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European interest in buying gas

Shahrastani expects oil law to be issued in two months
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Oil Minister Hussein Shahrastani now expects the new oil law to be issued during the next two months, after being expected early next month.

Shahrastani is visiting India to attract investors to the oil sector, but oil companies are waiting for the passing of the law before taking decisions about investing in Iraq. The importance of the law is that it regulates the distribution of oil revenues among the sectarian and ethnic groups.

The Ministry's Director General Hassan Fayadh Naama announced Wednesday that Iraq will auction 15% of the oil and gas land assets immediately after the bill is passed.

Iraq possesses the third largest oil reserves in the world, but production had been affected due to lack of investment and violence.

Shahrastani also expected the completion of negotiations with Iran on a pipeline to transport crude from oilfields in southern Iraq to an Iranian refinery in about a month.

He said, “the Iraqi part of the pipeline, handling 200 thousand barrels a day, could be put out on tender, and the Iranians themselves are keen to fully implement it in Iraq and Iran.” The pipeline extending to the Abbadan refinery will be paralleled by a line transferring oil products to Iraq, facing a chronic fuel shortage and itself anticipating building four new refineries.

Iraq called on Iranian companies to bid for contracts to build refineries in various parts of the country. However, analysts regard it as unlikely that Iran could meet Iraq's refining needs, since it lacks the technology and suffers from gasoline shortages too.

In Baghdad, An official source at the Oil Ministry said that representatives of the European Union expressed their desire, after meeting with the minister Shahrastani, to import natural gas from the new Ukash field in Mosul. The gas would be transported by the joint Arab gas pipeline through a number of Arab States and Europe via Turkey if an agreement is reached.

A spokesman of the Oil Ministry attributed the increasing numbers of cars in long queues in front of fuel stations in Baghdad to security forces blocking fuel tanker arrival and sabotage to the oil derivatives line in the area of Latifiyah south of Baghdad.

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Growth of Czech exports to Iraq
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Czech exports to Iraq doubled four times since 2003, according to new Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade data. Exports reached $29 million last year, up from $17 million in 2005, while in the first quarter of this year they were $14 million or 296 million kronor.

Economic circles here considered the growing value of Czech exports to Iraq despite the difficult security situation a sign of Czech return to the market, which they have known very well since the days of the Communist regime.

Those circles pointed to new successes of the companies Techno-Export and Pro-Coupe Engineering Birno which recently signed a contract worth 25 billion kronor with the Iraqi Oil Ministry to supply equipment for two oil refineries, one each in Baghdad and Basra.

The Board Director Miroslav Kuznar of Techno-Export told Edove Novine newspaper that these devices will permit the two refineries to refine 70 thousand barrels of oil per day, and that the project will be underwritten by the Iraqi Trade Bank led by the American Banking House G.B. Morgan.

The commercial director Mikhal Krischik of Techno-Export said that his company had won this large deal because of its good reputation in Iraq, adding that the company has already built 60% of the refineries' capacities in the past; Kuznar believes that the future holds new deals in the fields of the food industry and energy as well. As for Birjini Reef from the Czech Foreign Ministry, he believes it will be possible to make new deals for tens of billions of kronor because of Iraq's great economic potential, evident in the enormous economic growth of 8% last year notwithstanding security conditions.

The Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs Karel Shvartsenberg welcomed this development in trade relations, saying, “the outstanding success of the two Czech companies in Iraq pleases us and we would support such arrangements in the future also.”

Dagmar Kokhtova from the Ministry of Trade and Industry believes that the daily violence in Iraq, particularly in the capital Baghdad, is the biggest danger facing Czech companies. However, Krischik stresses that technological Czech supplies are not under threat. However, he admitted that talks between representatives of the company and Iraqis were made in neighboring cities such as Amman and Istanbul, but he felt this is normal for all foreign companies with projects in Iraq.

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Hashemi meet with the American leader of the Karkh

(Voice of Iraq) - 01-06-2007

Baghdad / file Press

He met with Vice-President Mr. Tariq Al-Hashmi noon today, Thursday, as General Joseph Phil Baghdad area commander and brigade commanders in the Karkh.

A statement from the Office of the Hashemite sent a copy of the news "file Press," that Hashemi discussed with Alhneral Phil Baghdad security plan, and listened to the assessment of this plan, and
listened to the remarks of many elephants by Hashemi and Muzo concerned library security, and promised to study elephants in a serious manner. according to the statement.

In the same context, new Hashemi invited to build strong security professional and independent national free from corrupt elements, and non infiltrated by the militias, in the course of receiving sovereignty Dr. John Credit Supervisor reform of the Ministry of Interior earlier yesterday.

Hashemi stressed on the need to build bridges of trust between the security forces and citizens since the need for strict adherence to human rights in addition to the file of the detainees, where Mr. MP Ali stressed that a speedy resolution of their cases without further delay.

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SERIOUSLY....
STUDY ELEPHANTS??????
(IMO) IF THEY CAN NOT GET AN PETRO OIL LAW (NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE PASSED OLIVE OIL LAW) PASSED, THEY REALLY NEED TO STUDY ALTERNATIVE MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION FOR THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ...WHY NOT ELEPHANTS...THEY ARE ECO FRIENDLY AND KIND OF GREEN...

Sunni fighters take on Qaeda in Baghdad


Nationalist fighters joined by tribal leaders enter in fierce street clashes with Al-Qaeda.

By Ammar Karim and Nafia Abdul Jabbar – BAGHDAD
Sunni tribal fighters have joined nationalist insurgents battling Al-Qaeda in vicious Baghdad street battles, their commander said on Friday, as residents reported two days of intense clashes.

For the past two days, Sunni fighters, who would once have sympathised with Al-Qaeda's war against American and Iraqi government troops, have instead been locked in battle against them in the lawless Amiriyah neighbourhood.

"We dispatched around 50 of our secret police from Anbar to Amiriyah, and started to hit Al-Qaeda there. We killed a lot of them," Sheikh Hamid al-Hais, the head of the Anbar Salvation Council, said in a telephone interview.

"A similar operation will be launched in Al-Ghazaliyah against Al-Qaeda today. We have sufficient information on places they are in, and we will punish them," he said, adding that his tribal forces were fighting in plain clothes.

The Salvation Council is the armed wing of an alliance of Sunni sheikhs from the western province of Anbar, where they have funnelled tribal gunmen into the Iraqi police in order to fight Al-Qaeda.

Many of these Sunni militants are former insurgents once hostile to the US military and Baghdad's Shiite-led government but, angered by Al-Qaeda's attacks on civilians and tribal leaders, they have changed sides.

US commanders see this as one of the most positive recent developments in Iraq, which is in the grip of vicious series of overlapping civil conflicts, and hope to recruit more former insurgent groups into the peace process.

Amiriyah, however, was still far from peaceful as the political shifts played themselves out in the form of bloody street battles. Iraqi security officials said fighting had decreased since Thursday, but was continuing.

"Yesterday morning heavy fighting started in the main streets of Amiriyah using lots of different kinds of weapons between the Islamic Army and 1920 Brigades on one hand and the Islamic State on the other," said resident Raed Mohammed.

The Islamic Army and the Brigades of the 1920 Revolution are nationalist insurgent groups associated with former supporters of Saddam Hussein's ousted regime, while the Islamic State of Iraq is an Al-Qaeda-led Islamist alliance.

"The Iraqi Army and the Americans are just watching and not intervening," Mohammed, a civil servant said.

"We want the Iraqi government to save us and to kill those criminals. We can't leave our homes and get the injured and dead to the hospitals. I saw bodies in the streets."

Amiriyah was once one of mainly Sunni west Baghdad's most upscale districts, with streets of generous detached homes lined by palm trees and bougainvillea blooms, but in the past year has been one of the city's fiercest battlefields.

Businessman Abdel Aziz al-Issawi said the area was in a state of siege.

"We can't even watch from our windows. The fighting was so heavy in the streets lasting all day yesterday and through the night," he said.

"There's no electricity, no water, just fear and the cries of children. We kept ourselves in the last room at the back of the house. We couldn't even sleep last night and our suffering is huge."

An Iraqi military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said US and Iraqi forces were attempting to impose a vehicle curfew to quell the fighting.

"The leader of Al-Qaeda in Amiriyah, known as Haj Hamid, was killed, and another 45 Al-Qaeda militants were arrested," he said. "Clashes erupted between Al-Qaeda militants against both the US military and Amiriyah inhabitants."
A US military spokesman said the situation was unclear.
GET UM BOYS

Originally Posted by oldskiier

Folks this didnt get enough attiontion !!!!! This could really be HUGE !!!!!


ABC News has learned new details of the military's efforts to reach out to insurgents, including secret face-to-face meetings with a notorious group that has bragged about multiple attacks on U.S. forces.

The group is the 1920s Revolution Brigade, Sunni insurgents who have bragged of repeated attacks on Americans, including one just three weeks ago.



"You name a mainstream insurgent group, and we're talking to them," a source familiar with the effort told ABC's Jonathan Karl.

And military commanders have high hopes this tactic used by U.S. and British officials will be effective. Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno said he believes that the negotiations can convince 80 percent of the Sunni and Shiite insurgents to lay down their arms.


The CIA is also involved in the effort, identifying insurgent leaders and bringing them in for talks with the military. That effort has stretched to relatively junior commanders, as lieutenant colonels have been given the authority to negotiate directly with insurgents.


"I'm empowering them and trying to give them some tools to reach out, because there are insurgents reaching out to us," Odierno said today during a Pentagon briefing.


In one instance, the leader of 2,000 Sunni tribesman met with a lieutenat colonel earlier this month and said his members, including many who are suspected of supporting the insurgency, are looking for jobs with the local police.

So far, the talks have not included anyone tied to al Qaeda, but Odierno does not rule them out entirely. "I believe little -- very few of al Qaeda are reconcilable. But there might be a small portion," he said.


As the price for peace, the insurgents have demanded jobs, pensions and amnesty for their fighters, including those who have killed Americans. That is hugely controversial, but it may simply be necessary. As one senior Pentagon adviser put it, "They will stop killing us if we reconcile with them."
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Maliki in Arbil to discuss the pending files

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A source in the presidency of the Kurdistan to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki arrived in Irbil on Thursday afternoon in a several-day visit, and was met Massoud Barzani, head of Kurdistan.

He said Dr. Fouad Hussein, head of the Office of the Presidency of the province told reporters, "The visit of al-Maliki comes to consult on many things including the Iraqi constitution and the political situation and the relationship of the territorial government to central government."

He added that Hussein "Sitabbahth delegation on the issue of Kirkuk during the period of residence, which is expected to last several days."

Source : Press file

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The President will meet President Bush and confirmed continuing efforts

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News : President of the Republic will meet President Bush and confirmed continuing efforts to achieve security and stability in Iraq

June 1, 2007

June 1, 2007

The President of the Republic, Jalal Talabani, to continue their efforts to achieve the objectives of the task, particularly those related to national reconciliation, and the law of oil, and the Investment Law, and amendment of the law abolishing the Baath, in addition to other laws is now under discussion and the process of Alantha and submission to the Parliament.
He said President Talabani, during a meeting between His Excellency, President George Bush in Washington Friday 1-6-2007, "We also are committed to do our utmost to train the army and Iraqi security forces to replace gradually replace American forces and is responsible for maintaining security in the country."
there should be a collective leadership in Iraq in order to reach a solution to the question of the distribution of oil revenues in Iraq. It was also briefed by President Bush on what has been accomplished and what we have achieved in this regard. "
President of the Republic and added that the main enemy of the Iraqi people is the rule of terrorists and their collaborators.

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Pointing at the same time the existence of "armed groups take up arms against the government, and we are now negotiating with them to get them to participate in the political process"
Criticized President, the media in their coverage of events in Iraq, and said, "it focuses only on the negative aspects in Iraq, as it does not refer to the great achievements made in the country at the economic level and increase salaries, improve social life." However, His Excellency also pointed out some shortcomings in the work of universities and schools and hospitals in Iraq, along with other problems Iraqis trying to overcome, especially in the area of security.
He also reviewed his Excellency, the successes achieved during the past period on the political level and security, particularly in Kurdistan and the southern governorates.
So, President Talabani expressed his thanks and gratitude to President Bush and Congress and the American people to support the people and government of Iraq. And he said, "I am grateful to the Congress for its recent, and the resolution adopted during the administration of President Bill Clinton on the liberation of Iraq."And added, "Today we live way far better than we were in the past, and we are now faced with a common enemy and is not al-Qaeda, which is of course not the enemy of Iraq and the United States only, but for the entire year."
Meanwhile, the American president reiterated his country's commitment in assisting Iraq to achieve the goals of the task at the political level, there should be a unified government work for the benefit of the Iraqi people.
Pointed out that he had decided to send Ms. Megan O'Sullivan, one of his top aides in the White House, to Iraq to work with the American Ambassador Crocker to help the Iraqis.
And President Bush emphasized the need for success in Iraq, and said, "Sir, it is necessary to achieve success, because the failure in Iraq would lead to a threat to Americans and strengthen the enemies of a free Iraq."
The Bush quoted General David Petraeus on the "Al-Qaeda", which he described as the common enemy number one in Iraq. And he stressed the need not to allow the terrorist organization to take Iraq as a safe haven to him, expressing his confidence in achieving success.

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Muthanna intelligence warns of pumping fake currency market

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Intelligence Directorate found on the Coin forged different categories (Iraqi and foreign) has been pumped into domestic markets in Muthanna governorate.

A source at the Directorate of Intelligence Makhoul Muthanna that the Civil Defense seized quantities of counterfeit currency through reporting by citizens.

He called on citizens to exercise caution and precision in dealing with the categories of cash 10 thousand and 25 thousand Iraqi dinars and 100 dollars. He preferred not to deal with strangers, large quantities of funds for the memorial Aikawa prey to fraud by them.

He pointed out that preliminary information obtained confirms that attend these fairs and car yards sold cattle to handle those funds for counterfeit access to cars or many sheep. He emphasized the necessity of cooperation of the citizens through liaison with the competent so that the arrest of the gang.

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Are ministers with a copy of the Constitution?

آزا حسيب قرداغي

Aza Hasib Qirdage

He noticed three headlines in the newspaper "Lasso" Journal of the territory of Kurdstan.
I say that a member of Parliament from the list of coalition Puk said that the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity and cut electricity on the territory of Kurdstan pretext of terrorist acts, since the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity, which it does not have a financial problem and made full use of good by the minister's statements, but did not provide adequate quantity of energy to the cities of the region note that the Minister had promised to the citizens in the province to resolve the problem of 60% of electricity by summer, but do not otherwise be started reducing energy pretext of terrorist acts by the Commission and services in the National Council had asked the minister to appear before the inquiry into this.
Title II says that the Minister of Health in the government of the territory Kurdstan sends a message critical to President of the Republic of Iraq, the Prime Minister and Deputy objects to send money and medical equipment was to be received by the Ministry from the World Bank, to hospitals southern governorates.
Title III is that the government of the territory in Ziralatsalat Kurdstan criticizing the media and communications to the Iraqi deployment of maneuvers in the area of mobile phone networks since every company working in this area in the territory of Kurdstan obtaining approval from the ministry said the payment of fees to the organization with frequencies only.
These three titles in the number one newspaper Cordstanih There are many rivals in all daily newspapers published Alcordstanih draws the attention of the observer to question him about the reasons.
How many government ministers with a revised version of a permanent Iraqi constitution the federal?
How many of them due to the permanent constitution when it wants to make decision-making, especially those that exceed the government's powers to the territorial Governments, Autlk of overlapping authorities Monday?
Check these questions, which I am sure that before anybody else does not get the definitive answers nor by the relative, but each verdict was that the majority of Alhalaa do not have a copy of the Constitution, and they did not look upon it since the ratification, The telltale of which are the excesses of the Constitution by the ministers in the federal government of Iraq.
Here I put some of the articles of the Constitution in front of the Iraqi ministers who need to understand the nature of a federal constitutional science, learning and work which :

Article (110) : -
The following joint powers between the federal and regional authorities : First : The customs administration in coordination with provincial and district government in the territory of irregular, and regulated by law.
Second : organizing power sources, President and distribution.
Fifth : public health policy, in cooperation with the regions and governorates.
Article (111) : -
All that was not provided for in terms of exclusivity to the federal authorities, the validity of the provincial and district irregular in the territory, and other powers shared between the federal government and regions, the priority for the provincial and district irregular in the territory, in the case of disagreement between them.

Article (117) : -

Second : the right to the authority of the province, to modify the application of federal law in the province, in the case of a contradiction or conflict between federal law and the law of the province, on the issue did not fall within the exclusive competence of the federal authorities.

KRG, Kurdistan Regional Government

1 Jun 2007

Iraq .. Reconciliation between price and the price of peace lost

Many suffer from poor conditions in Iraq, especially the security situation which made Iraqis who wander displaced and Immigrants and refugees inside and outside the country's borders, and we say this not a criticism of the Iraqi government or the sayings echo espoused by the enemies Altegueiraldin entering this entrance, any of the crisis and bad security conditions and escape and exodus of Iraqis to give to the whole world the image says : that Iraq and put people under the previous regime was better Halargham dictatorship and the seizure of the rail system and the repressive machine because security and the movement of people in the streets and cities were safer from these days.

We must recognize and cope with those who say this talk to them correctly in terms of security that had existed since the days when this fact it can any rational or fair to deny it, but whether we should ask them : Who is the reason for all this devastation to rights and homeland? Are policies of the former regime and its practices to distort the reality of life in Iraq and the black clouds that had brought us all these dangers and lightning that had destroyed the lives of Iraqis?

The misconduct by American forces in Iraq and sweeps and Alsa dealing with the citizens on these forces to target each of the damaged or insulted or assaulted dignity over the past four years, along with the inability of the Iraqi government, which unfortunately seemed like a team playing in the Debutante and sport lacks harmony, understanding and playing in a plan or goal, but thought playing on every likeness or (each fancies!) and of course (dear Leila) .. Excuse me, the goals of each party or the Minister in the government is the common goal of First party or list nominated for the post, then doctrine, nationalist and then the next area of personal interest to the minister or official appointed by dictate attitudes and acts rejected and ties in the same resolution and possibly broadcast on its boards and private conversations with his companions, and then comes after Iraq .. all these miserable home, which I have a site or a place after each of those priorities? ! .

Scene real and realistic found in Iraq says that there is a crisis but not solved calamity military solutions and security plans and brigades Alveb and Scorpio Awalteshkellat bearing the names of predatory animals and pets Awazawahr thunderous air and incendiary resolving Iraq crisis all conferences held and held in the future, especially after the recent conference in Sharm el-Sheikh and the Iraqi government, which granted the territory and international qualifying to be done if they are to do, and if we say it in the definition of language scholars and trades as with the presence, that is beyond what can be achieved only if there is Mecca and for appearing on the ground and the presence of any problem if it's true, there is good faith and a strong will and determination, which does not tire or tired towards openness and dialogue with everyone, and with everyone to say if we put this line or condition of this faction or that group in response to a list or sect or group will make a bid Colima (resolve) beggars and beggars who Temtela their tables and dozens of types of food cooked by many cooks who each breath and how difficult it reconciling all those items.

The opportunity still exists to open hearts and minds and to invite everyone to dialogue and discussion in order to rid Iraq and to record the current government does not completed any equivalent accomplish a genuine national reconciliation among Iraqis will know where Iraqis and the neighboring countries, the Arabs and the world that is acceptable dialogue and reconciliation and who is not accept that are then isolated and join forces to confront the classroom or confined to a narrower scope .. that what is happening in Baghdad, Mosul and Diyala, Basra and other Iraqi cities from all kinds of conflict and fighting liquidation conducted on the basis of caste, creed or national or even between parties and groups rallying under one list give us the lesson that we all need : We need a strong Iraqi government just open to everyone believes in and seeks to reconciliation in word and deed, in spite of all the difficulties and obstacles mines but firm way and certainly invoice reconciliation, which must be paid much less than at our daily price paid for security and peace lost.

KRG, Kurdistan Regional Government