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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/team-members/" rel="tag">Team Members</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/war-with-kuwait/" rel="tag">War with Kuwait</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>I do love the gift for understatement shared by the English and the Irish, here is the Irish journalist Patrick Cockburn writing on Iraki-Kuwaiti relations in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.independent.co.uk/" target="_blank" class="external">The Independent</a>: </p> <blockquote><p>But the animosity between the two sides makes compromise difficult. Other key disputes include the payment to Kuwait of five per cent of Iraq’s oil revenues as reparations. Kuwait Airways’ demand for $1.2bn as compensation for the snatching of 10 aircraft in 1990 forced the closure of state carrier Iraqi Airways this week.</p> </blockquote> <p>Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/legacy-of-gulf-war-and-border-dispute-continue-to-dog-relations-with-kuwait-1985072.html" class="external" target="_blank">Legacy of Gulf War and border dispute continue to dog relations with Kuwait – Middle East, World – The Independent</a>.</p> <p>"<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/animosity" class="external" target="_blank">Animosity</a>" does not even begin to describe what the Kuwaitis feel for Irak, and no the fall and subsequent hanging of Saddam has not appreciably lessened Kuwaitis’ intense feelings of hatred and fear of Irak and Irakis.</p> <p>Perhaps I have a somewhat unusual perspective on Irak compared to the other team members. I am not Iraki. Although I have lived here all my adult life and am married to an Iraki nevertheless I remain a Pakistani and as such my perspective is a bit different from that of most of the other team members. I have many good friends here, but I also have good friends in Kuwait. All of which is my way of leading up to the English language articles I want to discuss. First a sign of hope the German airline Lufthansa is resuming services to Baghdad after a hiatus of 20 years:</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-28/lufthansa-first-west-european-carrier-to-resume-baghdad-flight.html" class="external" target="_blank">Lufthansa First West European Carrier to Resume Baghdad Flight – BusinessWeek</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Europe’s second-biggest carrier, will restart regular service to Baghdad, the first western European or U.S. carrier to resume flights to the Iraqi capital. <br/>The airline will serve Baghdad from Munich beginning Sept. 30, following a 20-year break, as economic growth attracts customers to the former war-ridden country, Cologne-based Lufthansa said in an e-mailed statement today. A Boeing 737 operated by Switzerland-based PrivatAir on Lufthansa’s behalf will offer four weekly flights, it said. <br/>The carrier offered Baghdad flights between 1956 and 1990, when it stopped service because of the first Gulf War, during which a U.S.-led army pushed Iraq’s forces out of neighboring Kuwait. The Middle Eastern nation aims to double oil production and lift revenue from crude sales by 60 percent in the coming four years even as it struggles to find a government that’s acceptable to all its major ethnic and religious group</p> </blockquote> <p>Nor are they the only ones as the article goes on to make clear:</p> <blockquote><p><strong>Competing Flights</strong></p> <p>Turk Hava Yollari AO, also known as Turkish Airlines, became the first carrier in Europe to resume Baghdad flights to in October 2008. The airline is offering one daily connection, according to its website. Bahrain-based Gulf Air began serving the Iraqi capital in September, while Abu Dhabi-owned Etihad Airways followed last month. Both airlines operate five flights there a week, according to their websites.</p> </blockquote> <p>Alas Iraqi Airways has not been so lucky as this AFP report from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/" target="_blank" class="external">Middle East Online</a> makes clear:</p> <blockquote><p>Baghdad said Wednesday it is to close state-owned Iraqi Airways in the face of a decades-old financial dispute with Kuwait that prompted the seizure of one of its aircraft last month.</p> <p>The sudden move comes a day after the airline announced it was dropping its services to Sweden and Britain over the legal row with Kuwait, but it was not immediately clear if a new company would be formed to take its place.</p> <p>"The cabinet decided yesterday (Tuesday) to wind up the Iraqi company," transport ministry spokesman Aqeel Kawthar said.</p> <p>"The decision was taken because of the numerous acts of harassment that the company has faced from Kuwait that have prevented its planes from taking on fuel and food at various airports," Kawthar said.</p> <p>"The transport ministry will carry out the decision by the council of ministers, even though we disagree with it," he added, without giving details on whether a new company would be formed.</p> <p>… … …</p> <p>On Tuesday, Iraqi Airways announced it was ceasing its services to Britain and Sweden, with chief executive Kifah Hassan Jabbar blaming the decision on the legal battle with Kuwait.</p> <p>"We are sorry to announce to our fellow citizens, especially the communities living in Britain and Sweden, that Iraqi Airways will stop flying to these two countries because of difficult circumstances as a result of Kuwaiti escalation," Kifah Hassan Jabbar said.</p> <p>Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=39197" class="external" target="_blank">Middle East Online: Iraqi Airways closes down after Kuwait row</a>:</p> </blockquote> <p>There has been a long running legal battle between the Kuwaiti airline and Iraqi Airways. Briefly the Kuwaitis are suing Iraqi Airways for $1.2bn (£837m, €979m) reparations which they say they are owed because Iraqi airways took looted aircraft and parts from them during the Iraki invasion of Kuwait. The legal battle over this started in the British courts in 1991.</p> <p>"How can they do this?" Say Irakis to me. " We have suffered enough" they go on. And certainly no one can deny that Irakis suffered grievously first under the tyrant and then under the Americans who managed to be even worse than that monster.</p> <p>The problem is that the Kuwaitis suffered too. Oh not the elite who scuttled off to their luxurious properties in London and other western capitals. But the normal average Kuwaiti suffered dreadfully during <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Kuwait" class="external" target="_blank">the invasion</a>. Saddam ordered his troops to go on a rampage and they did, they slaughtered, burnt, and looted all around them. Every single Kuwaiti that I know who stayed in Kuwait has some horror story or another to tell. There are still Kuwaitis "missing presumed dead" even after all this time, to say nothing of the material losses caused to ordinary Kuwaitis by wide scale looting.</p> <p>But it gets worse you see the Kuwaitis are afraid of Irak and they have good reason to fear their northern neighbour. Consider that during the 1930s that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghazi_of_Iraq" class="external" target="_blank">Ghazi of Iraq</a> wanted to annex Kuwait, thirty one years later <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd_al-Karim_Qasim" class="external" target="_blank">Abd al-Karim Qasim</a> reasserted <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://looklex.com/e.o/qasim_a_k.htm" class="external" target="_blank">the longstanding Iraki claim to Kuwait</a>. (See also the Wiki entry section <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd_al-Karim_Qasim#Foreign_policy" class="external" target="_blank">3.4 Foreign policy</a>). Qasim backed down in the face of British troops, the Arab League and hefty secret payments into Baghdad’s treasury from the Kuwaiti emir. But the claim to Kuwait was never dropped. It was that claim that Saddam Hussein used as justification for his <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Kuwait" class="external" target="_blank">invasion of Kuwait</a> and his declaration incorporating its territory into Irak as the 19th governorate. Even still, as Cockburn makes clear in his article, there are border disputes to be settled:</p> <p><cite>The maritime border was drawn up in Kuwait’s favour after the first Gulf War. Endorsed by the UN, it was accepted by Saddam Hussein when his fortunes were at low ebb in 1993 and he was prepared to make concessions to stay in power.</cite></p> <p>When I speak and write to my Kuwaiti friends I detect among a very few of them a very reluctant willingness to consider an opening towards more normal relations with Irak. A few talk of Kuwait becoming a gateway to Irak. But most are not willing to consider this. Although they accept that Irak is unlikely to ever invade Kuwait again they cannot shake themselves of the fear engendered by the history of the last century they cannot resist the temptation, however short sighted and counter-productive it might be, to hit Irak while it is down.</p> <p>Cockburn’s article is short and well worth your while reading <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/legacy-of-gulf-war-and-border-dispute-continue-to-dog-relations-with-kuwait-1985072.html" class="external" target="_blank">reading in full</a>, I hope that my far wordier offering helps you understand the background. It is not about border disputes, or war reparations, or even <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/kuwaiti-investment-in-syrian-dams/">Kuwaiti investment in Syrian dams</a> in order to reduce the amount of water that Irak receives. It is all of those things it is about a small and weak state, Kuwait, that will not forget that it was invaded and brutalised by its neighbour and seizes every opportunity it can to keep that neighbour weak.</p> <p>Sagib</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10614"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/19/19th-may-2010-selected-english-language-coverage/#respond" title="Comment on 19th May-2010 Selected English Language Coverage">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 19th, 2010 by Saba Ali</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/19/19th-may-2010-selected-english-language-coverage/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to 19th May-2010 Selected English Language Coverage">19th May-2010 Selected English Language Coverage</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a 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The UN via its World Food Programme hopes to kickstart the labour market as well as reduce food insecurity by running a cash-for-work programme. If the programme succeeds it will be expanded. As my colleague Diya al din reported on May 14th (<span dir="rtl" align="right"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/14/%d8%af%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%af%d8%ae%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%85%d9%8a-%d9%84%d9%807-%d9%85%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%8a%d9%8a%d9%86-%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%82%d9%8a-%d9%84%d8%a7/">دراسة: الدخل اليومي لـ7 ملايين عراقي لا يتجاوز الدولارين | Gorilla’s Guides</a> </span>) more than seven million people have to try to live on the equivalent of US$2 per day so such programmes are desperately needed.</p> <p>The National has a long article on the new airport in Erbil. The context of all of this is that the Kurdish Regional Government hope to use any revenues from this project as a boost to their arguments for increased autonomy eventually perhaps leading to independence.</p> <p>Xinhua reports on the agreement to allow Kurdish oil exports to resume. </p> <p>If you read nothing else read The National’s report  <em>"<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100519/BUSINESS/705199937/1005/rss" class="external" target="_blank">Chinese oil firms make friends abroad</a>" </em>on a day on which the USA has managed to get further sanctions on on Iran the paragraphs below are especially worth bearing in mind:</p> <blockquote><p>Until recently, China’s state-controlled oil companies have had limited success in gaining access to the region’s biggest oil and gas deposits, and to the rapidly expanding local markets for oil and gas.</p> <p>That is mainly because the national oil companies of major Gulf oil exporters were seeking access to technology only available from the West. The Chinese oil producers, however, were able to establish a beachhead in Iran, as the US-led sanctions against the country discouraged western investment.</p> </blockquote> <p>Finally I have included an article by Kirk W. Johnson on how as the US draws down it is stabbing its local collaborators in the back by leaving them to their own devices.</p> <blockquote><p>We know where this road leads. When British forces drew down from southern Iraq just two years ago, militias conducted a systematic manhunt for their former Iraqi employees.</p> </blockquote> <p>What Johnson, who is after all an American, fails to see is that it’s not only militias and <em>takfiri</em> groups who will be after these collaborators. There is universal loathing for them as traitrors who sided with a hated invader against their own country and their own people. When the Americans leave many of their collaborators’ survival prospects will be dismal indeed.</p> <p style="padding-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: gray 1px solid">Saba Ali</p> <h3 style="color: #800000">Society and Economy:</h3> <p><strong>UN agency kicks off first cash-for-work initiative in Iraq</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>19 May 2010 – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today launched a cash-for-work initiative to help poor Iraqis earn money to provide food for their families. </p> <p>“While there’s food in the shops, not everyone can afford it and nearly a million people still need food assistance and millions more depend on government aid,” WFP Country Director Edward Kallon said. </p> <p>“Cash-for-work projects are an innovative way to provide a much-needed influx of cash to poor communities who struggle to make ends meet and provide food for their families,” he added. “They are appropriate when food is readily available in the markets but out of their reach.” </p> <p>Participants in the programme will be paid the equivalent of $10 per day for a three-month period for carrying out tasks such as clearing and rehabilitation of sewage and irrigation canals, tree planting, rehabilitation of farmland and a sanitation campaign. </p> <p>While beneficiaries will initially be paid in cash on a weekly basis, WFP is exploring the possible use of electronic technology, such as smart cards, to facilitate payments and reduce security risks in future programmes. </p> <p>Some 1,400 households will be involved in the pilot project which will be carried out in the central Iraqi governorate of Diyala with the help of WFP’s partner organization, Mercy Corps. </p> <p>The cash-for-work project is part of the Diyala Initiative to provide assistance to facilitate the resettlement of internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees and other vulnerable groups. </p> <p>That effort is being led by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), with the participation of several other UN and partner agencies.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=34742&Cr=Iraq&Cr1=" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong> </p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Airlines may put Erbil on the map – The National Newspaper</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>ERBIL, IRAQ // The UAE Government hopes flydubai and Air Arabia will join Etihad Airways in flying to Iraqi Kurdistan this year as companies look to benefit from the region’s attempt to attract tourists. </p> <p><em>snip</em></p> <p>Built to handle 3 million passengers a year, the new terminal can handle wide-body Airbus A380s as well as other aircraft types and will offer the least expensive airline fuel in the world, he said. </p> <p><em>snip</em></p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100519/BUSINESS/705199959/1005/rss" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Iraq approves agreement to resume Kurdish oil exports</strong><strong>: Xinhua</strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>BAGHDAD, May 19 (Xinhua) — The Iraqi government said it has approved an agreement that would allow the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan in northern part of the country to resume oil exports, an Iraqi newspaper said on Wednesday. </p> <p>The agreement between Baghdad and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) stated that the Ministry of Finance in Baghdad will pay the foreign oil firms operating in Iraqi Kurdish region their expenses, the al-Mashriq newspaper quoted government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh as saying. </p> <p>Since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the Kurds have independently signed nearly two dozen deals with western oil companies. Baghdad maintains the deals are illegitimate because they bypass the central government. </p> <p>In June 2009, the KRG started oil exports of around 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) for the oil fields of Taq Taq and Tawke in northern Iraq, but were suspended a few months later when the central government refused to pay the foreign firms and said the Kurds should pay from their share of the national budget. </p> <p>The latest agreement will pave the way for the KRG to resume oil exports through the national pipeline to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, the paper said without setting a date for resuming the exports.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-05/19/c_13303988.htm" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: Xinhua</strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Iraq exports 53 million barrels of oil in April – People’s Daily Online</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Iraqi Oil Ministry said Tuesday it has exported 53 million barrels of oil in April, bringing in revenues of 4.222 billion U.S. dollars with an average price of 79. 66 dollars a barrel. </p> <p>A statement by the ministry obtained by Xinhua said that 42.7 million barrels were exported through the southern port of Basra, and 10.3 million barrels were exported via Turkey’s port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean Sea. </p> <p>In March, the ministry said the country exported 57.1 million barrels of oil, gaining revenues of 4.351 billion dollars.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/6989885.html" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Chinese oil firms make friends abroad – The National Newspaper</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has acquired 35 per cent of the Syrian oil and gas unit of Royal Dutch Shell, which could help boost Chinese access to some of the world’s biggest oil reserves. </p> <p>The Syrian accord, which is worth an estimated US$1.5 billion (Dh5.51bn), in itself is unlikely to boost crude reserves significantly for either company. Instead, it may be aimed at strengthening ties between China’s biggest producer and international oil companies including Shell, as Beijing seeks to expand its presence throughout the Middle East. </p> <p>Yesterday’s deal would increase CNPC’s existing holdings in three oil and gas production licences covering 40 small fields. Last year, Syria Shell Petroleum Development pumped 23,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day from those fields. </p> <p>“This is not a lot of oil and gas for a company like CNPC, which is producing about 2.5 million barrels a day,” Gordon Kwan, the head of energy research at Mirae Asset Securities in Hong Kong, told Bloomberg yesterday. </p> <p>“The agreement strengthens the partnership between Shell and CNPC,” the Chinese company said. </p> <p>Until recently, China’s state-controlled oil companies have had limited success in gaining access to the region’s biggest oil and gas deposits, and to the rapidly expanding local markets for oil and gas. </p> <p>That is mainly because the national oil companies of major Gulf oil exporters were seeking access to technology only available from the West. The Chinese oil producers, however, were able to establish a beachhead in Iran, as the US-led sanctions against the country discouraged western investment. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100519/BUSINESS/705199937/1005/rss" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong></strong></p> <h3 style="color: #800000">Commentary and Analysis</h3> <p> <strong>Foreign Policy: Leaving Iraqi Employees Behind : NPR</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>There are no serious contingency plans to evacuate the thousands of Iraqis who’ve worked for the United States and live alongside U.S. troops and civilian officials as interpreters, engineers, and advisors. When the U.S. military shutters its bases, these Iraqis will be cut loose to run the resettlement gauntlet, which typically takes a year or more. </p> <p>I recently came across a frightening document that outlines another group’s designs for the coming U.S. withdrawal. Published in Fallujah by the Islamic State of Iraq, the umbrella organization composed of numerous insurgent and terrorist groups (including al Qaeda in Iraq), the manual sets forth their "balanced military plan" in chilling simplicity: "1) nine bullets for the traitors and one for the crusader, 2) cleansing, and 3) targeting." They are practical: "This cannot be accomplished within one or two months, but requires continuous effort." Those who believe the group’s threats have been rendered hollow by the surge might reflect upon the scores of victims from its triple-suicide car bombing that targeted foreign embassies just weeks ago. This past Friday, upon a string of attacks that killed another hundred Iraqis, the group’s "minister of war" declared: "What is happening to you nowadays is just a drizzle." </p> <p>We know where this road leads. When British forces drew down from southern Iraq just two years ago, militias conducted a systematic manhunt for their former Iraqi employees. Seventeen interpreters were publicly executed in a single massacre; their bodies were dumped throughout the streets of Basra. This predictable churn of violence against those who "collaborated" with an occupying power has been repeated through history, from the tens of thousands of Algerian harkis who were slaughtered after the 1962 French withdrawal to the British loyalists hunted by American militias after the Revolutionary War. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126971991&ft=1&f=1057" class="external" target="_blank">read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10156"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/29/%d8%b4%d8%b1%d9%83%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%aa%d8%ad%d8%a7%d8%af-%d9%84%d9%84%d8%b7%d9%8a%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a5%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%aa%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%b9%d8%aa%d8%b2/#respond" title="Comment on شركة الاتحاد للطيران 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Coalition</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/summaries/" rel="tag">Summaries</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>In today’s daily roundup of English language coverage that caught our attention we find mostly reports that dealt with the banning of 52 candidates. (one of them Saleh al Mutlaq’s brother). Saleh  Al-Mutlaq himself told Asharq Alawsat Newspaper that Maliki offered him any political office he wanted and the dropping of all charges against him if he would split from Allawi’s coalition, that report is well worth your while reading in full.</p> <p>Nur</p> <p> <strong>Editor-in-chief abducted from Baghdad home | Index on Censorship</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>The editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper al-Shahid, Saad al-Aossi, was abducted on 14 April. Armed men invaded his home, confiscated his computer and took him to an unknown location. There have been local reports that the men were from the police and the military, though Baghdad Operations Command issued a statement denying any involvement in his disappearance. His kidnapping came six days after he wrote an article condemning Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for a lack of transparency. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/04/editor-abductedbaghdad-home/" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Source:</strong></a> </p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Al-Mutlaq: Al-Maliki Offered Presidency in Exchange for Withdrawal from Iraqiya Bloc Asharq Alawsat Newspaper (English)</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Speaking from Amman yesterday, Saleh al-Mutlaq told Asharq Al-Awsat that "I met with Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, the former speaker of the Iraqi parliament, who informed me that he was acting as a representative of al-Maliki. He offered me the greetings of the Prime Minister and asked me to split from the Iraqiya bloc and join the State of Law coalition." Al-Mutlaq revealed that "al-Mashhadani conveyed to me that al-Maliki was offering me any position that I could want in the next government, starting with the Presidency." </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=20729" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">The Day In Quotes:</font></h3> <ol> <li><strong>Anonymous politician to Patrick Cockburn on the recounts: </p> <p></strong>"If Iyad Allawi’s supporters and the Sadrists lose seats because of the recount they will never accept this." </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/us-intervenes-in-iraq-election-row-as-feared-militia-waits-in-wings-1954224.html" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong>:</strong> </li> <li><strong>Iyad Allawi on the invalidation of Iraqiya list votes:</strong> <p>"We have instructed lawyers to appeal against the panel’s decision We are very concerned about certain groups controlling the political process in Iraq". </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63P2BB.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Source:</a></strong><strong> </strong></li> <li><strong>Ali Mahmud, spokesman for the Deba’athification panel chaired run by Ahmed Chalabi.</strong> <p>"Their participation in the election is considered cancelled" said Ali Mahmud, spokesman for the justice and accountability panel chaired by former deputy prime minister Ahmed Chalabi. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=38649" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Source</strong></a>: </li> </ol> <h3><font color="#800000">Political Coverage:</font></h3> <p> <strong>Reuters AlertNet – Iraq’s Allawi to appeal panel decision on candidates</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Iraq’s former prime minister Iyad Allawi said on Monday his Iraqiya bloc had instructed lawyers to appeal a decision by an Iraqi review panel to invalidate votes cast for 52 candidates in last month’s vote.</p> <p>"We have instructed lawyers to appeal against the panel’s decision," he told a news conference in Ankara, adding: "We are very concerned about certain groups controlling the political process in Iraq.</p> <p>Allawi’s cross-sectarian bloc Iraqiya list won 91 seats, just two seats ahead of Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s State of Law. The panel’s decision threw into question the slim lead of the winning Sunni-backed alliance. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63P2BB.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Source:</a></strong><strong> </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Barring of candidates may change Iraq vote outcome – Yahoo! News</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>In an interview with The Associated Press, Independent High Electoral Commission chief Faraj al-Haidari said the recount was only requested — and granted — after the prime minister’s State of Law coalition failed to win the most seats.</p> <p>He said the demand for a recount was "just some kind of a political demonstration." <br/>"Now the other political blocs will also complain, ‘Why didn’t they respond to our complaints? Why did they just respond to the State of Law complaint?’" said a visibly exasperated al-Haidari.</p> <p>"We, as IHEC, consider the decision taken by the court to be incorrect," he said. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100426/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Iraq panel wipes out votes, result in doubt | Reuters</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>But any reduction in Iraqiya’s representation could reignite Sunni anger just as the sectarian violence unleashed after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion recedes.</p> <p>"The ruling of the review panel is politically motivated and could be detrimental to the whole democratic process in Iraq," said Mustafa al-Hiti, a senior member of Allawi’s Iraqiya alliance.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE63P13820100426" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>US intervenes in Iraq election row as feared militia waits in wings – Middle East, World – The Independent</strong><strong>: By Patrick Cockburn in Arbil</strong></p> <blockquote><p>The United States is trying to resolve the growing crisis over the formation of a new Iraqi government, with a deal between current prime minister Nouri al-Maliki and his main rival Iyad Allawi under which each man would hold the post of prime minister for two years at the head of a coalition government, The Independent has learned. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/us-intervenes-in-iraq-election-row-as-feared-militia-waits-in-wings-1954224.html" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong>:</strong></p> <p><strong></strong></p> <p><strong></strong></p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Security Coverage:</font></h3> <p> <strong>Iraq: Al-Qaeda offensive targets Diyala – Adnkronos Security</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote>Baghdad, 26 April (AKI) – Iraqi security forces have launched a fresh offensive on Al-Qaeda in the province of Diyala north of Baghdad on Monday, after operations led to the deaths and arrests of key leaders last week. Al-Qaeda in Iraq confirmed that two of its top leaders were killed in a joint operation by Iraqi and US forces a week ago. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.303432773" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full:</strong></a><strong> </strong></p></blockquote> <p> <strong>Three Iraqi policemen seriously injured in bomb blast (1st Lead) – Monsters and Critics</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote>Baghdad – Three Iraqi policemen were seriously injured in a bomb blast in the western city of Falluja on Monday, police said, as some 26,000 Iraqi soldiers and police began a sweep of the area. <br/>The blast, which police said ripped through a patrol vehicle and left three policemen in serious condition, came amid a major police and military offensive against al-Qaeda and related armed groups in western Iraq. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1550980.php/Three-Iraqi-policemen-seriously-injured-in-bomb-blast-1st-Lead" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong>: </p> <p></strong><em>see also: </em><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1551005.php/Bombings-greet-police-raids-across-Iraq-2nd-Lead" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Bombings greet police raids across Iraq (2nd Lead) – Monsters and Critics</strong></a><strong>: </strong></p></blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Health Coverage:</font></h3> <p><strong>Jaipur NGO holds limb fitment camp in Iraq</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>JAIPUR – A 22-member team of a Jaipur-based NGO that provides artificial limbs to the disabled has returned from Baghdad after holding a month-long artificial limb fitment camp there. </p> <p>The Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayta Samiti (BMVSS) provided 882 Iraqis artificial limbs during the camp while 75 people were given crutches free of cost. </p> <p>The founder-chief patron of BMVSS D.R. Mehta led the team. Two technicians were from Pakistan where BMVSS is also running a rehabilitation centre. The team returned to Jaipur earlier this week. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://blog.taragana.com/health/2010/04/25/jaipur-ngo-holds-limb-fitment-camp-in-iraq-22102/" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Economic Coverage:</font></h3> <p> <strong>albawaba.com middle east news information::Etihad Crystal Cargo launches services to Erbil</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Etihad Crystal Cargo, a division of Etihad Airways, has launched a weekly service from its hub at Abu Dhabi International Airport to Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/UAE/315074" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a></p> </blockquote> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-9870"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/18/18-04-2010-selected-english-language-coverage/#respond" title="Comment on 18-04-2010 Selected English Language Coverage">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 18th, 2010 by Khalil Ibn Hussein</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/18/18-04-2010-selected-english-language-coverage/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to 18-04-2010 Selected English Language Coverage">18-04-2010 Selected English Language Coverage</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/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/20120516230030/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/afghanistan/" rel="tag">Afghanistan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-iraqiya/" rel="tag">Al-Iraqiya</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/allawi-vs-maliki/" rel="tag">Allawi vs. Maliki</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/american-war-criminals-gw-bush/" rel="tag">American War Criminals (G.W. 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Sheikh Salah al-Ubaydi, spokesman for the Al-Sadr Trend, said that "the trend continues to ask all the winning parties to sit on a roundtable to reach a solution to the crisis of forming the next government." </p> <p>On whether the expected alliance between the State of Law Coalition, led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, and the Iraqi National Alliance would lead to the exclusion of the Al-Iraqiya Bloc, led by Iyad Allawi, from the next government, Al-Ubaydi told Asharq Al-Awsat that any alliance between the two coalitions "does not mean abandoning the roundtable for forming the government and choosing the candidate for the post of the next prime minister," adding: "We have sent reassurance messages to all parties, which say that any alliance of this kind does not mean excluding or marginalizing others." He emphasized that "one of the most important points which we emphasized is to avoid and not to repeat the mistakes of the previous experience, particularly since the concern of the Iraqi street focuses on the need for stabilizing the security situation and also improving the living condition. Therefore, the negative phenomena that prevented the implementation of these positive points should be overcome, in addition to our demand that there should be no partisan appeasement , particularly concerning the issue of financial and administrative corruption even if the accused is a leader or affiliated to this of that party." He emphasized: "We want a real partnership government and not a government that is concerned with the interests of one party as happened in the past." </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=20626" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>: </p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Iraq remains a long way off from forming a new government – The Globe and Mail: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>He may have “won” last month’s Iraqi election, but there is little chance that Iyad Allawi will head the next Iraqi government. <br/>Six weeks after Iraqis braved threats of violence to cast ballots, giving Mr. Allawi’s Iraqiya party two more seats than Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the country is still a long way from having a new government. <br/>Unfortunately for Mr. Allawi, the demographics of the country and the role of outside parties have conspired against him. The best the one-time provisional prime minister can hope for, say observers in Baghdad, is a relatively minor role in cabinet for some of his people. <br/>It’s not for want of trying. “[Mr.] Allawi has done everything he could,” said one veteran analyst with an international organization in Baghdad. “But he had to play the hand he was dealt.”</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/iraq-remains-a-long-way-off-from-forming-a-new-government/article1538381/" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>: </p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Security Coverage:</font></h3> <p><strong>Violence highlights fears of Iraqi security forces taking over after U.S. leaves </strong></p> <blockquote><p>By Leila Fadel Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, April 18, 2010; A12 </p> <p>RADWANIYAH, IRAQ — Raw welts and purple bruises run down the backs of dozens of Sunni Muslim men in a small village west of Baghdad — evidence, local residents say, of abuse by the Iraqi army that threatens to widen a sectarian rift. </p> <p>The wounds came from beatings administered last month by soldiers from the predominantly Shiite force charged with protecting the Sunni community here, villagers said. One by one, they said, the Sunni men were questioned, beaten and shocked with electricity in a roundup by mostly Shiite Iraqi soldiers, who were reeling from the killing of five comrades at a checkpoint. </p> <p>The violence comes at a time when the performance and professionalism of Iraq’s security forces are facing a crucial test. With U.S. troop levels scheduled to drop to 50,000 by summer’s end, Iraqi security forces control the streets. But they face deep mistrust in particular from Iraqi Sunnis, who in some areas consider the Army a less-than-neutral instrument of a Shiite-dominated government. </p> <p>In Radwaniyah, Sunni tribal leaders say the beatings have cemented fears about what might happen when the U.S. military leaves for good. They worry about being caught between the Sunni insurgents they turned against and a Shiite-led government they do not trust. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/17/AR2010041702704_pf.html" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>: </p> </blockquote> <div style="border-right: silver 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: silver 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: silver 1px solid; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: silver 1px solid"> <table cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" width="580" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="285"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63G06Z.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Reuters AlertNet – FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 17</a>: </p> <ul> <li><strong>*</strong>BAGHDAD – A bomb attached to a car exploded, severely wounding five people in the Saydiya district in southern Baghdad, police said. </li> <li><strong>*</strong>MOSUL – Police found the body of man who had been shot in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. </li> <li>BAGHDAD – Iraqi police killed a gunman who opened fire on a police checkpoint in the Amiriya district in western Baghdad, Baghdad security command said in a statement. </li> <li>BASRA – A bomb planted in the house of a leader of the local government-backed council leader exploded in central Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad on Friday night, killing his wife and wounding his son, police said. </li> </ul> </td> <td valign="top" width="285"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63H0O9.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Reuters AlertNet – FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 18</a>: </p> <ul> <li>Following are security developments in Iraq at 1900 GMT on Sunday. </li> <li>MOSUL – Armed men wounded two retired senior army officers after they left a mosque in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. </li> <li>MOSUL – A roadside bomb exploded in the centre of Mosul, wounding seven civilians, police said. </li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" colspan="2"> <p><strong>*</strong> Denotes new or updated item.</p> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63H0D4.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Reuters AlertNet – One US soldier dead, three injured in Iraq crash</a>:<br/> <blockquote>A U.S. soldier was killed and three were injured when their helicopter crashed in northern Iraq late on Saturday evening, the U.S. military said on Sunday. <p>In a brief statement, the military said the incident had not been attributed to enemy fire and was under investigation.</p> </blockquote> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> <p><strong>KUNA : U.S. on target to reduce forces in Iraq to 50,000 by August — Odierno – Military and Security – 18/04/2010: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>The U.S. military remains on target to reduce its forces in Iraq from about 95,000 today to around 50,000 by mid-August, U.S. Army General Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, said on Sunday. <p>In an interview on "FOX News Sunday," Odierno said there was no move under way by the United States to revisit the Security of Forces Agreement with Iraq, which calls for all remaining U.S. forces to be out of that country by the end of 2011. </p> <p>If the Iraqi government wants U.S. forces in Iraq longer than that, "we can discuss it. … then we (U.S. officials) will make our own decision on that based on our policies," Odierno said.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2076685&Language=en" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Economic Coverage:</font></h3> <p><strong>Trade Arabia – Iraq cbank cuts rates to boost lending: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Iraq’s central bank slashed its base rate by 100 basis points to six per cent as of April 1 in reaction to subdued inflation and to boost bank lending, senior advisers at the bank said. </p> <p><em>[snip]</em></p> <p>The IMF forecasts economic growth of 7.3 per cent this year, accelerating from estimated 4.2 per cent growth last year but well off 9.5 per cent growth in 2008 when oil prices were at record highs.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.tradearabia.com/news/newsdetails.asp?Sn=BANK&artid=177888" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>: </p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Etihad to Commence Services to Iraq: </strong><br/> <blockquote>Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has announced it will commence flights from Abu Dhabi to Baghdad on April 26, subject to government and regulatory approvals, becoming the first airline in the UAE to fly to Iraq. <p>Etihad will operate five return services per week to Baghdad, operated by two-class Airbus A320 aircraft, and will expand its operation with two additional A320 return services to a second Iraq destination – Erbil – from June 1, subject to government and regulatory approvals. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2010/April/theuae_April450.xml&section=theuae&col=" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>: </p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Anham replaces Agility as US military supplier – Emirates Business 24|7: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Dubai-based Anham has won a $2.2 billion (Dh8.08bn) contract to provide food and support services to the US military in Kuwait, Iraq and Jordan after Kuwait-based logistics firm Agility was replaced as the main supplier following indictments for overcharging</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.business24-7.ae/companies-markets/logistics/anham-replaces-agility-as-us-military-supplier-2010-04-18-1.109319" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Argus Media :Analysis – Baghdad plans refinery spree: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Iraq is drawing up plans to expand its effective refining capacity by 150pc to 1.2mn b/d at a cost of $10.5bn.</p> <p>The additional 740,000 b/d of capacity will come from four planned refineries (see table). A fifth planned refinery with a capacity of 100,000 b/d close to the 800mn bl East Baghdad heavy oil field is on the back burner because the field was not awarded to a foreign oil company in Iraq’s second bidding round in December.</p> <p>Cash-strapped Iraq will be unable to fund its planned downstream expansion alone and will seek private-sector investors. “We are open to discussing any type of investment. These can be joint ventures, build-operate-transfer agreements, build-own-operate agreements, or engineering contracts with deferred payment,” Iraq’s deputy oil minister for refining and gas processing Ahmad al-Shamma told Argus.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.argusmedia.com/pages/NewsBody.aspx?id=704433&menu=yes" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>: </p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Peninsula On-line: Turkey’s TPAO plans to bid for Iraq fields: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>The state-run Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) is planning to bid for development of Iraq’s Akkas, Mansuriyah and Siba natural gas fields, TPAO Chief Executive Mehmet Uysal said in an interview yesterday.</p> <p>Uysal said TPAO aims to bid for the Akkas field in partnership with Italy’s Edison, and added that Chevron and Chinese firms are interested in gas and oil exploration in the Black Sea.</p> <p>“We have already started preparations seriously for oil exploration license tenders for which there will be invitations from now on. We can bid in partnership with consortia,” Uysal said.</p> <p>TPIC, the foreign exploration unit of state-run Turkish Petroleum, won a $318m contract to drill 45 wells in Iraq’s supergiant Rumaila oilfield in March. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=Business_News&subsection=market+news&month=April2010&file=Business_News2010041704135.xml" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a> </p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Commentary and Analysis</font></h3> <p><strong>Green Scare: The Making of the New Muslim Enemy | by Deepa Kumar | CommonDreams.org: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>The events of September 11 laid the basis for the emergence of a vicious form of Islamophobia that facilitated the U.S. goals of empire building in the 21st century. This form of Islamophobia focused on the enemy "out there" against which the U.S. supposedly had to go to war to protect itself, from Afghanistan to Iraq. </p> <p>As George Bush famously put it, "We’re fighting them there, so we don’t have to fight them here." Or as he stated in his West Point speech in 2002, "We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats." In short, an endless "war on terror" on the enemy beyond U.S. borders was now justified, according to Bush. </p> <p><em>[snip]</em></p> <p>The most virulent expression of this "Green Scare" was articulated by NYU professor Tunku Varadarajan. In a Forbes.com article titled "Going Muslim" (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/08/fort-hood-nidal-malik-hasan-muslims-opinions-columnists-tunku-varadarajan.html)" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/08/fort-hood-nidal-malik-hasan-muslims-opinions-columnists-tunku-varadarajan.html)</a> published in November 2009, Varadarajan argued that what precipitated the tragedy at Food Hood–when Major Nidal Hasan turned a gun against his co-workers and killed 13–was not the racist harassment that Hasan faced in the Army or the emotionally debilitating nature of being an overworked Army psychiatrist, but rather a condition that he sees as inherent to all Muslims: the tendency towards violence. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516230030/http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/04/17-6" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>:</p> </blockquote> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="navigation"> <div 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