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States were tragedy, but we (Iraqis) are the people who pay the bill of such tragedy," Mahir Abbas, 53, a journalist in the Iraqi capital Baghdad told Xinhua.</p> <p>"Hundreds of thousands of my people were killed either by the military operations that turned my country’s cities into war zones, or by the various militant groups that fought the Americans as well as each other in the once safe neighborhoods," Abbas said, referring to his once volatile and mainly Sunni neighborhood of Ameriyah in western Baghdad.</p> </blockquote></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/09/12/feature-iraqis-pay-the-bill-of-911-every-day/#more-13674" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10892"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-resources/" rel="tag">water resources</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-rights/" rel="tag">water rights</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-scarcity/" rel="tag">water scarcity</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-shortage/" rel="tag">water shortage</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-shortages/" rel="tag">Water Shortages</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-supply/" rel="tag">water supply</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/wheat/" rel="tag">wheat</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p><em>UN report found that 100,000 Iraqis have fled their homes since 2005 due to water shortages.</em> </p> <p>Iraqis are calling on their incoming government to devote more energy to resolving the country’s chronic water problems, with some experts stating that water will be more important than oil in the long-term development of the county. </p> <p>Even as recent rains have brought some relief to drought-stricken Iraq, the historic problem of water scarcity has forced tens of thousands of rural Iraqis from their homes. The government estimates that nearly two million people face severe drinking water shortages and extremely limited electricity due to hydropower shortage. </p> <p>Meanwhile, diplomatic tensions are running high as promises from upriver counties such as Turkey, Syria and Iran to allow more water into Iraq appear not to have been met. This week, Foreign Minister Hoshiar Zebari denounced a plan by Syria to divert water from the Tigris river to irrigate some 200,000 acres of land as detrimental to Iraq’s future water supply. </p> <p>Iraq’s minister of electricity Kareem Waheed called Syria’s move a “shock” that would “embarrass” his ministry and undermine its commitments to hydropower. Both ministers decried Syria’s plan as a breach of international conventions on down-river water rights. </p> <p>“The next government will be challenged on the water issue and there is no option but to deal with it. I understand that Iraq faces more than one problem, but this one can’t be ignored. No matter what the government is focusing on, this problem will impose itself,” said Dr Awn Thiab al-Ajeli, the head of Iraq’s National Centre for Water Resource Management within the ministry of water resources. </p> <p>"The first step that should be made is to reach a deal with Turkey as well as Iran and Syria in order to have good, stable amounts of water enter to Iraq each day. The current situation is that the amount is good one day, and bad the next. To make this step, a deal must be made between governments, not just between two water ministries. It depends on the diplomatic relations between the two states," Ajeli said. </p> <p>Officials have said in the past security concerns have overshadowed the development of a forward-thinking water policy. With Iraq’s recent and relative stability, experts are now calling for a plan to tackle the water problems that have afflicted the country – from rising salinity in the southern marshland to the imminent demise of traditional irrigation systems, known as karez, in the north. </p> <p>A UNESCO report found that 100,000 Iraqis have fled their native communities since 2005 due to water shortages. </p> <p>Another United Nations report claims the water levels in the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, Iraq’s primary sources of water, have fallen by more than two-thirds. The report cautioned that the vital lifelines could completely dry up by 2040. </p> <p>“At the current rates, Iraq’s water supply will fall an estimated 43 billion cubic metres by 2015, far short of the 77 cubic metres that the country will need to avert a widespread humanitarian disaster,” the UN report read. </p> <p>According to UN research, “Inefficient irrigation, lack of government coordination and weak capacity to manage the resource has compounded the current shortage of water… After years of neglect during the previous regime, Iraq’s water managers still lack sufficient technical capability and knowledge to address its growing water crisis. Budget constraints have handicapped the government’s ability to implement a long-term water management plan.” </p> <p>Social problems connected with water scarcity are common in Iraq: fishermen in the southern complain of a declining catches; in agricultural areas, water shortages have caused wheat production to fall by half. According to the UN, Iraq now imports 80 per cent of its food and 90 per cent of Iraq’s land is either desert or “suffering from severe desertification”. </p> <p>“Water is more important than oil for Iraq because we have agricultural lands which, without water, are useless. Agriculture is the future and the new government need to see that,” Ajeji said. </p> <p>The political impact of water relations with upriver countries is not lost on the UN. “We believe that the problem has political dimensions between Iraq and [its neighbours], which are trying to put pressure on the Iraqi government to advance some economic and political interests. The maneuvering has already begun in determining how much water Iraq should really have,” its report said. </p> <p>Dr Mohammed al-Zubaidi, political science professor at Baghdad University, said water is already the defining factor in Iraq’s foreign relations. </p> <p>“Listen, don’t be naïve. Upriver countries dominate down river countries because they control water revenue. This gives them advantages in other fields as well,” Zubaidi said. </p> <p>“Let’s talk about Turkey and Syria. We have concerns that one day they will ask in return for water, one barrel of water for one barrel of oil. That day will come soon if Iraq maintains its ignorant strategies of wasteful water management.” </p> <p>The Baghdad government claims it is doing its part in seeking adequate water for Iraq and applying diplomatic pressure to upriver neighbours. </p> <p>“We have formed delegations to visit Turkey, Iran and Syria to speak with them about sharing water because we face a serious problem in this regard. We have sent letters demanding the need to give us more water,” Jamal al-Battiq, head of parliament’s agricultural committee, said. </p> <p>Neighbouring nations have been reluctant to address Iraq’s water woes, but Mustafa Kibargolu, a professor at Bilkent University’s international relations department, cautioned that water could be the source of conflict in years to come. </p> <p>“[There hasn’t been any] confrontation or high tension stemming from the unsatisfied demands of parties over the use of water. [But] this should not mislead observers into thinking this is unlikely,” Kibargolu said. </p> <p>“Unless some old water policies are purged and new ones introduced. It is a real possibility that this region will become a time bomb in terms of water rights.”</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.iwpr.net/report-news/baghdad-urged-tackle-water-crisis" class="external" target="_blank">Baghdad Urged to Tackle Water Crisis – IWPR Institute for War & Peace Reporting</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10523"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/16/15th-may-2010-selected-english-language-coverage/#respond" title="Comment on 15th-May-2010 Selected English Language Coverage">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 16th, 2010 by Umm Fatima</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/16/15th-may-2010-selected-english-language-coverage/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to 15th-May-2010 Selected English Language Coverage">15th-May-2010 Selected English Language Coverage</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/abdulkarim-al-laibi/" rel="tag">Abdulkarim al-Laibi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-arabiya/" rel="tag">al arabiya</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baghdad/" rel="tag">Baghdad</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baghdad-university/" rel="tag">Baghdad University</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/bombings/" rel="tag">Bombings</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/cnpc/" rel="tag">CNPC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/dura/" rel="tag">dura</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/international-oil-companies/" rel="tag">international oil companies</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/israel/" rel="tag">Israel</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iyad-allawi/" rel="tag">Iyad Allawi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/joint-postings/" rel="tag">Joint Postings</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/kurds/" rel="tag">kurds</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/middle-east/" rel="tag">Middle East</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/news-sites/" rel="tag">News Sites</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/oil-contracts/" rel="tag">oil contracts</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/oil-field-development/" rel="tag">oil field development</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/politics-and-security/" rel="tag">Politics and Security</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/prince-turki-al-faisal/" rel="tag">prince turki al faisal</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/safety-precautions/" rel="tag">safety precautions</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/saudi/" rel="tag">Saudi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/saudi-arabia/" rel="tag">Saudi Arabia</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/society-and-economy/" rel="tag">Society And Economy</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/southern-iraq/" rel="tag">southern iraq</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/suicide-bombers/" rel="tag">suicide bombers</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/summaries/" rel="tag">Summaries</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>In the English language reporting on Irak for May 15th Al Arabiya carried a story by AFP about the Baghdad University students of Hebrew:</p> <blockquote><p>"At the festival, the joyous mood was tempered by bemusement among students at the peculiar circumstances that led them to study Hebrew and the lack of job opportunities for graduates.</p> <p>None of them originally chose to study Hebrew. They wanted English, French, German and Spanish but inadequate grades limited their options to Persian, Kurdish and Hebrew."</p> </blockquote> <p>It seems very strange and sad to me that only students with relatively poor grades study the languages of our neighbours (and in the Kurds’ case the language of our fellow Irakis).</p> <p>The report that Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal is <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.france24.com/en/20100515-maliki-hijacking-iraq-elections-top-saudi-prince" class="external" target="_blank">accusing Maliki of trying to hijack the election results amd warning that this could lead to civil war</a>  is guaranteed to infuriate Irakis who are well aware that Saudis provide arms, funding, and suicide bombers to fightyer groups here. Maybe what Turki says is true and maybe it isn’t the damage that will be done to Allawi — who is saying the same things, comes from the fact that his political enemies will use it as ammunition to call him a Saudi stooge. The American military expert Colonel Patrick Lang cites the report about Turki  and says "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2010/05/the-coming-civil-war-in-iraq.html#comments" class="external" target="_blank">there will be civil war with foreign Sunni suppoert</a>". </p> <p>Many of us fear he is right and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37155384/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/" class="external" target="_blank">have been going back to taking the safety precautions</a>.</p> <p>The English language press are finally picking up on what the Sadrists have been saying all along – that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/iraqs-maliki-edges-nearer-power-as-rival-warns-of-civil-war-20100516-v5s0.html" class="external" target="_blank">there are no absolute vetos on supporting Maliki provided he makes</a> and more importantly <em>keeps</em> his political promises — especially about releasing Sadrist prisoners.</p> <p><em>Umm Fatima</em></p> <hr style="width: 250px" )=")"/> <h3 style="color: #800000">The Day In Quotes:</h3> <p><strong>Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal on the continuing failure to form a government: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>"Adding to the brutal mayhem taking place there, we are watching a deliberate effort on the part of the incumbent prime minister, Mr al-Maliki, to hijack the results of the election and deny the Iraqi people their legitimately elected government. The consequences of that are more bloodshed and potential civil war". </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.france24.com/en/20100515-maliki-hijacking-iraq-elections-top-saudi-prince" class="external" target="_blank">source</a></strong><strong> </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Saleh al-Obeidi on the possibility of Sadrist support for Maliki as Prime Minister</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>“The Sadr movement does not object to Nuri al-Maliki taking the position of prime minister again but we have conditions. Maliki has not yet succeeded in giving us assurances about these conditions, which include (stopping) continuous arrests against Sadrists.” </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.khaleejtimes.com/darticlen.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2010/May/middleeast_May248.xml&section=middleeast" class="external" target="_blank">source</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <h3 style="color: #800000">Politics and Security</h3> <p><strong>Iraqis face ‘new cycle’ of violence – Conflict in Iraq- msnbc.com</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Many Iraqis are increasingly uneasy that a wave of bombings and shootings may revive all-out sectarian warfare that ravaged the country several years ago. In Baghdad and other cities, some are falling back into old cautionary habits — going outside only when necessary and avoiding busy markets and other crowded places.</p> <p>These small but significant steps show the trepidation many Iraqis feel at a time when the country is floundering without a new government and facing threats of more attacks from al-Qaida-linked groups.</p> <p>"If this power vacuum and struggle continues, then everybody is expecting the worst. We are afraid that more attacks and more security deterioration will push the country in a new cycle" of violence, said Qassim Jassim, of Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) south of Baghdad. He said he and his family are staying home more often as a result.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37155384/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong> </p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>كونا : Al-Maliki calls for second term – الشؤون السياسية – 15/05/2010</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>BAGHDAD, May 15 (KUNA) — Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki called for another term in order to continue his first government’s accomplishments.</p> <p>During his meeting with different tribal sheikhs of the Al-Muthana province, Al-Maliki said his government faced many obstacles in the past term, and came short of achieving the goal of creating a durable sense of responsible "nationalism" among the populace.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2083575&Language=en" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>France24 – Maliki ‘hijacking’ Iraq elections: top Saudi prince</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>AFP – Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal on Saturday accused Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of trying to "hijack" the results of the general election held in Iraq in March.</p> <p>"Adding to the brutal mayhem taking place there, we are watching a deliberate effort on the part of the incumbent prime minister, Mr al-Maliki, to hijack the results of the election and deny the Iraqi people their legitimately elected government," he said.</p> <p>"The consequences of that are more bloodshed and potential civil war," Prince Turki, also a former Saudi ambassador to the United States and Britain, told an audience of diplomats, journalists and businessmen in a speech.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.france24.com/en/20100515-maliki-hijacking-iraq-elections-top-saudi-prince" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Maliki edges nearer power as rival warns of civil war – Yahoo! News</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday took a major step forward to staying in power in Iraq when a leading Shiite cleric said he would not block him, but an arch-rival warned of civil war.</p> <p>A spokesman for radical, anti-US cleric Moqtada al-Sadr told AFP the movement would drop a veto against Maliki seeking a new term as premier as long as he met its condition that around 2,000 Sadrist prisoners be freed.</p> <p><em>snip</em></p> <p>"If he will give us sufficient guarantees to end our reluctance, especially concerning the arrests of Sadrists, then we will not block his candidacy for a second term," spokesman Saleh al-Obeidi told AFP from the Shiite holy city of Najaf in southern Iraq. <br/>But he added: "Maliki has not yet succeeded in giving us assurances about these conditions."</p> <p><em>snip</em></p> <p>The latest announcement came as former premier Iyad Allawi, who narrowly beat Maliki in a March 7 general election, said if a "new wave" of violence sweeping Iraq were to continue then the country was headed for civil war.</p> <p><em>snip</em></p> <p>"We are just at the beginning, but if the violence continues we are heading towards civil war."</p> <p><em>snip</em></p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100515/wl_mideast_afp/iraqpolitics" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <h3 style="color: #800000">Society and Economy:</h3> <p><strong>AFP: Iraq to boost oil output ‘above 3 mln bpd in 2011′</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Iraq, which last year awarded 10 contracts to oil majors, expects to add 600,000 barrels per day of new oil to boost output to 3.2 million bpd by end 2011, a top official was quoted as saying.</p> <p>"We expect to increase production by around 600,000 bpd over the course of this year and next," Iraqi deputy oil minister for upstream Abdulkarim al-Laibi told the Middle East Economic Survey (MEES) in its edition to appear on Monday.</p> <p>The country’s current oil output capacity stands at around 2.6 million bpd. <br/>Iraq, which sits on the world’s third largest crude reserves, last year awarded 10 major development contracts to foreign companies in two rounds with the aim of raising output capacity to 12 million bpd by 2017.</p> <p>"In general the companies we signed with will make the 10 percent capacity rise for the first round awards and initial production rates for the second round fields within the next two years," Laibi said.</p> <p>The contract for Rumaila, Iraq’s largest oilfield, with BP and China’s CNPC, is expected to add 100,000 bpd by the end of this year, he said, and others will come on stream gradually.</p> <p>Iraq’s oil ministry is organising a major meeting in July with the international oil companies that won contracts to sort out logistical problems facing them, Laibi said.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h3HiUI2gM0RUPZ-bnbWSqrn1ucyA" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> </p> <h3 style="color: #800000">Commentary and Analysis</h3> <p><strong>News | Learning Hebrew is a mixed blessing for Iraqis</strong><strong>: alarabiya.net</strong> </p> <blockquote><p>Wearing an elegant pink headscarf, Marwa Abdel Karim serenades her fellow Baghdad University students with a heartfelt rendition of "Filled With Love," remarkable for the language in which it is sung — Hebrew.</p> <p>She is one of the 150 students at the university’s Hebraic department, studying the language of Israel in an Arab country that has never had ties with the Jewish state and where most people regard it as an enemy.</p> <p>For the first time since it was set up 40 years ago, the department organized a festival earlier this month where students sang songs and recited poetry for an enthralled audience of about 12D, and gifted tutors with presents.</p> <p>At the festival, the joyous mood was tempered by bemusement among students at the peculiar circumstances that led them to study Hebrew and the lack of job opportunities for graduates.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/05/15/108643.html" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10186"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/30/iraqiya-could-lose-narrow-lead-iwpr/#respond" title="Comment on Iraqiya Could Lose Narrow Lead – IWPR">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 30th, 2010 by Harith</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/30/iraqiya-could-lose-narrow-lead-iwpr/" 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least one winning candidate from the Iraqiya list of former premier Ayad Allawi, could potentially erase Iraqiya’s two-seat lead over the State of Law coalition headed by incumbent prime minister Nuri al-Maliki. </p> <p>Should this reversal occur, politicians and analysts fear a protracted period of political deadlock and possibly a return to sectarian tensions that could plunge Iraq into civil war. </p> <p>In a statement released on April 27, the leadership of Iraqiya called on the head of the Supreme Judicial Council, which oversees judicial affairs, to protect the “judiciary from political influence, as this may have serious ramifications for the stability of the country”. </p> <p>The coalition said it would hold to account those responsible for “distorting the election results by the appropriation of the electorate’s votes through malicious disqualification”. </p> <p>Iraqiya said it was considering a formal request to the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference and the Arab League to press for a rerun of national elections in an “environment free of any political manipulation”. </p> <p>“Iraqiya will hold legally liable those who are trying to undermine the political process and steal the voices of the people, harming Iraq’s security and its social peace and drawing it into the unknown,” the statement concluded. </p> <p>Iraqiya has been negotiating with other parties to form a government since winning 91 seats – the most of any bloc – in the nationwide vote last month. If the reconfigured results shift the majority of seats to Maliki’s State of Law coalition, it will be a victory for the prime minister and a boost for his bid for a second term. State of Law won 89 of Iraq’s 325 parliamentary seats. </p> <p>“The court is clearly targeting the Iraqiya list,” Usama al-Nujaifi, a senior Iraqiya leader, said. “This is another attempt to prevent Iraqiya from exercising its constitutional right to form the next government. It is one of many continuous attacks against Iraqiya. We will reconsider our participation in the political process if we find out that it will not be a truly democratic one.” </p> <p>State of Law officials have strongly denied manipulating the courts or the electoral process. </p> <p>“Iraq’s judiciary body is independent and so is the electoral commission. We don’t have any power over them. We practiced our right by going to the judiciary and it is up to the judiciary which complaint they accept and which they refuse. We do not interfere in judiciary,”Eisa al-Freji, a senior State of Law official from the Dawa Party, said. </p> <p>“Recounting will not cause a dramatic change to the election results. There will be slight change, but recounting will assure Iraqi voters their right is protected and that law is the only authority in this country. No one can affect people’s will. Also, recounting will return our right to [form the government] and of course it will show people that we were right when we insisted on recounting,” Freji added. </p> <p>But for many Iraqis, power struggles in Baghdad are all too familiar. Some are now worried that a war of words between the Shia-led ruling party and the mainly Sunni and secular Iraqiya could spill out into the streets. </p> <p>“Things are going to be explained this way: the body that issued the ban and the recount is Shia, while the parties that will be hurt by these decisions are Sunni. So any possible progress in negotiations between Maliki’s [majority Shia] lists and Allawi’s Sunni and secular parties has become a very difficult, if not an impossible, option,” said Abdullah Jaafar , a political analyst and retired political science professor at Baghdad University. </p> <p>“On the ground, the court’s decisions can only create more problems between the sects. Sunnis who voted for Iraqiya now believe that becoming part of the government is a distant dream. Their next step could be to take up arms again; they feel there is no other hope for them,” he added, referring to the Sunnis’ perception of disenfranchisement that fuelled sectarian violence after the 2005 elections. </p> <p>A review panel of the Independent High Electoral Commission, IHEC, on April 26 upheld the recommendation of the controversial Accountability and Justice Committee, AJC, to throw out the votes cast for 52 candidates who stood in the March 7 vote. Among those banned, the only winning candidate was Iraqiya’s Ibrahim al-Mutlaq, who was disqualified for his alleged ties with the outlawed Baath Party of Saddam Hussein. The AJC is tasked with rooting out Baathist influence in Iraq. </p> <p>Mutlaq won a parliamentary seat in Baghdad, in a constituency once held by his brother, the prominent Sunni secular politician Saleh al-Mutlaq, who was barred prior to the election by the AJC. An additional six to nine other winning candidates, all aligned with Iraqiya, are expected to be ruled on next week, according to local media. </p> <p>The votes cast for any banned candidates will be discarded. Although candidates have a right to appeal against the disqualification, analysts see this option as extending the already lengthy period required to form a government.  The United States, which plans to remove 50,000 combat troops from Iraq by August, has pressed for a new administration to be in place by the time of withdrawal. </p> <p>“There have been obvious attempts to take the right to form a government away from Iraqiya. All of these moves will only prolong the negotiations needed to form a government. It is necessary to have a government in place as soon as possible in order to prevent terrorists from exploiting the political vacuum,” senior Iraqiya official Alia Nesaif told IWPR. </p> <p>Last week, the same electoral court ruled in favour of State of Law’s appeal for a recount in Baghdad, where 70 parliamentary seats are at stake. </p> <p>Several parties and coalitions appealed for recounts in various provinces, cities and voting stations, but were all denied by the elections commission. </p> <p>Iraqiya officials have pushed for the recount to be expanded to all provinces and have expressed concern that the ballots may have been tampered with in the six weeks since the election. </p> <p>The elections commission has stressed that the Baghdad recount will be monitored by all political parties and representatives from the UN and NGOs. </p> <p>According to Iyad al-Kenani, an IHEC commissioner, the recount should take no more than seven to ten days once the process is approved by IHEC officials. He admitted to reluctance within the elections commission to the court-ordered process. </p> <p>The commission “did not want to recount ballots. We think we did our job properly and there is no need for recounting. We refused requests made by other parties but an order from the Iraqi judicial authority is binding”, Kenani said. </p> <p>“We can guarantee a transparent recounting process and we would like to assure all political parties that they can send representatives to attend the recounting sessions,” he added. </p> <p>Even so, State of Law’s legal adviser, Tariq al-Harb, has little doubt about the results. </p> <p>“We think that hand counting will be foolproof and it will put State of Law ahead of the other lists. State of Law will gain one or two seats from Iraqiya or the Iraqi National Alliance,” said Harb, who filed the recount appeal for the coalition. </p> <p>“I have been asked by the head of State of Law (Maliki) to be in charge of this issue, and I will win,” he added. </p> <p>This possibility has some observers concerned about the fallout from such an abrupt election turnaround that would reassign the right to initiate the next government. </p> <p>“Political blocs should be aware of the dangerous direction in which Iraq is beginning to drift. If things keep going in this direction, the certain result is a serious intractable sectarian war,” Jaafar said. </p> <p>“This time there will be no solution, and no way out.”</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.iwpr.net/report-news/iraqiya-could-lose-narrow-lead" class="external" target="_blank">Iraqiya Could Lose Narrow Lead</a> | By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.iwpr.net/people/abeer-mohammed" class="external" target="_blank">Abeer Mohammed</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.iwpr.net/people/charles-mcdermid" class="external" target="_blank">Charles McDermid</a> – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.iwpr.net/programme/iraq" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq</a>  |  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.iwpr.net/" class="external" target="_blank">IWPR Institute for War & Peace Reporting</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/tikrit/" rel="tag">Tikrit</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/unesco/" rel="tag">UNESCO</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/unesco-report/" rel="tag">unesco report</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d9%85%d8%af%d9%8a%d9%86%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d8%af%d8%b1%e2%80%8e/" rel="tag">مدينة الصدر‎</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/war-crimes/" rel="tag">War Crimes</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a5%d8%b3%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%85%e2%80%8e/" rel="tag">الإسلام‎</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p> </p> <p>"The Education system in Iraq, prior to 1991, was one of the best in the region; with over 100% Gross Enrollment Rate for primary schooling and high levels of literacy, both of men and women. The Higher Education, especially the scientific and technological institutions, were of an international standard, staffed by high quality personnel." (UNESCO Fact Sheet, March 28, 2003)[1].</p> <p>As a result of the ongoing US Occupation of Iraq, today Iraq is more illiterate than it was five or 25 years ago because the US administration and the US forces occupying Iraq began to root and destroy every aspect of Iraq’s education.</p> <p>The Iraqi educational system was the target of US military action because education is the backbone of any society. Without an efficient education system, no society can function, wrote Ghali Hassan in May 2005.[2] Facts have proven him right. This is also one of the conclusions of the book "Cultural Cleansing in Iraq."[3]</p> <p><strong>Random Facts</strong></p> <p>A recent UNESCO report, "Education Under Attack 2010 – Iraq," dated 10 February 2010, concluded, "Although overall security in Iraq had improved, the situation faced by schools, students, teachers and academics remained dangerous."[4] The destruction of Iraq’s education is ongoing.</p> <p>Let’s present a few random facts that give an idea of the scale of the destruction of Iraq’s education sector under occupation:</p> <blockquote><ul> <li>The director[5] of the United Nations University International Leadership Institute published a report[6] on April 27, 2005, detailing that since the start of the war of 2003 some 84 percent of Iraq’s higher education institutions have been burnt, looted or destroyed[7]. </li> <li>Like most higher education institutions across Iraq, Baghdad University escaped almost unscathed from the bombing. In the subsequent looting and burning, 20 of the capital’s colleges were destroyed. No institution escaped: the faculty of education in Waziriyya was raided daily for two weeks; the veterinary college in Abu Ghraib lost all its equipment; two buildings in the faculty of fine arts stand smoke-blackened against the skyline. In every college, in every classroom, you could write "education" in the dust on the tables.[8] </li> <li>Ongoing violence has destroyed school buildings, and about a quarter of all Iraq’s primary schools need major rehabilitation. Since March 2003, more than 700 primary schools have been bombed, 200 have been burnt and over 3,000 looted. </li> <li>Between March 2003 and October 2008, 31,598 violent attacks against educational institutions were reported in Iraq, according to the Ministry of Education (MoE).[9] </li> <li>Since 2007, bombings at Al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad have killed or maimed more than 335 students and staff members, according to a October 19, 2009, New York Times article, and a 12-foot-high blast wall has been built around the campus.[10] </li> <li>"Education under Attack (2007) reported that 296 people serving as education staff were killed in 2005; and 180 teachers were killed between February and November 2006.[11] </li> </ul> </blockquote> <p>These are just a few examples to highlight the level of cultural genocide in Iraq. The list is endless, the real number of casualties much higher. More information can be found in the book "Cultural Cleansing in Iraq" and in the BRussells Tribunal archives on Iraqi education under occupation, perhaps the most comprehensive database on the Internet about the assassination of Iraqi academics and the destruction of Iraq’s education.[12] Our campaign to protect Iraqi academics[13] is still ongoing, because the tragedy continues. The UNESCO report "Education Under Attack 2010 – Iraq" is very clear: "Attacks on education targets continued throughout 2007 and 2008 at a lower rate – but one that would cause serious concern in any other country." Why didn’t it cause serious concern? Is it because it’s of US design?</p> <p>The petition we issued, also containing a call for action, is still valid today and can still be signed: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.petitiononline.com/Iraqacad/petition.html" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.petitiononline.com/Iraqacad/petition.html</a>. An excerpt:</p> <blockquote><p>1. We appeal to organisations which work to enforce or defend international humanitarian law to put these crimes on the agenda.</p> </blockquote> <blockquote><p>2. We request that an independent international investigation be launched immediately to probe these extrajudicial killings. This investigation should also examine the issue of responsibility to clearly identify who is accountable for this state of affairs. We appeal to the special rapporteur on summary executions at UNHCHR in Geneva.</p> <p>We urge that educators mobilise colleagues and concerned citizens to take up the cause of the salvation of Iraq’s intellectual wealth, by organising seminars, teach-ins and forums on the plight of Iraq’s academics.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Occupying Schools</strong></p> <p>When writing "Killing the Intellectual Class" for the book "Cultural Cleansing in Iraq," I added a short story about occupation of schools by the MNF-I (Multinational Force-Iraq, the official name of the American-led foreign forces):</p> <blockquote><p>"it certainly is our policy to not establish military headquarters or other operations in protected areas under the Geneva Convention," said Lt. Col. Gary Keck, a spokesman for the Department of Defense in Washington, when a journalist asked why the US army occupied a girls’ and boys’ school of a town in northern Iraq.[14]</p> </blockquote> <p>At a UN press briefings in Amman on April 30, 2003, the question was asked:" Do you know of any other schools that are still occupied and would you ask them of making a point to stay away from the schools, so they can be rehabilitated?"</p> <p>S. Ingram answered, "I am not aware of any other places that this situation holds. I remember the incident you referred to, there was a school in the north and some contacts were necessary to persuade the US troops there to leave the premises, which they subsequently did. I am not aware of any other places were schools are being occupied."[15]</p> <p>"I am not aware" – a pack of lies. Because occupying schools is exactly what the US Army did (and still does) on a regular basis. I heard and read numerous eyewitness accounts about Iraqi protests after US forces occupied schools and educational institutions.</p> <p>The origins of armed resistance in Fallujah f.i. can be traced almost precisely to April 28, 2003, when US troops, who had arrived in the city five days earlier, massacred 17 apparently unarmed protesters. The April 28 protest had demanded an end to Fallujah’s occupation and, more specifically, that US troops vacate the al Qaid primary school, where classes had been scheduled to resume on April 29.[16]</p> <p>And it continued. On February 29, 2008, the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMSI) published a press release condemning the American occupation forces for the seizure of an Islamic Secondary School in Baghdad.</p> <p>On May 1, 2008, the Iraqi News Agency "Voices of Iraq," reported, "The US military withdrew from a building of the education department in Sadr City in eastern Baghdad, which they used it as a barrack last month."[17]</p> <p>This was basically all the hard information I had found about the occupation of educational institutions by the occupation forces and I thought the evidence was a little thin to make a decent case, so I decided not to use it for the book.</p> <p>But, now, I read in the UNESCO report 2010: "MNF-I, the Iraqi Army and Iraqi police units occupied more than 70 school buildings for military purposes in the Diyala governorate alone."[18]</p> <p>This is only in one province. There’s no information at my disposal about the other regions, but we can almost certainly conclude that occupying schools by occupation forces was/is a general phenomenon throughout Iraq. Where else would you station a one million strong army and security forces?</p> <p>On April 11, 2003, a number of Iraqi scientists and university professors sent an SOS email complaining American occupation forces were threatening their lives.<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/destroying-educational-institutions-or-using-them-military-purposes-is-a-war-crime58159#19">[19]</a> The appeal message said that looting and robberies were taking place under the watchful eye of the occupation soldiers.</p> <p>The occupation soldiers, the email added, were transporting mobs to the scientific institutions, such as Mosul University and different educational institutions, to destroy scientific research centers and confiscate all papers and documents to nip in the bud any Iraqi scientific renaissance.<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/destroying-educational-institutions-or-using-them-military-purposes-is-a-war-crime58159#20">[20]</a></p> <p>John Agresto, in charge of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in 2003-2004, initially believed that the looting of Iraq’s universities was a positive act in that it would allow such institutions to begin again with a clean slate, with the newest equipment as well as a brand new curriculum.[21]</p> <p>The Hague IV Conventions<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/destroying-educational-institutions-or-using-them-military-purposes-is-a-war-crime58159#22">[22] </a>on Laws and Customs of War on Land, 1917, make explicit, in Article 56, that educational institutions are to be regarded as private property, and, thus, must not be pillaged or destroyed, that occupying forces in war are bound to protect such property and that proceedings should follow their intentional damage, seizure or destruction. Article 55 reinforces this duty relative to all public buildings and capital. Further, an occupying power is obliged, according to Articles 43 and 46, to protect life and take all steps in its power to re-establish and ensure "public order and safety."</p> <p>In addition, The Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict[23] (ratified by the Republic of Iraq in 1967) creates a clear obligation to protect museums, libraries, archives, and other sites of cultural property. Paragraph 1 of Article 4 notes: "The High Contracting Parties undertake to respect cultural property situated within their own territory as well as within the territory of other High Contracting Parties by refraining from any use of the property and its immediate surroundings or of the appliances in use for its protection for purposes which are likely to expose it to destruction or damage in the event of armed conflict; and by refraining from any act of hostility, directed against such property."</p> <p>Using schools and universities for military purposes; destroying educational institutions and assisting in looting; criminal neglect when educational staff is being harassed and assassinated; dismantling the Iraqi education system; and active involvement in training, funding and arming murderous militia’s … War crime upon war crime upon war crime.</p> <p>When will there be justice for Iraq? When will there be a serious investigation into these crimes by official international human rights bodies? And who will charge the successive Anglo-American administrations for war crimes and crimes against humanity?</p> <p><a name="1">[1] </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://portal.unesco.org/es/ev.php-URL_ID=11216&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html" class="external" target="_blank">http://portal.unesco.org/es/ev.php-URL_ID=11216&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html</a></p> <p><a name="2">[2] </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/HAS505B.html" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/HAS505B.html</a></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745328126&CID=BRUSSELLS" name="3">[3] </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745328126&CID=BRUSSELLS" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745328126&CID=BRUSSELLS</a></p> <p><a name="4">[4]</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4b7aa9df5.html" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4b7aa9df5.html</a></p> <p><a name="5">[5]</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.la.unu.edu/about_staff_reddy.asp" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.la.unu.edu/about_staff_reddy.asp</a></p> <p><a name="6">[6]</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.unu.edu/news/ili/Iraq.doc" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.unu.edu/news/ili/Iraq.doc</a></p> <p><a name="7">[7] </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.brusselstribunal.org/Academicspetition.htm" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.brusselstribunal.org/Academicspetition.htm</a></p> <p><a name="8">[8] </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.brusselstribunal.org/academicsArticles.htm#weed-out" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.brusselstribunal.org/academicsArticles.htm#weed-out</a></p> <p><a name="9">[9]</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4b7aa9df5.html" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4b7aa9df5.html</a></p> <p><a name="10">[10] </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.ohio.edu/outlook/2009-10/March/Iraq-professor-409.cfm" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.ohio.edu/outlook/2009-10/March/Iraq-professor-409.cfm</a></p> <p><a name="11">[11]</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4b7aa9df5.html" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4b7aa9df5.html</a></p> <p><a name="12">[12]</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.brusselstribunal.org/AcademicsResources.htm" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.brusselstribunal.org/AcademicsResources.htm</a></p> <p><a name="13">[13]</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.brusselstribunal.org/Academics.htm" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.brusselstribunal.org/Academics.htm</a></p> <p><a name="14">[14] </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0404/p07s01-woiq.html" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0404/p07s01-woiq.html</a></p> <p><a name="15">[15]</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocus/iraq/infocusnews.asp?NewsID=509&sID=9" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocus/iraq/infocusnews.asp?NewsID=509&sID=9</a></p> <p><a name="16">[16] </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.worldpress.org/Mideast/2183.cfm" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.worldpress.org/Mideast/2183.cfm</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/mar/17/iraq.rorymccarthy" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/mar/17/iraq.rorymccarthy</a></p> <p><a name="17">[17]</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php?refid=DH-S-01-05-2008&article=30525" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php?refid=DH-S-01-05-2008&article=30525</a></p> <p><a name="18">[18] </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.islamonline.net/english/news/2003-04/12/article02.shtml" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4b7aa9df5.html</a></p> <p><a name="19">[19] </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.islamonline.net/english/news/2003-04/12/article02.shtml" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.islamonline.net/english/news/2003-04/12/article02.shtml</a></p> <p><a name="20">[20]</a> Dirk Adriaensens in "Cultural Cleansing in Iraq," p. 119. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745328126&" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745328126&</a></p> <p><a name="21">[21] </a>Nabil al-Tikriti in "Cultural Cleansing in Iraq," p. 98. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745328126&" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745328126&</a></p> <p><a name="22">[22] </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague04.htm" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague04.htm</a></p> <p><a name="23">[23]</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13637&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html 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id="post-8932"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/03/04/iraqi-women-pursuing-more-political-say/#respond" title="Comment on Iraqi women pursuing more political say">No Comments</a></span> Posted on March 4th, 2010 by Yusuf Al-Jezani</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/03/04/iraqi-women-pursuing-more-political-say/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Iraqi women pursuing more political say">Iraqi women pursuing more political say</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/category/features/" title="View all posts in Features" rel="category 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rel="tag">الأيتام</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%8a%d8%aa%d8%a7%d9%85/" rel="tag">الايتام</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>BAGHDAD, March 3 (<a title="Xinhua" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/indepth/2010-03/03/c_13195695.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Xinhua</a>) — Iraqi women will hopefully expand their political influence in the future as the next parliament is to include more female representatives, compared with the current term.</p> <p>The to-be-elected 325-seat Iraq’s Council of Representatives, or the national legislature, will have one quarter of its members women, as does the current 275-seat one, according to its Constitution. Women should account for at least the same percentage of the total of candidates for each political bloc contesting the election.</p> <p>According to electoral organizers, 6,200 candidates, including 1,800 women, will stand in the election to be held on Sunday. Around 19 million Iraqis are eligible to vote, with women accounting for more than a half.</p> <p>But despite all these good prospects, women still have a long and tough way to go to achieve their goals as they face much more obstacles and difficulties than men in this country.</p> <h3>TOUGH CAMPAIGN</h3> <p>"My election campaign is modest, because I don’t have enough money to make a large campaign via satellite channels or other media," said Hiyam Hammad Ghazi, a candidate with the Iraqi Unity Coalition — a political bloc headed by Interior Minister Jawad al- Bolani.</p> <p>It is the second time for Ghazi to stand in the election. She failed in the 2005 parliamentary poll.</p> <p>"This time I feel like I want to do it again, not for money or anything else, only because I have been working as a political, cultural and social activist since 2003," said the Shiite Arab candidate, who has been busy meeting voters in several places in Baghdad and try to reach more people in recent days</p> <p>Owning an advertisement company in Baghdad, 42-year-old Ghazi comes from Diwaniya, capital of southern Qadisiya province. Her husband is a university teacher and media worker. She is a member of the country’s National Society for Protecting Consumers and of the Hunting Club in Mansur District in the capital. The club is most popular among educated and middle class people in the country.</p> <p>"All of my family members and friends are helping me with the campaign. If my political bloc wins seats in the parliament, then certainly I will win a seat for the women quota of my bloc," said Ghazi, with full confidence that good luck will accompany her this time.</p> <p>She admits that it is hard for a woman to win a seat alone without the quota, because Iraqi society is strongly dominated by men and people are still skeptical about whether a woman is able to do what a man does. "We should notice some biased social norms and restrictions against women although Iraqi law entitles women to take part in all aspects of life," said Ghazi. "So the problem is with the society, which should accept the participation of women in politics and other aspects of life."</p> <p>In addition to obstacles of social norms, security situation featuring a recent surge of violence ahead of the election is not favorable for their campaign. In early February, a female Sunni candidate was shot dead after leaving her relatives’ house in Mosul, capital of northern ethnically mixed, volatile Neineva Province.</p> <h3>GOOD BEGINNING</h3> <p>In the current parliament, women lawmakers have struggled to express their opinions and worked hard to push forward legislation regarding the protection of women and children’s rights and interests.</p> <p>"I think in the past four years women have shown an outstanding performance in the parliamentarian activities," said Maysoun al- Damaloji, a current female lawmaker seeking reelection. "We have been active in monitoring the government, visiting prisons and in the relations with non-governmental organizations (NGO) and media. "</p> <p>"I don’t think their (women lawmakers’) role was less than that of men," stressed Damaloji, also editor-in-chief of Noon, a most popular magazine focusing on women’s rights in the country. She worked as deputy chairman of a committee in charge of NGO affairs in the parliament.</p> <p>Damaloji, from Mosul, joins the cross-sectarian Iraqiya List alliance, headed by former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. The alliance is widely regarded as a strong rival against the State of Law bloc headed by Primer Minister Nuri Al-Maliki.</p> <p>Citing an example of the successes of women lawmakers, Damaloji said women were the first to sign the resignation of former parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani because of his inappropriate behaviors with women. Mashhadani resigned in December 2008. His feisty character invited criticism among lawmakers.</p> <p>"If you look at the list of those who signed, you will find the first 50 signatures were those of female lawmakers," said Damaloji. </p> <p>Another victory in which women feel great pride is the suspension of a planned legislation on religious leaders’ authority over some domestic matters. A controversial article of Iraq’s Constitution requires the drafting of such a law. But with strong opposition from women lawmakers, social groups and some other politicians, the legislation has been suspended.</p> <p>Women lawmakers have also pushed to pass some important laws for the benefit of Iraqi women and children, in addition to the signing of protocols on prohibition of using children in armed conflicts and of human trafficking.</p> <p>"In order not to be marginalized, women have been doing their best. The most important achievement of women in the current parliament is that they have opened the doors wide for the successors," said Damaloji.</p> <h3>LONG WAY AHEAD</h3> <p>Another good sign for women is that among the dozens of Iraqi ministries, there have been a few headed by women, such as the environment and human rights ministries. Despite all the progress, women still have a long way to go to become more influential in the country’s political arena.</p> <p>"We have seen a lot of obstacles in our work in the parliament, because we felt that there was discrimination against women," said Damaloji.</p> <p>"For example, when we wanted to express our opinions, they sometimes didn’t give us the chance, and in some arguments some politicians used unacceptable and immoral ways to prevent us from talking," she said.</p> <p>In addition, not all the women in the parliament are working for women issues, some just became lawmakers because of the quota requirement, said Damaloji.</p> <p>Mohammed Naji, professor of politics at Baghdad University, said all lawmakers were more or less affected by sectarian divides which prevail in the current parliament.</p> <p>He said "I can say that we have two kinds of women lawmakers, some are female fundamentalists, that is, Islamists, while others are forced to stick to the decisions of their political blocs, because they are members of these."</p> <p>"I believe they mainly spent the first two years learning. During the second two, they have been doing better, but not enough, " Naji added.</p> <p>The political analyst said more capable women will be elected thanks to the open list system in which voters can vote for a specific candidate according to their own criteria and the quality of the candidates.</p> <p>Naji said "We are looking forward to a bigger role of Iraqi women in the coming years, because the more rights women can get from educational, administrative and economic activities, the more chances they will have to make a change in their future."</p> <p>If reelected, Damaloji said she will call for bolstering NGOs as a link between the government and society for poverty alleviation, economic growth, law reforms and anti-corruption."</p> <p>"We will work to form laws in social insurance and medical care for the vulnerable and marginalized groups in Iraqi society, including widows, orphans, the disabled, displaced and retired people," she said.</p> <p>Years of war, sanctions and violence since the early 1980s have made Iraqi women suffer the most. It is estimated the country has at least 1 million widows and 5 million children without fathers.</p> <p>Many women in the county have lower levels of education, and higher rates of poverty and unemployment than men.</p> <p>"There is no enough awareness among Iraqis about the menace of the issues like proliferation of widows, orphans and poverty to the future of Iraq," said lawmaker Damaloji.</p> <p>"We need to enhance the role of Iraqi women in creating peace and national integrity and developing our society. Iraqi women must take part in building a new Iraq," she said.</p> <p>Ghazi said if she wins, her priorities are to take care of education and the vital economic sector in dire need of investment.</p> <p>"The most important thing is the economy, as improvement in this sector will help resolve the problems of Iraqi women, by helping widows and vulnerable people," she said.</p> <p>Naji said they (women lawmakers) are working hard, but there will be a long way ahead. "As we know, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step," he added. </p> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/indepth/2010-03/03/c_13195695.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Iraqi women pursuing more political say</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-8181"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/01/03/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d8%ad%d8%af-3-%d9%8a%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%8a%d8%b1-2010/#respond" title="Comment on الأحد, 3 يناير 2010">No Comments</a></span> Posted on January 3rd, 2010 by Editors</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/01/03/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d8%ad%d8%af-3-%d9%8a%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%8a%d8%b1-2010/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to الأحد, 3 يناير 2010">الأحد, 3 يناير 2010</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a 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وبعض المحافظات العراقية اليوم الاحد3/1/2010 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، ونبدأها من العاصمة <span style="color: red">بغداد</span> حيث نظم العشرات من طلبة الاقسام الداخلية في جامعة بغداد الكائنة في شارع فلسطين تظاهرة للمطالبة بتحسين الخدمات داخل الاقسام.</p> <p>و) الذي حضر التظاهرة ان الطلبة خرجوا الى شارع فلسطين تعبيرا عن احتجاجهم على الاوضاع المتردية التي تعانيها الاقسام وافتقارها الى ابسط الخدمات الضرورية لمعيشة الطلبة من ماء صالح للشرب وكذلك افتقارها الى التدفئة والكهرباء ، مشيرا الى ان قوات من الجيش العراقي حاولت منع الطلبة من الاستمرار في التظاهرة التي لازالت مستمرة واعتدت على عدد منهم بالضرب ما أدى الى اصابة بعضهم بجروح كما قامت القوات باعتقال مدير الاقسام الداخلية جواد الموسوي وعدد من الطلبة.ومن جانب اخر ألقت القوات الأمنية اليوم القبض على (6) من المطلوبين أمنيا في قضاء الطوز (80) كم شرق مدينة تكريت مركز محافظة صلاح الدين . </p> <p> <>و ان عملية القاء القبض تمت بعد ورود معلومات استخباراتية تفيد بتواجد المطلوبين في احدى القرى القريبة من القضاء المذكور ، مشيرا الى ان<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </span>التحقيق مازال مستمر مع المعتقلين ليتم احالتهم بعدها الى المحاكم القانونية المختصة ،ومن جانب اخر انفجرت اليوم مجموعة من اكداس عتاد كانت موضوعة في احد الدور السكنية المتروكة في قضاء الحضر (80) كم شرق الموصل . </p> <p>و ان "حادث الانفجار كان بالتزامن مع قيام القوات الامنية بحملة مداهمات بحثا عن مطلوبين في المناطق القريبة من قضاء الحضر"،مضيفا "ان الحادث اسفر عن اصابة (10) من افراد القوات الامنية من بينهم (6) من المواطنين المدنيين حيث تم على اثرها نقلهم الى المستشفى لتلقي العلاج". </p> <p>يذكر ان "حملة مداهمات نفذتها اليوم القوات الامنية في مناطق قضاء الحضر لغرض القضاء على مصادر تمويل السلاح"،وفي بغداد ايضاً القت قوة من الجيش العراقي اليوم القبض على ارهابيين اثنين في منطقة بغداد الجديدة شرقي العاصمة بغداد ، وفي <span style="color: red">تكريت</span> انفجرت عبوة ناسفة اليوم على دورية للجيش العراقي في قضاء الشرقاط (60) كم شمال مدينة تكريت مركز محافظة صلاح الدين . </p> <p>و " ان العبوة كانت مزروعة في أحد عربات الخضار مستهدفة الدورية لدى مرورها في احد شوارع القضاء المذكور ، مبينا ان الانفجار اسفر عن اصابة (2) من افراد الدورية بجروح متوسطة تم على اثرها نقلهم الى المستشفى لتلقي العلاج فضلا عن الحاق اضرار مادية جسيمة في المحال التجارية والسيارات القريبة من الحادث "، وفي حادث منفصل تمكنت قوة امنية من القبض على مسلح أثناء زرعه عبوة ناسفة بالقرب من القضاء. </p> <p>و ان قوات شرطة قضاء الدوز تمكنوا من اعتقال مسلح وهو يقوم بزرع عبوة ناسفة على الطريق العام قرب الدوز يدعى ( عيدان علي رجب ) وهو مطلوب امنيا ومتهم بزرع عبوات ناسفة لدوريات وقوات الجيش والشرطة ،وفي شمال العراق وبال<span style="color: red">موصل</span> تحديداً حيث انفجرت عبوة لاصقة اليوم على دورية لقوات البيشمركة الكردية في قضاء سنجار (110) كم غرب الموصل.</p> <p>و الحادث وقع عند مدخل قضاء سنجار ، موضحا ان العبوة كانت موضوعة في سيارة نوع برازيلي ، مضيفا ان الحادث اسفر عن اصابة ثلاثة من افراد الدورية بجروح خطيرة تم على اثرها نقلهم الى المستشفى لتلقي العلاج من جانبها قامت القوات الامنية بأتخاذ اجراءات امنية مشددة تخللتها مداهمات للمناطق القريبة من مكان الحادث ،ومن جانب اخر ألقت دورية تابعة للجيش العراقي اليوم القبض عى 4 من المشتبه بهم في منطقة الاصلاح الزراعي غربي مدينة الموصل مركز محافظة نينوى . </p> <p>و ان عملية القاء القبض تمت بعد ورود معلومات استخباراتية تفيد بتواجد المشتبه بهم داخل احد المنازل في المنطقة المذكورة "، مشيرا الى "ان التحقيق مازال مستمر معهم "، وفي حادث منفصل حيث عثرت دورية تابعة للواء الموصل شرطة اتحادية اليوم على عبوة ناسفة كانت مزروعة على جانب الطريق الرئيسي في منطقة المطاحن غرب مدينة الموصل.</p> <p>و ان معلومات استخباراتية قادت الى مكان العبوة وتمكن فريق المعالجة التابع للشرطة الاتحادية من تفكيكها دون اي حادث يذكر.</p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-7537"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a 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intensifying the battle for their votes. </p> <p>On Saturday, the largest Sunni bloc in the current parliament, the Iraqi Concord Front, announced its first 49 candidates for January’s election but the alliance is no longer the dominant force that it once was. </p> <p>Based around the 25 MPs of the Islamic Party — the main Iraqi wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, the leading Islamist grouping across the Arab world — the bloc has lost some of its former allies. </p> <p>It still has the support of the seven MPs of the Conference for the People of Iraq of Adnan al-Dulaimi, of two small Kurdish and Turkmen factions and of some tribal leaders. </p> <p>But other Sunni parties are either in talks with rival groupings or considering field candidates on their own. </p> <p>The National Dialogue Council of Sheikh Khaled al-Alayan, which has seven MPs in the current parliament, is one of those considering going it alone. </p> <p>The Independent Arab Bloc, which has eight MPs in the present parliament, has split down the middle. </p> <p>Its leader Abdel Mutlaq al-Juburi and two of its MPs have decided to join the new non-confessional State of the Law alliance headed by Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. </p> <p>The other five have yet to announce their plans. </p> <p>Some Sunni tribal leaders too have been won over to the prime minister’s new list. Some have even decided to make common cause with the dominant Shiite bloc in the current parliament, the Iraqi National Alliance. </p> <p>The National Dialogue Front of Saleh al-Mutlaq is considering an alliance with secularist former prime minister Iyad Allawi, as is the Sunni Arab list which in January won a majority on the provincial council for the main northern city of Mosul. </p> <p>The Islamic Party is even threatened by defections from within its own ranks. </p> <p>Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, who used to lead the party, is also in talks with Allawi. </p> <p>Islamic Party leader Osama al-Tikriti put a brave face on his party’s fortunes. </p> <p>“Some members have left us and some groups have joined us but we have emerged stronger,” Tikriti said. </p> <p>“The people need personalities who are going to represent them, bandage their wounds and enable them to recover their rights. </p> <p>“We have no red lines and we are open to anyone who wants to strengthen democracy and to ally with us.” </p> <p>But Baghdad University politics professor Hamid Fadel said the Islamic Party had brought many of its problems on itself by attempting to monopolise the politics of the Sunni Arab community and the posts reserved for it under Iraq’s power-sharing constitution. </p> <p>Not only did the party’s former leader Hashemi take the vice presidency, parliament speaker Iyad al-Samarrai is also a leading party member. </p> <p>“The desire for political dominance the Islamic Party has shown in recent years has not encouraged other Sunni parties to ally with it,” Fadel told AFP. </p> <p>“Instead it’s pushed them to try to acquire as much influence as they can by fielding their own candidates at the polls. </p> <p>“What’s more, many Sunni Arabs reckon it’s better to have people in all the political alliances so as to improve their chances of being well represented in parliament.” </p> <p>But Fadel stressed that Prime Minister Maliki’s decision to break with the Shiite list on which he won election in 2005 and seek allies for his Dawa party across the confessional divide meant the Shiite majority too would be going into January’s election deeply split. </p> <p>Given Iraq’s recent history of sectarian bloodshed, he said that was to be welcomed. </p> <p>“There are splits among Shiites as well as Sunnis and if these endure it will be a very positive thing for the country because it means electors will be voting along party political lines and not confessional ones.” </p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2009/October/middleeast_October486.xml&section=middleeast" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq Sunni splits offer hope of less sectarian politics</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-5857"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a 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title="20090406amallaatfalfirak by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/3420058227/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: inline; margin: 5px 15px 5px 0px" height="250" alt="20090406amallaatfalfirak" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738im_/http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3313/3420058227_ec84809733_o.jpg" width="350" align="left"/></a> ويسمح التجوال في الأسواق والمجمعات الجارية العراقية برؤية المئات من الأطفال حتى في سن العاشرة يمارسون اعمالا لا تناسب اعمارهم وقابلياتهم الجسدية، جراء الفقر وفقدان العائل، وعدم وجود معالجة حقيقية من قبل حكومة السيستاني لمشكلة عمالة الأطفال.ومن هذه الناحية، صحيح ان هناك شيء يدعى "العراق الجديد"، إلا ان الظروف التي يعيش فيها معظم أطفال العراق قد عادت بهم الى العصور الوسطى التي يجد فيها الأطفال انفسهم يقومون باعمال شاقة من اجل إعالة انفسهم او عوائلهم.ومع وجود نحو 5 ملايين يتيم في "سوق العمل" في الشوارع يعج باطفال حرموا من المعيل كما حرموا من مقاعد الدراسة، ليشكلوا جيلا محطما على امتداد سنوات المستقبل.ويقول الدكتور عمار ابراهيم اخصائي علم الاجتماع بجامعة بغداد "إن نسبة العمالة بين صفوف الاطفال في العراق بدأت بالارتفاع بشكل ملحوظ في العراق منذ حقبة الثمانينيات، مرورا بالحصار الاقتصادي الذي عاشته البلاد في التسعينيات، ووصولا الى الحرب الاخيرة عام 2003 والتي مازالت تبعاتها متواصلة". ويضيف ان انشغال الرجال بالحروب المتواصلة ومقتل الكثير منهم، بالاضافة الى سنوات الحصار الطويلة، دفعت بالكثير من الاسر الى تشغيل ابنائها للحصول على عوائد مادية تعينهم في الحصول على متطلبات حياتهم اليومية في ظل ازدياد اعداد الفقراء وعدم وجود معالجات جدية من قبل الحكومة لمسألة عمالة الاطفال.</p> </p></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130124042738/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/04/14/%d8%a3%d8%b7%d9%81%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%82-%d9%83%d9%8a%d9%81-%d9%8a%d8%b9%d9%8a%d8%b4%d9%88%d9%86%d8%9f/#more-5857" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" 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