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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/wheat-barley/" rel="tag">wheat barley</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div dir="rtl" align="right"> <blockquote> <p>الرمادي (العراق) (رويترز) – ينحي عبد الله حسن باللائمة في فساد محاصيله على نقص المياه المزمن ولا يثق كثيرا في أن الحكومة الجديدة ستستطيع احياء قطاع الزراعة بالعراق الذي دمرته الحرب ويعاني من قلة الاستثمارات.</p> <p>عبد الله (50 عاما) اب لخمسة ابناء ويعيش بالفلوجة في محافظة الانبار بغرب العراق وقد اضطر للتخلي عن زرع أفدنته الخمسين والحصول على عمل بقطاع البناء بعد أن قضت سنوات الجفاف على محاصيله من القمح والشعير والطماطم ( البندورة) والخيار والبطيخ.</p> <p>ولا يحدوه امل كبير في العودة الى الزراعة التي كانت مصدر دخله الاساسي على مدى 35 عاما وينوي بيع جزء من أرضه مع استمرار تراجع مستويات المياه في الانهار والخزانات مما يرفع تركيز الملوثات في المياه.</p> <p>وقال "يسوء وضع التربة يوما بعد يوم لان مستوى الملوحة يزيد والخصوبة تقل. هذا مثل السرطان الذي يصيب جسم الانسان."</p> <p> <a title="drought_anbar" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4675228808/" class="external" target="_blank"><img alt="drought_anbar" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321im_/http://static.flickr.com/4047/4675228808_c81b6a0ab2.jpg" border="0"/></a> <p>وبعد الاضرار التي سببتها عقود من الحرب والعقوبات يعاني العراق من نقص حاد في المياه يتوقع أن يتفاقم مع نمو سكانه الذين يبلغ عددهم نحو 30 مليونا.</p> <p>وتغلب على العراق مساحات من الصحراء القاحلة لكن به أحد اكثر أنظمة الري اتساعا في العالم غير أن سنوات الحرب ونقص الاستثمارات والعقوبات حالت دون استغلاله القليل الذي تبقى من المياه.</p> <p>ويوفر نهرا دجلة والفرات وهما النهران الرئيسيان بالعراق القليل من الغوث للسهول الجافة لان السدود الكهرومائية في تركيا وايران وسوريا المجاورة قللت من تدفق المياه.</p> <p>والاستثمار في البنية التحتية المتهالكة مثل مضخات المياه ضروري لقطاعات رئيسية كالزراعة والنفط فضلا عن جهود اعادة الاعمار الاوسع نطاقا بعد سبع سنوات من الغزو الذي قادته الولايات المتحدة وأطاح بالرئيس صدام حسين.</p> <p>وكانت محافظة الانبار وهي منطقة صحراوية شاسعة من المناطق التي تضررت بشكل خاص. وأصبحت مساحات كبيرة من الاراضي التي كانت صالحة للزراعة على نهر الفرات غير مستخدمة لعدم كفاية طرق ضخ المياه النظيفة في التربة.</p> <p>وتقول الامم المتحدة انه يتم صرف نحو 83 في المئة من مياه الصرف الصحي دون معالجة في المجاري المائية فيما تقدر الحكومة أن 24 بالمئة من العراقيين لا يحصلون على مياه امنة.</p> <p>وتعمل الحكومة مع خبراء أمريكيين محاولة انشاء محطات للمعالجة وبحيرات صناعية لتنقية المياه الملوثة.</p> <p>وأنفق فريق اعادة اعمار محافظة في الانبار -وهي وحدة أنشأتها الولايات المتحدة للمساعدة في اعادة بناء العراق- اكثر من 100 مليون دولار لبناء وصيانة منشآت المعالجة ويتوقع أن تتوفر المياه النظيفة لنحو 97 بالمئة من السكان بحلول نهاية العام.</p> <p>ويعيش نحو 90 بالمئة من سكان الانبار البالغ عددهم 1.4 مليون نسمة على امتداد نهر الفرات حيث انخفضت مستويات المياه انخفاضا حادا. وكان متوسط معدل التدفق بالنهر الف متر مكعب في الثانية قبل اقامة سدود وتباطؤ معدل التدفق فيه الى 290 مترا مكعبا في الثانية في أغسطس اب الماضي وهو أدنى مستوياته منذ ستة أعوام.</p> <p>ويقول مسؤولون عراقيون ان منشات الصرف الصحي غير كافية ويشيرون الى أن تكلفة انشاء نظام للصرف الصحي في بلدة الرمادي تبلغ 400 مليون دولار على الاقل.</p> <p>وتساءل ابراهيم مدلول مدير ماء الانبار "أين سنجد المستثمرين الذين سيأتون ويستثمرون 400 مليون دولار في مشروع كهذا.."</p> <p>وأضاف أنه يتطلع الى مساندة الحكومة المركزية لدعم مشاريع بهذا الحجم.</p> <p>وقد يطول الانتظار.. فالعراق يعيش حالة من التشكك السياسي منذ انتخابات السابع من مارس اذار التي لم تسفر عن فائز واضح.</p> <p>وقد يستغرق تشكيل حكومة جديدة عدة اشهر وسيعني هذا تأجيل المشاريع الجديدة التي تحتاج الى موافقة الحكومة.</p> <p>ومن المتوقع أن تركز الحكومة الجديدة على تحسين الخدمات الاساسية بما في ذلك التفاوض على مزيد من امدادت المياه من الجيران والتركيز على ترشيد استهلاك المياه القليلة التي لدى العراق.</p> <p>ويهدد نقص المياه تطوير حقول النفط في العراق الذي يتمتع بثالث اكبر احتياطي في العالم والذي عقد في العام الماضي صفقات يمكن أن تدفعه الى مصاف كبريات الدول المنتجة.</p> <p>فيجب ضخ كميات كبيرة من المياه تحت الارض للحفاظ على الضغط عند استخراج النفط. ويحتاج انتاج برميل واحد من النفط الى نحو 1.6 برميل من المياه.</p> <p>ويعتبر تطوير الزراعة وقطاع النفط -الذي يعمل به عدد يزيد عن عدد العاملين في أي قطاع اخر- ضروريا لصرف الشبان العاطلين عن التشدد مع تعافي العراق من أعمال العنف الطائفي التي شهدها عامي 2006 و2007 .</p> <p>لكن عبد الله الذي يجني الفي دينار (1.71 دولار) في اليوم من عمله بالبناء لا يتوقع تحسنا كبيرا مع تولي الحكومة الجديدة.</p> <p>وقال "لا أظن أن صحوة حكومية ستحدث خاصة بعد اكثر من سبع سنوات من هذا التدهور… لست متفائلا."</p> <p>من سيرينا تشودري</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://ara.reuters.com/article/topNews/idARACAE6550BN20100606?sp=true" class="external" target="_blank">نقص المياه يهدد استقرار العراق على المدى الطويل | أخبار الشرق الأوسط | Reuters</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10957"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a 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father of five from Falluja in western Anbar province was forced to abandon his 50 acres of land and take a job in construction after years of drought killed off his wheat, barley, tomato, cucumber and watermelon harvests.</p> <p> <a title="drought_anbar" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4675228808/" class="external" target="_blank"><img alt="drought_anbar" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321im_/http://static.flickr.com/4047/4675228808_c81b6a0ab2.jpg" border="0"/></a> <p>He has little hope of returning to farming — his primary source of income for 35 years — and plans to sell some of his land as water levels in rivers and reservoirs continue to drop, increasing the concentration of pollutants in the water.</p> <p>"Day after day, the soil situation is deteriorating because the level of salt is increasing and fertility is decreasing. It’s like a cancer hitting the human body," Hasan said.</p> <p>Already damaged by decades of war and sanctions, Iraq has acute water shortages which are expected to worsen as its population of around 30 million grows.</p> <p>A country dominated by arid desert landscapes, it has one of the most extensive irrigation systems in the world but years of war, underinvestment and sanctions have prevented it from properly harnessing what little water it has left.</p> <p>Iraq’s main rivers, the Euphrates and the Tigris, provide little relief to the parched plains as hydroelectric dams in neighbouring Turkey, Iran and Syria have stemmed the water flow.</p> <p>Investment in dilapidated infrastructure like water pumps is vital for key industries like agriculture and oil, as well as the broader reconstruction effort seven years after the U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein.</p> <h3>SEWAGE THREAT</h3> <p>Parched Anbar province, a vast desert area, has been hit particularly hard. Large areas of formerly arable land by the Euphrates have become unusable because of insufficient methods to pump clean water through the soil.</p> <p>The United Nations says around 83 percent of sewage is being discharged untreated into waterways, while the government estimates 24 percent of Iraqis do not have access to safe water.</p> <p>Working with U.S. experts, the government is trying to build treatment plants and biological lagoons to clean polluted water.</p> <p>In Anbar, a Provincial Reconstruction Team — a unit set up by the United States to help rebuild Iraq — has spent over $100 million (69 million pounds) to build and maintain treatment facilities and expects 97 percent of residents to have clean water by year’s end.</p> <p>Around 90 percent of Anbar’s 1.4 million people live along the Euphrates, where water levels have dropped dramatically. The river had an average flow rate of 1,000 cubic metres per second before being dammed and slowed to 290 cubic metres per second last August — its lowest level in six years.</p> <p>Iraqi officials say sewage facilities in Anbar are insufficient. A sewage system for the town of Ramadi would cost at least $400 million, they say.</p> <p>"Where are we going to find investors who will come and invest $400 million in a project like that?" said Ibrahim Madlool, the director general of water for Anbar province.</p> <p>"We are looking for support from the central government to support us in projects of this magnitude."</p> <h3>POLITICAL VOID</h3> <p>The wait may be long. Iraq has been in political limbo since a March 7 election produced no outright winner.</p> <p>It could take months before a new government is formed and that means delays in new projects that need cabinet approval.</p> <p>The new government is expected to focus on improving basic services, including negotiating more water supplies from neighbours and focussing on efficient use of the little water Iraq has.</p> <p>The lack of water threatens development of the oilfields. Iraq has the world’s third-largest reserves and struck deals last year which could propel it to major producer status.</p> <p>But large volumes of water must be pumped under ground to maintain pressure as oil is extracted. Production of a barrel of oil requires around 1.6 barrels of water.</p> <p>Developing agriculture and the oil sector, which employs more people than any other industry, are seen as crucial for keeping unemployed youth away from the insurgency as Iraq recovers from the sectarian bloodshed of 2006 and 2007.</p> <p>But Hasan, who earns 2,000 dinars ($1.71) a day in construction, expects little improvement from a new government.</p> <p>"I don’t believe that a conscious government awakening will happen, especially after more than seven years of this deterioration," he said. "I am not optimistic."</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6550H720100606?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=401" class="external" target="_blank">Lack of water threatens Iraq’s long-term stability | Reuters</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10375"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/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/20130128203321/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 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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/20130128203321/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/20130128203321/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/20130128203321/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/20130128203321/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/20130128203321/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/20130128203321/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/20130128203321/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/20130128203321/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/20130128203321/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/20130128203321/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/20130128203321/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/20130128203321/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/20130128203321/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/20130128203321/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/20130128203321/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/20130128203321/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/20130128203321/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/20130128203321/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/20130128203321/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/20130128203321/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/20130128203321/http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2010/May/middleeast_May99.xml&section=middleeast&col=" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>:</strong></p> </blockquote> <h3 style="color: #800000">Commentary and Analysis</h3> <p><strong>The secret behind Iran’s power</strong><strong>: By Fatih Abdulsalam</strong></p> <blockquote><p>Why is Iran seen as a fundamental power in the region stretching from Afghanistan to Lebanon and in between Iraq, its golden state? <br/>There are some who think that Iran’s military maneuvers and revelations of new weapons, boats, frigates and missiles that can reach Israel and Europe are the source of this power. <br/>People who entertain such opinions, I am sorry to say, are naïve. The U.S. and Europe have no fears of the display of Iranian armaments. <br/>Strategy analysts and experts say Iranian weapons might be ineffective. The point is whether the weapons are operational and can be used. <br/>The analysts believe if the U.S. attacks Iran, the first thing its forces will do is to render Iranian weapons systems ineffective. <br/>Iran’s Western enemies will take the initiative and do not allow Iran to unleash its missiles and other weapons on their targets. <br/>But still Iran is a powerful country. Iran’s strong muscles are not due to its weaponry. <br/>Iran’s strength emanates from its diplomacy and the role it plays almost in all important files in the region. Arab states have almost no role to play here. <br/>Therefore, it is so hard for Iran’s nemesis, the U.S., to embark on any negotiating or movements in the region without taking Tehran into account. <br/>Tehran has proxies and agents throughout the region. They are the source of Iran’s power and not its weapons. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2010-05-06%5Ckurd.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Source</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-8145"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/01/01/ngos-say-ready-for-more-responsibility/#respond" title="Comment on NGOs say ready for more responsibility">No Comments</a></span> Posted on January 1st, 2010 by Editors</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/01/01/ngos-say-ready-for-more-responsibility/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to NGOs say ready for more responsibility">NGOs say ready for more responsibility</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/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/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/amil/" rel="tag">Amil</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/babil/" rel="tag">babil</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baghdad/" rel="tag">Baghdad</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/basra/" rel="tag">Basra</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/central-iraq/" rel="tag">central iraq</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/human-rights/" rel="tag">Human Rights</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/idps-internal-refugees/" rel="tag">IDPs (Internal Refugees)</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iraqi-refugees/" rel="tag">iraqi refugees</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/irin/" rel="tag">IRIN</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/jordan/" rel="tag">Jordan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/local-government/" rel="tag">Local Government</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/ngos/" rel="tag">NGOs</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/red-crescent/" rel="tag">Red Crescent</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/red-crescentred-cross/" rel="tag">Red Crescent/Red Cross</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/refugee-agency/" rel="tag">refugee agency</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/refugees/" rel="tag">Refugees</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/rescue-work/" rel="tag">Rescue Work</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/returnees/" rel="tag">returnees</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/syria/" rel="tag">Syria</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/unhcr/" rel="tag">UNHCR</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/violence/" rel="tag">violence</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/western-anbar/" rel="tag">western Anbar</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>BAGHDAD, 31 December 2009 (<a title="IRIN" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87610" class="external" target="_blank">IRIN</a>) – The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Iraq wants closer ties with local NGOs in 2010, and the head of a leading NGO umbrella group believes more effective aid can be delivered to Iraqi returnees if cooperation between local NGOs and UN bodies is boosted. But there are a number of constraints. </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><a title="red_crescent_giving_emergency_food_and_survival_pack_to_IDPs_al-hashemi_compound_babil" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4233751145/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" height="262" alt="red_crescent_giving_emergency_food_and_survival_pack_to_IDPs_al-hashemi_compound_babil" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321im_/http://static.flickr.com/4059/4233751145_7222d5e3ac.jpg" width="350" border="0"/></a></p> <p>Iraqi Red Cresent Society staff hand out supplies to displaced families in Babil Province</p> </p></div> <p>First, the ongoing violence, especially in central Iraq, is not conducive to the smooth development of local NGOs and/or their relations with government or UN bodies, and providing any aid in these circumstances is fraught with problems. <br/>On 11 December 2009 UNHCR <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://www.unhcr.org/4b222efe9.html ">reiterated its concern</a> about involuntary returns amid ongoing violence: “UNHCR… advises against involuntary returns to Iraq of persons originating from Central Iraq until there is a substantial improvement in the security and human rights situation in the country.” </p> <p>"Many groups continue to face significant threats with UNHCR offices reporting that the numbers of Iraqi refugees returning are being offset by new arrivals,” it said. </p> <p>Second, establishing the bona fides of local NGOs in the current climate and ahead of elections scheduled for 7 March 2010 may be difficult for UN bodies, hence the lengthy vetting processes. </p> <p>The UN already has a number of safeguards in place: UNHCR, for instance, has said local NGOs, to become eligible partners, need to be officially registered as NGOs; have a satisfactory track record; be able to set up their own bank account; and have satisfactory audit reports from previous years. </p> <p>Third, in a society where government is weak, NGOs are relatively new and controls are lax, it may be difficult to boost cooperation between local NGOs and government, let alone between local NGOs and UN bodies, one analyst said. </p> <p>“The Iraqi government is still building itself up and facing numerous challenges in many fields ranging from internal and external security to economic and public services. Cooperation with NGOs is still not one of its priorities,” said Hamid Hassan Adul-Aziz, a lecturer in politics at Basra University. </p> <p>“NGO culture is still a new phenomena. Most NGOs are either affiliated to political parties, under their control or at least sympathize with some of them,” Abdul-Aziz said. </p> <h3>“Equal opportunities” </h3> <p>But Basil Abdul-Wahab al-Azawi, head of the Commission of Society Enterprises, an umbrella group of more than 1,000 NGOs inside and outside Iraq, called for a greater role for local NGOs. “Giving us equal opportunities with international NGOs and the Iraqi government will help achieve the necessary support, and rapid successful outcomes,” he said. </p> <p>“If the current mechanism for assisting IDPs [internally displaced persons], refugees and returnees is implemented next year then the outcomes will be as disappointing as they are now,” said al-Azawi, adding that encouraging IDPs and refugees to return without ensuring decent housing, effective public services, jobs and financial assistance was a recipe for disaster. </p> <p>“We have to make sure that the basics for return to their areas of origin are available… Only in this way will the results be good,” he said. </p> <p>Mizhar Abid Ahmed, a local government official in Iraq’s western Anbar province, which has seen numerous bombings, said the security situation was hampering cooperation with NGOs: “We sometimes tell NGOs we are not ready to cooperate with them when we see the security situation in the area they want to visit is not good or we can’t dispatch enough security forces to protect them.” </p> <p>The 2010 UNHCR <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/page?page=49e486426" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq operations profile</a> says one of its key targets is the expansion of the “national NGO partnership programme” to broaden the agency’s impact at the community level. <br/>Maha Sidky, a spokesperson for UNHCR in Iraq, told IRIN by email that UNHCR had strengthened its links with local NGOs since the second half of 2008, and had switched from dealing almost exclusively with international NGOs as in previous years, something it had been forced to do for security reasons. </p> <h3>No large-scale returns yet </h3> <p>UNHCR said that although more IDPs and refugees are returning to their areas of origin, large-scale returns had not yet taken place. It put the number of IDPs who had returned in 2008-09 at about 300,000, and refugees at about 80,000. <br/>Sidky said there was an average of 17,000 returnees (refugees and IDPs together) per month in 2009, but the rate of return would probably decrease around the time of the March 2010 elections. </p> <p>According to Iraqi government figures from early this year, there are nearly 2.6 million IDPs in Iraq and about two million Iraqi refugees in neighbouring countries, mainly Syria and Jordan. <br/>In its 1 December <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://www.unhcr.org/ga10/index.html#/home" class="external" target="_blank">Global Appeal for 2010-11</a>, UNHCR said it would increase its 2010 budget for Iraq to US$264.29 million from $168 million in 2009. </p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87610" class="external" target="_blank">IRIN Middle East | IRAQ: NGOs say ready for more responsibility | Middle East | Iraq | Conflict Aid Policy Refugees/IDPs | Feature</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-7471"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/10/11/anbar-bangladeshi-workers-in-double-trouble/#respond" title="Comment on Anbar: Bangladeshi Workers in Double Trouble">No Comments</a></span> Posted on October 11th, 2009 by Editors</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/10/11/anbar-bangladeshi-workers-in-double-trouble/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Anbar: Bangladeshi Workers in Double Trouble">Anbar: Bangladeshi Workers in Double Trouble</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/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/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-anbar-governorate/" rel="tag">Al Anbar (Governorate)</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/anbar/" rel="tag">Anbar</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/bangladesh/" rel="tag">Bangladesh</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/bangladeshi-workers-exploitation-of/" rel="tag">Bangladeshi workers - exploitation of</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/fallujah/" rel="tag">Fallujah</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/features/" rel="tag">Features</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/foreign-workers-exploitation-of/" rel="tag">Foreign workers - exploitation of</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iwpr/" rel="tag">IWPR</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/poverty/" rel="tag">Poverty</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/ramadi/" rel="tag">Ramadi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/unemployment-levels/" rel="tag">unemployment levels</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/united-arab-emirates/" rel="tag">United Arab Emirates</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/western-anbar/" rel="tag">western Anbar</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>They are kept under lock and key by their employers and face resentment from province’s unemployed. </p> <p>Hasan’s 14-hour day starts before dawn, when he gets up to clean his employer’s house and prepare breakfast. </p> <p>As one of a number of servants for a prominent family in Iraq’s western Anbar province, Hasan scrubs floors, polishes desks, baby-sits, serves tea to foreign dignitaries and even cares for the family’s pets. </p> <p>Hasan has worked for the family for eight months but has never left the property to explore Ramadi, the capital of the once-volatile Anbar province. He knows little of what goes on outside of the compound, which is exactly the way his employer wants it. </p> <p>The routine can be dull. But what irritates him most is the traditional Arab clothing – including a box hat and a dagger slung through his belt – he must slip into when guests arrive. </p> <p>In his home country of Bangladesh, Hasan only ever saw the uniforms in movies. </p> <p>“I never imagined that I would work in Iraq in the house of a VIP,” he said. “I didn’t even like to see these clothes on television, let alone wear them. But I’ve gotten used to this new situation, even with the difficulties I face.” </p> <p>Hasan earns 400 US dollars per month. The pay is generous, he says, compared to the salaries of other migrant servants in the city. </p> <p>As in other Iraqi cities, thousands of foreign workers are taken to Anbar to do low-wage, unskilled work. Desperate for employment, Bangladeshis are snapping up such jobs in western Iraq, despite the region’s reputation for violence. </p> <p>According to the Anbar labour commission, an estimated 15,000 male and female workers have been brought to Anbar province this year. Nearly 90 per cent are Bangladeshis, who work as waiters, servants, nannies, cleaners and farmers. </p> <p>Many of the foreign labourers in Anbar were employed in the United Arab Emirates until the global financial crisis hit last year, leaving unskilled employees scrambling for work. </p> <p>Iraq was one of the few places offering “good jobs and good salaries”, said Khaleda, a woman from Bangladesh who works for a family in Ramadi. </p> <p>The employment of foreign workers has bred resentment among some in Anbar. The provincial council estimates there are 15,000 unemployed Iraqi men in the region, a former al-Qaeda stronghold now controlled by Sunni tribes. </p> <p>Some worry that unemployment may threaten security in the province, driving young men to join gangs and extremist networks. While the United States and Iraqi militaries have stemmed the flow of weapons and fighters entering Anbar from Syria, trafficking along the western border remains one of Iraq’s top security concerns. </p> <p>Sunni tribes that backed insurgent groups turned on them in exchange for financial backing and power from the US military and the Iraqi government. But their new alliances made them vulnerable to retaliatory attacks, and some of Anbar’s tribal elite worry Iraqi employees cannot be trusted. </p> <p>Bangladeshi workers have gained a reputation for having a strong work ethic and making few demands. More importantly, as outsiders they are reliant on their employers. </p> <p>“Foreign workers don’t ask for leave, and they don’t ask to be exempted from any duties,” said Hasan’s employer. “They’ll do anything from cleaning the toilet to serving guests. And they don’t reveal the secrets in the house like Iraqi workers, who always dawdle and chat about the fortunes and personal relationships of the households they work in.” </p> <p>“One of my former Iraqi workers was a spy for my ex-wife. I fired him after I found out he was telling her about my relationships and my travels,” he added with a smile. “Another servant seemed sympathetic to insurgents, so I fired him too. One can remain at ease when hiring Bangladeshi workers.” </p> <p>The employer’s household is spacious and lavishly decorated, but his servants say they sleep on the floor and eat the family’s leftovers, while the gruelling work and long hours leave them exhausted. </p> <p>"[My boss] or one of his assistants usually wakes me up with a kick if I’m late,” said Syed, another Bangladeshi servant in the household. </p> <p>“Spitting in my face is one of worst things that I have to deal with. [My boss] doesn’t use his hands, but he spits and uses bad language if he’s angry.” </p> <p>Bangladeshi workers often speak English and broken Arabic. Syed says they are mocked by their employers and their guests. </p> <p>“They think we can’t understand what they say,” he said. “But we have to take it because we’re paid well compared to what workers get in other places.” </p> <p>He says he believes he has a good relationship with his employer and, defying the stereotype of a passive Bangladeshi worker, complains openly and regularly to him. He says his boss can be insulting but values his excellent tea and hubbly-bubbly. </p> <p>Syed’s sister works for another elite family, but both are not allowed to leave their homes to visit. </p> <p>“The only reason that I would leave this house is if I died,” he said. “Then they will send me home, at my expense.” </p> <p>The employer says he is protecting his servants by keeping them inside the compound. </p> <p>"Servants here don’t understand how dangerous the streets are,” he said. “I’m sometimes hard on them out of concern for their own safety. My safety is connected to theirs. They could be kidnapped by the armed groups that we’ve been fighting for years and could question them about my personal life and that of my family. That’s why I treat them like that." </p> <p>“I haven’t left this house since the moment I arrived eight months ago, because all of the workers could be killed by armed men,” Hasan said. “[My boss] and his men are all al-Qaeda targets, which is probably one of the reasons he hires foreign workers.” </p> <p>The influx of foreign workers has not sat well with some unemployed Iraqis. </p> <p>Ahmad Taha, a Falluja resident, says he and seven other Iraqis were laid off from their hotel jobs and replaced by Bangladeshi workers. </p> <p>“I’m out of work because of them,” he said. “I swear if I see any one of them I’m going to beat him severely, and I won’t mind going to jail.” </p> <p>Anhar Ali says she was fired from her 700-dollar-per-month nanny job. </p> <p>“The family that hired me brought a Bangladeshi baby-sitter, saying she doesn’t mind being with the babies for longer hours, and she is teaching them English,” she said. “But the truth is that families are hiring Bangladeshi workers for two reasons: first, the low wages, and second, they want to appear wealthy to other tribes in the province." </p> <p>The foreign workers say that, even behind closed gates, they are aware of that some Anbar residents resent them. Many say they do not want to be in Iraq but have few other options. </p> <p>Khaleda, the servant from Ramadi, says she earned one dollar a day collecting aluminium cans and selling them as scraps at home. She now works for 350 dollars per month, but is not allowed to leave the house without an armed guard and sleeps on the kitchen floor. </p> <p>Her boss’s wife watches her like a hawk, checking on her in the middle of the night because she worries that her husband will not be faithful, she says. </p> <p>Khaleda speaks and writes English and dreamed of being a nurse but could not pay for her education. Her fiancé works in Kuwait, and they hope to marry. </p> <p>“I think that two years will be enough for me to get enough money to marry and have a baby,” she said. “Maybe we can save him from the suffering that we have known.” </p> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://www.iwpr.net/?p=icr&s=f&o=356385&apc_state=henh" class="external" target="_blank">Anbar: Bangladeshi Workers in Double Trouble</a> By Uthman al-Mukhtar in Ramadi (ICR No. 308, 7-Oct-09). Uthman al-Mukhtar is an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://www.iwpr.net/" class="external" target="_blank">IWPR</a> trainee in Fallujah.  The names of the servants have been changed to protect their identities. </p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-6512"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/06/12/under-fire-anbar-journalists-arming-themselves/#respond" title="Comment on Under Fire Anbar Journalists Arming Themselves">No Comments</a></span> Posted on June 12th, 2009 by Editors</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/06/12/under-fire-anbar-journalists-arming-themselves/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Under Fire Anbar Journalists Arming Themselves">Under Fire Anbar Journalists Arming Themselves</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/category/features/" title="View all posts in Features" rel="category tag">Features</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/category/human-rights/" title="View all posts in Human Rights" rel="category tag">Human Rights</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-anbar-governorate/" rel="tag">Al Anbar (Governorate)</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-esnad-newspaper/" rel="tag">Al-Esnad (Newspaper)</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-khaldiya/" rel="tag">Al-Khaldiya</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/anbar/" rel="tag">Anbar</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/aswat-al-iraq/" rel="tag">Aswat Al Iraq</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/corruption/" rel="tag">Corruption</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/death-threats/" rel="tag">Death Threats</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/fallujah/" rel="tag">Fallujah</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/freedom-observatory/" rel="tag">Freedom observatory</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/interior-ministry/" rel="tag">Interior Ministry</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/jfo/" rel="tag">JFO</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/journalists-attacked/" rel="tag">Journalists Attacked</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/journalists-rights-protection-association/" rel="tag">Journalists' Rights Protection Association</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/mohammed-faysal/" rel="tag">Mohammed Faysal</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/press/" rel="tag">Press</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/ramadi/" rel="tag">Ramadi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/reuters/" rel="tag">Reuters</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/western-anbar/" rel="tag">western Anbar</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/yousif-abu-jabal/" rel="tag">Yousif Abu Jabal</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%81%d9%84%d9%88%d8%ac%d8%a9%e2%80%8e/" rel="tag">الفلوجة</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%86%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b1%e2%80%8e/" rel="tag">الأنبار</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>Under Fire Anbar Journalists Arming Themselves  – Regularly threatened and attacked, they’re buying guns on the black market for protection. </p> <p>Journalist Yasin al-Fadhawi’s recent brush with death has prompted him to look for a new home – and a gun. </p> <p>As he was getting ready for work on May 30, Fadhawi received an early-morning call from his neighbour – a man he describes as “annoyingly curious” – warning him that danger was lurking. </p> <p>“His voice was shaking as he told me over and over again, ‘Don’t go out, stay in your house and call the police. Two people put a strange object at the entrance to your house and ran away’,” Fadhawi recalled. </p> <p>Fadhawi rang the security forces, who spent more than an hour diffusing a two-kilogramme bomb the size of a football close to his front door. Police said that if it had gone off, the bomb would have killed Fadhawi and his family. </p> <p>Fadhawi believes the incident was connected to his work: two days prior to the bomb scare, his magazine published his report on alleged government corruption involving tribal chiefs. </p> <p>He credits his neighbour with saving his life but, fearing for his safety and that of his family, Fadhawi fled his home in Al-Khaldiya, a town in western Anbar province, and is shopping around for a gun. </p> <p>He has submitted an application for a weapons license, but if it is not approved he said he will fork out up to a month’s salary – 900 US dollars – for a gun on the black market. </p> <p>Police in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar, report that at least 43 journalists in the province have applied for gun licenses since April, amid an increasingly hostile climate for journalists. </p> <p>Once a stronghold for Sunni insurgents and one of the most dangerous parts of Iraq, Anbar – now controlled by Iraqi forces – has been held up as an example of the government’s ability to stabilise formerly volatile regions of the country. </p> <p>But journalists in Anbar say their jobs continue to put them at grave risk. They no longer fear al-Qaeda and its affiliates – which hunted down journalists – but instead believe they are being targeted by political factions. </p> <p>Particularly risky for journalists is exposing corruption or challenging political parties or the authorities. </p> <p>Yousif Abu Jabal, editor-in-chief of the Al-Esnad newspaper in Fallujah, barely survived a drive-by shooting last year after he wrote an article on Iranian intervention in Iraq. An American patrol showed up as his car was coming under fire, saving his life, he said. </p> <p>“I don’t blame any journalist who carries or wants to carry guns in Anbar,” said Jabal. “The situation here is unbelievably dangerous.” </p> <p>Anwar Ibrahim, head of the Journalists’ Rights Protection Association in Anbar, said nine colleagues in Fallujah have received death threats since March. </p> <p>Journalists either quit their jobs, leave their homes and go into hiding “or carry pistols without permission and live in fear”, said Ibrahim. </p> <p>Omar Mohammed, who works for Voices of Iraq Agency, revealed he applied for a gun license after receiving a letter last month that, he said, warned him to “quit your job or you will die”. </p> <p>Mohammed had recently written on alleged corruption and bribery, reports which he said “were not welcomed by some parties in Anbar”. </p> <p>“I’m expecting to be killed by several political groups at any moment,” said Mohammed. </p> <p>But journalists who’ve submitted gun license applications to the interior ministry in Baghdad complain that they’re requests are either being denied or put on hold. </p> <p>At the same time, some journalists argue that carrying weapons undermines their neutrality and puts them at greater risk of being attacked. </p> <p>Ziad al-Ajili, head of the Baghdad-based media rights organisation the Journalistic Freedom Observatory, said he understands why reporters feel they need to carry guns, but warns that if they fall into the hands of insurgents or are detained by the military, they would not be considered – or treated – as civilians. He said they would run the risk of the being killed by the former and imprisoned by the latter. </p> <p>“In a war anything is possible, especially when a journalist is armed,” said Ajili. “Weapons could endanger [a journalist] rather than protect him.” </p> <p>But few Anbar journalists share this view. </p> <p>One Fallujah-based photographer, working for an international news agency, said he bought a gun on the black market after his application for a license was denied. He said he carries it with him at all times as he is always fearful of being targeted. “The police are indifferent whether we live or die,” he said. </p> <p>Mistrust of the military and security forces runs deep in Anbar. Mohammed Faysal, a Reuters reporter, was beaten by police in Fallujah while filming the aftermath of a car bombing in mid-May. He suffered six blows to the head, leaving him with concussion and a scar on his face. </p> <p>Colonel Daud al-Marawi, deputy police commissioner in Fallujah, said two officers were held in custody for several days after the incident, but Faysal said the investigation has gone nowhere. </p> <p>Marawi insisted the security forces do not target journalists and maintained that his officers investigate threats made against the press by political, religious or armed groups. </p> <p>He also said security forces are willing to provide journalists with escorts in volatile areas, as well as flak-jackets and helmets. </p> <p>But his words provide little reassurance for Fahdawi, who says he is looking for a new home in a more secure area and that in future he will “not write anything that could cost me my life”. </p> <blockquote> </blockquote> <p>Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130128203321/http://www.iwpr.net/?p=icr&s=f&o=353157&apc_state=henh" class="external" 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