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  1. #21

    Kurdistan Alliance: Minister Kurds will return to the line-up after the holiday

    Kurdistan Alliance: Minister Kurds will return to the line-up after the holiday



    MP for the Kurdistan Alliance Ashwaq dry

    Revealed an MP for the Kurdistan Alliance Ashwaq dry all the ministers of the Kurds will return to the line-up after the holiday of Eid al-Adha.

    She said dry in a statement to Radio Marbad that these return comes after talks were held between the Kurdistan Alliance and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, which yielded get a number of changes to the share of the Kurds from the ministries represented by giving them a new ministry in order to cope with the elections of the Kurds and the number of seats she said.

    And measuring the time it indicated it dry out that the new ministry have not been identified so far has been predicted for the Kurds on the Women's Ministry or the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

    The deputy from the Kurdistan Alliance has announced September 21 in the past that did not allow the leadership of the provincial minister and Kurdish officials to start work and to participate in the new government for not convinced leadership positions obtained and represented by Deputy Prime Minister and the Ministries of Finance and migration.

    The MP said belonging to the Kurdistan Democratic Party and who asked not to be named, Radio Marbad that the region's president, Massoud Barzani asked the minister not to attend the meetings of the Council of Ministers of the lack of conviction of those positions.

    Turning dry to bill the federal budget where explained that the coalition of Kurdish blocs offers a number of observations and recommendations were included in the report of the parliamentary finance committee, which has been submitted to the federal government, hoping to take the Council of Ministers that the observations in the draft budget because it Notes constitutional and legal according to she said.

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  2. #22

    Iraqi Kurdistan to ramp up its oil output by three times in coming days

    Iraqi Kurdistan to ramp up its oil output by three times in coming days

    Iraq, October 6, 2014
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    Iraq’s Kurds are boosting crude output threefold by the end of next year and plan soon to resume talks with the new central government, signaling that a battlefield partnership against insurgents is helping mend ties.

    The Kurds will increase production to 1 million barrels a day by the end of 2015 from a current level of 320,000, said Sherko Jawdat, head of the natural resources committee in the Kurdish region’s parliament. Output will rise to 500,000 barrels a day by year-end, he said in an interview in Erbil, the seat of the Kurdistan Regional Government. Exports are currently 200,000 barrels a day, Jawdat said, without providing a forecast.

    Putting aside their differences, Kurdish forces have fought alongside the Iraqi army to repel the advance of Islamic State, the militant group that has seized swathes of OPEC’s second-biggest producer since June. The Kurds’ efforts to export their own crude has provoked legal action by the central government in Baghdad and fanned speculation that the semi-autonomous region will pursue greater independence.

    Jawdat said, “There will be negotiations soon to resolve financial, oil and economic issues.”

    Iraq’s new national government formed last month has agreed to send the KRG about $2 billion as a goodwill gesture, he said. The money represents the Kurds’ share of the federal budget for the months of August and September. The talks, which will include discussions about the Kurds’ oil sales from February through July, will determine the role of the state marketing organization, known as SOMO, in Kurdish oil sales, he said.

    “Let SOMO come and know all the details, but the decision on how to sell, produce, export and whom to export to is a matter for the Kurdistan Regional Government,” Jawdat said.

    Iraq, excluding the Kurdish region, boosted oil exports to 2.54 million barrels a day in September from 2.37 million the previous month, Asim Jihad, an Oil Ministry spokesman, said today. It generated $7 billion from September sales, he said. Almost all of the exports were from southern oil fields, which continue to produce without interruption amid the conflict with Islamic State in northern Iraq.

    Total SA (FP), DNO ASA (DNO) and Genel Energy (GENL) are among international companies caught in the dispute between the KRG and the central government over disputed land and oil revenue. Chevron Corp. (CVX:US), Marathon Oil Corp.(MRO:US) and Afren Plc (AFR) evacuated staff and halted drilling after the start of the Islamic State insurgency. Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd. (GKP) returned all key foreign staff to the Kurdish region and will increase output now that U.S.-led air strikes have eased the militant threat, it said yesterday in a statement.

    Turkey has been allowing the sale of Kurdish oil through its Mediterranean port of Ceyhan since May, despite legal action by Iraq’s federal government, which calls the trade illegal because the Oil Ministry in Baghdad hasn’t approved it. In retaliation for the Kurdish sales, the central government has cut payments to the KRG since February. The KRG had been funded largely by an allocated 17 percent share of the federal budget.

    The KRG earned $1.3 billion from selling 14 million barrels of oil from February through September, with the money deposited at Turkey’s Halkbank (HALKB), Jawdat said. The regional authority spent $400 million of the oil money to pay civil servants and will send the remainder to the central government once the two sides reach an agreement, he said.

    At least 13 large shipments of Kurdish crude plus several smaller cargoes have loaded since May 24, according to tanker tracking data monitored by Bloomberg as of Sept. 29. The government of former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki initiated legal actions to block companies from buying Kurdish oil. Several shipments have been sold, though some tankers loaded with Kurdish oil remain stranded at sea.

    The KRG expanded its control over Iraq’s energy resources in June, when their Peshmerga armed forces took control of the disputed oil hub of Kirkuk after the Islamic militants routed the Baghdad government’s army there. The KRG isn’t currently producing or exporting Kirkuk crude and is focused on boosting oil sales from its own provinces, Jawdat said. Kirkuk has almost 9 billion barrels in reserves. Iraq, excluding a Kurdish region enlarged by Kirkuk’s fields, would be left holding 141 billion barrels, still the world’s fifth-largest deposits.

    Iraq’s minority Kurds, who historically have resisted control by Arab-dominated governments in Baghdad, are charting a course to independently develop oil reserves the KRG calculates at 45 billion barrels -- equivalent to almost a third of Iraq’s total deposits, according to BP Plc (BP/) data. The Kurds also hold more than all remaining reserves in the U.S.

    Kurdish President Massoud Barzani’s administration has promised referendums on the status of Kirkuk and the Kurdish region’s independence from the rest of Iraq.
    (iraqdirectory)

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  3. #23

    Latest Air Strikes on Kobane Ease Pressure on Defenders

    Latest Air Strikes on Kobane Ease Pressure on Defenders

    By Jonathon Burch



    The aftermath of an airstrike in the vicinity of Kobane, as an armored vehicle patrols on the Turkish side of the border with Syria.

    MURSITPINAR, Turkey - U.S.-led coalition warplanes pounded Islamic State (ISIS) positions in the key Syrian border town of Kobane on Tuesday, only hours after the jihadists had breached the city lines.

    White smoke billowed into the air as the bombs struck western parts of the city, while hundreds of Kurdish men cheered and whistled just across the border in Turkey.

    The strikes appeared to have taken on a sense of urgency after isolated bombings around Kobane over the weekend did little to stop an ISIS advance.

    A Rudaw reporter saw two air strikes within 15 minutes hit meters from the Turkish frontier, as fighter jets roared overhead. Several other strikes were reported earlier in the day.

    An official of the self-declared Kurdish autonomous zone in northern Syria, speaking from inside Kobane by telephone, told Rudaw that air strikes on two ISIS positions in the morning had helped ease the pressure on the town's defenders.

    ISIS militants pushed into Kobane overnight, waging street battles with the town's Kurdish defenders for the first time and raising fears it could fall to the jihadists following a weeks-long siege.

    The insurgents have for the past three weeks been trying to seize the predominantly Kurdish and strategic border town, in an attempt to consolidate their grip along the Turkish frontier.

    The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based monitoring group, said the militants had captured two areas as night fell on Monday in the east of the town after heavy battles with Kurdish forces known as People's Protection Units or YPG.

    In a symbolic move only hours earlier, the Islamists planted their black flag with white Arabic writing on a hill and at least one building on the town's outskirts, video footage from media on the Turkish side showed.

    Islamic State's breach of the YPG's frontlines followed a day of intense fighting, which sent a new wave of refugees fleeing to Turkey. More than 180,000 Syrians, mostly Kurds, have already fled the surrounding area across the border in recent days.

    News of ISIS' advance spread quickly on social media and small protests in support of Syrian Kurds broke out in several cities across Turkey after the main pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) called on people to take to the streets.

    Tension just across the border from Kobane was palpable as hundreds of Kurdish men gathered to watch as the sound of occasional machine gunfire rang out from the town.

    Turkish troops guarding the frontier fired heavy tear gas to disperse the crowds. Some threw stones back at the armored vehicles.

    "Don't leave! Don't run away. Stand and resist!" One man shouted as the crowds scattered.

    While Kurdish forces have largely been able to repel ISIS advances into their areas as the jihadists have captured other parts of Syria and neighboring Iraq in recent months, more recently they have found themselves increasingly outgunned.

    Backed by tanks and heavy weaponry looted from Syrian and Iraqi military bases, ISIS' rapid advance has shocked the region and its Western allies.

    The United States and other nations have been carrying out air strikes against ISIS targets in Syria and Iraq. However, they appear to have done little to stop the jihadists' advance.

    The siege on Kobane has heaped pressure on Turkey to intervene in defence of the Kurds but so far it has been reluctant to get involved militarily, despite pledges not to allow the town to be overrun.

    Ankara says it will not get involved unless a no-fly zone and "safe havens" are established in northern Syria, a demand Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu repeated late on Monday.

    https://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/071020141
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  4. #24

    Abadi prevents the son of an official to enter the Green Zone for embezzling

    Abadi prevents the son of an official "too big" to enter the Green Zone for embezzling three billion dollars!



    A source familiar with from within the prime minister, said Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi began a campaign to purge state institutions of suspicious transactions associated with men of the previous stage, or their children, and cost the state treasury billions of dollars.

    The source, who is familiar with the nearby office Abadi in an interview seen by the 'News Agency' to 'political blocs, especially the Iraqi public will be surprised important decisions related to political reform and anti-corruption', adding that 'solution Office of the Adjutant General of the Armed Forces, which was the number of its members 500 officer and member accompanied referral of all the money allocated to him which is more than half a billion dollars to the state budget where it was kept only 35 element between an officer and a member of the conduct of the military operation in all fronts of fighting against Daash addition to adjust the frequency of the issue of security in the framework of institutionalized after the dissolution of the Office of the Commander in Chief. '

    The source confirmed that 'decisions will be issued after the Eid al-Adha concerning the referral of three senior officers with the rank of the team to retire ranged positions between the Ministry of Defense and Natqah Office of the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces and the assignment of 130 officers to retire and to investigate the background of military events that accompanied the occupation Daash connector and Tikrit, and parts of the western regions '.

    He revealed that 'the Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi order barring the son of a senior officials too enter the Green Zone because of the manipulation of government contracts and the role of the bad in the command and control work contracts for Iraqi ministries and the receipt of information about the arrival of the so-called portfolio the bank has in the banks and Iraqi banks and the Bank to three billion dollars It is not unlikely a court ruling against the son mentioned on the back of corruption charges'.

    The Abadi said earlier, that the mechanism used in the ministries of interior and defense for the last eight years has caused the loss of Iraq hundred billion dollars from his closet and public through a complex network of thieves and users at the expense of public money, according to a source present at the meeting.

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  5. #25

    Tamimi: reports of the ministries of oil and finance will accelerate the 2014 budget

    Tamimi: reports of the ministries of oil and finance will accelerate the adoption of the budget in 2014



    Qurtas News / Baghdad showed a member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee Magda al-Tamimi, on Tuesday, that the receipt of detailed reports about the volume of oil imports from the ministries of oil and finance will accelerate the adoption of the budget in 2014. said Tamimi told the "Qurtas News", "The existence of the volume of imports in 2014 For oil source is necessary before discussing the budget, and the Finance Committee asked formally of the Presidium of Parliament to address the ministries of finance and oil to provide the Committee with detailed reports about the volume of oil exports and financial resources, before discussing the federal budget. " and noted that "the Commission has identified the two ministries duration not exceeding 20 days began in the first of this month, to deliver their reports. " added Al-Tamimi that "the Commission can not rely solely on what came from the government of the numbers completely with respect to expenditures and imports," adding that "the origin of those imports is oil, it must be imports in detail by the Ministry of Oil, financial and in the form of reports. " and continued that "the adoption of the federal budget for 2014 has become necessary and urgent by the House of Representatives, so should the Council of Ministers to expedite sending the budget to the Parliament for the purpose of discussing and voting on them."

    alqurtasnews.com

  6. #26

    Saudi Arabia is looking for a suitable place to open an embassy in Baghdad

    The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is looking for a suitable place to open an embassy in Baghdad



    MANAMA, October 7 (RIA Novosti) - The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is looking for a suitable place to open an embassy in Baghdad, 24 years after the last embassy closed, Saudi newspaper Al-Watan reported Tuesday, citing the Information Department of the Saudi Foreign Ministry.


    "The service concerned alongside the Iraqi authorities are still looking for a suitable place to set up our embassy in Baghdad," Osama Nugali, the head of the Information Department of the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said.


    Early in September, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Faisal announced the plans to reopen a Saudi embassy in Iraq, following talks with his Iraqi counterpart Ibrahim Jaafari. The Saudi side has not specified any time frame for the reopening.


    The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia closed its Embassy in Baghdad in 1990, following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. It was not until 2012, that Baghdad named its first post Gulf-war non-resident Ambassador to Iraq.

    Faceiraq.com

  7. #27

    The International Monetary Fund expects the Iraqi economy shrinking this year

    The International Monetary Fund expects the Iraqi economy shrinking this year

    International Monetary Fund said in a report on Tuesday that the Iraqi economy will shrink this year, rather than growing as previously expected.

    The International Monetary Fund said in its report on the prospects for the global economy in October is expected to fall Iraqi GDP by 2.7 percent this year instead of growing by 5.9 percent as the International Monetary Fund predicted last April.

    The IMF attributed the reasons for the contraction of the Iraqi economy to the deteriorating security situation and control the organization of the Islamic State "Daash" large areas of Iraq.

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  8. #28

    Erdogan: ‘Kobane is About to Fall’

    Erdogan: ‘Kobane is About to Fall’

    By RUDAW



    A Turkish army patrol on the border with Syria.

    GAZIANTEP, Turkey – Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Tuesday that “Kobane is about to fall,” and that airstrikes are not enough to save the Kurdish town in Syria from being overrun by the Islamic State (ISIS).

    "I am telling the West: dropping bombs from the air will not provide a solution," Erdogan said on a visit to a refugee camp in the eastern city of Gaziantep, across the border from Kobane.

    “Months have passed but no results have been achieved. Kobane is about to fall," Erdogan warned in an address to refugees, most of them Kurds from Kobane who fled renewed ISIS assaults about three weeks ago.

    His comments came as US-led coalition warplanes intensified air strikes around Kobane on Tuesday, hours after the jihadists had breached the city lines.

    A Rudaw reporter saw two air strikes within 15 minutes hit meters from the Turkish frontier, as fighter jets roared overhead. Several other strikes were reported earlier in the day.

    The US Central Command (Centcom) said in a statement that jets had struck the militants, also known as ISIL, in several hits.

    “An airstrike south of Kobane destroyed three ISIL armed vehicles and damaged another, and another strike southeast of Kobane destroyed an ISIL armed vehicle carrying anti-aircraft artillery,” Centcom said.

    “Two airstrikes southwest of Kobane damaged an ISIL tank, and another strike south of Kobane destroyed an ISIL unit,” it added.

    The siege on Kobane has heaped pressure on Turkey to intervene in defence of the Kurds but so far it has been reluctant to get involved militarily, despite pledges not to allow the town to be overrun.

    Ankara has conditioned its support in the coalition fighting the militants to a comprehensive plan that would include ousting the regime of Bashar Assad.

    Ankara says it will not get involved unless a no-fly zone and "safe havens" are established in northern Syria, a demand Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu repeated late on Monday.

    Meanwhile, an official of the self-declared Kurdish autonomous zone in northern Syria, speaking from inside Kobane by telephone, told Rudaw that air strikes on two ISIS positions in the morning had helped ease the pressure on the town's defenders.

    ISIS militants pushed into Kobane overnight, waging street battles with the town's Kurdish defenders for the first time and raising fears it could fall to the jihadists following a weeks-long siege.

    The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based monitoring group, said the militants had captured two areas as night fell on Monday in the east of the town after heavy battles with Kurdish forces known as People's Protection Units or YPG.

    https://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/071020142

  9. #29
    Anbar Council calls for sending American ground forces to the province

    07/10/2014 14:31:00

    Ramadi / NINA / Anbar province Council called for sending American ground forces into the province to stop the encroachment of the Islamic State.

    The deputy chairman of the Council of Anbar province, Faleh al-Issawi said in a statement to the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA /: "The Council will submit a formal request to the central government to request sending American ground troops to Anbar province in order to rid the cities of the province from the Islamic State's control."

    Issawi said: "Many of the cities of Anbar and large parts of them under the control of the terrorist organization, which requires significant support from the central government for the security forces, as well as sending American ground forces in order to regain control of those areas," .

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  10. #30

    British official: Qatar and Saudi Arabia 'have ignited time bomb by funding global sp

    British official: Qatar and Saudi Arabia 'have ignited time bomb by funding global spread of radical Islam'

    Tuesday, 07 October 2014 16:22

    Baghdad (AIN) -General Jonathan Shaw, Britain's former Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff, says Qatar and Saudi Arabia responsible for spread of radical Islam.

    Qatar and Saudi Arabia have ignited a "time bomb" by funding the global spread of radical Islam, according to a former commander of British forces in Iraq.

    General Jonathan Shaw, who retired as Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff in 2012, told The Telegraph that Qatar and Saudi Arabia were primarily responsible for the rise of the extremist Islam that inspires Isil terrorists.

    The two Gulf states have spent billions of dollars on promoting a militant and proselytising interpretation of their faith derived from Abdul Wahhab, an eighteenth century scholar, and based on the Salaf, or the original followers of the Prophet.

    But the rulers of both countries are now more threatened by their creation than Britain or America, argued Gen Shaw. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) has vowed to topple the Qatari and Saudi regimes, viewing both as corrupt outposts of decadence and sin.

    So Qatar and Saudi Arabia have every reason to lead an ideological struggle against Isil, said Gen Shaw. On its own, he added, the West's military offensive against the terrorist movement was likely to prove "futile".

    "This is a time bomb that, under the guise of education, Wahhabi Salafism is igniting under the world really. And it is funded by Saudi and Qatari money and that must stop," said Gen Shaw. "And the question then is 'does bombing people over there really tackle that?' I don't think so. I'd far rather see a much stronger handle on the ideological battle rather than the physical battle."

    Gen Shaw, 57, retired from the Army after a 31-year career that saw him lead a platoon of paratroopers in the Battle of Mount Longdon, the bloodiest clash of the Falklands War, and oversee Britain's withdrawal from Basra in southern Iraq. As Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff, he specialised in counter-terrorism and security policy.

    All this has made him acutely aware of the limitations of what force can achieve. He believes that Isil can only be defeated by political and ideological means. Western air strikes in Iraq and Syria will, in his view, achieve nothing except temporary tactical success.

    When it comes to waging that ideological struggle, Qatar and Saudi Arabia are pivotal. "The root problem is that those two countries are the only two countries in the world where Wahhabi Salafism is the state religion – and Isil is a violent expression of Wahabist Salafism," said Gen Shaw.

    "The primary threat of Isil is not to us in the West: it's to Saudi Arabia and also to the other Gulf states."

    Both Qatar and Saudi Arabia are playing small parts in the air campaign against Isil, contributing two and four jet fighters respectively. But Gen Shaw said they "should be in the forefront" and, above all, leading an ideological counter-revolution against Isil.

    The British and American air campaign would not "stop the support of people in Qatar and Saudi Arabia for this kind of activity," added Gen Shaw. "It's missing the point. It might, if it works, solve the immediate tactical problem. It's not addressing the fundamental problem of Wahhabi Salafism as a culture and a creed, which has got out of control and is still the ideological basis of Isil – and which will continue to exist even if we stop their advance in Iraq."

    Gen Shaw said the Government's approach towards Isil was fundamentally mistaken. "People are still treating this as a military problem, which is in my view to misconceive the problem," he added. "My systemic worry is that we're repeating the mistakes that we made in Afghanistan and Iraq: putting the military far too up front and centre in our response to the threat without addressing the fundamental political question and the causes. The danger is that yet again we're taking a symptomatic treatment not a causal one."

    Gen Shaw said that Isil's main focus was on toppling the established regimes of the Middle East, not striking Western targets. He questioned whether Isil's murder of two British and two American hostages was sufficient justification for the campaign.

    "Isil made their big incursion into Iraq in June. The West did nothing, despite thousands of people being killed," said Gen Shaw. "What's changed in the last month? Beheadings on TV of Westerners. And that has led us to suddenly change our policy and suddenly launch air attacks."

    He believes that Isil might have murdered the hostages in order to provoke a military response from America and Britain which could then be portrayed as a Christian assault on Islam. "What possible advantage is there to Isil of bringing us into this campaign?" asked Gen Shaw. "Answer: to unite the Muslim world against the Christian world. We played into their hands. We've done what they wanted us to do."

    However, Gen Shaw's analysis is open to question. Even if they had the will, the rulers of Saudi Arabia and Qatar may be incapable of leading an ideological struggle against Isil. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is 91 and only sporadically active. His chosen successor, Crown Prince Salman, is 78 and already believed to be declining into senility. The kingdom's ossified leadership is likely to be paralysed for the foreseeable future.

    Meanwhile in Qatar, the new Emir, Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, is only 34 in a region that respects age. Whether this Harrow and Sandhurst-educated ruler has the personal authority to lead an ideological counter-revolution within Islam is doubtful.

    Given that Saudi Arabia and Qatar almost certainly cannot do what Gen Shaw believes to be necessary, the West may have no option except to take military action against Isil with the aim of reducing, if not eliminating, the terrorist threat.

    "I just have a horrible feeling that we're making things worse. We're entering into this in a way we just don't understand," said Gen Shaw. "I'm against the principle of us attacking without a clear political plan."

    https://www.alliraqnews.com/en/index....ews/59042.html

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