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Originally Posted by readytogo

What is Investment Law No. 13 of 2006?

SAW THIS POSTED AND IT IS A VERY INTERESTING ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION....

Back in mid-April, Al Sabaah newspaper posted an article about Investment Law #13...read the part highlighted in red.

Economic : Unadim Kana : there was an urgent need to review and reconsider the economic laws emphasized the need to hold intensive meetings with academic experts economists Baghdad Abbas Algalbi revealed Unadim Kana, deputy chairman of the Economic Committee of the House of Representatives unveiled the intention to hold intensive meetings with a number of academics, economists and businessmen in order to get acquainted with the real need the economic laws appropriate to the process of economic transformation taking place in the country in order to draft laws formula developed and approved in Parliament.

We explained in an interview with the ((morning)) that there was an urgent need to review all the laws of an economic nature in effect, reconsider or modify to make them consistent with the process of transition from a totalitarian central economic system into a market economy. He said in this context : that the priority in legislation headed to the issuance of the Investment Law No. 13 of 2006, which is a cover and an impregnable wall of the laws and provide other economic investment in all aspects of life except insurance companies, banks, oil and gas. He attributed the non-activation of the investment and the reluctance of Arab and foreign investors to enter the arena of investments in Iraq to the consequences of the security situation.

In that regard, affirmed the need for Iraq to 300 billion dollars over the next ten years for reconstruction according to statistics and studies prepared by the United Nations.

Unadim Kana, and stressed the need to create the best investment environment and the activation of the private sector and the departure of total reliance on government spending, pointing out the importance of benefiting from the experiences of many countries in the the investment proved successful significantly.

With regard to the investment budget for 2007, described by observers Balanfjarih identified Vice Chairman of the Economic Committee in the House of Representatives three real obstacles to implementation ((the first parameters of the security and the second financial and administrative corruption that affects organs of the State and the third case of marginalization of the left and scientific expertise because of the obvious signs of partisan and sectarian received shadows on the political scene, governmental and ministerial)), calling in this direction to the adoption of professionalism and efficiency in the selection of technical and administrative positions in all organs of the State.

Stressing the need for the return of competencies and minds abroad outside of the country because of such precursors. He called for completion of the routine, which he described Balmmelh and impeding the progress of the implementation of investment projects and to give wider powers of the ministries and departments concerned and not restrict them to the Council of Ministers with the emphasis on accountability and follow-up of negligence hand, and to honor the artists on the other.

With respect to the oil and gas, described this law Balmahm and influential in the economic process for the adoption of the entire budget on oil imports, or 95%, pointing to the existence of loopholes by saying excessive powers specific to the regions and the oil-producing provinces which raise the sensitivity of the other governorates non-oil producing anticipated action amendments anticipated some of the paragraphs of the law.

He referred in this regard to the need to use the expertise and competencies of the Iraqi workforce in the oil sector to take advantage of the views and observations of professional effort to pass a law to Aitakata with the national interest to make Iraq will be able to raise the productivity and efficiency of the extraction of oil and gas and we praised advocating monetary policy by the Central Bank of Iraq seeking to reducing inflation.

He pointed out that this policy will bear fruit in future. He called for patience and understanding of the nature of this policy, which will be reflected positively on its own terms the Iraqi economy.

Stressing that the economic committee in the House of Representatives working to support and encourage this policy, which seeks to restore the health and strength of the Iraqi dinar and the elimination of the dollarization phenomenon and to make the Iraqi dinar an actor in cash transactions that govern markets.

He alluded to the existence of other economic laws are being talked about in the near future will be the way to legislation is the law of insurance companies, banks and the Banking Act and the Regulation of the private sector of 2006, which is a cover and an impregnable wall of the laws and provide other economic investment in all aspects of life except insurance companies, banks, oil and gas.

He attributed the non-activation of the investment and the reluctance of Arab and foreign investors to enter the arena of investments in Iraq to the consequences of the security situation.

In that regard, affirmed the need for Iraq to 300 billion dollars over the next ten years for reconstruction according to statistics and studies prepared by the United Nations.

Unadim Kana, and stressed the need to create the best investment environment and the activation of the private sector and the departure of total reliance on government spending, pointing out the importance of benefiting from the experiences of many countries in the the investment proved successful significantly.

With regard to the investment budget for 2007, described by observers Balanfjarih identified Vice Chairman of the Economic Committee in the House of Representatives three real obstacles to implementation ((the first parameters of the security and the second financial and administrative corruption that affects organs of the State and the third case of marginalization of the left and scientific expertise because of the obvious signs of partisan and sectarian received shadows on the political scene, governmental and ministerial)), calling in this direction to the adoption of professionalism and efficiency in the selection of technical and administrative positions in all organs of the State.

Stressing the need for the return of competencies and minds abroad outside of the country because of such precursors.

He called for completion of the routine, which he described Balmmelh and impeding the progress of the implementation of investment projects and to give wider powers of the ministries and departments concerned and not restrict them to the Council of Ministers with the emphasis on accountability and follow-up of negligence hand, and to honor the artists on the other. With respect to the oil and gas, described this law Balmahm and influential in the economic process for the adoption of the entire budget on oil imports, or 95%, pointing to the existence of loopholes by saying excessive powers specific to the regions and the oil-producing provinces which raise the sensitivity of the other governorates non-oil producing anticipated action amendments anticipated some of the paragraphs of the law.

He referred in this regard to the need to use the expertise and competencies of the Iraqi workforce in the oil sector to take advantage of the views and observations of professional effort to pass a law to Aitakata with the national interest to make Iraq will be able to raise the productivity and efficiency of the extraction of oil and gas and we praised advocating monetary policy by the Central Bank of Iraq seeking to reducing inflation. He pointed out that this policy will bear fruit in future.

He called for patience and understanding of the nature of this policy, which will be reflected positively on its own terms the Iraqi economy.

Stressing that the economic committee in the House of Representatives working to support and encourage this policy, which seeks to restore the health and strength of the Iraqi dinar and the elimination of the dollarization phenomenon and to make the Iraqi dinar an actor in cash transactions that govern markets. He alluded to the existence of other economic laws are being talked about in the near future will be the way to legislation is the law of insurance companies, banks and the Banking Act and the Regulation of the private sector.

Daily Column
Iraq Papers Wed: 'Allawi's Mysterious Front
New Political Coalition: Hub for Saddamists and "Mules" or a "Salvation Front"?
By AMER MOHSEN Posted 1 hr. 18 min. ago
Az-Zaman


Al-Mada newspaper has weighed in on the latest political polemic on the Iraqi scene. Earlier this week, the two main Kurdish Leaders, Jalal Talabani and Mas'ud Barazani, released a statement attacking a supposed front that Iyad 'Allawi and his allies in the Sunni Tawafuq bloc have formed during a recent conference in Cairo.
Among the many accusations directed at the “front,” the Kurdish statement described the alliance as “manufactured by foreign intelligence” and “aiming to execute a coup” and “undermine the political process” in Iraq. One of the main contentions of the Kurdish leaders is that 'Allawi’s alliance includes parties and individuals who were allegedly supportive of the Saddam regime during its reign in Iraq.
Al-Mada -- whose coverage is generally sympathetic to the government -- took an unapologetically pro-government line regarding the recent polemic. On its front page today, the paper headlined: “The ‘Salvation Front’ on the brink of collapse . . . before its announcement.” The “Salvation Front” is the name given to the recent 'Allawi coalition by some of its members; leaders of the parties involved told the media that the objective of the new coalition is to propose a “salvation government” that would assume governance in Iraq during the current juncture and restore some measure of stability and political reconciliation.
Al-Mada, which relayed the Kurdish anti-'Allawi statement, added, quoting “reliable sources,” that the political front was formed in Cairo with the “coordination of Egyptian and Turkish intelligence services.” The newspaper also said that the “front” includes, next to 'Allawi’s party and the Sunni Tawafuq bloc, the two largest constituents, “mules, who were represented by Arshad Zibari, the (Kurdish) ex-minister in Saddam Husain’s regime.”
‘Mules’ is a Kurdish term that was employed to refer to Kurdish politicians and clans that supported the Saddam regime, and, from the perspective of the Kurdish opposition movement, ‘betrayed their own people.’ Kurdish factions that opposed Talabani and Barazani were often used by the Saddam regime to fight against the Kurdish Peshmerga that led a long, arduous war (lasting several decades) to assert Kurdish autonomy from the Baghdad regime. It should also be noted that Saddam, at different intervals, pitted Talabani and Barazani against each other, and both Kurdish leaders held pacts and semi-alliances with the dictator at one point or another. Most famously, Barazani struck an alliance with Saddam in 1996, inviting Iraqi government troops into his capital, Erbil, to garner support against Talabani, with whom he was interlocked in a bitter civil war. (At the time, Erbil was part of the Kurdistan autonomous zone, free of the control of Saddam’s government.)
Al-Mada added that, according to its sources, Talabani met 'Allawi in London and “warned him . . . that the natural place to hold alliances and negotiations is Baghdad and not under the shadows of foreign intelligence.” Allegedly, Talabani also “reminded 'Allawi of the dangers of allying himself with the traitors of the Kurdish people.” However, the newspaper continued, the “front” (whose very existence is still in question, since no official proclamation of its founding has been made) may not even see the light of day, owing to internal conflicts between its parties, and within its main constituents.
Al-Mada also supplied a political analysis of the new front, claiming that it reflects a regional fault line that pits “Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, the UAE and Turkey against another regional axis consisting of Syria and Iran.” Al-Quds al-'Arabi also ran a story on the same topic claiming that Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are sponsoring the 'Allawi front as a movement of opposition to Maliki and his cabinet. The front is intended by its sponsors as a “political salvation council” made up of parties that are disgruntled with “Maliki’s sectarian policies,” the paper said.
Al-Quds al-'Arabi added that the regional governments supportive of 'Allawi will extend “financial, political and media support” for the new “Salvation Council.” The London-based paper explained that the Islamic Party is currently divided over the new alliance, since a wing of the party is supportive of Maliki, while another group “is enthusiastic to undermine the political process,” according to al-Quds al-Arabi.

IraqSlogger: Iraq Papers Wed: 'Allawi's Mysterious Front

Name of the program : Panorama
The program : Muntaha killed
The date : Sunday, 3-6-2007
The guests :
Abdul Sattar Abu Richier (Reich Council awakening Anbar)
)Muhammad Bashar al-Faydi (the Association of Muslim Scholars)
Qais Al-Amri (member of the House Iraqi)
Salama Na'mat (Clerk press)
Marwan Shehadeh (researcher in the affairs of al-Qaeda)

After it turned against four organizations Sneh, to what extent Fed noose around Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia?
- Controversy over-trial detention of minors at Guantanamo, and the suicide of a Saudi detainee raises further criticism.
Muntaha killed : Welcome to the Panorama us tonight, these titles will be the focus of our first stop but a summary of the main news.

[News Summary]

Muntaha killed : Welcome again, exited data base in Iraq than is usual to adopt Almvkhkhat assassinations, finally came to bear on communications clashes led organization against Sunni factions, a few months ago ally.
This coincides with the announcement of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, reaching an agreement soon to meet the demands of Sunni armed factions and opposition prelude to merging them later in the political process.
Strengthened by the American Declaration similar, these events and associated military operations conducted under a cloak of secrecy in various parts of Iraq, prompted many to wonder to what extent it changed the balance of forces in Iraq with the breadth of the campaign against Al Qaeda Sunni organizations?
Data hostility between Al Qaeda and Sunni factions
Raghida Azwaini : main parties to the conflict in Iraq to change their attitudes changed by the security map, which is believed by many to be based on case-Qaida in its strength or weakness, this is the impression that dwarfed what appears during the last two months and the results can be summarized as follows : Sunni factions coup on the base, and to engage in war against them. Extending the areas controlled by the Sunni tribes to reach Baghdad via Bdiyala and Salahaddin. Declaration Talabani successful negotiations with armed factions and the government promised to meet their demands. The Declaration of American officials near agreement with the Sunni factions in preparation for their integration into the political process.
These developments reinforced phenomena has not been contradicted by any of the conflicting parties is the data exchange hostilities between Al Qaeda and the Sunni factions allied with. Loss of Anbar province rule and control by clan except Fallujah, Iraqi forces not to enter or American party to the war taking place in the Amiriya district of Baghdad between the coalition and Sunni gunmen Qaeda, al-Qaeda fighters transition under pressure to the remote areas such as Mosul and Tall Afar, Rabia, and the arrival of the tribes to Diyala to pursue Al Qaeda in one of the most powerful positions.
Rule did not deny all this, but announced that the straw to assassinate the Emir of the organization in Fallujah divided alliance with the Islamic Army, the Islamic Army, composed of former Iraqi army officers went a step further and form front Jihad and reform, which includes three organizations also turned to the rule are : Revolution Brigades century..Army of the Mujahideen. Supporters of the year.
These battalions Almenkelph against Al Qaeda launched its new support clans Anbar in violent clashes in the Taji area more than a month ago.
Achtbatakat Observers say that Al Qaeda has lost a great deal, in the light of what is happening, the American and Iraqi statements that the next few months are the last chance to save Iraq from its predicament is closer to reality, or so it seems.
Muntaha killed : joins us from Amman, Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu brushes President of the reawakening of Iraq, Welcome Sheikh Abdul Sattar us, the question is : Could whether the end of Al Qaeda in Iraq had approached or not?
Abdul Sattar Abu brushes : Welcome six Muntaha. God began end-Qaida in Iraq expires at the hands of the sons of the clans and also Tsmain cheerful news today, which began Sunni factions Thank God fighting against in Ameriya has Hazemenahm to God in full except Anbar city of Fallujah, We have entered in Fallujah two days before the income from our second-wave regiment emergency and Gnahm great lessons in the Golan neighborhood and other neighborhoods in Fallujah, and also to Ahqnahm in the province of Diyala, Salah Al Din and, God willing, will Nkhreigham from Iraq altogether.
Muntaha killed : Why Fallujah until the moment the rebellious Sunni clans mean remaining stronghold of the base?
Abdul Sattar Abu brush : it is not insurmountable, but the security plan that we have built in Anbar, which includes Fallujah, not invented, mean that Fallujah has special status, but two days ago that God agreed with the entry of joint forces to enter Fallujah have we fought battle, God brave and strong, To Gnahm lessons that God will Nkhreigham great city of Fallujah and the holy city to restore security and stability and to restore new life to God.
Muntaha killed : Who are the allies? Who are those who are Sunni clans turned against Al Qaeda?
Abdul Sattar Abu brushes : Sunni tribal clans Anbar is the first by the war against Al Qaeda, Valechair all united together by clan Al_huseibeh to Zuba tribe is fighting in Baghdad, each clan is allied to a day-Qaeda fighter, The rule was defeated, God willing, more than 90% of the Anbar province, has built an army and Praise be to God, and built a legal Iraqi police to fight the terrorists wherever they are and wherever they are found.

Where would the Sunni clans on Disarmament?
Muntaha killed : You Kahar Sneh where to get arms to resist the rule? And you said in a statement that you have more weapons from weapons of the Iraqi security?
Abdul Sattar Abu brushes : Yes, they can have their sophisticated weapons, but the first thing we have in our fight against Al Qaeda means no one believed, it means do not believe that the clans will this war against terrorists, when the Ahizatna government that we are serious and sincere in our fight against Al Qaeda, We aim to establish peace and security in the Anbar province and throughout Iraq, the Iraqi government has supported us with a weapon in addition to the clan, who previously had, and you know that the Sunni clans and all Iraqi tribes to respect the privacy of disarmament, storage and removed at any time needed clan.
Muntaha killed : True mean this is known, but some security experts say that al-Qaeda, especially after the announcement of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq developed its potential weapons programs that had strikingly, so they went to say that he is ready to set up unconventional attacks using chlorine gas, and when talk recently about bombs also on behalf of thermal heat used by the battalion to penetrate armored vehicles, I mean, this kind of weapon you Kahar Sneh Do you think that the government or even the American forces will go to the end of your arms?
Abdul Sattar Abu brushes : We first accredited to God Almighty to defend ourselves, yes to criminal means great sophistication in the murder and crime in the demolition of houses and shops demolished and the demolition of the markets, As noticed in the recent period were started attacking many of the local markets where there is only people unsuspecting citizens carrying chlorine, which is poisonous gas against the citizens, and to prevent the entry of this article to the Iraqi border, Syrian, and now we were in control in this article, but survival with very few weapons, God and we are not obliged to give up in the final fight to God.
Muntaha killed : the We the mean?
Abdul Sattar Abu brushes : We clan, we are all Iraqis.
Muntaha killed : Will the Iraqi government authorized mean Acting offered this role? Left-Qaeda fighter project and exit from Iraq to the Sunni tribes?
Abdul Sattar Abu brush : it does not mean we believe backers of the government and backers of the law, and we respect the law and want to do the role of law and the role of government do, and the State, the State is one of the Iraqi Iraqis, for Iraqis to help the government and disband the State of the future .. The restoration of the prestige of the new ..
Muntaha killed : Sheikh Abdul Sattar want to make sure you listen, because lost contact for a few seconds before ..
Abdul Sattar Abu brushes : hear you, but cut the picture ..
Muntaha killed : true, ok, we are talking about government support you until the end, the field where the Earth now reached base Bemlahuguetkm do not want to talk about Fallujah?
Abdul Sattar Abu brushes : our pursuit of the base now arrived in Diyala, as Ahizati about 15 days before the clans led by Salah Eddin Champions Sheikh Hamad Al-Jabouri obliged to rule God will defeat Al Qaeda from both the Sunni provinces in particular.
Muntaha killed : mean Tell me what other positions? Sunni tribes were accused of a long period of pre-quarters various Iraqi and American forces before it is sometimes before the Iraqi government that it was harboring al-Qaeda, why the change of attitude? Why recall against Al Qaeda?
Abdul Sattar Abu brushes : Rule We dubbed awakening, awakening is the right direction and the direction in the right way against falsehood, a former Al Qaeda using Alkzabah opinions and opinions of others and took the correct Islamic religion in a cover them fighter citizens and the government and fighter fighter innocent people, but we thank God had relieved them of this cover in big conferences for religious scholars who supported Distinguished taken a heroic with awakening, including Dr. Thamir and Dr. Jalal Abdullah Muslim Scholars Authority Anbar who declared they are against the rule has been removed Sattar released to God and now they have not left any guise Islamic God.
Muntaha killed : What about clashes Amiriyah area? Why do you say the rule says that he began harassing them by the Army of Islam, I mean the Army of Islam, which is what started happening in the Amiriyah?
.Abdul Sattar Abu brushes : Islamic Army battalions century revolution and the Mujahideen Army Brigades jihadist factions that now engaged in fighting against Al Qaeda in Ameriya, and, God willing, they realize they have great victories captured them about more than forty element of the rule.
Muntaha killed : You Chtbekon with the base continuously Kahar Sneh mean and organizations that emerged under various names, frankly, mean fight Arabs or fight the Iraqis?
Abdul Sattar Abu brushes : we fight all belonged to Al Qaeda that were Arabs or Iraqis.
Muntaha killed : understand, diabetes?
Abdul Sattar Abu brushes : diabetes rate Arabs are many and they are always the Principality in the Principality is always the rule of the Arabs and not Iraqis, but the Iraqis understand the students at the Arab princes.
Muntaha killed : Population Amiriyah say that the war between the Muslim streets of the Islamic Army and the Islamic State of Iraq any Al Qaeda against the backdrop of the killing and kidnapping of mutual commitment between the two parties, how secure the protection of the population Amiriyah?
How secure the protection of civilians people who are connected with the subject?
.Abdul Sattar Abu brushes : Amiriyah on the population to stand with the Islamic Army and the Army of Mujahedeen factions that came with defending citizens, and they know well the rule, they should give accurate information to the Army of Mujahedeen or Islamic Army and Itata with him to defeat terrorism in Ameriya, army Islamic Army of the Mujahideen, or other groups or alone can not defeat Al Qaeda if not citizens Metstantin them, I invite the citizens of Ameriya brothers that Itata with armed factions Sunni jihad which came to them and removed from the rule.
Muntaha killed : Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu brushes President of the reawakening of Iraq guests from Amman Thank you very much.
There inflate media to the issue of awakening residents Anbar
نضعها؟Muntaha killed : and joins us now from Amman, Dr Muhammad Bashar al-Faydi, spokesman COICA media on behalf of Muslim Scholars, and Beirut, Mr. Qais upper member of the Iraqi parliament on the United Iraqi Alliance, Welcome to you and you start guests from Amman Dr Muhammad Bashar al-Faydi, How can we read this picture of the clashes that happen between the reawakening of Iraq or the reawakening of Anbar Islamic Army and the Islamic State of Iraq, in any framework we could?
Muhammad Bashar al-Faydi : In the name of God the Merciful, I mean starting a media inflate the cause awakening residents of Anbar, the American media machine with these trends and government information machine with these trends also say that the whole Sunni clans in this trend is arguably significant overstatement Therefore Mr. Alerishawi had mentioned only two subclans. I want to say that the awakening does not enjoy such weight as alleged brother of reasons, but first, I mean, I pleased that Mr. bribes not to say that I add him on 19/5/2007 left Mr. bribes with Mr. Sami in the imposition of military law at the Iraqi satellite stated two facts important, first, he said we have a joint operations with friendly forces and government forces and tribal elders, then, is to deal with the Americans and planning with the Americans as well as with government, the second point is the most serious danger when asked whether you have armed group Tsendkam? اHe said there was no armed group Everybody terrorists themselves if Al Qaeda, which underlines the point that he also prepared to attack the Iraqi resistance, thus, can not affect Mr. Alerishawi and his legitimacy, which deals with the Americans planned and, secondly, where are you describe the resistance beat this man? Is Nsanfeh in the list of Liberals in the list of noble resistance, or in any area? Therefore, we can not call this awakening versa this Doze Nap we call it, and I think that the people of Anbar are aware of the seriousness of what is happening, it is no secret men support the government, and this government is accused of sectarian death in Baghdad and other areas, then the issue is very complex I do not think so easily.
Muntaha killed : but eventually Dr. al-Faydi end is talking and talking about the news they are directing their weapons to Al Qaeda to rule specifically what is known as the Islamic State of Iraq?
.Muhammad Bashar al-Faydi : I quoted by the letter is said we fight everybody, no armed group everyone this is not terrorism struggle, he is head of the so-called disillusion, we also follow the ground these groups hit everyone pretext of fighting Al Qaeda to strike the Iraqi resistance. for this example, we find that the activities of the resistance in Anbar city declined because the sons of the resistance were also killed at the hands of these awakening regrettably.
Muntaha killed : I will come back to you, Dr. Muhammad, and move to the guests from Beirut Mr. Kais upper member of the Iraqi parliament, is the question : Is the government the emergence of the reawakening of Iraq or the emergence of these organizations, the Sunni clans mean a sigh of relief that there is a face-Qaida them? Do Americans believe that there are face each carry weapons in Iraq is responsible for possibly later eighths of a political kind?
Qais Al-Amri : In the name of God the Merciful, against peace and God's mercy and blessings.
Muntaha killed : You operations.
Qais Al-Amri : six Muntaha, I love the healthier you that the names Qais Al-Ameri, not measured upper.
Muntaha killed : Welcome.
Qais Al-Amri : On the subject of clans awakening Anbar imagine that this awakening came occasion came emanating from the textile clan, which enjoys Anbar province, and had a good role in the suppression of terrorist operations targeting people of this province, this role has had an impact on the ground, and it has a direct impact on improving the security situation, and the reaction was the result of clan suffered from terrorist operations against the Al Qaeda and these terrorist operations targeting chiefs clan elders and clerics, academics and even ordinary civilians, and also Ashidwic national forces in Al-Ramadi, This is the role played by these tribes came as a reaction lot of tragedy and injustice and persecution by Al Qaeda in the province and, unfortunately, I think that Sheikh al-Faydi trying to double charges to Sheikh Abu Starr brushes that deal with the Americans and with the Iraqi forces, but it is forced to deal with these bodies of what ails this province from a security Mottakhlkhal, where the university is closed and closed business operations and suffered economic and social development Scouted This is a natural consequence to those who suffer from these conditions to cooperate with any quarter in order to save his city and the rescue of his sons and the sons and the sons of his tribe which suffer from injustice.
Muntaha killed : in politics is well known that true in principle it is possible to point to stand with hand today and tomorrow stand against it, but certainly is the issue is not only security, we are talking here about perhaps political gains subsequent to a year, if Mr. Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Richier is now represented by the reawakening of Iraq?
Qais Al-Amri : I mean imagine that the political gains are not exclusively on the range and not on the inventory of a certain, if we saw the Sunni position in Iraq, we find that participated in the electoral process and had a role in the political process, which yielded results represented those of the Iraqi people. that was representative of the Arab Sunnis or Shiites representative of the Arabs or the Kurds or any representative of a community, and I would imagine that the position taken at the outset not to join the political process was negative attitude to the sect represented by such views, since refrain from participating in the state and refrain from participating in the army and police deprived areas away from the political process, security, and most services and away from the political situation, either gains to the clans awakening Anbar I do not imagine that there are political gains come through Madavatham of their respective regions, the political process in Iraq took a new direction is oriented oriented and democratic election, and wanted to enter into the political process is open to all, there are elections if not at the level of government, there will be elections on the local government level or provincial assemblies, and a mass base will appear in these elections, there would not be a work-for-service positions for the sons of a certain area.
The Iraqi government was involved in sectarian cleansing
Muntaha killed : Dr Muhammad Bashar al-Faydi mean Before I turn to my next Mr. Amri said you accuse Alerishawi Iraq and the awakening they deal with the Americans and the government, may be understood to be dealing with the Americans in these circumstances counts, but how to deal with the Iraqi government also charged?
.Muhammad Bashar al-Faydi : First, I have not accused This is what he is, and also what Mr. Amri said he was doing this to a need, then I did not accuse anybody and this is the truth, We say to resort to the occupier to save the rule is the maxim true when driving age when toilet Scylla of Scylla and Charybdis. What would mean the awakening of the people who put hands in the hands of the occupiers and take them money and share in military operations, and the Golan killed us more than Qaida killed thousands of times over, the demolition of solving our homeland, we must think of those insist fact, its legitimacy to the people and to history. The collaboration with the government is from our point of view yes, another problem, because if this government is sincere in protecting the people from those of us in our protection ratified by militias supported by the affiliated parties to the problem of the family, this government is involved even in Cape sectarian and ethnic exclusion of secular and this is no longer secret to anyone, documented files at the United Nations, it is now supporting this government and cooperate with it under the pretext of the war-Qaeda, kills Iraqi resistance and kill the Iraqi people why we call? Are people historically hero resistance in Iraq?
Muntaha killed : Dr. Bashar Doctor Vidi mean in Iraq since the first day until this moment, observers believe the difficulty in finding the line between resistance and terrorist operations, because what draws against the Iraqi people tens of times as directed against American forces. that means the issue has become extremely difficult distinction inside Iraq, then on the other side you and let me use the expression of sectarian here because Iraq could not only talking about this format, You as a community Sunni in Iraq since the first day a state of confusion perhaps because of the charges against you from the outset that you either Saddameon or Ghaeidion or do you deal with terrorism, then Tbenitm resistance as well as he did with Muqtada al-Sadr himself as a Shiite because he carried the banner of resistance. Where now sees the same year in Iraq Do you want re-election again? Do you want a new government? Has entered into a new elections? يI mean where are you from the status quo in Iraq?
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D.G. of Foreign Exchange Control

The 940 daily currency auction was held in the Central Bank of Iraq day Wednesday 2007/6/6 so the results were as follows :

Details Notes
Number of banks 15 -----
Auction price selling dinar / US $ 1260 -----
Auction price buying dinar / US $ ----- -----
Amount sold at auction price (US $) 41.235.000 -----
Amount purchased at Auction price (US $) -----
Total offers for buying (US $) 41.235.000 -----
Total offers for selling (US $) ----- -----

A bill to raise the unit price of electric

الحلة- نيناHilla - Nina
.The head of the Electricity Distribution Middle Euphrates Rahim Hashim al-Jaafari as a bill to the House by the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity to raise the unit price of electricity. ".Jaafari said Tuesday : "This decision coincided with a campaign led by Bakr electricity to rationalize energy," adding : "The price of electricity production unit in Iraq is much cheaper than neighboring countries does not cover production costs." ”.He added : "The objective of this project paying citizen to rationalization of energy use."

wow so far they've raised the prices on grains, fuel and now electric? when they gonna raise the value of their money? LOL

جريدة المواطن العراقية

Oil workers call lines and pipelines to halt their strike in order to fuel flow
الاعرجيBaghdad Tarek Al-Araji
فيماAppealed to the Ministry of Oil workers in the airline company and tubes in warehouses and Khor Al-Zubair pumping station Nasiriyah stop their strike and return to work to secure the flow of fuel at the southern governorates and the Middle Euphrates and Baghdad in




.The ministry decided to increase the interest rate or the margin of profit on the sale of oil derivatives by stations eligibility.
.He said ministry spokesman Assem Jihad : After that repair and maintenance of the pipeline carrier of petroleum products from the direction of Khor Al-Zubair (Nasiriyah, and ascend to the Indian city of Baghdad) led by the staff of the company pipelines in the warehouses of Khor Al-Zubair and Nasiriyah pumping station to go on strike to stop pumping products in the pipeline vital noting that President reason behind the strike is limited annual profits distributed among workers according to the demands.
لهم.He added that the profits distributed as verification of a company's imports last year, according to the instructions in force, especially that the ministry respects all demands of workers in the oil sector, with the government trying to improve the living them.
.He pointed out that the ministry Jihad had hoped it clear that strike action to the detriment of the country's economic interest and damages to citizens as a result, adding that it has appealed to workers to stop their strike and return to work.
من.On the other hand, the Oil Ministry decided to amend the interest rate for workers by the private sector in the sale of oil derivatives.
وقالالواحد.An official source in the ministry : that the commission rate in benzene increased from (1 10) dinars per liter oil White has seen an increase in the commission rate (1 5) dinars per liter and a gas oil increased the rate of commission from (2 8) dinars per liter.
.He added that this decision was made to encourage the private sector and civil administrations stations to improve their situation and put an end to the excesses and justifications launched from time to time low profit margin in addition to uproot corruption Elsewhere in these stations.
.The source stressed the need for the owners of the stations eligibility rules for the sale of the product and processing of citizens at official rates and reversing violators will be held accountable in accordance with the sanctions in force.
.He pointed out that the ministry also decided to form a committee to review the sanctions and actions taken against some stations civil violation.
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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Defense Secretary Robert Gates hinted Tuesday at American impatience with the pace of Iraqi political reconciliation, more than four months into the U.S. troop buildup.

"We would certainly be happier if there were faster progress on the political front," Gates said. He noted that the Iraqis missed a May 31 deadline for passing an energy law — one of many political obstacles yet to be overcome.

Gates did not directly criticize the Iraqis, but his comments underscored the Bush administration's concern that they establish a government of national unity — seen as the key to stability — before the U.S. public's dissatisfaction with the war effort reaches the point where a troop pullout cannot be avoided.

The draft hydrocarbons law, which sets ground rules for Iraqi oil policy, must be endorsed by Iraq's cabinet and then go to the parliament for final approval, said Oil Ministry spokesman Assem Jihad.

"We hope the ratification of this law will be achieved no more than one month from now," Jihad told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

"This law is considered a major national project and achievement."

Gates was asked whether it appeared to him that U.S. and Iraqi forces were making slower-than-expected progress in establishing security in Baghdad neighborhoods, as news reports have indicated in recent days. He said he had not seen any early projections by Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, of how many neighborhoods were expected to be cleared of insurgents by this point.

"So I'm not in a position to judge whether that is faster or slower than Gen. Petraeus anticipated," he said. "If it's slower, it's clearly because al-Qaida and others are trying to make as much difficulty as possible for us and for the Iraqi government."

Gates, who spoke at a joint news conference with Kyrgyz Defense Minister Ismail Isakov, later flew to Paris for the first visit to the French capital by an American secretary of defense since October 1997.

That long stretch reflects the aggravation President Bush's first defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, felt toward a French government that he believed was eager to block U.S. initiatives. Bush replaced Rumsfeld with Gates last December.

Gates held talks with France's new defense minister, Herve Morin, and at a joint news conference afterward they both underscored the importance of improving relations with Russia. Gates made a point of saying he and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice both have doctoral degrees in Russian and Soviet studies.

"And we are both puzzled by what the Russians are doing," he said.

Morin said it was important to talk to the Russians about their objections to a U.S. plan to establish missile defense bases in Poland and the Czech Republic — a proposal the Russians consider an affront to their security.

"We wish to have constructive dialogue with our Russian friends," especially on the future of Kosovo, Morin told reporters, adding, "We have to talk about especially the anti-missile shield that the Americans want to deploy."

On Wednesday, Gates and Morin were traveling to Normandy to attend ceremonies commemorating the 63rd anniversary of the D-Day landings at Omaha Beach that cracked Nazi Germany's grip on western Europe.

Petraeus, meanwhile, said it was too early to judge whether the U.S. counterinsurgency push, which required the addition of about 30,000 U.S. troops, is working. "We haven't even started the surge, the full surge, yet so I'll answer that in September," when he is to report to Washington on the operation, he said.

"In about two weeks or so we'll have all of the forces for the surge, all the combat forces, on the ground, and you're going to see the launch of a number of different operations in a number of areas to go after al-Qaida and other extremist elements," Petraeus said in an interview aired Tuesday on CBS' "The Early Show."

Since the troop buildup began in January, the U.S. casualty rate has increased substantially.

Gates said the Iraqi security forces are suffering casualties at twice the rate of U.S. forces.

"Their willingness to fight and die for their country is not in doubt," he said.

Petraeus "has been pretty clear from the beginning that this was going to be a difficult process," Gates said, referring to the counterinsurgency campaign.

Gates stopped in Bishkek to consult with Kyrgyz officials about the U.S. use of an air base outside the capital, where U.S. cargo and refueling planes are stationed for operations related to the war in Afghanistan.


Seacoastonline.com: Gates: Iraqi government too slow on energy, unity

Baghdad, June 6, (VOI) – Demand for the dollar was down in the Iraqi Central Bank’s daily auction on Wednesday, reaching $42.235 million compared with $77.865 million on Tuesday.

In its daily statement the bank said it had covered all bids, which included $15.855 million in cash and $25.380 million in foreign transfers, at an exchange rate of 1,260 dinars per dollar, the same as yesterday.
None of the 15 banks that participated in Wednesday's auction offered to sell dollars.
Ali al-Yasseri, a trader at the auction, told VOI "low foreign transfers, mainly from the government, brought demand for the dollar down," voicing belief that decreasing the dollar price one tick in the next two days would increase foreign transfers.
The Iraqi Central Bank runs a daily auction from Sunday to Thursday.

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Iraqi unions fight to keep oil out of corporate hands
By David Bacon
Article Launched: 06/06/2007 01:32:14 AM PDT


The Bush administration calls the Iraq occupation an exercise in democracy building. Yet from the beginning, many of the Iraqis who want democracy most are treated as its enemies - Iraq's unions.

Iraq has a long labor history. Union activists, banned and jailed under the British and its puppet monarchy, organized a labor movement that was the admiration of the Arab world when Iraq became independent after 1958. Saddam Hussein later drove its leaders underground, killing and jailing the ones he could catch.

When Saddam fell, Iraqi unionists came out of prison, up from underground and back from exile, determined to rebuild their labor movement. Miraculously, in the midst of war and bombings, they did. The oil workers union in the south is now one of the largest organizations in Iraq, with thousands of members on the rigs, pipelines and refineries. The electrical workers union is the first national labor organization headed by a woman, Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein.

Together with other unions in railroads, hotels, ports, schools and factories, they've gone on strike, held elections, won wage increases, and made democracy a living reality. Yet the Bush administration, and the Baghdad government it controls, has outlawed collective bargaining, impounded union funds and turned its back (or worse) on a wave of assassinations of Iraqi union leaders.

President Bush doesn't believe what he preaches. He says he wants democracy, yet he will not accept the one


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political demand that unites Iraqis above all others: They want the country's oil (and its electrical power stations, ports and other key facilities) to remain in public hands.
The fact that Iraqi unions are the strongest voice demanding this makes them anathema. Selling the oil off to large corporations is far more important to the Bush administration than a paper commitment to the democratic process.

Iraq's oil was nationalized in the 1960s, like that of every other country in the Middle East. The Iraqi oil union became, and still is, the industry's most zealous guardian.

Holding a no-bid, sweetheart contract with occupation authorities, Halliburton Corp. came into Iraq in the wake of the troops in 2003. The company tried to seize control of the wells and rigs, withholding reconstruction aid to force workers to submit. The oil union struck for three days that August, stopping exports and cutting off government revenue. Halliburton left.

The oil and port unions then forced foreign corporations to give up similar sweetheart agreements in Iraq's deep-water shipping facilities. Muhsin's electrical union is still battling to stop subcontracting in the power stations - a prelude to corporate control.

The occupation has always had an economic agenda. Then-occupation czar Paul Bremer published lists in Baghdad newspapers of the public enterprises he intended to auction off. Arab labor leader Hacene Djemam bitterly observed, "War makes privatization easy: First you destroy society; then you let the corporations rebuild it."

The Bush administration won't leave Iraq in part because that economic agenda is still insecure. Under Washington's guidance, the Iraqi government wrote a new oil law in secret. The Iraq study commission, headed by oilman James Baker, called it the key to ending the occupation.

That law is touted in the U.S. media as ensuring an equitable division of oil wealth. Iraqi unions say it will ensure that foreign corporations control future exploration and development, in one of the world's largest reserves.

Hassan Juma'a Awad, president of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, wrote a letter to the U.S. Congress on May 13. "Everyone knows the oil law doesn't serve the Iraqi people," he said. The union was banned from the secret negotiations. According to Juma'a, the result "serves Bush, his supporters and foreign companies at the expense of the Iraqi people." The union has threatened to strike if the law is implemented.

Like all Iraqi unionists, Juma'a says the occupation should end without demanding Iraq's oil as a price. "The U.S.A. claimed that it came here as a liberator, not to control our resources," he reminded Congress.

To win Iraqis' respect, therefore, congressional opponents of the war must disavow the oil law. Whatever government holds power in Baghdad at the occupation's end will need control of the oil wealth to rebuild their devastated country.


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Republic of Iraq

The Cabinet-National

Information Center

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Media Relations

Press Release

Press statement / Press Release

الاثنين4-6-2007

Monday 4-6-2007

The Cabinet decided to increase the prices of agricultural crops marketed to the State by 20% over last year.

The Cabinet decided to increase the prices of agricultural crops marketed by the state grain of wheat, barley, rice, an increase of 20% compared with last year.

This came during a meeting habitual third session of the Council of Ministers held on 29/5/2007.

Translated version of http://www.iraqigovernment.org/

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IT WILL BE INTERESTING IF THIS COST WILL BE BURDENED BY THE STATE OR PASSED ON TO THE CONSUMER?