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The mosque’s minarets tower over the cathedral, but the Maronites were built a spanking new archbishop’s house between the two buildings as compensation. Yet every day, the two calls to prayer – the clanging of church bells and the wailing of the muezzin – beat an infernal percussion across the city. Both bells and wails are tape recordings, but they have been turned up to the highest decibel pitch to outdo each other, louder than an aircraft’s roar, almost as crazed as the nightclub music from Gemmayzeh across the square. But the Christians are leaving.</p> <p>Across the Middle East, it is the same story of despairing – sometimes frightened – Christian minorities, and of an exodus that reaches almost Biblical proportions. Almost half of Iraq’s Christians have fled their country since the first Gulf War in 1991, most of them after the 2004 invasion – a weird tribute to the self-proclaimed Christian faith of the two Bush presidents who went to war with Iraq – and stand now at 550,000, scarcely 3 per cent of the population. More than half of Lebanon’s Christians now live outside their country. Once a majority, the nation’s one and a half million Christians, most of them Maronite Catholics, comprise perhaps 35 per cent of the Lebanese. Egypt’s Coptic Christians – there are at most around eight million – now represent less than 10 per cent of the population.</p> <p>This is, however, not so much a flight of fear, more a chronicle of a death foretold. Christians are being outbred by the majority Muslim populations in their countries and they are almost hopelessly divided. In Jerusalem, there are 13 different Christian churches and three patriarchs. A Muslim holds the keys to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to prevent Armenian and Orthodox priests fighting each other at Easter. </p> <p>When more than 200 members of 14 different churches – some of them divided – gathered in Rome last week for a papal synod on the loss of Christian populations in the lands where Christianity began, it was greeted with boredom or ignored altogether by most of the West’s press.</p> <p>Yet nowhere is the Christian fate sadder than in the territories around Jerusalem. As Monsignor Fouad Twal, the ninth Latin patriarch of Jerusalem and the second to be an Arab, put it bleakly, "the Israelis regard us as 100 per cent Palestinian Arabs and we are oppressed in the same way as the Muslims. But Muslim fundamentalists identify us with the Christian West – which is not always true – and want us to pay the price." With Christian Palestinians in Bethlehem cut off from Jerusalem by the same Israeli wall which imprisons their Muslim brothers, there is now, Twal says, "a young generation of Christians who do not know or visit the Holy Sepulchre".</p> <p>The Jordanian royal family have always protected their Christian population – at 350,000, it is around 6 per cent of the population – but this is perhaps the only flame of hope in the region. The divisions within Christianity proved even more dangerous to their community than the great Sunni-Shia divide did to the Muslims of the Middle East. Even the Crusaders were divided in their 100-year occupation of Palestine, or "Outremer", as they called it. The Lebanese journalist Fady Noun, a Christian, wrote a profound article from Rome last week in which he spoke of the Christian loss as "a great wound haemorrhaging blood", and bemoaned both Christian division and "egoism" for what he saw as a spiritual as well as a physical emigration. "There are those Christians who reach a kind of indifference… in Western countries who, swayed by the culture of these countries and the media, persuade eastern Christians to forget their identity," he wrote.</p> <p>Pope Benedict, whose mournful visit to the Holy Land last year prompted him to call the special synod which ended in the Vatican at the weekend, has adopted his usual perspective – that, despite their difficulties, Christians of the "Holy Land" must reinvigorate their feelings as "living stones" of the Middle Eastern Church. "To live in dignity in your own nation is before everything a fundamental human right," he said. "That is why you must support conditions of peace and justice, which are indispensable for the harmonious development of all the inhabitants of the region." But the Pope’s words sometimes suggested that real peace and justice lay in salvation rather than historical renewal.</p> <p>Patriarch Twal believes that the Pope understood during his trip to Israel and the West Bank last year "the disastrous consequences of the conflict between Jews and Palestinian Arabs" and has stated openly that one of the principal causes of Christian emigration is "the Israeli occupation, the Christians’ lack of freedom of movement, and the economic circumstances in which they live". But he does not see the total disappearance of the Christian faith in the Middle East. "We must have the courage to accept that we are Arabs and Christians and be faithful to this identity. Our wonderful mission is to be a bridge between East and West."</p> <p>One anonymous prelate at the Rome synod, quoted in one of the synod’s working papers, took a more pragmatic view. "Let’s stop saying there is no problem with Muslims; this isn’t true," he said. "The problem doesn’t only come from fundamentalists, but from constitutions. In all the countries of the region except Lebanon, Christians are second-class citizens." If religious freedom is guaranteed in these countries, "it is limited by specific laws and practices". In Egypt, this has certainly been the case since President Sadat referred to himself as "the Muslim president of a Muslim country".</p> <p>The Lebanese Maronite Church – its priests, by the way, can marry – understands all too well how Christians can become aligned with political groups. The Lebanese writer Sami Khalife wrote last week in the French-language newspaper L’Orient-Le Jour – the francophone voice of Lebanon’s Christians – that a loss of moral authority had turned churches in his country into "political actors" which were beginning to sound like political parties. An open letter to the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, warning him to try to turn Lebanon into a "front line" against Israel, was signed by 250 Lebanese. Most of them were from the minority Christian community.</p> <p>Nor can the church ignore Saudi Arabia, where Christianity is banned as a religion just as much as the building of churches. Christians cannot visit the Islamic holy cities of Mecca or Medina – the doors of the Vatican and Canterbury Cathedral are at least open to Muslims – and 12 Filipinos and a priest were arrested in Saudi Arabia only this month for "proselytism" for holding a secret mass. There is, perhaps, a certain irony in the fact that the only balance to Christian emigration has been the arrival in the Middle East of perhaps a quarter of a million Christian Filipino guest workers – especially in the Gulf region – while Patriarch Twal reckons that around 40,000 of them now work and live in Israel and "Palestine".</p> <p>Needless to say, it is violence against Christians that occupies the West, a phenomenon nowhere better, or more bloodily, illustrated than by al-Qa’ida’s kidnapping of Archbishop Faraj Rahho in Mosul – an incident recorded in the US military archives revealed on Saturday – and his subsequent murder. When the Iraqi authorities later passed death sentences on two men for the killing, the church asked for them to be reprieved. In Egypt, there has been a gloomy increase in Christian-Muslim violence, especially in ancient villages in the far south of the country; in Cairo, Christian churches are now cordoned off by day-and-night police checkpoints.</p> <p>And while Western Christians routinely deplore the falling Christian populations of the Middle East, their visits to the region tend to concentrate on pilgrimages to Biblical sites rather than meetings with their Christian opposite numbers. </p> <p>Americans, so obsessed by the myths of East-West "clashes of civilisation" since 11 September 2001, often seem to regard Christianity as a "Western" rather than an Eastern religion, neatly separating the Middle East roots of their own religion from the lands of Islam. That in itself is a loss of faith.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-exodus-the-changing-map-of-the-middle-east-2116463.html" class="external" target="_blank">Robert Fisk: Exodus. The changing map of the Middle East – Robert Fisk, Commentators – The Independent</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11314"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/07/09/paradise-found-water-and-life-return-to-iraqs-garden-of-eden/#respond" title="Comment on Paradise found: Water and life return to Iraq’s ‘Garden of Eden’">No Comments</a></span> Posted on July 9th, 2010 by Sagib</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/07/09/paradise-found-water-and-life-return-to-iraqs-garden-of-eden/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Paradise found: Water and life return to Iraq’s ‘Garden of Eden’">Paradise found: Water and life return to Iraq’s ‘Garden of Eden’</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/turkey/" rel="tag">Turkey</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water/" rel="tag">Water</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-buffalo/" rel="tag">Water Buffalo</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-flow/" rel="tag">water flow</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 42px; float: left; margin: 3px 1px 0px 0px; line-height: 36px; font-style: normal! important">O</span>ne of Saddam Hussein’s greatest acts of ecological destruction – the draining of the Mesopotamian marshes – has been reversed as birds and rivers return to the region</p> <p>Saddam Hussein’s draining of the Mesopotamian marshes of Iraq – recorded as the Garden of Eden in the Bible – was one of the most infamous outrages of his regime, leaving a vast area of once-teeming river delta a dry, salt-encrusted desert, emptied of insects, birds and the people who lived on them.</p> <div class="container"> <div class="shadow"> <div class="frame"> <p><a title="20100708_marshes_guardian_nature_iraq_captioned" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4777445917/" class="external" target="_blank"><img alt="20100708_marshes_guardian_nature_iraq_captioned" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819im_/http://static.flickr.com/4074/4777445917_ea65faecc3.jpg" border="0"/></a></p> </p></div> </p></div> </p></div> <p>  <div style="clear: both"> </div> <p>But nearly two decades later the area is buzzing and twittering with life again after local people and a new breed of Iraqi conservationists have restored much of what was once the world’s third largest wetland to some of its former glory.</p> <p>The story of this once almost impossible restoration is told in an exhibition of photographs that has opened in the UK. They show the huge expanses of reeds and open water – now at least half the size of the Florida Everglades – where plants, insects and fish have returned, creating a vast feeding area for migrating and breeding birds, including the majestic Sacred Ibis, the endemic Basrah Reed Warbler and the Iraq Babbler, along with most of the world’s population of Marbled Teal ducks, bee-eaters and many more.</p> <p>"We call them stop-over sites, refuelling sites," said Richard Porter, Middle East advisor for the conservation group Birdlife International, who has helped train biologists and other experts for the local Birdlife partner <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://natureiraq.org/English/" class="external" target="_blank">Nature Iraq</a>. "They are as important as the breeding and over-wintering grounds for species; if you have got to make a journey from central Africa to norther Europe and Asia, and you’ve got nothing to feed on, you’re stuffed."</p> <p>The Mesopotamian marshes originally made up an area more than three times the size of Norfolk, where the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.birdscapesgallery.co.uk/" class="external" target="_blank">exhibition is showing, in Holt</a>. It sprawled across thousands of square kilometres of floodplain where the Euphrates and Tigris rivers divided into a network of tributaries meandering and pulsating south to the Arabian sea. They were home to more than 80 bird species, otters and long-fingered bats, and hundreds of thousands of Marsh Arabs who grew rice and dates, raised water buffalo, fished and built boats and homes from reeds.</p> <p>In the early 1990s, this way of life came to an abrupt end when Hussein ordered the marshes to be drained to punish the local population for an uprising after his failed invasion of Kuwait, a problem exacerbated by the continued construction of dams upstream.</p> <p>He ordered the area to be hemmed in by constructing around 4,000km of earthen walls that towered up to 7m above the unbroken flat landscape. The wetlands retreated to as little as 5-10% of their original size, according to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/1000/1716/meso2.pdf" class="external" target="_blank">a 2001 United Nations Environment Agency report</a>.</p> <p>After Hussein was toppled by American forces in 2003, Azzam Alwash returned from his adopted home in the US to the area, where he had lived for part of his childhood, and learned to hunt ducks with his father while they inspected the irrigation ditches. Alwash found the local people who had stayed had already begun to break up the walls with shovels or earth diggers, and they have continued to do so. They have destroyed up to 98% of the embankments, he told the Guardian, "not because they are tree-huggers or bird-lovers, but because it’s a source of economic income to them, because they can harvest reeds and sell them. They can fish and feed a family or sell them to earn extra income."</p> <p>Alwash, a civil engineer, set up Nature Iraq and has organised training for graduates who help with monitoring work. "We take guards with us with Kalashnikovs, but the most difficult part is the road between [the capital] Baghdad to the marsh," said Alwash. "Once I’m inside the marshes it’s relatively safe."</p> <p>About half the original marshland has been restored – even more had been reinstated, but there was a setback last year because of a drought. Nature Iraq has now drawn up a plan to cope with the diminishing water flows from dams upstream in Turkey by channelling irrigation water back into the rivers and building a barrage to retain meltwater from the mountains and create a "mechanical flood" of water to replicate the important pulses of freshwater that wash through the marshlands every spring.</p> <p>Alwash and his team are also trying to tackle the problem of local poaching, although he has great sympathy with those who have few alternative sources of income, and hopes the opening of a new oil industry will help create jobs.</p> <p>"We have done some work in trying to educate the locals," he added. "We say: ‘Go out and hunt but take less; make $10 today – you don’t have to make $20, and make $10 tomorrow’. We just keep at it. You can’t give up."</p> <p>• The exhibition runs until July 25 at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.birdscapesgallery.co.uk/" class="external" target="_blank">Birdscapes Gallery in Glandford, Norfolk</a></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/09/iraq-marshes-reborn" class="external" target="_blank">Paradise found: Water and life return to Iraq’s ‘Garden of Eden’ | Environment | The Guardian</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10582"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/18/17th-18th-may-2010-selected-english-language-coverage/#respond" title="Comment on 17th-18th May-2010 Selected English Language Coverage">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 18th, 2010 by Nabil</div> <h3><a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/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/20130126012819/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/20130126012819/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/20130126012819/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/20130126012819/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/20130126012819/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/20130126012819/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/20130126012819/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/20130126012819/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/20130126012819/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/20130126012819/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/20130126012819/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/20130126012819/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/20130126012819/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-10545"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/16/16th-may-2010-selected-english-language-coverage/#respond" title="Comment on 16th-May-2010 Selected English Language Coverage">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 16th, 2010 by Ra'ed Al-Bayati</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/16/16th-may-2010-selected-english-language-coverage/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to 16th-May-2010 Selected 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/state-of-law-coalition/" rel="tag">State of Law Coalition</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/summaries/" rel="tag">Summaries</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/turkey/" rel="tag">Turkey</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/xinhua/" rel="tag">Xinhua</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/zebari-major-general-babacar/" rel="tag">Zebari - Major General Babacar</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>I’ve selected a few articles on the recount results being announced and have also selected Reuters’ very useful "factbox" on the steps and deadlines in the government formation process. The Turkish paper "Today’s Zaman" carried a long report on KRG leader Massoud Barzani’s visit to Ankara. Briefly the paper says that a rapprochement with KRG is part of Turkey’s attempts to solve it’s own "Kurdish problem" the article is well worth reading in full. </p> <p>Xinhua’s report on the al-Qaeda affiliated ISI’s choosing new leadership ends with this sharp piece of commentary:</p> <blockquote><p>The nominations of new al-Qaida leaders came after the killing of the two top al-Qaida leaders Abu Ayyub al-Musri and Abu Omer al- Baghdadi in a military operation by Iraqi and U.S. forces last month.</p> <p>Both Iraqi and U.S. officials said the killing of the two men dealt a big blow to al-Qaida in the war-torn country. However, major attacks continued across the country, leaving hundreds dead in the past several weeks</p> </blockquote> <p>Al Zaman’s English edition reports on General Babacer Zebari’s statement that 11 senior al-Qaeda commanders are still at large in Irak. The paper points out that the GZG blames almost all violence in the country on Qaeda bu that analysts and senior government officials say rival political factions with heavily armed militias are also to blame.</p> <p>On the economic front the United Arab Emirates newspaper "The National"  reports that the Chinese state-controlled petroleum company Sinochem has quit the Maysan oilfield project the article is long but it too will repay the time you spend reading it in full.</p> <p style="padding-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: gray 1px solid"><em>Raed</em></p> <h3 style="color: #800000">The Day In Quotes:</h3> <p><strong>Independent High Electoral Commission Qassim al-Abboudi to Xinhua on the result of the Baghdad recount:</strong></p> <blockquote><p>"There is no change in the numbers of seats of any political entity by the re-count of votes of Baghdad province,"</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-05/16/c_13297567.htm" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>source</strong></a></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Independent High Electoral Commission Qassim al-Abboudi to AP on the result of the Baghdad recount</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>"I hope that all political blocks are satisfied now that the electoral process was honest and all allegations of fraud and forgery were totally incorrect".</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37173752/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/" class="external" target="_blank">Source</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <h3 style="color: #800000">Politics and Security</h3> <div style="border-right: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: lightgrey 1px solid; width: 285px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: lightgrey 1px solid"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.reuters.com/" class="external" target="_blank">Reuters</a> have a guide to the "steps in Iraq’s crawl towards a government which I reproduce in full below:</p> <p><strong>Reuters AlertNet – FACTBOX-Deadlines, steps in Iraq’s crawl towards a government</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>REUTERS – A recount of votes cast in Baghdad did not change the results of Iraq’s March 7 election, leaving intact the two-seat lead of former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi’s cross-sectarian Iraqiya coalition.</p> <p>Because no coalition won enough seats for a majority in parliament, weeks of political negotiations may be needed before the formation of a new government.</p> <p>Here are the next official steps and constitutional deadlines as Iraq’s fledgling democracy crawls toward establishing its next government:</p> <p>* The Independent High Electoral Commission said it would publish the preliminary results on Monday and objectors would have three days to file complaints before the results could be sent to a court for final certification.</p> <p>* The supreme court has no deadline for certifying the results but election officials said they did not expect a long delay. The court has been considering the results from 17 other provinces, excluding Baghdad, for several days already.</p> <p>* President Jalal Talabani must call on the new parliament to convene within 15 days from the date of the certification of the election results.</p> <p>* The oldest member of the Council of Representatives chairs the first session, in which members have a maximum of 15 days to elect a speaker and two deputies.</p> <p>* The council elects a new president within 30 days of its first session.</p> <p>* The new president has 15 days to ask the largest bloc in parliament to try to form a government and choose a prime minister.</p> <p>* The prime minister-designate must form a governing coalition and name a cabinet, or Council of Ministers, within 30 days.</p> <p>* If the prime minister-designate fails to pick a cabinet in the required time, the president has 15 days to nominate someone else to try to form a government.</p> <p>* The new prime minister designate has 30 days to try to form a governing coalition and council of ministers.</p> <p>* A new government is deemed to have been formed when a prime minister’s cabinet nominees and their programmes win the approval of an absolute majority of the members of the Council of Representatives, or parliament.</p> <p>SOURCE: Iraqi constitution, election officials </p> <p>(Reporting by Waleed Ibrahim, Muhanad Mohammed and Ahmed Rasheed, editing by Jim Loney)<strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE64F0C6.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Source</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote></div> <p><strong>Iraq election recount confirms Iyad Allawi victory | World news | The Guardian</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>A recount of votes in Iraq’s general election did not change the allocation of seats, officials said today, leaving the cross-sectarian coalition led by Iyad Allawi with the biggest parliamentary presence.</p> <p>The secularist former prime minister Allawi’s Iraqiya bloc, supported heavily by Iraq’s minority Sunnis, won 91 seats in the 7 March vote, edging out the mainly Shia State of Law coalition led by the prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, which won 89.</p> <p>Allawi has insisted that winning the close election should give him the first opportunity to form a new government, but Maliki’s bloc has already announced an alliance with the Shia Iraqi National Alliance, which polled third, to form the largest grouping in parliament.</p> <p>The Shia-dominated alliance could push Allawi to the sidelines and anger Sunnis who supported Iraqiya, raising concerns about a potential revival of sectarian conflict as US troops prepare to end combat operations in Iraq by 1 September.</p> <p>The recount of 2.5m votes in Baghdad left intact Allawi’s two-seat lead. "There is a change, but not a significant change, for the [candidates] inside the blocs. … The number of the seats stays as is," said Saad al-Rawi, one of nine commissioners on the Independent High Electoral Commission. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/16/iraq-election-recount" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong>: </strong></p> <p><em>See also: </em><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://english.aljazeera.net//news/middleeast/2010/05/201051615121968150.html" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Al Jazeera English – Middle East – Result unchanged after Iraq recount</strong></a><strong>:</strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Turkey and the Iraqi Kurds: From Red Lines to Red Carpets</strong><strong>: Today’s Zaman</strong></p> <blockquote><p>If all goes to plan Massoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) will be paying his first official visit to Turkey next month. <br/>The decision to invite the Kurdish leader is in line with recent moves designed to end over a decade of hostility between Ankara and the Iraqi Kurdish leadership. Friendship with the Iraqi Kurds is one of the main pillars of Turkey’s attempts to solve its long-running Kurdish problem.</p> <p>Until recently Barzani, who is also the leader of the most powerful Iraqi Kurdish faction, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), was firmly embedded in Turkey’s official gallery of rogues. He was derided as a cocky tribal upstart who emboldened by U.S. support was accused of plotting against Turkey. Turkey’s hawkish generals would ever so often warn against the “red lines” that Barzani must not breach. “Don’t try to grab Kirkuk” or else… Don’t think about independence or else…” The subtext was that Turkey would invade the Kurdish controlled enclave. A defiant Barzani vowed to fight back. The potential for conflict between a critical NATO ally, Turkey, and its Kurdish friends in Iraq was long a source of worry in Washington. Now the red lines are fading. Turkey is preparing to roll out the red carpet for Barzani. The Kurds’ internationally respected leader is expected to meet with Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and perhaps even with President Abdullah Gül.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-210325-100-turkey-and-the-iraqi-kurds-from-red-lines-to-red-carpets.html" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>:</strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Qaida group in Iraq nominates new top leaders</strong><strong>: Xinhua</strong></p> <blockquote><p>BAGHDAD, May 16 (Xinhua) — Al-Qaida in Iraq insurgent group announced Sunday it has nominated new top leaders for its self- styled Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), the group said in a statement posted on the internet.</p> <p>The Mujahdeen Shura Council (MSC), which is an al-Qaida-led umbrella organization of extremist Sunni militant groups, said it has chosen Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi al-Hussieni al-Quraishi as the emir, or leader of the "believers" to be the head of the ISI.</p> <p>The statement said that the MSC also nominated Abu Abdullah al- Hassani al-Quraishi as first minister and deputy for Abu Bakr al- Quraishi.</p> <p>On Friday, the MSC nominated al-Nasser Lideen Allah Abu Suleiman as its "minister of war" for the ISI, who vowed to continue deadly attacks with "dark days in blood color."</p> <p>The nominations of new al-Qaida leaders came after the killing of the two top al-Qaida leaders Abu Ayyub al-Musri and Abu Omer al- Baghdadi in a military operation by Iraqi and U.S. forces last month.</p> <p>Both Iraqi and U.S. officials said the killing of the two men dealt a big blow to al-Qaida in the war-torn country. However, major attacks continued across the country, leaving hundreds dead in the past several weeks.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-05/16/c_13297379.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Source</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>11 Qaeda commanders still at large in Iraq, senior military officer says</strong><strong>:  | Azzaman in English</strong></p> <blockquote><p>Iraqi security troops have killed 32 out of 43 Qaeda commanders in the country, said Lt. Gen. Babaker Zaibari.</p> <p>Zaibari, who is Iraqi Chiefs of Staff Chairman, said there were 11 more senior Qaeda commanders at large “and their presence constitutes a security threat.”</p> <p>The Iraqi government blames almost all violence in the country on Qaeda but analysts and senior government officials say rival political factions with heavily armed militias are also to blame.</p> <p>They say some political factions with their unruly militias are embroiled in a bitter struggle and battle of liquidation of opponents.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2010-05-15%5Ckurd.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>:</strong></p> </blockquote> <h3 style="color: #800000">Society and Economy:</h3> <blockquote> </blockquote> <p><strong>Sinochem exits Iraq oilfield deal – The National Newspaper</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>A Chinese state-controlled petroleum company has quit an Iraqi oil project, voting with its feet against the scant returns on investment offered by Baghdad.</p> <p>Despite the undoubted importance of Iraq’s oil resources to China, which already imports significant volumes of Iraqi crude to fuel its economy, Sinochem International has withdrawn from a consortium led by China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) to develop the Missan oilfield complex in the south-east of Iraq. <br/>“Sinochem was not interested in the deal,” Abdul al Ameedi, the director of the licensing and contracting office of the Iraqi oil ministry, told Reuters.</p> <p>The withdrawal from one of a dozen big oil developments, on which Baghdad was pinning its hopes of more than quadrupling Iraq’s oil production capacity by 2017, is the second this year.</p> <p>Iraq, which pumps 2.4 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude, has set 12 billion bpd as its target production capacity, rivalling that of Saudi Arabia, as it seeks to rebuild its shattered economy.</p> <p>But in late February, Iraq broke off talks with a Japanese consortium led by Nippon Oil, which Baghdad had chosen over rival groups led by Italy’s Eni and Spain’s Repsol to develop the Nassiriyah oilfield.</p> <p>During the failed negotiations, the Japanese companies had indicated concerns over how Baghdad would reimburse their costs for field development and handling workforce security and safety.</p> <p>In general, Chinese companies bidding on foreign oil projects have been more tolerant of tight contractual terms than western companies, because of the strategic energy agenda of their controlling shareholder, Beijing.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100516/BUSINESS/705169923/1005/rss" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10499"> <div class="postmetadata"><span 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/women-poverty-of/" rel="tag">women - poverty of</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%ac%d9%85%d8%b9%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%a8-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%87%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%ad%d9%85%d8%b1/" rel="tag">جمعية الصليب والهلال الاحمر</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>Millions of people in Iraq cannot get clean water or water in sufficient quantity. The ICRC is doing its best to improve access to safe water. This is an update on ICRC activities carried out in Iraq in March and April.</p> <p>The Tigris and the Euphrates, which supply the bulk of Iraq’s water, are slowly dwindling and in some areas can no longer be used as a reliable source of drinking water. Across the country, the shrinking of the rivers is having serious consequences on the functioning of water treatment plants. It also affects underground aquifers, where the salt content of the water is increasing. This water is often unfit for human consumption or even for agricultural use. </p> <p>The volatile security situation in some areas and the rising price of fuel have put additional strain on already scarce services, as have population growth and displacement. In many places, the strain is further compounded by a lack of qualified engineers and staff able to maintain and repair water and sanitation facilities. Many farming communities were hard hit by the drought that struck northern Iraq in 2008. Average rainfall over the past 10 years has been far lower than in previous decades. In the north, water supply systems fed by springs and shallows aquifers have been depleted and often have less water available to meet demand. Although rainfall has been better in many places during 2009 and 2010, low water-levels continue to affect agriculture production, meaning Iraq needs to import more rice and wheat. With less water of sufficient quality generally available, management of the existing resources is key. </p> <p>Because large suburban residential areas have sometimes developed without adequate infrastructure, and certain sewage treatment plants are bypassed, wastewater is discharged untreated into rivers and lakes. Ditches and ponds filled with foul-smelling polluted water blight many neighbourhoods. The United Nations recently estimated that around 83% of sewage is being let into rivers and waterways. </p> <p>Water treatment and distribution facilities are also disrupted by persistent power shortages. Iraq is currently producing around 6,000 megawatts of electricity a day, while demand is estimated at 10,000 megawatts. Health, water and sewage facilities and other infrastructure in many parts of the country still rely on back-up generators to meet their need for electric power. </p> <p>Water distribution systems that are old or badly maintained are further weakened by illegal connections and substandard plumbing within households. Leakages cause large amounts of wasted water and frequent contamination. According to the United Nations, nearly half of Iraqis in rural areas are without safe drinking water. The Iraqi government estimates that 24% of Iraqis in the country as a whole, or nearly one in four, do not have access to safe water. </p> <p>"Reliable access to enough water of sufficient quality remains a major challenge for large parts of the population", said Julien Le Sourd, the ICRC’s water and habitat coordinator in Iraq. "The ICRC is doing its utmost to improve this by repairing and upgrading water supply and sewage systems. We do this in partnership with the authorities and we are also providing training for maintenance staff working in water treatment plants." </p> <p>In March and April, ICRC water engineers:</p> <ul> <li>completed work at the Ashty water station, in Erbil governorate, which provides safe drinking water for around 10,000 people living in nearby villages; </li> <li>built an emergency unit in the 50-bed Qala’t Salih Hospital in Missan governorate; </li> <li>upgraded the storage capacity for drinking water and for water used in the cooling system in Medical City Hospital, Baghdad. The hospital can accommodate 1,400 patients and treats around 10,000 outpatients per day; </li> <li>renovated a primary health-care centre serving around 400 patients in Sadr City, Baghdad; </li> <li>connected the school of al Rahma camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Najaf City, which has 1,000 pupils and teachers, to the municipal water and electricity supply networks; </li> <li>supplied and installed a new mortuary refrigerator with a capacity of 12 corpses in Beiji General Hospital, in Salah Al Din governorate; </li> <li>delivered water by truck to 4,500 displaced people in Sadr City and to 340 in Husseinia and Ma’amil, Al Imam Ali General Hospital and Fatma al Zahra Hospital, all in Baghdad governorate, and to 360 in Qalawa Quarter camp in Sulaimaniya; </li> <li>installed equipment used to fill water bags for distribution during emergencies at Al Wathba water treatment plant in Baghdad; </li> <li>repaired the Hindiyah water treatment plant in Karbala, which supplies water to around 125,000 people; </li> <li>installed a large-capacity pump in al Fadhliya water treatment plant, Thi Qar governorate, providing drinking water for 82,000 people. </li> <li>assessed, in cooperation with Iraqi Correctional Services engineers, 11 detention facilities under the authority of the Ministry of Justice, evaluating needs and recommending improvements for the delivery of essential services (water, electricity, sewage). </li> </ul> <p><b>Bringing aid to vulnerable people</b> </p> <p>The ICRC maintained its support for people facing special difficulty earning a living and supporting their families, such as women heading households, people with disabilities and displaced people: </p> <ul> <li>more than 2,300 displaced families headed by women in Diyala, Salah Al-Din and Ninawa governorates were given monthly food parcels and hygiene items; </li> <li>around 2,100 people displaced in March from Mosul to Hamdanya and Tilkaif were given food parcels and rice; </li> <li>61 disabled people in Erbil, Dohuk and Ninawa governorates were given micro-economic aid enabling them to start small businesses and regain economic self-sufficiency. A total of 459 disabled people have now received such aid in a programme that started in 2008. </li> </ul> <p><b>Assisting hospitals and physical rehabilitation centres</b> </p> <p>Iraqi health facilities still benefit from ICRC support. To help disabled people reintegrate into the community, the ICRC provides limb-fitting and physical rehabilitation services. In March and April: </p> <ul> <li>six hospitals and three primary health-care centres received medical supplies and equipment; </li> <li>25 doctors and 28 nurses successfully took part in a training course on strengthening emergency services given at Al Sadr Teaching Hospital in Najaf and at Sulaimaniya Emergency Hospital; </li> <li>two people from the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research involved in the teaching of prosthetics and orthotics went to the National Centre for Prosthetics and Orthotics in the United Kingdom under ICRC sponsorship for advanced training. </li> </ul> <p><b>Visiting detainees</b> </p> <p>ICRC delegates continued to visit detainees in order to monitor the conditions in which they are being held and the treatment they receive. In all cases, the ICRC shares its findings and recommendations in confidence with the detaining authorities. In March and April, the ICRC visited detainees held: </p> <ul> <li>in Counter-Terrorism Directorate and Tasfirat Najaf, in Najaf governorate; </li> <li>in Mina and Samawa prisons, Basra governorate; </li> <li>in Counter-Terrorism Directorate, Kirkuk governorate; </li> <li>in US custody, in Remembrance II, Baghdad governorate; </li> <li>in four prisons and one police station in Erbil, Dohuk and Sulaimaniya governorates. </li> </ul> <p>Around 1,550 detainees held in Hilla I & II Correctional Facilities were given mattresses and recreational items such as ping-pong tables, soccer balls and volleyballs. </p> <p>The ICRC makes a special effort to restore and maintain ties between detainees and their families. In March, it arranged for six Iraqi families to enter Kuwait and visit their relatives detained there since 1991. In addition, around 10,500 Red Cross messages were exchanged between detainees and their families in Iraq and abroad during the month of March. </p> <p>During March and April, the ICRC responded to more than 3,600 enquiries from families seeking information on detained relatives. It also issued 220 certificates to former detainees making them eligible to receive social welfare benefits. </p> <p>At the request of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the ICRC issued 73 travel documents for Palestinian refugees in Iraq to enable them to resettle abroad. </p> <p><b>Clarifying what happened to missing people</b> </p> <p>The ICRC supports the authorities in their efforts to clarify what happened to those who went missing in connection with the Iran-Iraq War and the 1990-1991 Gulf War. It also helps train forensic professionals in the identification and management of mortal remains and regularly supplies equipment. In the past two months: </p> <ul> <li>the Technical Sub-Committee of the Tripartite Commission, handling cases of persons missing in connection with the 1990-1991 Gulf War, held its 64th session in Kuwait, which was chaired by the ICRC and attended by representatives from Iraq, Kuwait and the 1990-1991 Coalition (the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Saudi Arabia). Nine samples of human remains were handed over by the Iraqi to the Kuwaiti delegation for DNA analysis in an effort to determine if they belonged to missing Kuwaiti nationals. The sub-committee will hold a special meeting on forensics in Kuwait in May; </li> <li>mortal remains of Iraqi soldiers were repatriated from Kuwait under ICRC auspices. </li> </ul> <p><b>Promoting international humanitarian law</b> </p> <p>In line with its mandate, the ICRC promotes compliance with international humanitarian law and reminds parties to a conflict of their obligation to protect civilians. 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Sheikh Salah al-Ubaydi, spokesman for the Al-Sadr Trend, said that "the trend continues to ask all the winning parties to sit on a roundtable to reach a solution to the crisis of forming the next government." </p> <p>On whether the expected alliance between the State of Law Coalition, led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, and the Iraqi National Alliance would lead to the exclusion of the Al-Iraqiya Bloc, led by Iyad Allawi, from the next government, Al-Ubaydi told Asharq Al-Awsat that any alliance between the two coalitions "does not mean abandoning the roundtable for forming the government and choosing the candidate for the post of the next prime minister," adding: "We have sent reassurance messages to all parties, which say that any alliance of this kind does not mean excluding or marginalizing others." He emphasized that "one of the most important points which we emphasized is to avoid and not to repeat the mistakes of the previous experience, particularly since the concern of the Iraqi street focuses on the need for stabilizing the security situation and also improving the living condition. Therefore, the negative phenomena that prevented the implementation of these positive points should be overcome, in addition to our demand that there should be no partisan appeasement , particularly concerning the issue of financial and administrative corruption even if the accused is a leader or affiliated to this of that party." He emphasized: "We want a real partnership government and not a government that is concerned with the interests of one party as happened in the past." </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=20626" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>: </p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Iraq remains a long way off from forming a new government – The Globe and Mail: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>He may have “won” last month’s Iraqi election, but there is little chance that Iyad Allawi will head the next Iraqi government. <br/>Six weeks after Iraqis braved threats of violence to cast ballots, giving Mr. Allawi’s Iraqiya party two more seats than Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the country is still a long way from having a new government. <br/>Unfortunately for Mr. Allawi, the demographics of the country and the role of outside parties have conspired against him. The best the one-time provisional prime minister can hope for, say observers in Baghdad, is a relatively minor role in cabinet for some of his people. <br/>It’s not for want of trying. “[Mr.] Allawi has done everything he could,” said one veteran analyst with an international organization in Baghdad. “But he had to play the hand he was dealt.”</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/iraq-remains-a-long-way-off-from-forming-a-new-government/article1538381/" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>: </p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Security Coverage:</font></h3> <p><strong>Violence highlights fears of Iraqi security forces taking over after U.S. leaves </strong></p> <blockquote><p>By Leila Fadel Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, April 18, 2010; A12 </p> <p>RADWANIYAH, IRAQ — Raw welts and purple bruises run down the backs of dozens of Sunni Muslim men in a small village west of Baghdad — evidence, local residents say, of abuse by the Iraqi army that threatens to widen a sectarian rift. </p> <p>The wounds came from beatings administered last month by soldiers from the predominantly Shiite force charged with protecting the Sunni community here, villagers said. One by one, they said, the Sunni men were questioned, beaten and shocked with electricity in a roundup by mostly Shiite Iraqi soldiers, who were reeling from the killing of five comrades at a checkpoint. </p> <p>The violence comes at a time when the performance and professionalism of Iraq’s security forces are facing a crucial test. With U.S. troop levels scheduled to drop to 50,000 by summer’s end, Iraqi security forces control the streets. But they face deep mistrust in particular from Iraqi Sunnis, who in some areas consider the Army a less-than-neutral instrument of a Shiite-dominated government. </p> <p>In Radwaniyah, Sunni tribal leaders say the beatings have cemented fears about what might happen when the U.S. military leaves for good. They worry about being caught between the Sunni insurgents they turned against and a Shiite-led government they do not trust. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/17/AR2010041702704_pf.html" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>: </p> </blockquote> <div style="border-right: silver 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: silver 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: silver 1px solid; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: silver 1px solid"> <table cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" width="580" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="285"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63G06Z.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Reuters AlertNet – FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 17</a>: </p> <ul> <li><strong>*</strong>BAGHDAD – A bomb attached to a car exploded, severely wounding five people in the Saydiya district in southern Baghdad, police said. </li> <li><strong>*</strong>MOSUL – Police found the body of man who had been shot in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. </li> <li>BAGHDAD – Iraqi police killed a gunman who opened fire on a police checkpoint in the Amiriya district in western Baghdad, Baghdad security command said in a statement. </li> <li>BASRA – A bomb planted in the house of a leader of the local government-backed council leader exploded in central Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad on Friday night, killing his wife and wounding his son, police said. </li> </ul> </td> <td valign="top" width="285"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63H0O9.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Reuters AlertNet – FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 18</a>: </p> <ul> <li>Following are security developments in Iraq at 1900 GMT on Sunday. </li> <li>MOSUL – Armed men wounded two retired senior army officers after they left a mosque in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. </li> <li>MOSUL – A roadside bomb exploded in the centre of Mosul, wounding seven civilians, police said. </li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" colspan="2"> <p><strong>*</strong> Denotes new or updated item.</p> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63H0D4.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Reuters AlertNet – One US soldier dead, three injured in Iraq crash</a>:<br/> <blockquote>A U.S. soldier was killed and three were injured when their helicopter crashed in northern Iraq late on Saturday evening, the U.S. military said on Sunday. <p>In a brief statement, the military said the incident had not been attributed to enemy fire and was under investigation.</p> </blockquote> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> <p><strong>KUNA : U.S. on target to reduce forces in Iraq to 50,000 by August — Odierno – Military and Security – 18/04/2010: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>The U.S. military remains on target to reduce its forces in Iraq from about 95,000 today to around 50,000 by mid-August, U.S. Army General Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, said on Sunday. <p>In an interview on "FOX News Sunday," Odierno said there was no move under way by the United States to revisit the Security of Forces Agreement with Iraq, which calls for all remaining U.S. forces to be out of that country by the end of 2011. </p> <p>If the Iraqi government wants U.S. forces in Iraq longer than that, "we can discuss it. … then we (U.S. officials) will make our own decision on that based on our policies," Odierno said.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2076685&Language=en" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Economic Coverage:</font></h3> <p><strong>Trade Arabia – Iraq cbank cuts rates to boost lending: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Iraq’s central bank slashed its base rate by 100 basis points to six per cent as of April 1 in reaction to subdued inflation and to boost bank lending, senior advisers at the bank said. </p> <p><em>[snip]</em></p> <p>The IMF forecasts economic growth of 7.3 per cent this year, accelerating from estimated 4.2 per cent growth last year but well off 9.5 per cent growth in 2008 when oil prices were at record highs.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.tradearabia.com/news/newsdetails.asp?Sn=BANK&artid=177888" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>: </p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Etihad to Commence Services to Iraq: </strong><br/> <blockquote>Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has announced it will commence flights from Abu Dhabi to Baghdad on April 26, subject to government and regulatory approvals, becoming the first airline in the UAE to fly to Iraq. <p>Etihad will operate five return services per week to Baghdad, operated by two-class Airbus A320 aircraft, and will expand its operation with two additional A320 return services to a second Iraq destination – Erbil – from June 1, subject to government and regulatory approvals. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2010/April/theuae_April450.xml&section=theuae&col=" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>: </p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Anham replaces Agility as US military supplier – Emirates Business 24|7: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Dubai-based Anham has won a $2.2 billion (Dh8.08bn) contract to provide food and support services to the US military in Kuwait, Iraq and Jordan after Kuwait-based logistics firm Agility was replaced as the main supplier following indictments for overcharging</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.business24-7.ae/companies-markets/logistics/anham-replaces-agility-as-us-military-supplier-2010-04-18-1.109319" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Argus Media :Analysis – Baghdad plans refinery spree: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Iraq is drawing up plans to expand its effective refining capacity by 150pc to 1.2mn b/d at a cost of $10.5bn.</p> <p>The additional 740,000 b/d of capacity will come from four planned refineries (see table). A fifth planned refinery with a capacity of 100,000 b/d close to the 800mn bl East Baghdad heavy oil field is on the back burner because the field was not awarded to a foreign oil company in Iraq’s second bidding round in December.</p> <p>Cash-strapped Iraq will be unable to fund its planned downstream expansion alone and will seek private-sector investors. “We are open to discussing any type of investment. These can be joint ventures, build-operate-transfer agreements, build-own-operate agreements, or engineering contracts with deferred payment,” Iraq’s deputy oil minister for refining and gas processing Ahmad al-Shamma told Argus.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.argusmedia.com/pages/NewsBody.aspx?id=704433&menu=yes" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>: </p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Peninsula On-line: Turkey’s TPAO plans to bid for Iraq fields: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>The state-run Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) is planning to bid for development of Iraq’s Akkas, Mansuriyah and Siba natural gas fields, TPAO Chief Executive Mehmet Uysal said in an interview yesterday.</p> <p>Uysal said TPAO aims to bid for the Akkas field in partnership with Italy’s Edison, and added that Chevron and Chinese firms are interested in gas and oil exploration in the Black Sea.</p> <p>“We have already started preparations seriously for oil exploration license tenders for which there will be invitations from now on. We can bid in partnership with consortia,” Uysal said.</p> <p>TPIC, the foreign exploration unit of state-run Turkish Petroleum, won a $318m contract to drill 45 wells in Iraq’s supergiant Rumaila oilfield in March. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=Business_News&subsection=market+news&month=April2010&file=Business_News2010041704135.xml" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a> </p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Commentary and Analysis</font></h3> <p><strong>Green Scare: The Making of the New Muslim Enemy | by Deepa Kumar | CommonDreams.org: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>The events of September 11 laid the basis for the emergence of a vicious form of Islamophobia that facilitated the U.S. goals of empire building in the 21st century. This form of Islamophobia focused on the enemy "out there" against which the U.S. supposedly had to go to war to protect itself, from Afghanistan to Iraq. </p> <p>As George Bush famously put it, "We’re fighting them there, so we don’t have to fight them here." Or as he stated in his West Point speech in 2002, "We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats." In short, an endless "war on terror" on the enemy beyond U.S. borders was now justified, according to Bush. </p> <p><em>[snip]</em></p> <p>The most virulent expression of this "Green Scare" was articulated by NYU professor Tunku Varadarajan. In a Forbes.com article titled "Going Muslim" (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/08/fort-hood-nidal-malik-hasan-muslims-opinions-columnists-tunku-varadarajan.html)" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/08/fort-hood-nidal-malik-hasan-muslims-opinions-columnists-tunku-varadarajan.html)</a> published in November 2009, Varadarajan argued that what precipitated the tragedy at Food Hood–when Major Nidal Hasan turned a gun against his co-workers and killed 13–was not the racist harassment that Hasan faced in the Army or the emotionally debilitating nature of being an overworked Army psychiatrist, but rather a condition that he sees as inherent to all Muslims: the tendency towards violence. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/04/17-6" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>:</p> </blockquote> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%ac%d9%85%d8%b9%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%a8-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%87%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%ad%d9%85%d8%b1/" rel="tag">جمعية الصليب والهلال الاحمر</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>The beginning of 2010 was marred by acts of violence that claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians, mainly in Baghdad, the central governorates and Najaf. In Mosul, families fled violence and sought refuge in safer areas. Although recent violence-related displacement has been sporadic, there remain some 2.8 million internally displaced people (IDPs) in Iraq who had to leave their homes over recent years in search of safety. </p> <p>Many Iraqis, especially those worst affected by the effects of the conflict and the ongoing violence, such as displaced, elderly and disabled people and women heading households, continued to struggle to feed their families. Their inability to buy enough of the essential goods they require remains a major concern. </p> <p>Agriculture, formerly an important part of the economy, has been declining for the past decade. Individuals who have lost agricultural machinery to damage, age or disrepair often cannot replace it owing to a lack of financial wherewithal. In addition, the water supply has been hard hit by a failure to properly maintain pumping stations and irrigation and distribution canals, by the unreliable electricity supply and by higher fuel costs. The massive increase in the price of seed and fertilizer, and cheap imports from neighbouring countries, also play a role in making farming difficult, if not impossible, in many parts of Iraq. Many farmers try to survive by cultivating smaller patches of land, but as they are forced to use low-quality supplies the result is often poor harvests. Others have migrated to cities in search of other ways of earning a living. </p> <p>The situation was exacerbated by the 2008 drought – the worst in the past 10 years – which had an especially severe impact on rain-fed agriculture in central, west-central and some northern parts of the country. In some areas, agricultural production was wiped out. After years of poor rainfalls, pastures were reduced and prices of fodder soared. According to an ICRC survey, breeders were forced to cut down their herds by more than 60 per cent in some parts of the country, which had a drastic effect on their livelihoods. "Before, we used to move to neighbouring districts. Now, everywhere is dry and we lost our crops and animals. How can we go on?," said one local farmer in Ninawa governorate. </p> <p>For households that have lost their main wage earner, the economic situation is especially hard to endure. Most people who went missing in connection with recent wars or the ongoing violence, and most people behind bars, are adult males – usually breadwinners. The women and children they left behind often became isolated and therefore extremely vulnerable, despite the strong cultural solidarity among Iraqis. </p> <p>The ICRC is helping the Iraqis who are worst off to cope with their hardships, and Iraqi communities to support themselves unaided. It is distributing seed and fertilizer, and fodder for livestock. In addition, it is vaccinating cattle and cleaning and improving irrigation canals. In 2009 alone, some 195,000 people benefited. </p> <p>In January and February 2010, according to the ICRC’s own independent assessment carried out by the organization’s staff all over Iraq, more than 20,000 people benefited from its humanitarian assistance:</p> <ul> <li>almost 15,500 displaced people (families headed by women) in Baghdad, Diyala, Salah Al-Din and Ninawa governorates were given monthly food parcels and hygiene items; </li> <li>around 5,400 people recently displaced from Mosul to Hamdanya and Tilkaif received emergency food parcels, rice and ready-to-eat meals; </li> <li>over 1,900 farmers in Diyala governorate received 491.5 metric tonnes of urea fertilizer to help them improve their harvest and make their farming sustainable; </li> <li>43 disabled people in Erbil, Dohuk, Sulaimaniya and Ninewa governorates benefited from micro-economic aid enabling them to start small businesses and regain economic self-sufficiency. </li> </ul> <p>The ICRC also endeavoured to respond to other needs of the Iraqi population in January and February. </p> <h3>Providing clean water and sanitation</h3> <p>Access to clean water remains inadequate in several parts of the country. Only 45 per cent of the population, on average, have clean drinking water and 20 per cent proper sewage disposal. ICRC water engineers continue to repair and upgrade water, electrical and sanitation facilities all over Iraq, especially in areas where violence remains a concern, to enhance access for civilians to clean water and to improve the quality of services provided in communities and health-care facilities. </p> <ul> <li>Baghdad governorate: Samadiya water compact unit for about 20,000 people, Al Mahmodiya General Hospital serving some 400,000 people living in the area, Ibn Al Khateeb Infectious Diseases Hospital, Medico Legal Institute, Tabat al Kurd water boosting station for over 3,500 people and Al Mada’in water treatment plant for 470,000 people (including displaced people) plus three hospitals and eight primary health-care centres. </li> <li>Anbar governorate: Heet water treatment plant for 45,000 residents and 250 displaced people, Habbaniya water treatment plant for 30,000 residents and 1,500 displaced people, and Al Qaim Hospital providing health care for around 350,000 area inhabitants. </li> <li>Salah Al Din governorate: al Dor clinic and Dijail compact unit supplying water to almost 25,000 people. </li> </ul> <p>Other water-related works were carried out that will benefit nearly 100,000 people in Missan, Diwaniya and Diyala governorates, and in Ninawa governorate where 3,000 inmates held at Badoosh prison will be among those benefiting. </p> <p>Water was delivered by truck to: </p> <ul> <li>4,500 displaced people in Sadr City and 340 in Husseinia and Ma’amil, and in Baghdad Teaching Hospital, all in Baghdad governorate; </li> <li>Qalawa Quarter camp in Sulaimaniya, hosting around 360 displaced people. Two damaged tanks of 5,000 litres each have been replaced. </li> </ul> <h3>Assisting hospitals and physical rehabilitation centres</h3> <p>Health-care services are still inadequate. In some areas, it is difficult to reach health facilities because of the prevailing lack of security. Iraqi health facilities still benefit from ICRC support. Limb-fitting and physical rehabilitation services are provided by the ICRC to help disabled people reintegrate into the community. In January and February: </p> <ul> <li>12 hospitals and three primary health-care centres received medical supplies and equipment; </li> <li>34 doctors and nurses successfully took part in a training course on strengthening emergency services given in Sulaimaniya Emergency Hospital and in Al Sadr Teaching Hospital in Najaf; </li> <li>26 managers working in the field of primary health care in Ninawa, Kirkuk, Erbil and Diyala governorates participated in a forum, held in Erbil, on improving the quality of health care services in rural primary health-care centres; </li> <li>two physiotherapists from Najaf, two from Hilla, one from Sulaimaniya and one from Erbil attended a three-week training course in Erbil, where the ICRC runs a physical rehabilitation centre. </li> </ul> <h3>Visiting detainees</h3> <p>Visiting detainees remains a top priority for the ICRC in Iraq. In January and February, ICRC delegates visited detainees held: </p> <ul> <li>in Fort Suse Federal Prison, Sulaimaniya governorate; in Nasiriya Prison, Thi-Qar governorate; in Mina and Maaqal prisons, Basra governorate; </li> <li>in Tasfirat Kirkuk, Emergency Police Station and Juvenile Police Centre; in Assayesh KDP Station, Kirkuk governorate; </li> <li>in Brigade 54, 6th Division, Baghdad governorate; </li> <li>in six prisons and two police stations in Erbil, Dohuk and Sulaimaniya governorates; </li> <li>in Camp Taji (US custody), Baghdad governorate. This was the last visit to the detention facility prior to its handover to Iraqi authorities. </li> </ul> <p>Around 5,200 detainees held in Fort Suse, Chamchamal, Khademiya, Adhala and Amarah prisons received blankets, mattresses and clothes to help them cope with the cold winter season. In Chamchamal Federal Prison, 34 disabled detainees were given crutches as part of a follow-up carried out by ICRC health delegates of health care in the prison. </p> <p>More than 7,800 Red Cross messages were exchanged between detainees and their families in January and February. In addition, 626 detention certificates were issued to former detainees or internees to make them eligible for social welfare benefits. </p> <h3>Clarifying what happened to missing people</h3> <p>The ICRC supports the authorities in their efforts to clarify what happened to those who went missing in connection with the Iran-Iraq War and the 1990-1991 Gulf War. It also helps train forensic professionals in the identification and management of mortal remains and regularly supplies equipment. In January and February: </p> <ul> <li>the mortal remains of nine Iranian soldiers were repatriated from Iraq under ICRC auspices; </li> <li>the Technical Sub-Committee of the Tripartite Commission, handling cases of persons missing in connection with the 1990-1991 Gulf War, held its 63rd session in Kuwait, which was chaired by the ICRC and attended by representatives from Iraq, Kuwait and the 1990-1991 Coalition (the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Saudi Arabia); </li> <li>two days of training by an ICRC forensic specialist were provided for staff of Al Zubair centre to help them better manage the files of thousands of missing persons. </li> </ul> <h3>Promoting international humanitarian law</h3> <p>Reminding parties to a conflict of their obligation to protect civilians is a fundamental part of the ICRC’s work. The organization also endeavours to promote international humanitarian law within the civil society. 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dir="rtl" align="right"> <div dir="rtl" align="right"> <p><b>نجاة قاض من محاولة اغتيال فاشلة غربي نينوى</b></p> <p>قال مدير شرطة قضاء تلعفر غربي مدينة الموصل إن قاضياً يعمل في محكمة بداءة ربيعة شمالي القضاء تعرض اليوم الثلاثاء إلى هجوم من قبل مسلحين مجهولين ما أسفر عن إصابة سائقه بجروح. <br/>وأوضح العقيد علي هادي عبيد أن مسلحين مجهولين يستقلون سيارة بيك أب بيضاء اللون هاجموا اليوم القاضي في محكمة بداءة ربيعة عبد الكريم صادق، في منطقة كاخورتا التابعة لقرية البوغة شمالي قضاء تلعفر شمال غربي الموصل دون أن يصب بجروح. <br/>وأضاف عبيد أن سائق القاضي أصيب بجروح جراء الهجوم، وحالته مستقرة حيث تم نقله إلى مستشفى ربيعة للعلاج.</p> <p><strong>عمليات بغداد تسمح لاهالي ابو غريب بحيازة قطعة سلاح واحدة في كل منزل </strong></p> <p>قررت قيادة عمليات بغداد السماح لأهالي قضاء أبو غريب بحيازة قطعة سلاح خفيفة واحدة في كل دار. <br/>وقال بيان صادر عن عمليات بغداد، الثلاثاء، نشرته وكالة براثا للانباء انه يجب تسجيل قطعة السلاح التي حددتها ببندقية كلاشنكوف او مسدس لدى مركز الشرطة المسؤول عن المنطقة. <br/>على صعيد متصل دعت قيادة العمليات اهالي قضاء ابو غريب ممن لديهم معلومات عن العصابة التي ارتكبت الحادث الاجرامي بحق المواطنين الابرياء في المنطقة، دعتهم للادلاء بتلك المعلومات علّها تساع على الوصول إلى الجناة.</p> <p><strong>قوات من الجيش يعتدون على اعلامي في منطقة العلاوي ببغداد</strong></p> <p>اعتدى افراد سيطرة تابعة للواء الثاني والعشرين في الجيش العراقي على الاعلامي حسن عبد راضي في نقطة تفتيش قرب المتحف العراقي في منطقة العلاوي صباح اليوم الثلاثاء. <br/>وقال عبد راضي في تصريح لوكالة خبر للانباء انه كان في طريقه الى مكان عمله في شبكة الاعلام العراقي واثناء مروره في نقطة التفتيش التابعة للواء الثاني والعشرين في الجيش العراقي قام افراد السيطرة بتوجيه كلمات بذيئة وعند اعتراضه على اسلوبهم قاموا بضرب السيارة وتوجيه الاهانات غير المبررة وبدون سبب يذكر. <br/>واضاف عبد راضي بانه ذهب الى الضابط المسؤول وهو برتبة رائد فشكى له ما قام به افراد السيطرة ولم يعر للموضوع اية اهمية ولم يقم باي اجراء يذكر، مناشدا رئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي وقائد عمليات بغداد باجراء التحقيق ، داعيا الى الكف عن الاعتداءات التي يتعرض لها الاعلاميون بشكل مستمر وعلى مرأى المسؤولين.</p> <p><b>برنامج أممي لتوزيع وجبات مدرسية في البلاد</b></p> <p><a title="20091117_172thousand_schoolchildren_to_get_schoolmeals_captioned by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4111391583/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 5px 15px 5px 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="228" alt="20091117_172thousand_schoolchildren_to_get_schoolmeals_captioned" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819im_/http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2522/4111391583_c161d75a78_o.jpg" width="350" align="left" border="0"/></a>من المقرر ان يطلق اليوم الثلاثاء برنامج الأغذية العالمي التابع للأمم المتحدة مشروعاً تجريبياً لتوفير وجبة يومية مجانية في المدارس لـ 172 ألفاً من أطفال المدارس الابتدائية في البلاد. <br/>وقال مدير برنامج الأغذية العالمي في العراق إدوارد كالون في تصريح صحفي له ان المبادرة التي تقوم بها الأمم المتحدة لدعم وزارة التربية هي واحدة من مشروعات عدة ينفذها برنامج الأغذية العالمي لمساعدة الأشخاص الأشد ضعفاً في العراق. <br/>واضاف كالون انه في إطار مشروع الوجبات المدرسية، سيحصل كل طفل على 80غراماً من البسكويت المضاف إليه مجموعة من العناصر الغذائية الدقيقة، إضافة إلى كونه مصدراً حيوياً لتغذية الأطفال. <br/>واوضح مدير البرنامج ان المشروع التجريبي الذي تبلغ كلفته 1.6 مليون دولار يستمر لمدة ثلاثة أشهر حيث سيتم تمويله من جانب الحكومة العراقية.</p> <p><b>مبعوثة الرئيس الامريكي تدعو لمعالجة مشاكل العوائل المهجرة في العراق</b></p> <p>اكدت سامانثا باور مبعوثة الرئيس الأمريكي باراك أوباما إلى العراق ضرورة أن تلتفت الحكومة العراقية إلى وضع العوائل المهجرة ، محذرة من عواقب عدم الاهتمام بهذه الشريحة من المواطنين العراقيين. <br/>واوضحت باور اثناء زيارتها منطقة الجكوك التي تقطنها عوائل مهجرة إن أوباما أرسلها "لمعرفة أوضاع المهجرين والعائدين منهم لمناقشة ما يعانون من مشاكل أثناء عودتي. <br/>معربة عن اعتقادها أن أي نظام ديموقراطي يجب أن يكون قريبا جدا من معاناة هذه الشريحة، وإلا ستبقى الأمور هشة للغاية إذا لم نجد حلا مناسبا لهم" .</p> <p><strong>المهجرين والمهاجرين تعزو عدم اعداد احصائية للمهجرين الى عدم وجود مكاتب تمثيل في الخارج</strong></p> <p>عزت وزارة المهجرين والمهاجرين عدم امتلاكها احصائية للمهجرين العراقيين في الخارج الى عدم وجود مكاتب تمثيل لها في الخارج. وقال مصدر مسؤول في الوزارة للقسم الصحفي في المركز الوطني للإعلام إن الوزارة لديها قاعدة بيانات خاصة للمهجرين داخليا وفي كل محافظة، فيما تعتمد على الإحصائية متوفرة لدى المفوضية السامية لشؤون اللاجئين للمهجرين في الخارج، واشار إلى وجود تقرير سنوي يصدر عن الوزارة بهذا الشأن، إلى جانب التقارير الشهرية من دائرة المعلومات (قسم الإحصاء). ودعا المصدر جميع المهجرين الى تقديم معلوماتهم الى الوزارة، مؤكدا ان من لا يقدم معلوماته للوزارة لن يدخل ضمن البيانات الخاصة للوزارة.</p> <p><b>الحكومة توجه بإعداد ملفات خاصة بكل وزارة تمهيدا الى تسليمها للحكومة المقبلة</b></p> <p>دعت أمانة مجلس الوزراء الوزارات كافة بترشيح ثلاثة ممثلين عن كل منها لاعداد أضابير خاصة لكل وزارة تمهيداً لتسليمها الى الوزراء الجدد ضمن الحكومة الجديدة المؤمل تشكيلها وفق نتائج انتخابات المقبلة. <br/>وذكر مصدر في امانة مجلس الوزراء في تصريح صحفي له اليوم الثلاثاء ان الأمانة شددت على ان هذا الترشيح يجب ان يكون خلال مدة أسبوع وذلك للمتابعة مع اللجنة المركزية العليا المكلفة بهذا الاجراء. <br/>واضاف المصدر ان هذا التوجه جاء تزامناً مع قرب انتهاء عمل حكومة الوحدة الوطنية.</p> <p><font color="#800000" size="4"><strong>الاخبار السياسية</strong></font></p> <p><strong>طارق الهاشمي يهدد بنقض قانون الانتخابات</strong></p> <p>لوح نائب رئيس الجمهورية طارق الهاشمي بانه سينقض قانون الانتخابات اليوم الثلاثاء ما لم يجر تعديل الفقرة الخاصة بنسبة المقاعد المخصصة للمهجرين. <br/>ونقل بيان عن مكتب الرئاسة عن الهاشمي قوله ان مجلس الرئاسة وفق الدستور هو الساهر على الدستور لذلك لا يسعه ان يمرر قانونا يتعارض معه ، لافتا الى ان الدستور في المادة 49 ينص على ان يكون لكل 100 ألف مواطن من يمثلهم في مجلس النواب وهذا لا يتوفر بالنسبة الى مهجري الخارج الذين يربو عددهم الى الاربعة ملايين وفقا لتقديره. <br/>واضاف الهاشمي انه يمهل مجلس النواب حتى منتصف نهار اليوم الثلاثاء اذا لم يجر تعديل القانون من قبل مجلس النواب او من قبل المفوضية العليا المستقلة للانتخابات بتعليمات لاحقة تعيد النظر بتقسيم المقاعد التعويضية.</p> <p><strong>عبد الكريم السامرائي: تهديد الهاشمي بنقض قانون الانتخابات هو انصاف للمهجرين </strong></p> <p>وصف النائب عن جبهة التوافق عبدالكريم السامرائي تهديد نائب رئيس الجمهورية طارق الهاشمي بنقض قانون الانتخابات بالحقيقي، مؤكداً إنه ليس دعاية انتخابية. <br/>واضاف السامرائي في تصريح صحفي ان طارق الهاشمي أكد أكثر من مرة إنه سينقض القانون إذا لم يعدل البرلمان الفقرة الخاصة بالمهجرين في الخارج، مبيناً ان الغاية من ذلك هو انصاف المهجرين ليأخذوا حقوقهم كاملة. <br/>وبين السامرائي أن القانون سيعتبر نافذاً بعد مرور عشرة أيام شريطة عدم نقضه من رئيس الجمهورية أو أحد نائبيه، مضيفاً ان لكل من هؤلاء الحق بنقض القانون.</p> <p><strong>مسعود بارزاني يؤكد مقاطعة الاكراد للانتخابات المقبلة</strong></p> <p>هدد مسعود بارزاني رئيس إقليم كردستان العراق الثلاثاء بمقاطعة الانتخابات التشريعية في حال لم يتم إعادة النظر في توزيع المقاعد النيابية، معتبرا أن الآلية المتبعة تهدف إلى تقليل عدد ممثلي شعب كردستان. <br/>واوضح فؤاد حسين رئيس ديوان الرئاسة في الإقليم نقلا عن بارزاني قوله انه إذا لم تتم إعادة النظر في عدد مقاعد المحافظات فان شعب كردستان سيكون مضطرا إلى عدم المشاركة في الانتخابات. <br/>واكد بارزاني انه لا يمكن القبول بآلية توزيع المقاعد اعتمادا على البطاقة التموينية التي أعدتها وزارة التجارة لأنها تتعارض مع المنطق والواقع فاعتماد هذا الأسلوب، تشويه للحقائق وظلم وإجحاف بحقوق شعب كردستان ، مشيرا الى أن رئاسة الإقليم ترى أن الهدف من إتباع هذه الآلية هو تقليل عدد ممثلي شعب كردستان والقضاء على مكاسبه.</p> <p><b>التحالف الكردستاني يعترض على إحصاءات وزارة التجارة لسكان الإقليم</b> </p> <p>هدد التحالف الكردستاني باللجوء للمحكمة الاتحادية إذا لم تعيد وزارة التجارة النظر بالإحصائيات التي قدمتها لمفوضية الانتخابات في ما يتعلق بسكان إقليم كردستان. <br/>واتهم النائب عن التحالف الكردستاني رؤوف عثمان وزارة التجارة بعدم التعامل بنزاهة مع الإحصائيات الحقيقية لسكان الإقليم، مشيرا إلى أنها عملت على هدر مئات الآلاف من الأصوات التي تعادل نحو 10 مقاعد في البرلمان المقبل. <br/>واعترض عثمان في مؤتمر صحفي عقده في مبنى مجلس النواب على خلفية إعلان مفوضية الانتخابات حصص محافظات العراق على زيادة عدد مقاعد محافظة نينوى. </p> <p><strong>عبد الهادي الحساني :موقف رئيس الاقليم حيال نسبة المقاعد سيؤثر على العملية السياسية </strong></p> <p>قال النائب عن كتلة الائتلاف الموحد عبد الهادي الحساني ان الاكراد مخيرون بين ان يكونوا جزءا من العراق ودستوره أو ان تعطى لهم دولة ضمن تفاهمات خاصة. <br/>واضاف الحساني في تصريح صحفي بأن أعضاء البرلمان ومن ضمنهم ممثلو التحالف الكردستاني اتفقوا على اعتماد البطاقة التموينية لمعرفة نسبة المقاعد في المحافظات ، موضحاً ان مطالبتهم بتعديل نسبة المقاعد بهذا الانفعال سيؤثر على العملية السياسية ، مبينا ان رسالة رئيس الاقليم لا تصب بصالح العملية الديمقراطية في البلاد. <br/>وأكد الحساني على ان هناك صراعا مابين الاكراد انفسهم حول هذا الامر وإنه لايوجد انسجام مع روح الدستور العراقي ، قائلاً ان اعضاء التحالف الكردستاني يريدون إعطاء خصوصية للاقليم على حساب العراق.</p> <p><strong>آد ملكرت: نجاح الانتخابات التشريعية المقبلة في العراق ليس مضمونا</strong></p> <p>قال ممثل الأمم المتحدة في العراق آد ملكرت أن نجاح الانتخابات العراقية التشريعية في يناير/كانون الثاني 2010 ليس مضمونا. <br/>واضاف ملكرت خلال جلسة لمجلس الامن ان نجاح الانتخابات التشريعية في العراق ليس مضمونا لأن هناك قوى في داخل وخارج البلاد تواصل بذل جهودها لفرض برنامج للتقسيم والتدمير. <br/>واشار في الوقت نفسه الى ان هناك إرادة الشعب في المشاركة بتقرير مصيره وإعطاء ولاية ديموقراطية لقادته . <br/>ومن جانبه اوضح سفير النمسا توماس ماير-هارتينغ الذي يترأس مجلس الأمن لهذا الشهر أن المجلس كرر الدعوة التي وجهها الأمين العام بان كي مون إلى الأحزاب السياسية العراقية والى قادتها من اجل التحلي بحس الدولة خلال الحملة الانتخابية والمشاركة فيها بروح الوحدة الوطنية.</p> <p><strong>الطالباني يدعو فرنسا لمساعدة العراق في الخروج من البند السابع</strong></p> <p>بدأ رئيس الجمهورية جلال الطالباني مباحثات في باريس تهدف الى تعزيز العلاقات الثنائية بين البلدين من خلال توقيع اتفاقيات وبروتوكولات تعاون مشترك. <br/>وكان الطالباني قد وصل باريس أمس الاثنين على رأس وفد رفيع المستوى يضم وزراء الخارجية والدفاع والمالية والعلوم والتكنولوجيا، اضافة الى رئيس هيئة الاستثمار ونائب رئيس حكومة اقليم كردستان ورئيس هيئة الاستثمار في حكومة الاقليم. <br/>وقال رئيس الجمهورية قبيل مغادرته مطار السليمانية متوجها الى باريس، انه سيزور بولندا ايضا ويعقد اجتماعات مع المسؤولين هناك. <br/>واضاف ان الزيارة الى فرنسا هي زيارة رسمية لاتمام بعض الاتفاقات والتفاهمات التي تشمل الجوانب الاقتصادية والعسكرية والتجارية والمسائل التي تتعلق بتعزيز العلاقات بين البلدين، مشيرا الى انه يرجو من فرنسا ان تساعد العراق على الخروج من طائلة الفصل السابع، وفي بولندا هناك مشكلة الديون والدعاوى التي اقيمت عليها، ويتمنى أن تحل هذه المشاكل هناك.</p> <p><strong>فرنسا تطلب من العراق تسوية القضايا الكويتية للخروج من الفصل السابع</strong></p> <p>كشفت مصادر دبلوماسية ان فرنسا اكدت انها لن تسمح لمصالح الكويت بان تتعرض للضرر في عملية اعادة دمج العراق بالمجتمع الدولي. <br/>ونقلت وكالة الانباء الكويتية عن المصادر قولها ان الرئيس الفرنسي نيكولا ساركوزي اوضح ان القضايا الكويتية يجب تسويتها في حال خروج العراق من طائلة الفصل السابع لا سيما الملفين الاكثر حساسية وهما صيانة العلامات الحدودية ومسألة المفقودين. <br/>وشددت فرنسا مجددا على ان موقفها لم يتغير بشان ملف الحدود العراقية الكويتية ، لكن ساركوزي ابدى استعدادا قويا لدعم طلب العراق بشان اعادة الاندماج على المستوى الدولي ، موضحا ان فرنسا تريد عراقا قويا وديمقراطيا ومسالما لا تخشاه الدول الاخرى. <br/>وقالت القيادة الفرنسية ان هذا يجب ان يحدث دون المساس بمصالح دول الجوار الاخرى وبخاصة الكويت.</p> <p><strong>العلواني: ما صرحت بهِ الحكومة العراقية بشأن المصالحة، مجردُ شعارات</strong></p> <p>وصف النائب احمد العلواني عن جبهة التوافق ان مسالة اجتثاث البعث او ابقاءهم أمر غير مجدي وان ماصرحت به الحكومة العراقية بشأن المصالحة الوطنية هي مجرد شعارات . <br/>وقال العلواني في تصريح لوكالة انباء الاعلام العراقي ان عودة البعثيين الى مؤسسات الدولة وانخراطهم بها أمر غير مجدي بسبب الخلافات السياسية في تلك المسالة ، مشيراً الى ان الحكومة العراقية تسير وفق ماترتضيه المصلحة الوطنية وليس على حساب مايريد الحزب او تلك الجهة . <br/>واضاف العلواني انما ماصرحت به الحكومة العراقية حول المصالحة الوطنية هي مجرد شعارات لاتوجد لتلك المبادرات اي تطبيق على الواقع العراقي بل ان هنالك حسب قوله تناقض بتوجهات الحكومة العراقية، مبيناً ان على الحكومة العراقية الالتزام بوعودها والمضي بالمشروع الوطني لانه السبيل الوحيد للتخلص من سلبيات الماضي وتاسيس مؤسسات الدولة العراقية وفق الديمقراطية من اجل بناء عراق جديد.</p> <p><strong>حيدرالجوراني : طلب ايران باعتبار ميناء خور العمية ايرانيا لايستند الى اي سند قانوني</strong> </p> <p>اعرب النائب عن كتلة الائتلاف الموحد حيدر الجوراني عن أمله من الحكومة الايرانية ان تكون مواقفها ايجابية مع العراق وان تدعم موقفه بدون ابتزاز او ضغط سياسي، منوها ان هذه المطالب ليس لها مبرر او حكمة او حسن جوار. <br/>واضاف الجوراني في تصريح لوكالة الصحافة المستقلة ان طلب ايران باعتبار ميناء خور العمية ايرانيا لايستند الى اي سند قانوني او دولي ، مؤكدا ان هذا الامر لاينمي العلاقات بين البلدين، مشددا على ان ميناء خور العمية هو ضمن المياه الاقليمية العراقية ولم يسمع طيلة الحرب مع ايران بمثل هذه المطالب.</p> <p><b>مثال الآلوسي يطالب بالكشف عن نتائج التحقيقات في قضية الدايني</b></p> <p>أعرب رئيس حزب الأمة النائب مثال الآلوسي عن استغرابه من تكتم الحكومة حيال نتائج التحقيقات التي تجري في قضية النائب المهزوم محمد الدايني . <br/>وأبدى الآلوسي في تصريح صحفي قلقه من الصمت الحكومي وعدم إبلاغ البرلمان بمجريات التحقيقات، والكشف ما إذا كان الدايني متورطا فعلا في تفجير البرلمان حسب الاعترافات التي قالت الحكومة إنها تمتلكها من بعض المعتقلين . <br/>وعزا الآلوسي صمت الحكومة لما دعاه بخوف الحكومة من أن تنكشف أكاذيبها حول وجود اعترافات تدين الدايني، أو نيتها استغلال قضية الدايني ورقة انتخابية .</p> <p><strong>النجيفي يتهم ايران بانها تريد الهيمنة على الحدود والمياه والثروات العراقية </strong></p> <p>قال عضو البرلمان عن القائمة العراقية أسامة النجيفي ان ايران تحاول الهيمنة على الحدود والمياه والثروات العراقية بمختلف أنواع الحجج والادعاءات التي وصفها بالواهية. <br/>واضاف النجيفي في تصريح صحفي ان التوجّه الاخير للسيطرة على ميناء خور العميّة فيه الكثير من التجني على الوضع العراقي ومحاولة استغلال الضعف الساسي في البلاد لتحقيق مكاسب اقليمية على حساب الاراضي والمياه العراقية. <br/>وأكد النجيفي ان هذا الامر غير مشروع وعلى الحكومة العراقية ان تتخذ موقفا واضحاً بخصوص هذا المطلب غير القانوني ورفضه بشدة وأن تطلب من مجلس الامن التصدي للمحاولات الايرانية للسيطرة على الكثير من الاراضي العراقية، حسب قوله.</p> <p><b>الاتحاد الإسلامي الكردستاني يقرر خوض الانتخابات بقائمة منفردة</b></p> <p>أعلن القيادي في الإتحاد الإسلامي الكردستاني غازي سعيد أن حزبه يشارك في الانتخابات النيابية المقبلة بقائمة مستقلة. <br/>وعزا سعيد في تصريح صحفي عدم التحالف مع القوى السياسية الأخرى لعدم تلقي حزبه عرضا "مهما ومجزيا" يدفعه للتحالف، موضحا أن عرض الحزبين الرئيسين الديمقراطي والاتحاد الكردستانيين للمشاركة ضمن قائمة واحدة جاء متأخرا وهو لغرض الدعاية فقط. <br/>وأكد سعيد مطابقة مواقف حزبه مع مواقف التحالف الكردستاني في مجلس النواب الجديد حيال مكتسبات إقليم كردستان حسب قوله.</p> <p><strong>الربيعي يكشف عن جهات تدعم عراقيين مرشحين للانتخابات المقبلة</strong> </p> <p>هدد موفق الربيعي عضو مجلس النواب العراقي مسؤولين حكوميين في دول مجلس التعاون الخليجي بالكشف عن أسمائهم وأسماء دولهم لتمويلهم سياسيين عراقيين مرشحين للانتخابات النيابية القادمة وجهات عراقية مسلحة. <br/>وقال الربيعي للشرق الأوسط انهم لديهم معلومات استخبارية تؤكد بأن بعض الدول الخليجية، وبعض المسؤولين الحكوميين في هذه الدول، يقدمون الدعم المادي لبعض السياسيين والقوى السياسية في العراق، مشيرا إلى أن أسماء هؤلاء المسؤولين الخليجيين والسياسيين العراقيين الذين يتلقون الدعم المالي موجودة لديهم ، وتتوفر لديهم ايضا معلومات تتعلق بحجم المبالغ التي يقدمها هؤلاء المسؤولون. <br/>ورفض الربيعي الكشف عن أسماء المسؤولين الخليجيين ودولهم والشخصيات العراقية التي تتلقى الأموال منهم، الا انه اكد اذا استمر هؤلاء المسؤولين بتقديم الدعم، وإذا لم يتوقفوا، فإنهم سوف يضطرون إلى الكشف عن هذه المعلومات والأسماء.</p> <p><strong>الأمم المتحدة تضع خطة لحل خلافٍ دام 19 عاماً بين العراق والكويت </strong></p> <p>أعلن مسؤول أممي، الثلاثاء، عزم المنظمة الدولية على وضع خطة من شأنها إنهاء الخلاف العراقي الكويتي الذي استمر 19 عاماً. <br/>وذكر مبعوث الأمم المتحدة إلى بغداد آد ميلكرت في اجتماع لمجلس الأمن أن البعثة الأممية في العراق ستضع الملامح الرئيسية لخطة تشمل كل المواضيع الخلافية بين البلدين وتهدف لحلها. <br/>وقال ميلكرت إن من أهم أولويات تلك الخطة هو تطبيع علاقات العراق الإقليمية خاصة مع الكويت ليضمن بذلك من الخروج من تحت البند السابع لميثاق الأمم المتحدة. <br/>و أشار المبعوث ألى أن الاتفاق على الحدود البرية والبحرية بين العراق والكويت لم يتم حتى الآن، فضلاً عن المفقودين الكويتيتن في العراق واللذين تطالب بلادهم بالكشف عن مصيرهم، بالإضافة إلى إعادة ممتلكات تتهم الحكومة الكويتية الجيش العراقي بسرقتها خلال أحداث عام 1991. <br/>وأكد إن البعثة في العراق ستسعى إلى استحصال موافقة البلدين على تحديد جدول أعمال يناسبهما، تسوى باستكماله القضايا الباقية ويؤدي إلى تطبيع وضع العراق في الأمم المتحدة.</p> <h3><font color="#800000">الاخبار الاقتصادية</font></h3> <p><b>وزارة الزراعة تخصص نحو ملياري دينار لتطوير زراعة المحاصيل العلفية في البلاد</b></p> <p>كشفت وزارة الزراعة عن تخصيص ما يقرب من ملياري دينار لتطوير المشاريع الارشادية الخاصة بنشر زراعة المحاصيل العلفية ضمن خططها للتوسع بالزراعة خلال المدة المقبلة. <br/>وقال مصدر مسؤول في الوزارة في تصريح صحفي له ان الوزارة اعدت برنامجا طموحا لزيادة المساحات المزروعة بالمحاصيل العلفية في البلاد خلال السنوات الثلاثة المقبلة وذلك ضمن تخصيصات لخطط تنموية تمتد حتى عام 2012. <br/>مشيرا الى ان العراق يعاني من نقص حاد في ما يعرف بالقاعدة العلفية وهو من اهم اسباب تراجع اعداد رؤوس الثروة الحيوانية في البلاد ، فضلا عن إستمرار الذبح الجائر لها خلال العقدين الماضيين.</p> <p><b>التجارة تلغي مئة وسبع وكالات غذاء وطحين خلال شهر تشرين الاول الماضي</b></p> <p>الغت وزارة التجارة مئة وسبع وكالات غذاء وطحين خلال شهر تشرين الاول الماضي بسبب مخالفتها التعليمات والضوابط . <br/>وذكر بيان للوزارة ان دائرة التموين والتخطيط بوزارة التجارة ألغت مئة وسبع وكالات غذاء وطحين خلال شهر تشرين الاول الماضي وذلك بسبب مخالفة وكلائها للضوابط والتعليمات التي وضعتها واعتمدتها الوزارة. <br/>ونقل البيان عن مدير عام دائرة التموين والتخطيط وكالة صادق حسين سلطان أن دائرته قامت في الشهر ذاته بتدوير اثنتين وثمانين وكالة ومنح ثمان وخمسين وكالة ودمج احدى وعشرين وكالة واستحداث خمس وكالات جديدة واعادت مئة واحدى وتسعين وكالة.</p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 1.5em"><font color="#800000">الاخبار الامنية</font></span></strong></p> <p><strong>الجيش الامريكي يعلن عن مقتل احد جنوده في العراق</strong></p> <p>اعلن الجيش الامريكي في العراق عن وفاة احد جنوده متاثرا بجراح اصيب بها نتيجة حادث سير في العراق. <br/>وذكر بيان للجيش الامريكي ان الجندي ينتمي الى الفرقة (متعددة الجنسيات – شمال) وانه نقل الى احدى المستشفيات حيث توفي هناك. <br/>ولم يكشف البيان عن مزيد من التفاصيل مكتفيا بالاشارة الى ان اسم الجندي والوحدة العسكرية التي ينتمي لها ستعلن بعد ان تقوم وزارة الدفاع الامريكية بابلاغ ذويه. <br/>وبمصرع الجندي ترتفع حصيلة قتلى القوات الامريكية في العراق منذ بدء حرب حرية العراق في مارس 2003 ولغاية الان الى 4363 قتيلا بينهم سبعة قتلوا خلال الشهر الجاري.</p> <p><strong>العثور على عبوة ناسفة في محطة لتعبئة الوقود بتكريت </strong></p> <p>عثرت الشرطة المحلية عصر الثلاثاء، على عبوة ناسفة كانت مزروعة في احدى محطات الوقود وسط تكريت مركز محافظة صلاح الدين. <br/>وذكر مصدر امني خلال تصريح صحفي ان عملية العثور تمت اثر معلومات وردت من احد المواطنين قام على إثرها فريق من مكافحة المتفجرات بابطال مفعول العبوة دون خسائر تذكر ، علما ان المحطة المذكورة كانت قد استهدفت سابقاً ولمرات عديدة.</p> <p><strong>انفجار عبوة ناسفة على دورية للجيش العراقي في مدينة بعقوبة </strong></p> <p>انفجرت، مساء الثلاثاء، عبوة ناسفة على دورية للجيش العراقي في منطقة المفرق وسط مدينة بعقوبة مركز محافظة ديالى. <br/>وذكر مصدر امني خلال تصريح صحفي ان انفجار العبوة أدى الى جرح اثنين من افراد الجيش تم نقلهما الى مستشفى بعقوبة العام لتلقي العلاج، فضلاً عن إعطاب العجلة التي كانت تقلهم وهي من نوع همر، مشيرا الى انه تم اعتقال خمسة مشتبه بهم اثر مداهمات نفذتها الاجهزة الامنية في تلك المنطقة على خلفية الحادث. <br/>على صعيد متصل ألقت فرقة تابعة للشرطة العراقية بمحافظة ديالى القبض على تسعة من المطلوبين في ناحية بهرز الواقعة جنوب بعقوبة وذلك وفق معلومات استخباراتية.</p> <p>شهدت العاصمة بغداد وبعض المحافظات العراقية اليوم الثلاثاء 17/11/2009 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 <span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="color: red">العاصمة بغداد</span></span> حيث عثرت قوات الجيش العراقي اليوم على سيارة مفخخة في ناحية سبع البور 30 كم غرب العاصمة، وتمت عملية العثور بعد ابلاغ السلطات الامنية الذي تمكنت بدورها من تفكيك السيارة دون وقوع اي حادث. كما ضبطت قوات الجيش العراقي سيارة مفخخة أخرى نوع هوندا بيضاء اللون في قضاء الاسكندرية جنوب بغداد، بعد ورود معلومات من أحد المواطنين عن وجود سيارة مركونة قرب احد الاسواق وتم تفكيكها والعثور على كمية من المتفجرات بداخلها تقدر بكيلو ونصف من مادة تي ان تي شديدة الانفجار. وعلى صعيد أخر القت القوات الامنية القبض على ثلاثة ارهابين ينتمون الى تنظيم القاعدة الاجرامي في قضاء الطارمية شمال بغداد، بعد ورود معلومات استخباراتية تفيد بوجودهم في احدى المزارع القريبة من القضاء. وفي في منطقة باب الشرقي وسط العاصمة تمكنت قوات الجيش العراقي اليوم من القاء القبض على عصابة تزوير مكونة من أربعة، بعد حملة دهم وتفتيش داخل احدى مقاهي المنطقة، حيث ضبطت بحوزتهم هويات احوال مدينة مزورة واختام لعدد من دوائر الدولة ومبلغ من المال (30) الف دولار. من جانب اخر عثرت قوات الجيش العراقي اليوم على ثلاث عبوات ناسفة كانت موضوعة في احد الاسواق الشعبية في منطقة هور رجب جنوب العاصمة، حيث فرضت القوات الامنية طوقاً امنياً داخل السوق وقامت باستدعاء خبير المتفجرات الذي تمكن بدوره من تفكيك العبوات دون وقوع أي حادث يذكر. كما عثرت احدى دوريات نجدة قاطع المثنى اليوم على عبوة ناسفة كانت موضوعة داخل سيارة بالقرب من مرآب العلاوي وسط العاصمة، بعد وصول بلاغ من صاحب السيارة يفيد بوجود عبوة ناسفة داخل سيارته، وتم ابطال مفعول العبوة وتفكيكها دون وقوع خسائر تذكر. وننتقل الى <span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="color: red">محافظة نينوى</span></span> إذ تمكنت قوات الجيش العراقي من اعتقال خمسة ارهابين في كل من منطقتي في منطقتي الرشيدية وحي العربي بمدينة الموصل مركز المحافظة. وفي منطقة تل الرمان غرب مدينة الموصل ألقت دورية تابعة للواء الموصل شرطة إتحادية اليوم القبض على ثلاثة مطلوبين قضائياً. وعلى صعيد أخر عثرت دورية تابعة للفرقة الثانية على جثتين تعودان الى رجل وامراة مجهولتي الهوية كانتا مرمية على جانب طريق بغداد – الموصل السريع، وعليهما اثار اطلاقات نارية عليهما في منطقتي الراس والجسم. كما عثرت دورية تابعة للفرقة الثالثة/ الجيش العراقي على كدس للعتاد في قضاء سنجار 120 كم غرب مدينة الموصل، وتمت عملية العثور خلال عملية تفتيش في قرية أم الحصن التابعة للقضاء المذكور. في وقت نجا قاضي محكمة تحقيق قضاء ربيعة عبد الكريم محمد صادق من محاولة اغتيال اثناء عودته الى منزله في ناحية العياضة 80 كم غرب مدينة الموصل. حيث قام مسلحين مجهولين بفتح نار اسلحتهم على موكب القاضي اثناء عودته الى منزله، ما ادى الى اصابة سائقه بجروح بليغة. أما في <span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="color: red">محافظة البصرة</span></span> ألقت مفارز تابعة لمديرية شرطة البصرة اليوم الثلاثاء القبض على 19 متهماً بقضايا جنائية مختلفة وتسعة من المشتبه بهم، بعد عملية أمنية طالت عدد من مناطق المحافظة. وفي <span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="color: red">محافظة بابل</span></span> ألقت الأجهزة الأمنية اليوم القبض على احد الجناة بعد قيامه بخطف احد الاطفال البالغ من العمر 10 سنوات في قضاء المحاويل 20 كم شمال مدينة الحلة مركز محافظة بابل ومن قتله ودفنه في حديقة داره. وقال مدير شرطة محافظة بابل اللواء فاضل رداد "ان خطة أمنية وضعتها المديرية بالتنسيق مع شركة الاتصالات المتنقلة وذوي المجني عليه وبمشاركة قاضي تحقيق الحلة تم التوصل من خلالها الى الجاني الذي اعترف خلال التحقيق بقيامه باختطاف الطفل الذي يدعى آدم خضير منذ خمسة أيام ومن ثم قتله ودفنه في حديقة داره"، مبينا "ان الجاني اعترف خلال التحقيق على متهمين آخرين مشتركين معه في الجريمة يجري البحث عنهم حاليا دون ان يبين الدوافع لارتكابه الجريمة". وعلى الصعيد ذاته تمكنت قوات الجيش العراقي اليوم من القاء القبض على (3) مطلوبين بقضايا ارهابية في مشروع المسيب شمال محافظة بابل، بعد ورود معلومات استخباراتية تفيد بمناطق تواجدهم في المدينة. والى محافظة الأنبار حيث أنفجرت عبوة ناسفة مستهدفة منزل احد منتسبي مديرية شرطة الفلوجة في منطقة دور السمنت، واسفر الأنفجار عن تدمير المنزل واصابة شخصاً واحداً بجروح بليغة. كما انفجرت عبوة ناسفة اخرى كانت مزروعة على جانب الطريق الرئيسي في منطقة الشهداء الاولى وسط ناحية الصقلاوية شمال مدينة الفلوجة، و لم يسفر الانفجار إلا اضراراً مادية بالمحال المجاورة لموقع الانفجار". وأخيراً في <span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="color: red">محافظة ديالى</span></span> إذ انفجرت عبوة ناسفة مستهدفة دورية تابعة للجيش العراقي في منطقة المفرق وسط بعقوبة مركز المحافظة، وادى انفجار العبوة الى اعطاب عجلة نوع همر وجرح اثنين من افراد الجيش تم نقلهم الى مستشفى بعقوبة العام لتلقي العلاج، كما تم اعتقال خمسة من المشتبه بهم في المنطقة المجاورة لمكان الحادث اثر مداهمات نفذتها الاجهزة الامنية بحثاً عن منفذي الهجوم".</p> <h3><font color="#800000">اخبار متفرقة من العراق</font></h3> <p><strong>هيئة الاعلام تكشف عن وجود محطات تلفازية تعمل بدون تراخيص</strong></p> <p>اشارت هيئة الاعلام والاتصالات الى وجود 25 محطة تلفازية تعمل من دون ترخيص في عدد من المحافظات. <br/>وقال نائب رئيس مجلس الأمناء في الهيئة علي ناصر الخويلدي في تصريح لصحيفة الصباح ان هذا العدد تم كشفه عقب جولة أجرتها ملاكات الهيئة في محافظتي بابل وكربلاء. <br/>وأضاف أنه تم ابلاغ المسؤولين في المحافظتين بضرورة التعاون مع الهيئة في صدد منح العقود والتراخيص للقنوات، مجددا التأكيد ان الهيئة هي الجهة الوحيدة المخولة بمنح التراخيص للقنوات الأرضية أو الفضائية أو الاذاعات في اية محافظة كانت. <br/>وتابع الخويلدي انه تم اكتشاف عدد من تلك القنوات تعمل بغير الترددات المسموح لها بالبث ما يؤثر بالتالي في الاتصالات الخاصة بالطيران المدني.</p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-7419"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/10/06/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a5%d8%ab%d9%86%d9%8a%d9%86-5-%d8%a3%d9%83%d8%aa%d9%88%d8%a8%d8%b1-2009/#respond" title="Comment on الإثنين, 5 أكتوبر 2009">No Comments</a></span> Posted on October 6th, 2009 by Editors</div> <h3><a 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الماضي في مدينة كركوك والتي يتولى الاكراد ادارتها امنيا بمعاونة الاحتلال الامريكي . <br/>مصدر مطلع قال ان الشرطة من الاكراد  عثروا  على جثة عماد ايليا عبد الكريم (53 عاما) وعليها اثار طلقات نارية في ساقه وطعنات بالسكين في قدمه اليسرى التي تمزقت اصابعها. <a title="20091005_family_of_christian_nurse_Imad_Elias_Abdul_Karim_mourn_his_murder_by_kidnappers by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/3984303814/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: inline; margin: 10px 0px 10px 15px" height="201" alt="20091005_family_of_christian_nurse_Imad_Elias_Abdul_Karim_mourn_his_murder_by_kidnappers" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819im_/http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2620/3984303814_b9ff1efd62_o.jpg" width="300" align="right"/></a> <br/>وتجمع عشرات من المسيحيين امام منزله للمشاركة في تشييعه. <br/>وعبد الكريم موظف في قسم الحسابات في دائرة الصحة في كركوك (255 كلم شمال بغداد). وكان متزوجا وله ابن وابنة يدرسان الهندسة في سوريا. <br/>وتصاعدت في الاونة الاخيرة العمليات التي استهدفت المسيحيين في كركوك وخصوصا النخب من رجال ونساء واطباء ما دفع بمعظم هؤلاء الى الرحيل. <br/>وقال رئيس اساقفة المدينة للكلدان لويس ساكا امس الاحد ان "عشر عائلات اي حوالى ستين شخصا، غادرت المدينة خلال الاسبوع الماضي فقط نظرا للخوف السائد في اوساطهم واستمرار استهدافهم لدوافع سياسية او بسبب الجهل الديني".</p> <p><strong>رئاسة اسقفية كركوك للكلدان يندد باستهداف المسيحيين في العراق </strong></p> <p>ناشدت رئاسة اسقفية كركوك للكلدان الجهات الحكومية الى العمل على الحفاظ على ارواح المواطنين. وقالت الاسقفية في نداء لها ان من يرمي لان يكون المسيحيون هدفا للتهديد والخطف والقتل لمكاسب سياسية فاسلوبه غير شريف. وشهدت مدينة كركوك خلال الاشهر الماضية استهدافا مباشرا للمسيحيين من عمليات قتل وخطف وابتزاز اخرها اختطاف مدني مسيحي في حي المعلمين بكركوك</p> <p><strong>عائلات مسيحية عدة تغادر كركوك بسبب الخوف واستمرار استهدافهم </strong></p> <p>اعلن رئيس اساقفة كركوك للكلدان لويس ساكو ان عائلات مسيحية عدة بدأت تغادر المدينة المتعددة القوميات والمتنازع عليها بسبب الخوف واستمرار استهدافهم . واضاف ساكو لوكالة الصحافة الفرنسية ان عشر عائلات ، اي زهاء ستين شخصا، غادرت المدينة خلال الاسبوع الماضي فقط نظرا للخوف السائد في اوساطهم واستمرار استهدافهم لدوافع سياسية او بسبب الجهل الديني . وناشد الاسقف ساكو الحكومة والجهات الرسمية وجميع الشرفاء في العراق وخصوصا في محافظة كركوك العمل على حماية المسيحيين، فهم عراقيون اصيلون لا يشكك احدا في اخلاصهم لوطنهم وفي صدقهم ووفائهم لعملهم . وتابع ان عليهم ان لا يدعوا الوضع الامني يتدهور لدوافع سياسية او غيرها فهو امر ليس في صالح اي جهة، وطالب بالحفاظ على حياة المواطن ايا كان فاستهداف المسيحيين اعتداء واهانة لكيان اصيل وعريق له دوره في بناء الوطن وحضارته وثقافته </p> <p><a title="irak_syria_02 by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/3983356237/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: inline; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px" height="200" alt="irak_syria_02" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819im_/http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2592/3983356237_721d24432c_o.jpg" width="300" align="right"/></a><strong>أياد السامرائي: العلاقة العراقية السورية تشوبها أزمة أمنية وحلها يقع على عاتق البلدين</strong></p> <p>أكد رئيس مجلس النواب أياد السامرائي على أن المسائل العالقة مع دول الجوار لا تحل عن طريق الاتهامات عن بعد ، لكنها تحل عند اجتماع الطرفين على طاولة الحوار. <br/>وقال السامرائي في تصريح لوكالة الصحافة المستقلة إن قضية تدويل الخلافات مع الجمهورية العربية السورية طرحت في وقت الغضب والفورة الشعبية العارمة بعد التفجيرات التي حدثت يوم الأربعاء الدامي والبحث عن المسبب والمقصر في هذا الأمر، مضيفا ان العلاقة العراقية السورية تشوبها أزمة أمنية ومعالجتها تقع على عاتق البلدين، مشيرا إلى أن الجانب الأمني هو موضع الخلاف لذا على الجانبين أيجاد صيغة لمعالجة هذا الخلاف يمكن ان يكون عن طريق لجنة أمنية عليا تبحث ما عند الجانبين من أدلة بخصوص هذا الموضوع.</p> <p><strong>جمعية الدفاع عن حقوق الصحفيين تطالب بفتح تحقيق عاجل على خلفية الإعتداء على صحفي في السليمانية</strong></p> <p>طالبت الجمعية العراقية للدفاع عن حقوق الصحفيين حكومة وبرلمان اقليم كردستان بفتح تحقيق عاجل ونزيه للوقوف على حقيقة وملابسات قضية الاعتداء على الصحفي بختيار سعيد يوم الخميس الماضي في محافظة السليمانية. <br/>وقالت الجمعية في بيان لها نشرته وكالة الصحافة المستقلة إن مكتب الجمعية في الإقليم نقل معلومات عن قيام عناصر مسلحة مجهولة بإحراق سيارة الصحفي بختيار سعيد الذي يعمل في عدة وسائل إعلام محلية ويسكن في حي ابراهيم باشا في نفس المحافظة. <br/>وأوضح البيان ان سعيد ابلغ مكتب الجمعية في الإقليم بأن هذا الاعتداء جاء ردا على انتقادات وجهها لحكومة الإقليم وسياساتها الداخلية وما يتعلق منها بسير ونتائج الانتخابات الأخيرة خلال مقابلة إذاعية مع إذاعة كوران المحلية.</p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 1.5em"><font color="#800000">الاخبار الامنية</font></span></strong></p> <div style="border-right: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: lightgrey 1px solid; width: 360px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: lightgrey 1px solid"> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 1.5em">الاخبار الامنية</span></strong></p> <p><strong>مقتل واصابة 16 شخصا اثر تفجير انتحاري استهدف مجلس عزاء في حديثة غرب العراق </strong></p> <p>قتل ستة اشخاص واصيب نحو 16 اخرين في حديثة غرب العراق <br/>مصدر مطلع قال  ان مهاجما انتحاريا فجر نفسه اليوم في مجلس عزاء بمحافظة الانبار غرب العراق ما أدى الى مقتل ستة مدنيين. <br/>ان الحادث وقع في بلدة حديثة غرب محافظة الانبار. <br/>واوضح ان الانفجار تسبب بمصرع ستة اشخاص واصابة نحو 10 اخرين بجراح متباينة نقلوا على اثرها الى احد المستشفيات لتلقي العلاج</p> <p><strong>اطلاق سراح معتقلي تكريت بعد موجة احتجاجات واسعة واحزاب نينوى تواصل اعتراضها على العملية الامنية </strong></p> <p>بينما اعلن مصدر مسؤول في تكريت اطلاق سراح المصلين الذين شهدت محافظة صلاح الدين احتجاجات واسعة اثر القاء القبض عليهم، واصلت احزاب سياسية في نينوى تسجيل اعتراضها على عملية امنية تقوم بها قوات الامن في ضواحي الموصل "بدون التنسيق مع السلطات المحلية" <br/>واكد المستشار الاعلامي لرئيس مجلس تكريت ان ضغوطا من مختلف الجهات داخل محافظة صلاح الدين مثل مجلس المحافظة والمحافظ وهيئات وشخصيات اجتماعية داخل المدينة ادت الى الافراج عن المصلين الذين جرى اعتقالهم الجمعة باستثناء واحد منهم. <br/>وأوضح ان سبب الاحتجاج كان اعتقال المصلين دون التنسيق مع السلطات الامنية المحلية، موضحا انه لا مبرر لذلك بعد خروج القوات الاميركية من المحافظة وتسليم ملف الامن الى السلطات المحلية. <br/>في غضون ذلك انتقد الشيخ عبد الله حميدي الياور الذي يتزعم حركة العدل والاصلاح في نينوى، على الاجراءات الامنية التي اتخذتها الحكومة المركزية خلال الايام الماضية. <br/>وكان مصدر عسكري اعلن امس الاول اعتقال اكثر من 150 "مطلوبا" قضائيا في الموصل، وسط اعتراض من اعضاء في مجلس محافظة نينوى. واعترض مسؤول الامن في مجلس نينوى عبد الرحيم الشمري على تجاهل القوة سلطات المحافظة والعمل من دون ترخيص منها، ونحن ننتظر الرد من الحكومة حول الموضوع. <br/>وأوضح الياور انه يؤيد معاقبة المجرمين الذين تلطخت ايديهم بدماء الناس لكننا نرفض الاجراءات الحكومية المتبعة في طرق الاعتقال عن طريق القوات الخاصة متسائلا في الوقت نفسه ما معنى قوات خاصة في ظل وجود قوة امنية تابعة للمحافظة ويمكنها اتخاذ الاجراءات الامنية المناسبة لتنفيذ مذكرات الاعتقال؟. <br/>واعتبر الياور ان الحكومة لاتدير حملاتها وخططها لفرض القانون بطريقة ناجعة بدليل انها تقوم في الاسبوع الاول من بدء اية خطة باعتقال 500 او 1000 شخص بشكل غير مخطط له، ثم تعود الامور الى سابق عهدها. <br/>الياور وصف حملة الاعتقالات التي نفذتها الاجهزة الامنية بأنها "عشوائية" مضيفا ان قوات الامن اعتقلت اكثر من 100 شخصية كبيرة ومعروفة في الموصل وعاملتهم بطريقة سيئة واعتبروا مجرمين دون ان يتضح ما الذي فعلوه. <br/>وشدد على ان اهالي نينوى بين نار الحكومة ونار تنظيم القاعدة، في وقت نطمح بالقضاء على المرض الذي هو تنظيم القاعدة ومساعدة المريض الذي هو المواطن. </p> <p><b>إعتقال مجموعة مسلحة بينهم أربعة من قياديي تنظيم القاعدة في الانبار</b></p> <p>إعتقلت قوات الشرطة في محافظة الانبار مجموعة مسلحة مكونه من 13 شخصا بينهم أربعة من قادة تنظيم القاعدة في منطقة الجزيرة وسط مدينة الرمادي غرب بغداد. <br/>وذكرت مصادر في الشرطة أن من بين المعتقلين جميل عبود الدليمي شقيق خليل الدليمي محامي رئيس النظام السابق صدام حسين . <br/>مضيفة أن المجموعة متورطة بشن هجمات على ضاحية الحامضية شمال الرمادي والتي استهدفت الشرطة وأسفرت عن مصرع وإصابة عدد من عناصر قوات الأمن العراقية الأسبوع الماضي. <br/>وأشارت المصادر إلى أنه تم كذلك اعتقال القيادي السابق في حزب البعث هاني نصار رجا مع عدد من أقربائه بتهمة صناعة عبوات ناسفة ودعم المسلحين خلال عملية أمنية في منطقة الحوز وسط الرمادي. <br/>كما إعتقلت قوات الشرطة ثلاثة أشخاص يشتبه بانتمائهم الى الجماعات المسلحة وقيامهم باستهداف قوات الشرطة وذلك في عملية امنية شمال قضاء هيت غربي الرمادي.</p> </p></div> <p><font color="#800000"><strong>واع / جانب من اعمال العنف والعمليات العسكرية في عموم العراق حتى مساء الاثنين / تقرير</strong></font></p> <p>شهدت العاصمة وعدد من المحافظات العراقية حتى مساء اليوم الاثنين 5/10/2009 اعمال عنف متفرقة راح ضحيتها عدد من العراقيين بين شهيد وجريح كما نفذت القوات الامنية عمليات عسكرية في مناطق مختلفة ففي العاصمة بغداد فرضت القوات الامنية صباح اليوم طوقا على منطقة حي الامين الثانية على خلفية مقتل احد منتسبي القوات الامنية على يد احد المواطنين .وذكر شهود عيان  ان القوات الامنية كثفت من تواجدها في منافذ المنطقة المذكورة ومخارجها تحسباً لحدوث اي طارئ خلال مراسيم التشييع التي ستتم بعد قليل من حسينية محسن الحكيم. من جهة اخرى انفجرت سيارة مفخخة كانت مركونة قرب اللواء الثاني في منطقة ابو غريب غرب العاصمة بغداد . وذكر مصدر امني ان" القوات الامنية فرضت طوقا امنيا حول مكان الحادث وهرعت سيارات الاسعاف لنقل المصابين ولم يذكر المصدر اي تفاصيل اخرى ". ويذكر ان اربعة مواطنين اصيبوا يوم امس اثناء الرمي العشوائي للقوات الامنية لتفريق المارة. وفي <span style="color: red"><strong>بابل</strong></span> القت قوات الشرطة العراقية اليوم القبض على شخص متورط بالقيام باعمال ارهابية وسط مدينة الحلة مركز محافظة بابل. وذكر مصدر امني ان القوات الامنية القت القبض على الشخص المذكور اثناء مراجته لمستشفى الحلة مدعياً انه سقط من مكان مرتفع وعند دخوله الى باب المستشفى لتفتيشه اشر جهاز الكشف عليه حيث تأكد من وجود اثار مواد متفجرة في ملابسه وتم احالتهم الى الجهات التحقيقية. من جهة اخرى عثرت قوات الشرطة العراقية على كمية من مادة (تي ان تي ) المستخدمة في صناعة المتفجرات داخل ضريح اولاد مسلم في قضاء المسيب شمال مدينة الحلة مركز محافظة بابل . ذكرذلك مصدر امني مضيفا ان "عملية العثورجاءت بعد ورود معلومات استخباراتية تم على اثرها فرض طوق امني من قبل قوات الشرطة حول الضريح والعثور على المادة المتفجرة وتسليمها الى الجهات المختصة ". يذكر ان ضريح اولاد مسلم الواقع شمال مدينة الحلة تعرض قبل اسابيع الى ثلاث تفجيرات متفاوتة اثر عبوات ناسفة راح ضحيتها (9) شهداء وجرح اكثر من(50)مدني اغلبهم من الزوار . من جانب اخر القت قوات الشرطة القبض على (2) من تنظيم القاعدة الارهابي مسؤوليين عن تفجير العبوة يوم امس في الحصوة 50 كم شمال الحلة ". وقال مصدر امني ان" التحقيقات التي اجرتها الجهات المختصة اكدت ضلوع هؤلاء الارهابيين بتخطيط وتنفيذ جميع العمليات الارهابية في مناطق شمال الحلة ينتمون للقاعدة الاجرامية تحت اسم (تنظيم الجنة) وهم من سكنة جرف الصخر ". وفي <span style="color: red"><strong>الموصل</strong></span> القى اللواء السابع عشر في الجيش العراقي اليوم القبض على اثنين من المطلوبين في قرية الشمسيات التابعة لناحية حمام العليل 30كم جنوب مدينة الموصل مركز محافظة نينوى. وذكر مصدر امني ان اللواء قام بعملية دهم وتفتيش وبعد ورود معلومات استخباراتية تفيد بوجود المطلوبين تمكنت من القاء القبض عليهم في احدى المقاهي الشعبية في المنطقة المذكورة علماً ان هؤلاء المطلوبين صادرة بحقهم مذكرة القاء قبض من المحاكم المختصة. وفي <span style="color: red"><strong>الانبار</strong></span> عثرت شرطة محافظة الانبار اليوم على جثتين مجهولتي الهوية في منطقة (الحميره) 15كم غرب مدينة الرمادي مركز المحافظة. وذكر مصدر في الشرطة ان" الجثتين مضى على رميهما في المنطقة المذكورة مدة تزيد على اربعة اشهر تعود احداهما لاحد افراد الشرطة والثانية لمدني حسب تقرير الطب الشرعي بمستشفى الرمادي". ويذكر ان محافظة الانبار تشهد حاليا استقراراً امنياً ملحوظاً بعد ان شهدت في الفترة التي تلت سقوط النظام السابق احداثا امنية دامية راح ضحيتها عدد كبير من المواطنيين نتيجة لسيطرة الجماعات المسلحة المرتبطة بتنظيم القاعدة الارهابي. من جانب اخر عثرت قوات الشرطة العراقية في مدينة الفلوجة على كدس للاسلحة والعتاد في قرية المختار القريبة من المدينة منها معدات واعتدة لاسلحة خفيفة ومتوسطة . وقال العقيد محمود فياض عبيد العيساوي مدير شرطة الفلوجة "وردتنا معلومات من قبل العنصر السري الموجودة الى مراكز شرطة منطقة حضيري عن وجود عدد من الاسلحة الخفيفة والثقيلة في منطقة قريبة من مدينة الفلوجة وهي قرية المختار وتم توجيه مفرزة من الشرطة الى المنطقة المذكورة حيث تم العثور على سبطانة مدفع هاون عيار 82 ملم وقاعدة لمدفع هاون اخر عيار 60 ملم عدد واحدفضلأً عن ثلاث قنابر هاون عيار 120 ملم و37 قنبرة نوع 120 ملم و قذائف مختلفة الانواع والاحجام". واضاف العيساوي "كما تم ضبط 16 صاروخ كاتيوشا وثلاث بدنات رشاش بي كي سي واربع حاويات لعتاد بي كي سي وثلاثة رؤوس لصواريخ 81 ملم مع عدد من صواعق التفجير واربعة صفائح مادة تي ان تي شديدة الانفجار ومواد اخرى , مشيرأً الى ان تلك المعلومات زردت من بعض المواطنين دلالة على تعاون الاهالي مع مدير ية شرطة الفلوجة كون قسم من هذه الاسلحة معدة للتفجير والاخر معدة لزرع العبوات" . وفي <span style="color: red"><strong>الموصل</strong></span> اصيب 25 عنصرا من قوات البيشمركة الكردية بجروح اثر تفجير انتحاري استهدف رتلهم بالقرب من ناحية ربيعة في قرية (المنيف) شمال مدينة الموصل مركز محافظة نينوى . وذكر مصدر امني في تصريح نقله مراسل (وكالة انباء الاعلام العراقي / واع ) ان شخصا انتحاريا فجر نفسه على الرتل ، مشيرا الى ان المصابين نقلو الى مستشفى زاخو بمحافظة دهوك لتلقي العلاج . من جهة اخرى انفجرت عبوة ناسفة مساء اليوم كانت مزروعة على احدى الشوارع الرئيسية في منطقة المثنى شمال مدينة الموصل مركز محافظة نينوى . وذكر ذلك مصدر ان العبوة استهدفت دورية للشرطة العراقية واسفرت عن استشهاد احد افراد الدورية واصابة 2 اخرين بجروح متوسطة نقلوا على اثرها الى المستشفى القريب ،بالاضافة الى الحاق اضرار مادية بسيارة الدورية والمحلات التجارية القريبة من الحادث. وفي السياق نفسه هاجم مسلحون مجهولون مساء هذا اليوم نقطة للتفتيش تابعة للجيش العراقي في منطقة حي التحرير شمالي مدينة الموصل مركز محافظة نينوى . وذكر مصدر امني ان "البهجوم اسفر عن استشهاد احد افراد النقطة واصابة اخر بجروح بينما لاذ المهاجمون بالفرار.</p> <h3><font color="#800000">الاخبار السياسية</font></h3> <table cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" width="95%" border="1"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="400"> <p><b>مكتب السيستاني ينفي ما اشيع حول مقاطعة المرجعية للإنتخابات</b></p> <p>نفى مصدر مسؤول في مكتب المرجع الديني الاعلى سماحة السيد علي السيستاني ما اشيع من معلومات حول دعوة المرجعية الى مقاطعة الإنتخابات المقبلة في العراق. <br/>واضاف المصدران السيستاني اعرب عن رغبته العمل بالقائمة المفتوحة والدوائر المتعددة في الإنتخابات المقبلة. <br/>وكانت وكالة فرانس برس ذكرت بان مسؤول في مكتب المرجع الأعلى قال إن السيد السيستاني يؤيد القائمة المفتوحة وفي حال استمر الوضع على أساس القائمة المغلقة فقد لا يكون للمرجعية الدينية العليا دور كبير في دفع الناخب العراقي للمشاركة في العملية الانتخابية.</p> </td> <td valign="top" width="400"> <p><strong>السيستاني يهدد بمقاطعة الانتخابات في حال عدم اقرار القائمة المفتوحة</strong></p> <p>النجف (العراق) (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.iraq-ina.com/showthis.php?type=1&tnid=42965" class="external" target="_blank">ا ف ب</a>) – المح المرجع الشيعي اية الله علي السيستاني الاثنين الى مقاطعة الانتخابات التشريعية في حال عدم اقرار القائمة المفتوحة الكفيلة "بمشاركة اوسع للناخبين. </p> <p>وقال مسؤول في مكتب المرجع لوكالة فرانس برس ان السيستاني يؤيد القائمة المفتوحة وفي حال استمر الموضوع على اساس القائمة المغلقة قد لا يكون للمرجعية الدينية العليا دور كبير في دفع الناخب العراقي للمشاركة في العملية الانتخابية". </p> <p>واضاف نعتقد ان القائمة المفتوحة احدى الوسائل التي توفر حضور الناخب بشكل اوسع وقد اثيرت هذه المسالة في اطار اللقاء الاخير لدى زيارة ممثل الامين العام للامم المتحدة (آد ملكيرت) امس الاحد. </p> <p>وختم المصدر ان السيستاني بين وجهة نظره لممثل الامين العام بهذا الخصوص.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><strong>حزب الدعوة الاسلامية يؤيد القائمة المفتوحة</strong></p> <p>قال عضو مجلس النواب عن كتلة الائتلاف العراقي الموحد القيادي في حزب الدعوة الاسلامية علي العلاق ان القائمة المفتوحة هي الانسب للانتخابات النيابية المقبلة. <br/>واضاف العلاق في تصريح صحفي ان القائمة المفتوحة هي الخيار الافضل للانتخابات المقبلة وحزب الدعوة الاسلامية سيكون معها ، مبينا ان القائمة المفتوحة ستمنح الناخب حرية الاختيار ويتحمل هو مسؤولية اختياره. <br/>وشدد العلاق على اهمية ان يحسم قانون الانتخابات في اقرب وقت ممكن لكي تتمكن مفوضية الانتخابات من انجاز عملها وتجري الانتخابات في وقتها المقرر.</p> <p><strong>جبهة التوافق تجدد الدعوة الى اعتماد القائمة المفتوحة في الانتخابات المقبلة</strong></p> <p>جددت جبهة التوافق العراقية دعوتها الى اعتماد نظام القائمة المفتوحة في الانتخابات البرلمانية المقبلة . <br/>وقال الناطق الرسمي لجبهة التوافق سليم عبد الله الجبوري في تصريح صحفي ان الاثار السلبية للمرحلة الماضية مازالت تلقي بظلالها على الواقع السياسي والامني في البلاد نتيجة تطبيق نظام القائمة المغلقة التي اوجدت نوابا لم يمثلوا تطلعات الشعب العراقي بشكل صحيح. <br/>واشار الجبوري الى ان الضغط باتجاه اعتماد نظام القائمة المغلقة وعدم اعطاء فرصة للشعب في انتخاب ممثليه بشكل علني ، سيسبب عزوف المواطنين عن الانتخابات المقبلة وبالتالي ستكون العملية غير ناجحة مما يجعل تشكيل الحكومة في المرحلة المقبلة غير مرغوب فيها من قبل الشعب .</p> <p><b><a title="Fawzi_Akram_Tarzi_02" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/3983001829/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: inline; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px" alt="Fawzi_Akram_Tarzi_02" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819im_/http://static.flickr.com/3432/3983001829_9e5d4619b9.jpg" align="right" border="0"/></a>الكتلة التركمانية الوطنية تعلن إنضمامها إلى الائتلاف الوطني الجديد</b></p> <p>أعلنت قوى سياسية تركمانية عن تشكيل الكتلة التركمانية الوطنية لخوض الانتخابات البرلمانية المقبلة ، وانضمامها إلى الائتلاف الوطني لخوض الانتخابات المقبلة. <br/>وأكد عضو الكتلة النائب فوزي أكرم في تصريح صحفي أن الكتلة تتكون من حركة الوفاء التركمانية وحزب تركمان إيلي والتيار الصدري محور الشمال والمجلس الأعلى محور الشمال ومنظمة بدر محور الشمال وعدد من القوى والتيارات الأخرى. وكانت قوى تركمانية أخرى من بينها الاتحاد الإسلامي التركماني برئاسة النائب عباس البياتي قد انضمت إلى ائتلاف دولة القانون في وقت يرى سياسيون تركمان أن تشكيل قائمة موحدة لخوض الانتخابات المقبلة يعد أمرا صعبا.</p> <p><b>العرب والتركمان في كركوك يرفضون إجراء التعداد العام للسكان</b></p> <p>قال رئيس القائمة العربية في كركوك محمد خليل الجبوري إن القوى السياسية في كركوك تجمع على رفضها إجراء التعداد السكاني في الوقت الراهن. <br/>واوضح في تصريح صحفي له نشر اليوم الاثنين أن أي تعداد في الوقت الراهن يؤدي الى تعميق الخلاف ونحن مصممون على رفض المشاركة في هذا التعداد حسب قوله. <br/>من جانبه قال أحد اعضاء مجلس المحافظة عن التركمان فضل عدم الكشف عن إسمه إن اجراء التعداد سيسهم في شرعنة وترسيخ التجاوزات التي حدثت حسب تعبيره. <br/>يذكر أن وزير التخطيط علي بابان أعلن أمس بدء الخطوات الأولى استعداداً للاحصاء السكاني في عموم البلاد من دون إستثناء في تشرين الاول عام 2010، رغم تحفظات بعض الكيانات السياسية.</p> <p><strong>محمود عثمان يدعو الى اجراء الانتخابات في كركوك مع المحافظات الاخرى</strong></p> <p>قال محمود عثمان النائب عن التحالف الكردستاني ان الاكثرية النيابية مع اجراء الانتخابات في محافظة كركوك في السادس عشر من كانون الثاني عام 2010. <br/>واضاف عثمان في تصريح صحفي ان كركوك فيها اشكال في قانون الانتخابات وهناك بعض الاعتراضات من العرب والتركمان حولها الا ان الاكثرية من النواب يرغبون باجراء الانتخابات فيها بالموعد المحدد. <br/>واوضح عثمان ان قانون الانتخابات فيه بعض الاشكاليات ، منها ما يتعلق بموضوع الدوائر الانتخابية وعمر المرشح ونوع القائمة ، مفتوحة ام مغلقة. <br/>واشار الى ان الوقت ضيق لدى مجلس النواب لتمرير هذا القانون ويجب العمل اكثر من اجل اقراره في الوقت المحدد.</p> <p><strong>صالح المطلك يصف الكتل السياسية المؤتلفة حاليا بالطائفية</strong></p> <p>إنتقد رئيس الكتلة العربية للحوار الوطني صالح المطلك الائتلافات السياسية التي شكلّت مؤخراً لخوض الانتخابات النيابية المقبلة، متهماً إياها بالعمل وفق المنهج الطائفي. <br/>وقال المطلك خلال مؤتمر صحفي عقده بقصر المؤتمرات ببغداد إنه يأسف لأن كل الكتل السياسية التي شكلت ادعت بأنها وطنية وبعيدة عن الطائفية ، إلا إنها لا تزال تحتفظ بصبغتها الطائفية المسيطرة عليها. <br/>ودعا المطلك الكتل السياسية التي لا تزال تتمسك بمشروعها الطائفي ان تبتعد عن ادعاءاتها أنها ابتعدت من وسط الى وسط اخر، مضيفا أنه مع الجهة التي لا تؤمن بوجود مناطق متنازع عليها في العراق، وتبقى حدود المحافظات كما رسمت سابقاً، وأن اي نزاع حول المناطق المتنازع عليها لا يخدم مصالح احد، حسب تعبيره.</p> <p><b>الحيدري يبدي استعداده للمثول أمام مجلس النواب</b></p> <p>أبدى رئيس المفوضية العليا المستقلة للانتخابات فرج الحيدري استعداده للمثول أمام مجلس النواب للإجابة على الأسئلة والاستفسارات. <br/>وأوضح الحيدري في تصريح صحفي أن الأسئلة التي ستوجه للمفوضية تتعلق بمواضيع كوتا المرأة والنتائج التي حصل عليها بعض المرشحين وتعيين المدراء العامين ، واسباب تأخير انتخابات الأقضية والنواحي.</p> <p><b>بابان: يعلن بدء الخطوات الخاصة باحصاء السكان</b></p> <p>اعلن وزير التخطيط علي بابان عن بدء الخطوات الاولى استعدادا للاحصاء السكاني في عموم البلاد دون استثناء وذلك في تشرين الاول 2010، وسط معارضة من العرب والتركمان في كركوك. <br/>وقال بابان في تصريح صحفي له ان عمليات الترقيم والحصر ستنطلق خلال الاسبوع الحالي ، مؤكدا انها ستشمل اقليم كردستان ونينوى وكركوك. <br/>واضاف وزير التخطيط ان العمليات التي توفر قاعدة بيانات مهمة، ستبدا في المناطق الحضرية ثم تنتقل الى الارياف ،موضحا انه فرقا من وزارات التربية والبلديات والتخطيط و التي يبلغ عدد افرادها اكثر من عشرين الف شخص ستتولى العمل خلال مرحلة الاحصاء.</p> <p><b>البياتي: دولة القانون لم تناقش إختيار المالكي لولاية ثانية</b></p> <p>أكد القيادي في إئتلاف دولة القانون عباس البياتي أن الائتلاف لم يناقش اختيار نوري المالكي لولاية ثانية وهذا الامر سيخضع الى الالية الداخلية حسب النظام الداخلي. <br/>واضاف في تصريح صحفي له نشر اليوم الاثنين أن المالكي يمثل عنوانا بارزا لهذه الكتلة ونجاحاتها حسب تعبيره . <br/>مشيرا إلى أن إئتلاف دولة القانون يؤمن بالارادة الوطنية وتداول السلطة عبر صناديق الاقتراع وعلى الدولة احترام إرادة الناخب.</p> <h3><font color="#800000">الاخبار الاقتصادية</font></h3> <p><strong>وزارة الصحة توافق على بناء مستشفى في الشطرة من القرض الياباني</strong> </p> <p>قررت وزارة الصحة انشاء مستشفى في مدينة الشطرة شمال الناصرية ضمن القرض الياباني للعراق ، مؤكدا ان العمل سيبدا بعد ستة اشهر من الان . <br/>ونقلت وكالة نينا عن مصدر في مجلس محافظة ذي قار ان وزير الصحة صالح مهدي الحسناوي ابلغ وفدا من المجلس خلال لقائه بالوفد ببغداد الاسبوع الماضي بالموافقة على انشاء المستشفى وان العمل فيه سيبدأ بعد 6 اشهر.</p> <h3><font color="#800000">اخبار متفرقة من العراق</font></h3> <p><strong><a title="muntazer_al-Zaidi_caption_arabic" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/3292828922/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: inline; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px" alt="muntazer_al-Zaidi_caption_arabic" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126012819im_/http://static.flickr.com/3487/3292828922_f72a7e5a67.jpg" align="right" border="0"/></a>منتظر الزيدي :يطالب باسترجاع الحذاء حتى اذا اضطر الى اللجوء للقضاء الدولي</strong></p> <p>بغداد: أكد الصحفى العراقى منتظر الزيدي تمسكه بالحذاء الذي رمي به الرئيس الأمريكي السابق جورج بوش والذى استولت عليه القوات العراقية ، مشيراً إلى أنه لن يتنازل عنه وسيطالب باسترجاعه حتى إذا اضطر إلى اللجوء للقضاء الدولي.وأضاف الزيدي :أن التقارير الطبية تثبت أنه تعرض للتعذيب وإصابته بكسر في الأنف والعين وإصابته بآلام شديدة نتيجة 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