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    " The Dinar Daily ", Tuesday, 26 August 2014

    It is EVICT MALIKI DAY + ONE HUNDRED EIGHTTEEN (118) or " E - M DAY + 118 "

    Tuesday, 15 July 2014 21:23

    Baghdad (AIN) –The Speaker of the Parliament and his two Deputy Speakers assumed their duties officially.

    The Parliament succeeded in electing Speaker of the Parliament, Salim al-Jebuori, and his first Deputy, Haider al-Ebadi, as well as his 2nd deputy, Aram al-Sheikh Mohamed.

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    Iraq parliament elects Kurdish politician Fuad Masum as new president

    KURDISH politician Fuad Masum has become the new president of Iraq, in a step towards forming a new government that visiting UN chief Ban Ki-moon says must be inclusive for the country to survive.


    Haydar al-Abbadi Is the New Iraq PM Candidate

    Posted by Reidar Visser on Monday, 11 August 2014 13:48

    Today, what remains of the pan-Shiite National Alliance formally presented Haydar al-Abbadi of the Daawa party as their PM candidate. Abbadi will be charged by President Fuad Masum to replace the current PM, Nuri al-Maliki.

    The political realities behind this move can be summarized as follows. For some weeks, pressure has been building inside Maliki’s State of Law coalition to have him changed. Finally today, factions led by Haydar al-Abbadi of the Daawa and Hussein al-Shahristani, the current deputy PM, broke with Maliki to nominate Abbadi for PM. Early reports suggests 38 Daawa MPs and 12 members of the Shahristani bloc abandoned Maliki, leaving him with the backing of only around 45 members of the original 95-member State of Law bloc. It is worth noting that the traditionally pro-Iranian Badr organization has not been enumerated among the 128 or so supporters of Abbadi.

    Constitutionally and legally, today’s developments also clear the air. Until yesterday, Maliki could plausibly plead the case that the president should have charged him with forming the government before the official deadline expired. However, today’s action by the Shiite alliance showed that Maliki’s claim to represent the largest bloc no longer has any basis, because State of Law has disintegrated. Accordingly, Maliki’s promise to bring the case before the Iraqi federal supreme court will be of academic interest only. Any attempt by him to challenge the nomination through other means than the court will be profoundly anti-democratic.

    Haydar al-Abbadi is a former finance minister who is well liked by groups outside the Daawa and State of Law, who elected him as deputy speaker for the new parliament earlier. He will now have 30 days to present his cabinet for approval by the Iraqi parliament with an absolute majority.

    https://gulfanalysis.wordpress.com/20...-pm-candidate/

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    Start commissioning (Abadi) by a presidential decree
    By khabaar khaba 11/08/2014 04:58

    The leader of the Supreme Council, led by Mr. Ammar al-Hakim, Fadi al-Shammari reporter Agency for News News (et) shortly before the start of commissioning procedures by a presidential decree for the National Alliance candidate for prime minister Haider al-Abadi.

    The feet of the National Alliance, a leader in the coalition of state law and the Dawa Party, Haider Abadi, head of the new government.

    And got Agency for News News (et) on official documents show that the Alliance was formally presented to the prime minister, al-Abadi.

    https://khabaar.net/index.php/permalink/27139.html

    Aajl..masom cost Abadi to form the next government
    Monday, August 11 / August 2014 15:10

    Commissioned by President Fuad Masum, the day Monday, the National Alliance candidate for prime minister Haidar al-Abbadi to form a government.

    According to a source familiar with told all of Iraq [where] that "the infallible and after Abadi nomination for prime minister instructed the latter to form the next government."

    The National Reform Movement, led by Ibrahim al-Jaafari announced officially on Monday, the nomination of the leader of the Islamic Dawa Party and the current First Deputy Speaker of the House Haider Abadi for the post of prime minister in the government Aljdidh.anthy

    https://www.alliraqnews.com/index.php...-12-10-28.html

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    Article 76:

    First: The President of the Republic shall charge the nominee of the largest
    Council of Representatives bloc with the formation of the Council of Ministers
    within fifteen days from the date of the election of the President of the Republic.

    Second: The Prime Minister-designate shall undertake the naming of the members
    of his Council of Ministers within a period not to exceed thirty days from the date
    of his designation.


    Third: If the Prime Minister-designate fails to form the Council of Ministers
    during the period specified in clause “Second,” the President of the Republic shall
    charge a new nominee for the post of Prime Minister within fifteen days.

    Fourth: The Prime Minister-designate shall present the names of his members of
    the Council of Ministers and the ministerial program to the Council of
    Representatives. He is deemed to have gained its confidence upon the approval,
    by an absolute majority of the Council of Representatives, of the individual
    Ministers and the ministerial program.


    Fifth: The President of the Republic shall charge another nominee to form the
    Council of Ministers within fifteen days in case the Council of Ministers did not
    win the vote of confidence.

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    Published on Aug 11, 2014



    Declared the presidency formally approve commissioning Haider Abadi, the formation of the new government.



    Sources of Baghdadi President Fuad Masum, cost-Abadi told a news conference at the headquarters of the Presidency and the presence of the President of Parliament, Salim al.
    , and The National Alliance has announced his candidacy Haider Abadi, in a letter sent to the presidency attached to the signing of 127 MPs from the National Alliance, representing blocs of advocacy and independent Almndutin in the State of Law coalition and the Liberal blocs and coalitions of citizens and reform and virtue.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c17...ature=youtu.be

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    Biography of Dr. Haidar al-Abbadi

    Mon Aug 11 2014 19:28 | (Voice of Iraq)

    - Birth and maintain: 1952 Baghdad
    His father, Dr. Jawad al-Abadi doctor known and who served as director of the hospital nervous in Baghdad and the inspector general of the Health Ministry and has his retirement in 1979 in the list of 42 doctors decision of the Revolution Command Council dissolved due to lack of loyalty to the Baath regime. Died in London and was buried where not to allow the former regime opponents to bury their dead in their own country.

    MP Haydar Abbadi
    Academic achievement:
    - Completed the study in the elementary and middle eastern Karrada in Baghdad.
    - Finished junior high school in junior high in central Baghdad in 1970.
    - He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Technology in Baghdad in electrical engineering in 1975.
    - Familiarize doctoral and master's degrees at the University of Manchester in England at his own expense, and earned a doctorate in electrical and electronic engineering in 1980.
    Political activity:
    - Belonged to the Islamic Dawa Party in 1967, a few days after a setback in June at the age of fifteen years and practiced his activity in the party and in the outside in the security conditions extremely dangerous, especially with the takeover of the Baath regime on the capabilities of the country and the arrest of some officials partisans who persevered steadfastness of the heroes and the martyrdom of others mercy God.
    - Currently in charge of the Political Bureau of the Party and spokesman in his name in addition to his membership in the leadership of the Islamic Dawa Party.
    - Took over the responsibility to speak on behalf of the Islamic Dawa Party in Britain and abroad, especially to the media, global in exposing the crimes of the former regime and found guilty and defend the Iraqi people and the rejection of the blockade imposed on it, and attendance at international forums and in the UN definition Bmazlomah the Iraqi people at a time when much of the world is silent or supports the Baathist regime in its crimes against the Iraqi people.
    - Has had a prominent presence in opposition to the Baathist regime and decisively to address the elements of the former regime and abroad participated in the activities of the opposition against the regime and also contributed to the national conferences of the opposition which was attended by the Islamic Dawa Party.
    - In 1983, his passport was withdrawn by order of the Presidency of the intelligence system on charges of activity hostile to the Baath regime by documents found.
    - In 1982, the Baath regime executed two of his brothers, one a university professor and two employees in the state on charges of belonging to the Islamic Dawa Party. In 1981 the former regime arrested his brother, who was third in the second year of the College of Medicine and spent ten years in prison on the same charge.
    - In 1980, took over the responsibility of the Office for the Middle East, the Islamic Dawa Party which is based in Beirut.
    - In 1979, became a member of the executive leadership of the Islamic Dawa Party.
    - In 1977, he was responsible for the Islamic Dawa Party organizations in Britain.

    MP Haydar Abbadi
    Political positions:
    - Currently vice president of the House of Representatives where he was elected for the rule of law in the elections of April 2014 is a member of the House of Representatives since 2006 for the city of Baghdad.
    - In the same year he was elected Chairman of the Committee of Economy and Investment and Reconstruction, one of the committees main actors and vitality in the House of Representatives is the most important achievements under his presidency: to pursue the development and rehabilitation of public sector companies to the state through legislation and financial allocations, and follow up the implementation of investment budgets and the reasons for the lag in implementation, and strive to provide facilities and to support the industrial and agricultural sector and encourage national industries, and contribute to the legislation, a package of economic laws the task of which the Investment Law and Consumer Protection Law and the Law on the protection of national products and the customs tariff law and competition law and antitrust and other laws essential for the development and protection of the Iraqi economy and improve the standard of living of citizens and decent work for them .
    - In 2005 he became an adviser to the Prime Minister, where he took several files, including his appointment as general coordinator for the city of Tal Afar to rid it from the control of al-Qaeda and terrorism excommunicating where deemed of the most successful achievements of the government at that time and set an example for the cooperation of the people and tribes of different affiliations and persuasions to confront and expel the terror of national unity between the sons city. It also took over the task of coordination with the United Nations about the displaced Iraqis caused by terrorist acts. The Foundation took over the follow-up information for the development of its standards and digital computers in Iraq
    - Appointed Minister of Communications in 2003, where he oversaw the reconstruction of switches that were destroyed during the war and re-ground telephone service in record time. In his tenure as the ministry expanded Internet service quickly began as the first wireless phone service. Also develop a plan for the Ministry relies rehabilitate Iraqi capabilities in the telecommunications sector, and a strategy to develop a comprehensive and essential infrastructure at the near and medium and long term, and that the adoption of the latest technology available, and draw a clear policy for the telecommunications sector and the development of structuring the work of this sector in Iraq in order to launch its capabilities and provide the service that you need country.
    Professional work and career:
    - After receiving a bachelor's degree in 1975, the work of a lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Technology in Baghdad, for being ahead in the study where he was second in the sequence section.
    - Work from 1981 to 1987 as president of the research team at the company (LDPE) in London for the rapid transfer of the vertical and using modern technology based on his dissertation. It also assumed responsibility for the implementation of electronic control in the project for the transfer of the vertical in the center of the City of London.
    - In 1987 he became an expert in the technology of rapid transit in London.
    - Contributed in 1997 in planning for quick transfer of vertical giant virtual city and planned to be built in the future in Japan with an area of one million square meters, which can accommodate one million people and a height of a thousand meters.
    - In 1998 received a grant for technology innovation from the Ministry of Trade and Industry, UK.
    - Participated in the design of electronic transmission pedestrian bridge to the second millennium in London in 1999 on the basis of his research for a patent.
    - In 2001, has been patented in London for his work in the field of rapid transit (Snkerorel) using modern technology, the adoption of his thesis for a doctorate.
    - Took over the presidency of the Foundation sophisticated technology in London in 1993, in addition to his work an expert in technology Rapid Transit until 2003 when he returned to Iraq after the fall of the former regime.
    - Has a scientific research about the control system setups and designs for new types of electric motors with electronic control and also participated in many seminars and scientific conferences in Britain.
    Other concerns:
    - A professor of materials science and verses of the Koran and the interpretation of provisions in the Islamic College in London in conjunction with the British Brunel University students for undergraduate study years 1999 to 2003.
    - Has a research on the position of Islam, democracy and the concept of one nation, and about intolerance and issued a book entitled "Manual of Science in the Koran."
    - Research has English on the interpretation of the verses of the Koran and texts and sentences in the verses of the Islamic faith beliefs.
    - Participation and lecturing at many conferences and courses and Islamic cultural and overseeing the annual cultural conferences.


    https://translate.googleusercontent.c...RJcqo4wmAAbTOg

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    Meet Haider al-Abadi, the man named Iraq’s new prime minister

    Iraq's president on Monday named Haider al-Abadi as the country's new prime minister, an appointment that came amid speculation that the embattled incumbent, Nouri al-Maliki, would cling to power even after his country had dissolved into chaos and the United States made it clear that it would not support him as leader anymore.

    But who is Abadi? Born in Baghdad in 1952, Abadi was educated at the University of Baghdad and later received a doctorate from the University of Manchester in Britain. He lived in Britain for many years after his family was targeted by Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime. He was trained as an electrical engineer, but he entered politics after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. He became minister of communications in the Iraqi Governing Council in September 2003, then was a key adviser to Maliki in Iraq's first post-invasion elected government. Just weeks ago, he was elected deputy speaker of parliament, and he has been considered a contender for prime minister in the past two elections.

    The bigger question, however, is whether Abadi will be able to overcome the challenges confronting Iraq more successfully than Maliki. Like Maliki, he's a Shiite Muslim and is a member of the ruling State of Law coalition. One of the chief criticisms of Maliki was that he entrenched Iraq's sectarian politics, filling the government with Shiite politicians and limiting Sunni and Kurdish power.

    Earlier this summer, Abadi gave a striking interview to the Huffington Post's Mehdi Hasan in which he discussed the possibility of Iranian intervention in the fight against the Islamic State, the Sunni extremist group that has taken over vast swaths of Iraq.

    "We are waiting for the Americans to give us support," he said in the June interview. "If U.S. air strikes [happen], we don't need Iranian air strikes. If they don't, then we may need Iranian strikes." Abadi has also had differences with Iraq's Kurdish community at points: Last year he warned that a dispute over Iraqi Kurdistan's oil exports could lead to the "disintegration" of the country, and he was criticized by Kurdish politicians during the negotiations over the 2013 budget.

    However, Abadi does seem to be aware that the Iraqi government and security forces have made serious mistakes in the current conflict. He told Hasan that the government needs to listen to stories of the "excesses" of the security forces to decide how to respond. And he was clear that Iraq needed to avoid being dragged into the type of war the Islamic State clearly desires.

    "We have to be careful not to become involved in a sectarian war," he told Hasan. "Shias are not against Sunnis and Sunnis are not against Shias."

    Reidar Visser, an academic expert on Iraqi politics, says that although Abadi comes from the same political faction as Maliki, he enjoys much broader support, especially from Kurds and Sunnis.

    Part of this is his more distinguished background. "Many of the elites from the governing council-era consider him one of their own in terms of a prestigious family background, whereas Maliki was seen as more of an upstart from humble origins," Visser notes in an e-mail. "Things like that count in the (old-fashioned and traditional) Iraqi establishment."



    President Fouad Massoum, a Kurd, seemed confident Monday that Abadi could lead the country. “Now the Iraqi people are in your hands,” he said as he shook Abadi's hand.


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...rime-minister/

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    Iraqi Prime Minister-Designate Starts Talks on Government Formation


    Prime Minister-designate Haider Abadi began talks with the parties of the country's parliament on the formation of a new government.
    © REUTERS / Ahmed Saad


    MOSCOW, August 12 (RIA Novosti) - Prime Minister-designate Haider Abadi began talks with the parties of the country's parliament on the formation of a new government, the Sky News Arabia TV channel reported Tuesday.
    Abadi confirmed that he is ready to discuss "not only the formation of a new government, but also a general policy of overcoming constitutional, political and economic issues in Iraq."
    The prime minister-designate called on all political forces "that respect the constitution and democratic practices to unite in the face of challenges Iraq needs to resolve."
    According to the channel, the talks are to last for a month.
    On Monday, Iraqi President Fuad Masum officially asked Abadi to form a new government. However, outgoing Prime Minister Nouri Maliki did not agree with Abadi's nomination and said he would take the case to court.
    Maliki accused Masum of violating the constitution by failing to name a prime minister within 15 days. When President Masum was appointed on July 24, he had an initial 15-day period to go through the political process of appointing a new prime minister.
    The process was jeopardized by Maliki's decision to seek a third term and reports that his Islamic Dawa Party had refused to cooperate in the formation of a new government.
    The nomination of Abadi as prime minister-designate has been supported by the United States, the European Union and Iran.

    https://translate.googleusercontent.c...HrXdz_SsTHjJzw


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    Abadi's ((eighth day)): Cab of cabinet will be ready next week

    Agency eighth dayAugust 11, 2014

    BAGHDAD - ((eighth day))

    Announced the new Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi assigned by the President of the Republic, that the ministerial cab will be ready within the next week.

    Ebadi said in a statement ((eighth day)) that "naming ministers next government will be announced next week, but not accepted for the delay, stressing that the minister will be named on the basis of competence, integrity and history of all people of good candidates.

    He added, We are keen on the participation of all political forces in the next government in order to build a democratic process sober.

    The President of the Republic had commissioned Haider Abadi officially to form the next government as the National Alliance candidate for the presidency of Wazzra.t (AA-19)

    https://8th-day.com/?p=64128

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    (16) Ministry in the new government

    By Khabaar Khaba twelve thirty-three 17.07.2014

    Brother Sam and Mullah

    A leading figure in the National Alliance, that "there is a vision within the National Alliance to reduce to 16 ministries and ministry only, noting that" this vision have been welcomed by most of the political blocs. "

    And between the leadership, who preferred anonymity, said in a statement , told the news of news (et) that "there is a vision within the National Alliance go in two directions, reducing the ministries for 16 Ministry only there to accept the initial of the various political forces, adding that" there is asking another, which distribution files on major powers, meaning that the cost of services, for example, block the file or the file to be all economic ministries and agencies or economic positions than their share. "

    The source added that "all the forces holds seats have a file and is subject to the control of the committees of the House of Representatives in order to determine successes and failures, stressing" that "this idea is accepted by all parties."

    https://khabaar.net/index.php/permalink/25170.html

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    Ebadi intends to hold Ministerial Reduction


    Friday, 15 August 2014 12:21

    Baghdad (AIN) –The PM-designate, Haider al-Ebadi, assured his intention to hold the Ministerial Reduction.

    Ebadi said in a press statement "There are several priorities for the next government such as eliminating the corrupted officials and reduce the costs of the ministries in the next budgets by reducing the number if the ministries."

    https://www.alliraqnews.com/en/index....reduction.html

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    Tariq Harb: the voting session on the government on September 9


    Mon Aug 11 2014 18:18 | (Voice of Iraq)

    The legal expert Tareq Harb, said the prime minister-designate, Haider Abadi, a period of 30 days to form a government.

    The war in an interview with the site of the Central Council of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUKcc.net), on Monday, 08/11/2014, that the constitutional period, which should form Abadi, during which, the government, ending 30 days after the issuance of the decree of the Republic instructed to, noting that the deadline granted to Ebadi expire on 09.09.2014, and during this period, naming his ministers, and the preparation of the ministerial program of his government, pointing out that it depends on the consensus and nominations blocs, expressing his belief that there is almost unanimous support Abadi of the blocks, and expected success Abadi in the formation of the government during the constitutional period granted to him.

    He pointed to a war that in the event failed to form a government in al-Abadi, or did not impair his cabinet confidence of the House of Representatives, Ffleris Republic, to instruct anyone else to form a government, without the requirement to be a candidate of the largest parliamentary bloc.

    He pointed out that the war meeting of the Council of Representatives to vote on the government, should be next on September 9, indicating that there is no harm in delayed a day or two.


    This was the President of the Republic Fuad Masum, issued a decree today, commissioned by the National Alliance candidate Haider Abadi, the formation of the new Federal Government.

    She explained Member of Parliament for the Green bloc, MP Ala Talabani, in an interview for (PUKcc.net), on Monday, that the President of the Republic issued a decree Republican candidate commissioned the largest parliamentary bloc, a National Alliance to form a government.

    PUKcc ultra Yazidi

    https://translate.googleusercontent.c...ficA85_ZBKcE8Q

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    Former MP: internal, Arab and international support for Abadi contributes to form the government in record time

    13/08/2014 08:44:00

    BAGHDAD / NINA / The former MP, Izzat Shahbandar said, "The internal support by the political blocs and the Arab and international support for Haider Abadi will contribute to the formation of the government in record time."

    He said in a statement to the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA / that " Haider Abadi will form the government as soon as possible, and in record time compared to the formation of the two governments in 2006 and 2010." noting that "the nature of the government that will be chosen by Abadi, will determine whether this government is capable of contain and absorb the problems and conflicts and challenges in the country. "

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

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    Maliki Steps Down, Supports New Prime Minister


    By RUDAW


    BAGHDAD—In a televised address on Thursday evening Nouri Maliki withdrew his bid for the post of prime minister in favor of Haider al-Abadi who was endorsed by the Shiite National Alliance earlier this week.

    “I withdraw my candidacy for prime minister in favor of my brother Haider al-Abadi to safeguard the unity and stability of Iraq and the political process,” said Maliki.

    According to Rudaw sources, leaders of the Dawa Party had held hours of extensive talks with Maliki to persuade him to step down.

    Maliki who served as prime minister for eight years lost the support of Iraqi politicians and the international community, particularly the United States and Iran.

    In his speech, the former prime minister defended his time in office and praised his achievements.

    Maliki asked Iraqi security and armed forces to stay in their positions “and defend the country against terrorism.”

    On Monday, Iraqi president Fuad Masum tasked al-Abadi with forming a new government four months after the country’s general elections.

    The presidential move was welcomed by Iraq’s Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish groups. Washington, Tehran and the United Nations also backed al-Abadi's nomination.

    Initially Maliki rejected the president’s decision, describing it “violation of the constitution” while there was fear of hostiles from security forces loyal to Maliki.

    An official source told Rudaw that Maliki is expected to remain active in the political process and that he has demanded to be granted the post of the vice president.

    https://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/14082014

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    * COURTESY OF OOTW *

    Can Abadi be the PM that Iraq needs?

    Iraq's new prime minister has to move fast to bring unity to the country.



    Last updated: 15 Aug 2014 14:56

    Sajad Jiyad


    Haider al-Abadi was nominated to form a new government on August 11. [EPA]

    On August 14 Iraq witnessed another moment of peaceful transition of power, in a region that is unfamiliar with it. Nouri al-Maliki, who has held the post since 2006, and winner of the elections in April, decided to withdraw from his pursuit of a third term and backed another candidate from his own Dawa party, Haider al-Abadi, who was already nominated by a large alliance of parties and politicians.

    It was at times an acrimonious process, with Maliki insisting that he was the only legal nominee for PM and threatening legal action against President Masum for nominating Abadi in a move he called a “constitutional violation”. But in the end the overwhelming support for a change in the premiership, both at home and abroad, convinced Maliki that his time was up.

    Maliki retains leadership of his party and the State of Law coalition that has over 90 MPs in Iraq’s parliament, meaning he will remain a significant force in Iraqi politics. But the focus now is on his successor who comes into the role in arguably tougher conditions than Maliki did in 2006, at the height of the sectarian strife that ravaged the country. The continued threat of the Islamic State group, manifest in its capabilities to conduct ethnic cleansing almost at will, is the greatest single threat to the newly democratic Iraq since its creation in 2003.

    While Abadi has never held the highest political offices in Iraq before, he will assume the premiership with unprecedented support from regional and international powers. The US, Iran, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia, have all expressed backing for the designation of Abadi as PM and urged the quick formation of a new government. A reset button seems to have been pressed by Iraq’s Kurdish and Sunni Arab parties with regards to Abadi, after they had a troubled relationship with his predecessor. There are encouraging signs that all parties will take part in the new government and present a united front against the war with the Islamic State group.

    But there are several fundamental problems that the new PM will have to contend with in addition to the military battles that Iraq currently struggles with. Firstly, he will have to face the fractious nature of Iraq’s imposed unity governments that are based on unwritten sectarian quotas, meaning that disputes and gridlock are never far away.

    Secondly, he will have to continue the battle to weed out corruption and incompetence, in all state institutions including the military, that paralyse the government’s ability to run the country properly.

    Thirdly, he will have to address the grievances and aspirations of the government’s constituent communities; the Shia Arabs in the oil-rich but under-developed South, the Sunni Arabs in the Western and Northern provinces who have suffered the effects of terrorism and poor representation, and the Kurds in the autonomous Kurdish region that hope for independence after a history of conflict with Baghdad. He will also have to promote the inclusion of the numerous ethnic and religious minorities who face an existential threat and also little political influence.

    Daunting is the challenge, and Abadi is an untested leader in an unenviable position. But he brings some notable characteristics to the job that will serve him better than his predecessor. He is a technocrat, speaks good English, and is willing to share decision-making and rely on professional advice.

    He does not have the large circle of “friends” and advisors around him that isolated his predecessor, nor does he have much appetite to allow for one. He is not overly influenced by Iran or any other foreign country, nor has he made any enemies among Iraq’s wide spectrum of politicians. In fact he is amiable and understated in a manner similar to that of the other heads of office, Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jibouri and President Fuad Masum.

    Being amiable is not enough though in a country being torn apart by extremist violence and sectarian hate. Even if foreign intervention stalls the Islamic State group and provides relief to those facing massacre, the unrefined nature of democracy in Iraq may render the most capable leader ineffective. The sectarian overtones that dominate internal debates, and inform foreign powers when addressing Iraq, in addition to the concentration of power in the hands of elites often distant from citizens, are reasons to be pessimistic. That Iraq in its entirety - every single ethnic and religious group - is under attack by the Islamic State group may unwittingly be the factor that pulls Iraq together, and that forces the PM and the rest to find solutions to Iraq’s many problems.
    But time is not on Abadi’s side and whatever optimism there is will quickly evaporate when the stark reality of what Iraq has become begins to bear over him and the people. He needs to form a new government quickly, filling it with the right people for the right posts and not according to which party or sect they are from. The Islamic State group is at the doorstep and have one foot through the doorway already; any more failures by Iraq’s politicians is an invitation for them to come right in.

    Is Haider al-Abadi capable of leading Iraq? And even if he is, can he do anything to prevent the cycle of violence that has plagued Iraq for decades? The answers need to come soon or risk becoming irrelevant.

    Sajad Jiyad is a London-based independent analyst and researcher on Iraq.


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    Iraq premier-designate has his work cut out for him

    Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Haider Abadi, left, with fellow lawmakers Salim Jabouri and Aram Sheik Mohammed in July. In parliament, Abadi earned a reputation for pragmatism and support of private enterprise. (Ali Abbas / European Pressphoto Agency)

    By Shashank Bengali, Brian Bennett

    Iraq's prime minister-designate is seen as more moderate, but also a cautious party stalwart

    Even if he is able to form a ruling coalition, Iraq's Haider Abadi may still struggle to win Sunni support

    August 14, 2014, 4:00 AM|Reporting from Washington

    Early in 2007, with Iraq embroiled in sectarian violence, American diplomats in Baghdad tried to persuade a key Shiite Muslim lawmaker to support the easing of a ban on the Sunni Arab-dominated Baath Party..

    At a meeting at the U.S. Embassy, the lawmaker, Haider Abadi, was noncommittal, saying that changes to the laws forbidding political activity by Saddam Hussein's old party would be a tough sell with Shiites. But Abadi, a British-educated engineer, also expressed hope that the rival sects would find common ground in opposition to Sunni-led Al Qaeda extremists.

    Sunni lawmakers "are looking for allies," Abadi said, according to a State Department dispatch obtained by the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. "We are ready."

    That encounter was quintessential Abadi, according to former U.S. officials and analysts who have followed the career of the man who was tapped this week to serve as Iraq's next prime minister.

    Islamic State in Iraq and Syria

    by Raoul Rañoa


    Seen as less ideological and more moderate than many leading Shiite politicians — including the man he would replace, divisive two-term Prime Minister Nouri Maliki — he is at the same time a cautious party man who has rarely broken with the Shiite mainstream on crucial issues such as "de-Baathification" and power sharing.

    With the United States now seeking to reverse the momentum of Islamic State, an Al Qaeda breakaway group that has swept across northern and western Iraq, Obama administration officials hope that Abadi will make good on previous overtures toward minority Sunni Arabs and Kurds and form a more inclusive, moderate government. As a former businessman and chairman of the parliament's finance committee, he earned a reputation for pragmatism and support of private enterprise.

    "Abadi is known in Iraq as someone who can reach across the party aisle and has earned respect as a skilled negotiator," said a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity in discussing internal assessments.

    Yet even if Abadi is able to form a ruling coalition, he may still struggle to win the crucial support of Sunnis, whose disaffection with Maliki's sectarian policies has fueled the rise of the Sunni extremists. Abadi secured the prime ministerial nomination Monday with the backing of a Shiite coalition that includes supporters of former Oil Minister Hussein Shahristani, who has angered Sunni Arabs and Kurds by insisting that all Iraqi oil be controlled by the Shiite-led central government, and the radical cleric Muqtada Sadr.

    "Neither he nor his coalition are auspicious in terms of expecting a significant change," said Kirk Sowell, a political analyst who edits the Inside Iraqi Politics newsletter and is based in Jordan.

    "There were people around Maliki who were flamethrowers; [Abadi is] not a flamethrower. But at the same time, Abadi has never been known as someone who's pushing reforms.

    On Wednesday, Maliki said in a weekly televised address that he would not give up power until Iraq's high court rules on his claim to office, but he pledged not to use force to keep his post. With support for Maliki evaporating, Abadi is moving ahead with forming a new Cabinet under a constitutionally mandated 30-day deadline.

    Like Maliki, the Baghdad-born Abadi is a longtime member of the Islamic Dawa Party, a Shiite opposition group banned during Hussein's long rule. But the two men took different paths as exiles pushing for the dictator's overthrow.

    In the 1980s, while Maliki took part in clandestine efforts from Syria and Iran to destabilize the Baathist-led government, Abadi lived in Britain, where he earned a doctorate in engineering from the University of Manchester. According to a biography on his Facebook page, two of his brothers were executed in Iraq in 1982 for being Dawa member.

    Abadi remained with his family in Britain and ran a small company that, among other things, helped to modernize London's transportation system. He returned to Baghdad in 2003 after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Hussein and became minister of communications in the Coalition Provisional Authority under American civilian administrator L. Paul Bremer III. Abadi was elected to Iraq's re-formed parliament in 2006.

    Balding, with a neatly trimmed gray beard, Abadi is better known to Iraqis than Maliki was when U.S. officials plucked the latter from obscurity and backed him for the premiership. American diplomats who have since worked behind the scenes for Maliki's ouster believe Abadi may be more open-minded toward Washington and other Western allies, officials said.

    “Abadi is known in Iraq as someone who can reach across the party aisle and has earned respect as a skilled negotiator.”

    - U.S. official, referring to Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Haider Abadi

    Before the Obama administration launched airstrikes last week against Islamic State militants in northern Iraq, Abadi was a vocal proponent of U.S. military intervention. He told the Huffington Post in June that renewed U.S. involvement would mean the Iraqi government would not have to rely solely on military support from Iran.

    "There are some reasons to think he is not beholden to or enamored with Iran as Maliki has been," said David Pollock, a Middle East expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

    In the same interview, Abadi acknowledged that Iraqi security forces had committed "excesses" that should be investigated, without elaborating. Under Maliki, the security forces were accused of abducting and torturing untold numbers of civilians, most of them Sunnis, who were being held without charges.

    But Abadi rejected allegations that Maliki persecuted or marginalized Sunnis. He has also drawn the ire of Kurds for saying their demands for a greater share of oil revenue from the semiautonomous northern Kurdish region could cause Iraq's "disintegration."Experts say that as prime minister, Abadi would have to take swift steps to reform Iraq's security establishment and share sufficient power with Sunni Arabs and Kurds to build support for fighting the Islamist militants.


    "He's going to face every single challenge that Maliki faced,"
    said Hayder al-Khoei, an Iraq expert at Chatham House, a British-based think tank. "That has nothing to do with personalities. There are systematic failures having to do with governance, nepotism, corruption that are not going to go away overnight."

    To the extent that personalities matter, the difference is stark. In contrast to Maliki's hangdog demeanor, Abadi is known for being pleasant, comfortable with reporters and dryly funny at times, even at the expense of American interlocutors.

    In September 2007, after then-Ambassador Ryan Crocker and coalition commander Gen. David Petraeus delivered a mostly rosy assessment of Iraq to a congressional panel in Washington, U.S. officials asked Abadi in a meeting whether he had seen the testimony.

    According to a summary of the meeting obtained by WikiLeaks, "Abadi said with a wry grin that the tone was so upbeat, 'even Maliki himself could not have written a better report.'"

    https://www.latimes.com/world/middlee...ry.html#page=1

    and

    Announce the formation of the government after 15 days

    08/17/2014 06:02

    Mobilized political blocs efforts in the search for effective mechanisms to participate in the cabinet reshuffle, in order to speed up the announcement of its formation under the guidance of the supreme authority and the international community to confront the terrorist gangs unified position and firm, while it continues the National Alliance meetings intensive presence of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the Prime Minister Haider Abadi, in charge of all the components of the National Coalition to overcome the obstacles in front of the president-designate and support him in his efforts to form a government and call for the Ministerial feminine.

    In this context, MP Khalid al-Asadi said the rule of law in all its components supports Prime Minister-designate Haider Abadi in the formation of the government and make it successful and that expectation formed within two weeks while articulating start maiden rounds of negotiations and consultations to form a government freely imposed by the nature of alliances to participate in the political process efforts. Asadi said in a statement singled out by the «morning» over the phone: that the state law has a collective decision by agreeing to support Abadi will bear his responsibility in the composition and also the success of its work in the future, stressing the need for the candidates to be part of the government lineup committed to its program, expected formed within weeks the next two.

    He added that «rounds of negotiations or consultations to form a government focused on three axes:

    I oversee the formation of the government.

    The second annexation across the political spectrum.

    Third discuss the best policy options to them.

    Consequently, these hubs will transfer the general situation of the case of agreements and theoretical dimension to the practical dimension to form a government. With regard to the criteria to be adopted in the selection of ministers said al-Asadi, «certainly the minister should be available where the specifications defined by the Constitution and be Mmtlka of experience and competence in the management of the ministry, which nominated her», pointing out that it is necessary to nominate each side more than 3 names to say the least so that the prime minister-designate to choose the best ».

    He expressed Asadi, optimism in the formation of the government freely wider than its predecessor and has the prime minister greater freedom in composition, but he quipped: The nature of pluralist system and the existence of political parties and political forces that many may diminish the ability of the prime minister-designate to form a government more freely and specifications precisely. Promised the general trend in reducing the number of ministries as «an important step», stressing their support of all the blocks because of its positive impact on the performance of the new government and its ability to pursue files ministry and scalable expenditure general budget of the state calling for political blocs to the need to help the prime minister-designate to appear government leaner .

    https://imn.iq/news/view.48790/

    and

    Page on "Facebook" bearing the name of Abadi announces lineup government anticipated

    PICTURES
    https://www.iraqpressagency.com/wp-co...ra-449x300.jpg


    Baghdad -arac Press -18 August / August: one posted on Facebook pages, which bears the name of Prime Minister-designate Haider Abadi (and number 6), publication reveals a cabinet headed by Abadi to be his deputy Ahmed Chalabi.

    According to the publication, 9 ministries in addition to the Iraqi Intelligence Service.

    Includes selection of Iyad Allawi to the Foreign Affairs portfolio and Baqir al-Zubaidi of Finance and Jabbar Yawar interior and Amer Abdul-Jabbar and Minister of Transport and Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum oil minister and Mehdi al-Hafez and Minister of Planning and Rahim and Minister of Justice, Ali Douai and minister of reconstruction and Major General Khalid al-Hamdani and defense minister, Mohammed
    Shahwani director of intelligence.


    The publication asked that an inquiry "is the wrong person in office? .. This cabinet reshuffle, issued by the government shortly before."

    Despite the passage of more than 21 hours on the publication has not issued any official comment in the negative or proof for this publication and the subordination of the Facebook page for Haider al-Abadi.

    But the thread that holds the name of the six-Abadi coincided in another publication confirms that: -

    *Prime Minister-designate decided to reduce the ministries to 15 only, to be agents of ministries and technocrats are not taken nominated by the masses, with the appointment of one deputy for Ebadi.
    * Reduce the expenses of the government and parliament in half and part of a platform that would expose him to the reference and the parliament.
    * Parliamentary salary to be only 5 million and holds the government to provide protection to him.
    * Stop Alaivadat government, but very necessary.
    * Reduce the incidental expenses minister 70%
    * Reduce the budget of ministries in half and increase the budget Mahafezat.anthy (1)

    https://translate.googleusercontent.c...QcKLZhvGc4mZjQ

    Abadi optimistic about the new government in Iraq and a suicide attack kills nine

    Mon Aug 25 2014 23:51 | (Voice of Iraq)

    Read more: https://translate.googleusercontent.c...#ixzz3BUgdRyDl

    " Ebadi said that the government formation talks were positive and constructive. He expressed the hope clearer vision on a unified program of the government during the next two days."
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  2. #2

    Currency Auctions

    Currency Auctions
    Announcement No. (2754)

    The latest daily currency auction was held in the Central Bank of Iraq on the 26-08-2014 results were as follows:

    DETAILS NOTES
    Number of banks 16
    Auction price selling dinar / US$ 1166
    Auction price buying dinar / US$ -----
    Amount sold at auction price (US$) 225,147,000
    Amount purchased at Auction price (US$) -----
    Total offers for buying (US$) 225,147,000
    Total offers for selling (US$) -----

    Exchange rates ( 1,203 Market Rate * NEW * https://www.cbi.iq/documents/CBI_FORE...E_AUCTIONS.pdf )

    https://www.cbi.iq/index.php?pid=CurrencyAuctions

    * The gap between the official rate and the market rate is now at " about " the 2 % Kaperoni was looking for to comply with the IMF as i understand it. We shall see if it " holds ? "
    Last edited by chattels; 08-26-2014 at 10:24 AM.

  3. #3

    Kurdish MP: Kurds are keen to forming a government of genuine partnership

    Kurdish MP: Kurds are keen to forming a government of genuine partnership

    26/08/2014 10:00:00

    BAGHDAD / NINA / MP, of the Kurdistan Alliance, Ashwaq al-Jaf said that "the demands of the Kurdistan Alliance to participate in the next government is a constitutional demands.

    She said in a statement today that "the Kurdistan Alliance does not call for something outside the frames of the Constitution and all its demands are guaranteed by it, we want to increase national cohesion through participation in the government of genuine partnership.".

    She added that "negotiations between Kurdistan Alliance and the National Alliance are still ongoing to find a way out of the outstanding problems between the Governments of the provincial and federal, as well as national unity and support for the Peshmerga forces to counter the threat of terrorism, which is one of the priorities of the Kurds.".

    She demanded "to expedite the formation of the government within the constitutional period," asserting that "the most prominent thing of the next government is to stand against terrorism, which wants to dismantle the unity of the Iraqi people, and should be a government of genuine partnership for the sake of Iraq.".

    The new prime minister Haider Abadi has expressed his rejection, during a press conference yesterday, " the demands of the high ceilings, explaining that "there is no idea to form a Government of National Alliance only" .

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

  4. #4

    Araji calls to look into formation of the government nationally

    Araji calls to look into formation of the government nationally

    26/08/2014 10:52:00

    BAGHDAD / NINA / MP, of the Ahrar bloc, Bahaa al-Araji called to "look into the formation of a government nationally in order to overcome the crises plaguing the country."

    He said in a press statement: "We call on all political parties to cooperate with the assigned Prime Minister, Haider Abadi to form a ministerial cab during the constitutional period in order to proceed with the development of solutions to crises and overcome them."

    The political blocs are holding, in the current period, dialogues and consultations in order to reach a satisfactory formula for the formation of the next government, which the candidate of the National Alliance Haidar al-Abadi asked to form it.

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

  5. #5

    National Alliance calls for political blocs to expedite the submission of names of ca

    National Alliance calls for political blocs to expedite the submission of names of candidates for the ministries

    Tuesday, August 26th, 2014

    BAGHDAD / newspaper rectitude - agreed with the Iraqi National Alliance for the negotiating committee to call on the political blocs to expedite submission of candidates for ministerial positions.
    A statement by the Office of the President of the Iraqi National Alliance, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, received (newspaper rectitude) a copy of the day, that "the leadership of the Iraqi National Alliance, and the committee charged with negotiating met with the political blocs, headed by Ibrahim al-Jaafari, in his office in Baghdad, and in the presence of Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi."
    He added that "the conferees discussed the visions and ideas put forward by the committee charged with negotiating, and prepared according to national perceptions that guarantees the rights of all the components in accordance with the Iraqi constitution as a mainstay of the state-building."
    The statement noted that he "had been agreed during the meeting to proceed with the continuation of dialogues with the political blocs; maturation of national paper based in the government program for the next session, in addition to speeding up all claim blocks provide the names of their candidates for ministerial positions."
    The scene in the Iraqi political dynamic after the commissioning of the Iraqi National Alliance candidate, Haider al-Abadi in the (11) of August now form the next government.
    For its part called on the Supreme religious authority of the political blocs to cooperate with al-Abadi in the formation of the government, and not to raise the ceiling of demands.
    The government has charged Bembagesat and formation mechanism, while urging a large number of MPs and political blocs to reduce the ceiling demands to accelerate and facilitate the formation of the government in accordance with the timeframe roof Mahdd.anthy

    https://translate.googleusercontent.c...oQ1WSZzFuV3piw

  6. #6

    Kurdistan embarrass Abadi

    Kurdistan embarrass Abadi
    كردستان تحرج العبادي

    13:03

    26/08/2014

    Kurdistan Alliance confirmed that he would "not resort to the final moments to embarrass the Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi, but calls for national government and a clear government program involving all the forces from without marginalization."
    And between the Kurdistan Alliance MP Circo Mirza said in a statement that the demands of the Union of Kurdish forces is not where high ceilings or an escalation in the demands, but there are financial and constitutional entitlement. Noting that "the demands of Kurdistan is not new, but have not been implemented over the past years."
    Mirza confirmed that "there are priorities in the implementation of some of the demands which ignored by previous governments, though, agreed. Noting that" there are laws that must be implemented such as Article 140 and the law of oil and gas. "

    The union said the Iraqi forces, Khaled al-Obeidi said "negotiations are continuing with the National Alliance to form a government and a positive attitude." Stressing that "there is a response from the National Alliance on most of the demands of the coalition forces, and there are no problems hinder the formation of the government with the Alliance."

    Despite the passage of more than 15 days on the prime minister to form a government, but the ceilings for the demands of the blocks preventing access to the results satisfactory, in spite of the ongoing negotiations, and confirms the prime minister-designate Haider Abadi, that some blocks ceilings demands high, we will not allow Bhsrna in the last moments to provide ministers are unwelcome. Calling blocs to submit the names of their ministers in the coming days to examine them and choose the best. "

    https://translate.googleusercontent.c...A757iE1APNVRYw

  7. #7

    Iran was one of the first countries that had provided support for the armament of the

    Iran was one of the first countries that had provided support for the armament of the Kurdistan

    26/08/2014 13:01:00

    Arbil / NINA / The president of the Kurdistan region, Massoud Barzani, said Iran was one of the first countries that had provided support for the armament of the Kurdistan region to counter terrorism.

    Barzani said in a joint news conference with Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif: "The friends' support to the Peshmerga forces made it in continuous progress through the fight to the terrorists, indicating that we have the honor that the Kurdistan being the field to defeat the terrorist organization."

    For his part, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that "Iraq's security is our security, and the terrorist organization (IS) does not target certain people or a certain sect, but targets everyone, pointing out that Iran stands with Iraq in its war against terrorism."

    He explained that "Iran supports the new Prime Minister Haider Abadi, and the recent rapprochement between Baghdad and Erbil".

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

  8. #8

    Kurds Win Court Order on Oil Tanker Off Texas

    Kurds Win Court Order on Oil Tanker Off Texas
    By RUDAW

    ERBIL, Kurdistan Region—The Kurdish government is now able to sell $100 million of crude oil after a US judge threw out on Monday a lawsuit filed by the Iraqi government against the sale, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.

    “Kurdistan’s unauthorized export of oil over land -– and later overseas –- may violate Iraqi law, but it does not violate U.S. maritime law,” Bloomberg Businessweek quoted District Judge Gray Miller in Houston as saying.

    A tanker carrying crude oil from the autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq has been waiting in international waters off the coast of Texas for month due to a dispute between Erbil and Baghdad over the ownership of the cargo.

    According to the report by Bloomberg Businessweek, Judge Miller said “he lacked authority under federal laws governing property stolen at sea to decide the dispute.”

    “Miller threw out a seizure order issued July 28 by a Houston magistrate judge, who questioned U.S. jurisdiction in the matter while agreeing to store the cargo onshore at Iraq’s expense as the debate continued in that nation’s Supreme Court,” said the report.

    Bloomberg Businessweek wrote that Iraq had failed to convince the district judge that “the oil was misappropriated when it was loaded into a tanker in the Mediterranean Sea after being pumped across Turkey in an Iraq-owned pipeline.”

    https://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/26082014

    and

    U.S. Court cancels former order to seize Kurdish oil cargo
    Tuesday, 26 August 2014 12:18

    Baghdad (AIN) -A Texas court Monday threw out an order to seize one million barrels of oil from Iraqi Kurdistan, potentially opening the way for its delivery to the U.S.

    The Texas court's decision determines the fate of a $100-million cargo of crude oil which has been stranded in the Gulf of Mexico since late July, the victim of a long-standing dispute between Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government over oil sales.

    The one-million-barrel United Kalavrvta tanker, currently parked near the port of Galveston in Texas, is one of a number of sizable oil shipments exported from Iraqi Kurdistan through a new pipeline to Turkey in defiance of Baghdad, which claims sole jurisdiction over Iraq's natural resources and views the KRG's bid for economic autonomy as a threat to its authority.

    The federal government has acted aggressively to block Kurdish oil sales, threatening to blacklist and take legal action against anyone involved in its sale.

    When it became apparent the United Kalvrvta intended to deliver its cargo to Texas in late June, Baghdad secured a court order in Texas to seize the oil if it came ashore.

    However, in a ruling Monday, U.S. District Judge Gray Miller granted a motion from the Kurdistan Regional Government to vacate the order.

    "Kurdistan's unauthorized export of oil over land—and later overseas—may violate Iraqi law, but it doesn't violate U.S. maritime law," the Judge said in his ruling.

    The judge gave Baghdad 10 days to amend its complaint, leaving the federal government with an avenue to potentially keep pressing its case.

    https://www.alliraqnews.com/en/index....il-cargo-.html

    and * FLASHBACK *

    Baghdad ‘Cannot Win’ in Tanker Claim, Hawrami Warns
    By RUDAW 30/7/2014

    Ashti Hawrami: ‘The federal government of Iraq is trying to achieve in foreign courts and in the Iraqi Supreme Court what is denied to the federal government by the Iraqi constitution.'

    ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The Kurdistan Region’s energy minister said Wednesday that Iraq has filed a lawsuit in the United States to seize Kurdish oil on a tanker anchored in the Gulf of Mexico, but that it “cannot win.”

    “The KRG’s lawyers sent a letter to a court in Texas to explain the misrepresentations of the Iraqi federal government,” said Ashti Hawrami, minister of natural resources in the Kurdistan Regional Government.

    “The Iraqi federal government has petitioned a Texas court for an order to seize crude oil legally produced, exported, and sold by the KRG in accordance with the Iraqi constitution and law. The letter indicates the possibility of massive counterclaims against the federal government,” Hawrami said in a statement on the KRG’s website.

    “The federal government of Iraq is trying to achieve in foreign courts and in the Iraqi Supreme Court what is denied to the federal government by the Iraqi constitution,” Hawrami said.

    “The federal government cannot win, because our crude is legally produced, shipped, exported, and sold in accordance with the rights of the Kurdistan Region as set forth in the Iraqi constitution,” the minister added.

    “Our claims for unpaid compensation, which must be paid as provided in the Iraqi constitution and the law, will also be before any foreign court in which the federal government is seeking to attack us,” Hawrami warned.

    His comments case after a US judge refused permission to the United Kalavrvta tanker to unload its cargo of Kurdish crude in the United States.

    Federal magistrate Nancy K. Johnson said the tanker is not under the jurisdiction of the United States, given that it is outside territorial waters and is not permitted to unload its cargo.

    The dispute over the shipment, which was some 100 kilometers offshore Texas, should be resolved in Iraq between the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan autonomous region, Johnson said.

    On Monday, the judge issued an order for US Marshals to seize the one million barrels of crude from the United Kalavrvta, but later decided that was not enforceable.

    Also on Monday, lawyers representing the Iraqi government filed a lawsuit saying the Kurds had sold the oil without permission from the central government, Reuters reported.

    Johnson has scheduled a conference for the two sides to present their case.

    Lawyers said the tanker could sail away, or offload its cargo for delivery at another US Gulf of Mexico port outside of Texas.

    Iraq’s Oil Ministry has threatened to sue anyone who purchases oil from the Kurdistan Region after the KRG struck deals to sell crude oil via Turkey without first receiving Baghdad’s approval. The KRG has accused Baghdad of using bullying tactics to stop its oil sales and maintains that it will only keep the 17 percent share of the oil revenue sales, in line with the Iraqi constitution.

    The United States has warned against purchasing crude oil from Iraqi Kurdistan because of the potential legal implications from Baghdad. The United Leadership tanker carrying Kurdish crude appeared to be bound for the US in June but ended up in Morocco.

    Marie Harf, deputy spokesperson for the State Department, told Rudaw that the State Department does not necessarily deem sales of crude oil from Iraqi Kurdistan illegal, but “there’s a legal dispute process here, an arbitration mechanism. There will be a legal ruling on it.”

    Landing crude in the US is an important issue for Iraqi Kurdistan, which is trying to establish its own oil trade and is in dire need of revenue since Baghdad cut the region’s funding in January.

    The feud worsens as Baghdad-Erbil relations are already at rock bottom, and the Kurds are planning an independence referendum to break away from Iraq.

    https://rudaw.net/english/world/300720141

    and

    American court cancels an order to detain Kurdish shipment of oil near Texas

    Tue Aug 26 2014 10:58 | (Voice of Iraq)

    Alsumaria News / Baghdad

    Court issued an American, on Monday, a decision to cancel an order to detain a shipment of oil from the Kurdistan region of around one million barrels near Texas.

    The news agency "Reuters" news, that an American court overturned an order to detain about one million barrels of crude oil from the Kurdish disputed tanker near Texas in a move that could allow the shipment and deliver to end the crisis has been going on for nearly a month.

    It quoted "Reuters", for US District Judge Gary Miller said in his judgment: "The court ruled to accept the request of the Kurdistan annul the previous court order."

    The judge explained that "Iraq can modify his complaint within ten days, allowing the lawyers to proceed with the lawsuit."

    And moored oil tanker carrying Kurdish estimated 100 million dollars in the Gulf of Mexico since the weeks since the Kurdistan region of Iraq locked in a legal battle regarding the ownership of the oil with the central government.

    The District Court of South Texas in July ordered the American authorities to detain the consignment in response to a request made ​​by Baghdad as part of a broader strategy to prevent Kurdish exports.

    But the court returned a few days later and said she did not have the authority to detain the consignment because the tanker, about 60 miles from the coast. This prompted the Kurds to apply for a court order to cancel.

    The government says the Kurdistan region of Iraq that the Constitution granted the right to export oil and it plans to deliver the shipment soon, while Baghdad says all oil sales are not conducted for illegitimate way.

    Due to the huge size of the tanker could not enter the port of Galveston near Houston and because of the conflict Thachtha companies provided services for unloading cargo and transported to the beach.

    The company said refining American LyondellBasell she recently bought shipments of crude oil from Iraq's Kurdistan to use Bmcefadtha in Houston, but said it will not buy more and will not accept any deliveries until the settlement of the dispute.

    The company did not say explicitly that it had agreed to buy the crude on board a tanker anchored near Texas was not clear if they had accepted now received the shipment.
    Washington has refused to intervene in commercial sales, saying that the oil belongs to all Iraqis and it supports the unity of Iraqi territory, but at the same time warned about companies dealing directly with Kurdistan.

    https://translate.googleusercontent.c...#ixzz3BUr89e00
    Last edited by chattels; 08-26-2014 at 11:30 AM.

  9. #9

    MP rules out liberating Mosul in the coming period

    MP rules out liberating Mosul in the coming period

    26/08/2014 12:35:00

    BAGHDAD / NINA / MP, of the Muttahidoon coalition, Ahmed al-Jarba confirmed that "the liberation of the city of Mosul will be sooner or later," ruled out "freeing it during the coming period."

    Jarba told the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA / "The Islamic State (IS) after being able to occupy large parts of eastern and northeastern Syria bordering Iraq and the Nineveh province, in particular, has become very difficult to liberate it in the current time."

    Jarba added that "the editing process cannot take place day and night, or by infiltrating forces into the city under the occupation of the organization for most of the districts and areas of the province."

    The sources indicated that the Iraqi planes throwing leaflets to the people of Mosul, urging them to cooperate with the special forces infiltrated the city in order to free it.

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

  10. #10

    Daash threatens investment in Kurdistan and the first oil sectors affected

    Daash threatens investment in Kurdistan and the first oil sectors affected

    Tue Aug 26 2014 00:22 | (Voice of Iraq) - Baghdad - Naseer Goldfinch

    Threatening risk of what is known as the organization «Islamic state - Daash» Kurdish dreams, efforts to attract more Arab and foreign investments to the territory of the Kurdistan region. The militants overran extremist organization Kurdish areas south and west of the region, which is witnessing stable security years ago.

    And embarrassed the new security situation in the disputed areas, the Kurdistan Regional Government in front of Arab and foreign companies. He says deputy head of the investment in the Kurdistan region of Nowruz Secretary, said that the investment in the Kurdistan region «amounted to 33 billion dollars and the growth rate of 7 percent, which is high compared to some neighboring countries. And where there is a foreign company in 2724 ».

    The head of the Union of businessmen in Kurdistan Haval Amir Saleh, from «the consequences of continuing operations of foreign companies evacuate their nationals from the investment within the region, which will give negative signals to investors who are already adults coordination with them and attract them to the region».

    Shares in a number of energy companies operating in the Kurdistan region of Iraq in the form of sharply for the second week in a row, due to the escalation of violence in the areas adjacent to it. The currently circulating pitched battles between Kurdish Peshmerga forces and factions «Daash».

    And operating in the region 52 oil companies signed contracts away from the view of the Ministry of Oil Central, what raised the ire of the latter. Shares of the company «Afrin» oil production by 4.6 percent, after it suspended production in the field «Brdarsh» oil in Kurdistan, to be the first field which closes after militants progress «Islamic state regulation» and approached the region. The company has decided, in a precautionary step, the withdrawal of all non-essential staff from the field.

    She joined the company «Genel Energy» counterpart «Afrin», but kept on the continued production of Haklleha «Taq Taq» and »Tauki». The company began «Chevron» evacuate their workers from the Kurdistan region because of the security situation. The «Exxon Mobil» and other companies producing ore in the region, have taken measures similar to those established by the «Chevron» in anticipation of the possibility of deterioration of the situation.

    The sources pointed out that «the oil pipeline of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq is working in a natural form, and pumping 120 thousand barrels per day of crude, despite progress on its fighters in northern Iraq. The company «Abu Dhabi National Energy» (energy) in a statement, suspend its activities in the field of «Atroshi» in Iraqi Kurdistan, as a result of instability in the region.

    Saleh said in a statement to «life», that the continuation of the foreign companies operating in the region, especially the investment of them, evacuated its staff, «is very dangerous to our economy». He said that the move «will give negative messages to foreign investors and Arabs had already been coordinated with them to bring their investments to our cities during the last period, which must be described as successful investment and economic». He attributed the migration of investments to «military operations, which erupted with the beginning of the occupation Daash cities of Mosul and Salahuddin».

    He explained that «the suffocating crisis that passes where the region as a result of cutting staff salaries for months ago, caused complete paralysis in the economic sectors, and the loss of the capital of the large national companies, which invested in government projects stalled for lack of adoption of the budget».

    But the understated leadership of the Kurdistan Alliance Najiba Najib said in a statement to «life», the impact of these events on the economic reality of the region, especially investment, stressing that «the largest percentage of local investments, despite the importance of foreign». She emphasized that the Government of the Territory and the Peshmerga forces «are the guarantor for the life of the investors and their money», pointing out that the investment law is «Mathaba sure guarantee for their investments that terrorism will not be able to touch it».

    https://translate.googleusercontent.c...#ixzz3BUfpjRL0

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