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  1. #21
    Former Spokesman: Iraqi Decision Makers Are Unqualified and Incompetent
    By RUDAW 5/1/2014

    Former spokesman of the Iraqi government, Ali al-Dabbagh.

    By Sirwa Hawrami

    Ali al-Dabbagh, former spokesman of the Iraqi government, has gone from being a fervent supporter of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to one of his most outspoken critics. A former insider with detailed knowledge and first-hand experience of Maliki’s inner circle, he paints a picture of an administration rotten with corruption, where unqualified officials are in place only to steal from the public coffer, where there is no accountability and no one cares about the suffering of the common Iraqi. “There are no systems for sewage, no water, no health, no education and no food rations,” lamented Dabbagh, who quit the government last year. Here is his full interview with Rudaw:


    - See more at: https://rudaw.net/english/interview/0....ZImtjl8i.dpuf



  2. #22
    Zebari: Iraq supports the participation of all concerned countries, including Iran, in Geneva 2 Conference.
    14/01/2014 14:32:00

    Baghdad/ NINA /-- Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said : "Iraq supports and endorses the presence of all concerned states and parties of Syrian crisis, including Iran, in Geneva 2 Conference.

    Zebari added in a joint press conference with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Jawad Dhareef : "The participation of all concerned in the conference is the best way to end the Syrian crisis," noting: "This conference is not for countries, it is for Syrians, so the participation of countries will have protocol nature

    https://www.ninanews.com/english/News...ar95_VQ=GMDFMF

  3. #23
    BREAKING NEWS. Maliki: Talk about dialogue in Anbar is rejected.
    13/01/2014 15:19:00

    Baghdad/ NINA/-- Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said: "Talk about resort to dialogue in Anbar is rejected because we do not want to negotiate with al- Qaeda, he said.

    Maliki pointed out in a joint press conference held tody in Baghdad with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: "What is going on in Anbar has united Iraqis in their war against al-Qaeda.

    For his part, Ki-moon said that his meeting with al-Maliki addressed a number of issues, including the participation of Iraq in Kuwait conference to support the Syrian people

    https://www.ninanews.com/english/News...ar95_VQ=GMDDMD

    and


    Allawi demands distinction between terrorists, tribal men
    13/01/2014 21:43:00

    Baghdad (NINA) – Leader of Patriotic Iraqi Alliance, Iyad Allawi, demanded distinction between terrorists and tribal men.

    In his personal Face book web site, allawi said that he has always supported the Iraqi Army in standing up to terrorism and protecting the Iraqi people; he renewed his call for the necessity to distinguish between Iraqi tribal men and terrorists, under whatever name they claim.

    https://www.ninanews.com/english/News...ar95_VQ=GMDEHL

    *** THERE IS A CRITICAL ISSUE WITH ENEMY IDENTIFICATION - ONE MAN'S TERRORIST / REVOLUTIONARY IS ANOTHER'S PATRIOT ***
    Last edited by chattels; 01-14-2014 at 01:05 PM.

  4. #24
    Maliki: talk about running for a third term premature

    Tue Jan 14 2014 14:33 | (Voice of Iraq)

    Alsumaria News / Baghdad
    Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, that he will run for the next parliamentary Alantakbat, in what was seen talking about running for a third term before the onset of the election results "premature" and "pre-empt the incorrect things."

    Maliki said in an interview with Reuters, "Certainly we're going into the election," he said replying to a question on running for a third term, that "to be decided by the Iraqi people when standing in front of the ballot box and determined by the political blocs when the election is over and all the known tally with whom to ally."

    He made it clear, "I imagine the modern (for a third term) is premature," pointing out that "any person who decides the next step before the results show, and before he knows what he wants the popular mood, this is to anticipate the things that is not true."

    And the voice of the Iraqi parliament, on the ninth of January 2013, initially on the Law of the mandate of the three presidencies.

    The House voted, in (January 9, 2013) in principle, to determine the states of the three presidencies (the Republic and the Council of Ministers and the House of Representatives), two sessions, offering a coalition of state law, an appeal to the Federal Court to overturn the decision, but the court rejected this appeal.

    And received by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, (63 years), as prime minister in his first term in 2006, when a successor to the solution of the National Alliance Chairman Ibrahim al-Jaafari after he won the National Coalition Unified timely parliamentary elections.

    The form-Maliki elections March 2010, a coalition of state law, which came second, with 89 parliamentary seats after the Iraqi List, which won 91 seats, which nominated President Iyad Allawi for the position, but that the alliance of Maliki's coalition with the National Alliance, which won 70 seats are settled position in favor of al-Maliki to assume officially on 21 December 2010, after parliament granted him the confidence of the Government are incomplete at the time.

    https://translate.googleusercontent.c...#ixzz2qNXxSBe8

  5. #25
    *** Courtesy of Briarpatch ***

    Gates Says al-Qaeda in Iraq Seizes on Anti-Sunni Maliki



    Robert Gates, former U.S. secretary of defense.

    Al-Qaeda affiliates in Iraq have exploited Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s antagonism toward Sunnis, fueling an escalating conflict, former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.

    Maliki “has turned out to be far less inclusive and more of a sectarian leader then we had hoped” after the U.S. “handed the Iraqis a golden opportunity in 2009, 2010,” Gates said yesterday in an interview in New York. “Since then, he’s really been sort of antagonistic towards the Sunnis in a kind of unrelenting way.”

    Gates, 70, who oversaw the U.S. war in Iraq before President Barack Obama withdrew the final American troops there at the end of 2011, said that it’s premature to conclude that Iraq has descended into a sectarian civil war.

    Maliki “does have some political savvy and may be alarmed enough at what’s happening that maybe he’ll do some things differently in terms of outreach” to the Sunni minority, said Gates, who’s beginning a promotional tour for his memoir, “Duty.”

    “So much of the violence we are seeing in Iraq, I think, is a re-energized al-Qaeda” seeking “to stoke this sectarian violence in Iraq and, frankly, turning that whole Anbar” province and “adjacent parts of Syria into an extremist enclave.”

    News coverage of Gates’s book has turned largely on the former Pentagon chief and CIA director’s assessment that Obama ordered additional U.S. forces to Afghanistan even though he wasn’t confident of success there.

    Obama on Gates

    In his first public comments on the Gates memoir, Obama told reporters yesterday in Washington that “during his tenure here, Secretary Gates was an outstanding secretary of defense, a good friend of mine and I’ll always be grateful for his service.”

    In the book, Gates wrote that the failure to reach an agreement with Iraq to protect remaining U.S. troops from local prosecution, which resulted in their withdrawal, “was a regrettable turn of events for our future influence in Iraq and our strategic position in the region. And a win for Iran.”

    “The country had largely been stabilized,” Gates said in the interview. “The security situation dramatically improved and at that point I felt, even as early as the middle of 2008, that my primary objective had been achieved.”

    “We had achieved sufficient success in the security situation that I thought we could draw down and leave without our departure being seen as a defeat or a strategic setback,” Gates said.

    ‘More Outreach’

    Gates said Maliki’s decision in recent days to refrain from an all-out military assault on Fallujah was important because it showed restraint, “not just in a military sense of not attacking these places.”

    It also demonstrated “more outreach to the Sunnis,” to “sort of reignite the notion for them that a unified Iraq, even if the Shia have the authority, is in their interest,” he said.

    Other analysts have been less optimistic, saying that Maliki is unlikely to make significant concessions to his country’s Sunni minority and more likely to continue acting as a Shiite leader.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-0...ni-maliki.html

  6. #26
    *** Courtesy of Briarpatch ***

    Fight in Iraq has oil traders holding their breath

    By: Ted Kemp, Yousef Gamal El-Din

    Energy traders are closely watching renewed fighting in Iraq, trying to gauge worst- and best-case scenarios for OPEC's second-biggest oil producer—and the coming weeks could be critical.

    "This situation now certainly has the market on tenterhooks. It's why we're seeing the price of oil somewhat elevated" despite a period of relatively contained demand, said John Kilduff, founding partner of commodities-focused investment firm AgainCapital. "This is a very troubling development for the oil market for consumer nations," Kilduff said.

    This month, the Iraqi government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki lost control of the city of Fallujah to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a group that wants to establish a strict religious state across western Iraq's Anbar province and eastern Syria.


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    "The worst scenario is for the Kurds to say, ‘OK, enough of you guys. We don’t want anything to do with you. All non-Kurds out.’ They can do that. They have the resources. They have a lot oil."

    -Farouk El-Baz, research professor, Boston University
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    News media, particularly in the United States, have made much of ISIL's declared allegiance to al-Qaeda. But more important for Iraq and the wider region, Middle East watchers say, is the fact ISIL is a Sunni movement in a Shia-majority country. For that reason, any worsening of violence in Fallujah could spark wider unrest across Iraq or the larger Middle East.

    "The latest episode establishes another theater in a violent Sunni-Shiite regional power struggle that is already taking place in such places as Syria, Lebanon and Bahrain," said Ted Carpenter, senior fellow for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. "It is dangerously simplistic to attribute the new turmoil in Anbar entirely to the actions of [an] al-Qaeda affiliate."

    Reports from Anbar have indicated that ISIL even enjoys some support from otherwise unradicalized Sunnis in the region, though sources who spoke with CNBC disagreed on that point. Al-Maliki has systematically placed his fellow Shiites in powerful government positions in Iraq and has drawn Iraq closer to Shia-dominated Iran. He's widely accused of alienating Anbar's minority Sunni population.

    Fallujah's importance goes beyond oil markets

    CNBC.com's Ted Kemp talks about how the loss of Fallujah to rebels impacts American who fought there.

    Anbar is not an oil-producing region, though pipelines transport 1.5 million to 2 million barrels of oil through the province daily. But violence in the region still affects markets, said Seth Jones, an associate director RAND Corp.'s International Security and Defense Policy Center and a former senior adviser to the U.S. Special Operations Command.

    "This is not the area where most of Iraq's oil fields are located, but instability in general in Iraq and the perception that there could be a civil war may affect energy markets," he said.

    Jones was quick to say he believes an outright civil war in Iraq is unlikely, but he and others who spoke to CNBC said that chaos in Anbar could inspire other groups that are already unfriendly to al-Maliki's government and Shiites in general—especially the Kurds in Iraq's oil-rich north—to become restive themselves.

    "The worst-case scenario is for the Kurds to say, 'OK, enough of you guys. We don't want anything to do with you. All non-Kurds out'," said Farouk El-Baz, a research professor at Boston University who served as adviser to the former Egyptian government of Anwar Sadat. "They can do that. They have the resources. They have a lot of oil. Then the Kurds in Iraq and Turkey and Syria will all fight for their own nation.



    The coming weeks are critical.

    After initially taking a belligerent tone toward the ISIS fighters in Fallujah, al-Maliki this weekend said the Iraqi army won't attempt a full assault on the city. The military's ability to retake Fallujah is doubtful anyway—it took more than 13,000 U.S. Marines, soldiers and their allies about 1˝ months to take control of the city at the second Battle of Fallujah in 2004.

    Al-Maliki has shown signs of trying to entice local tribal leaders to fight ISIL, but with the Iraqi army now surrounding Fallujah, an assault or bombardment is always possible. Regardless, the prime minister will feel pressure to act soon.

    Parliamentary elections are set for April, and factions opposed to Iraq's Shiite-dominated government are likely to foment more trouble ahead of voting, said Charles Lister, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center. "Violence will likely reach a peak in the days and weeks prior to the elections," he said.

    US has had 'issues with doing the right thing' in Syria: Saudi Prince

    HRH Prince Turki Al-Faisal, former Saudi intelligence chief and former ambassador to the US, says America had "significant issues with doing the right thing" in Syria, as the U.S. could not end the bloody conflict.

    The latest violence comes at a time when Middle Eastern oil production had appeared closer to some semblance of stability

    As 2013 came to an end, events seemed to be aligning for an increase of oil supplies from the region. Libyan production, disrupted since that country's civil war, looked as if it may come back online. More importantly, Iran began edging toward a possible nuclear deal with the West that could result in a lifting of export sanctions there.

    (Read more: Iran nuclear deal to take effect Jan. 20)

    The fall of Fallujah changed all that, said Kilduff.

    "We were looking at maybe going below $80 a barrel and a gas cost of below $2.50 a gallon on average, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen now," Kilduff said.

    "We're all just holding our breath here," he said. "The Iraqi government has made enough noise for the energy market to believe something is imminent."

    —By CNBC's Ted Kemp and Yousef Gamal El-Din. Follow them on Twitter at @TedKempCNBC and @youseftv.

    https://www.cnbc.com/id/101331232

  7. #27
    Tue Jan 14 2014 16:05

    (Voice of Iraq)

    The Kurdistan Alliance is cutting the share of Kurdistan of Iraq's budget «collective punishment»

    Erbil after the issuance of threats from Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, to cut the budget of the Kurdistan region against the backdrop of the problems and differences that exist between the government and the Government of Kurdistan region, announced the official spokesman of the Government of the Territory Sven Daza Yi that «a delegation headed by Barzani will visit Baghdad within a short period to complete talks about the file-oil». praised Tsai Yi said in remarks initiative Maliki meeting, the day before yesterday, the bloc's Kurdish parliament and ministers of the Kurds in his government, pointing out that «the talks held by the Kurdish delegation in 25 of the last month has been positive and productive, and both parties agreed to formulate their proposals and their views, which will be discussed in the next round of talks». Maliki has pointed out in its mass Kurdish, the day before yesterday, to that «the head of the Kurdistan Regional Government has asked for two days to return to the leadership of the region to inform them of the outcome of his talks with the Iraqi delegation, but went three weeks without returning to Baghdad, and the signing of the agreement with us». sparked threats of al-Maliki to cut the share of the Kurdistan region of the state budget for the current year, which were announced in front of deputies and ministers Kurds put two options in front of the Kurdish leadership, namely: delivery of oil revenues derived from the export of Kurdish oil to Turkey, or the acceptance cut the share of the budget, reactions to a number of MPs and politicians Kurds. A number of deputies that Maliki can not cut the share of Kurdistan of the budget, while counting other threats are not serious, but just the pressure and campaigning, but the spokesman for the Kurdistan Alliance bloc told «Middle East» that al-Maliki has a large bloc in the House of Representatives, and therefore he can take a decision in this regard ». said supporter good in his statement that «the subject of the budget was discussed in the House of Representatives, and there was pressure from the parliamentary blocs, and in particular from the Sadrist bloc, the need to accelerate to send the budget bill from the government to the parliament, but in all Once the government was invoked not to access statements calculations and returns of the Kurdistan region, and traditionally that is the Ministry of Finance the bill and submit it to the Council of Ministers, which has the right to make adjustments as it deems necessary before sending it to the House of Representatives, and, therefore, the prime minister has the authority to amend the budget law, It is possible to carry out his threats, because it has already been passed several laws in the light of our absence or rejection, we block weak in the House of Representatives against the large blocks able to harm our people, but it is very important that people know what to cut the budget for the Kurdistan as a collective punishment against the Kurdish people ». continued spokesman for the Kurdistan Alliance, said: «We always call for dialogue and understanding to resolve the problems of the country, and the differences that exist between the two governments federal and provincial are part of the general problems in the country, and you should not use the budget or the threat of pumping as leverage to resolve the outstanding problems , because of budgetary funds is the people's money, and the right of the people of Kurdistan to receive its share of the money the country, and that the methods of the threat contrary to the philosophy of the state and the contents of the constitution, which is equal among all Iraqis in rights and duties, and equal to them also to get the state's resources, and may not impose sanctions collectively to the people due to differences between the two governments ». and about the upcoming visit of the delegation of the Kurdish Baghdad, said good: «I think that there is a strong will and seriousness of the Government of the Territory to resolve differences and problems between them and the federal government, and I am optimistic boosted the parties to overcome those differences and resolved in The next round of negotiations ».

    https://www.sotaliraq.com/mobile2014....#axzz2gfHNrFmF

  8. #28
    Allawi to Arabic: the fundamental solution lies in genuine national reconciliation in Iraq

    January 14, 2014 In political

    Speaking on the Arabic channel Dr. Iyad Allawi, visiting Secretary-General of the United Nations as a failed visit, despite his kind gave lecture Iraqi leaders on terrorism and fight it, Iraq's leaders had failed to fight terrorism and don't have to fight it, adding that the role of the United Nations helpless and poor not only in Iraq but in the past tense throughout the arenas the greater Middle East region.

    He also said that the crisis at its roots is a political solution, and the national mobilization to meet the rule, unless there is a political solution, it is useless to fight against civilians in Anbar or Baghdad, Iraqi leaders without exception against Al-Qaeda and of course was assumed by Dr Allawi met Mr. Ki-moon clan leaders and peaceful demonstrators in the Al-Anbar both meets them in Baghdad or in a safe place so tightly integrated with the image without talking about a radical solution, so that the fundamental solution Lies in genuine national reconciliation in Iraq.

    Dr. Allawi also questioned Washington's desire to solve problems in the region, where it holds the atmosphere because it does not have a clear policy to combat terrorism, saying Washington had some behaviour led to the escalation of the situation in the region and the emergence of extremist forces in the Middle East.

    He also expressed the hope that the Iraqi people because it only has the capacity to solve the problem of Iraq, if the intentions of the rulers, believing that Iran on Iraq and does not play a positive role and became influential.

    https://www.microsofttranslator.com/b...5a7%25d9%2584%

  9. #29
    Source: American paid to Ahmed Abu Risha, hundreds of millions of dollars!

    January 14, 2014 In political

    Baghdad/Iraq News-Iraqi politician and one of the tribes in Anbar, Sheik said, the Americans pushed to Ahmed Abu Risha, brother of Star sums amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars, but an aide confirmed that the grip of the Ahmed Abu Risha approached billion to cover the costs of the establishment and implementation of the Sahwa circle., the source confirmed that the amount received by Ahmed Abu Risha in the UAE, and the road opened to Ahmed to be the master of money and power and influence in Anbar!.

    https://www.microsofttranslator.com/b...7%25d9%2584%2F

  10. #30
    Kurdistan Alliance: Al-Maliki would agree to our requests in 2014

    January 14, 2014 In economic, political

    Baghdad/Iraq News Network-Kurdistan Alliance bloc, said today that it had reached an understanding on the terms of the federal budget with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, adding that a delegation from the territory no date arriving in Baghdad will end the problem. and Vice President of the bloc, Mohsen Al-saadun said: "the delegation of the Kurdistan Alliance in the House of representatives reached understandings for both the Federal Government and the Kurdistan Regional Government in a meeting with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, especially a financial allocation for the region and export of oil," he said--that "a delegation from the Kurdistan region was Date arriving in Baghdad will end all differences on the budget, "he said, adding that the delegation would arrive" soon. "and the Ministry of finance said yesterday that the Kurdistan region stop the barrier to adoption of the budget of 2014 students wait weeks until its response on the proposal of the Ministry of oil for export under the proposal to agree Baghdad oil exports from Kurdistan provided the national marketing company (Sumo) is an important export.

    https://www.microsofttranslator.com/b...9%25d9%2584%2F

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