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  1. #21

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    Parliamentary economy dry hosts to show the amount of conversion of the "TBI" Kurdistan



    Hosted committee of economy and investment representative, general manager of TBI Hamdiya dry to explain to transfer an amount from Trade Bank of Iraq to the Kurdistan region.

    According to a statement of the Commission received by the agency / information / copy of it, it's its held yesterday under the chairmanship of MP Jawad al-Bolani and the presence of members of the Committee hosted the Director General of the Trade Bank of Iraq Hamdiya dry. "

    During the meeting, to clarify the circumstances of the recent rumors in some media about converting the amount of the Trade Bank of Iraq to the Kurdistan region. "

    On the other hand the Committee discussed the recommendations of the first international conference held by the Commission in Baghdad beginning of this year.

    The MP for the Liberal bloc Yasser al-Husseini was accused in 24 of the last month, director of TBI Hamdiya dry lend the central bank in the Kurdistan region, an amount of 5-year $ 2 billion without any guarantees, and he said that Dry sought refuge with her ​​children out of Iraq.
    With the parliamentary finance committee member Haitham al-Jubouri announced the formation of a commission of inquiry with one government banks to convert money to Kurdistan without knowledge of the Federal Government and the Central Bank and without guarantees.

    For its part, Dry said, "what a House of Representatives on our lending central bank Kurdistan amount financially is not true." asserting that "the Iraqi Bank of Commerce has three branches in the Kurdistan region, two of them in Erbil and third in Sulaymaniyah." Dry and explained that "the (TBI) can not deliver any amounts from Baghdad to the region only through the Central Bank of Iraq and by special operations."

    She astonishment of "accusations MP for his word is not accurate," pointing out that "the amounts deposited are balances our customers in the region, which is found in our accounts at the central bank and the general state operates banks, since the amounts overflowing accommodate branches go to the Central Bank." .

    It called for "greater accuracy by the Attorney and he has to bank away from the political bickering because it hurt his reputation," As promised that "this statement is like a lot of non-responsible remarks aimed at Trade Bank of Iraq." Finished / 25 j


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  2. #22

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    The Kurdistan Alliance calls for fairness in the distribution of job openings



    Baghdad/tomorrow's press: the Kurdistan Alliance, called Monday, the Prime Minister, Haidar Al-Abadi, to exert every effort to achieve fairness and transparency in the allocation of jobs.

    Alliance MP, biriwan khilani, at a press conference in the Parliament building, was attended by "tomorrow" I said "it is necessary to increase the proportion of appointments for higher education", calling for fairness and encourage those outside Iraq to return and take advantage of their expertise. "

    "The Declaration called for all grades through visual media and newspapers", calling on government departments to adopt new mechanisms to more efficiently and effectively in the most efficient and the best choice for their Ministry to achieve these development programmes and ministries ".

    According to press reports and budget lines by 2015, the number of jobs in the financial budget amounted to approximately 35,000 degrees.


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    "Obelisk" published the text of the National Guard Law


    I got "obelisk" a copy of the draft law of the National Guard after reading a first reading in the House of Representatives on Monday.


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  4. #24

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    Iraq index closes after falling 3.4% of its shares



    BAGHDAD / luggage Baghdadi News / .. Iraq Index fell the end of trading on Monday, rose 3.40% to the level of 67.8 points, losing 2.38 points.

    The volume of trading today 653 million shares valued at 791.05 million dinars through the implementation of a deal on 47 448 shares led to the rise and fall of 30 shares 4 and settled thirteen remaining shares.

    Sunday index has closed down 70.18 points, to the level of 0.43% on the session Alsabakh.anthy 21 / l

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  5. #25

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    Abadi: financial situation controlled and we have to diversify our sources



    Long-Presse / Baghdad The head of the Iraqi Council of Ministers Haider al-Abadi, on Monday, that the financial and economic situation in the country is under control, and stressed the need to diversify sources of funding, while pointing out that the government has developed a strategy to promote the reality service to citizens.

    Said Haider al-Abadi in a speech the House of Representatives and pursued, (long-Presse), "The financial and economic situation in the country controlled", reassuring citizens that "we put the financial not as bad as some might imagine." He added Abadi, "we have to take the necessary in order to avoid any measures financial crisis, "stressing the need to" diversify its sources of funding. "

    Abadi added that the government "developed a strategy to promote the reality service to citizens."

    And was head of the Iraqi Council of Ministers Haider al-Abadi, arrived on Monday to the House of Representatives to discuss the security situation and show political commitment to the Sunni forces.

    The number of ministries staff student, Monday, (March 2, 2015), the Iraqi government to expedite extradition salaries and not to delay, and with Benoit that this delay hurt in this segment, which has no other source of income, have threatened to organize demonstrations or sit-ins if the situation remains as currently it is, while the Economic Commission called for parliamentary staff who have not been paid to make a formal request to parliament to follow their subject.

    The head of the Iraqi Council of Ministers Haider Abadi stressed, in the February 25, 2015, that Iraq will exceed the financial crisis and will come out of them "most promising", and pointed out that the savings compulsory exist but the government has not worked so far, "and while pointing out that" some people "tried to stir fanfare on employees' salaries distributed every 40 days, showed his support by making the year 2015, the year of volunteering "to overcome the difficulties."

    The head of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Barzani revealed, in the (February 16, 2015), for the Baghdad to pay salaries to its employees every 40 days, and confirmed that the central government "bankrupt" and undergoing a financial crisis, and said that the right of the region cut off oil exports in the event of non-receipt of allowances agreed, as pointed out that the agreement provides for sending more than one trillion dinars from Baghdad to Arbil.

    But a source familiar with the Iraqi government, revealed in an interview to the (long-Presse), the 18th of February 2015, for lack of government had resorted to divert employees' salaries every 40 days unless "absolutely necessary" as a "precautionary measure", while among the ten days Additional staff will be calculated, he stressed that the measure was to provide the financial resources of the state in spite of austerity and reduce expenses.

    Information Office of the Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi promised, on 20 February 2015, to borrow nearly 11 trillion dinars from the Central Bank and the Rafidain and Rasheed, can be treated with balancing the current 2015 deficit, expressing optimism that contribute to the high price of oil to world markets by reducing the deficit, While expressed an economist understanding of the government's need to borrow as a result of "heavy legacy" inherited from its predecessor, although it matters "undesirable", returned to the internal him better than the outside, for easy to deal with.

    It is noteworthy that global oil prices have fallen since the summer of 2014 the past, more than 60 percent, to reach below fifty dollars a barrel, before re-boarding the past few days, which greatly affected the financial budget for the current year 2015, which amounted to 119 trillion dinars Iraqi deficit estimated 25 Trliuna.


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  6. #26

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    Parliament receives a membership stabbed 35 deputies, including replacements for Maliki, Allawi and Najafi


    Long-Presse / Baghdad Recent decisions of the Federal Court to overturn membership led five parliamentarians to open the doors of appeals in the House of Representatives wide after 6 months of the start of the legislative session.

    MPs revealed the existence of appeals membership of 35 deputies, including replacements for Maliki, Allawi and Najafi and Saleh al-Mutlaq. The deputies are excluded because they occur and their replacements are now taking part in the hearings, expected rise in the number of members of the House of Representatives to 332 if it leads replacements excluded Representatives constitutional oath.

    And announced that the Federal Supreme Court, last Wednesday, that the decisions regarding the replacement of members of the House of Representatives issued in accordance with the law, stressing that be replaced by the same entity and maintain, and pointed out that "the Law No. (6) omitted how to choose a variant of the entity, so I went the Federal Supreme Court in its decisions to apply the provisions of the House of Representatives Election Law No. (45) for the year 2013 which was released later the Law of the replacement of members of the House of Representatives. "

    MP says Imad al-Zurfi told the "long", that "there are a large number of complaints submitted to the House of Representatives challenged membership 35 deputies to the health and the various political blocs," pointing out that "Hola deputies were sworn in earlier sessions as substitutes for the heads of the bloc." .

    Zurfi "The replacement process was in accordance with the Law No. 6 of 2006, which gives the head of the bloc the right to choose alternative candidate with him provided that it is of the cluster and the entity and the province," noting that "these appeals filed against a good alternative Nuri al-Maliki Sinead, as well as the replacements for Osama Najafi and Saleh al-Mutlaq and Iyad Allawi and the governor of Najaf, Adnan Zurfi. "

    He noted a member of a coalition of law that "all these bench MPs submitted their applications to the President of the House of Representatives Saleem al-Jubouri, who passed them to the replacement process and sworn according to the approved legal proceedings in the House of Representatives."

    He noted the MP for the province of Najaf that "the Federal Supreme Court overturned the past few days membership of five deputies and considered invalid on the basis of Law No. 45 of 2013 as the closest to the spirit of the Constitution in terms of respect for the will of the voters," stressing that "if the performance of the constitutional Yemen for MPs the other four, it will raise the number of members of the House of Representatives to 332 deputies. "

    The Federal Supreme Court decided, on 16 \ 12 \ 2014, non-membership of a bench of Representatives Health, confirmed that the vacant seat awarded to the candidate who received the highest number of votes out of respect for freedom of choice of the voter.

    He adds Zurfi "There is a problem and the violation of legal where the House of Representatives took place after the performance Ihsan al-Shibli sworn my substitute without the presence of an administrative order him as well as not giving me Anevkaka from the membership of the House of Representatives," noting, "We both attend together to Parliament, which rose many as 329 deputies sessions" .

    He continues, MP for the province of Najaf, said the "Law No. 6 in the alternative does not require obtaining the highest number of votes, but gives the president of the block or entity the right to choose in addition to the presence of an agreement recently signed between the heads of political blocs gives them choosers bench privileges."

    The MP is unlikely for "the existence of a new appeals reached the parliament against 35 deputies will be submitted to a vote in the House of Representatives and in the case of lack of access to two-thirds of the votes Veseljo owners to the Federal Court to decide these outstanding issues."

    According to Article (52 / I), the House of Representatives' decision on the health of its members, within thirty days from the date of filing an objection, a two-thirds majority of its members, and may be challenged in the Board's decision to the Federal Supreme Court, within thirty days from the date of issuance. "

    And decided the presidency of parliament, last Saturday, to postpone the Federal Court decisions on the switch of Representatives and swearing, attributed the reason to the lack of a quorum for the switch of Representatives, which requires two-thirds of the members is complete.

    He MP Imad al-Zurfi that "the President of the House of Representatives asked for clarification of the Federal Court about its past and therefore we await the Federal Court's decisions after the submission of appeals membership of 35 deputies," adding that "these actions will confuse the legislature because these 35 mostly came as substitutes for senior political leaders ".

    Zurfi wondering "why the Federal Court applied the Law No. 6 of 2006 in the previous session and down with him in this session," pointing to "the existence of the intersection between the decisions of Parliament and the Federal Court."

    It notes the MP that "his brother Adnan Zurfi got 17 thousand votes while he got on the 3000 Voice of the rival Ihsan al-Shibli won the 5000 Voice."

    For his part, says Zaid al-Janabi, MP unlikely alternative for Saleh al-Mutlaq, said that "there are errors in the replacement of members of the House of Representatives in No. 45 of 2013 which defines the alternative is who got the most votes out of respect for the will of the voter from the same province, mass and not the coalition."

    Shows al-Janabi, in an interview for the "long", that "the will of the voters are choosing Lists winning the most votes in the political entity and not mass", adding that "the alternative holds 300 votes while he got a 5000 voice."

    The show MP Zaid al-Janabi was surprised at the decision of the Federal Court, which said it was "losing parliamentary seats awarded to the winner of the expense," adding that "the most prominent MPs who submitted appeals membership MP Ali Alsjeri which Environment Minister Qutaiba al-Jubouri, an alternative."

    And confirms a member of the Arab coalition, headed by Saleh al-Mutlaq, that "there are deputies have made appeals to membership of Kurdish blocs and the National Alliance and the Sunni blocs."

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  7. #27

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    Abadi respond to the House of Representatives: voted to stop cooperation with the alliance if you wish and killed Swidan plot



    Long-Presse / Baghdad Re Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, on Thursday, accusing some of Representatives international coalition aircraft throwing aid to regulate (Daash), and talking to them, "voted to suspend cooperation with the alliance if you wish," and with the exception that the killing of Sheikh Qasim Swidan "conspiracy involving many Parties, "and as he emphasized that the government is preparing to liberate the city of Mosul and is working to set a permanent military commander of Nineveh operations command, warned of the pressure exerted by some quarters on the oil companies.

    He said the Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in response to questions from MPs in the House of Representatives hearing, which was held today and followed up (range Press) that "the American aircraft movement are not only with the consent of the Iraqi government but does not have any evidence to offer any US aircraft aid to regulate (Daash) terrorist."

    He called Abadi House members to "vote to stop cooperating with the international coalition in the event of a desire to stop the continuation of Representatives such cooperation, which was in accordance with the request of Iraqis," and urged politicians to "unite in the face of (Daash)."

    Abadi said that "the militias are all armed group outside the framework of the state, while the popular crowd represents a formal institution approved by the government," stressing that "the government granted privileges to the popular crowd of fighters wounded."

    The Prime Minister said that "some associate in the popular crowd paying salaries to delay returning to check the lists provided by the agencies responsible for them in order to accommodate them in the army and police," stressing "the existence of a basic arming plans and plan arming daily through cooperation with many countries."

    In another matter counting Abadi, the assassination of Sheikh Qassim al-Janabi Swidan "conspiracy involving several parties," expressing his "sympathy with the issue of the representation of the components in the state," while stressing "the importance of political consensus away from seizing parties."

    Abadi said that "there is cooperation between the army and the Peshmerga in more than one region, including the ongoing preparations for the Liberation of Mosul and work on the appointment of a permanent military commander of Nineveh operations command."

    And on the budget, said the Prime Minister that "the budget law reduced the financial powers to the government than the case without meeting some of the financial obligations," pointing out that "the relief to the displaced necessary but not a solution alone, but bring them back to their areas represent a permanent solution with a secure residence and ensure that the return Daash to the liberated areas. "

    Abadi and praised the "efforts of the volunteer youth campaigns for civil society to provide aid and assistance to the displaced people," noting that "there are mechanisms currently being studied to resort to projects on credit and barter"

    And on the agreement between Baghdad and Erbil Abadi stressed that "the implementation of the agreement with the province through which to pay the money, according to the exported quantities of oil", warning at the same time, "the pressure exerted by some quarters on the oil companies, which affected the increase in oil production." .

    For his part, House Speaker Salim al-Jubouri, "thanks to the Prime Minister on the presence of the Council," stressing that "the House of Representatives was keen to pass the budget and I said despite the drop in oil prices from his commitment to the interests of citizens."

    He pointed out that al-Jubouri, "The Council will be investigated on a broad aliens," calling the Prime Minister to "provide the names of those who hold office for a vote by proxy."

    And was head of the Iraqi Council of Ministers Haider al-Abadi, arrived on Monday to the House of Representatives to discuss the security situation and show political commitment to the Sunni forces.


    It is noteworthy that the organization Daash controls the most prominent cities of Anbar almost a year ago on the events and battles and confrontations between security and tribal forces and highlighted the areas that are under the control of the organization is Fallujah and Qaim border between Iraq and Syria, Hit, Rawa and other ways, including near the borders of the capital Baghdad vine Fallujah.


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  8. #28

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    Abadi deputies: voted to stop the international cooperation if you wish



    BAGHDAD / obelisk confirmed Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, on Monday, the US aircraft movement in Iraq is not only with the consent of the Iraqi government, as called for the House of Representatives to vote to stop cooperating with the international coalition in the event of wishes of Representatives this, attributed some associate salaries exchange delayed People crowd to check lists provided.

    Ebadi said through his answers to questions from some lawmakers at a hearing Monday, according to a source of Parliament, said that "some associate in the popular crowd paying salaries to delay returning to check the lists provided by the agencies responsible for them in order to accommodate them in the army and police," stressing "the existence of arming plans basic plan arming daily through cooperation with many countries. "

    He denied Abadi, "there is no evidence to offer any aid to US aircraft Daash terrorist organization," he said, adding that "the American aircraft movement Ataatm only with the consent of the Iraqi government."

    Abadi called the House of Representatives to "vote to stop cooperating with the international coalition in the event of the desire of the House of Representatives to stop the continuation of such cooperation, which was in accordance with the request of Iraqis," and urged politicians in the same time to "unite in the face of Daash."

    Abadi stressed that "the cooperation between the army and the Peshmerga in more than one region, including the ongoing preparations for the Liberation of Mosul," he said, adding that "being assigned a permanent military commander of Nineveh operations command."

    On the other hand Abadi said that "the budget law reduced the financial powers of the government which prevented the fulfillment of certain financial obligations," adding that "relief to the displaced necessary but not a solution alone, but bring them back to their areas represent a permanent solution with a secure residence and ensure that the return Daash to the liberated areas ".

    He Abadi to "the existence of mechanisms currently being studied to resort to projects on credit and barter," noting that "the application of the agreement with the province through which to pay the money, according to the exported quantities of oil."

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    How Islamic is Islamic State group? Not very, experts say



    CAIRO —
    Leader of ISIS Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq. Three British schoolgirls believed to have gone to Syria to become "jihadi" brides. Three young men charged in New York with plotting to join the Islamic State group and carry out attacks on American soil. A masked, knife-wielding militant from London who is the face of terror in videos showing Western hostages beheaded.

    They are among tens of thousands of Muslims eager to pledge allegiance to the Islamic State group. An estimated 20,000 have streamed into the territory in Iraq and Syria where the group has proclaimed what it calls a "caliphate" ruled by its often brutal version of Islamic law.

    But how rooted in Islam is the ideology embraced by this group that has inspired so many to fight and die?

    President Barack Obama has insisted the militants behind a brutal campaign of beheadings, kidnappings and enslavement are "not Islamic" and only use a veneer of Islam for their own ends. Obama's critics argue the extremists are intrinsically linked to Islam. Others insist their ideology has little connection to religion.

    The group claims for itself the mantle of Islam's earliest years, purporting to recreate the conquests and rule of the Prophet Muhammad and his successors. But in reality its ideology is a virulent vision all its own, one that its adherents have created by plucking selections from centuries of traditions.

    The vast majority of Muslim clerics say the group cherry picks what it wants from Islam's holy book, the Quran, and from accounts of Muhammad's actions and sayings, known as the Hadith. It then misinterprets many of these, while ignoring everything in the texts that contradicts those hand-picked selections, these experts say.

    The group's claim to adhere to the prophecy and example of Muhammad helps explain its appeal among young Muslim radicals eager to join its ranks. Much like Nazi Germany evoked a Teutonic past to inspire its followers, Islamic State propaganda almost romantically depicts its holy warriors as re-establishing the caliphate, contending that ideal of Islamic rule can come only through blood and warfare.

    It maintains its worst brutalities — beheading captives, taking women and girls as sex slaves and burning to death a captured Jordanian pilot — only prove its purity in following what it contends is the prophet's example, a claim that appalls the majority of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims.

    Writings by the group's clerics and ideologues and its English-language online magazine, Dabiq, are full of citations from Quranic verses, the Hadith and centuries of interpreters, mostly hard-liners.

    But these are often taken far out of context, said Joas Wagemakers, an assistant professor of Islamic Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, who specializes in Islamic militant thought.

    Muslim scholars throughout history have used texts in a "decontextualized way" to suit their purposes, Wagemakers said. But the Islamic State goes "further than any other scholars have done. They represent the extreme," he said.

    It would be a mistake to conclude the Islamic State group's extremism is the "true Islam" that emerges from the Quran and Hadith, he added.

    Despite its claim to the contrary, the Islamic State group is largely political, borne out of the conflicts in Syria and Iraq, said Khaled Abou El Fadl, an Islamic law scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles.

    The group, he said, is trying to make God "a co-conspirator in a genocidal project."

    Ahmed al-Dawoody, an assistant professor at the Institute for Islamic World Studies at Zayed University in Dubai, agreed.

    The phenomenon of reading religious sources out of context "has existed throughout the ages," he said. "We should not grant any legitimacy to those who violate Islam, then hijack it and speak on its behalf."

    "This is not Islamic terror, this is terror committed by Muslims," he said.

    IS not only misreads the texts it cites, most clerics say, it also ignores Quranic verses and a long body of clerical scholarship requiring mercy, preservation of life and protection of innocents, and setting out rules of war — all of which are binding under Islamic Shariah law.

    Many mainstream clerics compare the group to the Khawarij, an early sect that was so notorious for "takfir," or declaring other Muslims heretics for even simple sins, that it was rejected by the faith. The Islamic State group denies that, but it draws heavily from 20th-century theories of "takfir" developed by hard-liners.

    Part of the problem in countering the group's ideology is that moderate clerics have struggled to come up with a cohesive, modern interpretation, especially of the Quranic verses connected to Muhammad's wars with his enemies.

    Militants often point to the Quran's ninth sura, or chapter, which includes calls for Muslims to "fight polytheists wherever you find them" and to subdue Christians and Jews until they pay a tax. Moderate clerics counter that these verses are linked to specifics of the time and note other verses that say there is "no force in religion."

    And while moderate clerics counter the Islamic State group's interpretation point-by-point, at times they accept the same tenets.

    Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb — the grand imam of Egypt's Al-Azhar, one of Sunni Islam's most prestigious seats of learning — denounced the burning of the Jordanian pilot as a violation of Islam. But then he called for the perpetrators to be subjected to the same punishment that IS prescribes for those who "wage war on Islam" — crucifixion, death or the amputation of hands and legs.

    This turns the debate into one over who has the authority to determine the "correct" interpretation of Islam's holy texts. Since many of the most prominent clerics in the Middle East are part of state-run institutions, militant supporters dismiss them as compromised and accommodating autocratic rulers.

    The Islamic State group's segregation of the sexes, imposition of the veil on women, destruction of shrines it considers heretical, hatred of Shiites and condoning of punishments like lashings or worse are accepted by clerics in U.S.-allied Saudi Arabia, who follow the ultraconservative Wahhabi interpretation of Islam.

    But IS goes further.

    For example, most militaries in the era of Muhammad — the 7th century — beheaded enemies and enslaved populations they captured in war, including taking women as concubines. There are citations in the Hadith of Muhammad or his successors ordering beheadings, and verses in the Quran set out rules for dealing with slaves.

    Pivoting off these, the Islamic State group contends that anyone who rejects beheadings or enslavement is not a real Muslim and has been corrupted by modern Western ideas.

    One Islamic State cleric, Sheikh Hussein bin Mahmoud, wrote a vehement defense of beheadings after the killing of American journalist James Foley.

    "Those who pervert Islam are not those who cut off the heads of disbelievers and terrorize them," he wrote, "but those who want (Islam) to be like Mandela or Gandhi, with no killing, no fighting, no blood or striking necks."

    Islam, he wrote, is the religion "of battle, of cutting heads, of shedding blood."

    To support beheadings, the group cites the Quran as calling on Muslims to "strike the necks" of their enemies. But other clerics counter the verse means Muslim fighters should swiftly kill enemies in the heat of battle, and is not a call to execute captives. Moreover, IS ignores the next part of the verse, which says Muslims should set prisoners of war free as an act of charity or for ransom.

    The Islamic State group "appears to have adopted violent ideas first, then searched books of religious interpretation to find a cover for their actions," said Sheikh Hamadah Nassar, a cleric in the ultraconservative Salafi movement.

    In June, the extremists declared a caliphate, or "khilafa" in Arabic, in the lands it controls in Iraq and Syria, with its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as the caliph — a declaration roundly ridiculed by Muslim clerics of all stripes. But here too, the group went further, saying that Islam requires the existence of a caliphate and anyone who refuses to recognize its declaration is not a true Muslim.

    "The hopes of khilafa became an undeniable reality," the group proclaimed in its online magazine, Dabiq. Any Muslim who refuses IS authority will be "dealt with by the decisive law of Allah."

    After that, the stream of IS recruits swelled by thousands.

    https://rudaw.net/english/middleeast
    Last edited by pinkadonai1; 03-02-2015 at 08:06 PM.

  10. #30

    Re: The Dinar Daily, Monday March 2, 2015

    Iraq's Oil Minister Adel Abdel Mehdi speaks during a news conference in Baghdad

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    BAGHDAD - Reuters Iraq's Oil Minister Adel Abdel Mehdi speaks during a news conference in Baghdad

    Baghdad and Kurdish regional authorities are making progress to rescue a deal over crude oil exports, Iraq's oil minister said on March 1, after it nearly unravelled due to Kurdish threats to halt shipments in protest over lack of payment.

    Adel Abdel Mehdi said both sides would gain from preserving the December accord, under which the Kurds ship oil from their own territory and the Kirkuk oilfield under Baghdad's control, in return for payments from the national government. But Baghdad paid only a fraction of the agreed cash to the Kurdish authorities, arguing that the oil shipped did not nearly match the expected volumes. "The agreement with the Kurdish regional government still stands," Oil Minister Adel Abdel Mehdi told a news conference. "Everyone achieves substantial benefits from the deal. Today, thanks to the use of the region's (Kurdistan) pipelines, we are able to resume exports from Kirkuk oilfields which were threatened by deterioration due to the halt of production."

    Under the deal, the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) agreed to export via Turkey 550,000 barrels per day from its own fields and from Kirkuk, through Iraq's state marketing authority SOMO.

    In return, Baghdad pledged to reinstate budget payments to the Kurds, which it had cut early in 2014 as punishment for the region's moves to export oil independently.

    Abdel Mehdi said SOMO was only receiving 300,000 barrels per day at the Turkish terminal of Ceyhan, barely half the agreed volume, but that the amount would increase.

    "By the end of the year we will reach an average of 550,000 barrels per day," he said. "There are obstacles, there are problems. All these issues can not be resolved in one go, but in stages. And we are making progress."

    The December agreement was hailed as a breakthrough in helping Iraq increase oil exports at a time when revenues are strained by low global prices and the cost of financing a war against Islamic State militants in the north and west.

    Abdel Mehdi said oil prices were rebounding gradually and he expected to see a barrel of crude sell for $ 64 to $ 65, up from a low of $ 45 in January but still sharply down from highs of $ 115 last June.

    The low oil prices have led to delay in payments of international oil companies, with accumulated dues since 2013 reaching more than $ 20 billion, the minister said.

    He said the state budget had allocated 14 trillion dinars ($ 11.8 billion) partly to cover those payments, and the ministry was working on a $ 12 billion treasury bond to cover the remainder.

    "If we do not provide these payments we might face penalties or a production cut will occur," he said.

    Abdel Mehdi said the ministry was reviewing service contracts with the oil companies, citing "some shortfalls and some obstacles" in the deals, but gave no details.

    He said the review was taking place in agreement with the oil firms, but dismissed reports that Iraq would move to production sharing deals. "We are still in the pattern of service contracts and we have not entered in production sharing contracts. This issue is premature," he said.

    https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/

    Courtesy of The IQD Team

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