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    " The Dinar Daily ", Monday, 8 September 2014

    It is EVICT MALIKI DAY + ONE HUNDRED THIRTY - ONE ( 131 ) or " E - M DAY + 131 "

    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."


    and

    Khalid al-Asadi: August 31 deadline for the submission of candidates of the political blocs

    Wed Aug 27 2014 22:32 | (Voice of Iraq)

    Baghdad

    A member of the negotiating committee for the National Alliance to form a government, Khalid al-Asadi that the end of this month the deadline for the receipt of the candidates of the political blocs to portfolios.

    He said al-Asadi's (IMN) "The negotiating committee of the National Alliance demanded the political blocs to submit candidates to fill ministerial positions in the next government." Explaining that "the National Alliance prepared a detailed paper meet the aspirations of all the political blocs not inconsistent with the Constitution and the Iraqi political scene."

    Announced the National Alliance for the naming of the negotiating committee, which will bear the talks to form a government, to agree on a mechanism to identify the dialogue with the political parties concerned ministerial bags.

    The prime minister-designate Haider Abadi called, (23 August 2014), the political blocs to submit their candidates within 72 hours

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    and

    President Masum: Formation of the government is imminent


    01/09/2014 09:24:00

    BAGHDAD / NINA / President Fuad Masum declared, "The consultations for the formation of the new government has seen significant progress, and its announcement will be soon.


    Masum said in an interview with one of the satellite channels, "there is a feeling that everyone has the need to form a government, otherwise we will enter into a spiral, stressing that" the priority after the formation of the government would be to focus on the fight against the terrorist organization. "

    He added: "There is conviction to the political parties that we should restore Iraq's relations with the region, Arab and world states because it is difficult to rely only on ourselves to fight these armed groups."

    He confirmed "the need to build a broad coalition to fight terrorist groups in Iraq, because they pose a threat to regional and international security".

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

    and



  2. #2

    Speaker announces receiving the credentials ministerial cab

    Speaker announces receiving the credentials ministerial cab

    By kareem Kahdm 9.8.2014 12:38

    Speaker announced Saleem al-Jubouri, on Monday, receiving the credentials ministerial cab and the political agreement and the government program.

    The source said a parliamentary correspondent for the news agency of the news (et) that House Speaker Salim al-delivered papers ministerial cab and the political agreement and the government program.

    The Speaker of the House Saleem al-Jubouri, had announced yesterday received from the Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi, the government program and document the political agreement which included a clause 25 as he takes over from him this morning his booth of 26 ministerial portfolio.

    It is anticipated that the House of Representatives held a special meeting this evening to vote on the ministerial cab made by Abadi.

    https://khabaar.net/index.php/permalink/29611.html

    * Security Minister Missing Still *

    and

    House of Representatives held a hearing today give confidence to the Government of Abadi

    Monday, 08 September / September 2014 09:52

    [The Board of Deputies, the day Monday, a session to vote on the ministerial cab to Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi, a fourth-elected government in Iraq after 2003.

    Formed four governments in Iraq after the fall of the former regime, and was the first transition, headed by Ayad Allawi, was formed in June 28, 2004 to replace the CPA consolidated and the Governing Council in Iraq, to be replaced by the interim Iraqi government in the May 3, 2005, headed by Ibrahim al-Jaafari.

    With chaired Nuri al-Maliki as prime minister for two terms in the first two Iraqi permanent of elected governments since the month of May of 2006, which now takes a caretaker government until the government grants confidence Abadi scheduled on Monday.

    It was a statement for the media department of the House of Representatives said on Sunday that "the parliament headed by Saleem al-Jubouri will be held on Monday [today] at eight o'clock in the evening session to give confidence to the Government of Haider Abadi Prime Minister-designate."

    For his part, al-Jubouri, yesterday received from the Al-Abbadi, the government program and document the political agreement, which included a 25-item, as he will take over from him this morning his booth cabinet of 26 ministerial portfolio, pointing out that "the security ministries have not been resolved once and for all and there is the idea that he take Abadi task selection and defense and interior ministers in accordance with the standards of professionalism and efficiency. "

    With parliamentary source said, "The Board's staff completed logistical preparations for the reception of the next government formation, to vote on granting confidence in today's session," but Vice Sdria spoke yesterday to postpone the vote of confidence for the government to Iilathae.anthy day.

    https://alliraqnews.com/index.php/201...-06-48-53.html
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    Currency Auctions

    Currency Auctions

    Announcement No. (2765)

    The latest daily currency auction was held in the Central Bank of Iraq on the 8-9-2014 theresults were as follows:

    DETAILS NOTES
    Number of banks 19
    Auction price selling dinar / US$ 1166
    Auction price buying dinar / US$ -----
    Amount sold at auction price (US$) 265,331,000
    Amount purchased at Auction price (US$) -----
    Total offers for buying (US$) 265,331,000
    Total offers for selling (US$) -----

    Exchange rates ( * 1,203 Market Price

    https://www.cbi.iq/documents/CBI_FORE...E_AUCTIONS.pdf )

    https://www.cbi.iq/index.php?pid=CurrencyAuctions
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  4. #4

    Parliament lifted its half-hour to resolve the dispute over its committees

    Parliament lifted its half-hour to resolve the dispute over its committees

    By kareem Kahdm one three 9.8.2014

    House of Representatives to raise its 13 half-hour, attributing the cause to allow time for blocks in order to agree on the distribution of deputies to the Parliamentary Standing Committees and the resolution of a dispute.

    A parliamentary source said the reporter Agency for News News (et) that "House Speaker Salim al-Jubouri, lifting the 13th session of Parliament, which was held earlier in the day, half an hour."

    He added that "the decision to delay was to give the political blocs some time to resolve the differences that revolve around the distribution of deputies on the parliamentary standing committees."

    The Iraqi Council of Representatives held on Monday (September 8, 2014), held its 13th headed by Saleem al-Jubouri, and the presence of 203 deputies, with parliamentary source that the meeting will vote on the parliamentary standing committees.

    https://khabaar.net/index.php/permalink/29613.html
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  5. #5

    A meeting was held in the house of Saleh al-Mutlaq to discuss the rights of the blocs

    A meeting was held in the house of Saleh al-Mutlaq to discuss the rights of the blocs of the Alliance of Iraqi Powers in the next government

    08/09/2014 10:09:00

    BAGHDAD / NINA / A meeting was held at the home of Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Arabiya coalition, Saleh al-Mutlaq, yesterday evening, to discuss the rights of the blocks that are within the Aalliance of Iraqi Powers.

    An informed source told the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA / that the meeting was held for the existence of deep differences between the blocks of the Alliance on the nomination of candidates for the ministries.

    The source added that "Saleh al-Mutlaq will retain the position of Deputy Prime Minister for Services Affairs, and Mohammed Iqbal was nominated as minister of education, and Qutaiba al-Jubouri, a minister of the environment, and Salah Muzahim Minister of State for Provincial Affairs, in addition to Khaled al-Jubouri, as the Ministry of Defense.

    The House of Representatives will hold a session at eight o'clock in the evening on Monday to display the designated Prime Minister Haider Abadi his cabinet to Council.

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

    and

    Al-Jaafari discusses with Nujaifi and Karbouli the developments in the ongoing dialogues to form a ministerial cab

    08/09/2014 13:31:00

    BAGHDAD / NINA / Head of the National Coalition, Ibrahim al-Jaafari discussed on Monday with leaders of the Alliance of Iraqi Powers Osama al-Nujaifi and Jamal Karbouli the ongoing developments.

    A statement by Jaafari's office today, "said that the two sides stressed during the meeting to go ahead with the formation of the next government and the creation of joint cooperation between the political blocs to form a government in accordance with the timings stipulated in the Constitution.

    https://www.ninanews.com/english/News...ar95_VQ=HGIHII
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  6. #6

    The final list of the Ministers of the Government of Abadi .. and voted on by parliam

    The final list of the Ministers of the Government of Abadi .. and voted on by parliament on Monday

    Mon Sep 08 2014 05:43 | (Voice of Iraq)

    Baghdad / Wi-News

    I got "Wi-News," Sunday, the final list of the Ministers of the Government of Haider al-Abadi, which is expected to Parliament on Monday, giving them confidence.

    The list included the final, the nomination of Ahmed Chalabi and Hoshyar Zebari, Saleh al-Mutlaq of the positions of deputy prime minister.

    And declared the Iraqi parliament, earlier on Sunday, that President Saleem al-Jubouri select session on Monday, to announce the composition of the government at the request of Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi.

    As stated in the final list, the nomination of Nuri al-Maliki and Osama al-Nujaifi and Iyad Allawi, Vice-President of the Republic, "while the nomination was Hamoudi for the position of First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, which had been held by al-Abadi, before his government.

    The list included, for the portfolios, the nomination, "Hadi al-Ameri of the Interior, and Khalid al-Obeidi, the defense, and Ibrahim al-Jaafari of state, and Adel Abdul-Mahdi, oil, and Baqir Jabr transport, and Hussein al-Shahristani, education, and Muhammad Iqbal Educational, Adela Hamoud Al Hussein of Health, and the example, has typically Nuri Shaways finance, and Salman Jumaili planning, and Qutaiba al-Jubouri, the environment, and Maysoon al-culture, and Falah Hassan Zaidan for agriculture, and Rifai (block Jamal Karbouli) for the industry. "

    https://translate.googleusercontent.c...#ixzz3Ch2cCJB7
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  7. #7

    Talks on New Iraqi Government Snag over Disputed Kurdish Territories

    Talks on New Iraqi Government Snag over Disputed Kurdish Territories
    By Nawzad Mahmoud


    SULAIMANI, Kurdistan Region – Kurdish leaders say that negotiations in Baghdad over forming a new government have faltered because the new prime minister does not have a clear plan for disputed northern territories, that the Kurds call their own.



    A member of the Kurdish negotiating team in Baghdad said that one of the main preconditions by the Kurds for joining Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s government is that the issue of the disputed territories in Kirkuk, Nineveh and Diyala has to be settled within one year.



    “The Kurds demand written agreements,” said Khalid Shwani, a negotiator in Baghdad. “Those areas belong to Kurdistan and Kurds will not sit by waiting on empty promises,” he declared.



    Infighting among the factions delayed the latest vote on Saturday to approve a new government.



    Talks in Baghdad on forging a government, which fell through Saturday,



    The Kurds have already announced that Article 140, a provision in the Iraqi constitution over the procedure to settle ownership of the lands, is dead. In June, and after the takeover of central Iraq by the Islamic State (IS) forces, Kurdish Peshmergas troops moved into all territories previously held by joint Iraqi and Kurdish forces.



    Kurdish leaders, among them President Massoud Barzani, have vowed they will not withdraw from those territories.



    What they want now, in return for joining a government that the United States has insisted must be formed quickly to defeat Islamic militants rampaging across Iraq and Syria, are written guarantees that the territorial dispute will be resolved within a year.



    “We have to make it clear to Baghdad that Article 140 is practically solved on the ground,” said Hamay Haji Mahmoud, the leader of the Kurdistan Socialist Party, who now leads Peshmerga battalions south of Kirkuk.



    He said he had little hope that the negotiations with Baghdad would yield any positive results.



    “But we can still try to talk to them and join Abadi’s government,” he said. “We can trust them only if Abadi says clearly that solving the territorial dispute would be part of his agenda.”



    On the ground there are still many legal issues to resolve. Many Kurdish and Arab families – forcefully resettled under ousted dictator Saddam Hussein’s Arabization plan -- await financial compensation to move in or out of Kirkuk, as part of Article 140.



    The main provision of Article 140 says that Arab families who were brought to Kirkuk under Saddam’s settlement plan have to return to their own homes in the south once financially compensated; Kurdish families displaced in the 1980s will have a chance to reclaim their lands.



    According to Kakarash Sidiq, head of the Article 140 committee in Kirkuk, due to the recent hostilities in the area the compensation plan has been frozen. He said that has affected tens of thousands of Kurds and Arabs who are yet to be compensated.



    Meanwhile, Peshmerga forces are engaged in daily battles with Islamist militants south of Kirkuk, as well as north of Diyala and Mosul, to expel the militants from Kurdish territories they captured last month.



    The Kurds have warned that, unless they have a real role in an inclusive government Iraqi government, they will hold a referendum on independence.



    “The pre-1975 map marks the borders of Kurdistan and before holding the referendum the Peshmerga will liberate those areas,” a high-ranking military official told Rudaw on condition of anonymity.



    Narmin Osman, former member of the disputed territories committee, agreed that the Kurds must mark their borders before proceeding with a referendum.



    However, Ahmad Askari, a provincial security official in Kirkuk, said that setting a deadline for Article 140 is not necessary. He said that the territories are already under Kurdish control “and the Iraqi army will never be able to return to Kirkuk.”



    The Kurds’ list of conditions for Baghdad include: funding for the Peshmerga, the right to export oil and gas, aviation rights and well as ownership of territories on the border between the Kurdistan Region and Iraq.



    These territories include Shingal, which has been under IS control since early August, and the Hamrin mountain ridge, stretetching hundreds of kilometers between Iraq and the Kurdish north.


    The mountain ridge and Shingal will be included in a referendum, Kurdish leaders say.

    https://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/070920141

  8. #8

    Genel Energy employees to re-start Iraq's Kurdistan oil production rises

    Genel Energy employees to re-start Iraq's Kurdistan oil production rises


    [12:01] 14 / Sep / 08






    Chubby 8 September / September (PNA) - Genel Energy Corp. said oil production on Monday it was re-started in some of its employees to non-productive sites in Iraqi Kurdistan with the improved security situation in the region.


    The company added that production in Haklleha key Taq Taq and Tawke did not stop and increased to an average of about 234 thousand barrels per day since the beginning of September.
    She Genl The exports transported via a pipeline from the fields amounted to an average 182 thousand barrels per day since the beginning of the month, thanks to the work of the development pipeline that extends to Turkey.
    https://translate.googleusercontent.c...roHuuu_9T-Xdtw
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  9. #9

    Congress Babylon threaten not to vote on the government

    Congress Babylon threaten not to vote on the government

    By kareem Kahdm one forty-seven 9.8.2014

    Lawmakers have demanded the province of Babylon, Prime Minister-designate Haider Abadi allocate ministry or two of the province, warning of the dismissive attitude during the voting session on the cab-governmental organizations.

    The MP said Haitham al-Jubouri told a news conference in the presence of a number of deputy governors, attended reporter Agency for News News (et al), that "governments rolled disagreed approach the election, but they all agreed on one thing only which is the injustice of the province of Babylon and its people, one of the is the gateway to the center and south, and the bride Euphrates East. "

    "The province, which represented the land of civilizations and that was where the first possession of the scientific and more than four thousand students diligent and psychology student and sacrificed for the values and principles against dictatorship, successive on this country and today is a bumper to attack Daash terrorist issuance of their sons did not find politicians a positive attitude present them for it or of the National Alliance
    . "
    And wondered, "Why wait for the people of Babylon from Abadi and why wait from their representatives in parliament," stressing that "we of this Almntalv we demand that the allocation of ministerial portfolio and one or two of the province in the cab new cabinet," warning "dismissive attitude to vote on the government in case of the absence of the province and the confiscation of their dignity. "

    The Council of Representatives, on Sunday (September 7, 2014), eight o'clock in the evening as the date for the convening of a session of parliament to give confidence to the new government, and came after the detection of a parliamentary source said yesterday that Prime Minister-designate Haider Abadi handed a paper forming a new government to the parliament speaker Salim al-Jubouri .

    https://khabaar.net/index.php/permalink/29618.html

    * IT APPEARS THAT ANY AND ALL ARE INTENT UPON BITCHING UNTIL THE END *
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  10. #10

    Conflict intensifies booty to acquire CBI

    Conflict intensifies booty to acquire CBI


    Conflict intensifies booty to acquire CBI


    08-09-2014 11:07 AM
    Free -
    Intensifies in Baghdad these days, a conflict spoils of expression, which analysts say more accurate characterization of conflicts in the formation of the government, and all eyes in particular to the fate of the Iraqi Central Bank, which is the key to the crucial oversaw the country's wealth.
    In the midst of the struggle for the formation of the Iraqi government and the distribution of positions, Prime Minister outgoing Nuri al-Maliki in a pre-emptive strike last week to retain his influence on the state treasury.


    Maliki has issued a decree appointing one of his followers in the position of governor of the Iraqi Central Bank, despite the fact that legal experts contend that the decision outside his powers due to the expiry of its mandate and the fact that his position is limited to the conduct of business until a new government is formed. And the voice of the Council of Ministers, last week voted unanimously to give the Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers on the Keywords belonging to the Dawa Party, the position of Governor of the Central Bank.

    On Thursday, the judiciary issued a 7-year prison sentence against the former central bank governor Sinan al-Shabibi, who was sacked by Maliki the end of 2012, which observers agree that the dismissal came because of its resistance to al-Maliki's attempts to control the central bank reserves.


    Analysts believe that the appointment coincided Alak, who contend that it does not have any qualifications for this office delicate, with sentencing on Shabibi, aims to mixing Alawroaq and close the files of corruption in absentia many channeled to al-Shabibi.


    Adds analysts that the conviction Shabibi an extra step to confirm the survival of relationships in the office and continuing influence of al-Maliki on the state treasury Alaracah.oicol observers that dominate the Central Bank of Iraq is the cornerstone of Iranian influence in Iraq, because of the isolation of the financial system Iranian global financial system because of Western sanctions, Although financial institutions, especially the Iraqi Central Bank is the largest window for Tehran to deal with the global financial system.


    And sees economic analyst Fadel Abbas Mehdi that "the imposition of the appointment of a member of the Dawa Party on the Keywords central bank governor represents a continuation of the policy of subjecting Maliki independent bodies to influence by appointing his followers in positions they do not deserve professionally '.


    The Cabinet has referred the beginning of this month, the central bank governor Abdel Basset Turki to retire as a prelude to assign tasks Keywords central bank governor.


    Although the decision stated that the appointment "agency" but analysts fear that al-Maliki sought to keep him in office in the context of political bargaining, especially after the conviction Shabibi by the judiciary, which observers agree that, under the tutelage of al-Maliki.


    Some fear that the appointment is intended to influence the financial decisions of the Central Bank, which will be held daily sessions for the sale and purchase of foreign currencies with the participation of Iraqi banks, and sales will be either in cash or in the form of money orders sold abroad in return for a certain commission.


    Mehdi adds that the decision comes at the end of the mandate of the caretaker government headed by al-Maliki, which raises a lot of questions about the meaning behind this time?


    Observers say that the influence of al-Maliki absolute on the central bank began in October 2012 and since then managed to control the cash reserve, which saw many violations outside the terms of the country's public budgets. The Maliki government then launched a media campaign lacked professionalism and credibility to the leadership of the central bank, sparked outrage and ridicule and financial experts, bankers and professional circles and Iraqi cultural.


    The outcome of the campaign for the dismissal of Shabibi and the appointment of the President of the BSA at the time the acting governor Abdel Basset Turki, in what was considered a breach of the most important principles of statutory audit.


    Experts scoffed then collect it from the task of "judge and jury" of any presidency between the executive power in the presidency of the Central Bank and the Audit Court, which is supposed to be monitored and verified its decisions. The expert says that the Mahdi contradiction shows that in light of the central bank to deposit a large sum in the Mosul branch of at least 400 million dollars seized by the Islamic state.

    Observers contend that the dismissal of Shabibi was due to its resistance to al-Maliki's attempts to dominate the reserves of the Central Bank
    Mahdi did not hesitate to ask for "Do the Turkish knows what will happen, and it was deposited huge amount of money there to facilitate the financing of criminals Daash? Or was little understanding basic tasks of the central bank to stabilize the dinar and the reduction of inflation '?


    He adds that "the activities of Nineveh economic, without doubt, were not in need of a huge amount of money in the coffers branch of the Central Bank of Mosul, which it captured Daash, and Turkish mixed at best between the functions of commercial banks and the functions of the central bank, and at worst, some can predict things may be much worse! "


    Observers agree with the statements that Shabibi was overthrown because not subject to the will of al-Maliki in the disposition of central bank reserves, and that al-Maliki managed since October 2012 control of the bank.


    Mahdi says that the victims of the domination of al-Maliki on the Central Bank and appointed officials lacked professionalism and prudence, "directed by better economic efficiencies and professional Iraqi not to mention the employees and staff knew mostly professionalism and seriousness in their work, which will loose the central bank a lot of his reputation without MPR '.


    The appointment of Keywords in the position of governor of the Iraqi Central Bank until further notice, in the context of the surrounding panting officials and followers of the owners, especially in the Prime Minister's Office on the acquisition of government positions before the formation of the new government.

    Has already been assigned a lot of followers of al-Maliki on top of a lot of government institutions and bodies that are supposed to be independent. Observers fear of installing those people in office until after the formation of the new government deals under the quota system and the distribution of the spoils. He says that the Mahdi al-Maliki's relationship to the position of Governor of the Central Bank represents a continuation of the policy of inflicting Central Bank executive power, a breach of the principle of autonomy in the formulation of monetary policy stipulated in the Central Bank Law.


    He adds that the appointment of Keywords confirmation "of the policy of al-Maliki in the subject of independent bodies to his influence over the appointment of his disciples in positions they do not deserve professionally in what is known as a policy set Cronies'.




    Fadel Abbas Mehdi: the continuation of the policy of al-Maliki appointed his cronies in positions they do not deserve professionally
    And confirms that this policy "will not benefit the Iraqi economy ailing, but will cause severe damage to the future if not handled Prime Minister-designate Haider Abadi this by re-activating the professional considerations in the appointments of basic anticipated in light of his government '.


    The data indicate documented that Ali Mohsen Ismail Keywords holds a primary in accounting and business administration from the University of Mustansiriya in Baghdad.


    And show that the basic background accountant, and therefore it is not scientifically qualified in Monetary Economics (Economics Monetra) a minimum qualification required for the management of the Central Bank and the monetary policy of the country.


    As for qualifications process refers to that he worked in the accounting field in Kuwait for a short time then moved to Montreal, Canada, where he founded the store to sell games, and this practice has nothing to do with the economics of money and monetary policy.


    After returning to Iraq after the American occupation in 2003, appointed Mr. Alak inspectors of the Ministry of Oil, where he worked for nearly two years and this practical experience related to auditing, accounting, and not monetary policy.


    And when he took over as prime minister Nuri al-Maliki has been appointed as general manager relationship in the Council of Ministers, the executive function unrelated to the management of monetary policy.


    Observers say that the relationship was driving attempts to intervene to subdue the central bank to influence Prime Minister's Office, which was rejected by Dr. Shabibi contradiction with the principle of the independence of the central bank.

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