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Parliament postpones hold emergency meeting half an hour to lack of quorum
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
A parliamentary source said on Thursday that the Presidency of the Council of Representatives decided to postpone emergency meeting half an hour, attributing the reason to the lack of quorum for the session.
The source said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "Parliament Speaker Osama Najafi decided to postpone emergency meeting that was scheduled for today to discuss the repercussions of the security developments in the country, half an hour."
The source, who asked not to be named, said: "The reason for the delay was a lack of quorum."
He called on House Speaker Osama Najafi, Tuesday (June 10, 2014), the political blocs to urge legislators to participate emergency session on Thursday to discuss the emergency law, which came from the chair of Minister and the Republic.
Iraq has been a deterioration in security remarkable push Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, in the (June 10, 2014), to declare a state of high alert in the country, after the control of gunmen from the organization "Daash" on the Nineveh province, fully, and progress towards the Salahuddin province, and their control over some areas, The Iraqi Council of Representatives decided to convene an emergency session on Thursday to discuss the situation and declare a state of emergency, and it came after receiving a request from the presidents and ministers about it.
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lack of quorum adjourned the emergency session
12/06/2014 12:59:00
BAGHDAD / NINA / The emergency meeting of the House of Representatives scheduled to be held today to discuss the security situation in the country, was adjourned for half an hour to lack of quorum.
The Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called for an emergency session for the parliament to declare a state of emergency after the control of armed groups on the city of Mosul.
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The National Alliance approves to declare state of emergency
12/06/2014 13:05:00
BAGHDAD / NINA / The head of the Ahrar parliamentary bloc, Mushriq Naji said "The National Alliance, through its special meeting, decided to vote unanimously to impose a state of emergency in Iraq."
He told the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA / today, "The heads of parliamentary blocs in the National Alliance decided today to vote in favor for the imposition of a state of emergency in Iraq to support the security forces in defeating terrorism in Iraq."
Naji said that "the heads of the blocs of the National Alliance decided to approve any law or action to support armed forces in the fight against terrorism."
It is scheduled to hold an emergency session for parliament today at the invitation of Speaker, Osama Nujaifi after the Council received a joint request from the Vice-President and Prime Minister to declare a state of emergency.
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Blocks of the National Alliance agree on the adoption of the emergency law
Thu Jun 12 2014 12:54 | (Voice of Iraq) - Add a comment - Sumerian News / Baghdad
MP on the mass of the citizen Habib Terminal, on Thursday, for the agreement of all the blocks that fall in the National Alliance on the adoption of the emergency law.
He said the terminal in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "all the blocks were part of the National Alliance, agreed today on the need for the adoption of the emergency law, which was called for by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki."
He added that the terminal "This meeting came after a decade blocks Alliance meeting to discuss it."
The leaders held the National Alliance, earlier on Thursday (June 12, 2014), a meeting to discuss security events witnessed by the country and the adoption of the emergency law.
Iraq has been a deterioration in security remarkable push Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, in the (June 10, 2014), to declare a state of high alert in the country, after the control of gunmen from the organization "Daash" on the Nineveh province, fully, and progress towards the Salahuddin province, and their control over some areas, The Iraqi Council of Representatives decided to convene an emergency session on Thursday to discuss the situation and declare a state of emergency, and it came after receiving a request from the presidents and ministers about it.
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Parliament split on the validity of granting Maliki to declare a state of emergency
11-06-2014 | (Voice of Iraq)
Baghdad (Iraq) / Yousef Salman
48 hours before the end of the actual age of the cycle of the current legislative, preparing the Iraqi parliament to hold an emergency meeting today (Thursday June 12, 2014), hoping to approve the request of the Prime Minister outgoing Nuri al-Maliki to declare a state of emergency in the country to address the collapse of security that followed the fall of Mosul.
With the announcement of the reform are united blocs and a coalition of Arab refusal to approve the declaration of a state of emergency, and kept the Liberal bloc in the presence of a conditional-Maliki for security measures does not seem the possibility of parliamentary approval for the government's request.
Commenting on that, said a member of the Parliamentary Legal Committee of the Kurdistan Alliance MP Dler Abdullah said the emergency law is very dangerous and keep the executive and legislative powers, however, confined to the military authority.
Abdullah said the "future" that the emergency meeting will discuss the topic of the state of emergency, which called her as president of the Republic and the Minister but there are fears of a political declaration of a state of emergency and authorize the government to dissolve parliament automatically. He pointed out that he can not hand over Iraq on a platter of gold by declaring a state of emergency, noting that he had not left the life of Parliament, only 48 hours, so he can not take a critical decision to declare a state of emergency could be left to the next parliament.
In turn, the legal expert Tareq Harb said the Constitution equated the declaration of war and the declaration of emergency in terms of demand and in terms of the joint approval of the parliament and the measures adopted so tight and contexts.
He said the war in a statement to "the future" that Article 61 / IX of the Constitution to declare a state of emergency was organized to submit a joint request from the President and the Prime Minister to Parliament as it happened. He noted that the approval of the parliament to declare a state of emergency to be two-thirds majority of members present with a requirement for a quorum check your hearing any presence of 163 deputies.
He said the announcement will be for a period of 30 days, extendable by a simple majority and end the state of emergency had to be the Prime Minister show the measures taken in that period to Parliament.
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Yawar: peshmerga in full control of Kirkuk after the withdrawal of the army from its positions
Thu Jun 12 2014 11:55 | (Voice of Iraq)
Sumerian News / Baghdad
The Secretary-General of the Ministry of Peshmerga, said Thursday that "the Kurdish forces in full control of the city of Kirkuk after" the army abandoned its positions on the Federal "
Reuters quoted the secretary-general of the Ministry of Peshmerga, saying, "The Kurdish forces in full control of the Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk after the army abandoned its positions on the federal."
Jabbar Yawar said that "the whole of Kirkuk fell into the hands of the Peshmerga and there is no presence of the Iraqi army in Kirkuk now."
Iraq has been a deterioration in security remarkable push Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, in the (June 10, 2014), to declare a state of high alert in the country, after the control of gunmen from the organization "Daash" on the Nineveh province, fully, and progress towards the Salahuddin province, and their control over some areas, The Iraqi Council of Representatives decided to convene an emergency session on Thursday to discuss the situation and declare a state of emergency, and it came after receiving a request from the presidents and ministers about it.
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Currency Auctions
Announcement No. (2695)
The latest daily currency auction was held in the Central Bank of Iraq on the 12-6-2014 results were as follows:
Details Notes
Number of banks 15
Auction price selling dinar / US$ 1166
Auction price buying dinar / US$ -----
Amount sold at auction price (US$) 168,763,000
Amount purchased at Auction price (US$) -----
Total offers for buying (US$) 168,763,000
Total offers for selling (US$) -----
Exchange rates ( * 1,210 Market Rate )
https://www.cbi.iq/index.php?pid=CurrencyAuctions and https://www.cbi.iq/documents/CBI_FORE...E_AUCTIONS.pdf
House fails to approve the emergency law and Maliki's coalition angry and carries the responsibility of absentees
- WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2014 13:29
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Twilight News / failure to convene the House of Representatives on Thursday, which means not to authorize the government to declare a state of emergency in the country.
A parliamentary source for "Twilight News", MPs absent from parts of Iraq, the Kurds foiled the session today.
It was scheduled to send members of parliament of the situation in Iraq, and the vote on the emergency law, which was called for by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
The contract Maliki's coalition of state law conference in absentee carry responsibility.
Khalid al-Attiyah said at the conference which was attended by "Twilight News", "hold the responsibility of missed not to declare a state of emergency in the country."
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Analysts: Air Power Won’t Win the War Against Insurgents in Iraq
By Harvey Morris
Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Iraq's Nineveh province.
LONDON – The Baghdad government has limited options for using air power to combat Islamist forces that have seized Mosul and a successful counter-offensive will inevitably depend on Kurdish Peshmerga forces, according to Western defence analysts.
The United States, which last week handed over the first of 36 F-16 fighter jets ordered by Baghdad, pledged to continue supplying weapons and other advanced military equipment to Iraqi security forces. The State Department said it was deeply concerned by the takeover of Iraq’s second largest city by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Western experts nevertheless believe that Kurdish ground forces, rather than sophisticated air power, are the best hope of stemming the jihadist tide as it spreads beyond Mosul.
“You don’t recapture cities with aeroplanes,” said Professor Chris Bellamy, a former soldier and military analyst at London’s Greenwich University. “For work in cities, you need infantry and helicopters, and even then you have to bear in mind the risk of collateral damage from the air,” he told Rudaw.
He said there was a theoretical role for aircraft such as F-16s to control surrounding countryside and attacking ISIS convoys on the ground.
However, that option will remain theoretical for some months until the aircraft come into operation. “For the moment, F-16s will have no impact whatsoever,” according to Douglas Barrie, an air warfare expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. “They haven’t been handed over yet.”
He said there was a role for air power in counter-insurgency operations, but questioned whether Iraqi pilots would be up to speed with their training. “Air power in not going to win or lose. With the best will in the world, there will always be civilian casualties. You don’t want to win the fight and lose the battle.”
The Bashar Assad regime in neighboring Syria has drawn widespread international condemnation for the use of indiscriminate air strikes against opposition groups, including ISIS and other jihadists.
Kurdish history has made Kurds wary of the role of air power in the hands of its rulers and powerful neighbors. During the British mandate, when Iraq was the only British-ruled territory to be administered by the Royal Air Force, Kurds suffered the world’s first aerial chemical gas attacks.
The Kurds of northern Iraq only began to establish their freedom from the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein with the imposition of no-fly zones by the Western allies.
During the 1980s, the exiled Kurdish leadership, headed by Massoud Barzani, successfully campaigned to persuade the British government to abandon a prospective sale of 63 Hawk trainer aircraft to Saddam on the grounds they could be armed with chemical weapons to attack the Kurds.
Jordan Perry, Middle East and North Africa analyst with the political risk consultancy Maplecroft, echoed fears previously expressed by Kurdish officials when he said the targets of Baghdad’s advanced weaponry might not be confined to jihadist insurgents.
“The Hellfire missiles and Apache helicopters that the US Congress has approved for Iraq can be used against ISIS,” he told Rudaw. “But they can also be used against the moderate Sunni opposition, and that is a big concern.” He said Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, had a record of using force to shut down the Sunni opposition.
Perry said the capacity of the Iraqi forces in the face of the insurgency was clearly limited. They lacked discipline and in the past had been easily outgunned by Sunni tribal militias. In Mosul, Iraqi soldiers had been reported donning tracksuits and running away.
“The Peshmerga clearly have much stronger discipline and an incentive to protect Kurdish areas,” he said. “The fightback will be spearheaded by the Peshmerga. Their deployments may initially be quite conservative – focused on Kirkuk and the Syria border, their own land.”
He said that, in the wider narrative, the crisis could favor Erbil in its dispute with Baghdad. “Maliki is accepting the reality that he needs Peshmerga help.”
https://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/12062014
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Aiming at Baghdad, ISIS Continues Rapid Advance Against Collapsed Iraqi Army
By RUDAW
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - For almost a week, Islamic militants have continued their attacks against Iraqi troops in all of the country’s Sunni areas. They have advanced with lightning speed, almost reaching the capital Baghdad from the north.
The initial assault that began in the city of Mosul on Saturday has now spread south to include Hawija, parts of Kirkuk, Tikrit and Samarra, all of them major Sunni cities.
Everywhere, the army has abandoned its positions without firing a shot. Iraqi highways are littered with burned vehicles; checkpoints are adorned with the black flags of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS); army uniforms thrown away by deserting soldiers lay scattered across fields and dirt roads.
Amateur videos, now circulating on the Internet, show massive convoys of the Iraqi army fleeing Mosul for the safety of the Kurdistan Region or heading south to Baghdad.
One clip shows civilians in Mosul pelting Iraqi convoys with rocks and jeering at the fleeing soldiers with humiliating remarks.
According to Kurdish security and Peshmerga officials, many soldiers had abandoned their positions hours before the arrival of the Islamic militants.
Scenes showing large numbers of soldiers in their pajamas and undershirts in an exodus to safety in the past few days have shocked Iraqis, government officials and international observers alike.
Iraq’s former army was dissolved in 2003 after a US-led invasion overthrew the regime of Saddam Hussein. But before long, a new army was created, and hundreds of thousands of volunteers joined the ranks from all corners of the country.
Iraq’s Shiite leaders had much faith in a new army that did not have blood on its hands, something they blamed Saddam’s army for. Americans forces trained the new army and Baghdad spent billions of dollars on rearming them.
However, despite the heavy weaponry in their possession and a decade of fighting an insurgency in Anbar province and elsewhere, the army proved not a match for the ISIS fighters, who in most cases improvise their own weapons.
More than anyone else, it is Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki who appears most humiliated by this quick defeat of his forces. In a speech this week, he said that the attacks on Mosul are a foreign conspiracy against Iraq, and that officers and commanders in charge of the area must face punishment for their incompetence.
Two of Iraq’s highest-ranking commanders -- one of them Ali Ghedan, the commander of all infantry divisions -- escaped back to Baghdad through Erbil, shortly after hostilities began in Mosul.
The Dijla Forces, a new command created by Maliki two years ago to combat insurgency in Kirkuk and Diyala, shared the same fate, melting away before the ISIS attacks and vanishing with lightening speed.
It is reported that -- and many observers suspect -- that the ISIS are not alone on this mission. They are believed to have the support and sympathy of civilian residents in cities and towns they have taken over.
If true, that would make sense: Iraq’s Sunnis have been expressing grievances against Baghdad since the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq in 2011. They say their homes are subject to never-ending nighttime raids by the Iraqi security forces, who arrest Sunni men on charges such as suspicion of membership in the former Baath party.
The Sunnis also complain that their areas do not receive any public or social services from the central government.
The past two years have seen demonstrations in Mosul, Fallujah, Baquba and Ramadi, often ending in violent confrontations. In an attack on a sit-in protest in Hawija last year, Iraqi troops killed more than 60 civilians.
So far, Kurdish Peshmerga forces have played the role of spectators in this war, which they call a problem between the ISIS and Baghdad. The Kurdish forces have only occupied some key areas, such as the Rabia border crossing with Syria, one of Iraq’s biggest and main official crossings.
The Peshmerga have also taken over some checkpoints abandoned by the Iraqi army, and have set up new ones. This are cautionary measures against the possible spread of the war into the Kurdish areas, which have remained the safest and most stable part of Iraq.
Elsewhere, in Kirkuk and Diyala for example, thousands of Peshmerga troops have been deployed in Kurdish towns and rural areas that are close to much of the fighting. Yet, they have not engaged the ISIS in any direct fighting.
Parts of Nineveh, most of Kirkuk and northern Diyala fall within the so-called disputed territories that are claimed by both Baghdad and the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), which controls the provinces of Erbil, Sulaimani and Duhok.
This new war between the ISIS and the Iraqi army has opened a window of opportunity for Kurdish Peshmargas: They have strengthened their positions in areas where, had they fortified before, it would have led to serious tensions with Baghdad.
Widening the safety belt outside the borders of the Kurdistan Region is a good guarantee that the war does not spill over to the autonomous region. For their part, the ISIS have not targeted areas held by the Peshmerga.
The governor of Mosul has fled to Kurdistan, and many Iraqis insist that only with Peshmerga assistance can Iraq regain control of the cities lost to the Islamic militants.
However, given Erbil’s political disagreements with Baghdad over oil sales, Iraq’s freezing of the Kurdish budget and procrastination in deciding the future of the disputed territories as spelled out in Article 140 of the constitution, it will probably be a while before the Kurds decide to offer Iraq any serious assistance.
https://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/12062014
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Central launches new instructions to sell the currency auction
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06/12/2014 13:53
Tomorrow's Press / Baghdad announced that the General Directorate of banking and credit control in the Iraqi Central Bank, on Thursday, announced the launch of new instructions to banks and shops banking approved to participate in the daily auction for the sale and purchase of foreign currencies.
A statement by the bank received "tomorrow's Press," "The instruction included and should be accorded to banks authorized disclosure includes Amount and purpose of the transfer and to identify the beneficiaries of the conversion."
He added that "the bank called to report supports the safety of customer funds and the source of funds and lack of legitimacy and violating the law against money laundering."
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