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  1. #11
    Biden and Barzani, confirming the coordination between Iraqi leaders to isolate terrorism

    Fri Jan 10 2014 07:31 | (Voice of Iraq)

    WASHINGTON (UPI)

    Contact U.S. Vice President, Joe Biden, the President of Iraqi Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, Vokda need to coordinate all the leaders of Iraq closely in order to isolate networks "terrorist" in Iraq.
    The White House said Biden Berzana connection, noting that they discussed their support to the efforts of local and tribal Alguetadh and Iraqi security forces to fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Daash).
    The statement added that the two sides as new emphasis on the need to coordinate all the leaders of Iraq closely in order to isolate networks "terrorist" in Iraq.
    Biden encouraged Barzani, as he did with leaders in Baghdad and Ankara, to find a common way forward issues involved in exports of energy resources and revenues.
    Barzani agreed to continue the dialogue with the Iraqi government to find this way.
    The U.S. Vice President America's support for continued strong federal and united Iraq, as specified in the constitution.
    It is noteworthy that Biden is in contact Successive Iraqi leaders affirming America's support and assist Iraq in its fight against "terrorism."
    It is noteworthy that the Iraqi forces carried out large-scale military campaign in Anbar province west of the country, in an effort to regain control of areas in the province dominated by the gunmen belonged to the "Al Qaeda".
    The Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said the operations will continue until the termination of armed manifestations and to save the people of the province.

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  2. #12
    35 deputies from different blocks are fighting the next election with the Supreme Council

    Fri Jan 10 2014 05:25 | (Voice of Iraq)

    Baghdad: «Middle East»
    At the time of announcing the member of parliament for the Iraqi List led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, Sheikh Hussein al-Shaalan officially joining the bloc citizen of the Islamic Supreme Council to run in the next election, the Prime bloc in parliament, Bayan Jabr confirmed join dozens of MPs from different blocks for « Citizen »in order to contest parliamentary elections scheduled to be held during the month of April next. In a brief statement said Shaalan «announced joining the bloc citizen and I will run the next election with mass». The MP Hussein al-Shaalan, one of the leaders of the Iraqi List and the chairman of the clans in the House of Representatives as it is the Prince of the tribes of Khuza'a in Iraq. Zubaidi said at a press conference in Parliament House yesterday that «the number of deputies of the State of Law coalition and Iraqi forces have joined the bloc to participate with them in the next parliamentary elections». While male-Zubaidi to the names of each of the «House of Representatives Hussein al-Asadi and Jawad Albzona and Hussein al-Shaalan and Mansour Al-Tamimi and Qusay al-Abadi, Abdul-Hadi al-Yasiri» it confirmed join others, others will be the announcement of the names in the coming period to become «the number of MPs who will run in the parliamentary elections with a mass citizen 35 deputies» .
    In the same vein, denied reports that al-Zubaidi, the first on Wednesday to the determination of the leader of the Islamic Supreme Council Ammar al-Hakim to run for the next prime minister. Zubaidi said during the conference that «no truth to the wise intention to run for prime minister in the future, and this false news because we are in agreement within the bloc to be President of the stream Mihrab civilian character does not join any political office». Zubaidi added that «there is religious and political figures and technocrats joined the mass of citizens and will play the upcoming elections in Baghdad and the provinces with a coalition of citizen». For his part, member of the Iraqi parliament and deputy head of the citizen of the Islamic Supreme Council, Abdul-Hussein Abtan told «Middle East» that «among the MPs who have joined us now and can advertise their names are in addition to those mentioned by the President of the block Baqir al-Zubaidi are Ali Kurd and Jinan Albraism and hopes al-Moussawi, has reveal in the coming days for other names mentioned now without certain considerations ». In response to a question on the reasons for such a large number of MPs to split from the bloc and to engage in either the mass citizen or coalition with them to contest the next election, said Abtan told «Middle East» that «the policy of the Supreme Council of the policy is clear and unambiguous, and is based on a course of action is clear and has achieved during the past period significant results at all levels which made such a large number of members of the other blocks are joining us or allied with us ». He added that «there is a significant advantage govern the work of the Supreme Council for Islamic institutional everything where you can not take any decision unilaterally, but there is work to consultation so that each member feels inside the Supreme Council and within the block like a commander». He stressed that «the Supreme Council and as everyone knows, has never been part of any crisis, but on the contrary, it was quite an active part in terms of resolving crises and encircle». He Abtan saying that «our policy even within the parliament and clear and have everyone witness, which make them highly appreciated and welcomed by everyone, which is why we are attracting a large number of MPs will announce their names during the coming period».

    For his part, member of the Iraqi parliament for the province of Basra, the former leader of the coalition of state law, Hussein al-Asadi, one of the deputies allied with the coalition, al-Hakim told the «Middle East» that «there is an explanation inevitable as we entered as a block, a movement of the will of Iraq to fight the next election with Mass citizen and did not join the bloc because there is a difference to be explained ». He said al-Asadi that «Ktltna will run in all of Iraq, from Nineveh to Basra through Baghdad with a mass citizen's where we found that the mass of citizens representing moderation as evidenced by his long career as well as the results achieved in the provincial councils although it does not post has within the government ». He said that al-Asadi «This is part of the normal political movement witnessed in the political arena, which includes all the blocks and the block is not one particular».

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  3. #13
    Representatives prominent dissidents from the state law and the Iraqi and joining a mass citizen

    Fri Jan 10 2014 05:11 | (Voice of Iraq)

    I got news agency pratha the names of the most prominent dissidents from the House of Representatives State of Law bloc and the Iraqi bloc and entering with a mass citizen led ISCI Below the names of the House of Representatives and former bloc:

    1. Jawad Albzona (state law)
    2. Jinan Prism (state law)
    3. Hussein al-Asadi (state law)
    4. Ahmed Abbasi (state law)
    5. Salman Almkotr (state law)
    6. Manal al-Musawi (state law)
    7. Hadi al-Yasiri (state law)
    8. Mansour al-Tamimi (state law)
    9. Hussein al-Shaalan (Iraqi)
    10. Qusay al-Abadi (Iraq)
    11. Ali Kurd (state law)

    The MP for the mass citizen Abdul-Hussein Abtan, had announced on Thursday that "a number of deputies from the State of Law and Iraqi forces joined the coalition of citizen and will run in the next election with the coalition."

    And between Abtan that "MPs who joined the coalition of citizens, and now to go to the next parliamentary elections, will also MPs from the parliamentary bloc of the citizen."

    He continued, MP for the Bloc citizens that "the number of MPs bloc is now up to nearly 35 deputies."

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  4. #14
    Iraq: American Research Center warns of military juntas in the Sunni provinces

    Fri Jan 10 2014 09:44 | (Voice of Iraq)

    American Research Center warned of the repercussions of the formation of a military council in the Sunni provinces of Iraq, at a time when Baghdad announced the destruction of 60 percent of the combat capability of the armed elements in Anbar.
    According to the Institute of the Study of War in the analysis, it is too early to assess the strength of these boards and their impact on the cities they represent.
    Institute revealed that the Washington-based, that the data produced by these councils may irritate the Iraqi government, which is trying to resolve the crisis in Anbar by tribes loyal to it. In a related context, the commander of the Iraqi Army Air Force Major General Hamid al-Maliki, the gift that the Air Force was able to destroy 60 percent of the combat capability of the organization of al Qaeda and Daash in the city of Al-Anbar, west of Baghdad.
    He made it clear that the Army Aviation carried out 400 sorties on Wednesday, pointing out that the arrival of modern military equipment contributed to the success of the operations carried out by the Army Aviation.

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  5. #15
    Expansion Front militants Anbar and Washington train Iraqi forces

    Fri Jan 10 2014 11:14 | (Voice of Iraq)

    Announced the Senate and competencies of the tribe of Albu Fahd - a major tribes in Iraq - joined tribal members to the ranks of the military council of the rebel tribes in Anbar, killing a number of elements of the Iraqi security forces and the Awakening attacks sporadic, while considering the U.S. government to train Iraqi forces, especially in Jordan.
    According to the Council of Albu Fahd tribe said in a statement that joining the military council of the rebels comes after the "excesses" of the Iraqi government against the people of Anbar province, and called for the expulsion of all elements of the Awakening loyal to the government of the general areas of the province.
    The statement emphasized the parking clans various denominations in the face of all of solidarity with what he called "the alliance Safavid" against the people of the province.
    For their part, demanded tribal Salahuddin province, the Iraqi government to withdraw the army from the cities, and stressed that their families will not stand idly by if government forces attacked the towns of Fallujah or Ramadi, and demanded that the families of the south, not pushing their children in a battle they described as a failure.
    He also announced the elders and scholars of the city of Baiji, north of Baghdad, for their support for the people of Anbar to defend themselves in the face of any attack, and demanded that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to withdraw the army from the cities. They also announced the formation of a higher council for clans to maintain security in Baiji, and called for the commitment of the advisory opinion of the Sunni references not to be subjected to the police as long as they are peaceful.
    In a move to escalate military council announced that the rebels Anbar governor Ahmad Khalaf no longer has legitimacy.
    Field Update
    Sources on the ground of the island that the three vehicles of the army burned in clashes in the street in the city of Ramadi sixty though dead and wounded were killed in an attack by gunmen on the headquarters of the clans of the special forces and the Awakening in the Albu Obaid.
    In the mystical east of Ramadi killed four special forces and wounded six others detonated a car bomb.
    In Samarra, killing two members of the Awakening, including the brother of the commander of the awakening of Samarra, the bombing targeted a car south of the city.
    As one person was killed and five others wounded, including police detonated a car bomb parked near the center of Tikrit, the Department of Health.
    In Riyadh - Tamim province north of Baghdad - Gunmen destroyed an army vehicle and killed when they attacked the convoy of the Army.
    In northern Baghdad, gunmen destroyed three tribal army checkpoints in the hand seen in the district of Tarmiyah and seized weapons.
    On the other hand, warned Iraqi Prime Minister that it has no place in the security establishment of the Iraqi army and the people whom he described as looking for a supplier of easy livelihood, and stressed that those who want to join this institution should bear in mind that they "kill, kill."
    During the celebration of the founding anniversary of the Iraqi police, Maliki called for what he called upon States that ride the "wave of terror" and is funded and protected by the media to stop, saying that this will rebound against them as bounced from predecessors, and describes what is known as the Arab Spring that he turned into an epidemic and a disaster for the Arab nation in all their countries.
    U.S. drills
    In the light of developments on the ground in Iraq, considering the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama to provide new training for Iraqi special forces.
    Reuters quoted a U.S. military official - who requested anonymity - as saying that a center for training in special operations near the Jordanian capital of Amman is one of the sites being studied to embrace those exercises.
    For his part, called for the U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner Obama administration to do more to help fight insurgents in Baghdad, but he stopped short of calling for U.S. troops to restore Iraq.
    However, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate, Senator Robert Menéndez condition to get some guarantees to support the rental and sale of dozens of helicopters "Apache" to the government of Nouri al-Maliki.
    The focus of concern Menéndez on whether the United States to ensure that al-Maliki will not use the planes against his political opponents.
    Two years after the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq, the United States is working to accelerate the supply Iraq with shipments of Hellfire missiles and surveillance aircraft and other equipment requested by al-Maliki to help Iraqi forces in response to those who say they are militants from the al-Qaeda in Anbar province.
    And killed about 250 people in battles near Fallujah, and Ramadi, Anbar over a week ago, according to official sources, while announced the Iraqi Red Crescent Society that these battles have caused the displacement of 13 thousand families so far.
    Al-Jazeera and agencies

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  6. #16
    Money in one of the private banks
    Parliament seeks to legislation to protect deposits and bankers welcome and expert calls for the role of "leader" of the private sector

    10/01/2014 13:37

    Long-Presse / Baghdad

    Confirmed the parliamentary finance committee, said on Friday, seeking to pass legislation that protects bank deposits to reassure depositors and stimulate the private banks, and when he called on bankers to set up a company involved in this matter to open the door to their banks enter the domestic market more aggressively, welcomed the financial expert so, and stressed the need to make way the way for the private sector to exercise "leadership role" in the national economy.

    Parliamentary: the Finance Committee is seeking legislation that protects bank deposits

    Says a member of the parliamentary finance committee, Magda al-Tamimi, in an interview to the (long-Presse), that there is "a series of measures adopted by the Commission to improve the economic reality through the stability of the Iraqi currency against other currencies," and suggests that "the central bank tries to maintain the stability of banks especially civil, through checks and instructions issued by every now and then. "

    It adds Tamimi, "The Finance Committee has not only the stability of the banks, but also seeks to develop the civil ones and ensure their participation in building the Iraqi economy by about a real increase their capital, by deposits, which often come from the ministries of the state and its various institutions, as well as deposits of citizens", showing "The owners of these deposits were probably wary of resorting to banks in general and especially civil ones, so the Committee felt the need to enact a law that guarantees the deposits and protected."

    And describes the member parliamentary Finance Committee, that "the central bank would be obligated to protect bank deposits through the law that Sicherah Parliament later, allows the citizen or the investor or the government itself, that the money is deposited in private banks without fear or suspicion,"

    And change course "does not deny that many people, including government agencies, they look even now some kind of suspicion of domestic banks, especially that there is a bitter experiences with them, as happened previously with the bank Basra and Warka after it announced Avlasshma, from here there must be a law secures bank deposits."

    Banker: it is necessary to set up a company to protect the deposits to improve the rate of private banks

    The owners of the banks, in turn, welcomed the civil endeavor Parliament enact a law that protects bank deposits, and called for the establishment of a company specializing in this regard to opening the door to private banks to enter the Iraqi market strongly.

    He says the managing director of United Bank for Investment, Muhannad Qasim, in an interview to the (long-Presse), it was "necessary to the existence of a modern and sophisticated to guarantee bank deposits if this is through the development of a private company contribution of big capital," and shows that "the establishment of a company to guarantee deposits banking were the main demands of the majority of private banks to raise their betterment and reassure depositors. "

    The denominator, that "setting up a company bank guarantees to contribute, based on the claim of many private banks to secure bank loans, contributed to the expansion of lending activity for the various segments of the society to strengthen the national economy," he continues to "set up a company to protect bank deposits step added in the right direction for the development of the reality sinks Eligibility and encourage the various parties to the deposit. "

    Financial expert: reviving the national economy requires upgrading the role of the private sector

    It supported the proposal Financial experts set up a company to protect bank deposits, Adin, it gives momentum plus private banks and revive the Iraqi economy.

    He says financial expert, on behalf of Jamil Antoine, in an interview to the (long-Presse), "The government is protecting the Iraqi economy around solo, without giving the private sector a chance to contribute in this regard," and asserts that "the advancement of the national economy requires the activation of the private sector and enable it of his leadership. "

    Antoine believes, that "any legislation whether a new law to protect deposits or other, should be directed to the private sector, and that will be a factor at the same time to secure the support to ensure that no Haddht cons in this area."

    The study estimated that local banks' capital amounted to the government until the end of October of 2012 last year, a total of 754 billion dinars, compared to more than four billion dinars for private banks, and investment balances in banks operating in Iraq recorded up to 31/10/2012, a sum nearly six billion dinars (5.947), the share of government banks, including 4.929 billion, compared to 1.018 billion for private banks.

    The system consists of the Iraqi banking forty-three banks, as well as the Central Bank and distributed by the property between (7) and state banks (30) Bank waged, including seven Islamic addition to six foreign banks.

    The International Monetary Fund said in a report issued in (the 21 of March 2013) after the end of consultations in the Jordanian capital Amman between a delegation from the Fund and the Iraqi delegation headed by Minister of Planning Ali Shukri) that the improvement occurred in the financial sector, but stressed that it is still in need of greater efforts by the central bank to revise monetary policy tools and strengthen banking supervision and to accelerate the restructuring of the banking system.

    The IMF called the Iraqi Central Bank to take measures towards a gradual liberalization of foreign exchange offer through auctions held by the Bank in order to ensure non-recurrence of turmoil experienced by the financial market in the past year.

    He stressed that the establishment of the fund on a national banking system requires the abandonment of the current model, which is controlled by the weak banks owned by the state, which enjoys preferential treatment distinguish them from private banks, calling on Iraq to do the strengthening of public financial institutions to ensure efficiency and transparency in the use of oil revenues.

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  7. #17
    KA MP describes Abadi as "Worse head of parliamentary committee"

    Friday, 10 January 2014 14:40

    Baghdad (AIN) –MP, Furhad al-Atroushi, of the Kurdistani Alliance described the head of the Finance Parliamentary Committee, Haider al-Abadi, as "The worse head of a parliamentary committee."

    Earlier, Abadi attributed the delay in sending the Budget law to the parliament, to the political disputes among the political blocs.

    Speaking to All Iraq News Agency (AIN), Atroushi said "Abadi is the worse head of a parliamentary committee because he interferes in the Budget law drafts and his statements over causing the delay by the Kurds are inaccurate."

    "The Kurds want the same 17% share of the budget and no one can change it due to the lack of the census," he concluded.

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  8. #18
    Maliki appreciates initiatives Hakim asserts that the principle of majority political aims not to exclude a component

    Fri Jan 10 2014 14:16 | (Voice of Iraq)

    Alsumaria News / Baghdad
    The price of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, on Friday, initiatives head of the Islamic Supreme Council Ammar al-Hakim to resolve the political crisis, noting that the majority of political orientation is not intended to exclude a component, as he emphasized that al-Hakim of the Supreme Council will support all positive steps that serve the nation.

    Hakim said in a statement issued today, following a meeting with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in his Baghdad office, and received "Alsumaria News" a copy of it, that his meeting with al-Maliki "was a gathering in-depth discussed the core files on the Iraqi arena and regional", noting that "the meeting, they discussed relations bilateral and ways to strengthen the National Alliance and the mechanisms to move to projects that serve the homeland and the citizen. "

    Hakim stressed that "the Supreme Council was and will remain supportive for all the positive steps that are in the interest of the homeland and the citizen."

    For his part, the price for al-Maliki, according to the statement, "The positions of the wise and initiatives put forward to resolve the political crisis," noting that "the trend towards the vast political aims not to exclude any of the components of Iraq as far as trying to create a team consistent with the government and put an end to the recession experienced by the political process ".

    He pointed out that "the vast political can move the stagnant water in the political process," describing the national partnership with "broken political process, while there is a chance that the other can go to the political process does not rule out any component of the ingredients."

    Hakim was launched, on Wednesday (January 8, 2014), an initiative called "Onbarna steadfast" include the passage of the reconstruction of special Anbar province, worth four billion dollars in four years, noting that the initiative also includes the creation of Self-Defense Forces of Anbar tribes mission to secure the international border and roads strategy in the province.

    The al-Hakim, in (10 October 2012), support for the political form a majority government provided that includes the basic components of the Iraqi society.

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  9. #19
    Allawi accused the Government of stalling in its fight against Al-Qaeda

    January 10, 2014 In political

    Baghdad: Iraq News Network-National Coalition accused the Secretary-General of the Iraqi list, Iyad Allawi government by the {delay} in its fight against Al-Qaeda and disposal until now., "Allawi said in a press statement," the Government has procrastinated in its fight against Al-Qaeda and get rid of them until now, where was the Government over the past four years or eight years as two of the Cabinet? ". "The question here is why security is deteriorating in scary and why not deliver the security files of persons come from effective as we called down earlier?".Allawi said that "the Government will continue the false promises and irresponsible, when it promised to take steps to improve the performance of the security services on the basis of competence and professionalism, but they reneged on those promises, leading to continued undo security and disregard for the safety and security of our people decent."

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  10. #20
    Obama administration uses Anbar crisis to push Maliki on Iraqi oil law



    The Barack Obama administration is using the current crisis in Iraq’s Anbar province to try to push Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government to take steps to shore up the country’s tattered unity, including reaching a new oil agreement with the Kurds.

    Comments made in recent days by Vice President Joe Biden and by a senior US official in a conference call with a handful of journalists on Jan. 9 suggest that the Obama administration — accused by critics of being hands-off since US forces left Iraq three years ago — is trying to shape Baghdad’s response to extremist Sunni forces in Anbar in proactive ways. How successful the United States will be in the current polarized environment in Iraq and throughout the region remains to be seen, however.

    “There’s a real sense [in Iraq] that this is a critical moment in the country,” the US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said. Iraqis want to deal with the crisis in Anbar on their own but are accepting US “help and advice” based on “hard lessons learned” during the US battles with al-Qaeda elements in Anbar in 2004 and during the surge of 2007-08, the official said.

    Members of what is known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) — many of them foreign jihadists — have been flowing into Anbar from Syria for more than six months, initially setting up camps in remote desert regions. On New Year’s Day, they took over two key cities in Anbar — Ramadi and Fallujah — in a massive armored assault. The group’s declared aim is to link territory in Syria and Iraq into a new Islamic state.

    According to the US official, Sunni tribes in Ramadi, assisted by targeted strikes from Iraqi armed forces remaining outside the city, have wrested back control so that militants are left only in isolated pockets. Fallujah remains in ISIS’ hands but “some initiatives are in place that seem to be having some traction,” the official said.

    The Obama administration has urged Maliki to keep the Iraq army outside Fallujah to avoid a bloodbath with sectarian overtones. “We are confident we have an agreement that the approach taken in Fallujah will be similar to that in Ramadi,” the official said.

    “We are advocating a … patient, deliberate and restrained approach. A wrong move could play right into their [the militants’] hands.”

    The United States is also urging Maliki to take broader steps toward reconciliation with Sunnis and Kurds to decrease animosity toward the Shiite-led government. One element would be a new oil agreement allowing Kurds to export their oil production of about 300,000 barrels a day through existing Iraqi pipelines.

    The US official said that Iraqi Kurdistan Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani had a successful visit to Baghdad at Christmas and made “a tremendous amount of progress” on resolving stalled negotiations over an oil agreement. Biden, who has been talking every day this week with Iraqi officials, is also focusing on this issue, the official said.

    Biden called Iraqi Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani later Wednesday. According to a White House statement, the vice president urged Barzani "to find a common way forward on the matter of energy exports and revenue sharing."

    Denise Natali, a columnist for Al-Monitor and an expert on oil and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) at the National Defense University in Washington, told Al-Monitor that there is likely to be “a compromise and payment of some sort to the KRG” that will allow its oil to flow out to Turkey. She doubted, however, that agreement would be reached on a long-sought national hydrocarbon law this year and attributed whatever progress is achieved less to the crisis in Anbar than to upcoming parliamentary elections in April that could topple the Maliki government and hurt Kurdish parties as well.

    “This is all revolving around election politics,” she said.

    The latest developments in Iraq are taking place against a backdrop of new criticism of the Obama administration by its former defense secretary, Robert Gates. In a new memoir, Gates suggests that Obama didn’t believe in his own strategy toward Afghanistan and allowed top officials to engage in “aggressive, suspicious and sometimes condescending and insulting questioning of our military leaders.” Gates also excoriated Biden, who opposed surges in both Iraq and Afghanistan, as “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”

    Beyond Biden’s interventions, Brett McGurk, deputy assistant secretary of state for Iraq and Iran, is devoting considerable time to the Iraq crisis. McGurk, who served in Iraq while the United States still had thousands of troops there, arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday and is expected to stay for several days.

    In addition to lobbying over Kurdish oil, the Obama administration has been urging the Iraqi government to finally scrap a decade-old de-Baathification program that long ago purged the last real Baathists from the Iraqi body politic. The US official acknowledged, however, that an amnesty would be “extremely difficult to get through the political process” while suicide and car bombings occur with deadly regularity against government and Shiite civilian targets. Such bombings killed about 8,000 civilians last year.

    The official also said the United States would try to accelerate delivery of new weapons systems to the Maliki government, including Apache attack helicopters that have been held up by US Congress. Such systems create training and resupply relationships that sustain long-term relationships, he said. US failure to provide them is encouraging Iraq to purchase Russian equipment, he added.

    While Iraqis and Syrians may be turning against al-Qaeda elements in their midst, their success also depends on the willingness of outside powers — in particular Iran and Saudi Arabia — not to fuel opposite sides in a regional proxy war.

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