," he said, gesturing at the distant golden dome of the tomb shrine. "It is the closest place to heaven."</p> <p>The violence has not ended completely. That same day, 119 people died across Iraq in bombings that mostly targeted Shiites. So by evening, minibuses stacked with coffins of many of the victims began pouring into Najaf.</p> <p>But the slowing pace of the dead over the past year has workers hopeful that the era of chaos ushered in by the 2003 U.S. invasion and the fall of Saddam Hussein may be easing.</p> <p>Abu Mohammed al-Sudani says he now even has the time to try to organize the section of the cemetery he manages, a corner called the "Garden of Martyrs," dedicated to the dead of the Mahdi Army militia loyal to anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. They lie in brightly decorated graves adorned with plastic flowers and large portraits of young men dressed in black and often swathed in bandoliers of ammunition.</p> <p>The section has grown every year since 2004, first with the clashes against American forces, then the sectarian wars of 2006-2007 when Shiites and Sunnis were killing each other at a murderous rate, and finally in the 2008 battles with the Iraqi army. In recent years, though, its growth has slowed.</p> <p>"It used to be clashes with the occupier, now those killed are from assassinations, explosions or they died in detention," said al-Sudani. He estimated over 4,000 were buried in his section.</p> <p>A mother dressed in black, accompanied by her son and daughter, weeps at one of the Mahdi Army graves from 2006. They leave behind a smoking stick of incense. Her son walks with a limp.</p> <p>Al-Sudani said that with more time on their hands, they are now looking to damp down the colorful riot of the tombs and standardize their look with uniform grave markers and martyrs’ pictures. "Back then, we didn’t have time to organize the graves," he said.</p> <p>Organization and uniformity of style, however, are totally absent from the rest of the graveyard where tombstones from many eras jostle for room.</p> <p>The graves get older closer to the Imam Ali shrine and the old city that surrounds it, with one section dominated by the fallen from the Iran-Iraq war – a titanic conflict that claimed an estimated million lives.</p> <p>At the time, the style was a three-foot-high (1-meter-high) brick grave marker with a black and white photo of the dead surrounded by a decorative cage. They are everywhere in this section, interspersed with later tombs from other family members. In one, three brothers share the same cage. They all died in 1981.</p> <p>The cemetery itself has twice been the scene of heavy fighting. Wide paths cut through the densely packed older sections, cut by Saddam’s army as it crushed a Shiite uprising after the 1991 Gulf War, when President George Bush called on Iraqis to revolt.</p> <p>The rebels took refuge in the narrow spaces among the crowded tombs and so the Iraqi army bulldozed its way through the graves of its fellow soldiers. To this day, piles of wrecked cages from the graves remain stacked on the roadsides.</p> <p>American Bradley tanks and Humvees would drive down the same paths 13 years later in 2004 battles with the Mahdi Army, who similarly hid among – and in – the graves and tombs.</p> <p>Among the tombstones are the room-size family crypts built by the wealthy, often topped by domes. Many now have splintered door and window frames after scavengers pulled off the metal doors to sell for scrap during the lean years of the U.N. sanctions in the 1990s.</p> <p>Inside the crypts, it smells of rose water, sprinkled by visiting family members and sold by the case along the cemetery’s main thoroughfares.</p> <p>Many of these crypts have underground burial chambers where militiamen used to hide in ambush for U.S. soldiers.</p> <p>Graves from the 1930s and 1940s have their own style, soaring up 10 feet (3 meters) with rounded tops so that people would see them over their neighbors. The inscriptions are often in stucco and the dates use the Islamic calendar.</p> <p>One dating back to 1914 has an epitaph in Persian, a relic of when Iranian Shiites would regularly come here to be buried – a phenomenon that is reviving once more with improved relations between the two countries and ebbing violence.</p> <p>The gravedigger, Abu Seiba, said it is impossible to guess how many bodies are buried here, perhaps tens of millions, as each grave is built on top of an older one.</p> <p>Despite the living through the sectarian war, Abu Seiba finds the Iran-Iraq war graves the most chilling.</p> <p>"Muslims fought Muslims and we killed each other because of the desires of one person, Saddam Hussein," he said. "Even after the fall of Saddam, the killings continued because this thing is part of the Iraqi people, but now, perhaps people are learning to become civilized."</p> <p>Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_IRAQ_HISTORYS_GRAVEYARD?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-05-25-02-06-35" class="external" target="_blank">Najaf cemetery witness to Iraq’s tragic history By PAUL SCHEMM APwriter</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10680"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/24/we-appointed-our-leaders-inside-bucca-it-was-a-very-useful-time-for-them/#respond" title="Comment on ‘We appointed our leaders inside Bucca. 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There are many others like him."</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Commentary:</strong></p> <p>The title of this posting is a quote from Munaf Abdul-Rahim al-Rawi, a former prisoner at the American run Camp Bucca. He is  one of those accused of being behind the bloodbath of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/08/19/"><strong>Ministry bombings of August 19th 2009</strong></a>. I have a personal interest in this case team members and the children of team members were among those killed and wounded in those bombings. This isn’t a new story and the problem is well known to Irakis — Camp Bucca like the rest of the American prison system in Irak, rapidly became an academy for terrorists in general, and fighters for the al-Qaeda linked "Islamic State of Irak" in particular.</p> <p>The American habit of engaging in collective punisdhment of the civilian population by conducting sweeps and mass arrests and then leaving those whom they had arrested for no other reason than being Iraki and living in an area in which there was fighting is giving its gruesome payback. Angry confused and resentful young men the vast majority of whom were completely innocent were left to fester in squalid conditions in America’s prison camps. They became the perfect fodder for indoctrination into an ideological mindset that considers terrorist activity to be legitimate and meritorious. I am certain that many more innocent Irakis are soon going to be killed by the graduates of the terrorist training camps so generously provided free of charge to the extremists by their equally murderous and spectacularly incompetent American counterparts.</p> <p>As well as Martin Chulov’s article in the main body of the posting I have excerpted two articles one from AFP and the other from al Jazeera. I would urge you to read both articles in full.</p> <p style="padding-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: gray 1px solid">Omar Khdayyir</p> <h3>US camp in Iraq was Qaeda breeding ground, say ex-inmates: AFP</h3> <blockquote><p>"the Iraqi police belatedly realised that many terrorists from Al-Qaeda were released because they had been detained in American prisons under false names and were not under our review."</p> <p>"The most surprising thing is that the Americans released them after they were fully impregnated with ideology and had become killers… they joined Al-Qaeda when they left the camp,"</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.france24.com/en/node/4925849" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></p> <h3>US Iraq jail an ‘al-Qaeda school’: Al Jazeera </h3> <blockquote><p>"Extremists had freedom to educate the young detainees. I saw them giving courses using classroom boards on how to use explosives, weapons and how to become suicide bombers" .</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/12/2009121274712823455.html" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></p> <p><a title="camp_bucca_3_panel" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4634425449/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" height="605" alt="camp_bucca_3_panel" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702im_/http://static.flickr.com/4018/4634425449_3aec34e0f9.jpg" width="300" border="0"/></a></p> </p></div> <p><strong>General claims 80% of prisoners released from US-run Camp Bucca have rejoined terrorists </p> <p></strong><em>by Martin Chulov in Baghdad with additional reporting by Enas Ibrahim</em></p> <p>Iraqi security chiefs are blaming a big rise in violence this year on detainees released from the contentious American prison system who used their time in custody to appoint new leaders and plot mayhem after their release.</p> <p>Interviews of military and police officials throughout Baghdad and the increasingly restive areas of Anbar and Diyala have painted a picture of a country that is again nearing a tipping point, with security officers and checkpoints under almost daily attack from a revitalised Sunni insurgency that gathered steam behind the walls of the two US prisons in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/iraq" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq</a>.</p> <p>The scenario is in sharp contrast to a US military assessment, which last year claimed that only 4% of the 88,000 detainees held since 2003 have been accused of committing new crimes after their release.</p> <p>Major General Ahmed Obeidi al-Saedi, who leads the sixth division of the Iraqi army in south and west Baghdad, claims as many as 80% of detainees have either aligned, or realigned with militant groups, mostly to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/al-qaida" class="external" target="_blank">al-Qaida</a> in Iraq, or its affiliates. He said 86 former inmates of the US prisons, known as Camp Cropper and Camp Bucca, have been rearrested since 10 March.</p> <p>"I say to you emphatically that 80% who have been released from Bucca have returned to work with the terrorists and have in fact become stronger," said General Saedi, whose area of command has been increasingly under attack over the past two months.</p> <p>"We ask them, did they finish their time in prison rehabilitated psychologically and they say ‘no, it was the perfect environment to reorganise al-Qaida’."</p> <p>Authorities have become increasingly concerned at the type of recent violence, as much as the rising number of attacks, with numerous cases of families being killed in areas that three years ago were seen as lost causes.</p> <p>Some of the carnage has stirred ghosts of the same lethal and lawless period at a time when the security gains of the past two years are being undermined by a lingering political vacuum.</p> <p>Last week, in a village in the Diyala province, 60 miles north of Baghdad, a76-year-old Shia, Abdullah Jassim Shakour, was beheaded in his home. Three days earlier he had spoken out against a resurgent al-Qaida presence.</p> <p>In the Diyala police station that has detained one of the alleged killers, Captain Aamar Ahmed confirmed he recently had been released from US custody. "I can tell you that 100%," he said. "He had not been out of prison long. There are many others like him."</p> <p>A second man, Yassir Sami, also a former US detainee, was then presented. He was released in early 2009 after being picked up during a US security sweep and has since allegedly confessed to a role in the first of a series of al-Qaida bombings that destroyed the foreign and finance ministries in Baghdad on 19 August last year.</p> <p>Of greater concern to Iraqi authorities are revelations that the men accused of being the principals behind the August blasts and the four waves of savage attacks that followed, are also US prison veterans.</p> <p>One of them, Munaf Abdul-Rahim al-Rawi, has told his jailers that much of the key planning behind the carnage was done in prison.</p> <p>"He said ‘we appointed our leaders inside Bucca’," said Saedi. "It was a very useful time for them.</p> <p>"The head of finance for al-Qaida, Ali Naema al-Salmoon, was also in there with him. We caught him two weeks ago and he had been funding the bombings ever since he was released in 2009." The US is handing over the last of its two prisons to the Iraqi government. Camp Bucca in southern Iraq closed last August and Camp Cropper, near Baghdad airport, is now down to 3,000 inmates. At their peak, the two prisons held as many as 25,000 detainees.</p> <p>An adviser to Major General Nelson Cannon, deputy commander of the US detention programme said all US detainees were first handed over to Iraqi authorities before being freed.</p> <p>"All of them are then being released by the Iraqi government on the strength of the cases against them," he said. "We are constantly asking Iraqi parliamentarians or leaders to visit our processing centre and understand how we do things. It is very easy to blame the American side, but there are two parties involved and the Iraqis are heavily consulted."</p> <p><em>Additional reporting: Enas Ibrahim</em></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/23/iraq-prison-al-qaida-violence" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq prison system blamed for big rise in al-Qaida violence</a> | by Martin Chulov in Baghdad | World news | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.guardian.co.uk/" class="external" target="_blank">The Guardian</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10614"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/19/19th-may-2010-selected-english-language-coverage/#respond" title="Comment on 19th May-2010 Selected English Language Coverage">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 19th, 2010 by Saba Ali</div> <h3><a 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The UN via its World Food Programme hopes to kickstart the labour market as well as reduce food insecurity by running a cash-for-work programme. If the programme succeeds it will be expanded. As my colleague Diya al din reported on May 14th (<span dir="rtl" align="right"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/14/%d8%af%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%af%d8%ae%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%85%d9%8a-%d9%84%d9%807-%d9%85%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%8a%d9%8a%d9%86-%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%82%d9%8a-%d9%84%d8%a7/">دراسة: الدخل اليومي لـ7 ملايين عراقي لا يتجاوز الدولارين | Gorilla’s Guides</a> </span>) more than seven million people have to try to live on the equivalent of US$2 per day so such programmes are desperately needed.</p> <p>The National has a long article on the new airport in Erbil. The context of all of this is that the Kurdish Regional Government hope to use any revenues from this project as a boost to their arguments for increased autonomy eventually perhaps leading to independence.</p> <p>Xinhua reports on the agreement to allow Kurdish oil exports to resume. </p> <p>If you read nothing else read The National’s report  <em>"<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100519/BUSINESS/705199937/1005/rss" class="external" target="_blank">Chinese oil firms make friends abroad</a>" </em>on a day on which the USA has managed to get further sanctions on on Iran the paragraphs below are especially worth bearing in mind:</p> <blockquote><p>Until recently, China’s state-controlled oil companies have had limited success in gaining access to the region’s biggest oil and gas deposits, and to the rapidly expanding local markets for oil and gas.</p> <p>That is mainly because the national oil companies of major Gulf oil exporters were seeking access to technology only available from the West. The Chinese oil producers, however, were able to establish a beachhead in Iran, as the US-led sanctions against the country discouraged western investment.</p> </blockquote> <p>Finally I have included an article by Kirk W. Johnson on how as the US draws down it is stabbing its local collaborators in the back by leaving them to their own devices.</p> <blockquote><p>We know where this road leads. When British forces drew down from southern Iraq just two years ago, militias conducted a systematic manhunt for their former Iraqi employees.</p> </blockquote> <p>What Johnson, who is after all an American, fails to see is that it’s not only militias and <em>takfiri</em> groups who will be after these collaborators. There is universal loathing for them as traitrors who sided with a hated invader against their own country and their own people. When the Americans leave many of their collaborators’ survival prospects will be dismal indeed.</p> <p style="padding-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: gray 1px solid">Saba Ali</p> <h3 style="color: #800000">Society and Economy:</h3> <p><strong>UN agency kicks off first cash-for-work initiative in Iraq</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>19 May 2010 – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today launched a cash-for-work initiative to help poor Iraqis earn money to provide food for their families. </p> <p>“While there’s food in the shops, not everyone can afford it and nearly a million people still need food assistance and millions more depend on government aid,” WFP Country Director Edward Kallon said. </p> <p>“Cash-for-work projects are an innovative way to provide a much-needed influx of cash to poor communities who struggle to make ends meet and provide food for their families,” he added. “They are appropriate when food is readily available in the markets but out of their reach.” </p> <p>Participants in the programme will be paid the equivalent of $10 per day for a three-month period for carrying out tasks such as clearing and rehabilitation of sewage and irrigation canals, tree planting, rehabilitation of farmland and a sanitation campaign. </p> <p>While beneficiaries will initially be paid in cash on a weekly basis, WFP is exploring the possible use of electronic technology, such as smart cards, to facilitate payments and reduce security risks in future programmes. </p> <p>Some 1,400 households will be involved in the pilot project which will be carried out in the central Iraqi governorate of Diyala with the help of WFP’s partner organization, Mercy Corps. </p> <p>The cash-for-work project is part of the Diyala Initiative to provide assistance to facilitate the resettlement of internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees and other vulnerable groups. </p> <p>That effort is being led by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), with the participation of several other UN and partner agencies.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=34742&Cr=Iraq&Cr1=" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong> </p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Airlines may put Erbil on the map – The National Newspaper</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>ERBIL, IRAQ // The UAE Government hopes flydubai and Air Arabia will join Etihad Airways in flying to Iraqi Kurdistan this year as companies look to benefit from the region’s attempt to attract tourists. </p> <p><em>snip</em></p> <p>Built to handle 3 million passengers a year, the new terminal can handle wide-body Airbus A380s as well as other aircraft types and will offer the least expensive airline fuel in the world, he said. </p> <p><em>snip</em></p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100519/BUSINESS/705199959/1005/rss" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Iraq approves agreement to resume Kurdish oil exports</strong><strong>: Xinhua</strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>BAGHDAD, May 19 (Xinhua) — The Iraqi government said it has approved an agreement that would allow the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan in northern part of the country to resume oil exports, an Iraqi newspaper said on Wednesday. </p> <p>The agreement between Baghdad and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) stated that the Ministry of Finance in Baghdad will pay the foreign oil firms operating in Iraqi Kurdish region their expenses, the al-Mashriq newspaper quoted government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh as saying. </p> <p>Since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the Kurds have independently signed nearly two dozen deals with western oil companies. Baghdad maintains the deals are illegitimate because they bypass the central government. </p> <p>In June 2009, the KRG started oil exports of around 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) for the oil fields of Taq Taq and Tawke in northern Iraq, but were suspended a few months later when the central government refused to pay the foreign firms and said the Kurds should pay from their share of the national budget. </p> <p>The latest agreement will pave the way for the KRG to resume oil exports through the national pipeline to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, the paper said without setting a date for resuming the exports.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-05/19/c_13303988.htm" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: Xinhua</strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Iraq exports 53 million barrels of oil in April – People’s Daily Online</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Iraqi Oil Ministry said Tuesday it has exported 53 million barrels of oil in April, bringing in revenues of 4.222 billion U.S. dollars with an average price of 79. 66 dollars a barrel. </p> <p>A statement by the ministry obtained by Xinhua said that 42.7 million barrels were exported through the southern port of Basra, and 10.3 million barrels were exported via Turkey’s port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean Sea. </p> <p>In March, the ministry said the country exported 57.1 million barrels of oil, gaining revenues of 4.351 billion dollars.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/6989885.html" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Chinese oil firms make friends abroad – The National Newspaper</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has acquired 35 per cent of the Syrian oil and gas unit of Royal Dutch Shell, which could help boost Chinese access to some of the world’s biggest oil reserves. </p> <p>The Syrian accord, which is worth an estimated US$1.5 billion (Dh5.51bn), in itself is unlikely to boost crude reserves significantly for either company. Instead, it may be aimed at strengthening ties between China’s biggest producer and international oil companies including Shell, as Beijing seeks to expand its presence throughout the Middle East. </p> <p>Yesterday’s deal would increase CNPC’s existing holdings in three oil and gas production licences covering 40 small fields. Last year, Syria Shell Petroleum Development pumped 23,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day from those fields. </p> <p>“This is not a lot of oil and gas for a company like CNPC, which is producing about 2.5 million barrels a day,” Gordon Kwan, the head of energy research at Mirae Asset Securities in Hong Kong, told Bloomberg yesterday. </p> <p>“The agreement strengthens the partnership between Shell and CNPC,” the Chinese company said. </p> <p>Until recently, China’s state-controlled oil companies have had limited success in gaining access to the region’s biggest oil and gas deposits, and to the rapidly expanding local markets for oil and gas. </p> <p>That is mainly because the national oil companies of major Gulf oil exporters were seeking access to technology only available from the West. The Chinese oil producers, however, were able to establish a beachhead in Iran, as the US-led sanctions against the country discouraged western investment. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100519/BUSINESS/705199937/1005/rss" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong></strong></p> <h3 style="color: #800000">Commentary and Analysis</h3> <p> <strong>Foreign Policy: Leaving Iraqi Employees Behind : NPR</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>There are no serious contingency plans to evacuate the thousands of Iraqis who’ve worked for the United States and live alongside U.S. troops and civilian officials as interpreters, engineers, and advisors. When the U.S. military shutters its bases, these Iraqis will be cut loose to run the resettlement gauntlet, which typically takes a year or more. </p> <p>I recently came across a frightening document that outlines another group’s designs for the coming U.S. withdrawal. Published in Fallujah by the Islamic State of Iraq, the umbrella organization composed of numerous insurgent and terrorist groups (including al Qaeda in Iraq), the manual sets forth their "balanced military plan" in chilling simplicity: "1) nine bullets for the traitors and one for the crusader, 2) cleansing, and 3) targeting." They are practical: "This cannot be accomplished within one or two months, but requires continuous effort." Those who believe the group’s threats have been rendered hollow by the surge might reflect upon the scores of victims from its triple-suicide car bombing that targeted foreign embassies just weeks ago. This past Friday, upon a string of attacks that killed another hundred Iraqis, the group’s "minister of war" declared: "What is happening to you nowadays is just a drizzle." </p> <p>We know where this road leads. When British forces drew down from southern Iraq just two years ago, militias conducted a systematic manhunt for their former Iraqi employees. Seventeen interpreters were publicly executed in a single massacre; their bodies were dumped throughout the streets of Basra. This predictable churn of violence against those who "collaborated" with an occupying power has been repeated through history, from the tens of thousands of Algerian harkis who were slaughtered after the 1962 French withdrawal to the British loyalists hunted by American militias after the Revolutionary War. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126971991&ft=1&f=1057" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10523"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/16/15th-may-2010-selected-english-language-coverage/#respond" title="Comment on 15th-May-2010 Selected English Language Coverage">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 16th, 2010 by Umm Fatima</div> <h3><a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/safety-precautions/" rel="tag">safety precautions</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/saudi/" rel="tag">Saudi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/saudi-arabia/" rel="tag">Saudi Arabia</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/society-and-economy/" rel="tag">Society And Economy</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/southern-iraq/" rel="tag">southern iraq</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/suicide-bombers/" rel="tag">suicide bombers</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/summaries/" rel="tag">Summaries</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>In the English language reporting on Irak for May 15th Al Arabiya carried a story by AFP about the Baghdad University students of Hebrew:</p> <blockquote><p>"At the festival, the joyous mood was tempered by bemusement among students at the peculiar circumstances that led them to study Hebrew and the lack of job opportunities for graduates.</p> <p>None of them originally chose to study Hebrew. They wanted English, French, German and Spanish but inadequate grades limited their options to Persian, Kurdish and Hebrew."</p> </blockquote> <p>It seems very strange and sad to me that only students with relatively poor grades study the languages of our neighbours (and in the Kurds’ case the language of our fellow Irakis).</p> <p>The report that Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal is <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.france24.com/en/20100515-maliki-hijacking-iraq-elections-top-saudi-prince" class="external" target="_blank">accusing Maliki of trying to hijack the election results amd warning that this could lead to civil war</a>  is guaranteed to infuriate Irakis who are well aware that Saudis provide arms, funding, and suicide bombers to fightyer groups here. Maybe what Turki says is true and maybe it isn’t the damage that will be done to Allawi — who is saying the same things, comes from the fact that his political enemies will use it as ammunition to call him a Saudi stooge. The American military expert Colonel Patrick Lang cites the report about Turki  and says "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2010/05/the-coming-civil-war-in-iraq.html#comments" class="external" target="_blank">there will be civil war with foreign Sunni suppoert</a>". </p> <p>Many of us fear he is right and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37155384/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/" class="external" target="_blank">have been going back to taking the safety precautions</a>.</p> <p>The English language press are finally picking up on what the Sadrists have been saying all along – that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/iraqs-maliki-edges-nearer-power-as-rival-warns-of-civil-war-20100516-v5s0.html" class="external" target="_blank">there are no absolute vetos on supporting Maliki provided he makes</a> and more importantly <em>keeps</em> his political promises — especially about releasing Sadrist prisoners.</p> <p><em>Umm Fatima</em></p> <hr style="width: 250px" )=")"/> <h3 style="color: #800000">The Day In Quotes:</h3> <p><strong>Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal on the continuing failure to form a government: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>"Adding to the brutal mayhem taking place there, we are watching a deliberate effort on the part of the incumbent prime minister, Mr al-Maliki, to hijack the results of the election and deny the Iraqi people their legitimately elected government. The consequences of that are more bloodshed and potential civil war". </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.france24.com/en/20100515-maliki-hijacking-iraq-elections-top-saudi-prince" class="external" target="_blank">source</a></strong><strong> </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Saleh al-Obeidi on the possibility of Sadrist support for Maliki as Prime Minister</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>“The Sadr movement does not object to Nuri al-Maliki taking the position of prime minister again but we have conditions. Maliki has not yet succeeded in giving us assurances about these conditions, which include (stopping) continuous arrests against Sadrists.” </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.khaleejtimes.com/darticlen.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2010/May/middleeast_May248.xml&section=middleeast" class="external" target="_blank">source</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <h3 style="color: #800000">Politics and Security</h3> <p><strong>Iraqis face ‘new cycle’ of violence – Conflict in Iraq- msnbc.com</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Many Iraqis are increasingly uneasy that a wave of bombings and shootings may revive all-out sectarian warfare that ravaged the country several years ago. In Baghdad and other cities, some are falling back into old cautionary habits — going outside only when necessary and avoiding busy markets and other crowded places.</p> <p>These small but significant steps show the trepidation many Iraqis feel at a time when the country is floundering without a new government and facing threats of more attacks from al-Qaida-linked groups.</p> <p>"If this power vacuum and struggle continues, then everybody is expecting the worst. We are afraid that more attacks and more security deterioration will push the country in a new cycle" of violence, said Qassim Jassim, of Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) south of Baghdad. He said he and his family are staying home more often as a result.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37155384/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong> </p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>كونا : Al-Maliki calls for second term – الشؤون السياسية – 15/05/2010</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>BAGHDAD, May 15 (KUNA) — Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki called for another term in order to continue his first government’s accomplishments.</p> <p>During his meeting with different tribal sheikhs of the Al-Muthana province, Al-Maliki said his government faced many obstacles in the past term, and came short of achieving the goal of creating a durable sense of responsible "nationalism" among the populace.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2083575&Language=en" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>France24 – Maliki ‘hijacking’ Iraq elections: top Saudi prince</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>AFP – Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal on Saturday accused Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of trying to "hijack" the results of the general election held in Iraq in March.</p> <p>"Adding to the brutal mayhem taking place there, we are watching a deliberate effort on the part of the incumbent prime minister, Mr al-Maliki, to hijack the results of the election and deny the Iraqi people their legitimately elected government," he said.</p> <p>"The consequences of that are more bloodshed and potential civil war," Prince Turki, also a former Saudi ambassador to the United States and Britain, told an audience of diplomats, journalists and businessmen in a speech.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.france24.com/en/20100515-maliki-hijacking-iraq-elections-top-saudi-prince" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Maliki edges nearer power as rival warns of civil war – Yahoo! News</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday took a major step forward to staying in power in Iraq when a leading Shiite cleric said he would not block him, but an arch-rival warned of civil war.</p> <p>A spokesman for radical, anti-US cleric Moqtada al-Sadr told AFP the movement would drop a veto against Maliki seeking a new term as premier as long as he met its condition that around 2,000 Sadrist prisoners be freed.</p> <p><em>snip</em></p> <p>"If he will give us sufficient guarantees to end our reluctance, especially concerning the arrests of Sadrists, then we will not block his candidacy for a second term," spokesman Saleh al-Obeidi told AFP from the Shiite holy city of Najaf in southern Iraq. <br/>But he added: "Maliki has not yet succeeded in giving us assurances about these conditions."</p> <p><em>snip</em></p> <p>The latest announcement came as former premier Iyad Allawi, who narrowly beat Maliki in a March 7 general election, said if a "new wave" of violence sweeping Iraq were to continue then the country was headed for civil war.</p> <p><em>snip</em></p> <p>"We are just at the beginning, but if the violence continues we are heading towards civil war."</p> <p><em>snip</em></p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100515/wl_mideast_afp/iraqpolitics" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <h3 style="color: #800000">Society and Economy:</h3> <p><strong>AFP: Iraq to boost oil output ‘above 3 mln bpd in 2011′</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Iraq, which last year awarded 10 contracts to oil majors, expects to add 600,000 barrels per day of new oil to boost output to 3.2 million bpd by end 2011, a top official was quoted as saying.</p> <p>"We expect to increase production by around 600,000 bpd over the course of this year and next," Iraqi deputy oil minister for upstream Abdulkarim al-Laibi told the Middle East Economic Survey (MEES) in its edition to appear on Monday.</p> <p>The country’s current oil output capacity stands at around 2.6 million bpd. <br/>Iraq, which sits on the world’s third largest crude reserves, last year awarded 10 major development contracts to foreign companies in two rounds with the aim of raising output capacity to 12 million bpd by 2017.</p> <p>"In general the companies we signed with will make the 10 percent capacity rise for the first round awards and initial production rates for the second round fields within the next two years," Laibi said.</p> <p>The contract for Rumaila, Iraq’s largest oilfield, with BP and China’s CNPC, is expected to add 100,000 bpd by the end of this year, he said, and others will come on stream gradually.</p> <p>Iraq’s oil ministry is organising a major meeting in July with the international oil companies that won contracts to sort out logistical problems facing them, Laibi said.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h3HiUI2gM0RUPZ-bnbWSqrn1ucyA" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> </p> <h3 style="color: #800000">Commentary and Analysis</h3> <p><strong>News | Learning Hebrew is a mixed blessing for Iraqis</strong><strong>: alarabiya.net</strong> </p> <blockquote><p>Wearing an elegant pink headscarf, Marwa Abdel Karim serenades her fellow Baghdad University students with a heartfelt rendition of "Filled With Love," remarkable for the language in which it is sung — Hebrew.</p> <p>She is one of the 150 students at the university’s Hebraic department, studying the language of Israel in an Arab country that has never had ties with the Jewish state and where most people regard it as an enemy.</p> <p>For the first time since it was set up 40 years ago, the department organized a festival earlier this month where students sang songs and recited poetry for an enthralled audience of about 12D, and gifted tutors with presents.</p> <p>At the festival, the joyous mood was tempered by bemusement among students at the peculiar circumstances that led them to study Hebrew and the lack of job opportunities for graduates.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/05/15/108643.html" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10370"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/05/5th-may-2010-selected-english-language-coverage/#respond" title="Comment on 5th-May-2010 Selected English Language Coverage">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 5th, 2010 by Editors</div> <h3><a 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rel="tag">UNESCO</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/xinhua/" rel="tag">Xinhua</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%ac%d9%8a%d8%b4-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%87%d8%af%d9%8a/" rel="tag">جيش المهدي</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>There are no prizes for guessing what the main story of the day in the English language coverage of Irak was, :-) but that wasn’t all that happened. We found a story on the how trade unions are trying to get a labour protection law passed, things are not as rosy with Turkey as the the KRG would have you believe, the South Oil Company is massively ramping up their security, (there’s no mention of the massive Ajil oil refinery fire in the north). The Guardian’s, Nicky Woolf thinks that KRG is on its way to being the next Dubai, and Hadi Ditmars writes about returning to Baghdad <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.newint.org/features/2010/05/01/keynote-iraq-in-pieces/" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>after seven years away</strong></a>.</p> <p>There is no mention either of the progress of the negotiations between the Arab bloc and the Kurds over Mosul – the governor is pleased with progress. (What is missing from English language coverage of events here is as fascinating to me as what they do cover).</p> <p>Nur</p> <h3 style="color: #800000">The Day In Quotes:</h3> <blockquote><ul> <li><strong>Hajim al-Hassani spokesman for Maliki’s State of Law coalition on Allawi’s narrowing options. </p> <p></strong>“In the end, the nominee for prime minister will be from the alliance. I think Iraqiya will realize that in the end the only choice is to be part of the new government.” </p> <p><strong>Source: </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/world/middleeast/05iraq.html?scp=4&sq=iraq&st=cse" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Shiite Blocs Join, Ensuring Dominance in Iraq – NYTimes.com</strong></a><strong>: <br/></strong></li> <li><strong>Brigadier-General Moussa Abdelhassan, head of police for the Southern Oil Company on the drive to provide saftety for oil companies <br/></strong> <br/>"We removed thousands of mines and cluster bombs that were left in the oil fields in order to be able to dig and repair the wells and extend the network of oil pipelines here" <p><strong>Source: </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/business/news/article_1553354.php/Iraq-takes-extra-security-measures-to-protect-oil-fields" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Iraq takes extra security measures to protect oil fields</strong></a> </li> </ul> </blockquote> <h3 style="color: #800000">Human Rights:</h3> <p><strong>Iraqi workers standing up for their rights</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Nearly seven years after the fall of the Saddam’s regime, many of its laws continue to apply, making it impossible for Iraqi trade unions to organise and bargain on behalf of their members. Workers in the public sector can not join unions, trade union assets have been frozen by the Government, and governmental authorities have attempted to take over trade unions. These laws are undermining the immense contribution democratic and independent trade unions can make to Iraq’s fledgling democracy.</p> <p>While several versions of a new labour code have been drafted, political opposition and a gridlocked Parliament has seen them only gather dust. <br/>In response workers and unions from across the country – from Basra to Iraqi Kurdistan – have come together to urge the government to put in place labour law. In spite of tremendous personal risk, the campaign is also a pioneering effort in bridging religious, political, ethnic and geographic divides.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.ei-ie.org/en/news/show.php?id=1250&theme=rights&country=iraq" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <h3 style="color: #800000">Politics and Security</h3> <p><strong>Iraq’s two major Shiite blocs form new coalition</strong><strong>: Xinhua </strong></p> <blockquote><p>BAGHDAD, May 4 (Xinhua) — The State of Law alliance led by Iraqi incumbent Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the Iraqi National Alliance (INA) have formed a coalition, according to a statement released on late Tuesday. <br/>"The two alliances reached an agreement to form a parliamentary bloc," said INA official Abdul-Razzak al-Kazimi at a press conference in Baghdad, adding "the alliance was a major step and would open to other Iraqi national forces." <br/>The new alliance was "determined to provide all the requirements for the success of the political process and to build an effective parliamentary system," said the official while reading the statement. <br/>According to initial results, the State of Law won 89 seats and the Iraqi National Alliance got 70 in the recent parliamentary elections. After combined, the two have 159 seats, very close to the needed 163 seats to form the new government. <br/>Al-Kazimi said the newly formed alliance vowed to name a prime minister committed to this program and pledged to promote an " institutional building of the state and the effective and constructive role of Iraq at the Arab, Islamic and international levels," the official said.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-05/05/c_13278382.htm" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>:</strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Iraq’s Shiites try to form new government</strong><strong>: Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>The coalition deal was announced at a news conference, but the question of who would be prime minister could threaten to derail their plans to form a government. <br/>“Despite the challenges and the risks, both coalitions have agreed to announce the formation of a single parliamentary bloc,” said Abdul-Razaq al-Kazemi of the Iraqi National Alliance. <br/><strong>Al-Kazemi, who took no questions from reporters, was flanked by officials from State of Law and the movement of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose followers make up the strongest group in the Iraqi National Alliance.</strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.japantoday.com/category/world/view/iraqs-shiites-try-to-form-new-government" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: (emphasis added).</strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>DAWN.COM | World | Iraq deal gives clerics final say: Report</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>BAGHDAD: An agreement signed by the two main Iranian-backed Shia blocs seeking to govern Iraq gives the final decision on all their political disputes to top Shia clerics, according to a copy obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday. <br/>If the alliance succeeds in forming the next government, the provision could increase the role of senior clergy in politics. The provision would likely further alienate Iraq’s Sunni minority, which had been hoping the March election would boost their say in the country.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/06-iraq-deal-gives-clerics-final-say-report-rs-06" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Al Jazeera English – Middle East – Iraqiya: Shia alliance made in Iran</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Discussions about who will become prime minister are now under way between the Shia parties, al-Asadi told Al Jazeera. <br/>However, it is widely believed that the agreement came to light only after assurances were given by the State of Law that al-Maliki would not continue in his post. <br/>"Mr al-Maliki has left the decision to the leadership of the alliance. There are certain internal methods to choose the PM candidate at the end of the day, and everyone should respect them," al-Asadi said.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/05/201055161551418941.html" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Iraq: Nouri Maliki’s bloc forges alliance with another Shiite faction – latimes.com</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Maliki’s path to retaining the premiership is far from clear. He faces stiff opposition from the bloc loyal to Sadr, who despise the prime minister for launching several military offensives against its armed wing, the Mahdi Army, in Baghdad and southern Iraq. <br/>The newly formed coalition constitutes 159 of the parliament’s 325 seats, just four seats short of the majority needed to govern. Its formation delivers a blow to the bloc led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, a secular Shiite and onetime favorite of the West with close ties to U.S. allies in the Middle East.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/topofthetimes/topstories/la-fg-iraq-coalition-20100505,0,7759573.story" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Coalition still keen on al-Maliki after forming Shiite alliance – Monsters and Critics</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Baghdad – The State of Law coalition said Wednesday it plans to nominate its leader and current Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki for the premiership, after allying with the Iraqi National Alliance. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1553357.php/Coalition-still-keen-on-al-Maliki-after-forming-Shiite-alliance" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>FT.com / Iraq – Iraqi Shia groups form alliance</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Mr Dabbagh said the Shia alliance would seek to reach out to Iraqiya to include it in the government, but made it clear Iraqiya would not be considered a major party in the next administration. <br/>He said that State of Law and the INA would decide internally on their candidate for prime minister, which has already been a point of contention between the Shia groups because of Mr Maliki’s insistence that he retain the position of prime minister.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6a46c890-581c-11df-9eaf-00144feab49a,dwp_uuid=17aab8bc-6e47-11da-9544-0000779e2340.html?ftcamp=rss" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Sunni cleric killed by gunmen in western Baghdad</strong><strong>: Xinhua</strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>BAGHDAD, May 5 (Xinhua) — A Sunni cleric and three other people were shot dead by gunmen in a western Baghdad neighborhood on Wednesday, an Interior Ministry source said. <br/>The attack took place in the morning when gunmen in a car opened fire on Abdul Jalil al-Fahdawi, Imam of a Sunni mosque in the neighborhood of Amriyah while he was leaving his home, adjacent to the mosque building, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. <br/>Fahdawi, two of his guards and a man who is his relative, were all killed by the attack, the source said. <br/>Fahdawi is also deputy head of Scholars of Iraq Council, a nongovernmental and politically independent body which represents moderate Islam that opposes religious extremism.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-05/05/c_13279216.htm" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>:</strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Ankara expects Kurdish help with PKK – UPI.com</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>PKK attacks in Turkey are increasing as the spring thaw begins. Ankara believes attacks are on the rise because of a pending visit to Turkey by Massoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq. <br/>"We are expecting active support from the regional administration (in northern Iraq)," the foreign minister was quoted in the English-language newspaper Hurriyet as saying. <br/>Davutoglu added that Barzani was a welcome partner in Ankara. On trilateral efforts between U.S., Iraqi and Turkish officials on the PKK issue, the foreign minister stressed that Ankara’s "determination is continuing."</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2010/05/05/Ankara-expects-Kurdish-help-with-PKK/UPI-60931273069164/" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <h3 style="color: #800000">Society and Economy:</h3> <p><strong>Is Kurdistan the next Dubai? | Nicky Woolf | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>As in Dubai, urban planners are reclaiming swathes of desert or scrubland with ambitious projects like Dream City, a development of brand new homes set in landscaped gardens with shops, schools and a mosque; or the planned Korek Tower, an angular glass-clad skyscraper that its owners, a home-grown mobile phone company, even describe as "Dubai-style".</p> <p>Based on the Dubai model, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is planning to expand the scope of the economy from purely oil-based to tourism and services. The minister for tourism has outlined an ambitious five-year plan for the construction of the industry practically from scratch, focusing on new intercity highways, airports and luxury hotels. Erbil’s citadel has recently been awarded Unesco World Heritage status and is the recipient of a multi-million dollar restoration scheme, and there are even plans to construct a ski resort in the mountain town of Haj Omaran.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/05/kurdistan-next-dubai-iraq" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>UPDATE 1-Russia’s TNK-BP makes foray into Iraqi oil and gas | News by Country | Reuters</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Russia’s TNK-BP, half owned by BP , has established a joint venture to develop oil and gas fields in Iraq, joining Russian majors, which are tapping the world’s third-largest crude reserves.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://af.reuters.com/article/ivoryCoastNews/idAFLDE6442BK20100505?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=ivoryCoastNews&rpc=401&sp=true" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Iraq takes extra security measures to protect oil fields – Monsters and Critics</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Iraq has begun implementing extra security measures to protect oil fields in and around the south-eastern city of Basra, security sources announced on Wednesday. <br/>Iraq’s oil pipelines have frequently been attacked in the past. Last month, a bomb destroyed a section of pipeline linking northern Iraqi oil fields to the Turkish port of Ceyhan. <br/>‘We removed thousands of mines and cluster bombs that were left in the oil fields in order to be able to dig and repair the wells and extend the network of oil pipelines,’ Brigadier-General Moussa Abdelhassan, head of police for the Southern Oil Company told dpa. <br/>Security forces are cooperating with oil companies connected to the oil ministry, and have signed security agreements with foreign companies licensed to develop a number of oil fields in the area. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/business/news/article_1553354.php/Iraq-takes-extra-security-measures-to-protect-oil-fields" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Iraq lobbies for oil port expansions – UPI.com</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>The South Oil Co. is moving to boost export capacity through an offshore reconstruction project at the southern port in Basra. Upgrades include a 6-mile onshore and a 38-mile offshore pipeline to expand export capacity, the online Oil & Gas Journal reports. <br/>A spokesman for the state-owned oil company said the project is part of a plan to increase export capacity from Basra ports from 1.8 million barrels per day to 4 million barrels per day during the next four years. Companies were invited to submit their interest Wednesday. <br/>Low volumes of crude in storage were blamed for a 550,000-barrel-per-day decline in exports from Basra terminals in April.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Resource-Wars/2010/05/05/Iraq-lobbies-for-oil-port-expansions/UPI-21571273067809/" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <h3 style="color: #800000">Commentary and Analysis</h3> <p><strong>Tampering with the Political Process in Iraq Asharq Alawsat Newspaper (English)</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Prime Minister Al-Maliki does not consider himself the prime minister of a caretaker government. He is administering a normal government, in fact more than normal, because due to the constitutional vacuum he has immense powers that he has never had during his rule in the past four years. The prime minister now governs the country without consulting the parliament, as the term of the Council of Representatives has lapsed; therefore, the prime minister can sign whatever he wants of decisions and contracts. Also the prime minister does not need the Presidency Council, because it is semi-honorary; he understands that the army is at his disposal as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces; and the relations with the United States – according to the security agreement – is under the authority of the prime minister’s office, and hence cannot be activated, even in case of internal dispute as is the case today, except at the wish of the prime minister. This means that practically he is the president, he is the prime minister, he is the parliament, he is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and his is the controller of the relations with the United States. Thus it is in the interest of Al-Maliki and his government to prolong as much as possible the current situation, because it is a golden opportunity in which he has all the powers to spend, appoint, and change in any way he likes.</p> <p>To what can this time-wasting game, which is comfortable for the government, lead? It certainly will lead to a state of restlessness and political chaos, because the competing sides will consider every passing day to be at their own expense.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2&id=20833" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10270"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/02/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%82-%d8%aa%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%ac%d8%b9-%d8%a5%d9%86%d8%aa%d8%a7%d8%ac-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%82%d9%85%d8%ad-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d8%b1%d8%b2/#respond" title="Comment on العراق: تراجع إنتاج القمح والأرز">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 2nd, 2010 by Editors</div> <h3><a 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لاستيراد 80 بالمائة من احتياجاته من القمح والأرز خلال عام 2010، وفقاً لغازي حسين، المتحدث باسم شركة الحبوب المملوكة للدولة والتابعة لوزارة التجارة.</p> <p>وتظهر أرقام وزارة التجارة أن العراق استورد 3.55 مليون طن من القمح و1.17 مليون طن من الأرز في العام الماضي، وهو ما يشكل ارتفاعاً مقارنة بالكميات المستوردة من القمح والأرز في عام 2008 والتي بلغت 2.54 مليون طن و610,000 طن على التوالي.</p> <p>وأوضح عون ذياب عبد الله، وهو مسؤول رفيع المستوى في وزارة الموارد المائية، أن ارتفاع الواردات ناتج عن <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://arabic.irinnews.org/ReportArabic.aspx?SID=1539" class="external" target="_blank">انخفاض منسوب المياه في نهري الفرات ودجلة </a>مما تسبب بدوره في انخفاض الإنتاج. وحذر عبد الله من أن العراق قد يواجه موسماً زراعياً صعباً نهاية هذا الصيف.</p> <p>وجاء في قوله: "لا تزال كمية المياه التي نتلقاها من نهر الفرات عند الحدود مع سوريا منخفضة عند حوالي 250 متراً مكعباً في الثانية… أما بالنسبة لنهر دجلة، فقد شهدنا انخفاضاً بنسبة 50 بالمائة في معدل التدفق من 1,680 متراً مكعباً في الثانية [خلال وقبل أبريل 2003] إلى 836 متراً مكعباً في الثانية الواحدة". وأشار إلى أن تغذية الخزانات على نهر دجلة في مستوى معقول في الوقت الحاضر، غير أن الخزانات الثلاثة الكبرى التي تتغذى من الفرات، وهي خزان حديثة وسد الموصل وبحيرة الحبانية تعاني من نقص شديد في المياه.</p> <p>وقد قررت الحكومة في عام 2009 تخفيض المساحة المزروعة بالأرز، والتي تعتمد كلها على المياه من نهر الفرات، بسبب نقص المياه وارتفاع مستويات ملوحة التربة. وعلق عبد الله على ذلك بقوله: "إن هذا الوضع يقلقنا، خصوصاً في موسم الصيف المقبل. كما يمكنه أن يؤثر [على الزراعة] في بداية فصل الشتاء المقبل عندما تحين الحاجة لأولى قطرات الري [في أكتوبر ونوفمبر]". </p> <p><strong>ضعف القطاع الزراعي</strong></p> <p>وتعد معظم الأراضي العراقية، حوالي 78 بالمائة، غير قابلة للاستخدام الزراعي. كما أن ما يقرب من 9.5 مليون هكتار من الأراضي الهامشية المتبقية تستخدم للرعي الموسمي للماعز والأغنام، وفقاً <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org/assets/crs/RL32093.pdf" class="external" target="_blank">لتقرير صادر في شهر يونيو 2004 عن الكونغرس الأميركي</a>. ولا يمثل الإنتاج الزراعي سوى حوالي 4 بالمائة من الناتج المحلي الإجمالي.</p> <p>وقد تعرضت الزراعة للشلل بسبب عقود من الحرب وانعدام الأمن وقلة الاستثمارات وقطع الأشجار لجمع الحطب، مما تسبب في تفاقم الملوحة <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://arabic.irinnews.org/ReportArabic.aspx?SID=1305" class="external" target="_blank">والتصحر</a>. ووفقاً لوزارة الزراعة، تؤثر الملوحة على ما لا يقل عن 40 بالمائة من الأراضي الزراعية، لاسيما في وسط وجنوب العراق، في حين أثر التصحر على ما يتراوح بين 40 و50 بالمائة من الأراضي التي كانت منتجة في السبعينيات. </p> <p>وقد قدر <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.faoiraq.org/images/word/Agriculture%20Overview%20Feb09.pdf" class="external" target="_blank">تقرير </a>صادر عن منظمة الأغذية والزراعة (الفاو) أن "ثلث سكان العراق يقيمون في المناطق الريفية ويعتمدون على الزراعة لكسب الرزق. ومع ذلك، فإن هذا الجزء من السكان يعاني على نحو غير متناسب من الفقر وانعدام الأمن الغذائي. ويقيم 69 بالمائة من العراقيين الذين يعانون من الفقر المدقع وانعدام الأمن الغذائي في المناطق الريفية".</p> <p>وأشارت المنظمة إلى أن مزارعي القمح العراقيين عانوا من انخفاض في الإنتاج بنسبة 55 بالمائة خلال عام 2008 بسبب الجفاف الشديد، وارتفاع الاعتماد على الواردات في عام 2008 إلى 74 بالمائة بالنسبة للقمح و69 بالمائة بالنسبة لجميع الحبوب. </p> <p>وأفاد تقرير مشترك صادر عن منظمة الأغذية والزراعة ووحدة المعلومات والتحاليل المشتركة بين الوكالات (بدعم من مختلف المنظمات الرئيسية للأمم المتحدة ومكاتبها في العراق) تحت عنوان "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ISFP/Iraq_Food_Prices-Final.pdf" class="external" target="_blank">تحليل أسعار المواد الغذائية في العراق</a>" إلى أن أسعار المواد الغذائية في البلاد ارتفعت بشكل حاد مقارنة بالأسعار العالمية. ويعود ذلك إلى حد كبير إلى زيادة الأسعار المحلية للوقود والكهرباء بنسبة 800 بالمائة في الفترة 2004-2008.</p> <p>ووفقاً لمهدي القيسي، وكيل وزارة الزراعة، أنتج العراق 117,000 طن من الأرز و1.281 طن من القمح في موسم 2008-2009. وهذه الأرقام تشمل الإنتاج المبلغ عنه من قبل المزارعين لوزارة التجارة، مما قد يجعلها منخفضة.</p> <p>ومن المتوقع أن يصل إجمالي الاستهلاك من القمح في عام 2010 إلى 4.5 مليون طن والأرز إلى 1.227 طن، حسب غازي المتحدث باسم شركة الحبوب. </p> <blockquote></blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://arabic.irinnews.org/ReportArabic.aspx?SID=1973" class="external" target="_blank">العراق: تراجع إنتاج القمح والأرز -العراق-إقتصاد-أمن غذائي</a></p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="navigation"> <div class="alignleft"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185702/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/southern-iraq/page/2/">« Previous Entries</a></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 href="#featured-articles">Featured Articles</a></li> <li class="ui-tabs-nav-item"><a 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