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حقوق المواطنين الأكثر استضعافاً وعرضة للخطر، لا سيما النساء والمحتجزين، يتم انتهاكها بشكل متكرر مع الإفلات من العقاب. أجرت هيومن رايتس ووتش بحوثها في سبع مدن في شتى أنحاء العراق أثناء عام 2010 وانتهت إلى أنه مع استمرار العنف والجريمة في العراق، فإن انتهاكات حقوق الإنسان تقع بوفرة.</p> <p>تقرير "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.hrw.org/node/95608" class="external" target="_blank">عند مفترق الطرق: حقوق الإنسان في العراق بعد ثماني سنوات من الغزو بقيادة الولايات المتحدة</a>" الذي جاء في 102 صفحة يدعو الحكومة إلى حماية حقوق الجماعات والفئات المستضعفة وإلى تعديل قانون العقوبات وجميع القوانين الأخرى التي تميز ضد النساء وتخرق الحق في حرية التعبير. ويدعو التقرير أيضاً بغداد إلى فتح تحقيقات نزيهة ومستقلة في جميع مزاعم الإساءات بحق المحتجزين والأقليات والصحفيين.</p> <p>وقال جو ستورك، نائب المدير التنفيذي لقسم الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا في هيومن رايتس ووتش: "بعد ثماني سنوات من الغزو الأمريكي، فالحياة في العراق تتدهور بالنسبة للنساء والأقليات، بينما الصحفيون والمحتجزون يواجهون انتهاكات حقوقية جسيمة. اليوم يقف العراق على مفترق الطرق – إما أن يتبنى مبادئ إجراءات التقاضي السليمة وحقوق الإنسان، وإلا فهو في خطر التحول إلى دولة بوليسية".</p> <p>الغزو في عام 2003 وما تلاه من فوضى أدى لتكبد المدنيين العراقيين خسائر فادحة. تدهور الوضع الأمني أدى لعودة بعض ممارسات العدالة التقليدية والتطرف السياسي المدفوع بتوجهات دينية، مما كان له أثر سلبي على حقوق النساء، داخل البيت وخارجه، كما تبينت هيومن رايتس ووتش.</p> <p>روجت الميليشيات لأفكار كراهية المرأة واستهدفت النساء والفتيات بالاغتيالات والترهيب لإبعادهن عن المشاركة في الحياة العامة. وبشكل متزايد تتعرض النساء والفتيات للوقوع ضحايا في بيوتهن نفسها، بسبب جملة من التعديات المتصورة للمرأة على شرف الأسرة أو المجتمع. وتنتشر ظاهرة الإتجار بالنساء والفتيات داخل وخارج العراق لأغراض الاستغلال الجنسي.</p> <p>وقال جو ستورك: "تحملت النساء والفتيات العراقيات أكبر الأعباء في هذا النزاع وما تلاه من انعدام للأمان". وتابع: "بالنسبة للنساء العراقيات المتمعات ببعض أعلى مستويات تدابير الحماية الحقوقية والمشاركة الاجتماعية في المنطقة قبل عام 1991، كان ما حدث غصة مريرة في الحلق يصعب تحملها".</p> <p>رغم التحسن الذي طرأ على الحالة الأمنية منذ عام 2008 مما أدى لانخفاض معدلات قتل العاملين بالإعلام، إلا أن الصحافة مهنة خطيرة في العراق، على حد قول هيومن رايتس ووتش. قام متطرفون ومعتدون مجهولون بقتل صحفيين وتفجير مقارهم ومكاتبهم. وتزايد تعرض الصحفيين للمضايقات والترهيب والتهديد والاحتجاز والاعتداءات البنية من قبل قوات الأمن التابعة للمؤسسات الحكومية والأحزاب السياسية. كما يسارع المسؤولون الحكوميون بمقاضاة الصحفيين ومطبوعاتهم إذا كتبوا عنهم موضوعات انتقادية.</p> <p>وقال جو ستورك: "مع مشاهدة ما حدث في شوارع مصر وتونس، على الحكومة العراقية أن تتخذ خطوات ملموسة من أجل حماية حرية التعبير".</p> <p>كما انتهت هيومن رايتس ووتش إلى أن المحققين العراقيين لجأوا بشكل ممنهج إلى الإساءة للمحتجزين، بغض النظر عن طائفتهم، وفي العادة يسيئون إليهم لانتزاع الاعترافات. ورغم معرفة وجود خطر التعذيب الواضح، فإن السلطات الأمريكية أحالت آلاف المحتجزين العراقيين إلى الحبس طرف السلطات العراقية، التي استمرت في ممارسة التعذيب القائم منذ عصر صدام حسين وقوات التحالف من بعده.</p> <p>بينما أصدرت الحكومة قوانين لحماية بعض جماعاتها المُهمشة، وفي بعض الحالات بادرت بفتح برامج مساعدات هامة، فإنها ما زالت تخفق في حماية بعض أضعف الفئات من المواطنين العراقيين، على حد قول هيومن رايتس ووتش. الأشخاص النازحون داخلياً والأقليات وأصحاب الإعاقات من بين الأكثر عرضة للخطر. الكثير من المساعدات الحكومية وبرامج الحماية لا تعمل بكامل طاقتها أو غير كافية لبلوغ أكثر من يحتاجون إليها.</p> <p>وقالت هيومن رايتس ووتش إن هناك أكثر من 1.5 مليون عراقي فروا من أحيائهم السكنية مع تمزيق العنف الطائفي لتجمعاتهم السكنية في عامي 2006 و2007. الآلاف من النازحين داخلياً يعيشون حالياً في بنايات مهجورة استوطنوها، دون توفر الضروريات الأساسية لديهم، مثل المياه النظيفة والكهرباء والصرف الصحي، على حد قول هيومن رايتس ووتش.</p> <p>أما الجماعات المسلحة التي تتبنى الأفكار المتطرفة فقامت بتنفيذ هجمات على الأقليات، أدت إلى ضرر بالغ لحق بجماعات من السكان الأصليين في العراق، وأجبرت الآلاف على الفرار إلى خارج البلاد دون نية للعودة. أخفقت الحكومة أيضاً في وقف الهجمات التي استهدفت الصابئة المندائيين والمسيحيين والأزديين، بالإضافة إلى جماعات أخرى.</p> <p>واكتشفت هيومن رايتس ووتش أن الآلاف ممن بُترت أطرافهم والجرحى خلال سنوات النزاع المسلح وجدوا أنفسهم وقد تحولوا إلى هامش المجتمع، غير قادرين على العثور على عمل، أو الحصول على رعاية طبية ملائمة، أو حتى الحصول على أطراف صناعية جديدة ومقاعد متحركة.</p> <p>وقال جو ستورك: "مستقبل العراق كمجتمع ديمقراطي يعتمد على احترام حقوق الإنسان الأساسية، سوف يستند إلى حد كبير على ما إذا كانت السلطات العراقية ستدافع بالشكل الكافي عن هذه الحقوق" وتابع: "حتى تعمل على تحقيق هذا، على السلطات العراقية تشكيل نظام عدالة جنائية موثوق يفي بالمعايير الدولية الخاصة بالتعذيب وحرية التعبير والعنف ضد المرأة وغيرها من الجماعات المستضعفة في المجتمع العراقي".</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/02/21" class="external" target="_blank">العراق: المواطنون من الشرائح المستضعفة في خطر | Human Rights Watch</a></p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12428"> <div 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Human Rights Watch conducted research in seven cities across Iraq during 2010 and found that, beyond the country’s continuing violence and crimes, human rights abuses are commonplace.</p> <p> <div style="border-right: black 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: black 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: black 1px solid; width: 300px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: black 1px solid"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2011/02/02/crossroads" class="external" target="_blank">Read the Report</a> <br/>ISBN: 1-56432-736-1</p> <p><strong><font size="3">Get the Report</font></strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/iraq0211W.pdf" class="external" target="_blank">Download this report</a> (PDF, 708.78 KB)</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.kintera.org/site/apps/ka/ec/product.asp?c=dhLOK6PGLoF&b=3444291&en=jkLOI1PLKjKTL6OQJ9KMKbMULnKZI8ONJbKVKgP0JuLbG&ProductID=903595" class="external" target="_blank">Purchase this report in print</a></li> </ul></div> <p> The 102-page report, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.hrw.org/node/95606" class="external" target="_blank">At a Crossroads: Human Rights in Iraq Eight Years After the US-led Invasion</a>," calls on the government to protect the rights of vulnerable groups and to amend its penal code and all other laws that discriminate against women and violate freedom of speech. The report also urges Baghdad to open independent and impartial investigations into all allegations of abuse against detainees, minorities, and journalists.</p> <p>"Eight years after the US invasion, life in Iraq is actually getting worse for women and minorities, while journalists and detainees face significant rights violations," said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "Today, Iraq is at a crossroads – either it embraces due process and human rights or it risks reverting to a police state."</p> <p>The 2003 invasion and its resulting chaos have exacted an enormous toll on Iraq’s citizens. The deterioration of security has promoted a return to some traditional justice practices and religiously inflected political extremism, which have had a deleterious effect on women’s rights, both inside and outside the home, Human Rights Watch found.</p> <p>Militias promoting misogynist ideologies have targeted women and girls for assassination, and intimidated them to keep them from participating in public life. Increasingly, women and girls are victimized in their own homes for a variety of perceived transgressions against family or community honor. Trafficking in women and girls in and out of the country for sexual exploitation is widespread.</p> <p>"The women and girls of Iraq have borne the biggest brunt of this conflict and resulting insecurity," Stork said. "For Iraqi women, who enjoyed some of the highest levels of rights protection and social participation in the region before 1991, this has been an enormously bitter pill to swallow."</p> <p>Although improvements in security since 2008 have reduced the murder rate of media workers, journalism is a hazardous occupation in Iraq, Human Rights Watch said. Extremists and unidentified assailants kill journalists and bomb their offices. Increasingly, journalists find themselves harassed, intimidated, threatened, detained, and physically assaulted by security forces attached to government institutions or political parties. Senior politicians are quick to sue journalists and their publications for unflattering articles.</p> <p>"Watching what’s happened in the streets of Egypt and Tunisia, the Iraqi government should take meaningful steps to protect freedom of speech," said Stork.</p> <p>Human Rights Watch also found that Iraqi interrogators routinely abuse detainees, regardless of sect, usually to coerce confessions. Despite knowing there was a clear risk of torture, US authorities transferred thousands of Iraqi detainees to Iraqi custodians, who have continued a tradition of torture that was also the case under Saddam Hussein and coalition forces.</p> <p>While the government has passed laws to protect some of its marginalized communities, and in some cases has instituted significant assistance programs, it is still failing some of its most vulnerable citizens, Human Rights Watch said. Internally displaced persons, minorities, and persons with disabilities are among those at risk. Many of the government’s assistance or protection programs are sub-operational or are insufficient to reach those who need it most.</p> <p>More than 1.5 million Iraqis fled their neighborhoods as sectarian violence tore up their communities in 2006 and 2007. Thousands of internally displaced persons now live in squatter settlements without access to basic necessities such as clean water, electricity, and sanitation, Human Rights Watch said.</p> <p>Armed groups proclaiming intolerant ideologies carry out assaults on minority communities, causing grave harm to Iraq’s indigenous populations and forcing thousands to flee abroad with no plans to return. The government has failed to stop attacks targeting Sabian Mandaeans, Christians, and Yazidis, among other groups.</p> <p>And the thousands of amputees wounded during years of armed conflict find themselves relegated to the margins of society, unable to find work, access adequate medical care, or even to obtain new prostheses and wheelchairs, Human Rights Watch found.</p> <p>"Iraq’s future as a democratic society based on respect for fundamental human rights will in large part depend on whether Iraqi authorities will adequately defend those rights," Stork said. "To do so, Iraqi authorities need to establish a credible criminal justice system meeting international standards with respect to torture, free expression, and violence against women and other vulnerable people in Iraq’s society."</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/02/21/iraq-vulnerable-citizens-risk" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq: Vulnerable Citizens at Risk | Human Rights Watch</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10918"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/06/06/selected-english-coverage-why-i-think-al-jazeeras-got-their-coverage-of-the-al-jubouri-assassination-wrong/#comments" title="Comment on Selected English Coverage: Why I Think Al Jazeera got their coverage of the al-Jubouri Assassination Wrong">1 Comment</a></span> Posted on June 6th, 2010 by Omar Khdhayyir</div> <h3><a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/violation-of-human-rights/" rel="tag">violation of human rights</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>Al Jazeera have a report on the assassination of Faris Jassim al-Jubouri entitled "<a title="Iraq politician shot dead in Mosul" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/06/201065112649147845.html" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq politician shot dead in Mosul</a>" their report is below, from this report and other local reports several things are known:</p> <ul> <li>The murder was committed by men in army uniform (not in police uniforms as al Jazeera’s report says the difference is important for reasons I’ll explain below). </li> <li>The death squad went from house to house in the village claiming to be searching for mortars. </li> <li>Several residents said that the men in uniform sounded "strange" – this is a codeword for saying that they spoke Arabic with a non-Arabic accent. </li> <li>The account given by the family is different from al Jazeera’s — the family say that the death squad dragged him out of the house and shot him down there. </li> </ul> <p>Al Jazeera’s account makes much of the fact that the victim was a replacement candidate for the Iraqiya list headed by Iyad Allawi, and the claim by two Iraqiya politicians Intisar Allawi and  Maysoun Damlouji  that this is part of an ongoing campaign of murder and intimidation against the Iraqiya list, for reasons I explain below I think al-Jazeera have got their coverage of this murder of a relatively unknown politician wrong: </p> <div style="width: 98%;"> <div class="container"> <div class="shadow"> <div class="frame"> <h3>Iraq politician shot dead in Mosul </h3> <blockquote><p>An Iraqi politician from the Iraqiya bloc has been shot dead by armed men in the northern city of Mosul, officials say. <br/>Police say unknown assailants shot Faris Jassim al-Jubouri early on Saturday in his home in Mosul about 350km north of Baghdad.</p> <p>No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.</p> <p>The Iraqiya bloc of former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi narrowly won elections in March, beating the coalition led by Nouri Maliki, the incumbent prime minister. <br/>Al-ubouri was a candidate on Iraqiya’s list for parliament but did not win a seat in the 325-seat assembly.</p> <p>Al-Jubouri was the third candidate from the party to be killed in the past two weeks.</p> <h4>Killing ‘political’ </h4> <p>A police source, who asked not to be named, said al-Jubouri was shot dead by gunmen in police uniform.</p> <p>He said the men searched several homes in al-Jubouri’s village saying they were looking for mortars. <br/>On entering his home, "they tied up his brother and when he came downstairs they opened fire and killed him," he told the Reuters news agency. <br/>The Iraqiya party says al-Jubouri was killed for political reasons. <br/>Maysoun Damlouji, the spokeswoman for Iraqiya described the attack as one in a string of killings "clearly targeting the Iraqiya list."</p> <p>Two other Iraqiya candidates were gunned down in February and May. <br/>"Iraqiya was targeted before the election, and the attacks are continuing," Intisar Allawi, a senior Iraqiya official, told Reuters.</p> <p>"We don’t know who we will lose next. We call on the government to provide protection for winning candidates."</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/06/201065112649147845.html" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq politician shot dead in Mosul – Middle East – Al Jazeera English</a></p> <p> </div> </p></div> </p></div> </p></div> <p style="margin-top: 12px; padding-top: 10px;">Based on the evidence available to me there is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that Iraqiya list politicians and organisers were targeted prior to the election and that the campaign of murder and intimidation to which they have been subjected is continuing. I do not however believe that the murder of  Faris al-Jubouri was part of that campaign:</p> <ul> <li>The murder was committed by "men in army uniform" not as al-Jazeera’s report has it by men police uniform. The difference is important. It is relatively easy to get army uniforms and relatively difficult to get hold of police uniforms. The army in Mosul consists either of Peshmerga units or of Arab units known to be heavily infiltrated by persons loyal to the Badr brigade and its political sponsors. By contrast the police in that part of Mosul are widely trusted by the populace because they believed to neutral in the performance of their duties. Put plainly that means that they are not politically infiltrated by Kurdish nationalists or by sectarian political parties such as Badr. </p> <p>Moreover the identities of the police are known to the local populace a group of men masquerading as police would be quickly unmasked and attacked. </li> <li>Most importantly of all there is also the matter of al-Jubouri’s past: <p><em><strong> Faris Jassim al-Jubouri had been an airforce pilot under the Ba’athist government overthrown by the American invaders. <br/></strong></em> <br/>Since the American invasion there has been a long-running death-squad campaign against former armed forces commanders and officers. </li> <li>This death squad campaign has in particular targetted former Airforce pilots, especially those who like al-Jubouri flew sorties against the Iranians.</li> </ul> <p>I can understand why Iraqiya list politicians such Intisar Allawi and Maysoun Damlouji, would see al-Jubouri’s murder as part of a campaign against their party. There is no doubt that al-Iraqiya politicians and organisers are being subjected to a campaign of murder and intimidation. Nor is there any doubt in my mind that the current government, which is led by their political enemies, has deliberately ignored their pleas that they be given police protection.</p> <p>But I do not believe that this particular murder is linked to the political standoff between Dawa and Iraqiya, it is I think, further evidence that the death squad campaign against former army and air force officers has been reignited.</p> <p>Omar Khdhayyir </p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10794"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/29/patrick-cockburn-a-stable-iraq-is-still-a-very-long-way-off/#respond" title="Comment on Patrick Cockburn: A stable Iraq is still a very long way off">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 29th, 2010 by Fatima Jameel</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/29/patrick-cockburn-a-stable-iraq-is-still-a-very-long-way-off/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Patrick Cockburn: A stable Iraq is still a very long way off">Patrick Cockburn: A stable Iraq is still a very long way off</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/america/" rel="tag">America</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/cockburn-patrick/" rel="tag">Cockburn - 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Hoshyar</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>Seven years after the US and Britain invaded Iraq, the country remains highly unstable and fragmented. So divided are parties and communities that no government has emerged from the general election three months ago, which was intended to be a crucial staging post in Iraq’s return to normality. Political leaders have not even started serious negotiations on sharing power. </p> <p>"I have never been so depressed about the future of Iraq," said one former minister. "The émigré ruling class which came to power after 2003 is terrible. They have no policy other than to see how far they can rob the state."</p> <p>None of this is very apparent to the outside world, because US policy since 2008 has been to declare a famous victory and withdraw its troops. </p> <p>This week the US troop level drops to 92,000, lower for the first time than the number of American soldiers in Afghanistan. The US military wants to maintain the myth that it somehow turned round the war in Iraq by means of "the surge" and emerged successfully from the conflict.</p> <p>This claim was always exaggerated. The insurgency against the US occupation was rooted in the Sunni Arab community, and when this was defeated by Shia government and militia forces in 2006-7, the Sunni had little choice but to look for an accommodation with the Americans. The most important change in Iraq was more to do with the outcome of the Shia-Sunni struggle than US military tactical innovations. This is why American generals are finding that the "surge" in Afghanistan this year, supposedly emulating success in Iraq, is showing such disappointing results. </p> <p>The foreign-policy dominance of the military over civilian arm of the US government was reinforced by the Iraq war. Only this week the US Senate voted an extra $33bn for the military "surge" in Afghanistan, while the State Department gets only an extra $4bn. This is on top of $130bn for Iraq and Afghanistan this year already voted by Congress. </p> <p>In Iraq, violence is far less than three years ago, and in this sense the country is "better" than it was when 3,000 bodies of people killed in the sectarian slaughter were being buried every month. But periodic al-Qa’ida attacks are still enough to create a sense of unease. To prevent them, the streets of Baghdad are so clogged with checkpoints and concrete blast walls that it is difficult to move through the city. </p> <p>It is not so much the continuing, though much diminished, level of violence which worries Iraqis. The failure to replace the lame-duck government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki highlights the depth of sectarian and ethnic divisions between Shia, Sunni and Kurd. It was easy enough to forecast the outcome of the election by assuming that most voters would vote according to their communal loyalties. </p> <p>These divisions, exacerbated by recent massacres, are not going to go away. But what makes them so destructive is the poor quality of leadership of the political parties, with the partial exception of the Kurds. </p> <p>The former minister quoted above said that his fear was that Iraq had acquired a kleptomaniac ruling elite that runs the government as a racket.</p> <p>Some Iraqis cynically take refuge in the belief that the state is so dysfunctional at the best of times that the failure to put in place a new government makes little difference. There is something in this argument, but there are signs in Baghdad that the failure to agree a new government is beginning to paralyse Iraq’s rickety administrative machine. </p> <p>For instance, 111,000 new state jobs cannot be filled without a decision by parliament, and even minor decisions are not taken. One political leader complained that he could not even get somebody to renew the permits for his bodyguards’ weapons. </p> <p>The communal divisions and political paralysis lead some Iraqis to fear that Iraq is turning into another Lebanon. Power will be so fragmented that no decision can be taken, job allocated or long-term policy pursued. </p> <p>The Iraqi commentator and political scientist Ghassan Attiyah believes "a de facto partition will happen". As in Lebanon, internal divisions open the way to foreign intervention. </p> <p>The Iraqi foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, points to the increasing role of Iraq’s neighbours, led by Iran and Turkey, whom Iraqi politicians have invited in. "As a result it was not just an Iraqi election but a regional election," says Mr Zebari. As in Lebanon, the involvement of foreign powers, with their own interests at heart, may stabilise the situation temporarily but it also complicate and institutionalises Iraq’s problems. </p> <p>The analogy with Lebanon can be overdrawn. Unlike Lebanon or Afghanistan, Iraq has oil and the revenues to create a strong state and army. "Iraqis are so volatile and so violent that only the oil will keep them together," says Mr Attiyah. The under-exploited super-giant oil fields which international oil companies are now developing means that oil revenues should start increasing rapidly in about two years’ time. </p> <p>Iraq does not have to solve all or even the majority of its problems to make life better for its people who have endured 30 years of foreign and civil wars, occupation and sanctions. Iraqi Kurdistan, so autonomous that it is almost independent, has many of the failings of the rest of Iraq, such as corruption and a vast government payroll that leaves little money for investment. But the Kurdish political leadership is strong enough and secure good enough for the region to begin to boom. Cranes dominate the skyline of Arbil, the Kurdish capital, while there are still very few visible in Baghdad. </p> <p>The reign of the present ruling elite in Iraq may be temporary. Many of the returning émigrés seem to want to plunder as much as they can as soon as they can before relocating to Europe, the US or some sympathetic Arab capital. They may have abler successors. But the failure to form a new government, and the growing perception that the present one is illegitimate, is making Iraq so unstable that it cannot reconstruct itself.</p> <p><strong>Source: </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/patrick-cockburn-a-stable-iraq-is-still-a-very-long-way-off-1986224.html" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>A stable Iraq is still a very long way off</strong></a><strong> by Patrick Cockburn </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.independent.co.uk/" target="_blank" class="external"><strong>The Independent</strong></a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10505"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/15/14th-may-2010-selected-english-language-coverage/#respond" title="Comment on 14th-May-2010 Selected English Language Coverage">No 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The Hilla Husseiniyah bombing also got a lot of coverage. I have sleected an article about the  Danish Refugee council funding an expansion of help for refugees in rural areas of Syria. (Maryam wrote about the Syrian Red Crescent’s MHUs here -  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/21/red-crescent-mobile-health-clinics-reach-out-to-refugees-and-rural-poor/">Red Crescent Mobile Health Clinics Reach Out To Refugees and Rural Poor</a>). The wheat Harvest should be good this year according to the FAO and I have also picked out two feature articles one is commentary "Mosque and State" from Nikolas K. Gvosdev who lectures at  the U.S. Naval War College, the other is the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.nytimes.com/" class="external" target="_blank">New york times</a> profile of Hadi al-Mahdi whose talk radio show is very popular because he is so outspoken. </p> <p>Suheila.</p> <h3 style="color: #800000">Human Rights & Humanitarian:</h3> <p><strong>ReliefWeb » Document » Denmark helps Syria cope with the long-lasting Iraqi displacement </strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>The Danish Refugee Council has established a community centre in Dara’a, where a significant number of Iraqi refugees have found temporary settlement. The centre will be opened on a ceremony May 13 attended by the governor of Dara’a and the Danish ambassador.</p> <p>The ceremony will mark the second step in a plan to expand the response of the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) to Iraqi refugees residing outside Damascus and support the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) in the assistance it provides to refugees and Syrian vulnerable families in areas far from the capital city where the international aid remains concentrated.</p> <p>DRC has been providing educational, vocational training and community services support to Iraqi refugees in Damascus since early 2008. Those services have, since late 2009, been expanded to the countryside cities of Homs and Dara’a.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MYAI-85F3PP?OpenDocument" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <h3 style="color: #800000">Politics and Security</h3> <p> <strong>Baghdad recount completed, ‘no fraud’ | Radio Netherlands Worldwide</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>A manual recount of votes in Baghdad has been completed and no instances of fraud were found there from the March election, electoral commission spokesman Qassim al-Abboudi said on Friday.</p> <p>"We finished the recount of 11,298 ballot boxes and no violations or fraud have been found," he told a news conference in the capital, adding that the results would be released on Monday.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/baghdad-recount-completed-no-fraud" class="external" target="_blank">source</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> <p><em>See also:</em> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://english.aljazeera.net//news/middleeast/2010/05/2010514154641560714.html" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Al Jazeera English – Middle East – Iraq vote recount reveals no fraud</strong></a><strong>:</strong> </p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Kurds urge U.S. intervention to end Iraq stalemate – latimes.com</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Qubad Talabani, the Kurdish region’s representative in Washington, says the U.S. must ‘look out for its interests’ to ensure Iraq has a stable, democratic government.</p> <p>The spokesman for Iraq’s Kurdish region criticized the Obama administration Thursday in Washington for not doing enough to end the current political impasse and urged American officials to embark on "intense shuttle diplomacy" between the deadlocked political parties.</p> <p>Qubad Talabani, who represents the Kurdish regional government in northern Iraq, said U.S. officials in Iraq have had limited involvement in efforts by political parties to form a government in the two months since the inconclusive national elections in March. <br/>Talabani said the Obama administration appeared determined to avoid the perception that it is "trying to concoct a democratic Iraq." But, he said, the U.S. must "look out for its interests" to ensure the country has a stable, democratic government.</p> <p>"It would be a shame to see an undemocratic government, after all the sacrifices," Talabani said in an interview after an appearance at the Nixon Center think tank in Washington.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-fg-us-iraq-20100514,0,7083755,print.story" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Iraq’s new al-Qaida leader vows to continue deadly attacks</strong><strong>: Xinhua</strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>BAGHDAD, May 14 (Xinhua) — Iraqi al-Qaida group has nominated its new leader called "minister of war" and vowed to continue deadly attacks with "dark days in blood color," said a statement posted on a militant website on Friday.</p> <p>The so-called "minister of war" of the Islamic State of Iraq was identified as al-Nasser Lideen Allah Abu Suleiman and he will replace Abu Ayyub al-Musri, who was killed in a military operation by Iraqi and U.S. forces last month.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-05/14/c_13295134.htm" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: Xinhua</strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Al Jazeera English – Middle East – Blast hits Iraq football match: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Suicide bombers have struck a football match in northern Iraq, leaving at least 25 people dead and many more wounded.</p> <p>The blast targeted a game taking place on Friday in the town of Tal Afar, around 60km west of the city of Mosul. </p> <p>A local police official said a car bomb exploded at about 6pm local time (1500GMT) near a crowd of spectators.</p> <p>As people fled the scene of the first blast, two more bombers activated explosive belts in the crowd, the sources said.</p> <p>Local hospital officials put the number of injured at 125.</p> <p>"Many people were gathered to watch the match," Hussein Nashad, who witnessed the attack, told the AFP news agency. </p> <p>"We heard a loud explosion and the people behind me shielded me from the shrapnel. <br/>"I ran away, but then I heard someone shout ‘Allahu-akbar’ [God is greatest], and then there was another explosion," Nashad added, speaking from hospital where he was being treated for shock.</p> <h4>‘Dark days’</h4> <p>Many of the wounded were taken by ambulance to Dahuk, 95km away, because local hospitals were unable to cope with the influx of wounded spectators.</p> <p>Tal Afar is a predominantly Shia Turkomen town and has been a regular target for suicide bombers in the past.</p> <p>The attacks follow blasts in the city last October and July that left dozens of people dead. In March 2007, 152 people were killed when truck bombs targeted markets in the town.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/05/2010514161932327374.html" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>read in full</strong></a><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Blast targeting Shiite mosque leaves 18 injured in Iraq – Monsters and Critics</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Hilla, Iraq – At least 18 people were injured by an explosive device that went off after Friday prayers in Hilla, a police source said.</p> <p>The bomb was planted beside the Shiite Imam al-Kadhim mosque in the city, 100 kilometres south of the south of Baghdad. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1555771.php/Blast-targeting-Shiite-mosque-leaves-18-injured-in-Iraq" class="external" target="_blank">source</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Iran Frees Iraqi Soldier in Border Incident – ABC News</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Iran released an Iraqi border patrol officer Friday after he was detained briefly when Iraqi border guards were mistaken for Kurdish rebels on a northern stretch of the two countries’ border, an official said.</p> <p>The guard was released unharmed Friday evening, said Brigadier General Ahmed Gharib, head of Iraq’s border guards in Iraq’s northern Kurdish province of Sulaimaniya.</p> <p>"It was a misunderstanding. It’s not the first time it has happened," Gharib said. <br/>Officials said Iranian troops fired into the air after mistaking the Iraqis for rebels Thursday.</p> <p>There was no exchange of fire between the two sides in the incident, contrary to some reports, said Major General Jabbar Yawar, spokesman for Iraq’s Kurdish peshmerga security forces.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=10650140" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong></strong></p> <p><strong></strong></p> <h3 style="color: #800000">Society and Economy:</h3> <p> <strong>Iraq expects bumper wheat harvest this year</strong><strong>: </strong><strong>Azzaman in English</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Good weather conditions will help Iraq reap up to 2 million tons of wheat this year, according to U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).</p> <p>Last year grain production declined drastically in the country due to severe drought. The drop in yields turned Iraq into one of the world’s largest wheat importers.</p> <p>Last year’s wheat produce was in the range of 1 million tons while Iraq’s needs are estimated at more than 4 million tons.</p> <p>Iraq’s wheat imports just from the U.S. cost the treasury up to $1.4 billion last year. <br/>Iraq’s reliance on food imports has increased and widened. The country currently imports vegetables and fruits as well as grains, meat, chicken, legumes, sugar and tea.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2010-05-14%5Ckurd.htm" class="external" target="_blank">source</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <h3 style="color: #800000">Commentary and Analysis</h3> <p> <strong>Mosque & State</strong><strong>: by Nikolas K. Gvosdev  The National Interest: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <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: 250px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: lightgrey 1px solid"> <p>Nikolas K. Gvosdev, a senior editor at The National Interest, is a professor of national-security studies at the U.S. Naval War College. The views expressed are entirely his own</p> </p></div> <p>The accord signed in recent weeks between the two leading Iraqi Shiite political blocs—the Iraqi National Alliance and the State of Law party—has not only cleared the way for a new government to be formed in Iraq, but also, for the first time, has explicitly guaranteed a role for the senior Shiite clergy. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has been named as the final, binding arbiter for any disputes among the members of the governing coalition. “The marjaiya [the assembly of the most senior ayatollahs] has the final say in solving all the disputes between the two sides and its directives and guidance are binding,” the agreement states.</p> <p>Seven years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, the Shiite clergy, who already exercised a great deal of behind-the-scenes influence over the political process, have now been given a more public role. True, this is not a constitutional mandate; the clerics have no formal power to interfere with government policy. And if the current Shiite coalition should dissolve (or lose power in subsequent elections), the agreement would not be binding on future governments. Nevertheless, this development is quite at odds with the vision of a secular Iraq that many Americans believed would be created in the wake of Hussein’s ouster.</p> <p>However, Iraq is not on the verge of being transformed into an Arab version of Iran’s Islamic Republic. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s novel innovation—creating a clerical “guardian” to oversee the state (velayat-e faqih) as an Islamic version of Plato’s philosopher-king—was rejected by the Shiite clergy of Iraq.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.nationalinterest.org/PrinterFriendly.aspx?id=23400" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>:</strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Saturday Profile – Hadi al-Mahdi, a Strident Political Voice on Iraqi Radio – NYTimes.com</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>HADI AL-MAHDI, a man you might call the Rush Limbaugh of Iraq, bounded up the stairs to a radio studio in a converted villa beside the Tigris River. “Today,” he said, with impish determination, “we are going to defend the Sunnis.”</p> <p>For the next hour Mr. Mahdi, a Shiite married to a Kurd, did just that. In a sonorous, sarcastic voice, he ridiculed the murky process that disqualified Sunni candidates in Iraq’s recent elections as an assault on the multiethnic, multifaith democracy Iraq is supposed to be creating.</p> <p>As the sun set on another dusty Baghdad evening rush, he condemned not only the man behind the disqualifications (“He’s illiterate.”) but also Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki (“Is there glue in your chair?”), Mr. Maliki’s main challenger in the election, Ayad Allawi; the ministers of education and electricity, “this dirty Parliament” and the rest of Iraqi officialdom “living in the Green Zone, while your family is living abroad.” <br/>“Who is going to die? Your son?”</p> <p>Mr. Mahdi’s program — “To Whoever Listens” on Radio Demozy, FM 104.1 — is a thrice-weekly, populist jeremiad of all that is wrong with Iraq’s fledgling democracy, and one measure of what the overthrow of Saddam Hussein has done for it.</p> <p>His is not the only radio talk show in Iraq, but it is arguably the most breathtaking exercise of free speech in a place where its limits are still being established. It is, by some accounts, one of the most popular programs on the air in Baghdad. It is, without question, immensely entertaining.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/15/world/middleeast/15mahdi.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10375"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/06/6th-may-2010-selected-english-language-coverage/#respond" title="Comment on 6th-May-2010 Selected English Language Coverage">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 6th, 2010 by Diya al din</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/06/6th-may-2010-selected-english-language-coverage/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to 6th-May-2010 Selected English Language Coverage">6th-May-2010 Selected English Language Coverage</a></h3> <p 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<li><strong>Hussein al-Shahristani on the agreement between Baghdad and the Kurdish Separatists on oil revenues</strong> <p>"We reached an agreement with the Kurds that all revenues will be handed over to SOMO and the Iraqi government will be responsible for paying the extraction expenses in Kurdistan," </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.france24.com/en/20100506-iraqi-govt-resolves-oil-row-with-kurds" class="external" target="_blank">source</a> </li> </ul> <h3 style="color: #800000">Human Rights:</h3> <p><strong>France24 – Iraqi Kurdish journalist kidnapped and killed</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>The family of a Kurdish journalist and student who was kidnapped and killed held his funeral on Thursday, hours after his corpse was found.</p> <p>Sardasht Osman, a final-year English student at Salaheddin University in Arbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, was found dead overnight in the restive northern city of Mosul officials said. <br/>He had been kidnapped on Tuesday on his university campus in Arbil.</p> <p>"I received a phone call saying a citizen had been kidnapped in Arbil and we informed police," said Marwan Abdulhamid, an official with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the region’s two dominant political parties.</p> <p>"Mosul police informed us at around midnight that they found a corpse with a university ID."</p> <p>Osman, 22, worked as a journalist for the magazine Ashtiname ("Letter for Peace" in Kurdish) and as an English-Kurdish translator.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.france24.com/en/20100506-iraqi-kurdish-journalist-kidnapped-killed" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>MI5 told all evidence in torture trials will be heard in public – Home News, UK – The Independent</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Six former detainees at Guantanamo Bay have won their legal battle to have their claims against the Government heard in public.</p> <p>In a far-reaching judgment on the principle of open justice, the Court of Appeal yesterday overturned a previous ruling which would have allowed MI5 to use secret evidence to defend itself against claims it was complicit in unlawful detention and torture.</p> <p>Last year, the High Court ruled that there was no reason in law why the court could not allow a "closed material procedure" to be used in a claim for damages. <br/>This would mean that the Government and the secret services would not have to disclose information to the claimants’ lawyers if they felt that doing so would damage the interests of national security, the UK’s international relations, the detection and prevention of crime, or was likely to harm the public interest in some way.</p> <p>It was proposed that any sensitive material would be disclosed to "special advocates" – barristers who had been given security vetting and clearance but who could not discuss the evidence with the six claimants. <br/>But yesterday the Master of the Rolls, Lord Neuberger, said the court would "take a stand" against secrecy that the judges said would undermine the "most fundamental principles of common law"</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mi5-told-all-evidence-in-torture-trials-will-be-heard-in-public-1962557.html" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>MoD asked Red Cross to look into Iraq birth defects – Home News, UK – The Independent</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>"On DfID’s request," said Mr Thomas, "the ICRC has discussed this [reports of a rise in foetal abnormalities] with the technical director of Al-Fallujah General Hospital as well as another doctor based there. Both responded that although there were occasional cases of foetal abnormalities, these did not exceed two to three cases per year."</p> <p>In another letter written in January this year Mr Thomas said that because of the continuing dearth of reliable information on such cases, DfID had formally asked the Iraqi Ministry of Health to release any data regarding the claims.</p> <p>Allegations that the British Government was complicit in the use of chemical weapons linked to an upsurge in child deformity cases in Iraq are being investigated by the Ministry of Defence.</p> <p>The legal case, which is being prepared for the High Court by Public Interest Lawyers, specifically raises serious questions about the UK’s role in the American-led offensive against the City of Fallujah in the autumn of 2004 in which hundreds of Iraqis died.</p> <p>After the battle, in which it is alleged that a range of illegal weaponry was used against the civilian and insurgent population, evidence has emerged of large numbers of children being born with severe birth defects. Iraqi families who believe their children’s deformities are caused by the deployment of the weapons have begun legal proceedings against the UK Government. <br/>They accuse the UK Government of breaching international law, war crimes and failing to intervene to prevent a war crime.</p> <p>Lawyers for the Iraqis have sent a letter before action to the Ministry of Defence asking the Government to disclose what it knows about the Army’s role in the offensive, the presence of prohibited weapons and the legal advice given to the then prime minister, Tony Blair.</p> <p>Last month the World Health Organisation said it was investigating evidence of a worrying rise in the incidence of birth defects in the city which Iraqi doctors attribute to the use of chemical weapons in the battle.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mod-asked-red-cross-to-look-into-iraq-birth-defects-1964491.html" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Sex slave girls face cruel justice in Iraq – CNN.com</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Trafficking is a growing problem in Iraq. Some vulnerable women, desperate to support their families, are tricked into it by accepting fake marriage proposals. Many young girls, their parents facing dire economic circumstances, are just sold outright.</p> <p>"In some ways, their fate is worse than death," explained Samer Muscati from Human Rights Watch. "Once they’ve been trafficked, there’s a stigma even though they’re the victims in this horrific situation. They’ve been exploited and they’ve been trafficked to another country with no real recourse."</p> <p>According to Muscati, even if the girls do manage to escape the cruelty of their circumstances, it will be very difficult for them to escape the judgment of their families. <br/>"When they do come back to Iraq, if the family does accept them it’s very difficult because they’ve brought great shame to the family, they’re subjected to honor crimes. And we’ve come across cases where young women have preferred to stay in prison or custody than to be released and to face tribal justice," Muscati said.</p> <p>Rubaie puts it even more bluntly when discussing what little future awaits trafficked girls who manage to return home.</p> <p>"I’m sure the girl’s family won’t take care of her," said Rubaie. "I’m sure that neighbors and relatives and society will judge her, they’ll know that the girl had been a prisoner and the family will be ashamed of her.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/05/04/iraq.women.prisons/index.html?hpt=C2" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a>: </p> </blockquote> <h3 style="color: #800000">Politics and Security</h3> <p><strong>France24 – Kurds vow to back Shiite coalition choice for PM</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Iraq’s main Kurdish political bloc will accept the candidate for prime minister chosen by the new Shiite coalition of incumbent premier Nuri al-Maliki, a top official said on Thursday. <br/>"We will not veto anyone chosen by the alliances to take up the post of prime minister," said Roz Nawri Chawis, the autonomous Kurdish region’s deputy prime minister. <br/>Maliki’s State of Law Alliance and the Iraqi National Alliance (INA) led by Shiite religious groups announced on Tuesday that they were forming a new coalition following the March 7 parliamentary elections. <br/>The move was aimed at squeezing out a secular coalition led by ex-premier Iyad Allawi, whose Iraqiya bloc won the election with 91 seats but failed to build a parliamentary majority. <br/>The new Shiite coalition is also four seats short of the 163 needed to form a parliamentary majority but the Kurdish Alliance, comprised of Kurdistan’s two long-dominant political blocs, has said it will join it.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.france24.com/en/20100506-kurds-vow-back-shiite-coalition-choice-pm" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Bayati: SLC, INA Alliance to speed up forming next government  : National Iraqi News Agency – NINA</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>The leader within the State of Law’s Coalition, Abas al-Bayati, confirmed that "The Alliance between the SLC and the Iraqi National Alliance will participate in speeding up the negotiations for forming the next government and ending the political tensions." <br/>He stated to the national Iraqi News Agency (NINA) "The Alliance between INA and SLC will set a timetable for the negotiations with the other blocs over forming the national partenership government to be able to provide services and represent all Iraqis."</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.ninanews.com/English/News_Details.asp?ar95_VQ=EMFFGH" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Nijeifi criticizes calls to divide Iraq into three areas : National Iraqi News Agency – NINA</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>The leader within the Iraqiya Slate, Usama al-Nijeifi, revealed that "There are calls to divide Iraq into three areas;" criticizing these calls saying "We reject these calls absolutely." <br/>Speaking to the National Iraqi News Agency (NINA) "These calls are dangerous and threaten the unity and the stability of Iraq." <br/>He added "The Alliance between the State of Law’s Coalition and the Iraqi National Alliance gave sectarian image," noting that "The Kurdistani Alliance is having the same attitudes while Iraqiya Slate preserved the national method away from confessionalism."</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.ninanews.com/English/News_Details.asp?ar95_VQ=EMFFID" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Othman: Alliance between SL, NIA to satisfy Iran : National Iraqi News Agency – NINA</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>The Kurdish Alliance’s official, Mahmoud Otham, expressed his dissatisfaction over the new alliance between State of Law (SL) and the National Iraqi Alliance (NIA) considering this move is to satisfy Iran’s demands. <br/>Othman said, “Kurdish leadership is not surprised with this move because on increased pressure on Iraq that threatens its security and independence.” <br/>He added that Iran works, from the start of the election process in intervening in Iraq’s affairs and putting pressure on political sides toward denying the Iraqiya Slate from forming next government.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.ninanews.com/English/News_Details.asp?ar95_VQ=EMFGEH" class="external" target="_blank">source</a></strong><strong>: </strong> </p> </blockquote> <p><strong>IED blast leaves 1 killed, 3 wounded : Aswat Al Iraq</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>“The IED went off at the entrance of the southern Baghdad district of al-Mahmoudiya, leaving one killed and three others wounded,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=131302" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>KUNA : Roadside bomb kills 2 in N. Baghdad – Military and Security – 06/05/2010</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>BAGHDAD, May 6 (KUNA) — Iraqi police said on Thursday that two people were killed in a roadside explosion in Al Mansour district, northern Baghdad. <br/>A source in the Iraqi police told KUNA that the bomb exploded near a flowers auction in Al Mansour district. <br/>The explosion resulted in the death of two people and wounding four others. They were taken to a hospital for treatment, the source added. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2081286&Language=en" class="external" target="_blank">source</a>:</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Woman wounded in central Falluja : Aswat Al Iraq</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>A woman, standing in front of her house in central Falluja, was wounded in a random shooting on Thursday</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=131279" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Hand grenade wounds cop, civilian in Kirkuk : Aswat Al Iraq</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>“Unknown gunmen threw a hand grenade on the guards of Kirkuk police chief near al-Shuhadaa tunnel, central Kirkuk, injuring a policeman and civilian,” Colonel Ahmad Shmerani told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. <br/>“The gunmen tried to escape but police forces managed to arrest two of them</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=131279" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>IED injures 3 civilians in western Anbar : Aswat Al Iraq</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>“The bomb went off near a water tanker truck in al-Qaem district in western Anbar, wounding three civilians, including the driver,” </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=131279" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Al-Qaeda leader captured in Mosul : Aswat Al Iraq</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>“The forces arrested Mahmoud Mohammad Salama, a senior leader of al-Qaeda in Mosul,” </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=131288" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Kirkuk car bomber arrested : Aswat Al Iraq</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>“The detainee, a 29-year-old man who had detonated an explosive vehicle near al-Huweija Hospital on March 22, was captured and is now under investigative custody,”</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=131297" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <h3 style="color: #800000">Society and Economy:</h3> <p><strong>France24 – Iraqi govt resolves oil row with Kurds</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>An oil dispute between Iraq and the autonomous northern region of Kurdistan has been resolved, the central government’s oil minister said in Baghdad on Thursday. <br/>"We reached an agreement with the Kurds that all revenues will be handed over to SOMO and the Iraqi government will be responsible for paying the extraction expenses in Kurdistan," Hussein al-Shahristani told reporters. <br/>SOMO is Iraq’s State Oil Marketing Organisation which deals with sales of crude and other petroleum-based products.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.france24.com/en/20100506-iraqi-govt-resolves-oil-row-with-kurds" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Iraq puts three natural gas fields up for bid – Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Iraq’s oil minister on Thursday invited international energy companies to bid for contracts to develop three untapped natural gas fields. <br/>Hussain al-Shahristani expressed confidence in international interest in the fields, saying that 45 companies with experience in gas projects will submit their offers in the country’s third energy bidding round, set for Sept. 1. <br/>"We have indications that there is renewed interest among companies to compete for these fields," he said in a press conference. <br/>The Akkas gas field near the border with Syria has estimated reserves of 5.6 trillion cubic feet and was originally offered in Iraq’s first round of bidding. It only garnered a single offer, which was declined. <br/>Mansouriya gas field, with reserves of 4.5 trillion cubic feet, is located in the once restive province of Diyala north of Baghdad and received no bids in the round. <br/>The smaller Siba field, with 1.1 trillion cubic feet of reserves and near the border with Kuwait, will be offered up for the first time.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=iraq-puts-three-natural-gas-fields-up-for-bid-2010-05-06" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Iraq offers gas and oil licences – The National Newspaper</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Iraq, the holder of the world’s third-biggest proved oil reserves, has announced its third post-war bidding round for oil and gas licences.</p> <p>This time, Baghdad’s focus will be on developing the nation’s large but mainly overlooked gas resources.</p> <p>Starting on September 1, the Gulf state would seek offers to develop its Akkas, Mansouriya and Siba gasfields, Dr Hussain al Shahristani, the Iraqi oil minister, said yesterday. <br/>Iraq has sought for years to develop gas exports, in addition to expanding domestic supplies of the fuel to burn in power plants.</p> <p>Baghdad had earlier set aside the under-developed Akkas field, near the country’s western border with Syria, to supply the proposed Nabucco pipeline, which was conceived to reduce European dependence on Russian gas. <br/>“This will make Iraq one of the major producers for natural gas,” Ali al Dabbagh, the Iraqi government spokesman, said last week at a business forum in Abu Dhabi, in remarks heralding the gas auction.</p> <p>“Once these fields are put on stream, the production will be used to meet Iraq’s growing energy needs as well as possibly exporting to neighbouring countries or the European Union,” Dr al Shahristani added yesterday. <br/>The minister also said a US$4 billion (Dh14.69bn) joint venture with Royal Dutch Shell to gather and market up to 700 million cubic feet per day of gas produced as a by-product from Iraq’s main southern oilfields had been submitted to the government’s energy committee for approval, more than 18 months after Baghdad signed a preliminary deal with the company.</p> <p>The gas is currently being burnt as “waste” because Iraq lacks gathering and processing facilities.</p> <p>But the deal is controversial because Baghdad negotiated it directly instead of inviting competitive bids, and because it appeared to give Shell a monopoly over gas produced from Iraq’s main oil exporting province of Basra. <br/>Despite the country’s dire need for gas to fuel electricity generation, the agreement could still be overturned in parliament or by the next Iraqi government.</p> <p>In what appeared to be a compromise, Dr al Shahristani said the scope of the final deal would cover only three fields: Iraq’s biggest oilfield, Rumaila; the Zubair field; and West Qurna phase 1, which is being developed by ExxonMobil and Shell.</p> <p>The new bidding round for contracts to develop gasfields that are not associated with oil also faces challenges.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100506/BUSINESS/705069876/1005/rss" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>France24 – Iraq says Kuwait reparations are unsustainable</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Iraq cannot sustain its reparations payments to Kuwait for Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion, which it says are the highest paid by any country in history, Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani said Thursday. <br/>"Iraq has paid Kuwait enormous amounts of compensation for its losses and we do not know of any country in the world that has paid such high sums," Shahristani told reporters in Baghdad. <br/>"The sum of money that Germany paid to France and Britain is less than what Iraq has paid to Kuwait, even though that was a world war and the losses were considerable." <br/>On April 13, Adnan Abdulsamad, head of the Kuwaiti parliament’s budgets committee, said the emirate had so far received 17.5 billion dollars out of the 41.8 billion dollars approved by a United Nations special compensation fund. <br/>"Iraq cannot continue to make these payments and has made this known to the UN Security Council," Shahristani said. "We call on our Kuwaiti brothers to work together with us to forget the past, which has cost our country more than our neighbours."</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.france24.com/en/20100506-iraq-says-kuwait-reparations-are-unsustainable" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Iraqi Airways chief released by British court</strong><strong>: Khaleej Times Online</strong></p> <blockquote><p>A British court released the head of Iraqi Airways on Thursday and allowed him to return home, Iraq’s transport ministry said in the latest twist in a legal nightmare for the airline. <br/>Kifah Hassan Jabbar had his passport seized and the plane he arrived on impounded at London’s Gatwick Airport on April 25 as a dispute with Kuwait Airways marred Iraqi Airways Company’s (IAC) first commercial flight from Baghdad to London in 20 years. <br/>“A British court today (Thursday) issued a decision for the release of Mr Kifah Hassan Jabbar, chief executive of Iraqi Airways,” the transport ministry said. <br/>It said the court ruling was greeted by “angry shouts” from Kuwaitis attending the hearing, who “expressed their discontent and dissatisfaction with the decision.” </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126090254/http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2010/May/middleeast_May99.xml&section=middleeast&col=" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>:</strong></p> </blockquote> <h3 style="color: #800000">Commentary and Analysis</h3> <p><strong>The secret behind Iran’s power</strong><strong>: By Fatih Abdulsalam</strong></p> <blockquote><p>Why is Iran seen as a fundamental power in the region stretching from Afghanistan to Lebanon and in between Iraq, its golden state? <br/>There are some who think that Iran’s military maneuvers and revelations of new weapons, boats, frigates and missiles that can reach Israel and Europe are the source of this power. <br/>People who entertain such opinions, I am sorry to say, are naïve. The U.S. and Europe have no fears of the display of Iranian armaments. <br/>Strategy analysts and experts say Iranian weapons might be ineffective. The point is whether the weapons are operational and can be used. <br/>The analysts believe if the U.S. attacks Iran, the first thing its forces will do is to render Iranian weapons systems ineffective. <br/>Iran’s Western enemies will take the initiative and do not allow Iran to unleash its missiles and other weapons on their targets. <br/>But still Iran is a powerful country. Iran’s strong muscles are not due to its weaponry. <br/>Iran’s strength emanates from its diplomacy and the role it plays almost in all important files in the region. Arab states have almost no role to play here. <br/>Therefore, it is so hard for Iran’s nemesis, the U.S., to embark on any negotiating or movements in the region without taking Tehran into account. <br/>Tehran has proxies and agents throughout the region. 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