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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/child-killing/" rel="tag">Child Killing</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/hit/" rel="tag">Hit</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>قبل دعاء الامهات بقليل، انفجرت سيارة مفخخة عند مدرسة الكفاح الابتدائية في قضاء هيت بمحافظة الانبار لتقتل وتجرح 11 تلميذا بينهم ثلاثة في الصف الاول كان هذا يومهم الثاني في المدرسة.دماء، امس الاثنين، ليست الاولى، الا انها الاكثر عصرا للقلب فاشلاء البراءة مع بكاء الامهات قطعت اوتار الشمس وهزت الارض بانين لا استثناء فيه حتى للجريمة والبشاعة.المشهد كما قرأه لنا شهود العيان هو تكرار مسرحي لكل برامجيات الالم الموشومة بالذاكرة بدءا من كوارث الحروب القديمة وانتهاء بسيناريوهات مشروع قانون العفو العام. وكما في كل مرة تتطاير الارواح البريئة مع فزع الطيور وينقشع الدخان وتضيع العلامة الفارقة في السماء ثم يخيم الهدوء بعد مغادرة سيارات الاسعاف المكان.وأفادت مصادر امنية وطبية بمقتل خمسة أطفال على الأقل وجرح تسعة آخرين في انفجار سيارة مفخخة استهدف سيارة تقل ضباطا في وزارة الداخلية في مدينة هيت بمحافظة الأنبار غربي العراق.وقال شهود عيان إن الانفجار وقع قرب مدرسة الكفاح الابتدائية المختلطة ومكتب بريد هيت وسط المدينة، واستهدف سيارة تقل ضباطاً من مكتب المعلومات التابع لوزارة الداخلية في المدينة. <br/>ونقل عن مسؤولين أمنيين قولهم إن الانفجار وقع في الساعة الثامنة صباحا، بينما كان الاطفال يدخلون الى صفوفهم الدراسية، واثناء مرور دورية تابعة لوحدة مكافحة الارهاب.شهود العيان نقلوا صورا مأساوية عن الهلع الذي وقع اثر الانفجار وان السلطات الامنية وجدت صعوبة في تفريق الامهات والاهالي من مكان الحادث فضلا عن الصدمة الكبيرة التي خلفها الانفجار بين تلاميذ المدرسة من غير المصابين وبين الكادر التدريسي. ونقل، في الساعة الاولى بعد الانفجار، عن مساعد رئيس شرطة هيت الرائد عيادة النمراوي قوله إن الانفجار أودى بحياة اربعة اطفال واصابة اثنين بجروح خطيرة. وان الدورية الامنية لم تصب بأذى.ويأتي هذا الانفجار بعد يوم واحد من بدء العام الدراسي الجديد.وقال مصدر طبي في دائرة صحة الانبار ان “عدد الشهداء بلغ خمسة مع اصابة تسعة اخرين بحروق شديدة اغلبهم من الطلبة”.وبحسب شهود العيان فان الانفجار احرق عددا من المنازل الواقعة قرب المدرسة فضلا عن تدمير عدد من السيارات وتدمير واجهة المدرسة بالكامل.وكان مصدر في شرطة محافظة الأنبار أفاد في وقت سابق، بأن أربعة طلاب قتلوا وأصيب ستة آخرون على الأقل بتفجير انتحاري بسيارة مفخخة استهدفت مدرسة ابتدائية في مدينة هيت.يذكر أن محافظة الانبار، تشهد منذ فترة طويلة موجة من أعمال العنف، على الرغم من قيام القوات الأمنية بالعديد من الهجمات ضد المواقع التي يعتقد أنها تضم مسلحين يقفون وراء عمليات الاغتيال المتزايدة، حيث تمكنت من قتل بعضهم واعتقال عدد آخر. </p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11826"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/11/30/iraq-civilians-still-suffering-undue-hardship/#respond" title="Comment on Iraq: civilians still suffering undue hardship">No Comments</a></span> Posted on November 30th, 2010 by Abdus-Samad</div> <h3><a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-supply/" rel="tag">water supply</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/wheat/" rel="tag">wheat</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/women-and-children/" rel="tag">Women and Children</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%ac%d9%85%d8%b9%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%a8-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%87%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%ad%d9%85%d8%b1/" rel="tag">جمعية الصليب والهلال الاحمر</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>The persistent lack of security is hampering efforts to provide essential services for civilians. The ICRC is doing its utmost to help meet the most pressing needs. This is an update on these and other <span style="border-right: black 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: black 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: black 1px solid; width: 300px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: black 1px solid"><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/home!Open" target="_blank" class="external">ICRC</a> 30-11-2010 <a title="Operational Update" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/update/2010/irak-update-2010-11-30.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Operational Update</a></strong> </span>ICRC activities carried out in Iraq in September and October.</p> <p>Despite improvements in the security situation achieved over the years in many parts of Iraq, ongoing violence continues to claim the lives of hundreds of men, women and children every month, and to have a serious impact on the lives of many more.</p> <p>Over the past year, the lives of many Iraqi civilians have not changed for the better. Civilians continue to carry the heaviest burden amid the widespread violence. They are still the main victims of the indiscriminate attacks and mass explosions that have taken place in cities such as Baghdad, Ninewa, Diyala, Anbar, Najaf, Kerbala and Basra, and that have left, on average, hundreds of people wounded or dead each month this year.</p> <p>"Indiscriminate attacks against civilians inflict tremendous suffering. They are clearly unacceptable. They are contrary to international humanitarian law and to the most basic principles of humanity," said Magne Barth, head of the ICRC delegation in Iraq. "Civilians must be protected against violence, as must be medical personnel and facilities".</p> <p>The humanitarian situation in Iraq remains serious. Iraqis are filled with anxiety and uncertainty about what the future holds. Vulnerable people, such as women heading households, disabled people and detainees, continue to depend to some extent on outside help to meet basic needs.</p> <p>The persistent lack of security and wanton violence have had a considerable effect on the feasibility of providing essential services for the population. The ICRC is doing its utmost to help meet the most pressing needs, especially in rural areas and in the places hardest hit by the conflict and other violence. ICRC activities aim primarily at ensuring that people have access to adequate health, water and sanitation services, and at helping the destitute and other needy people.</p> <p>Visits to detainees held under Iraqi, Kurdistan Regional Government and USF-I authority remain a priority for the ICRC. "Ensuring that detainees are treated humanely and are held in conditions that respect their dignity has been our constant concern since we started working in Iraq 30 years ago," said Mr Barth.</p> <p>The ICRC continues to speak out about the plight of conflict victims in Iraq. It does so in dialogue with as many parties as possible that can influence the situation on the ground. Its aim is to bring about greater respect for civilians and detainees, and to ensure that unimpeded access is granted for humanitarian action to help the people in greatest need throughout the country.</p> <p>"The role of the ICRC, as an impartial humanitarian organization, is crucial to efforts to protect civilians from harm and to ensure that detainees are properly treated and held in decent conditions," said Mr Barth.</p> <p>In September and October 2010, in response to the unstable and often changing security environment, the ICRC made further adjustments to its working procedures so that it could continue to provide services to those who need them most.</p> <h4><b>Bringing aid to vulnerable people</b></h4> <p>The ICRC has maintained its support for people facing special difficulties earning a living and supporting their families, such as women heading households and people with disabilities. In September and October:</p> <ul> <li>hygiene kits and food parcels were provided for more than 5,600 people in the governorate of Mosul; </li> <li>emergency aid was provided for more than 170 displaced people in Sulaimaniya governorate; </li> <li>95 grants were made in Kirkuk, Ninewa, Dohuk, Sulaimaniya and Erbil governorates to enable disabled people to start small businesses and regain economic self-sufficiency. Around 700 disabled people have received such aid since 2008; </li> <li>the livestock of 731 needy farmers in the Kifri district of Diyala governorate were vaccinated; </li> <li>around 950 metric tonnes of wheat seed were delivered to some 3,800 farmers in the governorates of Diyala, Anbar, Salahadin, Baghdad and Babil to help them restore their food production; </li> <li>50 kilometres of irrigation canals serving over 7,000 people were cleaned and renovated in the Khalis and Kifri districts of Diyala governorate; </li> <li>600 sheep and 38 metric tonnes of fodder were distributed to 200 farmers in the Baaj district of Ninewa governorate. </li> </ul> <h4>Assisting hospitals and physical rehabilitation centres</h4> <p>In some rural and conflict-prone areas, health-care services are still struggling to meet the needs of the civilian population. The ICRC continues to help renovate the premises of health-care facilities and train staff. Limb-fitting and physical rehabilitation services are provided by the ICRC to help disabled people reintegrate into the community. In September and October:</p> <ul> <li>10 doctors and 28 nurses successfully took part in a course intended to strengthen emergency services given in Al Sadr Teaching Hospital in Najaf; </li> <li>273 new patients were fitted with prostheses and 1,148 new patients with orthoses at 10 ICRC-supported centres throughout Iraq. </li> </ul> <h4>Providing clean water and sanitation</h4> <p>Access to clean water remains difficult in much of Iraq. ICRC engineers continue to repair and upgrade water, electrical and sanitary facilities, especially in places where violence remains a concern and in rural areas, to improve the quality of services provided in communities and health-care facilities. In September and October, these activities included:</p> <h5>Emergency assistance:</h5> <p>The ICRC delivered water by truck:</p> <p>● in Zharawa district, Sadr City, Husseinia and Maamal to 6,384 internally displaced people; <br/>● to the 385-bed Al Imam Ali General Hospital; <br/>● to the 400-bed Al Kindy General Hospital in Baghdad, which was struggling to cope with summer water shortages.</p> <h5>Support for health-care facilities:</h5> <p>The ICRC completed work upgrading: <br/>● Tarmiyah General Hospital, which serves between 250 and 300 outpatients daily, in Baghdad governorate; <br/>● Tamour primary health-care centre, which serves 50 patients per day, in Kirkuk governorate.</p> <h5>Water supply in hospitals:</h5> <ul> <li>The ICRC completed the installation of drinking-water purification units in Baquba General Hospital, Muqdadiya General Hospital, Baladrooz General Hospital and Al Zahraa Maternity Hospital, with an overall capacity of 600 beds, in Diyala governorate. </li> </ul> <h5>Drinking-water supply:</h5> <ul> <li>Five main projects benefiting around 725,000 people were completed throughout the country. </li> </ul> <h4><b>Visiting detainees</b></h4> <p>ICRC delegates visit detainees in order to monitor the conditions in which they are being held and the treatment they receive. In all cases, the ICRC shares its findings and recommendations confidentially with the detaining authorities, with the aim of obtaining improvements where necessary.</p> <p>In September and October, the ICRC visited detainees held by the correctional service of the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Defence and various Kurdish Regional Government authorities in places of detention in Basra, Thi Qar/Nasiriya, Baghdad, Babil, Kirkuk, Erbil, Dohuk and Sulaimaniya governorates.</p> <p>In some of these places, to help the detaining authority improve conditions of detention, the ICRC gave detainees mattresses, blankets and recreational items such as books and games.</p> <p>The ICRC makes a special effort to restore and maintain ties between detainees and their families. In September and October, over 1,000 Red Cross messages were exchanged between detainees and their families in Iraq and abroad. The ICRC also responded to around 800 enquiries from families seeking information on detained relatives. In addition, it issued 249 certificates of detention to former detainees. The ICRC facilitated the voluntary repatriation of two released detainees, and issued two travel documents to refugees to enable them to resettle abroad.</p> <h4><b>Clarifying what happened to missing people</b></h4> <p>In its role as a neutral intermediary, the ICRC continues to chair the mechanisms set up to address the cases of people who went missing in connection with the 1990-1991 Gulf War. At the 67th session of the Technical Sub-Committee of the Tripartite Commission, held on 28 September in Kuwait, the members of the sub-committee reaffirmed their commitment to accounting for people who went missing in connection with the war. At the sub-committee’s next meeting, which will take place in Kuwait in November, preparations will be made for a joint field mission to the south of Iraq to check on suspected burial sites.</p> <p>On 27 and 28 October, representatives of Iran and Iraq held a high-level meeting in Geneva under ICRC auspices with the aim of determining what happened to people missing in connection with the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War. The meeting was the first of its kind following the signature in October 2008 of a memorandum of understanding between Iran, Iraq and the ICRC aimed at expediting the search for information on people previously registered as, or presumed to be, prisoners of war and on others who have gone missing, and at identifying mortal remains.</p> <p>Relieving the suffering of the families of missing persons by clarifying what happened to their loved ones is one of the ICRC’s priorities. The ICRC continues to provide the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights and Baghdad’s Medical-Legal Institute with the technical support they require to exchange information and build up their capacity in the area of forensics.</p> <h4><b>Promoting international humanitarian law</b></h4> <p>Reminding parties to a conflict of their obligation to protect civilians is a fundamental part of the ICRC’s work. The organization also endeavours to promote international humanitarian law within civil society. In this framework, it organizes presentations for various audiences, which include military personnel, prison staff, students and professors.</p> <p>In September and October, information sessions on international humanitarian law were organized for members of the Iraqi Army, the Peshmerga forces and Assayesh security forces. In October, a "train-the-trainers" course was organized for 14 members of the Iraqi Centre for Military Values and Professional Leadership Development. One member of the Iraqi armed forces attended an advanced course on international humanitarian law at the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in San Remo, Italy, and another attended a workshop on rules of engagement, also held in Italy.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/update/2010/irak-update-2010-11-30.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq: civilians still suffering undue hardship</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-9927"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/20/%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%b4%d9%87%d8%a7%d8%af-%d8%ae%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%a9-%d9%85%d9%86-%d8%b9%d8%a7%d8%a6%d9%84%d8%a9-%d9%82%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%af%d9%8a-%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d8%ad%d9%88%d8%a9-%d9%88%d9%81/#respond" title="Comment on استشهاد خمسة من عائلة قيادي بالصحوة وفرض حظر للتجوال في هيت">No Comments</a></span> Posted on 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مسؤولون امنيون ان "عددا من المسلحين اقتحموا منزل قائد الصحوة وقتلوا زوجته وابنته البالغة من العمر 22 عاماً، وقطعوا رؤوس ثلاثة أولاد تتراوح أعمارهم بين 12 و15 عاماً." <br/>وأوضح المسؤولون ان رب العائلة لم "يكن موجوداً في بيته بالطارمية ، عندما وقع الهجوم"، مشيرين إلى انه "كان يقوم بعمله خلال ذلك الوقت". <br/>من جانب اخر فرضت شرطة محافظة الانبار حظرا على سير المركبات والدراجات الهوائية والنارية في قضاء هيت والقرى القريبة منها اعتبارا من اليوم الثلاثاء والى إشعار آخر على خلفية مصرع معاون مدير شرطة القضاء. <br/>وذكر مصدر في شرطة المحافظة ان قرار فرض حظر على سير المركبات والدراجات في قضاء هيت جاء بأمر من شرطة المدينة على خلفية الإعمال الإرهابية التي أسفرت عن مصرع معاون مدير شرطة هيت واحد حراسه وتفجير احد منازل المدنيين من قبل مسلحين مجهولين اليوم (الثلاثاء). <br/>وكان مصدر في شرطة محافظة الانبار قال في وقت سابق ان معاون مدير شرطة قضاء هيت قتل مع احد حراسة اثر انفجار عبوة ناسفة مستهدفة دوريتهما وسط القضاء. <br/>وأضاف ان إجراءات أمنية مشددة اتخذت لحماية منازل المواطنين ومنتسبي القوات الأمن العراقية خوفا من استهدافها من قبل المسلحين ولضمان نجاح الحملة الأمنية التي انطلقت لتفتيش عدة مناطق من القضاء بحثا عن متورطين بتلك الهجمات. <br/>وأشار إلى ان قوات الجيش والشرطة وأفواج الطوارئ تقوم بعملية تمشيط المناطق المشتبه بها وتعزيز نقاط التفتيش ونصب السيطرات الأمنية المؤقتة على الطرق الخارجية والرئيسية.</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-8164"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/01/02/munir-chalabi-baath-is-coming-back/#respond" title="Comment on Munir Chalabi: Ba’ath Is Coming Back">No Comments</a></span> Posted on January 2nd, 2010 by Editors</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/01/02/munir-chalabi-baath-is-coming-back/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Munir Chalabi: Ba’ath Is Coming Back">Munir Chalabi: Ba’ath Is Coming Back</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/saudi-arabia/" rel="tag">Saudi Arabia</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sectarian-violence/" rel="tag">sectarian violence</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sectarianism/" rel="tag">sectarianism</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/syria/" rel="tag">Syria</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/torture/" rel="tag">Torture</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d9%85%d8%af%d9%8a%d9%86%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d8%af%d8%b1%e2%80%8e/" rel="tag">مدينة الصدر‎</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/youtube/" rel="tag">YouTube</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>The Iraqi Ba’ath party was formed in 1954 by anti-communist and reactionary nationalist Shiite and Sunni Arabs.<b> </b> </p> </p> <p> From the beginning, the party was anti-democratic and soon after its formation it turned into a fascist organisation, with an Arab nationalist ideology that believed in attaining political power through non-democratic means, and in obliterating all other Iraqi democratic parties by the use of excessive force. This included the assassination of political opponents and co-operation with any external superpower that would enable them to take control of the state.[1] <p>Since 1979, the Ba’ath party has mainly been led by Sunni leaders, but this has not always been the case. During the early years of its formation, the Ba’ath party comprised a mixture of Shiite and Sunni leadership and policy makers. During the 50’s and up to the 1963 coup d’état when they first came into power, most of the political leaders in the party were Shiite. They included the founder of the Iraqi Ba’ath Party, Fouad Al Rikabi and the leader of the CIA-organised coup d’état in 1963, Ali Salih Al-Sadi, his second in command Hani Fkaiki, and many other leaders. I have covered this issue in more detail in several of my previous articles.[2] </p> <p>By the 1979 Ba’ath conference, the Saddam wing of the party succeeded in ousting all of its opponents within the "Iraqi Command" of the party. This was the milestone which turned the party into a sectarian organisation, utilising the state as the main sectarian tool against the Shiites and Kurds. It is important to emphasise that the Iraqi Sunni community were not to blame on this issue. </p> <p>The Iraqi Ba’ath party was then split into several factions after the March 2003 US/UK occupation of Iraq and the arrest of Saddam Hussein in December 2003. </p> <p>From studying the history of the past fifty years, we see that the Iraqi Ba’ath party was frequently used as an instrument for accomplishing US and UK policies in the Middle East and Gulf region. The overwhelming evidence is that the CIA used the Ba’ath party in order to achieve US objectives and that the CIA and the British MI6 were behind the 1963 and 1968<b> </b>coups d’état which twice brought the Ba’ath party to power.[3] </p> <p>The Ba’ath was the major tool used in the bloody coup d’etat of 1963 against the Kassim regime and the progressive movements in Iraq. Ali Salih Al-Sadi, the Ba’ath party leader who headed the coup and consequently became Prime Minster, later admitted that they came to power in a coup organised and financed by the CIA and British Intelligence Services, in order to freeze Law 80. The law was introduced by General Kassim’s government in 1961 to recover over 99.5% of Iraqi territory from the control of the international oil companies (IOCs) and return it to Iraqi sovereignty.[4] </p> <p>The role the Iraqi Ba’ath party played in the success of the US plans to control the Middle East has now been well recognised by many historians. </p> <p>Detailed information concerning this was revealed in the book, <i>A Brutal Friendship: The West and the Arab Elite</i> (1997) by Said K. Aburish, which sets out in depth, not only how the CIA closely controlled the planning stages, but also how it played a central role in the subsequent purge of suspected democrats and communists after the coup. The author believes that 5,000 people were killed, giving the names of 600 of them — including many doctors, lawyers, teachers and professors who formed Iraq’s educated elite. The massacre was carried out on the basis of death lists provided by the CIA. The Ba’ath party leaders, in return for CIA support, agreed to "undertake a cleansing programme to get rid of the communists and their democratic allies." Hani Fkaiki, a Ba’ath party leader, says that the party’s contact man who orchestrated the coup was William Lakeland, the US assistant military attaché in Baghdad.[5] </p> <p>There are also many documented claims that Saddam Hussein started working as a CIA agent back in 1957, at the time when he joined the Ba’ath party.[6] </p> <p>On July 17 1968, the Ba’ath party returned to power for the second time and then on July 30, 1968 there was a coup within the coup, the purpose of which was stated on Iraqi TV by Saddam Hussein, to remove two of the original organisers who were representing the CIA. </p> <p>In 1980, the Ba’ath regime started an eight year war against Iran to bring to a halt the spreading of ideas and influence of the 1979 Iranian revolution, in line with the objectives of US strategy in the Gulf at the time. The Ba’ath government was supported militarily, politically and financially by the US, UK and all the Arab reactionary regimes in the area during this war. The US succeeded not only in countering the influence of the Iranian revolution, but also in returning to the US all the hundreds of billions of dollars which states in the area had accumulated from the sale of their oil in the 1980’s.[7] </p> <p>After the collapse of the USSR in 1989, the US was no longer interested in a partnership with the Iraqi Ba’ath party (in a similar way that it withdrew support from Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega in 1989) and instead shifted their policies to the direct and full control of the Gulf area. This meant that the US now had no more need for the Iraqi Ba’ath party and when the Iraqi Ba’athists attacked and occupied Kuwait in August 1990, this allowed the US, the only super power left, to use this opportunity to take full military, political and economical control of the Middle East. </p> <p>Therefore, no one should be surprised if US policy makers may today be hoping to use the Ba’ath party as it did in 1963 and 1980. </p> <p>Furthermore, some Iraqi and international analysts who supported the 2003 US occupation of Iraq are now becoming supporters of the CIA’s plans to officially return the Ba’ath party to the political arena in Iraq. They insist that all the mistakes and brutality which happened during both periods that the Ba’ath party held power, had in fact nothing to do with the fascist ideology of the Ba’ath party and that the only people responsible were the principal leaders, such as Saddam Hussein. </p> <p>However, if we study fascist movements through history, we see that they all needed to create, "The Leader" in order to succeed in controlling their people. The German Nazis created Hitler, the Italian Fascists made Mussolini, whereas the Iraqi Ba’athists produced Saddam in order to rule Iraq for 35 years. It is not the leader who creates the movements, as some would have us believe, in order to place all the blame on that one individual and allow the fascist ideas to re-emerge after the old leader vanishes following his military defeat. </p> <p>Today with the re-emergence of the Ba’ath party as a major military threat to the political process in Iraq (again with the help of the CIA) and in open co-operation with the US plans, they are in the process of creating leaders to replace Saddam Hussein, such as Iyad Allawi (a Shiite Ba’athist), Saleh Al-Mutlag, Mohammed Younis, and even Izzat Ibrahim Al-Douri. </p> <p>There are some who will disagree with this analysis of the Ba’ath regime in Iraq as a pro-Western regime because of the nationalisation of Iraqi oil between 1972 and 1975. However, if we look in depth at what happened in the 1970’s, we will see that the first country to start the process of oil nationalisation was Algeria in 1970, when they nationalised the interests of "Total," the French oil giant, in Algeria. This was followed by Libya in 1971, when colonel Gadafi nationalised BP’s shares in Libyan oil. </p> <p>Between 1972 and 1979, all the Gulf countries, including the states that had newly emerged from under British occupation, nationalised their oil. This included the Shah of Iran (who had been re-instated by the CIA/MI6 coup d’état in1953 after the nationalisation of Iranian oil by Dr. Mossadeq), and the newly appointed Saudi king who was brought to power after the assassination of King Faisal in 1974 (an assassination widely believed in the Middle East to be organised by the CIA after Faisal ordered the halt of Saudi oil exportation during the October 1973 war between Israel and the Arabs), the Iraqi Ba’ath regime and all the other Gulf states. Furthermore, the rulers of Kuwait, UAE, Qatar and Oman who nationalized their oil were still very much under strong British influences and control throughout the 1970’s. </p> <p>We should not underestimate the significance of oil nationalisation in the 1970’s, but these<b> </b>nationalisations took place for different reasons, which are not covered in this analysis, and do not indicate that they were signs of an anti-Western shift, as the vast majority of the countries who did nationalise their oil were very much under US/British influences and control. </p> <p>We should take note here that almost all the Middle Eastern countries, to this date, have kept their oil completely nationalised, including the pro-Western Saudi and Kuwaiti regimes, but excluding the Iraqi Ba’ath regime that started its privatisation program with the first Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) contract with the Russian oil company, Lukoil, in 1997, which was followed by a second PSA contract in 2000 with the Chinese oil company, CNOC, and subsequently followed by several PSA contracts with other foreign companies. </p> <h3>What are the new US policies in Iraq? </h3> <p>The US occupation of Iraq in 2003 did not for the most part achieve the neo-conservatives’ aims to privatise and control the oil and gas wealth and turn Iraq into the main US military base in the Middle East; but they have not entirely failed.<b> </b> </p> </p> <p> It is quite obvious now that the existing political process in Iraq, with all its negatives, including corruption and its sectarian structure, will not guarantee the US to fully achieve its objectives. That is why US policies and tactics in Iraq needed to be changed. Thus, US officials have become interested in bringing back the Ba’athists, their "old friends," who are more likely to guarantee the success of US plans. <p>The first step occurred in the middle of 2004, when the US occupying administration appointed Iyad Allawi, the CIA man and an old Shiite Ba’athist, as Prime Minister, who within days of his appointment started his massacre — in cooperation with the United States — of thousands of civilians in Najaf, Sadr city and Fallujah. He returned thousands of old Baath army officers to the newly formed Iraqi army and developed the "Iraqi National Intelligence Service" ( INIS), under the leadership of the old Baathist general, Muhammed Abdulla Al-Shahwani, an organisation which became directly operated, financed and controlled by the CIA in Baghdad. </p> <p>But the major change in the US tactical policies took place at the time of the Baker-Hamilton report (Iraqi Study Group — ISG), which represented for the first time the combined views of the neo-conservative Republicans and the Democrats following the US midterms elections of 2006. Since that report the US administration started secret negotiations with many elements of the insurgents and their biggest success since the start of the occupation was the creation of the "Awakenings" groups or "Alsahwa" movements. They succeeded in turning over 120,000 of the old enemies to their local private armies, by offering them a share of political power. By arming and financing them at the same time, they succeed in keeping them under US army control. They brought the "Alsahwa" movements into the political process with the assurance of their support for US plans. However, the above achievements still did not guarantee the full success of the US administration’s plans. </p> <p>The Bush administration started officially forcing their new policies of Re-Ba’athification on the Iraqi parties in the political process in 2006, under the slogan of "re-conciliation." They began with a meeting between President Bush and the Iraqi Prime Minister Al-Maliki in Amman, which was followed by meetings between Bush and Al-Hakim of the Shiite SCIRI and Al-Hashmi of the Sunni Islamic party; these were followed immediately by the so-called "conference of re-conciliation" in Baghdad, to which several Ba’ath party officials were invited. The policy of co-operation with the Ba’athists represents a major shift in the policies of the Shiite SCIRI movement, which was previously against such co-operation with the Ba’athists, demonstrating the SCIRI’s weakness and inability to resist US pressure.[8] </p> <p>The latest speech of the new leader of the SCIRI, Mr. Ammar Al Hakim, on Nov. 17, 2009, who took over the leadership of SCIRI after the recent death of his father, clearly stated that the Ba’ath party should be accepted back in the Iraqi political arena and called for their return.[9] </p> <p>We should not be surprised to see the change of heart within the SCIRI leadership, as their new financial interests are connected to sustaining the US influence in Iraq, and several of their leaders were old members of the Ba’ath party, including the existing Vice President of Iraq, Mr. Adel Abdul Mahdi, who was a member of the Ba’ath National Guards when it carried out its killings in 1963. In addition, after the collapse of the Ba’ath regime in April 2003, thousands of Shiite Ba’athists, many of whom were part of the Ba’ath party’s security apparatus and responsible for the mass torture and killings of tens of thousands of Shiite civilians during the Ba’ath regime, joined the SCIRI in order to escape the revenge of ordinary Shiite people and return to new positions of power through their new leaders. </p> <p>The new US administration is now working very hard to bring all wings of the Ba’ath party to the political process through all types of negotiations, but on the condition that Washington will be assured of their support. </p> <p>In early 2008, under intense American pressure, Mr. Maliki pushed through Parliament a law to ease restrictions on the return of Ba’ath Party leaders to public life. However, eighteen months later, the US has still been unable to achieve its aim, and this has become a main obstacle to the US plan to bring the Ba’ath party back.[10] </p> <p>On April 18, 2009, American and British officials from a secretive unit called the Force Strategic Engagement Cell, flew to Jordan to try to persuade one of Saddam Hussein’s top generals, the commander of the final defence of Baghdad in 2003, Lt. Gen. Raad Majid al-Hamdani, to return to Iraq, giving him all kind of assurances that he will have a place in the new Iraq. This was all happening at the same time that the general was meeting with representatives of Izzat Ibrahim Al-Douri, who was a Vice President under Saddam Hussein, and also with representatives of Douri’s rival for the party leadership, Mohammed Younis al-Ahmed. General Hamdani also confirmed that American and British officials had attended nearly every meeting since March 2008, in both Amman and Baghdad.[11] </p> <p>Posters were distributed in many parts of Baghdad and the western provinces of Iraq in the past few weeks, signed by Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, calling for all Ba’athists and their friends to support the "Iraqi National List" which is headed by Iyad Allawi (a Shiite Ba’athist) and Saleh Al-Mutlag (a Sunni Ba’athist) in the March 2010 election. At the end of July, a statement by al-Douri was also placed on the Ba’ath Party and insurgent’s website, suggesting political reconciliation.[12] </p> <p>The recent terrorist bombs attacks in August, October and December 2009 in Baghdad were well organised mass explosions, which resulted in the killings of hundreds and injury to thousands of innocent civilians. These were well orchestrated tactics designed to insure that ordinary Iraqi civilians accept as a reality, that as long as the Ba’ath party is not included in the political process, then massacres will continue to happen and thus that the Iraqi people have no alternative but to accept the Ba’ath party back, if they want the killings to stop. </p> <p>The evidence to this date, points the finger at the wing of the Ba’ath party which is headed by Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, using his friends from Al Qaida as suicide bombers, (who are heavily financed by sources in Saudi Arabia), but with — according to members of the Iraqi parliament — the full co-operation of the CIA-controlled Iraqi security organisation INIS. This organisation has thousands of Shiite, Kurd and Sunni employees, who were part of the old Ba’ath security services organisations. This was revealed after the first bombing which happened in August 2009. On the second day after the August bombing, the Iraqi Prime Minister called the head of the INIS, General Muhammed Al Shahwani, to his office and confronted him with the clear evidence that INIS men were involved in the bombing. According to several Arabic TV stations, he sacked Al Shahwani and the CIA flew him back the same night to the US, where he was a US resident before the 2003 occupation of Iraq. It is a well-known secret that the INIS is a CIA-controlled Iraqi security organisation, which is managed and operated by the CIA, paid for from Swiss banks from CIA accounts, as it was pointed out several times by some members of the Federal Iraqi parliament in open sessions. This CIA-controlled Iraqi security organisation is still to this date operating, but with a new acting head, from their headquarters in the green zone.</p> <p>It is in the interest of all sections of the Ba’ath party to continue the sectarian divisions in Iraq, in order to maintain their influence on Iraqi politics. The Ba’athists have lost all their support and organisations in the Kurdish and Shiite areas, and they are aware that they have no future there. The only way for them to keep their role in the future of Iraq is to sustain such divisions. Without them they will fade away from the political map, as was the case for many fascist movements around the globe.[13] </p> <p>It is important to emphasise that when we talk about the Ba’ath party and their crimes, we are talking about the senior leaders of the party who were responsible for planning and carrying out all the crimes against the ordinary civilian Iraqi people and the other Iraqi political movements. This includes members of their security apparatus, who tortured and killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis during the forty years or so since 1963, when they first came to power and senior Ba’athist army officers who carried out with much enthusiasm the crimes of the party. These are not the ordinary members of the party, many of whom joined the party for various personal reasons and were not involved in these crimes. The US plans are to return to power the most vicious Ba’athist criminals, the main leaders of the party and members of the old security services and army officers who were and still are involved in the massacres.</p> <p>The US Vice President’s trip at the beginning of July 2009, which was aimed at pressurising Iraq to comply with US demands ahead of a supposed American military pullout by 2011, comes just after President Barack Obama charged Biden with overseeing the US hypothetical departure. Biden is well known in Iraq for his earlier support of a plan to divide Iraq into three "autonomous" regions, one for each major ethnic group here — Sunni Arab, Shiite Arab and Kurd — under some kind of fake central government. A stark reminder of the legacy inherited by Obama’s administration, however, came in Sadr City, where thousands of supporters of Sadr, chanted anti-US slogans. "No, no America, No, no occupation, Yes, yes Iraq" they shouted as a US flag was reduced to ashes.[14] </p> <p><b>Conclusions</b></p> <p>1. The US neo-conservatives’ policies did not succeed in keeping Iraq under direct US occupation or as a complete satellite state, but this should not be interpreted as the total failure of the old polices.</p> <p>2. The 2003 US neo-conservative administration had several objectives from their easy military victory in the April 2003 occupation of Iraq. One of the main objectives of the occupation was the privatisation of Iraqi oil and gas wealth, together with the complete control of this wealth in order to control the oil resources of the world. Although US officials have been unable to swiftly succeed in their privatisation policies, they have still managed to achieve some success in partially controlling this wealth, and anticipate that 2010 will bring the Oil Law to life, and they will then be able to privatise Iraqi’s oil.</p> <p>The second objective was to make Iraq the central military base to control the Persian/Arabian gulf area. They aimed to use Iraq as a forward base for the attack on the Iranian Islamic government, in order to stop their influence in the area and replace the regime in Syria with a more friendly one which will accept the full US/Israeli control of the Middle East. They are still working hard to achieve these goals with the help of the US/Iraqi Strategic Framework agreement with their call that the only enemies to the Iraqi people are the Iranians and not the 130,000 US solders with 120,000 foreign mercenaries.</p> <p>3. Recent Iraqi history has shown that no political party in the area had served the US strategic polices in the Middle East better then the Iraqi Ba’ath party.[15]</p> <p>From studying the history of the past fifty years, the Iraqi Ba’ath party was frequently used as an instrument in accomplishing US and UK strategic policies in the Middle East and the Gulf. The evidence today is overwhelming, that the CIA has used the Ba’ath party to reach his objectives and that the CIA and the British MI6 were behind the 1963 and 1968 coups d’état which twice brought the Ba’ath party to power.[16]</p> <p>4. The existing US administration’s policies in Iraq are determined to bring most, if not all, the old and new wings of the Ba’ath party to play a major role in the Iraqi political process. The US administration in Iraq is working hard to make it acceptable to some parties in the political process to be acquainted with the Ba’ath party as one of the "democratic" powers of Iraqi society and they are arranging their plans in stages.</p> <p>The first stage is to introduce the newly-formed Ba’athist coalition, which is called "The Iraqi National list" of Iyad Allawi and Saleh Al-Mutlag, as one of the main Sunni political blocs in the Federal parliament in the March 2010 election.</p> <p>5. The US administration wants to get rid of Al Maliki’s government after the 2010 election and replace him with a combination of political coalitions that are more loyal to Washington; these will include the two Kurdish parties, the KDP and PUK, as representatives of all the Kurds, the SCIRI as representatives of the majority of the Shiites and the "Iraqi National list" as representatives of the Sunnis. All the three coalitions, and in particular, Mr. Masoud Al Barazani, are very keen to get rid of Al Maliki’s government.</p> <p>If the results of the March 2010 election give the "Iraqi National List" wide Sunni support, then a serious attempt will be made to form a new pro-US Iraqi government which could be mainly formed from the above coalitions and will very likely exclude from power, not only the Sadr movement, as is the case today, but most likely both wings of the Al Dawa party.</p> <p>6. If the US does not succeed in bringing such pro-US groups to power after the 2010 election, it is possible it will also work on a backup plan for organising an army coup d’état, as most of the senior and middle ranking officers in the army and the security services and in particular the INIS are connected to one or another wing of the Ba’ath party.</p> <p>7. The US’s alternative policy in Iraq to return to the use of an army coup d’état in order to bring the Ba’ath party to power, is not a new US policy.</p> <p>It seems that the threat by the old Bush administration of an army coup d’état, was used against Al Maliki’s government at the beginning of 2007, in order to force Maliki’s government to accept the Bush administrations plans at the time. The threat at the time was a serious one from the US administration and the reason they did not carry it out was because it would have been a serious failure to the so called "Democratisation policies" of the neo-conservatives.</p> <p>Today the threat is much more serious. Firstly, Obama’s administration do not have any problem with using the slogan of "democratisation" as part of their policy’s cover-up and it is not even part of their political ‘vocabulary’. Secondly, the political mood nowadays, whereby the Kurdish parties and the SCIRI might accept the sharing of power with the old Ba’athists, is now more acceptable than it was back in 2007. </p> <p>Additionally, the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians since the start of the occupation has lessened public resistance to the Ba’athists, as some people are now hoping that if the Ba’ath party does return to power then this will stop the Ba’athists from carrying out their bloody civilian killings.</p> <p>It should be noted that while the Ba’athists were carrying out their massacres against the civilians, they always placed the blame of the killings on the Iranians. </p> <p>8. All the wings of the old Ba’ath party are still pursuing the same anti-democratic and fascist goal: they will only be content if they take full control of the political process in Iraq, making all the other political parties no more than satellites to them.</p> <p>9. Today, the two wings of the Ba’ath party are the only organized political/military force in Iraq which can wipe out by force, with US backing, the existing political process. They would eradicate any possible hope for any future democratic progress in Iraq, returning Iraq to the times of the barbarians’ rule of the one party state and at the same time serve all the US interests, without any impediments, as they have twice done in the past.</p> <p><b>Notes</b></p> <p>1. Munir Chalabi, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/2221" class="external" target="_blank">Political Observations on Sectarianism in Iraq</a>," ZNet, Jan. 24, 2007. </p> <p>2. See the source above and Munir Chalabi, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/2364" class="external" target="_blank">Political Observations Concerning the Immediate Future of Iraq</a>," ZNet, Jan. 7, 2007. </p> <p>3. Sean Mac Mathuna, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/cia_iraq.htm" class="external" target="_blank">CIA coups in Iraq in 1963 & 1968 helped put Saddam Hussein in power</a>," Flame. </p> <p>4. Richard Sanders, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/51/217.html" class="external" target="_blank">Regime Change: How the CIA put Saddam’s Party in Power</a>," Oct. 24, 2002. </p> <p>5. Sanders, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/51/217.html" class="external" target="_blank">Regime Change: How the CIA put Saddam’s Party in Power</a>." </p> <p>6. Mac Mathuna, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/cia_iraq.htm" class="external" target="_blank">CIA coups in Iraq in 1963 & 1968 helped put Saddam Hussein in power</a>." </p> <p>7. You Tube: "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeY05iS5iv0" class="external" target="_blank">Saddam Hussein — The Trial you will never see</a>." This documentary video tells the story of the Ba’ath regime’s full participation in the US plans. </p> <p>8. Chalabi, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/2364" class="external" target="_blank">Political Observations …Immediate Future</a>." </p> <p>9. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.yanabeealiraq.com/news_folder/n18110905.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Arabic article</a>. </p> <p>10. Sam Dagher, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/world/middleeast/26baathists.html" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq Resists Pleas by U.S. to Placate Baath Party</a>," <i>New York Times</i>, April 26, 2009. </p> <p>11. Damien McElroy, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/6030153/Saddam-Husseins-Baath-Party-loyalists-engage-with-US-over-Iraq.html" class="external" target="_blank">Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party loyalists engage with US over Iraq</a>," Telegraph, Aug. 14, 2009. </p> <p>12. Reuters, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5701F120090801" class="external" target="_blank">Iraqi Baath leader urges insurgents enter politics</a>," Aug. 1, 2009; Phil Sands, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090823/FOREIGN/708229888/1011/ART" class="external" target="_blank">Baath Party is back in the picture</a>," The National (UAE), Aug. 23, 2009. </p> <p>13. Chalabi, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/2221" class="external" target="_blank">Political Observations … Sectarianism</a>." </p> <p>14. France24, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.france24.com/en/20090704-joe-biden-iraq-us-political-disengagement-violence-spikes-vice-president" class="external" target="_blank">US threatens political disengagement if ethnic, sectarian violence return</a>," July 4, 2007. </p> <p>15. You Tube: "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeY05iS5iv0" class="external" target="_blank">Saddam Hussein — The Trial you will never see</a>." </p> <p>16. Sanders, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/51/217.html" class="external" target="_blank">Regime Change: How the CIA put Saddam’s Party in Power</a>."</p> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/23534" class="external" target="_blank">Ba’ath Is Coming Back</a> By<strong> </strong>Munir Chalabi. <i>Munir Chalabi</i> is an Iraqi political and oil analyst living in the UK</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-7689"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/11/09/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a5%d8%ab%d9%86%d9%8a%d9%86-9-%d9%86%d9%88%d9%81%d9%85%d8%a8%d8%b1-2009/#respond" title="Comment on الإثنين, 9 نوفمبر 2009">No Comments</a></span> Posted on November 9th, 2009 by Editors</div> <h3><a 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align="right"> <div dir="rtl" align="right"> <p><font color="#800000"><strong>أخبار عالمية</strong></font></p> <p><strong>اعتقال مسؤول صحوة الكاطون بمحافظة ديالى</strong></p> <p>قال قائد صحوة ديالى حسام المجمعي الاثنين، إن قوات الشرطة اعتقلت احد قيادي الصحوة في المحافظة، فيما اشار مصدر امني الى ان عملية الاعتقال تمت وفق اوامر قضائية. <br/>واضاف المجمعي إن"“قوات تابعة الى شرطة ديالى اعتقلت يوم الاثنين، ابو عذاب الزيدي وهو مسؤول صحوة منطقة الكاطون التابعة لقضاء بعقوبة، دون اية مسوغات قانونية". <br/>من جانبه اوضح مصدر امني مسؤول في ديالى" أن "عملية الاعتقال التي نفذت الاثنين, تمت وفق مذكرة قبض قضائية حسب المادة الرابعة ارهاب بعد تورط الزيدي باعمال مسلحة"، ولم يضيف المصدر المزيد من التفاصيل.</p> <p><strong>اغتيال قيادي بارز في التيار الصدري في كركوك <br/></strong></p> <p>قتل قيادي بارز في التيار الصدري بهجوم مسلح مساء الأحد في كركوك على أيدي مسلحين مجهولين. <br/>ونقل عن مصدر مطلع في كركوك قوله إن مسلحين (مجهولين) اغتالوا هادي لعيبي الذهيباوي بالرصاص قرب منزله. <br/>وأوضح أن المسلحين هاجموا الذهيباوي لدى وجوده في متجر مجاور لمنزله في حي الأسرى والمفقودين جنوب شرق المدينة ما أدى إلى إصابته بجروح بالغة، مشيرا إلى أنه فارق الحياة لدى وصوله إلى المستشفى. <br/>يذكر ان الذهيباوي مسؤول كبير في التيار الصدري في كركوك</p> <p><strong>انخفاض منسوب نهر الفرات يهدد بإيقاف محطة الناصرية الحرارية</strong></p> <p>ذكر الناطق الإعلامي لمحطة الناصرية الحرارية حسن العبادي الاثنين، أن انخفاض منسوب مياه نهر الفرات يهدد بإيقاف وحدات التوليد في المحطة. <br/>وقال العبادي إن مستوى المياه في نهر الفرات الذي يجري غربي مدينة الناصرية وصل إلى دون الحد المطلوب لتشغيل المحطةالذي يبلغ 250 سم. <br/>وأضاف "أن وحدتين من وحدات المحطة الأربع متوقفة بسبب الصيانة الدورية ما أعطى مجالا للمناورة بكمية المياه التي تستقبلها المحطة من ثماني مضخات كبيرة وأتاح إمكانية الاستمرار بإنتاج الطاقة حتى ضمن المنطقة الحرجة لارتفاع المياه المطلوبة للحد التشغيلي التي تبلغ حاليا 230 سم". <br/>وحذر العبادي من "احتمال انهيار المحطة بصورة كاملة إذا لم يتم الالتفات للمناسيب المنخفضة ومعالجتها بأسرع وقت ممكن".</p> <p><strong>سياسة : مقتل طيارين أمريكيين في تحطم مروحيتهما شمال بغداد</strong></p> <p>بغداد: أعلن الجيش الامريكي المحتل  اليوم الاثنين مقتل اثنين من طياريه جراء تحطم مروحيتهما عند محاولة هبوط الاحد في قاعدة امريكية بمحافظة صلاح الدين، شمال بغداد.ونقلت  مصادر صحفية  عن بيان لجيش الاحتلال: " اثنين من الطيارين العسكريين قتلا في تحطم مروحية قامت بهبوط رديء في محافظة صلاح الدين في الثامن من نوفمبر/تشرين الثاني". ويرتفع بذلك عدد قتلى الجيش الأمريكي منذ غزو العراق إلى 4362 جنديا .يتزامن الحادث مع تهنئة الرئيس الأمريكي باراك أوباما القادة العراقيين بإقرار مجلس النواب لقانون الانتخابات التشريعية المقرر اجراؤها في يناير/كانون الثاني المقبل</p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 1.5em"><font color="#800000">الاخبار الامنية</font></span></strong></p> <p><strong>اعطاب عجلة أمريكية بانفجار ناسفة قرب سامراء</strong></p> <p>قال مصدر في الشرطة العراقية إن عبوة ناسفة انفجرت الاثنين مستهدفة دورية امريكية مما تسبب في اعطاب احدى آليات الدورية. <br/>وأوضح المصدر ان "عبوة ناسفة شديدة الانفجار انفجرت في الطريق الرئيس وسط ناحية المعتصم جنوب سامراء الاثنين مما تسبب في اعطاب عجلة امريكية نوع همر ". <br/>وأضاف "ان القوات الامريكية قامت بجلب تعزيزات الى مكان الحادث وقطعت الطريق بين سامراء والضلوعية لاكثرمن ساعتين".</p> <p><strong>فرض حظر على سير المركبات في بعض مناطق الفلوجة بحثا عن مطلوبين</strong></p> <p>كشف مصدر امني في شرطة الفلوجة بمحافظة الانبار الاثنين، عن فرض حظر على سير المركبات والدراجات الهوائية والنارية في عدة مناطق وسط المدينة حتى اشعار آخر بحثا عن مطلوبين. <br/>وقال المصدر" ان هناك عمليات تفتيش واسعة في عدة مناطق وسط الفلوجة منها حي الجمهورية والاندلس ومنطقة 7 نيسان من قبل الشرطة وفوج الطوارئ بحثا عن مطلوبين". <br/>وكان مصدر امني من شرطة الفلوجة بمحافظة الانبار ذكر في وقت سابق ان مسلحين مجهولين قاموا الاثنين بعملية سطو مسلح على احدى محطات بيع الوقود غرب الفلوجة وسرقة مبالغ مالية تقدر بخمسين مليون دينار. <br/>ذكر مصدر في شرطة قضاء الفلوجة بمحافظة الانبار" ان مدنيين اثنين اصيبا بجروح، ظهر الاثنين، أثر انفجار عبوة ناسفة وسط المدينة استهدفت إحدى دوريات الشرطة". <br/>وقال إن "عبوة ناسفة كانت موضوعة بجانب احد الطرق في حي الجهورية وسط مدينة الفلوجة، انفجرت مستهدفة إحدى دوريات الشرطة ما أدى إلى إصابة مدنيين اثنين بجروح مع إضرار مادية بعجلة الدورية"”. <br/>وأضاف "ان الشرطة اغلقت الطرق المؤدية الى مكان الحادث وقامت بتفتيش المنطقة خوفا من وجود عبوة ناسفة أخرى زرعت في المكان نفسه، فيما تم نقل الجرحى الى المستشفى لتلقي العلاج".</p> <p><strong> جانب من الأحداث الأمنية والعمليات العسكرية حتى مساء اليوم الاثنين</strong></p> <p dir="rtl" align="right">شهدت العاصمة بغداد وبعض المحافظات العراقية اليوم الاثنين 9/11/2009 أحداثا أمنية راح ضحيتها عدد من الشهداء والجرحى، كما شهدت عمليات عسكرية شنتها القوات الأمنية العراقية على أوكار الإرهابيين والخارجين عن القانون ومخازن الاعتدة والذخائر والعبوات الناسفة في مناطق متفرقة ففي <span style="color: red">بغداد</span> عثر افراد قاطع نجدة الحرية صباح اليوم على عبوة ناسفة كانت مزروعة على جانب الطريق في حي السلام بمدينة الحرية غربي العاصمة بغداد. وذكر مصدر امني ان وحدة معالجة المتفجرات التابعة لقاطع النجدة قامت بابطال مفعول العبوة الناسفة وتفكيكها دون وقوع اي حادث يذكر. القت قوة من الشرطة تابعة لقاطع الرشيد القبض على احد الاشخاص بعد الاشتباه به في منطقة الدورة جنوب العاصمة بغداد. وذكر مصدر امني ان " اسباب القاء القبض عليه هو قيامه بتصوير المنطقة بصورة غير قانونية وبعد تفتيشه وجد بحوزته مسدس غير مرخص ، مبيناً ان القوات الامنية احالته الى الجهات التحقيقية لاتخاذ الاجراءات اللازمة بحقه. من جهة اخرى انفجرت عبوة ناسفة كانت مزروعة في شارع عمر بن عبدالعزيز بمنطقة الاعظمية شمال العاصمة بغداد. وذكر مصدر امني ان"انفجار العبوة لم يسفر عن اي اصابات ، مضيفاً ان القوات الامنية قامت باغلاق الطرق المؤدية الى مكان الانفجار تحسباً لوقوع انفجار مماثل". وفي <span style="color: red">صلاح الدين</span> قام مسلحون مجهولون فجر اليوم بتفجير دار قيد الانشاء لعضو المجلس البلدي المدعو كمال احمد نجم في ناحية المعتصم التابعة لقضاء سامراء 30كم جنوب مدينة تكريت مركز محافظة صلاح الدين. وذكر مصدر امنيان "انفجار المنزل لم يسفر عن وقوق خسائر بالارواح ، مبيناً ان القوات الامنية فرضت طوقاً امنياً في مكان الحادث بحثاً عن المسلحين". من جانب اخر انفجرت عبوة ناسفة مستهدفة دورية تابعة لقوات الصحوة في ناحية يثرب التابعة لقضاء بلد 60كم جنوب مدينة تكريت مركز محافظة صلاح الدين. وذكر مصدر امني ان "انفجار العبوة اسفر عن اصابة احد عناصر الصحوة بجروح خطيرة تم نقله الى المستشفى لتلقي العلاج، مبيناً ان القوات الامنية فرضت طوقاً امنياً تحسباً لوقوع انفجار مماثل". وفي <span style="color: red">الموصل</span> هاجم مسلحون مجهولون نقطة تفتيش تابعة للجيش العراقي في منطقة حي الشفاء غربي مدينة الموصل مركز محافظة نينوى. وذكر مصدر امني ان "الهجوم اسفر عن اصابة اثنين من افراد النقطة بجروح خفيفة واصابة مدني آخر كان قريبا من الحادث نقلوا الى المستشفى لتلقي العلاج، بينما لاذ المسلحون بالفرار الى جهة مجهولة". واضاف المصدر ان قوات الجيش العراقي فرضت طوقاً امنياً مشدداً في مكان الحادث شرعت بعمليات دهم وتفتيش بحثاً عن المسلحين. وفي <span style="color: red">كركوك</span> استشهد احد عناصر الصحوة اثر اطلاق نار من قبل مسلحين مجهولين جنوب محافظة كركوك . وذكر مدير شرطة الاقضية والنواحي في المحافظة العميد سرحد قادر ان " مسلحين مجهولون قاموا بإطلاق النار على احد عناصر الصحوة امام منزله في إحدى القرى التابعة لناحية الرشاد (65) كم جنوب كركوك" . وأوضح قادر أن" الهجوم أسفر عن مقتل محمد ابراهيم احمد ، فيما لاذ المسلحون بالفرار إلى جهة مجهولة ، مبيناً ان الشرطة باشرت التحقيق في الحادث ". من جانب اخر أعلنت شرطة محافظة كركوك عن تحرير طفلين بعدما تم اختطافهما قبل أعوام وهما على الأرجح من أهالي محافظة ديالى . وذكر مصدر امني في شرطة المقداد أن" والد الطفل المختطف (ضياء وهاب) وهو من أهالي محافظة ديالى قد علم ومن خلال بحثه عن ولده المختطف منذ ثلاثة أعوام ، بأنه حاليا تلميذ في إحدى مدارس مدينة كركوك" . وأضاف المصدر انه " في ضوء هذه المعلومات تم أيجاد الطفل (ضياء) في حي الواسطي وهو في الصف الثاني من المرحلة الابتدائية وقد تعرف الطفل على والده ". من جهة أخرى ذكر المصدر أن" القوة التي داهمت المنزل الذي يعيش فيها الطفل ، وجدت طفلا مختطفا أخر واسمه (مروان) يعتقد بأنه من أهالي ديالى أيضا، وقامت الشرطة بتعميم اوصافه في محاولة لإيجاد ذويه ،علما بان الطفلين قد تم أبلاغهما خلال السنوات الماضية من الاختطاف بأنهما شقيقان حسبما ورد على لسان المصدر الأمني" . وعلى صعيد متصل عثرت احدى دوريات شرطة قرة هنجير شمال محافظة كركوك على جثة ضابط في الجيش العراقي برتبة ملازم اول داخل سيارته .وذكر مدير شرطة ناحية قرة هنجير عثمان عبد الله ان احدى دوريات الشرطة قد عثرت على جثة تعود لضابط برتبة ملازم اول في احدى افواج تشكيلات الجيش العراقي في كركوك على الطريق العام بين الناحية ومدينة كركوك. واضاف ان الجثة كانت تحمل اثار اطلاقات نارية وقد تم نقلها الى الطب العدلي في مستشفى ازادي العام في كركوك . وفي <span style="color: red">نينوى</span> ألقت دورية تابعة لشرطة البعاج القبض على (5) من المشتبه بهم باعمال ارهابية داخل قضاء البعاج 110 كم غرب مدينة الموصل مركز محافظة نينوى. وذكر مصدر امني ان عملية القاء القبض تمت بعد ورود معلومات استخباراتية تفيد بوجود مشتبه بهم باعمال ارهابية ضد القوات العراقية. واضاف ان القوات الامنية نفذت عملية مداهمة داخل السوق الشعبي الكبير في القضاء المذكور تمكنت من خلالها القبض عليهم واحالتهم الى الجهات التحقيقية لاتخاذ الاجراءات اللازمة بحقهم. وفي <span style="color: red">الانبار</span> القت قوة من شرطة محافظة الانبار القبض على اثنين من المطلوبين قضائيا في قضاء هيت 40كم غرب الرمادي مركز المحافظة. وذكر مصدر امني ان القاء القبض على المطلوبين تم بعد ورود معلومات استخباراتية عن وجودهم في منطقة حي الضباط ، مشيرا الى انهم ينتمون الى تنظيم القاعدة الارهابي. واوضح المصدر ان تحقيقا فتح مع المطلوبين بشان الجرائم المتهمين بها تمهيدا لعرضهم امام القضاء لاصدار الاحكام العادلة بحقهم "على حد قوله". وعلى صعيد متصل انفجرت عبوة لاصقة كانت موضوعة في سيارة مدنية وسط مدينة الرمادي مركز محافظة الانبار. وذكر مصدر امني ان "انفجار العبوة اسفر عن استشهاد صاحب السيارة واصابة (2) من المدنيين المارة بجروح خطيرة تم نقلهم الى مستشفى الرمادي العام لتلقي العلاج. يذكر ان صاحب السيارة هو احد اثرياء المنطقة المذكورة. وفي <span style="color: red">ديالى</span> اعتقلت قوة مشتركة من الجيش والشرطة اليوم خمسة من المطلوبين في مناطق متفرقة من مدينة بعقوبة مركز محافظة ديالى .وقال مصدر امني انه تم القاء القبض على المطلوبين وفق معلومات استخباراتية ادلت بها العناصر السرية لقوات الامن العراقي. واضاف هؤلاء مطلوبين بقضايا ارهابية في مناطق متفرقة من بعقوبة مشيرا الى ان التحقيق جار معهم لمعرفة تفاصيل اكثر بغية احالتهم الى الجهات القضائية لينالوا جزائهم العادل. وعلى صعيد متصل انفجرت عبوة لاصقة اليوم قرب بناية مديرية التربية العامة لمحافظة ديالى وسط مدينة بعقوبة . ذكر ذلك مصدر امني في الشرطة مضيفأ ان العبوة كانت موضوعة في سيارة مدنية قرب بناية التربية وسط المدينة . واوضح ان الانفجار ادى الى اصابة مدني بجروح مختلفة نقل على اثرها الى مستشفى بعقوبة العام لتلقي العلاج فضلأ عن اضرار مادية بالسيارة.</p> <h3><font color="#800000">الاخبار السياسية</font></h3> <p><strong>سياسة : رئيس المفوضية العليا المستقلة / الانتخابات ستجرى في 21 كانون الثاني 2010</strong></p> <p>أعلن رئيس المفوضية العليا المستقلة للانتخابات في العراق فرج الحيدري اليوم الاثنين أن الانتخابات التشريعية المقبلة ستجرى في الـ 21 من كانون الثاني 2010، بدل الـ 16 من الشهر ذاته. وقال الحيدري لوكالة الصحافة الفرنسية إنه تم الاتفاق على إجراء الانتخابات في21 يناير/كانون الثاني وتم إبلاغ مجلس الرئاسة، مضيفا موافقة الأخيرة على الموعد الجديد. وأوضح ذلك بالقول: وكانت المفوضية العليا المستقلة للانتخابات قد حددت 16 يناير/كانون الثاني2010 موعدا للانتخابات التشريعية، لكن التأجيلات التي حصلت في مجلس النواب في إقرار القانون إثر الجدل حول مسألة كركوك، جعلت إجراءها في موعدها أمرا غير ممكن. ويذكر البرلمان العراقي أقر القانون مساء الأحد.</p> </p> <p><b>وزارة النفط: الشهرستاني سيحضر غدا جلسة استجوابه في البرلمان</b></p> <p>من المقرر ان يحضر وزير النفط حسين الشهرستاني يوم غد جلسة استجوابه في مجلس النواب. <br/>وقال الناطق باسم وزارة النفط عاصم جهاد في تصريح صحفي اليوم الاثنين إن الشهرستاني سيحضر غدا الثلاثاء جلسة الاستجواب في مجلس النواب للإجابة عن الاسئلة التي يتم طرحها من قبل اللجان المخصصة. <br/>وأضاف جهاد أن الوزير ذكر ان ماتناقلته وسائل الاعلام عن عدم الحضور لم تكن صحيحة، مشيرا الى ان يوم غد سيتم عقد مؤتمر يحضره ممثل عن الامم المتحدة ودول اخرى يناقش دخول العراق المبادرة الشفافية النفطية وهذا دليل على شفافية وزارة النفط.</p> <p><strong>مباحثات نيابية لعمل ملحق عن المادة المتعلقة بتصويت المهجرين في الداخل</strong></p> <p>كشف النائب عن الائتلاف العراقي الموحد علي الاديب الاثنين عن وجود مباحثات داخل مجلس النواب بخصوص عمل ملحق لتعديل المادة المتعلقة بتصويت المهجرين العراقيين في الداخل ضمن قانون الانتخابات . <br/>وقال الاديب إن "تصويت مهجري الداخل وفقا للصيغة التي اعتمدت في قانون الانتخابات سيؤثر حتما على نتائج الانتخابات، لانهم هجروا قسرا من محافظاتهم ولان اغلبهم لا يستطيعون العودة لمحافظاتهم بسبب تردي الوضع الأمني او عدم توفر مقومات السكن لهم". <br/>وأوضح الاديب "هناك مباحثات داخل البرلمان من اجل عمل ملحق لتعديل هذه الفقرة الخصة بتصويت مهجري الداخل".</p> <p><strong>قيادي بالحركة الآشورية: تخصيص خمسة مقاعد للمسيحيين مقبول قياسا</strong></p> <p>قال القيادي في الحركة الديمقراطية الآشورية يعقوب كوركيس ان "تخصيص خمس مقاعد للمسيحيين ككوتا في قانون الانتخابات نسبة مقبولة قياسا للظروف والواقع السياسي في العراق، رغم انها تظل اقل من نسبة حجم المسيحيين". <br/>مشيرا الى ان "التحفظ الذي تتخذه الحركة يتعلق بطريقة توزيع المقاعد على خمس محافظات وذلك بتخصيص مقعد لكل محافظة بغض النظر عن حجم انتشار المسيحيين فيها، وهذا ما يشكل خللا". <br/>واوضح كوركيس ان هناك محافظات يصل عدد المسيحيين فيها الى اكثر من مائة الف مواطن فيما هنالك محافظات لا يتجاوز عدد المسيحيين فيها 20 الف مواطن وبالتالي هذا يشكل نوع من اللاعدالة في التمثيل"”. <br/>وأضاف كوركيس "انهم طالبوا بخمسة مقاعد مغلقة للمسيحيين في كل العراق، ليصوت الناخب المسيحي بشكل حر واينما كان سواء في داخل العراق او خارجه للمرشحين الذين يرى انهم مناسبون لتمثيله".</p> <p><strong>المالكي يتهم السعودية بانها رفضت كل المساعي لتحسين علاقات العراق معها </strong></p> <p>قال رئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي إن المواقف السعودية تجاه العراق كانت مواقف سلبية، وكل الخطوات العراقية لتحسين العلاقات معها اصطدمت بالرفض. <br/>واكد المالكي في تصريح صحفي الاحد ان كل الخطوات مع السعودية اصطدمت بالرفض ولم تعد لدى الحكومة العراقية خطوات تخطوها، مشيرا في الوقت نفسه الى ان الاستعداد موجود والباب مفتوح لعلاقات طبيعية ومتطورة ومتى ما ارادت ذلك السعودية. <br/>واضاف المالكي أن المؤشرات تؤكد ان الموقف السعودي سلبي تجاه الاوضاع العراقية ولم تسجل مواقف ايجابية من الحكومة، موضحا ان كانت هناك مساع عربية واقليمية ودولية لتحسين العلاقات بين العراق والسعودية ، الا انها توقفت لقناعة الجميع انه لم تعد فائدة بهذه المساعي.</p> <p><strong>عبد اللطيف ينتقد قانون الانتخابات “لعدم وضوح” المقاعد التعويضية وحصة النساء</strong></p> <p>انتقد النائب المستقل وائل عبد اللطيف الاثنين قانون الانتخابات الذي اقره البرلمان الاحد بسبب عدم وضوح مسألتي المقاعد التعويضية وحصة النساء . <br/>وقال عبد اللطيف إن " تشريع قانون الانتخابات يعتبر انجازا الا انه يحتوي على الكثير من الثغرات كونه بني على خيارات والقوانين لا تبنى هكذا، فضلا عن ان مسألة المقاعد التعويضية فيه لم تكن واضحة وكذلك مسألة كوتا النساء ايضا لم تكن واضحة". <br/>وأضاف عبد اللطيف "ان المسألة الخاصة بكوكوك ايضا لم تكن واضحة، وهي لا تزال معقدة لانه لم تبين الفقرة وفق اي سجل انتخابي ستجري انتخابات كركوك".</p> <h3><font color="#800000">الاخبار الاقتصادية</font></h3> <p><b>وزير النفط: العراق يأمل ضخ 6 ملايين برميل نفط من ثلاثة حقول</b></p> <p>يتوقع العراق ضخ أكثر من 6 ملايين برميل نفط يومياً من ثلاثة حقول بعد إنجاز تطويرها في مناقصات فازت بها شركات نفط أجنبية. <br/>وقال وزير النفط حسين الشهرستاني في تصريح صحفي له ان الإنتاج الإجمالي المتوقع للحقول الثلاثة سيتجاوز 6 ملايين برميل في اليوم، وهذا أعلى مما كنا نأمله من ثمانية حقول في الجولة الأولى للعطاءات. <br/>وقدر إنتاج العراق الشهر الماضي بـ2.45 مليون برميل يومياً، مما يضعها في المرتبة الثالثة بعد السعودية وإيران من حيث الإنتاج علماً أن إنتاج البلاد لم يتعد 3 ملايين برميل يومياً منذ عام 2000.</p> <p><b>طارق الهاشمي يمثل العراق بالقمة الاقتصادية الاولى لمنظمة المؤتمر الاسلامي</b></p> <p>تفتتح اليوم الاثنين في مدينة اسطنبول التركية القمة الاقتصادية الاولى لمنظمة المؤتمر الاسلامي في دورتها الخامسة والعشرين برئاسة الرئيس التركي عبد الله غول. <br/>حيث يمثل العراق في القمة نائب رئيس الجمهورية طارق الهاشمي الذي يحمل في جعبته عدداً من المطالب لطرحها امام المؤتمر على رأسها اسقاط الديون المترتبة بذمة العراق لبعض الدول الاسلامية، وابرزها الكويت. <br/>يشار الى ان العراق يعد ومنذ تأسيس منظمة المؤتمر الاسلامي عنصراً فاعلاً فيها، لذا من المقرر ان يطالب الهاشمي ان تكون مشاركة العراق اكثر فاعلية، وان يكون للعراق تمثيل في المواقع القيادية والادارية ضمن اللجنة الدائمة للتعاون الاقتصادي والتجاري للدول الاعضاء في المنظمة.</p> <p><strong>وزارة الكهرباء تدعو المواطنين الى الترشيد في استهلاك الطاقة للحفاظ على المستويات الحالية</strong></p> <p>دعت وزارة الكهرباء المواطنين الى ترشيد الاستهلاك في الطاقة للحفاظ على المستويات الحالية من التجهيز. <br/>وقال مدير اعلام الوزارة عزيز سلطان في تصريح صحفي ان ايام الشتاء القادمة ستشهد زيادة الحمل على مولدات الطاقة مما يؤدي الى تردي ساعات التجهيز، موضحا ان الترشيد في الاستهلاك هو الطريقة الوحيدة للحفاظ على المستوى الحالي. <br/>واوضح سلطان ان جميع الدول تثقف شعوبها على ترشيد استهلاك الكهرباء حتى تلك الدول التي تعد المنتجة الاولى للطاقة في العالم. <br/>ولفت الى ان الوزارة تنتج حاليا 7 الاف ميكاواط من الكهرباء، فيما تقوم بصيانة العديد من الوحدات لزيادة الانتاج خلال الاشهر القليلة المقبلة.</p> <h3><font color="#800000">الصحة</font></h3> <p><b>إصابة 5 أشخاص بفيروس انفلونزا الخنازير في كركوك</b></p> <p>اعلنت مديرية الصحة في كركوك عن إصابة 5 أشخاص في المحافظة بفيروس انفلونزا الخنازير. <br/>وأكد مدير الإعلام في مديرية صحة كركوك حسين محمد في تصريحات صحافية ان 5 أشخاص اصيبوا بفيروس H1N1 في كركوك, وهم الآن تحت العناية الطبية". <br/>واشار الى ان صحة كركوك إتخذت إجراءاتها بهذا الشأن للحد من إنتشار المرض وتوعية المواطنين لإتخاذ الإجراءات اللازمة.</p> <h3><font color="#800000">اخبار متفرقة من العراق</font></h3> <p><strong>تأسيس اذاعة موجهة لشريحة الفلاحين والمزارعين تعنى بالزراعة والبيئة والمياه</strong></p> <p>قررت اللجنة العليا للمبادرة الزراعية اطلاق اذاعة موجهة لشريحة الفلاحين والمزارعين والعاملين بالقطاعات المعنية بهذا الخصوص. <br/>وقال مصدر مسؤول في اللجنة في تصريح صحفي إن رئيس الوزراء باعتباره رئيس اللجنة أوعز إلى وزارة الزراعة بتأسيس ( إذاعة اف ام ) في احد مواقعها داخل بغداد، على ان تسدد مبالغها من تخصيصات المبادرة الزراعية للاعلام والارشاد الزراعي. وأضاف المصدر أن تأسيس الاذاعة يهدف الى ترسيخ الثقافات الزراعية المتطورة، والترويج لاستخدام التقنيات الحديثة في مجال القطاع الزراعي، والارشاد المائي، والاستخدام الامثل للمياه ، وكذلك للإسهام في انجاح السياسات الزراعية والبيئية والاروائية في البلاد، ومواجهة تحديات ومخاطر التصحر، وزحف الملوحة الى 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الارهابيين والخارجين عن القانون ومخازن الاعتدة والذخائر والعبوات الناسفة في مناطق متفرقة نبدأها من العاصمة <span style="color: red">بغداد</span> حيث ذكر مصدر امني ان عبوة لاصقة انفجرت صباح اليوم في احدى السيطرات العسكرية القريبة من مطار المثنى غربي العاصمة بغداد . واضاف المصدر ان" االانفجار اسفر عن اصابة (5) مواطنين بجروح فضلا عن الحاق اضرارمادية بالعجلات القريبة من مكان الحادث ،مبينا ان القوات الامنية فتحت تحقيقا لمعرفة ملابسات وضع العبوة بالقرب من السيطرة ". من جانب اخرالقت قوة من الجيش العراقي اليوم القبض على 5 من المتهمين المطلوبين في قضاء المحمودية جنوب بغداد. ذكر ذلك مصدر امني لمراسل، مضيفأ ان عملية المطلوبين متهمين بقضايا دعم الارهاب والهجمات المسلحة ضد قوات الجيش والشرطة والمدنيين في مناطق متفرقة من القضاء. موضحأ ان هؤلاء كانت قد صدرت بحقهم مذكرات اعتقال من الجهات القضائية المتخصصةُ. من جهة اخرى القت قوات من الجيش العراقي القبض اليوم على 16مطلوبأُ للقضاء في منطقة شاخة ضمن قضاء اللطيفية جنوب بغداد.</p> <p>ذكر ذلك مصدر امني ، مضيفأُ ان عملية القاء القبض تمت بعد ورود معلومات استخباراتية افادت بوجود المطلوبين في المنطقة المذكورة ، مبينا ان المطلوبين صادرة بحقهم مذكرات اعتقال وهم متهمين بقضايا ارهابية عديدة. واشار المصدر الى ان التحقيقات ما زالت جارية مع هؤلاء المطلوبين لمعرفة المزيد من التفاصيل . وفي <span style="color: red">الانبار</span> اعتقلت القوات الامريكية المحتلة صباح اليوم احد المتهمين بتفجيرات الرمادي الاخيرة في قضاء هيت غرب الرمادي مركز محافظة الانبار ،وذكر مصدر من مديرية شرطة هيت ان" القوات العراقية استلمت المتهم من القوات الامريكية المحتلة وتم نقله الى الجهات المختصة للتحقيق معه ". من جانب اخر تمكنت قوات الامن العراقية التابعة لمديرية شرطة الفلوجة اليوم من تحرير طفل يبلغ من العمر ست سنوات بعد اختطافه من قبل جماعة مجهولة امس الاول من منطقة سكناه في حي الشهداء ، وقال مصدر امني ان الطفل تم اختطافه قبل يومين حيث تمكنت قوة من مديرية شرطة الفلوجة والمنتشرة في السيطرات المتفرعة في حي الشهداء من تحريره بعد التعرف على الخاطفين وتمت ملاحقتهم والقاء القبض على ثلاثة منهم . مضيفا ان الطفل هو اخ لاحد منتسبي مديرية شرطة الفلوجة. وفي <span style="color: red">نينوى</span> القت دورية من قوات التدخل السريع (سوات) التابعة للجيش العراقي القبض على (3) من المطلوبين قضائياً خلال عملية تفتيش في منطقة حي الاصلاح الزراعي غرب مدينة الموصل مركز محافظة نينوى. وذكر مصدر امني ان عملية القاء القبض تمت بعد ورود معلومات استخباراتية تفيد بوجود المطلوبين في المنطقة المذكورة، مبيناً ان الدورية قامت بعملية دهم وتفتيش تمكنت من خلالها القاء القبض على المطلوبين ، مشيرا الى احالتهم الى المحاكم المختصة لاصدار الاحكام العادلة بحقهم . من جانب اخر عثرت دورية تابعة لشرطة حمام العليل على عبوة ناسفة كانت مزروعة قرب قرية النفاعة التابعة لقضاء حمام العليل 35كم جنوب مدينة الموصل مركز محافظة نينوى. وذكر مصدر امني ان "الدورية قامت بفرض طوق امني على مكان وجود العبوة واستدعت فريق المعالجة التابع لشرطة حمام العليل الذي نجح في ابطال مفعولها بواسطة تفجيرها عن بعد دون خسائر ".وعلى صعيد القت دورية تابعة للجيش العراقي القبض على (7) من المشتبه بهم خلال عملية دهم وتفتيش في المنطقة الصناعية شرقي مدينة الموصل مركز محافظة نينوى. وذكر مصدر امني ان "عملية دهم وتفتيش نفذتها الدورية على المنطقة المذكورة اثر معلومات استخبارية عن المشتبه بهم تمكنت خلالها من القاء القبض عليهم ، مشيرا الى ان التهم الموجهة لهم هي تورطهم بالارهاب من خلال زرع العبوات الناسفة لاستهداف المواطنين والقوات الامنية ". وفي <span style="color: red">صلاح الدين</span> قتلت القوات الامنية في محافظة صلاح الدين اليوم احد المسلحين اثر تبادل لاطلاق النار مع مجموعة مسلحة شمال تكريت مركز محافظة صلاح الدين . وذكر مصدر امني ، ان الحادث وقع بعد ان داهمت القوات الامنية احد اوكار المسلحين في ناحية الظلوعية 50 كم شمال تكريت ، حيث تمكنت من قتل احد المسلحين والقاء القبض على اثنين بعد اصابتهم ، مشيرا الى تسليمهم الى الجهات التحقيقية لاتخاذ الاجراءات اللازمة بشانهم . وفي <span style="color: red">الديوانية</span> أكد مصدر امني في محافظة الديوانية اليوم إن فريقا هندسيا من مديرية المتفجرات قام بتفكيك عبوة ناسفة كانت معدة للتفجير في ناحية غماس التابعة للمحافظة. وقال المصدر الذي فضل عدم ذكر اسمه أن فريقا متخصصا في مكافحة المتفجرات تمكن من تفكيك وإبطال مفعول عبوة ناسفة كانت مزروعة على جانب الطريق في ناحية غماس. مشيرا إلى إن التحقيقات مازالت جارية لمعرفة الجهة التي قامت بزرع العبوة. وفي <span style="color: red">ديالى</span> اعتقلت قوات امنية من الجيش والشرطة تابعة لمحافظة ديالى عشرة مطلوبين اليوم في مناطق متفرقة من المحافظة . ذكر ذلك مصدر امني في قيادة شرطة بعقوبة مركز محافظة ديالى ، مضيفأً ان الاعتقال جرى اثناء عمليات مداهمات واسعة نفذتها قوات من الجيش العراقي منذ صباح اليوم في عدة مناطق من المحافظة طالت بعض العناصر الارهابية والمطلوبين للقضاء العراقي بتهم مختلفة وجرائم متعددة. من جهة اخرى اختطف مسلحون مجهولو الهوية اليوم احد عناصر الصحوة في قضاء المقدادية شرق مدينة بعقوبة بمحافظة ديالى . وذكر مصدر امني مضيفا ان المسلحين المجهولين اختطفوا احد عناصر الصحوة في قضاء المقدادية عصر اليوم حينما كان متوجها من منزله الى سوق المقدادية بسيارته الخاصة، مضيفا ان المسلحين قاموا بأقتياده الى جهة غير معلومة وهم يستقلون سيارتين مدنيتين من دون ارقام ، وتقع مدينة بعقوبة مركز محافظة ديالى على مسافة 57 كم شمال شرق العاصمة بغداد . وفي <span style="color: red">الناصرية</span> تمكنت قوة من مديرية شرطة محافظة ذي قار من الاستيلاء على كدس للعتاد في منطقة النواشي التابعة لقضاء سوق الشيوخ 30 كم جنوب مدينة الناصرية مركز محافظة ذي قار. وذكر مصدر في شرطة ذي قار ان عملية الاستيلاء على تلك الاسلحة جاءت بعد توفر معلومات من مكتب امن رئاسة الوزراء حيث قادت الى الاستيلاء على الكدس في المنطقة المشار اليها. واشار الى ان" العتاد يتكون من أربعة صواريخ نوع كراد , وأربعة أجهزة إطلاق صواريخ ( ثمانية خطوط ) وإحدى عشر قذيفة عيار 155 ملم , مبينا انه تم رفع المواد من قبل خبير المتفجرات المرافق لقوة سوات بدون أي حادث يذكر .</p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-7586"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/10/24/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ac%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%a9-23-%d8%a3%d9%83%d8%aa%d9%88%d8%a8%d8%b1-2009/#respond" title="Comment on الجمعة, 23 أكتوبر 2009">No Comments</a></span> Posted on October 24th, 2009 by Editors</div> <h3><a 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باعمال اجرامية … واشنطن بوست: قوات الشرطة العراقية تشكل قلقا امنيا جديدا</h3> <p>رأت صحيفة واشنطن بوست <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/21/AR2009102103617_pf.html" target="_blank" class="external">The Washington Post،</a> ان قوات الشرطة العراقية باتت تشكل قلقا امنيا جديدا اثر تورط أفراد منها بعمليات إجرامية واختراق احزاب سياسية من كل الطوائف لصفوفها. <br/>وقالت الصحيفة ان بعد مساعدتها في كبح تمرد حرون واقتتال طائفي مروع، تشعر قوات الأمن العراقية في بغداد الآن بالقلق مما قد تواجهه من تحد لا يقل صعوبة يتمثل بأفرادها أنفسهم.<a title="20091023_washington_post_police_corruption_screenshot" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4037146555/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: inline; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px" alt="20091023_washington_post_police_corruption_screenshot" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551im_/http://static.flickr.com/2495/4037146555_1a39e613d2.jpg" align="right"/></a> <br/>وذكرت الصحيفة إن موجة الجرائم الكبيرة الاخيرة، ومن بينها ابتزاز وقح وعنيف لمحال المجوهرات في بغداد الذي يعتقد ان الشرطة تتورط فيه، اجبر مسؤولي وزارة الداخلية العراقية على مواجهة الفساد بين صفوف قوات الشرطة البالغة 663,000 فردا. <br/>ويقول مسؤولون للصحيفة ان هناك مشكلات تتضمن قضايا يعمل فيها افراد وضباط بناء على طلب من قادة سياسيين، وكذلك حالات تورط أفراد من قوات الأمن بعدد من الجرائم، ابتداء من الابتزاز الصغير في نقاط تفتيش حتى عمليات خطف وقتل. <br/>والفساد في صفوف قوات الامن ليس بالامر الجديدط، كما تواصل الصحيفة، لكنه صار أكثر وضوحا في ظل انخفاض القتل الطائفي الذي عاث ببغداد في الوقت السابق ومناطق أخرى من البلد. <br/>اللواء حسين كمال، مسؤول الاستخبارات في وزارة الداخلية، كان صريحا بالاعتراف بهذا المشكل، كما ترى الصحيفة، اذ قال ان هناك حاجة الى اعادة تنظيم وتطهير قوات الامن والقوات المسلحة من المتطرفين والمجرمين. <br/>واضاف كمال اننا نحتاج الى 10 سنوات للوصول الى مستوى الاحتراف الذي نطمح اليه. <br/>وترى الصحيفة ان ما وراء تداعيات هذا الوضع على الأمن في بغداد وبقية مناطق العراق، فإن قوات الأمن محور اساس لخطط الولايات المتحدة في سحب قواتها من العراق في اب/ اغسطس. <br/>وكانت القوات العراقية قد تلقت مليارات الدولارات أنفقت على برامج تدريب وتجهيزات من الولايات المتحدة. ويقول مسؤولون امريكيون ان الجيش العراقي قد قطع خطوات واسعة. اما الشرطة التي تفوق الجيش عددا فكانت غير مرضية، وهي غالبا ما تتشكى من سوء المعاملة في نقاط التفتيش وازدراء الناس لهم. <br/>وقال اللواء كمال، الذي تتولى وحدته عمليات فحص امني لرجال الشرطة والمتطوعين، انه طرد 60.000 شخص في العام الحالي من وزارة الداخلية بعد تحديد وجود سجلات اجرامية لديهم، إن 15.000 اخرين طردوا في العام الماضي. <br/>واشارت الصحيفة الى ضباط الجيش الامريكي اجلوا سؤال نظرائهم العراقيين عن هؤلاء المطرودين. <br/>وقالت الصحيفة ان مسؤولا بارزا اخر في وزارة الداخلية كشف لها ان الوزارة أجبرت على ضم 1.500 متطوع الى قوات الشرطة كانوا قد رشّحوا من جانب احزاب سياسية عراقية. ويقول المسؤول ان أي من هؤلاء لم يكن مؤهلا، واضاف لقد جيء بهم فقط لتنفيذ أجندات أحزابهم. <br/>وقال مسؤول سابق في وزارة الدفاع، تحدث شريطة عدم الكشف عن هويته، كالآخرين، خشية ان تشكل تصريحاتهم خطرا عليهم، كما تقول الصحيفة، ان الشرطة هي الاكثر فسادا. <br/>وقال هذا المسؤول إن الاحزاب السياسية لا زال لديها تأثير لا داعي له على قوات الامن. لكن في هذه الايام، يبدو ان أجنداتها اقل طائفية بسبب اندفاعها نحو مواجهاتها مع خصومها، الذين غالبا ما يكونون من الطائفة نفسها. <br/>واضاف المسؤول امامنا خياران: احتلال جديد او جهد هائل للتخلص من الفساد، مشيرا الى ان اي من هذين الخيارين لا يبدو مرجحا </p> <p><strong>المصدر : </strong>   <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.iraq-ina.com/showthis.php?type=1&tnid=43628" target="_blank" class="external">لتورط عناصرها باعمال اجرامية … واشنطن بوست: قوات الشرطة العراقية تشكل قلقا امنيا جديدا</a></p> </p></div> <div></div> <div style="clear: both"> <b>إكتشاف ابار جديدة في اقليم كردستان</b></div> <p>أعلنت شركة غولف كيستون بتروليوم المحدودة أنها اكتشفت موردا هاما للنفط الثقيل في بئر شيكان-1 في اقليم كردستان العراق. <br/>وذكر بيان صادرعن الشركة نشر اليوم الجمعة أن إجمالي النفط في بئر شيكان -1التي جرى اختبارها على عمق 2055 مترا – يتراوح بين مليار و5.3 مليارات برميل. <br/>من جانبها قالت شركة أويل سيرش ليمتد للنفط والغاز المدرج في البورصة الاسترالية إنها اكتشفت بئر نفط جديدة في اقليم كردستان بالعراق. <br/>واضافت الشركة ان اختبارات الانتاج على أعماق مختلفة في بئر شاكال- 1 تراوحت بين 750 و950 برميلا يوميا من النفط الذي تبلغ كثافته النوعية.</p> <p><font color="#800000"><strong>أخبار عالمية</strong></font></p> <p><b>تقرير للامم المتحدة: العراقيون يتصدرون قائمة طالبي اللجوء في البلدان الصناعية</b></p> <p>اعلنت وكالة اللاجئين في الأمم المتحدة أن العراقيين يتصدرون للسنة الرابعة على التوالي قائمة طالبي اللجوء في البلدان الصناعية متقدمين على الفارين من الحروب في أفغانستان والصومال. <br/>وقال تقرير نشرته الوكالة إن 13,200 عراقي قدموا طلبات لجوء، إضافة إلى 12,000أفغاني، و 11,000 صومالي. <br/>مشيرا إلى أن 185,000 شخص قدموا للحصول على لجوء في الشهور الستة الأولى من العام 2009، وهذا يمثل زيادة بنسبة 10% على العام الماضي.</p> <p><strong>القوات الامريكية تؤكد تخفيض قواتها في العراق الى 50 الف جندي في العام المقبل</strong></p> <p>قال المتحدث باسم الجيش الامريكي في العراق إن بلاده ملتزمة بتخفيض قواتها في العراق الى 50 الف جندي في آب اغسطس من العام المقبل حسبما ذكرته وكالة الانباء الكويتية. <br/>ونقلت الوكالة عن العميد ستيف لانزا قوله خلال إيجاز صحافي عقده بمركز الاعلام الاجنبي بواشنطن إن الولايات المتحدة الامريكية ملتزمة في تخفيض قواتها في العراق من 120 الف جندي الى 50 الف جندي بحلول شهر آب اغسطس المقبل وسحبها بالكامل في شهر ديسمير من عام 2011. <br/>واضاف لانزا أن استمرار تحسن الوضع الامني في العراق وظهور قوة عسكرية عراقية مدربة من الاشارات المشجعة على أن الانسحاب العسكري الامريكي سيتم بنجاح وفقا للمواعيد المحددة له ، لافتا إلى أن القوات الامريكية ستنتقل من العمليات القتالية الى عمليات الاستقرار بالعراق في فصل الصيف المقبل.</p> <p><strong>إنجاز أكثر من 60 في المائة من جسر تضرر بتفجيرات الأربعاء الدامي</strong></p> <p>أكدت وزارة البلديات والأشغال العامة إنجاز أكثر من 60 في المائة من مشروع تأهيل جسر محمد القاسم السريع في الجزء المقابل لوزارة المالية الذي تضرر جراء تفجيرات الأربعاء الدامي. <br/>وذكر مصدر في الوزارة في تصريح للمركز الوطني للإعلام الحكومي أن إعادة إعمار الجسر ستتم ضمن المدة التي حددتها الوزارة وهي 45 يوما. <br/>وأكد المصدر الذي لم يذكر المركز اسمه إتمام بناء الركائز الأساسية للجسر المذكور، على أن توضع الدعامات التي يستند عليها الجسر خلال الأيام المقبلة.</p> <p> <strong><font color="#800000"></font></strong> <p><strong>اصابة مدنيين اثنين بجروح شمال شرق بعقوبة</strong></p> <p>ذكر مصدر أمني بقضاء خانقين أن مدنيين إثنين أصيبا بجروح عند تعرضهما لإطلاق نار من قبل مسلحين بمنطقة الندى جنوبي القضاء، فيما إعتقلت قوات الشرطة مسلحا يشتبه بإنتماءه لتنظيم القاعدة جنوب خانقين. <br/>وقال المصدر لوكالة أصوات العراق ان مسلحين مجهولين أطلقوا النار صباح اليوم الجمعة على سيارة مدنية في منطقة الندى جنوبي قضاء خانقين شمال شرق بعقوبة، ما أدى الى جرح إثنين من ركابها ، مبينا بأن إصابة أحدهم خطيرة. <br/>و أضاف انه تم نقل الجرحى فيما بعد الى المستشفى لتلقي العلاج. <br/>و قال مصدر آخر بشرطة الطواريء في خانقين ان قوات الشرطة إعتقلت اليوم مسلحا على الطريق العام بين ناحيتي إمام ويس و السعدية جنوب القضاء بتهمة إنتماءه لتنظيم القاعدة.</p> <p><font color="#800000">كركوك<strong><a title="kirkuk" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4036468565/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: inline; margin: 5px 0px" height="200" alt="kirkuk" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551im_/http://static.flickr.com/2751/4036468565_e8df460208.jpg" width="300" align="right" border="0"/></a></strong></font></p> <p><strong>رئيس مجلس محافظة كركوك يدعو ابناء المحافظة الى المشاركة في عملية الاحصاء</strong></p> <p>قال رئيس مجلس محافظة كركوك رزكار علي ان نتائج عملية الإحصاء السكاني ستساهم في وضع خطط مستقبلية من شأنها خدمة المواطنين في جميع مجالات الحياة. <br/>واكد علي وبحسب مانشرته وكالة خبر على ضرورة أن تكثف الحكومة الإتحادية ووزارة التخطيط بشكل خاص جهودها من أجل انجاح عملية الإحصاء العام في العراق، داعيا ابناء المحافظة الى المشاركة الفاعلة في عملية تسجيل الأسماء إستعداداً للإحصاء العام من أجل ضمان حقوقهم واستعادة الحقوق التي سلبها النظام السابق منهم. <br/>وشدد رزكار على ضرورة مشاركة اهالي كركوك الساكنين في المحافظات الاخرى في عملية الاحصاء والتي بدأت منذ 21/10 وتستمر لغاية 30/10.</p> <p><strong>انفجار عبوة ناسفة على دورية للشرطة في كركوك</strong></p> <p>قال مصدر من مركز التنسيق المشترك بكركوك ان عبوة ناسفة انفجرت على دورية شرطة الطوارئ جنوب غربي المدينة خلفت أضرارا مادية فقط. <br/>وأوضح المصدر لوكالة أصوات العراق أن عبوة ناسفة انفجرت صباح اليوم الجمعة على دورية لشرطة طوارئ كركوك بالقرب من دائرة المعوقين و إحدى المقرات التابعة للاتحاد الوطني في حي الو اسطي جنوب غربي المدينة. <br/>وا ضاف المصدر انه لم يصيب احد من أفراد الدورية بأذى وخلفت فقط أضرارا مادية ، دون ان يذكر مزيدا من التفاصيل.</p> <p><strong>التحالف الكردستاني يرفض اي حل غير دستوري فيما يتعلق بقضية كركوك</strong></p> <p>اكد النائب عن التحالف الكردستاني عبد الباري زيباري بان كتلته لن تقبل باي حلِ غير دستوري فيما يتعلق بقضية كركوك. <br/>واشار زيباري في تصريح نشرته وكالة خبر بانه اصبح واضحا لدى المواطن العراقي ان جميع المقترحات هي مقترحات تهدف الى عرقلة العملية السياسية وتاجيل الانتخابات والخروج بنتائج شخصية.</p> <p><strong>رشيد العزاوي : دور المجلس السياسي سيكون استشاريا</strong></p> <p>اكد النائب عن جبهة التوافق رشيد العزاوي ان مسألة كركوك وتعقيداتها هي التي قادت اللجوء الى ادخال اطراف اخرى في حل هذه القضية المعقدة ، في اشارة الى المجلس السياسي . <br/>واوضح العزاوي في تصريح نقله موقع الجبهة على شبكة الانترنيت ان دور المجلس السياسي سيكون استشاريا ولا يمكن له ان يقر القانون دون موافقة مجلس النواب ، مؤكدا ان المجلس السياسي للأمن الوطني وبمشاركة ممثلي الكتل السياسية سيجتمعون لاتخاذ قرار حول قانون الانتخابات وإرجاعه إلى مجلس النواب للتصويت عليه وإذا لم يتوصلُ الى حل سيلجئ البرلمان الى التصويت على احدى المقترحات المعروضة امام مجلس النواب.</p> <p><font color="#800000">الموصل</font></p> <p><strong>إنشغال الحكومة بالإنتخابات أدى إلى تأجيل حسم الخلاف بين كتلتي الحدباء ونينوى المتأخية</strong></p> <p>رجح نائب رئيس كتلة نينوى المتآخية هريم كمال بقاء الخلاف مع قائمة الحدباء إلى مابعد الانتخابات النيابية في العراق، فيما أشارت الحدباء إلى أن هذه المشاكل لاتخدم مصالح أي طرف. <br/>وقال كمال في تصريح لوكالة آكانيوز إنه لم يعلن حتى الأن اي قرار بشان ارجاء بحث المشاكل القائمة بين كتلتي نينوى المتآخية والحدباء، مستنداً الى شدة انشغال الحكومة العراقية بأمور الانتخابات النيابية، فانه من المحتمل ان تؤجل هذه المشاكل الى ما بعد الانتخابات، موضحاً ان نينوى المتآخية ترحب ببحث المشاكل العالقة بين الطرفين وحلها طبقا لأحكام الدستور العراقي. </p> <h3><font color="#800000">الصحة</font></h3> <p dir="rtl" align="right"><strong><a title="basrah_map" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4037832196/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: inline; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px" alt="basrah_map" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551im_/http://static.flickr.com/2575/4037832196_1e134f9df6.jpg" align="right" border="0"/></a>اكتشاف حالتين يشتبه بأصابتهما بانفلونزا الخنازير في البصرة</strong> </p> <p>كشف مصدر صحي في محافظة البصرة ان حالتين يشتبه بإصابتهما بأنفلونزا الخنازير تم حجزهما في قسم الحميات بمستشفى البصرة العام. <br/>وقال المصدر لوكالة الصحافة المستقلة ان الفحوصات جارية للتأكد من حالة إحدى الطالبات في الدراسة الابتدائية وأمها وتم اخذ عينات من المصابتين وقد أرسلت إلى بغداد لإجراء الفحوصات المختبرية عليهما لمعرفة مدى إصابتهما بالمرض. <br/>ودعا المصدر الى أهمية تعطيل الدوام في مدارس البصرة خلال هذه الفترة كون أجواء المدينة متقلبة وتساعد في الإصابة بمرض الانفلونزا. </p> <p><strong>تربية النجف تؤكد خلو مدارس المحافظة من أية إصابة بمرض انفلونزا الخنازير</strong> </p> <p>نفى مدير عام تربية النجف إغلاق إحدى مدارس المحافظة بسبب وجود إصابات عند الطلبة بمرض أنفلونزا الخنازير، مؤكدا خلو مدارس المحافظة من أية إصابة، حسب بيان لمديرية التربية. <br/>وقال البيان إن مديرية تربية النجف تنفي غلق أي مدرسة في النجف بسبب الإصابة بمرض الأنفلونزا الوبائية أو الاشتباه بإصابة احد طلبة المحافظة. <br/>ونقل البيان عن مدير عام تربية النجف إسماعيل خليل الماضي تاكيده ان الدراسة تسير بشكل طبيعي ولا يوجد أي إصابة أو الاشتباه بإصابة احد طلبة المحافظة ، نافيا ما تناقلته وسائل الإعلام وإحدى الفضائيات العراقية بغلق مدرسة المتنبي في قضاء الكوفة. <br/>وطالب الماضي خلال البيان من وسائل الإعلام توخي الحذر في نقل الأخبار بابتعادها عن تسويق أخبار غير صحيحة تثير الخوف والرعب لدى المواطنين. </p> <p><strong>تسعة اشخاص من المصابين بانفلونزا الخنازير يتماثلون للشفاء في واسط</strong></p> <p>غادر تسعة مصابين بفيروس الانفلونزا الوبائية من مستشفى الحي في محافظة واسط بعد تماثلهم للشفاء التام ليرتفع عدد الحالات التي تماثلت للشفاء الى ثمانٍ وعشرين حالة بعد الحالات التسع عشرة السابقة. <br/>واوضح مصدر في مجلس محافظة واسط في تصريح نشرته وكالة خبر ان اربع اصابات سُجلت في قضاء العزيزية اثنتان منها بين افراد الشرطة المحلية، مشيرا الى ان سكن هذين الشرطيين في قضاء الحي ما ادى الى الاشتباه بأنهما من نقل الوباء الى قضاء العزيزية. <br/>ونفى المصدر الانباء التي اشارت الى ان طالبة في احدى المدارس المصابة هي التي نقلت الفيروس بعد عودتها من الهند، مضيفا بان الادلة تؤكد ان الفيروس جاء عن طريق احد الزوار الاجانب في مدينة كربلاء ومنها انتقل الى واسط.</p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 1.5em"><font color="#800000">الاخبار الامنية</font></span></strong></p> <p>شهدت العاصمة بغداد وبعض المحافظات الاخرى اليوم الجمعة 23/10/2009 احداثا امنية راح ضحيتها عدد من الشهداء والجرحى كما شهدت عمليات عسكرية شنتها القوات العراقية على اوكار الارهابيين والخارجين عن القانون ومخازن الاعتدة والذخائر والعبوات الناسفة في مناطق متفرقة نبدأها من العاصمة <span style="color: red">بغداد</span> اغتال مسلحون مجهولون اربعة مواطنين في سوق شعبي وسط ناحية الرشيد جنوب بغداد. ذكر ذلك مصدر امني مضيفا ان مجهولين كانوا يستقلون سيارة مدنية نوع اوبل فتحوا نيران اسلحتهم على 4 مواطنين كانوا متواجدين في السوق الشعبي مما اسفر عن استشهادهم على الفور ، مبينا ان الجناة لاذوا بالفرار ولم يتم التعرف على هويتهم او الاسباب التي تقف وراء الحادث،مشيرا الى ان القوات الامنية فرضت طوقا حول المكان. وفي <span style="color: red">نينوى</span> عثرت دورية تابعة للجيش العراقي على مخبأ للاسلحة في قرية السفينة التابعة لقضاء الكيارة الذي يبعد 50كم جنوب مدينة الموصل مركز محافظة نينوى. وذكر مصدر امني ان معلومات استخباراتية وصلت الى احدى فرق الجيش العراقي تفيد بوجود مخبأ الاسلحة ،حيث قامت الدورية بمداهمة المكان المذكور وعثرت بداخله على اسلحة وعبوات ناسفة وعتاد خفيف ومتوسط تم تسليمها الى مقر الفرقة العسكرية. وعلى صعيد متصل هاجم مسلحون مجهولون نقطة للتفتيش تابعة لشرطة محافظة نينوى في منطقة سوق المعاش غرب مدينة الموصل مركز محافظة نينوى. وذكر مصدر امني ان الهجوم اسفر عن استشهاد احد افراد النقطة واصابة اخر بجروح . واضاف المصدر ان الاجهزة الامنية قامت بتطويق مكان الحادث بحثا عن المسلحين. من جهة اخرى القت دورية تابعة لشرطة قضاء زمار القبض على ثلاثة من المشتبه بهم داخل قضاء زمار والذي يبعد 110كم شمال مدينة الموصل. ذكر ذلك مصدر امني مضيفا ان معلومات استخباراتية افادت بوجود الاشخاص الثلاثة المشتبه بهم داخل احد المنازل بالمنطقة المذكورة، حيث قامت الدورية بحملة مداهمة تمكنوا خلالها من القاء القبض على المشتبه بهم ،مبينا ان قوات الشرطة قامت بتسليمهم الى الاجهزة الامنية في الموصل. وفي <span style="color: red">الانبار</span> انفجرت عبوة لاصقة تم تثبيتها على دراجة هوائية داخل سوق بيع الدراجات الهوائية في مدينة الرمادي مركز محافظة الانبار. ذكر ذلك مصدر مضيفا ان احد المجهولين قام بركن دراجة هوائية وسط السوق وقد ادى انفجارها الى جرح ثلاثة مواطنين بجروح خطيرة اضافة الى احد اضراركبيرة في المحال التجارية والدراجات،مبينا ان القوات الامنية قامت بتطويق المكان،وتم نقل المصابين الى المستشفى القريب. من جانب اخر اغلقت القوات الامنية الجسر الجديد الربط بين مركز مدينة الرمادي ومنطقة القادسية الثانية التي تبعد 4كم جنوب الرمادي مركز محافظة الانبار. ذكر ذلك مصدر امني مضيفا ان معلومات استخباراتية وردت للجهات الامنية في المحافظة افادت بدخول سيارة مفخخة يقودها انتحاري متوجهة نحو الجسر المذكور مما ادى الى اغلاقه،مبينا ان القوات الامنية فرضت طوقا حول المكان تحسبا لاي طاري.</p> <p>وعلى صعيد متصل كثفت قيادة عمليات الانبار من انتشار قواتها من الجيش والشرطة وافواج الطواريءعلى المنافذ الحدودية المحاذية لكل من سوريا والسعودية والاردن . ذكر ذلك مصدر امني من قيادة عمليات الانبار مضيفا انه تم تشكيل غرفة عمليات مشتركة للقوات الامنية العراقية لرفع الاجراءات الامنية وتكثيفها على الحدود المحاذية لمحافظة الانبار مع الدول المشار اليها على خلفية اعتقال احد الارهابيين والذي يحمل الجنسية الاردنية قبل يومين ،مبينا ان الارهابي تمكن من التسلل والدخول عبر الحدود السورية،مشيرا ان من ضمن الاجراءات تعزيز النقاط الحدودية ونصب السيطرات المؤقتة على طريق الشريط الحدودي تحسبا لتسلل الارهابيين عن طريق صحراء الانبار الواسعة. من جانب اخر داهمت صباح اليوم قوة عراقية ترافقها قوة من الاحتلال الامريكي ناحية الكرمة شرق مدينة الفلوجة. ذكر ذلك مصدر امني مضيفا ان قوة من قيادة الارهاب المركزية ببغداد ترافقها قوة امريكية قامت بمداهمة ناحية الكرمة واعتقلت 15 من المشتبه بهم كان من ضمنهم مدير دائرة الماء في الناحية قاسم عكاب ومدير الكهرباء عبد الستار اسماعيل بتهمة تورطهما بالتفجيرات الاخيرة التي استهدفت المنطقة،مبينا ان عملية الاعتقال اثارت غضب المواطنين الذين اعتبروها خرقا للاتفاقية الامنية بين بغداد وواشنطن ، مشيرا ان خطباء المساجد في المنطقة المذكورة نددوا بعملية الاعتقال خلال خطبة صلاة الجمعة . من جانب اخر انفجرت عبوة ناسفة كانت مزروعة على جانب الطريق مستهدفة احدى دوريات شرطة هيت غرب مدينة الرمادي مركز محافظة الانبار. ذكر ذلك مصدر امني مضيفا ان انفجار العبوة تزامن مع مرور الدورية في الطريق المذكور مما ادى الى اصابة ثلاثة من افراد الدورية ، مبينا ان القوات الامنية قامت بفرض طوق حول مكان الانفجار ،وتم نقل المصابين الى المستشفى القريب في المدينة. وفي <span style="color: red">ذي قار</span> تمكنت الاجهزة الأمنية المختصة في شرطة محافظة ذي قار من القبض على (54) مطلوبا بقضايا مختلفة منها الإرهاب والقتل والتزوير في عموم مناطق المحافظة . واضاف المصدر ان " القبض على هؤلاء المطلوبين جاء نتيجة الانشطة الامنية خلال اليومين الماضيين ، منوها بان مفارز المعلومات الوطنية تمكنت من القبض على مطلوب وفق أحكام المادة ( 4 إرهاب ) في قضاء الرفاعي ، كما تمكنت مفارز مكافحة الجريمة الاقتصادية القاء القبض على مطلوبين وفق أحكام المادة ( 289 ق.ع تزوير المحررات الرسمية ) احدهما في مدينة الناصرية ، والاخر في قضاء سوق الشيوخ ، كما استطاعت مفارز التحقيقات الجنائية القبض على مطلوب واحد وفق احكام المادة ( 406 ق.ع جناية القتل العمد ( ، حيث تم القاء القبض على 27 مطلوبا لمديرية شرطة البلدة منها الاحتيال , والاعتداء على الموظفين او المكلفين بخدمة عامة , والاغتصاب واللواط وهتك العرض …الخ ) . و 9 مطلوبين لمديرية شرطة الرفاعي بقضايا ( القتل العمد , المساس بسير القضاء , والتهديد ، و 6 مطلوبين لمديرية شرطة سوق الشيوخ اهم قضاياها ( القتل العمد , والاعتداء على الموظفين او المكلفين بخدمه عامة ) . و 4 مطلوبين لمديرية شرطة القضاء , ومطلوبين اثنين لكل من مديرية شرطة الجبايش ومديرية شرطة الشطرة بالمحافظة" . وفي <span style="color: red">ديالى</span> انفجرت عبوة ناسفة وضعها مجهولون استهدفت سيارة مدنية ادى انفجارها الى اصابة ثلاثة مواطنين بينهم امرأة في ناحية كنعان 10 كم شرق بعقوبة مركز محافظة ديالى. ذكر ذلك مصدرامني مضيفا ان عبوة ناسفة انفجرت على سيارة مدنية كان يستقلها محمد الكرخي احد قادة الصحوة في الناحية ادت الى اصابة ثلاثة مواطنين من ضمنهم الكرخي، مبينا انه تم نقل المصابين الى مستشفى بعقوبة العام بعد ان فرضت القوات الامنية طوقا حول مكان الانفجار. من جهة اخرى استشهد طفل يبلغ من العمر اربع سنوات نتيجة سقوط قذيفة هاون قرب مركز شرطة بلدروز 20 كم شرق مدينة بعقوبة مركز محافظة ديالى . ذكر ذلك مصدر امني مضيفا ان سقوط القذيفة الذي كان يستهدف مركز الشرطة ادى الى اضرارمادية بثلاث سيارات بالاضافة الى عدد من المحال التجارية ،مشيرا الى ان قوات الشرطة والجيش داهمت مكان انطلاق القذيفة بعد ان فرضت طوقا امنيا حول منطقة الانطلاق وتمكنت من اعتقال اربعة من المشتبه بهم ،وما زال التحقيق مستمر معهم </p> <h3><font color="#800000">الاخبار السياسية</font></h3> <p><strong>المالكي يدعو البولاني إلى أن يكون مستقلاً وأن يتخلى عن رئاسة الحزب الدستوري</strong></p> <p>دعا رئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي وزير الداخلية جواد البولاني في تصريح صحفي إلى احترام تعهده بأن يكون مستقلا والتخلي عن زعامة الحزب الدستوري وائتلاف وحدة العراق استنادا إلى اتفاق سابق بأن يكون الوزراء الأمنيون مستقلين. <br/>من جانبه قال القيادي في حزب الدعوة الإسلامي علي العلاق في تصريح نقلته شبكة أخبار العراق إن أي منصب في الوزارة هو منصب سياسي ولكن بالنسبة للوزارات الأمنية فهناك تعهد أوجب على وزرائها أن يكونوا مستقلين وغير منتمين إلى أي حزب، والبولاني أكد أنه لا علاقة له بقيادة الحزب الدستوري سابقا، وما أثار الاستغراب الإعلان بتشكيل ائتلاف جديد برئاسة البولاني تمهيدا لخوض الانتخابات المقبلة.</p> <p><strong>عباس البياتي يرى بان قانون الأحزاب ينسجم مع الأنظمة الدكتاتورية</strong></p> <p>انتقد النائب عن الائتلاف العراقي الموحد عباس البياتي قانون الأحزاب الذي ينتظر طرحه على البرلمان العراقي لمناقشته، معتبرا انه ينسجم مع الأنظمة الدكتاتورية. <br/>وقال البياتي لوكالة اصوات العراق ان قانون الأحزاب يجعل من الأحزاب تابعة للدولة، وهو ما ينسجم مع الانظمة الدكتاتورية السابقة وليس مع النظام الديمقراطي، لأن الاحزاب ليس بالضرورة ان تكون تابعة للدولة. <br/>واعتبر البياتي ان القانون فيه الكثير من الثغرات ولا ينسجم مع التطور السياسي الذي يشهده العراق ، مشيرا الى ان البلدان الديمقراطية يكون الناس فيها احرارا في تشكيل احزابهم ولا يوجد شيء اسمه اجازة للعمل الحزبي من الدولة.</p> <p><strong>اقتراح انتشار قوات مشتركة امريكية عراقية كردية في المناطق المضطربة بحاجة الى الموافقة</strong></p> <p>قال الناطق باسم البيشمركة جبار ياور انه كان هناك اقتراح بتشكيل قوة اميركية – عراقية– كردية مشتركة في بعض المناطق المضطربة بمحافظات ديالى وكركوك والموصل لحماية أمنها الى حين تطبيق المادة 140 وحسم أمرها. <br/>وأضاف ياور الى الحياة ان لجنة من كبار الضباط في الجهات الثلاث عقدت سلسلة اجتماعات في بغداد واربيل والمحافظات الثلاث وتوصلت الى صوغ عدد من الاقتراحات حول آلية تشكيل هذه القوة المشتركة وحجمها وقيادتها ومناطق انتشارها، ورفعت هذه الاقتراحات الى القائد العام للقوات المسلحة نوري المالكي ورئيس اقليم كردستان مسعود بارزاني، مشيرا الى هم الان بانتظار الموافقة عليها.</p> <p><b>بهاء الاعرجي: هناك كتل ترغب بالقائمة المغلقة وتستغل مسألة كركوك لذلك</b></p> <p>قال النائب عن حزب الفضيلة الأسلامي بهاء الاعرجي إن كتلا وقيادات سياسية لم يسمها لاترغب بإعتماد القائمة المفتوحة وتتخذ من قضية كركوك ذريعة لعدم إقرار قانون الانتخابات. <br/>واوضح الاعرجي في تصريح له أن الخلاف بشأن القانون ليس فنياً ولا قانونياً، مشيرا الى أن اللجنة القانونية أنهت عملها واعطت جميع الخيارات الى مجلس النواب لكن لم يحصل توافق على اي من الخيارات المطروحة. <br/>وأكد الاعرجي أن بعض الاطراف السياسية ترغب بالقائمة المغلقة وانه لن يكون لها ادنى فرصة اذا اعتمدت القائمة المفتوحة، مشيرا الى ان اطرافا اخرى لاتريد إجراء الانتخابات في موعدها،حيث استغلت قضية كركوك لذلك .</p> <h3><font color="#800000">الاخبار الاقتصادية</font></h3> <p><b>حكومة إقليم كردستان تعتزم إنشاء محطة لتنقية المياه في دربندخان</b></p> <p>تعتزم حكومة إقليم كردستان إنشاء محطة لتنقية المياه في قضاء دربندخان جنوب مدينة السليمانية بكلفة ثلاثة ملايين دولار بحسب ماذكره قائممام القضاء شيركو حسين. <br/>وقال القائممقام إن حكومة الاقليم تنوي إقامة محطة لتنقية المياه من خلال شركة Ukfilter البريطانية بكلفة ثلاثة ملايين دولار في قضاء دربندخان ومن المقرر أن تباشر الشركة بالمشروع اعتبارا من الاسبوع المقبل، ومن المقرر انجازه في غضون 8 اشهر. <br/>يذكر أن سد دربندخان بوشر بتشييده من قبل شركة هايدرو كرادينيا اليوغسلافية في 5 من حزيران عام 1967 وعلى نفقة الحكومة العراقية آنذاك، وتم انجاز المشروع كليا في حزيران 1981.</p> </p> <p><b>إنخفاض مبيعات البنك المركزي من الدولار</b></p> <p>انخفضت مبيعات البنك المركزي من الدولار في مزاده خلال الاسبوع الحالي الى 699 مليون دولار مقابل 839 مليونا الاسبوع الماضي، فيما ثبت المركزي سعر صرفه الاساس على 1170 دينارا لكل دولار. <br/>وبلغت مبيعات مزاد البنك المركزي للعملات الاجنبية خلال الاسبوع الحالي 699 مليونا و178 الف دولار، بسعر صرف اساس مستقر للاسبوع الـ39 على التوالي بلغ 1170 دينارا مقابل كل دولار، من خلال عقد خمس جلسات للمزاد. <br/>وهو يسجل إنخفاضا عن الاسبوع الماضي الذي بلغت فيه مبيعات المركزي 839 مليونا و565 الف دولار، بسعر صرف اساس 1170 دينار مقابل كل دولار. <br/>كما شهدت الحوالات الخارجية إنخفاضا لتصل الى 681 مليونا و828 الف دولار، مقابل 809 ملايين و555 الف دولار الاسبوع الماضي، وبسعر صرف بلغ 1173 دينارا مقابل كل دولار بضمنه عمولة البنك المركزي البالغة ثلاثة دنانير لكل دولار.</p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-7560"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/10/22/good-morning-baghdad-nightclubs-corruption-and-iraqs-new-normalcy/#respond" title="Comment on ‘Good Morning Baghdad’: 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But violence is still an element of daily life and corruption threatens to become debilitating.</p> <div id="spArticleBody"> <p>Mohammed al-Rahhal wears sideburns, a white suit and a red shirt open to his chest. On stage at a Baghdad nightclub, he sings, dances and taps his boots to the beat of the music. A band is playing behind him, and four young women are swooning at his side — three thin ones wearing pumps and full-length dresses, and a heavy, slightly clumsier one.</p> <p> The audience at Khayyam — named after a Persian poet — is drinking ice-cold beer, nibbling on Lebanese hors d’oeuvres, and swinging exuberantly to the music. A bouncer is collecting small arms at the entrance. Then a businessman stands up, walks up to the stage, pulls a stack of banknotes out of his pocket and whispers something into the singer’s ear.</p> <p>“Long live the youth of Adhamiyah!”, Rahhal bellows into the microphone. Adhamiyah is one of the Sunni districts of Baghdad that, until two years ago, was firmly in the stranglehold of al-Qaida.</p> <p>“Long live the youth of Madinat al-Sadr!” It’s a reference to the eastern Shiite slum that has been the scene of devastating suicide attacks. Cheers erupt. The businessman tosses piles of 1,000-dinar and one-dollar bills into the air. The money is whirled about by the ceiling fans, and it slowly falls to the floor, like confetti.</p> <p>“This is Iraq!” a Turkmen from Kirkuk yells over the din. “This country will never become a theocracy!” The euphoria escalates into joyful pandemonium. Young men — Kurds and Arabs, Sunnis, Christians and Shiites — jump up and dance in front of the stage.</p> <p> <b>Zest for Life</b> </p> <p>The first nightclub in Baghdad began welcoming guests a year ago — the first to open for business since the 1990s, when Saddam Hussein suddenly developed a religious streak after defeat in the first Gulf War in Kuwait and prohibited the serving of alcohol. The conservative Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, of all people, lifted the ban.</p> <p>Now, after years of violence and death, a zest for life has seized Iraq. On Thursday evenings, endless wedding convoys pull up at the hotel security checkpoints, causing traffic to back up for miles. Once they arrive, 50, sometimes as many as 60 couples tie the knot in mass weddings at establishments with names like the Mansur, the Babil, and the Palestine. Right up until the curfew at midnight, colorful lanterns light up Abu Nuwas Street, a famous riverside promenade.</p> <p>The carp restaurants in the park along the Tigris, which were deserted during the years of terror, are once again doing a brisk business. So too are the police officers who provide security for the neighborhood, often in return for a bit of cash in hand.</p> <p>In late June, US troops began their withdrawal, and in January, post-war Iraq is to go to the polls for the third time. The new state is gradually taking shape after a violent birth that cost the lives of nearly 100,000 Iraqis and over 4,000 Americans. It is not the model Arab democracy that former US President George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair once envisioned. Neither is it the Islamic Republic that the mullahs in Tehran would like to see as their neighbor. And it is certainly not the murderous caliphate that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden wanted to establish in Mesopotamia.</p> <p> <b>An Authoritarian Nationalist</b> </p> <p>It is a state in which hundreds of people continue to die every month in attacks and gunfights. Al-Qaida has been forced to retreat to the north, where it has been launching an increasing number of assaults in recent weeks. Now that the war between Sunnis and Shiites has ceased, the terrorist organization intends to rekindle the conflict between Arabs and Kurds.</p> <p>In the south the government is trying to boost oil production, but in June when it opened bidding for eight oil fields, an investor could only be found for one. Iraq is the richest country in the Middle East, after Iran; it has the oil that Syria, Egypt and Turkey don’t have; it has the water that is not widely available in the region; and it has an educated elite. But it also has a government that hasn’t even begun to exploit this potential.</p> <p>The result is a contradictory polity that, for both the Iraqis and the rest of the world, will take some time to get used to. It is a police state — but also one that grants liberties the likes of which have not been seen in living memory. It is an oil superpower riddled by nepotism and corruption, where a handful of parliamentarians are struggling to forge a constitutional state. It is a country whose prime minister, during a mere three and a half years in office, has gone from being a Shiite compromise candidate to an authoritarian nationalist who nonetheless allows for an unusual amount of freedom.</p> <p>A new, rich upper-class has emerged. During the religious fasting month of Ramadan two years ago, commercial jets flying between Baghdad and Beirut, Amman and Dubai were not even half full. This year’s festival, which took place from late August to late September, saw flights booked out well in advance. Iraq’s elite went shopping. In the affluent Karrada district of Baghdad where, following the US invasion in 2003, new refrigerators, children’s bicycles and kerosene heaters heralded an initial wave of prosperity, car dealerships are now selling Porsches and Jaguars.</p> <p> <b>‘Lining Their Pockets’</b> </p> <p>A great deal of money is in circulation, but where does it come from? “Corruption was always bad,” says former Minister of Telecommunications Juwan Fouad Masum<i>. </i>She says that the upcoming elections in January are spurring politicians and high-ranking officials to ever greater degrees of vice. “No minister or general director knows if he will retain his post after the elections. So they’re filling their pockets now.”</p> <p>Masum lives in the Kadissija compound, a residential area guarded by Kurdish elite units, where Saddam’s ministers once resided. Four cars are parked in front of her villa and the swimming pool glows blue in the twilight.</p> <p>“The problem,” she says “is the system.” When a minister leaves office, the entire staff of the ministry leaves as well, right down to the man who makes the tea. This is a custom which has been revived from the Saddam era. There is rampant cronyism, which also leads to incompetence and corruption. Masum now has a job directing a business consulting firm. She says she would rather work abroad than in her own country.</p> </p> <p><b>Debilitating Corruption in the New Iraq</b></p> <p>Over the past few years, Iraq has risen to become the second-most corrupt country in the world, surpassed only by Somalia on the index of the international non-governmental corruption watchdog Transparency International. Former Minister of Trade Abd al-Falah Sudani, along with his brothers, embezzled so much money from the food rationing program — known as the Public Distribution System — that he decided it would be best to flee to Dubai. His plane was already in the air when it was ordered to return to Baghdad, where he was arrested at the airport.</p> <p>“We have 10 hours of electricity a day, 15 hours of freedom of speech and 24 hours of corruption,” as the Kurds say in northern Iraq, where two clans have been pulling the strings for decades. One of these groups is led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.</p> <p>The parliament in Baghdad is actually one of the bodies responsible for investigating such abuses. “Our monthly salary is the equivalent of €6,700 ($10,000),” says Maysoon al-Damluji, a parliamentarian. “In addition, we are each entitled to 30 security personnel with a minimum salary of €300 per month.” She doesn’t want to malign her colleagues, she adds, but it is highly common for relatives and friends to be placed on the politician’s payroll, regardless of whether or not they know anything about security.</p> <p> <b>‘Our Government Is Like a Big Mafia’</b> </p> <p>By contrast, genuine bodyguards are required to protect the members of the parliamentary anti-corruption and the budget committee, which include men like Sheikh Sabah al-Saadi and women like Shada al-Moussawi. “You don’t make any friends when you demonstrate to the national security adviser that he is legally entitled to a staff of 60, but in reality has 273 people on his payroll,” says Moussawi. When her committee decided to summon a minister, she received threatening phone calls: “It was an interesting time for me in parliament. I certainly won’t run for another term.”</p> <p>Al-Saadi also recounts how he was often threatened with “physical liquidation.” “Our government is like a big Mafia,” he says. “We uncovered networks that extend through virtually all ministries.” His own Shiite party, Fadila (Virtue), is not involved, he claims, because it has no ministers in the cabinet.</p> <p>Saadi’s party has joined the Iraqi National Alliance (INA), one of two coalitions of political forces that — depending on the election results — will appoint the next prime minister. A key development will come in January, when the Kurds decide who they prefer — the Shiite dominated INA or the list of candidates put forward by Prime Minister Maliki. And the Kurds’ decision will depend on which alliance is more likely to guarantee them the big prize: the oil city of Kirkuk, which is claimed by both Kurds and Arabs.</p> <p>“Compared with the conflicts that threaten to erupt following the elections, corruption may actually be a stabilizing factor,” says Joost Hiltermann, an analyst for the International Crisis Group. “Corruption keeps people’s minds focused on money instead of violence,” says Hiltermann.</p> <p> <b>Religion and Politics Don’t Mix</b> </p> <p>So far in post-Saddam Iraq, the custom has been to include as many political groups as possible in the government. But there have been disadvantages to this approach, foremost among them that it has prevented the emergence of an opposition. </p> <p>“The model of the national unity government has failed,” says Safiya Suhail, a liberal member of parliament. There was a time when the US placed its hopes in politicians like her. When President George W. Bush delivered his State of the Union address to Congress in February 2005, she sat in the audience as a symbol of the new, democratic Iraq.</p> <p>Suhail entered parliament on the list by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. After serving as an independent for a few years she has now changed camps and gone over to Prime Minister Maliki. She recently appeared as the only woman without a head scarf when he presented his list — Maliki was one of the first to understand that politics and religion don’t mix in Iraq.</p> <p>His own party was originally called Dawa Islamiya (Islamic Mission). Now he’s dropped the adjective, referring to it simply as the Dawa. Other parties have followed Maliki’s lead. The competing list no longer calls itself the House of the Shia, but emphasizes instead that a large number of Sunni leaders have joined it. Other groups have gone for ideologically neutral names like The Center or The Constitution or The Qualified. All parties want to avoid coming under suspicion of representing a specific religious movement. Fears are still rife that a civil war could erupt between Sunnis and Shiites, though that seems unlikely at the moment. There is hope that in the new Iraq, old conflicts will be settled in the political arena.</p> <p> <b>‘We’ve Learned a Great Deal’</b> </p> <p>In contrast to four years ago, the green flag of the Prophet, half moons and swords no longer dominate election posters. “We’ve learned a great deal,” admits Sheikh Jalaleddin Saghir. He is a Shiite like Maliki, but a fierce rival of his former ally.</p> <p>What disturbs Saghir about the prime minister is exactly what makes him popular among voters: his impulsiveness and his tendency to govern Iraq as a strongman. “Maliki has put a lot of talent into disappointing his friends and making enemies,” says Saghir.</p> <p>Many in Iraq have felt the brunt — starting with the Shiite militias in Basra, Kut, Hilla and Madinat al-Sadr, when Maliki staged a decisive crackdown in March 2008. Some of his former coalition partners then complained that the brutality of the operation — called Charge of the Knights — was comparable to Saddam’s punitive campaigns in the south.</p> <p>Maliki also doesn’t shy away from confronting the Kurds — he engages their Peshmerga fighters whenever they try to exert their influence beyond their autonomy zone. Individual Sunni tribes, whose so-called “awakening” councils were primarily responsible for driving al-Qaida out of central Iraq, are ignored by Maliki. And finally there is the formerly US-supported People’s Mujahedin of Iran, a group that advocates the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Maliki ordered government troops to attack their base at Camp Ashraf in July, resulting in 11 casualties and 500 wounded, according to the Iranian rebels.</p> <p>“Maliki is drunk with power right now,” says a member of parliament who experienced his behavior first-hand at a secret meeting with the heads of the parties represented in parliament. “He openly threatened us there: If anyone brings something against him and his Dawa Party, he will definitely also find something against him.”</p> <p> <b>Secret Decree</b> </p> <p>The prime minister has “a strong authoritarian vein,” says Kadhim al-Rikabi, who heads an association for independent media. He says it is frightening to see with what determination that government is gagging the press: “If the US occupation has left us with one good body of legislation, then this would be the media decrees of 2003,” says Rikabi. At the time, US proconsul Paul Bremer set up an independent media council, whose members were to be elected by parliament.</p> <p>But ever since Maliki has been in office, Kadhim complains, he has personally named the media councils, which are allowed to grant print, online and broadcasting licenses. He has reintroduced the censorship laws from the Saddam era, and directly intervenes if he disapproves of articles. He also issued a secret decree dated Aug. 6 and sent to the interior, defense and health ministries. “The Prime Minister and Supreme Commander has ordered,” he wrote, “that every government official who, after terrorist attacks gives details concerning the victims to media outlets, shall be severely punished.” </p> <p>Maliki’s vision of patriotic reporting can be viewed on the broadcasts of the government channel Al Iraqiya. The leader always sits at the front of the table, with subordinates right and left who take notes on his speeches. Praise for the wisdom of his leadership is compulsory — just as it used to be in the days of dictatorship.</p> <p> <b>Good Morning Baghdad</b> </p> <p>“Ah, look how beautiful our city is in the autumn,” said a presenter a few days ago on the “Good Morning, Iraq” show. “Now let’s listen to a song by Qassim Sultan.”</p> <p>Images of a surreally beautiful Baghdad flashed on the screen, children swinging in the city’s Saura amusement park, a baker sliding bread into an oven, policeman directing traffic on Kahramana Square. “Good morning, Baghdad,” sang Qassim Sultan, “good morning, our life, inshallah (Allah willing), will be wonderful.”</p> <p>These are songs of the Sirens, reminiscent of the rule of Saddam. The reality in Baghdad is different, but it is without a doubt better than in the past few years marred by violence, attacks and barbarity, which form the basis of comparison in today’s Iraq.</p> </div> <p id="spIntroTeaser">Life is returning to the streets of Iraq as improved security has meant theater openings, packed restaurants and an emerging middle class. But violence is still an element of daily life and corruption threatens to become debilitating.</p> <div id="spArticleBody"> <p>Mohammed al-Rahhal wears sideburns, a white suit and a red shirt open to his chest. On stage at a Baghdad nightclub, he sings, dances and taps his boots to the beat of the music. A band is playing behind him, and four young women are swooning at his side — three thin ones wearing pumps and full-length dresses, and a heavy, slightly clumsier one.</p> <p> The audience at Khayyam — named after a Persian poet — is drinking ice-cold beer, nibbling on Lebanese hors d’oeuvres, and swinging exuberantly to the music. A bouncer is collecting small arms at the entrance. Then a businessman stands up, walks up to the stage, pulls a stack of banknotes out of his pocket and whispers something into the singer’s ear.</p> <p>“Long live the youth of Adhamiyah!”, Rahhal bellows into the microphone. Adhamiyah is one of the Sunni districts of Baghdad that, until two years ago, was firmly in the stranglehold of al-Qaida.</p> <p>“Long live the youth of Madinat al-Sadr!” It’s a reference to the eastern Shiite slum that has been the scene of devastating suicide attacks. Cheers erupt. The businessman tosses piles of 1,000-dinar and one-dollar bills into the air. The money is whirled about by the ceiling fans, and it slowly falls to the floor, like confetti.</p> <p>“This is Iraq!” a Turkmen from Kirkuk yells over the din. “This country will never become a theocracy!” The euphoria escalates into joyful pandemonium. Young men — Kurds and Arabs, Sunnis, Christians and Shiites — jump up and dance in front of the stage.</p> <p> <b>Zest for Life</b> </p> <p>The first nightclub in Baghdad began welcoming guests a year ago — the first to open for business since the 1990s, when Saddam Hussein suddenly developed a religious streak after defeat in the first Gulf War in Kuwait and prohibited the serving of alcohol. The conservative Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, of all people, lifted the ban.</p> <p>Now, after years of violence and death, a zest for life has seized Iraq. On Thursday evenings, endless wedding convoys pull up at the hotel security checkpoints, causing traffic to back up for miles. Once they arrive, 50, sometimes as many as 60 couples tie the knot in mass weddings at establishments with names like the Mansur, the Babil, and the Palestine. Right up until the curfew at midnight, colorful lanterns light up Abu Nuwas Street, a famous riverside promenade.</p> <p>The carp restaurants in the park along the Tigris, which were deserted during the years of terror, are once again doing a brisk business. So too are the police officers who provide security for the neighborhood, often in return for a bit of cash in hand.</p> <p>In late June, US troops began their withdrawal, and in January, post-war Iraq is to go to the polls for the third time. The new state is gradually taking shape after a violent birth that cost the lives of nearly 100,000 Iraqis and over 4,000 Americans. It is not the model Arab democracy that former US President George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair once envisioned. Neither is it the Islamic Republic that the mullahs in Tehran would like to see as their neighbor. And it is certainly not the murderous caliphate that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden wanted to establish in Mesopotamia.</p> <p> <b>An Authoritarian Nationalist</b> </p> <p>It is a state in which hundreds of people continue to die every month in attacks and gunfights. Al-Qaida has been forced to retreat to the north, where it has been launching an increasing number of assaults in recent weeks. Now that the war between Sunnis and Shiites has ceased, the terrorist organization intends to rekindle the conflict between Arabs and Kurds.</p> <p>In the south the government is trying to boost oil production, but in June when it opened bidding for eight oil fields, an investor could only be found for one. Iraq is the richest country in the Middle East, after Iran; it has the oil that Syria, Egypt and Turkey don’t have; it has the water that is not widely available in the region; and it has an educated elite. But it also has a government that hasn’t even begun to exploit this potential.</p> <p>The result is a contradictory polity that, for both the Iraqis and the rest of the world, will take some time to get used to. It is a police state — but also one that grants liberties the likes of which have not been seen in living memory. It is an oil superpower riddled by nepotism and corruption, where a handful of parliamentarians are struggling to forge a constitutional state. It is a country whose prime minister, during a mere three and a half years in office, has gone from being a Shiite compromise candidate to an authoritarian nationalist who nonetheless allows for an unusual amount of freedom.</p> <p>A new, rich upper-class has emerged. During the religious fasting month of Ramadan two years ago, commercial jets flying between Baghdad and Beirut, Amman and Dubai were not even half full. This year’s festival, which took place from late August to late September, saw flights booked out well in advance. Iraq’s elite went shopping. In the affluent Karrada district of Baghdad where, following the US invasion in 2003, new refrigerators, children’s bicycles and kerosene heaters heralded an initial wave of prosperity, car dealerships are now selling Porsches and Jaguars.</p> <p> <b>‘Lining Their Pockets’</b> </p> <p>A great deal of money is in circulation, but where does it come from? “Corruption was always bad,” says former Minister of Telecommunications Juwan Fouad Masum<i>. </i>She says that the upcoming elections in January are spurring politicians and high-ranking officials to ever greater degrees of vice. “No minister or general director knows if he will retain his post after the elections. So they’re filling their pockets now.”</p> <p>Masum lives in the Kadissija compound, a residential area guarded by Kurdish elite units, where Saddam’s ministers once resided. Four cars are parked in front of her villa and the swimming pool glows blue in the twilight.</p> <p>“The problem,” she says “is the system.” When a minister leaves office, the entire staff of the ministry leaves as well, right down to the man who makes the tea. This is a custom which has been revived from the Saddam era. There is rampant cronyism, which also leads to incompetence and corruption. Masum now has a job directing a business consulting firm. She says she would rather work abroad than in her own country.</p> </p> <p><b>Debilitating Corruption in the New Iraq</b></p> <p>Over the past few years, Iraq has risen to become the second-most corrupt country in the world, surpassed only by Somalia on the index of the international non-governmental corruption watchdog Transparency International. Former Minister of Trade Abd al-Falah Sudani, along with his brothers, embezzled so much money from the food rationing program — known as the Public Distribution System — that he decided it would be best to flee to Dubai. His plane was already in the air when it was ordered to return to Baghdad, where he was arrested at the airport.</p> <p>“We have 10 hours of electricity a day, 15 hours of freedom of speech and 24 hours of corruption,” as the Kurds say in northern Iraq, where two clans have been pulling the strings for decades. One of these groups is led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.</p> <p>The parliament in Baghdad is actually one of the bodies responsible for investigating such abuses. “Our monthly salary is the equivalent of €6,700 ($10,000),” says Maysoon al-Damluji, a parliamentarian. “In addition, we are each entitled to 30 security personnel with a minimum salary of €300 per month.” She doesn’t want to malign her colleagues, she adds, but it is highly common for relatives and friends to be placed on the politician’s payroll, regardless of whether or not they know anything about security.</p> <p> <b>‘Our Government Is Like a Big Mafia’</b> </p> <p>By contrast, genuine bodyguards are required to protect the members of the parliamentary anti-corruption and the budget committee, which include men like Sheikh Sabah al-Saadi and women like Shada al-Moussawi. “You don’t make any friends when you demonstrate to the national security adviser that he is legally entitled to a staff of 60, but in reality has 273 people on his payroll,” says Moussawi. When her committee decided to summon a minister, she received threatening phone calls: “It was an interesting time for me in parliament. I certainly won’t run for another term.”</p> <p>Al-Saadi also recounts how he was often threatened with “physical liquidation.” “Our government is like a big Mafia,” he says. “We uncovered networks that extend through virtually all ministries.” His own Shiite party, Fadila (Virtue), is not involved, he claims, because it has no ministers in the cabinet.</p> <p>Saadi’s party has joined the Iraqi National Alliance (INA), one of two coalitions of political forces that — depending on the election results — will appoint the next prime minister. A key development will come in January, when the Kurds decide who they prefer — the Shiite dominated INA or the list of candidates put forward by Prime Minister Maliki. And the Kurds’ decision will depend on which alliance is more likely to guarantee them the big prize: the oil city of Kirkuk, which is claimed by both Kurds and Arabs.</p> <p>“Compared with the conflicts that threaten to erupt following the elections, corruption may actually be a stabilizing factor,” says Joost Hiltermann, an analyst for the International Crisis Group. “Corruption keeps people’s minds focused on money instead of violence,” says Hiltermann.</p> <p> <b>Religion and Politics Don’t Mix</b> </p> <p>So far in post-Saddam Iraq, the custom has been to include as many political groups as possible in the government. But there have been disadvantages to this approach, foremost among them that it has prevented the emergence of an opposition. </p> <p>“The model of the national unity government has failed,” says Safiya Suhail, a liberal member of parliament. There was a time when the US placed its hopes in politicians like her. When President George W. Bush delivered his State of the Union address to Congress in February 2005, she sat in the audience as a symbol of the new, democratic Iraq.</p> <p>Suhail entered parliament on the list by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. After serving as an independent for a few years she has now changed camps and gone over to Prime Minister Maliki. She recently appeared as the only woman without a head scarf when he presented his list — Maliki was one of the first to understand that politics and religion don’t mix in Iraq.</p> <p>His own party was originally called Dawa Islamiya (Islamic Mission). Now he’s dropped the adjective, referring to it simply as the Dawa. Other parties have followed Maliki’s lead. The competing list no longer calls itself the House of the Shia, but emphasizes instead that a large number of Sunni leaders have joined it. Other groups have gone for ideologically neutral names like The Center or The Constitution or The Qualified. All parties want to avoid coming under suspicion of representing a specific religious movement. Fears are still rife that a civil war could erupt between Sunnis and Shiites, though that seems unlikely at the moment. There is hope that in the new Iraq, old conflicts will be settled in the political arena.</p> <p> <b>‘We’ve Learned a Great Deal’</b> </p> <p>In contrast to four years ago, the green flag of the Prophet, half moons and swords no longer dominate election posters. “We’ve learned a great deal,” admits Sheikh Jalaleddin Saghir. He is a Shiite like Maliki, but a fierce rival of his former ally.</p> <p>What disturbs Saghir about the prime minister is exactly what makes him popular among voters: his impulsiveness and his tendency to govern Iraq as a strongman. “Maliki has put a lot of talent into disappointing his friends and making enemies,” says Saghir.</p> <p>Many in Iraq have felt the brunt — starting with the Shiite militias in Basra, Kut, Hilla and Madinat al-Sadr, when Maliki staged a decisive crackdown in March 2008. Some of his former coalition partners then complained that the brutality of the operation — called Charge of the Knights — was comparable to Saddam’s punitive campaigns in the south.</p> <p>Maliki also doesn’t shy away from confronting the Kurds — he engages their Peshmerga fighters whenever they try to exert their influence beyond their autonomy zone. Individual Sunni tribes, whose so-called “awakening” councils were primarily responsible for driving al-Qaida out of central Iraq, are ignored by Maliki. And finally there is the formerly US-supported People’s Mujahedin of Iran, a group that advocates the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Maliki ordered government troops to attack their base at Camp Ashraf in July, resulting in 11 casualties and 500 wounded, according to the Iranian rebels.</p> <p>“Maliki is drunk with power right now,” says a member of parliament who experienced his behavior first-hand at a secret meeting with the heads of the parties represented in parliament. “He openly threatened us there: If anyone brings something against him and his Dawa Party, he will definitely also find something against him.”</p> <p> <b>Secret Decree</b> </p> <p>The prime minister has “a strong authoritarian vein,” says Kadhim al-Rikabi, who heads an association for independent media. He says it is frightening to see with what determination that government is gagging the press: “If the US occupation has left us with one good body of legislation, then this would be the media decrees of 2003,” says Rikabi. At the time, US proconsul Paul Bremer set up an independent media council, whose members were to be elected by parliament.</p> <p>But ever since Maliki has been in office, Kadhim complains, he has personally named the media councils, which are allowed to grant print, online and broadcasting licenses. He has reintroduced the censorship laws from the Saddam era, and directly intervenes if he disapproves of articles. He also issued a secret decree dated Aug. 6 and sent to the interior, defense and health ministries. “The Prime Minister and Supreme Commander has ordered,” he wrote, “that every government official who, after terrorist attacks gives details concerning the victims to media outlets, shall be severely punished.” </p> <p>Maliki’s vision of patriotic reporting can be viewed on the broadcasts of the government channel Al Iraqiya. The leader always sits at the front of the table, with subordinates right and left who take notes on his speeches. Praise for the wisdom of his leadership is compulsory — just as it used to be in the days of dictatorship.</p> <p> <b>Good Morning Baghdad</b> </p> <p>“Ah, look how beautiful our city is in the autumn,” said a presenter a few days ago on the “Good Morning, Iraq” show. “Now let’s listen to a song by Qassim Sultan.”</p> <p>Images of a surreally beautiful Baghdad flashed on the screen, children swinging in the city’s Saura amusement park, a baker sliding bread into an oven, policeman directing traffic on Kahramana Square. “Good morning, Baghdad,” sang Qassim Sultan, “good morning, our life, inshallah (Allah willing), will be wonderful.”</p> <p>These are songs of the Sirens, reminiscent of the rule of Saddam. The reality in Baghdad is different, but it is without a doubt better than in the past few years marred by violence, attacks and barbarity, which form the basis of comparison in today’s Iraq.</p> </div> <p><i>Translated from the German by Paul Cohen</i></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,656329,00.html" target="_blank" class="external">‘Good Morning Baghdad’: Nightclubs, Corruption and Iraq’s New Normalcy</a> | By Bernhard Zand |SPIEGEL ONLINE</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-7512"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/10/15/the-other-kurdistan-seethes-with-rage/#respond" title="Comment on The ‘other’ Kurdistan seethes with rage">No Comments</a></span> Posted on October 15th, 2009 by Editors</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/10/15/the-other-kurdistan-seethes-with-rage/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to The ‘other’ Kurdistan seethes with rage">The ‘other’ Kurdistan seethes with rage</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/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/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/america/" rel="tag">America</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/asayish/" rel="tag">Asayish</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/asia-times/" rel="tag">Asia Times</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/ataturk/" rel="tag">Ataturk</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baghdad/" rel="tag">Baghdad</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/caliphate/" rel="tag">Caliphate</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/central-asia/" rel="tag">central Asia</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/damascus/" rel="tag">Damascus</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/eni/" rel="tag">ENI</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/gulf-war/" rel="tag">Gulf War</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/history/" rel="tag">History</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/hit/" rel="tag">Hit</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/ied/" rel="tag">IED</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iran/" rel="tag">Iran</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iraqi-kurdistan/" rel="tag">Iraqi kurdistan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/irbil/" rel="tag">Irbil</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/islam/" rel="tag">Islam</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/kemalism/" rel="tag">Kemalism</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/kirkuk/" rel="tag">Kirkuk</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/kurdistan/" rel="tag">Kurdistan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/middle-east/" rel="tag">Middle East</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/news-sites/" rel="tag">News Sites</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/northern-iraq/" rel="tag">northern iraq</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/ocalan-abdullah/" rel="tag">Ocalan - 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The campaign was intended to lure American and British private investment to Iraqi Kurdistan and to let the world know that at least part of the war was an outright success at a time when the Iraqi insurgency was at its worst. </p> <p>All this glossed over the fact that Iraq’s Kurds had been operating as a de facto state for quite some time – since the implementation </p> <p>of Operation Northern Watch in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War (though this process of democratization was interrupted by the Kurdish civil war of the mid-1990s). </p> <p>Iraqi Kurdistan is a stable statelet that is remarkably secular in its outlook. The area suffers from only the rare suicide attack, and it even has an army of trash trucks providing regular rubbish pick-ups. </p> <p>This unusual serenity is run by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and its President and "CEO" Massoud Barzani. Indeed, the three KRG governorates of Duhok, Irbil and Sulaimaniyah are for the most part oases of relative calm in Iraq. </p> <p>According to a source in the General Security Directorate, known locally in Kurdish as the Asayish, all of the territory held by the KRG is admittedly not under its control. Very recently, Asia Times Online made a clandestine trip to the notorious Qandil Mountains along the Iraq-Iran border region where the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), from southeastern Turkey, and the Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK), from northwestern Iran, control territory. </p> <p>As, over time, the KRG fuses with the once-rival ruling parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), and trade increases rapidly with Turkey and, to a lesser degree, with Iran and Syria, the notion of a sovereign Iraqi Kurdish state becomes more plausible while making the fantasy of reunification of "Greater Kurdistan" much less so. </p> <p>Kurdistan cannot escape its landlocked geography quadrisected in the ashes of World War I. The roughly 35 million ethnic Kurds are the world’s largest ethnic group without their own country. Iraqi Kurdistan’s ruling politicians and their corresponding corporate interests are now shuttling between the central government in Baghdad and various regional capitals to feel out which way the winds of change are blowing. </p> <p>The Kurds have been caught in a web of wildly varying, intolerant nationalisms for most of the post-Ottoman era from which they have not been able to escape. The most significant of these is Turkey’s secular and militarist Kemalism. Mustafa Kemal, known as Ataturk the "Father of Turks", replaced the unifying Islam of the dying Ottoman caliphate with so-called "Turkishness". </p> <p>Millions of Kurds, in what would become the Turkish Republic, were to be absurdly labeled "Mountain Turks". Ataturk insisted on doing away with any cultural practice related to the caliphate, including the tolerance of linguistic and religious minorities under its jurisdiction. </p> <p>The newly created Turkey, forged in 1923, left no room for "Kurdishness" and Turkey’s Kurds began rebelling almost at once. The 1979 Islamic Revolution in neighboring Iran did away with the enforced secularism of the Pahlavi dynasty and enshrined a form of Shi’itism as the state ideology around which the nascent Islamic Republic was formed. </p> <p>The then-new Iranian regime presented itself to the outside world as a pious Persian Shi’ite monolith, leaving little room for Iran’s restive, mostly Sunni Kurdish minority. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s unorthodox interpretation of traditional Shi’itism and the creation of the velayat-e-faqih ("The rule of the jurisprudent" – considered an unwelcome innovation by much of the Shi’ite clerical establishment) left the Kurds of Iran’s Kordestan and Western Azerbaijan provinces disaffected even more so. </p> <p>The takeover of Iraq and Syria by Ba’athists in the 1960s led to the rise of a myopic pan-Arabism in Baghdad and Damascus that left no room for the Kurds’ distinct language, culture and traditions. The Cold War Arab socialism of the Ba’ath party was, for the Kurds, simply more ethno-chauvinist demagoguery, that, as in Turkey and Iran, was bent on the destruction of their massive stateless nation. </p> <p>One of the only identifying factors that these highly divergent ideologies of Kemalism, Khomenism and Ba’athism had in common was their policy of constant Kurdish repression. Internal jingoistic state policies being carried out in their respective Kurdish-majority regions in the name of law and order over the decades have now morphed across borders into external forces of political expediency unifying Turkey, Syria and Iran on the suppression of their respective "Kurdish questions". </p> <p>Along with all of the external historic forces allied against them, the Kurds themselves are also internally divided by dialect, tribe and clan. In the case of Iraqi Kurdistan, these divisions translated into political allegiances that have now formed the backbone of the KRG. </p> <p>Save for the very short-lived, Soviet-backed Republic of Mahabad in 1946, the Irbil-based KRG is the closest thing any of the Kurds in Kurdistan’s four sectors have to an independent state. As Turkey’s hopes for full-scale European Union accession have been fading into the background, Turkey’s relations with Iran, Iraq and Syria have greatly improved. </p> <p>Syria, which for a time once supported PKK insurgents in a petty proxy struggle with Turkey regarding disputes over water usage rights, has long since dropped all known tolerance of Turkish Kurd fighters operating from Syrian territory. Turkey has come to the realization that as much as it has looked Westward from Ataturk’s secularist revolution onward, it has no choice but to integrate a higher level of cooperation with its less stable borderlands to the south and east. </p> <p>Oil flowing north into Turkey from Iraq, and water flowing south into Syria and Iraq, defies Turkey’s past isolation from Middle Eastern issues and may slow its Europeanization. Syria’s realization that it needs Turkish cooperation on water caused the Bashar al-Assad regime to quickly snuff out its support of the PKK in Syrian Kurdistan, espoused by his late father. In so doing, Damascus has produced a remarkable thaw in Turkish-Syrian relations. </p> <p>The KRG security source told Asia Times Online that no representative from his organization had been to the Qandil area since 2006, due either to its physical inaccessibility or, much more likely, to the increasing political inconvenience of hosting brotherly violent dissident movements in KRG territory. </p> <p>This correspondent, when asking for permission from the head of the General Security Directorate to enter the Qandil region, was met with a stern phone call the following day strictly advising against such an endeavor. </p> <p>While the PKK has been active in the area for decades, the formation of the PJAK in the spring of 2004 led to much speculation from both Americans and Iranians of alleged external support for the PJAK. </p> <p>Asia Times Online met with a group of PJAK guerrillas recently who emphatically denied any rumored US Central Intelligence Agency linkages or support from any European Union intelligence services. This correspondent was secreted to a PJAK installation in the shadow of the Iraqi side of the Qandil range. </p> <p>A series of switchback roads avoiding Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga checkpoints led me to their remote outpost. After a vegetarian lunch, top-ranking PJAK commander Agiri Rojhilat admitted that the PJAK was invited to Kirkuk shortly after its formation, but that the PJAK denied US officials’ demands that they abandon the ideology of the founder of the PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, and allegiance to the PKK in exchange for covert US support. </p> <p>Many press accounts have described the PJAK as simply an offshoot of the PKK. To further cloud the issue, several PKK members have made this association as well. But the PJAK tells it a bit differently. </p> <p>Rojhilat explained that the PJAK is without question an independent organization defending the interests of Iran’s Kurds who happen to follow Ocalan’s personality driven ideology, (sometimes referred to as Apoism) identical to the PKK. It is difficult for the outside observer (and apparently the KRG) to understand the transnational dynamics occurring in the Qandil Mountains, he said. </p> <p>Turkish warplanes are striking PKK positions from above while Iran is firing Katuysha batteries at PJAK positions over the ridgeline from the Iranian side of the border. The Turkish and Iranian goals in the area appear to be the same and it seems to serve both Ankara and Tehran to conflate the two groups. The PKK rebels have also made statements in the press contradicting what was recently told to this correspondent by the PJAK regarding its operational independence from the PKK. </p> <p>The United States government has been supplying Turkey with "actionable intelligence" [2] to target PKK outposts in Iraqi territory which the PJAK told Asia Times Online was being shared with the Iranians. Allegations that Turkey is passing on classified US intelligence to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps cannot be going down well at the Pentagon. </p> <p>Turkey and Iran, at odds since Iran’s revolution in 1979 collided with Turkey’s rigid secularism, have a common foe in their shared attacks on Kurdish irredentists sheltering in Iraq. </p> <p>Rojhilat told Asia Times Online that for the two opposing state ideologies, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend", in reference to their dislike of the Kurds in their midst. </p> <p>Last week, Turkey’s parliament ratified a renewal of the mandate allowing its military to continue to strike Iraqi territory [3] and further coordination with Tehran may become the norm. The PJAK states that it seeks to topple the Islamic Republic to replace it with an inclusive, federal democracy – but the group does not maintain secessionist sentiments in the immediate term. The PJAK claims to have broad support among the Kurds of northwestern Iran and the EU’s Kurdish diaspora. At least one of the men I met had arrived in Qandil from Finland to take up arms against Iran. </p> <p>For now, the PKK and the PJAK maintain their hearty guerrilla bases in the Qandil Mountains, while Irbil continues to look the other way. For the stateless Kurdish revolutionaries launching operations out of Iraq’s hinterlands, the tolerance of their bases could evaporate as the Kurds of Iraq assert themselves and Baghdad’s unstable politics continue to evolve. </p> <p>The prospect of an internationally recognized Kurdish state carved out of northern Iraq may seem far-fetched at present to many, but Iraqi Kurdish elites are harboring contingencies for such an eventuality. This scenario would make quite a bitter pill for Turkey, Iran and Syria to swallow and the independence of one sector may forever negate the potential for secession of the other three. </p> <p>So while Iraqi Kurdistan elects its own parliament, forges oil contracts independent of Baghdad and prepares for its future, the "other" Kurdistan still seethes with repression and rage from nation-states that have refused to accept the Kurdish realities existing within their borders. </p> <p>Notes <br/>1. The website of the "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.theotheriraq.com/advertising" target="_blank" class="external">The Other Iraq</a>" advertising campaign. <br/>2. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN31307050" target="_blank" class="external">US giving Turkey intelligence on PKK in Iraq</a> Reuters October 31, 2007. <br/>3. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=parliament-renews-military8217s-mandate-to-hit-pkk-in-iraq-2009-10-07" target="_blank" class="external">Turkey’s parliament renews military’s mandate to hit PKK in Iraq</a> Hurriyet, October 7, 2009. </p> <p>Derek Henry Flood is an American freelance journalist specializing in analysis of Middle Eastern, South and Central Asian geopolitics through traditional reporting and photography combined with digital multimedia.</p> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KJ16Ak01.html" class="external" target="_blank">Asia Times Online | The ‘other’ Kurdistan seethes with rage</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-7415"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/10/05/iraqs-joint-kurd-arab-us-patrols-face-big-hurdles-reuters/#respond" title="Comment on Iraq’s joint Kurd, Arab, U.S. patrols face big hurdles | Reuters">No Comments</a></span> Posted on October 5th, 2009 by Editors</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/10/05/iraqs-joint-kurd-arab-us-patrols-face-big-hurdles-reuters/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Iraq’s joint Kurd, Arab, U.S. patrols face big hurdles | Reuters">Iraq’s joint Kurd, Arab, U.S. patrols face big hurdles | Reuters</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a 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officials are hoping joint patrols between Iraq’s largely Arab army and Kurdish troops will build trust in tense disputed northern areas, dampening the tinder that many fear could ignite Iraq’s next war.</p> <p>The troops themselves aren’t so sure.</p> <p>"We don’t need the Iraqi army here," said Kurdish Peshmerga soldier Shamok Haydi, 28, from his checkpoint outside the small, mountain-ringed town of Wana, which sits on the western outskirts of Iraq’s most violent city, Mosul.</p> <p>"They will cause problems and people won’t accept them."</p> <p><a title="20090928_mosul_peshmerga_american_checkpoint_tim_cocks_article" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/3983071345/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: inline; margin: 5px 15px 5px 0px" alt="20090928_mosul_peshmerga_american_checkpoint_tim_cocks_article" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551im_/http://static.flickr.com/3442/3983071345_7586d4ed2a.jpg" align="left"/></a>Six and a half years after the U.S.-led invasion removed Saddam Hussein, northern Iraq is at the heart of a struggle between minority Kurds and Baghdad’s Shi’ite Arab rulers over control of its territory and the vast lakes of oil underneath.</p> <p>The Kurds claim many parts of northern Iraq, including the oil-producing city of Kirkuk, as their ancient homeland and want to incorporate them into their peaceful enclave, which has been largely autonomous with Western backing since 1991.</p> <p>U.S. officials, who are racing to pacify Iraq before U.S. combat troops pull out by September next year, see the row as the greatest threat to the country’s stability as the Sunni-Shi’ite violence which nearly tore it apart fades.</p> <p>Saddam’s displaced thousands of Kurds from Kirkuk and other areas in a policy of "Arabisation," but Arab residents say Kurds have moved in aggressively after 2003 to tip the balance the other way.</p> <p>A referendum on the status of the disputed territories has been delayed and U.N. officials fear it could spark a civil war.</p> <p>Thus far, there have been several standoffs between Arab and Kurdish troops in contested zones, but no actual armed conflict.</p> <h3>SECURITY, NOT POLITICS</h3> <p>In August, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, General Ray Odierno, suggested staffing checkpoints and patrols with tripartite forces from Iraqi Army, Peshmerga and U.S. troops.</p> <p>The idea is simple enough: by working together and building relationships, they’ll be less likely to shoot at each other.</p> <p>Odierno envisages the U.S. military as akin to peacekeepers in an increasingly stable but still combustible region.</p> <p>Iraqi and U.S. officials say commanders on all sides agree in principle but not yet on the details. Some Arab politicians in disputed areas strongly oppose it. Odierno told reporters in Washington this week: "we still have some ways to go."</p> <p>Like many towns in this volatile part of Iraq, Wana has a mixed population of ethnic Kurds and Arabs. Though disputed, it is de facto controlled by Peshmergas tied to Iraq’s Kurdistan region, mostly autonomous with Western backing since 1991.</p> <p>The yellow sun of the Kurdistan flag flies from buildings and checkpoints, often near images of President Masoud Barzani. Iraq’s black, white and green flag is nowhere to be seen.</p> <p>Yet follow the Tigris downstream towards Mosul and Peshmerga checkpoints give way to those of the largely Arab Iraqi army. There, Arab soldiers raise similar concerns about Kurds.</p> <p>"Ask any families around here, they’ll say the same thing: they don’t want the Peshmerga here," said specialist Mehdi Naim, manning a checkpoint in a largely Arab neighbourhood of Mosul.</p> <p>"I don’t think it’s a good idea, even with the Iraqi army alongside," he said. Some of Mosul’s Arab residents have complained of abuse from Kurdish troops since 2003.</p> <p>Such remarks raise the question of whether the patrols, however well intentioned, may inflame rather than cool tensions.</p> <p>But with al Qaeda and other groups still active around Mosul, targeting local forces and civilians in an attempt to foment ethnic conflict in north Iraq, cooperation is urgent.</p> <p>A series of huge bombings last month in disputed parts of Nineveh triggered accusations of blame between Arabs and Kurds, escalating a dispute that plays into the hands of insurgents.</p> <p>"This is about security, it’s not about politics," Colonel Gary Volesky, commander of U.S. forces in Mosul, told Reuters.</p> <p>"What the insurgency has done in some of these areas is: there’s a gap. You’ve got a checkpoint in the north, one in the south and a gap insurgents can move through uncontested, where these attacks have occurred. We’re shutting down those gaps."</p> <h3>"NO RESPECT"</h3> <p>Perhaps predictably, Arab residents of Kurdish controlled areas and Kurd residents of Iraqi Army zones seem the most keen on joint forces: each complains of discrimination by the other.</p> <p>"We are persecuted by the Peshmerga," said Mahmoud Ahmed, an Arab employee of Mosul dam who said he is often late because of Peshmerga road blocks. "They have no respect for Arabs at all."</p> <p>Kurdish and Iraqi troops came close to a shootout over the eastern town of Khanaqin in August last year. In Nineveh this year, U.S. forces have had to intervene as mediators three times to prevent conflict between heavily armed troops on each side.</p> <p>In one standoff, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered troops to Mosul dam after hearing of a security threat there, raising tensions with the Peshmergas who control the dam.</p> <p>In another, Nineveh governor Atheel al-Nujaifi, who is embroiled in his own dispute with Kurds, was stopped on a road by Peshmergas wielding machine guns and grenade launchers. Well armed Iraqi troops showed up, but the situation was defused.</p> <p>The broker role U.S. troops have played in dousing these tensions has raised fears about what may happen when they leave.</p> <p>"If the Americans go, we’re sure there’ll be a civil war," said Ahmed Ali, an Arab in a Kurdish controlled part of Nineveh, as he glanced nervously at the Peshmergas keeping an eye on him.</p> <p>Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE5941B720091005?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&sp=true" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq’s joint Kurd, Arab, U.S. patrols face big hurdles | Reuters</a>  By Tim Cocks (Additional reporting by Aseel Kami in Baghdad; Editing by Samia Nakhoul)</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="navigation"> <div class="alignleft"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126014551/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/hit/page/2/">« Previous Entries</a></div> <div class="alignright"></div> </div> </div> <div id="sidebar" 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