Thread: Iraq/Dinar News until April 26, 2007 Midnight cst.

Originally Posted by Adster

What wealth would that be then?!


Parliament resumes its sessions tomorrow
من ضرغام محمد عليDargham of Muhammad Ali
بغداد- (أصوات العراق)Baghdad - (Voices of Iraq)

The House resumes its sessions tomorrow, Tuesday, after a suspension of more than a week because of damage to one of the parliament buildings by the attack which targeted it.

Abbas Bayati, a member of Parliament from the United Iraqi Alliance list News Agency (Voices of Iraq) Independent today, Monday, said that the Council will resume its normal at eleven tomorrow morning to discuss topics on the agenda, which said that members have not attained its contents.

The explosion targeted a cafeteria in the building of the Iraqi parliament on the 12th of this month and led to the death of deputy Iraqi Front for National Dialogue, Mohammed Awad, and wounding a number of parliamentarians, journalists and workers in the building.

And in relation to, Bayati said that the Constitution Drafting Committee may meet tomorrow, if completed straight to discuss a working paper submitted by the United Nations on the distribution of wealth, noting that the meeting will be held under the chairmanship of Deputy Chairman of the Committee Fouad Massoum because travel Chairman Dr. Humam Hamoudi with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in his foreign policy.

It is noteworthy that the Commission reconsider the terms of the Constitution re-writing some of the paragraphs of the Constitution and add new paragraphs and deleting others, and is composed of 29 members representing Mahtlv Iraqi spectrum.

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U.S. envoy urges Iraq leaders to heal rifts

By Ross Colvin and Paul Tait 14 minutes ago



BAGHDAD (Reuters) - America's ambassador to Iraq urged leaders of rival religious and ethnic groups on Monday to shelve what he called "I win, you lose" politics and speed up progress on laws crucial to fostering national reconciliation.

Ryan Crocker, in his first news conference since arriving in Baghdad in March, said the months ahead for Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's nearly one-year-old fractious government of Kurdish, Sunni Arab and Shi'ite factions would be critical.
"The very definition of reconciliation means you've got to move away from an 'I win you lose' mentality to some form of broader accommodation," he said.
U.S. officials are frustrated by the reluctance of parties to compromise and by slow progress on a draft law on sharing oil revenues and rolling back a ban on former members of Saddam Hussein's party holding office that affects mainly Sunni Arabs.
Sunni Arabs, who were dominant before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, feel marginalized in the new political landscape in which Shi'ites and minority Kurds, who were repressed under Saddam, have sought to cement their grip on power.
Crocker warned that Sunni Islamist al Qaeda was trying to trigger a fresh wave of violence between minority Sunnis and majority Shi'ites in a campaign of suicide and car bombings that has killed hundreds of people over the past several weeks.
Car and suicide bombers killed up to 46 people in a series of attacks across Iraq on Monday, including one in a restaurant near the heavily fortified Green Zone compound in Baghdad, where Crocker was giving his news conference.

WALL CONTROVERSY
In a new military tactic to stop the bombers, U.S. troops have begun walling off some flashpoint neighborhoods in Baghdad with concrete barriers, but the move has drawn sharp criticism from some Sunni and Shi'ite political parties.
Maliki said on Sunday he had ordered the U.S. military to stop work on a 12-foot (3.6-metre) high barrier around the Sunni neighborhood of Adhamiya.
Crocker defended the wall, saying it made "good security sense" to build barriers where there were clear fault-lines and "avenues of attack" between Sunni and Shi'ite areas.
Neither he nor U.S. military spokesman Rear Admiral Mark Fox would say whether construction of the Adhamiya wall would be stopped. Fox said the erection of barriers around Baghdad's markets and neighborhoods was approved by Iraq's government.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the walls were a temporary security measure aimed at protecting civilian populations and were not aimed at dividing people in Iraq.
"This is not meant as a political statement. It is meant as a security measure and we are working closely with the Iraqi security forces on it," he said.
He rejected comparisons to the wall being built by the Israelis. "They are completely different situations and no comparisons should be drawn," McCormack told reporters.
Tens of thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops have been deployed in Baghdad to try to curb sectarian violence.
While they have reduced the number of sectarian murders, there has been a surge in bombings inside and outside Baghdad. Crocker said he and the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, held daily discussions and agreed that only political action would bring "lasting calm" to Iraq.

"I think the Baghdad security plan ... can buy time, but what it does is buy time for what it ultimately has to be -- a set of political understandings among Iraqis. So I think these months ahead are going to be critical," Crocker said.
Three car bombs exploded in the Iraqi insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, killing 20 people, police said. A source at a local hospital said it received 29 bodies after the blast.
In Baquba, capital of the volatile Diyala province north of Baghdad, a suicide car bomber killed 10 policemen, including the police chief, and wounded 23 others, police said.
A suicide car bomb killed 10 people and wounded 20 in an attack on the office of a Kurdish political party near the northern city of Mosul. (Additional reporting by Ibon Villelabeitia, Yara Bayoumy, Aseel Kami and Dean Yates)

U.S. envoy urges Iraq leaders to heal rifts - Yahoo! News

UN-Backed International Compact For Iraq

Monday, 23 April 2007, 9:48 am
Press Release: United Nations UN-Backed International Compact For Iraq Set For Launch Next Month

The United Nations-sponsored International Compact for Iraq (ICI), which seeks to consolidate peace in the war-torn country and pursue political, economic and social development over the next five years, will be launched in Egypt early next month, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said last night.
Speaking to reporters in Bern, Switzerland, during a joint press conference with that country’s President Micheline Calmy-Rey, Mr. Ban said he and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki would attend the launch in Sharm el-Sheikh on 3 May.
The launch marks the culmination of a preparatory process that began last July and was initiated by the Iraqi Government to establish a new partnership with the international community.
The Compact is a five-year national plan that includes benchmarks and mutual commitments from both Iraq and the international community, all with the aim of helping Iraq on the path towards peace, sound governance and economic reconstruction.
The UN – through its Special Adviser on the ICI and Other Political Issues, Ibrahim Gambari – and Iraq have been co-chairs of the preparatory process, which has also had the support of the World Bank.
After his talks in Bern, Mr. Ban headed to Geneva today, where he attended his first meeting of the Chief Executives Board (CEB), which brings together top officials from across the UN system.
During the opening session of the two-day meeting, participants discussed system-wide coherence across the UN and how to better coordinate their efforts to achieve “aid for trade,” a strategy to enable developing countries to take a greater role in the international trade system.
Mr. Ban also spoke with UN staff at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, and attended a working breakfast with the State Council of Geneva, where he voiced appreciation for the city and region’s commitment to the UN by hosting so many international organizations and civil servants and their families.
On Sunday the Secretary-General is scheduled to wrap up the Swiss leg of his four-nation official trip, before heading to Doha, Qatar, for the Forum on Democracy, Development and Free Trade. His last stop will be the Syrian capital, Damascus, where meetings with senior Government officials, including President Bashar Assad, are expected. ENDS

Scoop: UN-Backed International Compact For Iraq

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Originally Posted by shotgunsusie

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Originally Posted by Adster

Maliki Won General Secretary of the Islamic Dawa Party (Federal Support for the Implementation of Article 140)
Islamic Dawa Party supports federalism and calls to disarm

تخيير المالكي بين رئاسة الحكومة والأمانة العامة للحزب

Maliki choose between the Prime Minister and the Secretariat of the Party

علمت "إيلاف" أن رئيس الوزراء العراقي نوري المالكي قد فاز بمنصب الأمين العام لحزب الدعوة الإسلامية خلال انتخابات المؤتمر العام للحزب لكن مادة في النظام الداخلي تقتضي التفرغ للمنصب تعيق توليه للمنصب إلا في حالة استقالته من منصبه الرسمي بينما أكد الحزب الذي ينتمي إليه المالكي وسلفه الدكتور إبراهيم الجعفري تأييده للفيدرالية ولتنفيذ المادة الدستورية 140 لتطبيع الأوضاع في مدينة كركوك ورفض الاحتراب الداخلي مناشدا المسلحين إلقاء أسلحتهم.

Al "Ilaf" The Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has won the post of general secretary of the Islamic Dawa Party during elections, the party's general conference but the rule of procedure requires time for the position to impede his post only in the event of his resignation from his post while the official emphasized the party to which he belongs Maliki and his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Ja'fari federal support for the implementation of Article 140 of the Constitutional normalization of the situation in Kirkuk and the rejection of the internal fighting appealing gunmen to lay down their arms.

وابلغ مصدر مقرب من الحزب "إيلاف" اليوم أن المالكي قد فاز في انتخابات المؤتمر العام لحزب الدعوة الذي شارك فيه 100 عضو من داخل وخارج العراق لتولي منصب الأمين العام للحزب والمستحدث للمرة الأولى بدلا من منصب الناطق الرسمي الذي يتولاه الجعفري.

A source close to the party "Ilaf" today that Al-Maliki has won elections in the General Conference of the Dawa Party, attended by 100 members from inside and outside Iraq for the post of Secretary General of the Party and introduced for the first time instead of the Spokesman-led al-Jaafari.

وأضاف أن النظام الداخلي للحزب ينص على تفرغ الأمين العام للمنصب مايقتضي من المالكي أما الاستقالة من رئاسة الوزراء لتولي المنصب أو تضحيته بالأمانة العامة من اجل الاحتفاظ بمنصبه الحكومي.

He added that the rules of the party provides for the Secretary-General of the empty office of Maliki Maightadha either resign from the Cabinet for the position or sacrifice Secretariat to maintain his position of government.

وقال المصدر أن مجلس شورى الحزب سيجتمع خلال أيام لحل هذا الإشكال على ضوء رغبة المالكي بالاحتفاظ بأحد المنصبين.

The source said that the Shura Council, the party will meet within days to resolve the problem in the light of the desire to keep one Maliki positions.

وأوضح انه في حالة اعتذار المالكي عن الأمانة العامة فان هناك مرشحين قياديين آخرين لتولي المنصب هما الجعفري وعلي الأديب عضو مجلس النواب

He explained that in the case of al-Maliki apology from the Secretariat, there are other leading candidates for the position were Jaafari and the writer member of the House

What does this mean???
Did Maliki get offered another job? Would this new position put him in place to speed anything up???
Thanks for any input/feedback!

Originally Posted by dinarsnope

What does this mean???
Did Maliki get offered another job? Would this new position put him in place to speed anything up???
Thanks for any input/feedback!

I think it refers to the cabinet reshuffling, the positions that are open

Originally Posted by shotgunsusie

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Don't worry, they will soon be B*tching about how LOW the RV amount WAS.