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Other key disputes include the payment to Kuwait of five per cent of Iraq’s oil revenues as reparations. Kuwait Airways’ demand for $1.2bn as compensation for the snatching of 10 aircraft in 1990 forced the closure of state carrier Iraqi Airways this week.</p> </blockquote> <p>Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/legacy-of-gulf-war-and-border-dispute-continue-to-dog-relations-with-kuwait-1985072.html" class="external" target="_blank">Legacy of Gulf War and border dispute continue to dog relations with Kuwait – Middle East, World – The Independent</a>.</p> <p>"<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/animosity" class="external" target="_blank">Animosity</a>" does not even begin to describe what the Kuwaitis feel for Irak, and no the fall and subsequent hanging of Saddam has not appreciably lessened Kuwaitis’ intense feelings of hatred and fear of Irak and Irakis.</p> <p>Perhaps I have a somewhat unusual perspective on Irak compared to the other team members. I am not Iraki. Although I have lived here all my adult life and am married to an Iraki nevertheless I remain a Pakistani and as such my perspective is a bit different from that of most of the other team members. I have many good friends here, but I also have good friends in Kuwait. All of which is my way of leading up to the English language articles I want to discuss. First a sign of hope the German airline Lufthansa is resuming services to Baghdad after a hiatus of 20 years:</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-28/lufthansa-first-west-european-carrier-to-resume-baghdad-flight.html" class="external" target="_blank">Lufthansa First West European Carrier to Resume Baghdad Flight – BusinessWeek</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Europe’s second-biggest carrier, will restart regular service to Baghdad, the first western European or U.S. carrier to resume flights to the Iraqi capital. <br/>The airline will serve Baghdad from Munich beginning Sept. 30, following a 20-year break, as economic growth attracts customers to the former war-ridden country, Cologne-based Lufthansa said in an e-mailed statement today. A Boeing 737 operated by Switzerland-based PrivatAir on Lufthansa’s behalf will offer four weekly flights, it said. <br/>The carrier offered Baghdad flights between 1956 and 1990, when it stopped service because of the first Gulf War, during which a U.S.-led army pushed Iraq’s forces out of neighboring Kuwait. The Middle Eastern nation aims to double oil production and lift revenue from crude sales by 60 percent in the coming four years even as it struggles to find a government that’s acceptable to all its major ethnic and religious group</p> </blockquote> <p>Nor are they the only ones as the article goes on to make clear:</p> <blockquote><p><strong>Competing Flights</strong></p> <p>Turk Hava Yollari AO, also known as Turkish Airlines, became the first carrier in Europe to resume Baghdad flights to in October 2008. The airline is offering one daily connection, according to its website. Bahrain-based Gulf Air began serving the Iraqi capital in September, while Abu Dhabi-owned Etihad Airways followed last month. Both airlines operate five flights there a week, according to their websites.</p> </blockquote> <p>Alas Iraqi Airways has not been so lucky as this AFP report from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/" target="_blank" class="external">Middle East Online</a> makes clear:</p> <blockquote><p>Baghdad said Wednesday it is to close state-owned Iraqi Airways in the face of a decades-old financial dispute with Kuwait that prompted the seizure of one of its aircraft last month.</p> <p>The sudden move comes a day after the airline announced it was dropping its services to Sweden and Britain over the legal row with Kuwait, but it was not immediately clear if a new company would be formed to take its place.</p> <p>"The cabinet decided yesterday (Tuesday) to wind up the Iraqi company," transport ministry spokesman Aqeel Kawthar said.</p> <p>"The decision was taken because of the numerous acts of harassment that the company has faced from Kuwait that have prevented its planes from taking on fuel and food at various airports," Kawthar said.</p> <p>"The transport ministry will carry out the decision by the council of ministers, even though we disagree with it," he added, without giving details on whether a new company would be formed.</p> <p>… … …</p> <p>On Tuesday, Iraqi Airways announced it was ceasing its services to Britain and Sweden, with chief executive Kifah Hassan Jabbar blaming the decision on the legal battle with Kuwait.</p> <p>"We are sorry to announce to our fellow citizens, especially the communities living in Britain and Sweden, that Iraqi Airways will stop flying to these two countries because of difficult circumstances as a result of Kuwaiti escalation," Kifah Hassan Jabbar said.</p> <p>Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=39197" class="external" target="_blank">Middle East Online: Iraqi Airways closes down after Kuwait row</a>:</p> </blockquote> <p>There has been a long running legal battle between the Kuwaiti airline and Iraqi Airways. Briefly the Kuwaitis are suing Iraqi Airways for $1.2bn (£837m, €979m) reparations which they say they are owed because Iraqi airways took looted aircraft and parts from them during the Iraki invasion of Kuwait. The legal battle over this started in the British courts in 1991.</p> <p>"How can they do this?" Say Irakis to me. " We have suffered enough" they go on. And certainly no one can deny that Irakis suffered grievously first under the tyrant and then under the Americans who managed to be even worse than that monster.</p> <p>The problem is that the Kuwaitis suffered too. Oh not the elite who scuttled off to their luxurious properties in London and other western capitals. But the normal average Kuwaiti suffered dreadfully during <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Kuwait" class="external" target="_blank">the invasion</a>. Saddam ordered his troops to go on a rampage and they did, they slaughtered, burnt, and looted all around them. Every single Kuwaiti that I know who stayed in Kuwait has some horror story or another to tell. There are still Kuwaitis "missing presumed dead" even after all this time, to say nothing of the material losses caused to ordinary Kuwaitis by wide scale looting.</p> <p>But it gets worse you see the Kuwaitis are afraid of Irak and they have good reason to fear their northern neighbour. Consider that during the 1930s that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghazi_of_Iraq" class="external" target="_blank">Ghazi of Iraq</a> wanted to annex Kuwait, thirty one years later <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd_al-Karim_Qasim" class="external" target="_blank">Abd al-Karim Qasim</a> reasserted <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://looklex.com/e.o/qasim_a_k.htm" class="external" target="_blank">the longstanding Iraki claim to Kuwait</a>. (See also the Wiki entry section <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd_al-Karim_Qasim#Foreign_policy" class="external" target="_blank">3.4 Foreign policy</a>). Qasim backed down in the face of British troops, the Arab League and hefty secret payments into Baghdad’s treasury from the Kuwaiti emir. But the claim to Kuwait was never dropped. It was that claim that Saddam Hussein used as justification for his <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Kuwait" class="external" target="_blank">invasion of Kuwait</a> and his declaration incorporating its territory into Irak as the 19th governorate. Even still, as Cockburn makes clear in his article, there are border disputes to be settled:</p> <p><cite>The maritime border was drawn up in Kuwait’s favour after the first Gulf War. Endorsed by the UN, it was accepted by Saddam Hussein when his fortunes were at low ebb in 1993 and he was prepared to make concessions to stay in power.</cite></p> <p>When I speak and write to my Kuwaiti friends I detect among a very few of them a very reluctant willingness to consider an opening towards more normal relations with Irak. A few talk of Kuwait becoming a gateway to Irak. But most are not willing to consider this. Although they accept that Irak is unlikely to ever invade Kuwait again they cannot shake themselves of the fear engendered by the history of the last century they cannot resist the temptation, however short sighted and counter-productive it might be, to hit Irak while it is down.</p> <p>Cockburn’s article is short and well worth your while reading <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/legacy-of-gulf-war-and-border-dispute-continue-to-dog-relations-with-kuwait-1985072.html" class="external" target="_blank">reading in full</a>, I hope that my far wordier offering helps you understand the background. It is not about border disputes, or war reparations, or even <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/kuwaiti-investment-in-syrian-dams/">Kuwaiti investment in Syrian dams</a> in order to reduce the amount of water that Irak receives. It is all of those things it is about a small and weak state, Kuwait, that will not forget that it was invaded and brutalised by its neighbour and seizes every opportunity it can to keep that neighbour weak.</p> <p>Sagib</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10748"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/27/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ae%d8%b7%d9%88%d8%b7-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%83%d9%88%d9%8a%d8%aa%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%a3%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%b3-%d8%b4%d8%b1%d9%83%d8%a9-%d8%ae%d8%b7%d9%88%d8%b7-%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%82%d9%8a/#respond" title="Comment on الخطوط الكويتية: تأسيس شركة خطوط عراقية جديدة لن يؤدي الى اسقاط المطالبات">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 27th, 2010 by Hussein Al-Bayati</div> <h3><a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iraqi-airways-dissolution-of/" rel="tag">Iraqi Airways - dissolution of</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iraqi-airways-harassment-of/" rel="tag">Iraqi Airways - harassment of</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p dir="rtl" align="right"><a title="logo_iraqi_airways by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4313702353/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: inline; margin: 5px 15px 5px 0px" height="212" alt="logo_iraqi_airways" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721im_/http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4054/4313702353_76b7bbd319_o.jpg" width="312" align="left"/></a>قال محامي الخطوط الجوية الكويتية كريستوفر غوديينغ ان قرار العراق بحل شركة الخطوط الجوية العراقية هو قرار مبهم، مضيفا ان تأسيس شركة جديدة لن يؤدي الى اسقاط المطالبات. <br/>واوضح غوديينغ ان التفاصيل التي اقترحها العراق مبهمة حتى الآن، مضيفا ان تأسيس شركة طيران جديدة هو تكتيك وصفه بالمخادع واي خطوة قد تسلكها الحكومة العراقية لن تؤدي الى اسقاط المطالبات. <br/>وتابع غوديينغ ان رد الحكومة العراقية الاخير يعكس التوصية التي اوصى بها مستشارون امريكيون في السابق، مضيفا لن يكون الامر مفاجئا اذا وافق المستشارون القانونيون لشركة الخطوط الجوية الكويتية نهائيا على الاقتراح الاولي الذي يجعل الحكومة العراقية مسؤولة بشكل مباشر عن جميع ديون الخطوط العراقية. <br/>وكانت مصادر مطلعة ذكرت أمس الاول الثلاثاء ان مجلس الوزراء قرر تصفية وإلغاء شركة الخطوط الجوية العراقية وعرضها للبيع إلى شركات أهلية، وتأتي هذه الخطوة لإيقاف الملاحقات الكويتية للخطوط الجوية العراقية التي تعرض مديرها كفاح حسن الى الاحتجاز خلال افتتاح خط لندن – بغداد. <br/>وكانت محكمة بريطانية قامت بحجز مدير عام الشركة كفاح حسن بعد أن تم منعه من السفر وسحب جواز سفره وكل الوثائق الرسمية التي كانت بحوزته في لندن اثر قيام السلطات الكويتية باقامة دعوى لدى السلطات البريطانية بسبب التعويضات على العراق، ثم مالبثت ان اطلقت سراحه وعاد الى العراق. <br/>ويضم ملف العلاقات العراقية الكويتية الكثير من الملفات العالقة ابرزها التعويضات التي يدفعها العراق جراء غزو الكويت عام 1991، وموقف الكويت من خروج العراق من الفصل السابع للامم المتحدة، فيما كان احتجاز الطائرة العراقية قبل ايام في لندن بسبب دعوى كويتية قد زاد من تعقيد تلك المسائل بين البلدين.</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10742"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/27/%d9%88%d8%b2%d9%8a%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%86%d9%82%d9%84-%d9%82%d8%a8%d9%84%d9%86%d8%a7-%d8%aa%d8%b5%d9%81%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ae%d8%b7%d9%88%d8%b7-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ac%d9%88%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%b9/#respond" title="Comment on وزير النقل : قبلنا تصفية الخطوط الجوية على مضض بسبب استفزاز الجانب الكويتي">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 27th, 2010 by Hussein Al-Bayati</div> <h3><a 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بموضوع تصفية الخطوط الجوية العراقية على مضض من امرهم بسبب الاستفزازات من الجانب الكويتي وكان من الممكن ان يحلوها سلميا. <br/>واضاف عبد الجبار في تصريح صحفي : ان وزارة النقل لم تكن تتمنى تصفية الخطوط الجوية العراقية وليس من مصلحتهم تصفيتها اذا حلت المشكلة مع الكويت بشكل ودي. <br/>واكد ان الاستفزاز الكويتي والتصاعد جبرهم على هذا وان وزارة النقل ومنذ فترة طويلة لم تفكر في تصفية الخطوط الجوية الا انهم اجبروا على القبول به على مضض بسبب استفزاز الجانب الكويتي ، موضحا ان القانون العراقي يشير الى هذا الجانب اذا نزلت الديون على ميزانية الخطوط ستكون الخطوط من شركة رابحة الى شركة خاسرة.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="50%"> <p><strong>سميرة الموسوي تشيد بقرار حل الخطوط الجوية العراقية</strong></p> <p>اكدت عضو ائتلاف دولة القانون سميرة الموسوي انه لا جدوى ولا منفعة اقتصادية من الخطوط الجوية العراقية ولكن استفزاز الكويت عجل في اتخاذ القرار . <br/>وقالت الموسوي في تصريح صحفي انه منذ اكثر من سنة طرح هذا الموضوع بحل شركة الخطوط الجوية العراقية لأسباب اقتصادية . واضافت انه لا جدوى اقتصادية من وجود هذه الشركة ولا منفعة منها والديون الكويتية على العراق اكيد لها حل وانهم ماضون في هذا الحل ولكن عبر ملفات فنية ومالية وملفات مشتركة بين البلدين ، مؤكدا ان استفزاز الكويت ادى الى التعجيل بهذا القرار".</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="50%"> <p><strong>امير الكناني يرى ان قرار حل شركة الخطوط الجوية العراقية كان غير موفق</strong></p> <p>اكد عضو الائتلاف الوطني العراقي امير الكناني ان قرار حل شركة الخطوط الجوية العراقية كان قرارا غير موفق من النواحي السياسية والاقتصادية . <br/>وقال الكناني في تصريح صحفي انه لا من الناحية السياسية ولا القانونية ولا الاقتصادية كان قرار الموافقة بحل شركة الخطوط الجوية العراقية موفقا. <br/>واضاف انه اذا عادت الشركة الى وزارة النقل تستطيع الشركات الدائنة سواء كانت شركات او حكومات تابعة لدول متابعة اموال وزارة النقل وتستطيع ان تنفذ القرارات الصادرة بحق شركة الخطوط الجوية العراقية وهذا ما سيؤثر سلبا على الوزارة مستقبلا.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p dir="rtl" align="right">إقرأ المزيد <a 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dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>اعلنت الخطوط الجوية العراقية اليوم الثلاثاء، وقف الرحلات الجوية الى لندن بسبب الدعوى التي اقامتها الكويت في بريطانيا ضد الشركة وتسببت باحتجاز مدير الشركة كفاح حسن، منتقدة ما وصفته صمت الساسة واصحاب القرار عن التصدي لتعديات مثل هذه القرارات. </p> <blockquote><p>"يؤسفنا ان نعلن للاخوة المواطنين الاعزاء وخاصة ابناء الجاليتين في كل من بريطانيا والسويد عن توقف رحلات الخطوط الجوية العراقية الى هذين البلدين لظروف قاهرة نتجت عن التصعيد الكويتي الاخير ومن خلال القضاء البريطاني الذي قام بمضايقة رحلات العراقية حتى وصل الامر اخر المطاف بالاشقاء الكويتيين الى منع تجهيز طائراتنا بالوقود والطعام". </p> </blockquote> <p>وانتقدت الشركة في بيانها صمت الساسة واصحاب القرار عن التصدي لتداعيات سياسات النظام البائد التي اوصلتنا الى هذا الحال الذي يوضع فيه ابناء الجالية العراقية موضع الغريب. </p> <p>واضاف البيان "اننا اذ نعلن عن ايقاف هذه الرحلات بعد ان لم ندخر شيئاً مما بوسعنا القيام به من اجل تقديم الخدمة لمواطنينا الكرام في كل من السويد وبريطانيا، نتقدم اليهم بوافر الشكر والتقدير لما لمسناه منهم من دعم ومؤازرة لما قمنا ونقوم به". <br/>وتابع البيان ان الشركة تأمل ان يتفهم المواطنون الاسباب التي دعتنها الى اتخاذ هذا الاجراء الذي بينت انه نتيجة الظروف التي وضعنا فيها والتي حالت دون امكانية استمرار رحلات الخطوط الجوية العراقية الى هذين البلدين. <br/>وكانت محكمة بريطانية قامت بحجز مدير عام الشركة كفاح حسن بعد أن تم منعه من السفر وسحب جواز سفره وكل الوثائق الرسمية التي كانت بحوزته في لندن اثر قيام السلطات الكويتية باقامة دعوى لدى السلطات البريطانية بسبب التعويضات على العراق، ثم مالبثت ان اطلقت سراحه وعاد الى العراق. <br/>وكان مدير اعلام وزارة النقل والمواصلات قال نهاية الشهر الماضي إن شركة الخطوط الجوية العراقية لجأت إلى تأجير الطائرات باسلوب الاستثمار نتيجة حرمان الشركة من شراء طائرات بسبب التعويضات على العراق للكويت، مبينا أن تلك الديون حرمت الخطوط الجوية العراقية من شراء الطائرات لذلك حاولت السلطات الكويتية حجز الطائرة العراقية الموجودة في لندن.</p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10582"> <div class="postmetadata"><span 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/xinhua/" rel="tag">Xinhua</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%ad%d8%b1%d9%83%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d8%af%d8%b1/" rel="tag">حركة الصدر</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>I have selected Nizar Latif’s article "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100517/FOREIGN/705169809/1002/rss" class="external" target="_blank">Alliance could keep al Maliki in power</a>" in "The National" because it covers very well the situation that the other blocs find themselves in with regard to the Sadrists. In that context I should mention this posting (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/18/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%82%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%b9%d8%af-%d9%84%d8%a5%d8%b1%d8%b3%d8%a7%d9%84-%d9%88%d9%81%d8%af-%d8%b1%d9%81%d9%8a%d8%b9-%d8%a5%d9%84%d9%89-%d8%a5%d9%8a%d8%b1/">العراقية تستعد لإرسال وفد رفيع إلى إيران لمقابلة السيد مقتدى الصدر | Gorilla’s Guides</a>) made by my colleague Nabil which reveals that a delegation from Allawi’s list (the Iraqiyal list) met members of the Sadrist trend’s political bureau and that they are preparing to send a delegation to Iran to meet Muqtada al-Sadr.</p> <p>I have also picked an article that appeared in the London "Times" about the plan to build a wall around Baghdad in the hope of keeping bombers out.</p> <p>More immediately there is a lot of interest in the two al-Qaeda members arrested and who apparently were planning to attack the World Cup in South Africa. A <em>lot</em> has been made of the claims that one of them was a Saudi military officer, <em><strong>"not so fast"</strong></em> say the Saudis. (And if you think from Major General Mansour al-Turki’s name that Saudi Arabia is a family business you’d be right).</p> <p>Did you know that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.411141523" class="external" target="_blank">"most of the prisoners freed by American forces from their prisons in the last few years have become Al-Qaeda leaders once they are released"</a> ? </p> <p>No? No, I did not know it either, but it does explain why every time that an alleged al-Qaeda member is killed/captured/accidentally blows themself up that they are always described as being a "senior" al-Qaeda commander/leader/prince/warlord. </p> <p>62 of them were sentenced to death today i don’t know how many of them received a fair trial or how many of them were truly members of an al-Qaeda affiliated movement. ( That there is an al-Qaeda inspired fighter movement in parts of Irak is true and they enforce their will brutally as the slaughter of two clergy proved).</p> <p style="padding-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: gray 1px solid">Nabil</p> <h3 style="color: #800000">The Day(s) In Quotes:</h3> <ul> <li><strong>Sheikh Dhea al Shouki, a leading preacher at Kufa mosque, in the Sadrists’ heartland to Nizar Latif on the political crisis: </p> <p></strong>“I tell the Iraqi people to look out for themselves and to protect themselves because the coming situation will be one of sectarianism and interference in Iraq by neighbouring countries. The Iraqi government is corrupt and the Iraqi army is not serving the people well.” </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100517/FOREIGN/705169809/1002/rss" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Source</strong></a><strong> </strong></li> <li><strong>Saudi Interior Ministry spokesman  Major General Mansour al-Turki to <em>Asharq Al-Awsat</em> on the identity of the Saudi military officer detained in Irak as an al-Qaeda commander  <br/></strong> <br/>"The identity of the individual mentioned by the material evidence requires verification, especially as the public information confirms that he has previously impersonated another figure. " </li> </ul> <h3 style="color: #800000">Human Rights:</h3> <p> <strong>62 Iraqis sentenced to death</strong><strong>: Xinhua</strong><br/> <blockquote>RAMADI, Iraq, May 18 (Xinhua) — A court in Anbar province gave death penalties to 62 Iraqis and different prison terms, including life imprisonment, to 130 others, a source from Anbar police command said on Tuesday. <p>The court in the province delivered the verdicts according to article 4 of the Iraqi counter-terrorism law after the court found them guilty for crimes of killings, bombings, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. </p> <p>Some senior leaders of the al-Qaida organization and leaders of other insurgent groups were among those who received death sentences, the source said. </p> <p>Many of the 130 convicts were either fighters of al-Qaida group or involved in assisting the group to carry out deadly attacks, the source added. </p> <p>"All the convicts were residents of Anbar province," he said </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-05/18/c_13301622.htm" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>:</strong></p> </blockquote> <h3 style="color: #800000">Politics and Security</h3> <p><strong>Alliance could keep al Maliki in power – The National Newspaper</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p><em>snip</em></p> <p>Until yesterday it had seemed unlikely that Mr al Maliki would be chosen as the new alliance’s candidate for prime minister, with the Sadrists, a major faction in INA, saying they would veto his election. </p> <p>However, that threat has now apparently been withdrawn, giving a significant boost to Mr Maliki’s hopes of leading the country for another four years. </p> <p>“We have no veto over Mr al Maliki being chosen as prime minister and we can work with him, for the good of Iraq,” said Bahar al Araje, a senior Sadrist, confirming statements made by Saleh al Obeidi, a spokesman for the group’s leader, cleric Muqtada al Sadr. </p> <p><em>snip</em></p> <p>According to Mr al Araje, the Sadrists continue to harbour reservations about Mr al Maliki and he made it clear that, while the Sadr movement would not veto the prime minister’s coveted reappointment, it may not give him its outright support. </p> <p>“We still have criticisms of Mr al Maliki, including that he does not consult when he makes decisions, that he continues to detain followers of Muqtada al Sadr and that he has politicised the security forces,” Mr Araje said. “While we will not veto him, and while we will continue in an alliance with the State of Law coalition, I do not expect Mr al Maliki to be prime minister again, It will be another candidate.” </p> <p>The Sadr movement indicated it had laid down conditions for ending its veto against Mr al Maliki, including that he release scores of detainees. That has not yet happened. </p> <p>While a major obstruction to Mr al Maliki’s return as prime minister appears to have been removed, his position is far from certain. </p> <p>The State of Law/INA alliance has yet to name its leader, with a 14-member committee supposed to make the selection. </p> <p><em>snip</em></p> <p>Although the Sadrist leadership appears to have ended its open hostility to Mr al Maliki, Muqtada al Sadr’s followers seem far from convinced. </p> <p>With the atmosphere in Iraq increasingly one of alarm at rising violence and recent deadly sectarian attacks, Sheikh Dhea al Shouki, a leading preacher at Kufa mosque, in the Sadrists’ heartland, said he feared for the future. </p> <p>“I tell the Iraqi people to look out for themselves and to protect themselves because the coming situation will be one of sectarianism and interference in Iraq by neighbouring countries,” he said in a telephone interview. “The Iraqi government is corrupt and the Iraqi army is not serving the people well.” </p> <p><em>snip</em></p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100517/FOREIGN/705169809/1002/rss" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Baghdad to enclose city with 15ft wall to keep suicide bombers out – Times Online</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote>Baghdad is to resort to one of the oldest forms of defence by building a massive wall around the capital to keep out insurgents, The Times has learnt. <p>A series of recent suicide bombings has driven the governor of the Iraqi capital to propose the concrete barrier, which will be 15ft (4.5m) high and 70 miles (112km) long. Every man, beast and vehicle entering will be searched at one of only eight gates along the main highways. </p> <p>Baghdad, roughly the same size as London and with approximately five million inhabitants, will face severe disruption as a result. Freedom of movement will be limited and workers and visitors alike will probably have to wait for at least an hour to enter. Once inside, though, it is hoped they will be much safer. Shatha al-Obeidi, an aide to Salah Abdul Razzaq, the governor, said: “We want to stop the terrorist from sneaking in. With the wall it will be much easier.” </p> <p>Building work is expected to take about a year. Once the wall is completed, officials plan to remove most of the 1,500 checkpoints and many miles of cement blast barriers that have sprung up inside Baghdad over the past few years. “We have become a city filled with concrete,” said Ms al-Obeidi. “That will change.” </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article7129217.ece" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Iraqi forces capture 2 non-Iraqi Arab Qaida leaders</strong><strong>: Xinhua </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>BAGHDAD, May 17 (Xinhua) — Iraqi security forces said Monday they have arrested two non-Iraqi Arab Qaida leaders, and one of them is said to be part of a plan to carry out terrorist act during the coming soccer World Cup in South Africa. </p> <p>The two were allegedly a Saudi and Algerian nationals who were captured in separate raids in Baghdad, according to a military spokesman. </p> <p>Azzam Saleh al-Qahtani, known as Sinan al-Saudi, 31, was an officer in the Saudi Army before he came to Iraq in 2004. Al-Saudi later became an al-Qaida security leader in Anbar and Salahudin provinces in western and central Iraq respectively, Major General Qassim Atta told a news conference. </p> <p>Atta said that al-Saudi was involved in "planning and coordination to carry out attacks during the World Cup in South Africa in complicity with Ayman al-Zawahiri (al-Qaida’s No. 2 top leader)." </p> <p>Al-Saudi was also involved in the Baghdad massive bombings and many robberies against jewellers and killings of many people, Atta added. </p> <p>Another Qaida leader named Tariq Hassan Abdul Qader, known as Abu Ysseen al-Jazairi, 34, an Algerian national, was also captured by a joint U.S. and Iraqi force, Atta said, adding that al-Jazairi was captured in November last year but his captured was not announced as he was interrogated for information about his terrorist group. </p> <p>Al-Jazairi, who entered Iraq in 2005 through Anbar province, was the leader of al-Qaida’s military wing in Karkh area, the west side of Tigris River that bisects the Iraqi capital, Atta said.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-05/17/c_13299597.htm" class="external" target="_blank">source</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Saudi Arabia Wants to Verify Identity of World Cup Terrorist Asharq Alawsat Newspaper (English)</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>After the Iraqi security services announced their arrest of Saudi citizen Abdullah Azzam Saleh Misfar al-Qahtani, Saudi Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Mansour al-Turki informed Asharq Al-Awsat that Saudi Arabia is also looking for a fugitive with a similar name and characteristics. Iraq claims that al-Qahtani is a former Saudi army officer and a senior member in the Al Qaeda organization in Iraq, and that he was planning to carry out a terrorist attack at this year’s World Cup which is set to begin in South Africa in the next few weeks. </p> <p>Saudi Interior Ministry Security spokesman Major General Mansour al-Turki refused to confirm or deny that al-Qahtani had been arrested, telling Asharq Al-Awsat that "the identity of the individual mentioned by the material evidence requires verification, especially as the public information confirms that he has previously impersonated another figure. " </p> <p>In his statement to Asharq Al-Awsat, Major General al-Turki said that the information available to the Saudi security apparatus "refers to the departure of a Saudi citizen who has a similar name [to this] outside of Saudi Arabia as part of an unessential holiday in the month of Shawwal 1425 (2004) and that his return [to Saudi] has not been recorded until now." </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=20993" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Iraq: Former prisoners ‘becoming Al-Qaeda leaders’ – Adnkronos Security</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote>Iraqi security forces are concerned that many of the prisoners released by US troops are becoming leaders in the Al-Qaeda terror network on their release. According to local news site, Al-Sumaria News, Baghdad security forces spokesman Major General Qassim Atta revealed the level of concern to reporters on a visit to Abu Ghraib prison. <p>"Most of the prisoners freed by American forces from their prisons in the last few years have become Al-Qaeda leaders once they are released," he told reporters. </p> <p>"To stop this phenomenon we have signed a security accord with US troops, so that before freeing any prisoner they ask Iraqi forces their opinion." </p> <p>In the past US troops, who had more than 20,000 prisoners in Iraqi prisons, could release prisoners without informing local security forces.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.411141523" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>News – World: Imams ’slaughtered in Iraq’</strong><strong>:</strong> </p> <blockquote><p>Baquba – Two Sunni Arab imams were brutally killed on Monday in Iraq, including one who was decapitated and had his head planted on a power pole, in attacks blamed on al-Qaeda, military officials said. </p> <p>The slayings in the province of Diyala, north-east of Baghdad, were against anti-Qaeda preachers who regularly railed against the terror network during Friday sermons. </p> <p>"At around 2.00pm (11.00 GMT), armed al-Qaeda members captured Sheikh Abdullah Shakur while he was in Saadiyah market," said a Diyala military command officer who declined to be identified, referring to the central town. </p> <p>"They returned an hour later with his head and attached it to an electricity post." </p> <p>Shakur, imam of Saadiyah’s mosque, had received several death threats from al-Qaeda, who had demanded that he leave the town, which is home to large Sunni, Shiite and Kurd populations. </p> <p>The town, located about 100 kilometres east of the Diyala provincial capital Baquba, was an al-Qaeda stronghold during Iraq’s sectarian conflict in 2006 and 2007. </p> <p>According to the Diyala military officer, in the village of Al-Bushaheen, 20 kilometres north of Baquba, gunmen burst into the home of Sheikh Hashim Arif at about 3.00am (00.00 GMT), dragged him to his garden and shot him dead in front of his family.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=nw20100517165430331C338773" class="external" target="_blank">source</a></strong><strong>:</strong> </p> </blockquote> <h3 style="color: #800000">Society and Economy:</h3> <p> <strong>France24 – Iraq signs oil field deal with Chinese, Turkish firms</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote>Iraq signed a deal with Chinese energy giant CNOOC and Turkey’s TPAO on Monday to develop a major southern oilfield complex, its 11th deal with foreign energy firms as Baghdad aims to boost crude output. <p>Among the cluster of fields in the Maysan complex, along Iraq’s border with Iran, is a field partially claimed by Tehran, whose forces temporarily took over an oil well in the Fakka oilfield in December for several days but withdrew after talks between the two countries. </p> <p><em>snip</em></p> <p>CNOOC and TPAO agreed to be paid 2.30 dollars per barrel of oil extracted from the Maysan cluster of fields, which has proven reserves of 2.6 billion barrels of oil. </p> <p>Under the deal, output is projected to be ramped up to 450,000 barrels per day (bpd), compared to current production of around 100,000 bpd. </p> <p>The Chinese firm will have an 85-percent stake in the joint venture, while TPAO holds the remaining 15 percent. The Iraqi government will have a 25-percent stake in the overall project. </p> <p>The agreed deal was worth around a tenth of what was initially requested — CNOOC and Sinochem, another Chinese energy firm, had originally asked for 21.4 dollars per barrel when the field was auctioned to foreign firms last June. </p> <p>Sinochem has since pulled out of the deal. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.france24.com/en/20100517-iraq-signs-oil-field-deal-with-chinese-turkish-firms" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Iraq, Kuwait still going at it » Kuwait Times Website</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>A fierce legal fight between the national airlines of Iraq and Kuwait has revived deep resentments that have been simmering since Saddam Hussein first sent his army into oil-rich, neighboring Kuwait back in 1990. The dispute has been playing out in British courts since soon after the end of the first Gulf War, with Kuwait Airways claiming it is owed $1.2 billion by Iraqi Airways for 10 aircraft and spare parts that were looted during the occupation by Iraqi forces.</p> <p>Lawyers representing Kuwait have accused Iraq of perjury, forgery and a general pervasion of the justice system. In turn, Kuwait has been accused of exploiting Iraq’s instability and being insensitive to the suffering of the Iraqi people. The dispute resurfaced April 25 when the first Iraqi Airways flight from Baghdad to London in more than 20 years was met at Gatwick Airport by lawyers representing Kuwait Airway armed with an injunction issued by a British court. The authorities confiscated the passport of Iraqi Airways director Kifah Hassan Jabbar, and impounded the aircraft, which had been leased from a Swedish company.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=MTMzNjM5NTE2NQ==" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10382"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/06/%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%82%d8%b6%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%b7%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%8a-%d9%8a%d9%81%d8%b1%d8%ac-%d8%b9%d9%86-%d9%85%d8%af%d9%8a%d8%b1-%d8%b9%d8%a7%d9%85-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ae%d8%b7/#respond" title="Comment on القضاء البريطاني يفرج عن مدير عام الخطوط الجوية العراقية">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 6th, 2010 by Diya al din</div> <h3><a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100506/BUSINESS/705069876/1005/rss" class="external" target="_blank">source</a>: </li> <li><strong>Hussein al-Shahristani on the agreement between Baghdad and the Kurdish Separatists on oil revenues</strong> <p>"We reached an agreement with the Kurds that all revenues will be handed over to SOMO and the Iraqi government will be responsible for paying the extraction expenses in Kurdistan," </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.france24.com/en/20100506-iraqi-govt-resolves-oil-row-with-kurds" class="external" target="_blank">source</a> </li> </ul> <h3 style="color: #800000">Human Rights:</h3> <p><strong>France24 – Iraqi Kurdish journalist kidnapped and killed</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>The family of a Kurdish journalist and student who was kidnapped and killed held his funeral on Thursday, hours after his corpse was found.</p> <p>Sardasht Osman, a final-year English student at Salaheddin University in Arbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, was found dead overnight in the restive northern city of Mosul officials said. <br/>He had been kidnapped on Tuesday on his university campus in Arbil.</p> <p>"I received a phone call saying a citizen had been kidnapped in Arbil and we informed police," said Marwan Abdulhamid, an official with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the region’s two dominant political parties.</p> <p>"Mosul police informed us at around midnight that they found a corpse with a university ID."</p> <p>Osman, 22, worked as a journalist for the magazine Ashtiname ("Letter for Peace" in Kurdish) and as an English-Kurdish translator.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.france24.com/en/20100506-iraqi-kurdish-journalist-kidnapped-killed" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>MI5 told all evidence in torture trials will be heard in public – Home News, UK – The Independent</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Six former detainees at Guantanamo Bay have won their legal battle to have their claims against the Government heard in public.</p> <p>In a far-reaching judgment on the principle of open justice, the Court of Appeal yesterday overturned a previous ruling which would have allowed MI5 to use secret evidence to defend itself against claims it was complicit in unlawful detention and torture.</p> <p>Last year, the High Court ruled that there was no reason in law why the court could not allow a "closed material procedure" to be used in a claim for damages. <br/>This would mean that the Government and the secret services would not have to disclose information to the claimants’ lawyers if they felt that doing so would damage the interests of national security, the UK’s international relations, the detection and prevention of crime, or was likely to harm the public interest in some way.</p> <p>It was proposed that any sensitive material would be disclosed to "special advocates" – barristers who had been given security vetting and clearance but who could not discuss the evidence with the six claimants. <br/>But yesterday the Master of the Rolls, Lord Neuberger, said the court would "take a stand" against secrecy that the judges said would undermine the "most fundamental principles of common law"</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mi5-told-all-evidence-in-torture-trials-will-be-heard-in-public-1962557.html" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>MoD asked Red Cross to look into Iraq birth defects – Home News, UK – The Independent</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>"On DfID’s request," said Mr Thomas, "the ICRC has discussed this [reports of a rise in foetal abnormalities] with the technical director of Al-Fallujah General Hospital as well as another doctor based there. Both responded that although there were occasional cases of foetal abnormalities, these did not exceed two to three cases per year."</p> <p>In another letter written in January this year Mr Thomas said that because of the continuing dearth of reliable information on such cases, DfID had formally asked the Iraqi Ministry of Health to release any data regarding the claims.</p> <p>Allegations that the British Government was complicit in the use of chemical weapons linked to an upsurge in child deformity cases in Iraq are being investigated by the Ministry of Defence.</p> <p>The legal case, which is being prepared for the High Court by Public Interest Lawyers, specifically raises serious questions about the UK’s role in the American-led offensive against the City of Fallujah in the autumn of 2004 in which hundreds of Iraqis died.</p> <p>After the battle, in which it is alleged that a range of illegal weaponry was used against the civilian and insurgent population, evidence has emerged of large numbers of children being born with severe birth defects. Iraqi families who believe their children’s deformities are caused by the deployment of the weapons have begun legal proceedings against the UK Government. <br/>They accuse the UK Government of breaching international law, war crimes and failing to intervene to prevent a war crime.</p> <p>Lawyers for the Iraqis have sent a letter before action to the Ministry of Defence asking the Government to disclose what it knows about the Army’s role in the offensive, the presence of prohibited weapons and the legal advice given to the then prime minister, Tony Blair.</p> <p>Last month the World Health Organisation said it was investigating evidence of a worrying rise in the incidence of birth defects in the city which Iraqi doctors attribute to the use of chemical weapons in the battle.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mod-asked-red-cross-to-look-into-iraq-birth-defects-1964491.html" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Sex slave girls face cruel justice in Iraq – CNN.com</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Trafficking is a growing problem in Iraq. Some vulnerable women, desperate to support their families, are tricked into it by accepting fake marriage proposals. Many young girls, their parents facing dire economic circumstances, are just sold outright.</p> <p>"In some ways, their fate is worse than death," explained Samer Muscati from Human Rights Watch. "Once they’ve been trafficked, there’s a stigma even though they’re the victims in this horrific situation. They’ve been exploited and they’ve been trafficked to another country with no real recourse."</p> <p>According to Muscati, even if the girls do manage to escape the cruelty of their circumstances, it will be very difficult for them to escape the judgment of their families. <br/>"When they do come back to Iraq, if the family does accept them it’s very difficult because they’ve brought great shame to the family, they’re subjected to honor crimes. And we’ve come across cases where young women have preferred to stay in prison or custody than to be released and to face tribal justice," Muscati said.</p> <p>Rubaie puts it even more bluntly when discussing what little future awaits trafficked girls who manage to return home.</p> <p>"I’m sure the girl’s family won’t take care of her," said Rubaie. "I’m sure that neighbors and relatives and society will judge her, they’ll know that the girl had been a prisoner and the family will be ashamed of her.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/05/04/iraq.women.prisons/index.html?hpt=C2" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a>: </p> </blockquote> <h3 style="color: #800000">Politics and Security</h3> <p><strong>France24 – Kurds vow to back Shiite coalition choice for PM</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Iraq’s main Kurdish political bloc will accept the candidate for prime minister chosen by the new Shiite coalition of incumbent premier Nuri al-Maliki, a top official said on Thursday. <br/>"We will not veto anyone chosen by the alliances to take up the post of prime minister," said Roz Nawri Chawis, the autonomous Kurdish region’s deputy prime minister. <br/>Maliki’s State of Law Alliance and the Iraqi National Alliance (INA) led by Shiite religious groups announced on Tuesday that they were forming a new coalition following the March 7 parliamentary elections. <br/>The move was aimed at squeezing out a secular coalition led by ex-premier Iyad Allawi, whose Iraqiya bloc won the election with 91 seats but failed to build a parliamentary majority. <br/>The new Shiite coalition is also four seats short of the 163 needed to form a parliamentary majority but the Kurdish Alliance, comprised of Kurdistan’s two long-dominant political blocs, has said it will join it.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.france24.com/en/20100506-kurds-vow-back-shiite-coalition-choice-pm" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Bayati: SLC, INA Alliance to speed up forming next government  : National Iraqi News Agency – NINA</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>The leader within the State of Law’s Coalition, Abas al-Bayati, confirmed that "The Alliance between the SLC and the Iraqi National Alliance will participate in speeding up the negotiations for forming the next government and ending the political tensions." <br/>He stated to the national Iraqi News Agency (NINA) "The Alliance between INA and SLC will set a timetable for the negotiations with the other blocs over forming the national partenership government to be able to provide services and represent all Iraqis."</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.ninanews.com/English/News_Details.asp?ar95_VQ=EMFFGH" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Nijeifi criticizes calls to divide Iraq into three areas : National Iraqi News Agency – NINA</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>The leader within the Iraqiya Slate, Usama al-Nijeifi, revealed that "There are calls to divide Iraq into three areas;" criticizing these calls saying "We reject these calls absolutely." <br/>Speaking to the National Iraqi News Agency (NINA) "These calls are dangerous and threaten the unity and the stability of Iraq." <br/>He added "The Alliance between the State of Law’s Coalition and the Iraqi National Alliance gave sectarian image," noting that "The Kurdistani Alliance is having the same attitudes while Iraqiya Slate preserved the national method away from confessionalism."</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.ninanews.com/English/News_Details.asp?ar95_VQ=EMFFID" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Othman: Alliance between SL, NIA to satisfy Iran : National Iraqi News Agency – NINA</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>The Kurdish Alliance’s official, Mahmoud Otham, expressed his dissatisfaction over the new alliance between State of Law (SL) and the National Iraqi Alliance (NIA) considering this move is to satisfy Iran’s demands. <br/>Othman said, “Kurdish leadership is not surprised with this move because on increased pressure on Iraq that threatens its security and independence.” <br/>He added that Iran works, from the start of the election process in intervening in Iraq’s affairs and putting pressure on political sides toward denying the Iraqiya Slate from forming next government.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.ninanews.com/English/News_Details.asp?ar95_VQ=EMFGEH" class="external" target="_blank">source</a></strong><strong>: </strong> </p> </blockquote> <p><strong>IED blast leaves 1 killed, 3 wounded : Aswat Al Iraq</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>“The IED went off at the entrance of the southern Baghdad district of al-Mahmoudiya, leaving one killed and three others wounded,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=131302" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>KUNA : Roadside bomb kills 2 in N. Baghdad – Military and Security – 06/05/2010</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>BAGHDAD, May 6 (KUNA) — Iraqi police said on Thursday that two people were killed in a roadside explosion in Al Mansour district, northern Baghdad. <br/>A source in the Iraqi police told KUNA that the bomb exploded near a flowers auction in Al Mansour district. <br/>The explosion resulted in the death of two people and wounding four others. They were taken to a hospital for treatment, the source added. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2081286&Language=en" class="external" target="_blank">source</a>:</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Woman wounded in central Falluja : Aswat Al Iraq</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>A woman, standing in front of her house in central Falluja, was wounded in a random shooting on Thursday</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=131279" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Hand grenade wounds cop, civilian in Kirkuk : Aswat Al Iraq</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>“Unknown gunmen threw a hand grenade on the guards of Kirkuk police chief near al-Shuhadaa tunnel, central Kirkuk, injuring a policeman and civilian,” Colonel Ahmad Shmerani told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. <br/>“The gunmen tried to escape but police forces managed to arrest two of them</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=131279" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>IED injures 3 civilians in western Anbar : Aswat Al Iraq</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>“The bomb went off near a water tanker truck in al-Qaem district in western Anbar, wounding three civilians, including the driver,” </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=131279" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Al-Qaeda leader captured in Mosul : Aswat Al Iraq</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>“The forces arrested Mahmoud Mohammad Salama, a senior leader of al-Qaeda in Mosul,” </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=131288" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Kirkuk car bomber arrested : Aswat Al Iraq</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>“The detainee, a 29-year-old man who had detonated an explosive vehicle near al-Huweija Hospital on March 22, was captured and is now under investigative custody,”</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=131297" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <h3 style="color: #800000">Society and Economy:</h3> <p><strong>France24 – Iraqi govt resolves oil row with Kurds</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>An oil dispute between Iraq and the autonomous northern region of Kurdistan has been resolved, the central government’s oil minister said in Baghdad on Thursday. <br/>"We reached an agreement with the Kurds that all revenues will be handed over to SOMO and the Iraqi government will be responsible for paying the extraction expenses in Kurdistan," Hussein al-Shahristani told reporters. <br/>SOMO is Iraq’s State Oil Marketing Organisation which deals with sales of crude and other petroleum-based products.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.france24.com/en/20100506-iraqi-govt-resolves-oil-row-with-kurds" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Iraq puts three natural gas fields up for bid – Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Iraq’s oil minister on Thursday invited international energy companies to bid for contracts to develop three untapped natural gas fields. <br/>Hussain al-Shahristani expressed confidence in international interest in the fields, saying that 45 companies with experience in gas projects will submit their offers in the country’s third energy bidding round, set for Sept. 1. <br/>"We have indications that there is renewed interest among companies to compete for these fields," he said in a press conference. <br/>The Akkas gas field near the border with Syria has estimated reserves of 5.6 trillion cubic feet and was originally offered in Iraq’s first round of bidding. It only garnered a single offer, which was declined. <br/>Mansouriya gas field, with reserves of 4.5 trillion cubic feet, is located in the once restive province of Diyala north of Baghdad and received no bids in the round. <br/>The smaller Siba field, with 1.1 trillion cubic feet of reserves and near the border with Kuwait, will be offered up for the first time.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=iraq-puts-three-natural-gas-fields-up-for-bid-2010-05-06" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Iraq offers gas and oil licences – The National Newspaper</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Iraq, the holder of the world’s third-biggest proved oil reserves, has announced its third post-war bidding round for oil and gas licences.</p> <p>This time, Baghdad’s focus will be on developing the nation’s large but mainly overlooked gas resources.</p> <p>Starting on September 1, the Gulf state would seek offers to develop its Akkas, Mansouriya and Siba gasfields, Dr Hussain al Shahristani, the Iraqi oil minister, said yesterday. <br/>Iraq has sought for years to develop gas exports, in addition to expanding domestic supplies of the fuel to burn in power plants.</p> <p>Baghdad had earlier set aside the under-developed Akkas field, near the country’s western border with Syria, to supply the proposed Nabucco pipeline, which was conceived to reduce European dependence on Russian gas. <br/>“This will make Iraq one of the major producers for natural gas,” Ali al Dabbagh, the Iraqi government spokesman, said last week at a business forum in Abu Dhabi, in remarks heralding the gas auction.</p> <p>“Once these fields are put on stream, the production will be used to meet Iraq’s growing energy needs as well as possibly exporting to neighbouring countries or the European Union,” Dr al Shahristani added yesterday. <br/>The minister also said a US$4 billion (Dh14.69bn) joint venture with Royal Dutch Shell to gather and market up to 700 million cubic feet per day of gas produced as a by-product from Iraq’s main southern oilfields had been submitted to the government’s energy committee for approval, more than 18 months after Baghdad signed a preliminary deal with the company.</p> <p>The gas is currently being burnt as “waste” because Iraq lacks gathering and processing facilities.</p> <p>But the deal is controversial because Baghdad negotiated it directly instead of inviting competitive bids, and because it appeared to give Shell a monopoly over gas produced from Iraq’s main oil exporting province of Basra. <br/>Despite the country’s dire need for gas to fuel electricity generation, the agreement could still be overturned in parliament or by the next Iraqi government.</p> <p>In what appeared to be a compromise, Dr al Shahristani said the scope of the final deal would cover only three fields: Iraq’s biggest oilfield, Rumaila; the Zubair field; and West Qurna phase 1, which is being developed by ExxonMobil and Shell.</p> <p>The new bidding round for contracts to develop gasfields that are not associated with oil also faces challenges.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100506/BUSINESS/705069876/1005/rss" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>France24 – Iraq says Kuwait reparations are unsustainable</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Iraq cannot sustain its reparations payments to Kuwait for Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion, which it says are the highest paid by any country in history, Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani said Thursday. <br/>"Iraq has paid Kuwait enormous amounts of compensation for its losses and we do not know of any country in the world that has paid such high sums," Shahristani told reporters in Baghdad. <br/>"The sum of money that Germany paid to France and Britain is less than what Iraq has paid to Kuwait, even though that was a world war and the losses were considerable." <br/>On April 13, Adnan Abdulsamad, head of the Kuwaiti parliament’s budgets committee, said the emirate had so far received 17.5 billion dollars out of the 41.8 billion dollars approved by a United Nations special compensation fund. <br/>"Iraq cannot continue to make these payments and has made this known to the UN Security Council," Shahristani said. "We call on our Kuwaiti brothers to work together with us to forget the past, which has cost our country more than our neighbours."</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.france24.com/en/20100506-iraq-says-kuwait-reparations-are-unsustainable" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Iraqi Airways chief released by British court</strong><strong>: Khaleej Times Online</strong></p> <blockquote><p>A British court released the head of Iraqi Airways on Thursday and allowed him to return home, Iraq’s transport ministry said in the latest twist in a legal nightmare for the airline. <br/>Kifah Hassan Jabbar had his passport seized and the plane he arrived on impounded at London’s Gatwick Airport on April 25 as a dispute with Kuwait Airways marred Iraqi Airways Company’s (IAC) first commercial flight from Baghdad to London in 20 years. <br/>“A British court today (Thursday) issued a decision for the release of Mr Kifah Hassan Jabbar, chief executive of Iraqi Airways,” the transport ministry said. <br/>It said the court ruling was greeted by “angry shouts” from Kuwaitis attending the hearing, who “expressed their discontent and dissatisfaction with the decision.” </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2010/May/middleeast_May99.xml&section=middleeast&col=" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>:</strong></p> </blockquote> <h3 style="color: #800000">Commentary and Analysis</h3> <p><strong>The secret behind Iran’s power</strong><strong>: By Fatih Abdulsalam</strong></p> <blockquote><p>Why is Iran seen as a fundamental power in the region stretching from Afghanistan to Lebanon and in between Iraq, its golden state? <br/>There are some who think that Iran’s military maneuvers and revelations of new weapons, boats, frigates and missiles that can reach Israel and Europe are the source of this power. <br/>People who entertain such opinions, I am sorry to say, are naïve. The U.S. and Europe have no fears of the display of Iranian armaments. <br/>Strategy analysts and experts say Iranian weapons might be ineffective. The point is whether the weapons are operational and can be used. <br/>The analysts believe if the U.S. attacks Iran, the first thing its forces will do is to render Iranian weapons systems ineffective. <br/>Iran’s Western enemies will take the initiative and do not allow Iran to unleash its missiles and other weapons on their targets. <br/>But still Iran is a powerful country. Iran’s strong muscles are not due to its weaponry. <br/>Iran’s strength emanates from its diplomacy and the role it plays almost in all important files in the region. Arab states have almost no role to play here. <br/>Therefore, it is so hard for Iran’s nemesis, the U.S., to embark on any negotiating or movements in the region without taking Tehran into account. <br/>Tehran has proxies and agents throughout the region. They are the source of Iran’s power and not its weapons. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2010-05-06%5Ckurd.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Source</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10373"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/05/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d8%b1%d8%a8%d8%b9%d8%a7%d8%a1-5-%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%8a%d9%88-2010/#respond" title="Comment on الأربعاء, 5 مايو 2010">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 5th, 2010 by Fatima Jameel</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/05/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d8%b1%d8%a8%d8%b9%d8%a7%d8%a1-5-%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%8a%d9%88-2010/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to الأربعاء, 5 مايو 2010">الأربعاء, 5 مايو 2010</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: 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valign="top" width="295"> <p><strong>دولة القانون والائتلاف الوطني يعلنان تحالفهما لتشكيل الكتلة البرلمانية الأكبر</strong> </p> <p><a title="20100505_sadr_city_watching_news_of_coalition" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4581302919/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin: 5px auto" height="190" alt="20100505_sadr_city_watching_news_of_coalition" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721im_/http://static.flickr.com/3310/4581302919_8101ab1399.jpg" width="285" border="0"/></a> </p> <p>أعلن ائتلاف دولة القانون والائتلاف الوطني، مساء الثلاثاء، تحالفهما معا لتشكيل الكتلة الاكبر في البرلمان العراقي المقبل واختيار رئيس الوزراء للحكومة المقبلة. <br/>جاء هذا خلال مؤتمر صحفي عقده في بغداد مساء الثلاثاء، زعماء الكتل السياسية في دولة القانون والائتلاف الوطني، بعد ساعات من اجتماع حاسم عقدوه لبحث اللمسات الاخيرة لأعلان التحالف. <br/>ونص اعلان التحالف على أن الائتلافين سيسعيان الى تطبيق برنامج حكومي مشترك، ويختاران رئيس الحكومة المقبلة، مع اشراك باقي الكتل السياسية العراقية في حكومة شراكة وطنية. <br/>وحضر اعلان التحالف بين الائتلافين كل من رئيس وفد دولة القانون للتفاوض علي الاديب، واعضاء الوفد خالد العطية وحسن السنيد وعبد الحليم الزهيري، فضلا عن قادة الائتلاف الوطني ابراهيم الجعفري واحمد الجلبي ونصار الربيعي وكريم اليعقوبي وحسن الشمري وحميد معلة وآخرون.</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="295"> <p><strong>النجيفي: خطوات متقدمة يجري السير بها لحل المشاكل العالقة بين الحكومة المحلية في المحافظة وحكومة أقليم كردستان</strong> </p> <p><a title="Najafi_Adil_02 by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/3485877280/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="203" alt="Najafi_Adil_02" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721im_/http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3369/3485877280_710fb0cf28_o.jpg" width="285" border="0"/></a></p> <p>أعلن محافظ ُ نينوى أثيل النجيفي أن هناك خطواتٍ متقدمة يَجري السيُر بها لحل المشاكل العالقة بين الحكومة المحلية في المحافظة وحكومة أقليم كردستان. واعتبر النجيفي في حديث اذاعي انه لاحظ في الآونة الأخيرة تطورا كبيرا في حل الأزمة بين المحافظة وإلاقليم وتجاوزا للعديد من المشاكل العالقة . <br/>وأشاد النجيفي بما تم تحقيقُه من نتائجَ من خلال عمل اللجان المشكلة من قائمة الحدباء وحكومة الإقليم لبحث موضوع المعتقلين من المحافظة في سجون تابعة للإقليم ، موضحا أن هناك لجنة ً ثانية بين الجانبين ستجتمع قريبا لبحث موضوع الأقليات والهجمات التي تستهدفهم نتيجة الفراغ الأمني الناتج عن وجودِ تقاطعٍ بين المحافظة والإقليم . وتوقع النجيفي أن يتمَ حلُ جميع المشاكل بين الجانبين خلال الشهر المقبل بعد استكمال جميع التفاصيل للتوصل إلى اتفاقٍ صلب نابع عن قناعة القواعد الشعبية من مؤيدي كلا الطرفين. </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3><font color="#800000">الاخبار السياسية</font></h3> <p><strong>القائمة العراقية تجدد تأكيد حقها في تشكيل الحكومة المقبلة</strong></p> <p>عبر القيادي في الكتلة العراقية شاكر كتاب، الاربعاء، عن أمله في أن لا يكون تحالف ائتلافي دولة القانون والوطني العراقي تحالفا طائفيا، مجددا تأكيد كتلته على حقها في تشكيل الحكومة المقبلة. <br/>وأوضح كتاب لوكالة (اصوات العراق) أنه من منطلق احترام حرية كل طرف في أن يضع سياسته ويحدد حلفاءه بكل حرية نحن نهنئ كل تحالف يحدث، الاخوة في دولة القانون والتحالف الوطني واي تحالف يحدث بين اي طرف”. <br/>واستدرك قائلا “في نفس الوقت نحن في القائمة العراقية نؤكد على حقنا في تشكيل الحكومة بناء على ما منحه شعبنا بالانتخابات، فالقائمة العراقية هي التي حصلت على اكبر عدد من الاصوات، ونحن ندعو لتكتلات ذات طابع وطني وليست ذات طابع طائفي”. <br/>ودعا كتاب من وصفهم بالاخوة في قادة التحالف الجديد إلى تجنب أن يكون التحالف تحالفا طائفيا حتى لا تعود البلاد إلى مرحلة الصراع والنزاع الطائفي، مبينا أن هذه المسؤولية تقع على عاتق قادة التحالف من الطرفين دولة القانون والوطني. <br/>واضاف “نحن نتخوف من مسألة أن لا يكتب النجاح لهذا التحالف بسب الخلافات العديدة بين مكوناته، وطبعا اهمها قضية اختيار مرشح لمنصب رئاسة الوزراء إذ أن كل ائتلاف متمسك بمرشحيه، اضافة إلى قضية المرشحين للوزارات السيادية فكل هذه الاختلافات لاتشجع على القول بأن هذا التحالف سيستمر”. <br/>وعبر كتاب عن خشيته من أن تؤثر “هذه الخلافات على الامن الوطني في العراق”.</p> <p><strong>الدملوجي: اندماج الائتلافين عودة إلى المربع الطائفي الأول واستمرار للاصطفافات الطائفية </strong></p> <p>فور اعلان التحالف، اعتبرت المتحدثة الرسمية باسم القائمة العراقية ميسون الدملوجي أن اندماج الائتلافين عودة إلى المربع الطائفي الأول واستمرار للاصطفافات الطائفية، مؤكدة وجود دور خارجي وإقليمي في قيام هذا الائتلاف من دون كشف مزيد من التفاصيل. غير ان الدملوجي رأت في حديث إلى موقع السومرية نيوز أن اندماج القوائم وعقد التحالفات حق مشروع للقوائم كافة، رغم تمنيها رؤية تحالفات بعيدة عن الطائفية. </p> <p><strong>المالكي يشدد على ضرورة توفير الاجواء المناسبة لعودة العراقيين إلى بلادهم </strong></p> <p>شدد رئيس الوزراء المنتهية ولايته نوري المالكي على ضرورة توفير الاجواء والظروف المناسبة لعودة العراقيين من الخارج للمساهمة في عملية البناء. <br/>ونقل المكتب الاعلامي للمالكي في بيان صدر بعد استقباله لبعض السفراء العراقيين الجدد تأكيده على أهمية تطوير علاقات العراق مع جميع دول العالم على أساس الإحترام والمصالح المشتركة، وإظهار صورة العراق الجديد على حقيقته خلافاً لما تظهره بعض وسائل الإعلام المشوّه. <br/>واضاف البيان إن المالكي شدد على ضرورة تطويرالعلاقات مع الدول التي تعين فيها السفراء الجدد في مختلف المجالات، خصوصا ما يتعلق بالإعمار والإستثمار ودعوة شركاتها للمساهمة في عملية البناء والاعمار، إضافة إلى أهمية التواصل مع دول العالم وحثها على افتتاح سفاراتها في بغداد.</p> <p><b>المحكمة التمييزية ترد طعون ائتلاف دولة القانون بشأن آلية العد والفرز الحالية</b></p> <p>ردت المحكمة التمييزية الطعون التي تقدم بها ائتلاف دولة القانون الذي يتزعمه رئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي بشان الية اعادة العد والفرز الحالية. <br/>وذكرت رئيسة الدائرة الانتخابية في مفوضية الانتخابات حمدية الحسيني اليوم الأربعاء أن الطعن الذي تقدم به دولة القانون يطالب بمطابقة أوراق الاقتراع مع سجل الناخبين،مبينة ان المفوضية تمكنت خلال اليومين الماضيين من إعادة عد وفرز اكثر من 1400 محطة، مشيرة الى ان ما سيتم اعادة عده اليوم سيصل الى اكثر من الفي محطة انتخابية. <br/>وكان ائتلاف دولة القانون قد قدم يوم الاثنين الماضي طعناً للهيئة القضائية التمييزية نتيجة رفض مفوضية الانتخابات فتح صناديق الاقتراع ومطابقة الأوراق مع سجل الناخبين. <br/>وكانت الهيئة التمييزية قررت الاثنين الماضي (19/4) إعادة عملية العد والفرز لأصوات الناخبين في بغداد حصرا، وفق الطعون التي قدمها ائتلاف دولة القانون وأكثر من 70 كيانا سياسيا، والتي وجدت الهيئة انها مقبولة. <br/>وخصص قانون الانتخابات العراقية، لبغداد 68 مقعدا لبغداد من بين مقاعد البرلمان المقبل البالغ مجموعها 325 مقعدا، وحصل ائتلاف دولة القانون برئاسة المالكي على 26 مقعدا منها، فيما حصلت القائمة العراقية على 24 مقعدا، والائتلاف الوطني العراقي على 17 مقعدا، ولم تحصل قائمة التوافق العراقي برئاسة الحزب الاسلامي إلا على مقعد واحد. <br/>وبحسب ما اعلنته المفوضية، فستجري عملية اعادة العد والفرز في بغداد، داخل قاعتين في فندق الرشيد القريب من المنطقة الخضراء المحصنة، بحضور وكلاء الكيانات السياسية ومنظمات المراقبة العراقية والدولية. وتتضمن اجراءات العد والفرز لأكثر من 11 الف محطة انتخابية مشمولة باعادة العدة والفرز، عن طريق عد أوراق الاقتراع والرزم الخاصة بالكيانات والمرشحين، والتأكد من الأوراق الباطلة، في ما سيتم التعامل مع اوراق الاقتراع للتصويت الخاص والخارج، بفتح صناديقها في بغداد، في ما سيتم التعامل معها بالنسبة للمحافظات بالاعتماد على إدخال البيانات مرة ثانية دون إعادة عدها وفرزها. <br/>وأظهرت نتائج الانتخابات التي جرت في السابع من آذار مارس الماضي، تقدم ائتلاف العراقية بزعامة اياد علاوي بـ91 مقعدا، في حين حاز ائتلاف دولة القانون الذي يتزعمه رئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي 89 مقعدا، فضلا عن حصول الائتلاف الوطني بزعامة عمار الحكيم على 70 مقعدا، والتحالف الكردستاني الكردي على 43 مقعدا.</p> <p><strong>منظمة تموز تشكل ثلاثة فرق لمراقبة عملية اعادة العد والفرز في بغداد</strong></p> <p>شكلت منظمة تموز للتنمية المجتمعية ثلاثة فرق لمراقبة عملية اعادة العد والفرز ببغداد، مبينة ان الفرق متخصصة في مراقبة شاحنات نقل صناديق الاقتراع وعملية ادخال البيانات وعملية اعادة الفرز، بحسب بيان للمنظمة صدر الاربعاء. <br/>وجاء في البيان أن منظمة تموز للتنمية المجتمعية شكلت ثلاثة فرق متخصصة الاول لمراقبة عملية نقل صناديق الاقتراع من المخازن في جانبي الرصافة والكرخ الى مركز العد والفرز في فندق الرشيد ببغداد اذ يتم نقل 1000 صندوق يوميا من اصل 11300 صندوق. <br/>وتابع البيان أن فريق اخر يعمل في مركز العد والفرز في فندق الرشيد، ويتوزع مع فرق مفوضية الانتخابات التي تقوم بإعادة العد والفرز، اذ هيأت المنظمة هذا الفريق ليعمل على شكل وجبتين صباحية ومسائية بحيث يتم مراقبتها بالكامل”، مشيرا الى ان الفريق الثالث “سيبدا العمل اليوم (الاربعاء) مع بدء عملية ادخال البيانات في المكتب الوطني لمفوضية الانتخابات. <br/>وأردف البيان أن فرق منظمة تموز تراقب عملية نقل صناديق الاقتراع وتدوين ارقام الشاحنات التي يتم نقل الصناديق من خلالها، علما انها شاحنات تابعة لوزارة النقل وعملية النقل تتم بحماية امنية مشتركة عراقية وأمريكية”، لافتا الى ان منظمة تموز هي “المنظمة الوحيدة التي تقوم بمراقبة هذه العملية. <br/>وتابع البيان ان اهم الملاحظات التي سجلتها منظمة تموز على عملية اعادة العد والفرز في بغداد هي “تواجد جيد للمراقبين من المنظمات المحلية ومن الكيانات السياسية ووجود عدد كبير من وسائل الإعلام لتغطية العملية اضافة الى زيارة عدد من المرشحين في الانتخابات الى مركز العد والفرز للإطلاع على العملية وكانوا يمثلون عددا من القوائم وليس قائمة واحدة، وتواجد المراقبين الدوليين وممثلي مكتب اليونامي لبعثة الأمم المتحدة في العراق”.</p> <p><b>خالد الأسدي: دولة القانون ستمضي في موضوع الطعن الى أبعد حدودها القانونية</b></p> <p>شدد القيادي في دولة القانون خالد الأسدي ان قائمته ستمضي في موضوع الطعن بإجراءات مفوضية الانتخابات لإعادة العد والفرز الى أبعد حدودها القانونية. <br/>وأضاف ان "المفوضية رفضت طلبا تقدمت بها قائمتنا بتدقيق سجلات الناخبين ومطابقتها مع أعداد المصوتين فعلاً لكنها رفضت ذلك لذا توجهنا بالطعن الى الهيئة القضــائية بصفتهـــا صـاحبة القرار ونأمل بأن يحقق القضاء العراقي الذي نثق به العدالة ويحقق إرادة الشعب العراقي". <br/>ولم يستبعد الأسدي أن يكون "بعض أعضاء المفوضية متورطين في التستر على الخلل والخروقات التي حدثت في النتائج كي لا تظهر المفوضية بمظهر المخطئ وانها وراء تغير النتائج"، معتبراً ان "تفسير المفوضية لقرار إعادة الفرز غير صحيح"حسب قوله. <br/>وأضاف انه "على الرغم من قناعتنا بأن إعادة الفرز لن يغير في نتائج الانتخابات كثيرا لكن ما يهمنا هو تحقيق أكبر قدر من الشفافية والنزاهة في العملية الانتخابية لأنها تمثل موقف وإرادة العراقيين التي لا نريد تحريفها"حسب تعبيره.</p> </p> <h3><font color="#800000">الاخبار الاقتصادية</font></h3> <ul> <li>تظاهر العشراتٌ من موظفي الخطوط الجوية العراقية الاربعاء في مطار ِبغدادَ الدولي احتجاجاً على الاجراءات الاستفزازية من قبل الكويت التي اصدرت امرا ًقضائيا اُحتجز على اثره الكابتن كفاح حسن مدير الخطوط العراقية في لندن. </li> <li>اعلن وزير الكهرباء الاربعاء عن افتتاح اثنتي عشرة محطة كهربائية جديدة ضمن سعي وزارة الكهرباء لدعم انتاج الطاقة الكهربائية في البلاد مع حلول موسم الصيف. </li> </ul> <p><b>النفط تدعو الشركات المحلية والأجنبية لاستثمار مصاف نفطية</b></p> <p>دعت وزارة النفط الشركات العربية والأجنبية للاستثمار في قطاع تطوير مصافي النفط الخام في البلد. <br/>وقال رئيس هيئة استثمار في الناصرية علي عبد عباس ان وزارة النفط دعت الهيئة الوطنية للاستثمار الى التنسيق واجراء لقاءات تمهيدية بغية وضع الاليات والبرامج لعقد مؤتمر موسع لهيئات الاستثمار في المحافظات ودعوة الشركات العربية والاجنبية والمحلية للاستثمار في قطاع المصافي النفطية ضمن قانون الاستثمار العراق. <br/>واضاف "سيتم خلال المؤتمر طرح أربعة من المصافي لتكريرالنفط الخام للاستثمار متمثلة بمصافي الناصرية بطاقة 300 الف برميل يوميا ومصفاة كربلاء بطاقة 140 الف برميل يوميا ومصفيين في كركوك وميسان بطاقة 150 الف برميل يوميا لكل منهما". <br/>وقال عبد عباس "ان هيئة استثمار الناصرية ستعلن خلال الاشهر المقبلة انشاء مصاف نفطية بطاقة انتاجية تتراوح بين 100 الى 300 ألف برميل يوميا وان نحو 9 شركات محلية واجنبية تقدمت بطلبات الى الهيئة للاستثمار في قطاع مصافي التكرير".</p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 1.5em"><font color="#800000">الاخبار الامنية </font></span></strong></p> <h5><strong><a title="abdel_jalil_al_fahdawi" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4581618823/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: inline; margin: 5px 15px 5px 0px" alt="abdel_jalil_al_fahdawi" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721im_/http://static.flickr.com/4056/4581618823_a879d16353.jpg" align="left" border="0"/></a>مسلحون مجهولون يغتالون الشيخ عبد الجليل الفهداوي </strong></h5> <p>إغتال مسلحون مجهولون صباح اليوم الشيخ عبد الجليل الفهداوي النائبَ الأول لرئيس مجلس علماء العراق وامام وخطيب جامع الاخوة الصالحين مع حارسه الشخصي في العامرية غرب بغداد. وأفاد مصدرٌ امني بأن مسلحين مجهولين اطلقوا النار من اسلحةٍ كاتمة للصوت على الفهداوي وحارسِه، عندما كانا يهمان بفتحِ باب الجامع. وعلى الفور فرضت القواتُ الامنية طوقا حول مكان الحادث وبدأت حملة َ تفتيشٍ بحثا عن المنفذين. يذكر ان الشيخ الفهداوي من أساتذةِ الجامعة الاسلامية في بغداد وكان اماما وخطيبا لجامع فخري شنشل في حي الجهاد غرب بغداد . </p> <h4>مسلحون يغتالون نائب رئيس الوقف السني العراقي ونجله </h4> <blockquote><p>أعلنت السلطات العراقية اليوم الأربعاء عن قيام مسلحين مجهولين باغتيال نائب رئيس الوقف السني وابنه وأحد عناصر حمايته في منطقة العامرية غربي بغداد .</p> <p>وأطلق مسلحون النار من أسلحة كاتمة للصوت على الشيخ عبدالجليل الفهداوي إمام وخطيب جامع الإخوة الصالحين عندما كان يهم بفتح باب الجامع مع الحراس.</p> <p>وقالت مصادر صحفية: "فر المهاجمون إلى جهة مجهولة بعد عملية الاغتيال ، وفرضت القوات الامنية طوقا حول مكان الحادث وبدأت حملة تفتيش بحثا عن المنفذين ".</p> <p>وقد اتهم الشيخ عبدالستار عبدالجبار نائب مجلس علماء العراق الحكومة بالتقصير في حماية الشيخ الفهداوي ، قائلا" الحكومة العراقية لا تعطينا فرصة لحماية أنفسنا أو تقوم هي بحمايتنا".</p> <p>وأضاف: "إن الكارثة لا تتوقف فقط عن مقتل الشيخ الجليل وإنما تم توزيع اليوم منشورات تؤكد على السعي لاغتيال أربعة آخرين من مجلس العلماء المسلمين على أعين ومسمع قوات الأمن العراقية".</p> <p>ويأتي هذا الاغتيال بعد يوم واحد من مقتل مسؤول استخبارات قاطع شمال بغداد في انفجار عبوة لاصقة كانت موضوعة بسيارته العسكرية في منطقة الكاظمية شمال غرب بغداد.</p> <p>كما شهد يوم أمس مقتل أربعة عناصر من الصحوة في انفجار عبوة لاصقة وضعت أسفل سيارة بمنطقة الزيدان جنوب أبو غريب غربي بغداد.</p> <p>من جهة أخرى, حذر اياد علاوي رئيس الوزراء العراقي السابق وزعيم القائمة العراقية من ان التحالف بين ائتلاف دولة القانون بزعامة رئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي والائتلاف الوطني العراقي قد يؤجج العنف الطائفي.</p> <p>وكانت مصادر من الجانبين قالت: إنه تم بالفعل توقيع اتفاق بين الكتلتين لكنه تم إرجاء المناقشات بشأن من سيتولى رئاسة الحكومة إلى وقت لاحق.</p> <p>وبموجب الاتفاق سيصبح في حوزة التحالف الجديد نحو 159 مقعدا في مجلس النواب أي أقل بأربعة مقاعد فقط عن الأغلبية اللازمة لتشكيل الحكومة.</p> <p>وكان التحالف الكردي الذي حصل على 43 مقعدا قد أعلن في وقت سابق انه سينضم الى الكتلتين في حال تحالفهما.</p> <p>والهدف من التحالف مواجهة قائمة العراقية بزعامة رئيس الوزراء السابق اياد علاوي والتي حصلت على 91 مقعدا. </p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.almoslim.net/node/127738" class="external" target="_blank">مسلحون يغتالون نائب رئيس الوقف السني العراقي ونجله | موقع المسلم</a></p> <p><strong>نجاة مدير مركز الاسايش من محاولة اغتيال شرق كركوك </strong></p> <p>انفجرت، الأربعاء، عبوة ناسفة مستهدفة موكب احد ضباط الاسايش بقضاء الدبس شرقي كركوك. <br/>وذكر مصدر امني في تصريح نشرته وكالة انباء الاعلام العراقي ان الانفجار اسفر عن اصابة 2 من مرافقي الضابط بجروح بسيطة، مشيرا الى انه تم نقل المصابين الى احدى المستشفيات القريبة لتلقي العلاج. <br/>جدير بالذكر ذكر ان الضابط المستهدف يشغل منصب مدير مركز الاسايش في قضاء الدبس التابع لمحافظة كركوك.</p> <p><strong>انفجار ناسفة يتسبب بإصابة شرطيين ومدني جنوب كركوك </strong></p> <p>ادى انفجار عبوة ناسفة جنوب كركوك، الاربعاء، الى اصابة شرطيين ومدني واحد. <br/>وقال مصدر في الشرطة لوكالة الصحافة المستقلة ان العبوة استهدفت مركبة تابعة للفوج الثاني من شرطة طوارى كركوك لدى مرورها بطريق بغداد جنوب كركوك، ما ادى إلى إصابة شرطيين ومدني وإلحاق إضرار بالعجلة بالإضافة الى تضرر حافلة لنقل المدنيين.</p> <p><strong>مجهولون يغتالون مفتشة نساء وسط الموصل <br/></strong></p> <p>ذكر مصدر في شرطة نينوى، الثلاثاء، ان مسلحين اغتالوا مفتشة نساء تعمل في محافظة نينوى وسط الموصل. <br/>وقال  ان مسلحين مجهولين قتلوا اليوم (الثلاثاء) مفتشة نساء تعمل في محافظة نينوى في منطقة باب الجديد (وسط الموصل)"، مشيرا إلى ان الضحية "منسوبة لحماية المنشآت وتعمل في استعلامات المحافظة بصفة مفتشة". <br/>وأضاف ان "المسلحين اطلقوا النار عليها من ازقة الحي اثناء توجهها للدوام الرسمي قبل ان يلوذوا بالفرار </p> <p><b></b></p> <p><b>أوكار الإرهابيين في بعقوبة تتحول الى معارض للسيارات الحديثة</b></p> <p>حولت بلدية بعقوبة المنطقة الصناعية خارج المدينة والتي كانت مركزا لتركيب العجلات المفخخة والاحزمة الناسفة الى معارض للسيارات الحديثة ضمن حملة لازالة التجاوزات عن الممتلكات العامة . <br/>وقال مدير بلدية بعقوبة سبع جلوب ان دائرته باشرت بالتعاون مع الاجهزة الامنية بتنفيذ حملة لازالة التجاوزات على ممتلكات الدولة اسفرت عن غلق اكثر من 58 معرضا للسيارات مع تهيئة المنطقة الصناعية مكانا بديلا بعد استخدامها لاكثر من اربع سنوات مقرا رئيسا للقاعدة يتم فيها تصنيع السيارات المفخخة والاحزمة الناسفة في العراق. <br/>وبين مدير البلدية ان لجنة رفع التجاوزات في قضاء بعقوبة التي تضم قائممقام بعقوبة رئيسا وعضوية ممثلين عن دوائر البلدية والتسجيل العقاري والمالية والشرطة تضطلع بمهمة ازالة جميع التجاوزات عن ممتلكات الدولة في القضاء والبالغ عددها 569 وبواقع 485 تجاوزاً سكنياً و84 تجارياً موزعة على مناطق بعقوبة</p> <p><strong><font color="#800000">جانب من الأحداث الأمنية والعمليات العسكرية حتى مساء اليوم الاربعاء</font></strong></p> <p>شهدت بغداد وبعض المحافظات العراقية اليوم الاربعاء أحداثا أمنية عديدة راح ضحيتها عدد من الشهداء والجرحى، كما شهدت عدة عمليات عسكرية شنتها القوات الأمنية العراقية مستهدفة أوكار الإرهابيين والخارجين عن القانون ومخازن الاعتدة والذخائر والعبوات الناسفة في مناطق متفرقة من البلاد .</p> <p>ففي بغداد اذ استشهد مدني صباح اليوم بانفجار عبوة ناسفة في ناحية الرشيد جنوب العاصمة بغداد و ان" مسلحين مجهولين زرعو العبوة داخل معرض لبيع السيارات جنوب العاصمة ،مبينا ان "الانفجار اسفر عن استتشهاد صاحب المعرض فضلا عن الحاق اضرارمادية ومن جانب اخرى القت قوة مشتركة من الجيش العراقي والشرطة اليوم القبض على خمسة مطلوبين في ناحية الطارمية شمال العاصمة بغداد وان عملية القاء القبض تمت بعد ورود معلومات استخباراتية افادت بتواجد المطلوبين في الناحية المذكورة , مشيرا الى ان المطلوبين متهمين بعمليات سرقة واختطاف ، مبينا انه تم احالتهم الى الجهات المختصة للتحقيق معهم وفي بغداد ايضا اغتال مسلحون مجهولون نائب رئيس الوقف السني وابنه واحد أفراد حمايته في منطقة العامرية غربي بغداد و إن "مسلحين مجهولين يستقلون سيارة مدنية أطلقوا، صباح اليوم، نيران أسلحتهم الكاتمة باتجاه نائب رئيس الوقف السني وإمام وخطيب جامع الأخوة الصالحين الشيخ عبد الجليل الخشمان، عندما كان يستقل سيارته بمنطقة العامرية غرب بغداد، مما أسفر عن استشهاده وابنه مصطفى وأحد عناصر حمايته اما في محافظة ديالى اذ استشهد احد افراد الصحوة صباح اليوم بنيران قناص في ناحية هبهب (10) كم غرب مدينة بعقوبة مركز محافظة ديالى ان مسلحا مجهولا اطلق النار من بندقية قنص مستهدفا احد عناصر الصحوة الذي كان متواجدا فوق بناية المقر لحمايته اسفر عن استشهادعنصر الصحوة في الحال واشار الى انه تم نقل الجثة الى مستشفى بعقوبة العام لتسليمها الى ذويها ، وان القوات الامنية فرضت طوقا امنيا حول مكان الحادث بحثا عن الجناة ومن جهة اخرى عثرت دورية للشرطة على مخبأ للاسلحة والاعتدة في ناحية بهرز (3) كم جنوب مدينة بعقوبة مركز محافظة ديالى وان المخبأ احتوى على (3) عبوات ناسفة و (7) عبوات لاصقة و (10) بنادق نوع كلاشنكوف وعلبتي عتاد خفيف ومسدسات عدد (2) بالاضافة الى ريموتات تستعمل للتفجير عن بعد واسلاك للعبوات وقد تم الاحتراز عليها جمبعها وتم تسليمها الى الجهات المختصة وفي محافظة الموصل اذ القى الجيش العراقي القبض على سبعة مطلوبين للقضاء في قضاء البعاج القريب من الحدود السورية غرب مدينة الموصل مركز محافظة نينوى وان" قوة من الفرقة الثالثة للجيش العراقي القت القبض على 7 ارهابيين ممن صادرة بحقهم اوامر قضائية ، مشيرا الى ان معلومات استخباراتية قادت لاعتقالهم وانهم متورطين في العديد من العمليات الارهابية في محافظة نينوى ومن جهة اخرى أقامت الفرقة الثانية في الجيش العراقي اليوم الاربعاء معسكرا طبيا في قرية تل واعي التابعة لناحية الشورى 45 كم جنوب مدينة الموصل مركز محافظة نينوى وان اقامة هذا المعسكر تأتي لتعزيز الصلة مابين المواطنين وقوات الجيش وتقوية الدورالانساني للجيش العراقي ، مضيفا ان قيادة الفرقة دأبت على اقامة هكذا معسكرات طبية في انحاء مختلفة من مدينة الموصل وذلك لتوفير كل مايحتاجه المواطن البسيط من فحص وعلاج وادوية اما في تكريت اذ اصيب ثلاثة من عناصر الشرطة جراء انفجار عبوة ناسفة استهدفت دوريتهم في ناحية يثرب جنوب تكريت مركز محافظة صلاح الدين الانفجار وقع اثناء مرور دورية الشرطة على الطريق العام بين ناحية يثرب ومدينة تكريت و ان الانفجار اسفر عن اصابة ثلاثة من افراد الدورية كانت جروحهم خطيرة وتم على اثرها نقلهم الى المستشفى لتلقي العلاج واوضح المصدر ان القوات الامنية اتخذت اجراءات امنية مشددة شملت تطويق مكان الحادث والشروع بحملة مداهمات في المنطقة المذكورة بحثا عن المنفذين ، مشيرا الى ان القوات الامنية القت القبض على احد المسلحين المشتبه بصلته بالحادث وفي محافظة كركوك حيث استشهد احد مسؤولي الصحوة على اثر اطلاق النار عليه من قبل مجموعة من المسلحين في ناحية الرياض شمال محافظة كركوك وان مسلحين مجهولين اطلقوا النار على مسؤول الصحوة اثناء قيادته سيارته على الطريق العام بين ناحية الرياض ومدينة كركوك ما اسفر عن استشهاده على الفور، مضيفا ان الحادث اسفر ايضا عن اصابة ثلاثة من افراد حمايته الخاصة تم نقلهم الى المستشفى لتلقي العلاج اما في البصرة اذ ضبطت قوة من شرطة البصرة اليوم 19 قنبرة هاون والقاء القبض على مطلوبين شرق مدينة البصرة .</p> <p>وان عملية العثور على القنابر تمت خلال عملية دهم وتفتيش نفذتها قوة من الشرطة اليوم في قضاء ابو الخصيب شرق مركز المحافظة .واضاف المصدر ان قنابرالهاون هي من عيار 120 ملم مدفونة تحت الارض في احد بساتين القضاء المذكور.مبينا كما اسفرت العملية ايضا عن القاء القبض على 4 مطلوبين للعدالة بقضايا جنائية فضلا عن 7 من المشتبه بهم.</p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10285"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/03/asharq-al-awsat-talks-hoshyar-zebari/#respond" title="Comment on Asharq Al-Awsat Talks Hoshyar Zebari">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 3rd, 2010 by Um Thalit</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/03/asharq-al-awsat-talks-hoshyar-zebari/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Asharq Al-Awsat Talks Hoshyar Zebari">Asharq Al-Awsat Talks Hoshyar Zebari</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a 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The Kurdish politician Hoshyar Zebari – leading member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party [KDP] led by Masud Barzani -has been a foreign minister in all these governments. In fact he was the first foreign minister after the end of the regime of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, and he still is while the prime ministers and other ministers have been changed.</p> <p>On the basis of this, Zebari has shouldered all the burdens, difficulties, and complications of the new construction of one of the most important ministries of the government, the Foreign Ministry, and he has become the most prominent engineer of the Iraqi foreign policy. Perhaps one of the most complex issues is being the first Iraqi foreign minister from the Kurdish nation, which constitutes the second national group in Iraq, and all these years he has had to sit down and confer with his Arab opposite numbers, who, according to his expression, have forged distinguished links with him.</p> <p>During his private visit to London, Zebari gave Asharq Al-Awsat exclusively an expanded and comprehensive interview about his work experience at the Foreign Ministry in which he explains the difficulties facing the Iraqi foreign policy. Today, Zebari is on the verge of leaving his post as the term of the government ends, and he is a member of the upcoming Iraqi Parliament for the Kurdistan Alliance, and of the committee stemming from the alliance for dialog with the other political blocs about the formation of the new government.</p> <p>The following is the text of the interview:</p> <p>[Asharq Al-Awsat] At the end of the term of the Government, what is your assessment of Iraqi foreign policy?</p> <p>[Zebari] I am greatly honored to have served in this post in four consecutive governments. This is a record achieved under the most difficult circumstances through which Iraq has gone. I take pride in my service during this period in which we have tried to serve our country. Our record testifies to the achievements and accomplishments we have made. The state was in ruins when we took over in September 2003 during the period of the Government Council; and the Foreign Ministry consisted of some isolated, besieged, burned, and ruined embassies. Thus, praise be to God, we have been able, through collective efforts and not individual ones, to rebuild and restore the ministry. This has been achieved as a result of us working on the basis of the principle of national reconciliation.</p> <p>We have been the first ministry to apply this principle. When we took over the ministry it included 1,200 employees ranging between diplomats and administrative officials, and supplemented them from among former members of the intelligence and the Baathists. We have dismissed more than 550 employees, because the Foreign Ministry under the previous regime was one of the security ministries, and was a closed shop for the Baath Party. We have kept the professional diplomats and administrators, and in practice they have proved their high level of efficiency and national sense. This is why we have been accused, while our aim was, and still is, to keep the wheel of work turning.</p> <p>It is true that when we took over the ministry we had the experience of working abroad, and of the foreign relations of the KDP, but the partisan work, or work in the opposition remains different from official work, the ministry, and work in the state. However, we utilized our previous relations for the benefit of our work in the Foreign Ministry.</p> <p>Moreover, we opened the work in the Foreign Ministry for all, and not only for the elite, the sons of the wealthy or upper-class families, and officials. Two years after we started work, we advertised in the media a training course for diplomatic work, and any Iraqi who satisfied the conditions was able to work in the ministry. We have accepted the highest grade graduates of the Iraqi universities. Also the issue in which I personally take pride is our interest in training and qualifying the cadres of diplomatic work.</p> <p>Moreover, the number of the employees of our ministry is the lowest among the Iraqi ministries compared to its services and importance, as there are less than 2,000 diplomats and administrators in the Foreign Ministry, which is a very small number. We have sent most of them, more then 1,200 employees, to training courses in diplomatic and language training abroad, which is something that is admired by our Arab counterparts. We also changed the culture of work in the Ministry, which used to be characterized by domination, militarism, and centralization, and the employee used to stand before the official as if he was his servant or slave; we have removed all these barriers. I am entitled to take pride in this issue.</p> <p>It is well known that Iraq is a big and old country in international politics. It is one of the founders of the United Nations, the Arab League, and the Non-Aligned Movement. Thus, we have decided to make the diplomatic representation extensive, or at least acceptable; now there are more than 83 diplomatic missions around the world, 67 embassies, and 16 consulates. Therefore, I can say that the upcoming Iraqi Government will take over a developed institution. Add to this that we have ratified the Foreign Service law, which is at the level of the international laws in this field.</p> <p>Despite all the suspicions and distortion that accompanied the work of the ministry, such as claiming that it is a Kurdish ministry and similar things, I do not say that our ministry is an ideal one that is devoid of administrative or financial corruption, but I say that compared to other ministries, the Foreign Ministry is one of the cleanest and most impartial ministries from the point of view of the good reports of the auditing departments and the Commission on Public Integrity.</p> <p>[Asharq Al-Awsat] There are accusations leveled at Iraqi foreign policy because of the bad relations between Iraq and some regional countries?</p> <p>[Zebari] Iraq was isolated, punished, and marginalized in all Arab and international forums. However, with great efforts we have been able to restore it to its important status, and we broke the isolation ring. To be frank and explicit, this has not taken place only as a result of our efforts, but also with the help and support of our allies in the US and UK Administrations, which liberated Iraq from dictatorship.</p> <p>The work of the Foreign Ministry is a reflection of the domestic policy of the country and its stances; if there is no united stance or a united domestic policy coupled with strong will, there will be no success in the foreign policy however relentless the efforts might be, because the foreign policy will reflect what is taking place domestically. [The same applies] if there is reconstruction, the security situation is solid, the economic situation is good, and the national unity is strong.</p> <p>I admit that one of the problems in which we failed is that we have not been able to play any role in the Arab forums. We have not been able to fulfill our commitments to the issues of destiny, such as the Palestinian issue, supporting the Palestinian Authority, or supporting the regional or international issues to which Iraq was contributing. We have inherited a huge legacy of international sanctions, effects of siege, fragile relations, and problems of water and borders with nearly all the neighboring countries. This is what we have been focusing on, and that is what any government ought to focus on, try to close all these dossiers, and rectify its relations.</p> <p>In the midst of this hysterical and difficult political situation, we have been able to progress with our work, and to reflect a positive image of the situation and work of the government. The Foreign Ministry does not make the policy, but it implements it; our policy exists in the Constitution, and in the government decisions and viewpoint, because the government is the one that determines Iraq’s foreign policy. One of the problems which we faced at the level of our foreign operations is the multiplicity of the sources of media statements and stances given by MP’s, advisers, and others. In many cases we receive instructions, but we act according to the interest of the country; thus we have adopted some stances that the others understood.</p> <p>[Asharq Al-Awsat] Was your stance at the last Arab summit in Libya one of these policies?</p> <p>[Zebari] At the last summit, and other summits, we acted according to our relations, and as representatives of the Iraqi Government. The other sides relied on what we said and not on the statement of this MP, or that adviser or politician.</p> <p>[Asharq Al-Awsat] How do the Arab officials receive you as a Kurd in your capacity as foreign minister of Iraq?</p> <p>[Zebari] In the beginning it was a surprise and a strange and odd thing. I remember that I attended my first meeting of Arab foreign ministers in the Arab League in September 2003. The Arab foreign ministers, in jest, said: Let us have fun at his (broken) Arabic. After I talked and delivered speeches, they said: We were wrong, because your Arabic is better than ours. This is a real experience. We behave as a national Iraqi official, and not as a Kurd, and we defend Iraq and the interests of Iraq. Now they have got used to us. At the Arab summit in Sirte (Libya) they said: We have become used to you. I said: This is politics, and we have a diplomatic system; today I am here, and tomorrow there is someone else. I have had excellent relations with my Arab counterparts, and achieved good relations with the Arab officials and leaders, and with the Arab League.</p> <p>[Asharq Al-Awsat] How do you explain the delay of some Arab countries in opening their embassies in Baghdad?</p> <p>[Zebari] The fact is this subject has been exaggerated, and politicized by some Iraqi political sides. They say that Iraq is distant from its Arab and Islamic environment; this is political one-upmanship. When an Iraqi politician meets an Arab leader, does this mean that he is close to that leader and we cannot do the same? For instance, I can meet Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak or any other Arab official any day. We tolerate the fact that Iraqi politicians meet Arab leaders outside the government framework; have we had a strong government, it would not have allowed to hold such meetings. This is not supposed to occur. I remember once that the leader of the British Conservative Party met Clinton or Bush in Washington, and there was a commotion that raised Cain in London, because it was considered defiance. Unfortunately, our leaders or politicians are complacent about this issue, and hence they lose their value.</p> <p>[Asharq Al-Awsat] How do you explain the bad relations between Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and some Arab countries, such as Syria, Saudi Arabia, and others?</p> <p>[Zebari] The prime minister is not responsible for these stances. Perhaps I have many issues related to work over which I disagree with the prime minister, but over this issue we have to be realistic. If there is a country or a side that wants to harm Iraq, we must not kiss their hands; this is inadmissible. Today, for instance, there are public activities by Muhammad Yunus al-Ahmad – leading member of the Iraqi Baath Party – in Damascus. We have asked the Syrians about him, and we told them that he was active against Iraq; they said: We do not know him at all. Now, here he is. What is his program or aims? Are his programs and aims related to participating in government, or developing the political process in Iraq? Definitely not, because he (Al-Ahmad) wants to destroy and blow up everything. There are some issues on which we have to draw the line. For instance, with regard to the relations with Saudi Arabia, the Saudi brethren are the ones who opened the doors, and they opened up to receive various Iraqi leaders, and are the ones who became convinced that there ought to be good relations with Iraq, with which they have the longest common borders; the initiative came from them. The Egyptians, after they realized that they were absent and that the non-Arab neighboring countries were the ones that would fill the vacuum, woke up and came and opened their embassy in Baghdad.</p> <p>[Asharq Al-Awsat] Have Iran and Turkey filled in the vacuum resulting from the Arab absence in Iraq?</p> <p>[Zebari] I have visited Tehran, Ankara, and even Damascus, and I have said to them beware, and do not think that you will fill in the vacuum that will occur due to the withdrawal of the US forces. The Iraqis will not accept anyone other then themselves to fill in the vacuum in their country. We have the legitimate right to do so. Iran, Turkey, and others are waiting for the withdrawal of the US forces, which are in a hurry to leave Iraq in August, to fill in the vacuum; this is a huge disaster.</p> <p>[Asharq Al-Awsat] What do you think of the Kuwaiti claims over the airplane hired by the Iraqi Airways, which they tried to detain in Britain? How will you deal with the problems with Kuwait?</p> <p>[Zebari] Let me tell you something, several times we have discussed the pending relations with the Kuwaiti brethren. At Sirte summit, we sat with the Amir, deputy prime minister, and foreign minister of Kuwait. There are pending problems between Kuwait and Iraq, and they ought to be resolved. The most prominent of these problems is the issue of the borders that have been demarcated according to UN Security Council Resolution 833, the recognition of which the constitutional Iraqi Government is supposed to reiterate. As for the rest of the issues, they are treatable. These borders have been imposed on Iraq following Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait.</p> <p>[Asharq Al-Awsat] Does Iraq recognize these borders?</p> <p>[Zebari] Saddam Hussein agreed to them in 1993. What is required of this government or the upcoming government is to reiterate its recognition of these borders. This is the key to the resolution of all the pending problems between Iraq and Kuwait. I say it frankly, neither the issue of the missing, the prisoners, nor the properties are the obstacles; this issue (the borders) still is pending. We have tried, and we have exerted huge efforts to resolve it; however, we have become convinced that it is a political and not a technical issue. The government has said, now we are on the verge of elections and we will leave this dossier to the upcoming government.</p> <p>[Asharq Al-Awsat] You have spoken of the professionalism of the Iraqi ambassadors, but the issue of the ambassadors constitutes a subject for the accusations leveled at the Foreign Ministry, as there are ambassadors who have been appointed at the level of extraordinary ambassador without any diplomatic background. How do you explain this?</p> <p>[Zebari] The ambassador is supposed to be a professional diplomat who has progressed in his diplomatic career until he reaches the grade of ambassador. However, in many countries there are political appointments, i.e. the government or the head of state chooses a former minister, military officer, or a friend as (former US President) Bush or (US President) Obama did. If you look into the background of some US ambassadors you will discover that they are friends of the president. However this happens within certain percentage such as 10 percent or more, and could be as much as 25 percent. The highest percentage of such appointments, as far as we know, is in Egypt. Also we have fixed a percentage of such appointment in the Foreign Service Law, which has been ratified by Parliament and government. However, we are in an interim stage, and all the political sides want to be represented in the diplomatic corpse.</p> <p>I would like to explain the mechanism we used. We have accepted 57 ambassadors out of 150 nominated by the various political blocs; and we have said to all the blocs that we would not accept anyone who does not satisfy even the minimum of the conditions set by our ministry. This is what has taken place, and it was my decision. Among those accepted there have been a large percentage of professional diplomats, and also there have been ambassadors nominated by sides not participating in the government, such as the former Al-Iraqiya List, national and religious minorities, and also women. The process has not taken place on the basis of quotas alone, but we also took into consideration the diversity of the Iraqi society in addition to those who have been nominated by sides in the government. Moreover, the deliberations and the discussions of the names between the ministry and the Parliament continued for two years until the list of names was given back to us; during that period we sent the candidates to training courses, and attached them to work within the departments of the ministry. After that came the difficult stage, even the most complex one, namely the organization and distribution of the ambassadors. This is a more complex process than forming the government. We were obliged to meet the political leaders and explain to them that the standard of the ambassador nominated by them is not suitable to be appointed to this-or-that country, but he has to be appointed to another country, and so on.</p> <p>There have been many opinions saying that we should not send the names to the countries until after the elections, but I insisted on sending them before the elections. I said: I will send them and you will see the confidence of the countries in us. Indeed, we sent the names of the ambassadors to the countries to which they were nominated. This is an achievement that ought to be recorded for the government and for our ministry. Ten days ago, we received 43 approvals out of 52 nominations to Arab and western countries, and to international organizations.</p> <p>[Asharq Al-Awsat] Why is the Foreign Ministry accused of being a Kurdish ministry?</p> <p>[Zebari] This is not true. If you count the number of Kurds among the administrators and diplomats in the Foreign Ministry you will realize that it is very small, and less than the percentage they deserve. The Kurds are Iraqis, and have the right to work in the diplomatic corps. Moreover, I am not promoting the Kurdish interests, but I promote the Iraqi interests, and the Kurds come within this context.</p> <p>[Asharq Al-Awsat] The Iraqi embassy in London has been, and still is without an ambassador. What are the reasons behind this?</p> <p>[Zebari] Indeed this is a problem. However, there is an ambassador who is a candidate for this post, but I cannot divulge his name now.</p> <p>[Asharq Al-Awsat] Will you remain the foreign minister in the upcoming government?</p> <p>[Zebari] I belong to the Kurdistan Alliance, and this issue is up to the alliance and not to me. When I served as a foreign minister, I was nominated by the Kurdistan Alliance. I am one of the people who consider themselves soldiers in the service of the leadership; this means that today we serve in this post, and tomorrow in another one that is chosen for us by the leadership. This is the first factor. Secondly, this depends of whether or not the Kurdistan Alliance will participate in the government.</p> <p>[Asharq Al-Awsat] Is there any doubt that you will participate in the upcoming government?</p> <p>[Zebari] It is possible to forge coalitions that will be able to form the government with no need for the Kurdistan Alliance, and it is possible to include some Kurds from outside the alliance in the upcoming government.</p> <p>[Asharq Al-Awsat] Do you think that such a possibility might take place?</p> <p>[Zebari] Theoretically, it is possible. The Kurdistan Alliance was strong in the previous elections, and it constituted the second parliamentary bloc. Today, it is the fourth list. However, politically and realistically I do not think that such a possibility might materialize, and all the other blocs agree on the importance of our participation in government. If the negotiations to form the government take place, one of the sovereignty ministries will be in our share. In the past, the choice and agreement was the Foreign Ministry because of the accumulation of expertise and other factors; today, as I said, this is not up to me, but to our leadership.</p> <p>[Asharq Al-Awsat] If the decision is up to you, will you stay at the Foreign Ministry?</p> <p>[Zebari] I can serve at this ministry, because we have accumulated developed experiences, and we have established good relations with our Arab and non-Arab counterparts. However, I reiterate that the political decision is not up to me.</p> <p>[Asharq Al-Awsat] As long as we are talking about the formation of the government, what do you think of the existing dispute on the political arena over this issue, I mean the formation of the new government?</p> <p>[Zebari] The disputes are very severe, and the situation has become extremely complicated for a number of reasons. One of those reasons is that the results are close between the two major blocs, the Al-Iraqiya (led by Iyad Allawi, former prime minister of the Iraqi Government) and the State of Law (led by Nuri al-Maliki, prime minister of the government whose term has ended). In the previous election there was one bloc that won the majority of the seats and formed the government. As for the current situation, the events will lead to prolonged and complicated negotiations; no serious alliances or dialogs will take place until the ratification of the results of the elections. You know that there are the manual recounting, the looking into the issue of the excluded because of the Debathification commission, and other issues; the longer the period, the more complications will appear.</p> <p>[Asharq Al-Awsat] Would you have preferred the results to be ratified without the issuing of the decision to have a manual recount?</p> <p>[Zebari] The problem lies in the electoral system. The (Independent High Electoral) Commission has done its utmost to make the elections succeed, but there are frightening shortcomings in its work, and it has not taken into consideration many issues. Moreover, there is the absence of the support and help from the United States and Britain that had a clear role in the previous elections; this role has been absent in these elections, which contributed to the increase in the difficulties despite the presence of the United Nations. What I mean exactly is the absence of a side that helps and contributes to gathering the winning blocs in order to agree and form the government.</p> <p>[Asharq Al-Awsat] Do you think that the US Administration has withdrawn its hand completely from Iraq?</p> <p>[Zebari] Unfortunately I say that the United States now is not bothered about anything other that withdrawing its forces from Iraq. If the new government is not formed by August, and in the light of these difficult security conditions, the withdrawal of the US forces will be too early, and immature. The US Administration has a problem now, if the government is not formed, the security challenges escalate, and the political problems get complicated, the situation will be extremely complicated, and in my opinion this might affect the timetable of the withdrawal of the US forces.</p> <p>[Asharq Al-Awsat] Have you explained this viewpoint of yours to the US side?</p> <p>[Zebari] Yes, we always meet the US ambassador to Baghdad, and there are dialogs with US Vice President Joe Biden, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and also her assistants. However, so far their viewpoint is to leave the Iraqis to solve their problems on their own. Their message to us is: Solve your problems quickly so that we can get out quickly.</p> <p>[Asharq Al-Awsat] Do you think that the current problem, with regard to the issue of manual recounting and the exclusion of some winners from Parliament, will be internationalized in order to find solutions for it?</p> <p>[Zebari] When the situation gets complicated, it is inevitable that an acceptable side intervenes to help in finding solutions; the candidate for such a role is the United Nations. The issue is not one of internationalization as much as it is giving help, especially as there is an international authorization to the United Nations from the UN Security Council with the agreement of the Iraqi Government to intervene in the situation in Iraq. This authorization is under Chapter 7. Therefore, the United Nations can play a clear role and to express its views in order to help in bringing the various sides together.</p> <p>[Asharq Al-Awsat] Are you optimistic about finding solutions and proceeding with the formation of the government?</p> <p>[Zebari] They call me the eternal optimist; however, after these elections the situation has become difficult.</p> <p>[Asharq Al-Awsat] Difficult?</p> <p>[Zebari] Yes, difficult.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=20813" class="external" target="_blank">Asharq Al-Awsat Talks to Iraqi FM Hoshyar Zebari Asharq Alawsat Newspaper (English)</a> By Ma’ad Fayad</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="navigation"> <div class="alignleft"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128153721/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iraqi-airways/page/2/">« Previous Entries</a></div> <div class="alignright"></div> </div> </div> <div id="sidebar" class="span-10 last"> <div 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