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Iraq ..

Executive authority limited to!

One of the three or four remaining replace the controversial constitutional amendments and awaiting blocs leaders are resolved to increase the powers of the President, as noted that this tendency wants to build on the current situation unstable and the mutual fears and His tendency towards excessive guarantees and presupposed, otherwise the natural political evolution, Immortality voting national and sectarian and does not turn towards the direction of the voting interests and programs, and this trend will lead to the division of chronic institutionalization in the top hierarchy of power and weaken it, including crippling, across to create a political system hybridization,

The regimes common in democratic countries is just one of the three main items presidential system (model known USA), the parliamentary system (model known UK), the semi-presidential or semi-parliamentary or mixed (model known as France).

Hardly excluded from this classification of any democratic system except the Swiss model known as a General.

It can be argued that the form of political system and the distribution of powers and functions and roles of the three powers, to be determined largely parameters historical experience and philosophy of the political system and the tendency in the country and the ability of the system to acquire the necessary efficiency to be productive and be able to achieve stability and prosperity.

Americans have chosen the presidential system under pressure from the belief that the separation of legislative and executive powers and give the President a symbolic and unifying actually represents States will all members compared the House and Senate who represent each of his mandate only.

While the evolution of the British parliamentary form, owing to his historic and content of the current Constitution does not cross the originator but through customs Tratbet linked endeavor elected councils to limit the absolute powers of the king without demolishing the pillars of the monarchy, They were gradually through centuries consecrate the concept of popular sovereignty and the general will and accounting separation between the executive and legislative to be produced current format of the system where the king was no more than a symbol, while the Prime Minister responsibility for executive authorities.

France has chosen a semi-presidential regime exit from the political impasse created by the recurring presence parliamentary system is incapable of forming a coalition government actor, but because the President the power derived from being elected by the people.

Can simply say that there is a correlation between historic juncture for the country and the nature of the distribution of powers within the executive authority, and authority commensurate with the size linearly with the level of representation of the popular will.

In Iraq had to resort to parliamentary system is also governed by historical circumstance and the nature of the existing realities on the ground, there convinced met by consensus in the adoption of a presidential system would one way or another to almost absolute power production, and opens another area of despotism, which Imugueth majority of the Iraqi people after long experience of authoritarian rule, especially with the fact that the loyalties of tribal and sectarian strong in Iraqi society, which might prevent this kind of presidency to another form of power to the minority, while the Prime Minister within the parliamentary system, although the highest executive authority, restricted benefits imposed by alliances, as well as parliamentary party or coalition to which he belongs, and that the lack of such symbolism, which is getting by people elected directly by the people, making it more accountable.

But an increase in restrictions of the constitution, unlike most parliamentary systems, stripped of the powers to dissolve Parliament and call for early elections in balancing the power of Parliament to withdraw confidence from the Prime Minister.

However, the Iraqi constitution and the existence of the office of President of the Republic in the other form of multilateralism executive power and the attempt to represent different spectrums of people, but the President of the Republic awarded wider authorities will face a number of obstacles, including, first, that there will be co actual ministers, or the powers of the Republic of each other completely separate from the others in the work of the executive authorities overlap, which impedes the work of the government and forwarded to a permanent state of conflict authorities, a conflict already exist under the present political system because of the stability of institutions.

Secondly, it has practically able to win the biggest bloc positions, which would negate the political significance behind the plurality of the executive power, adopted in the Constitution and based on the representation of spectra in different constitutional institutions, which may be reinforced by the tyranny of the bloc as well as the constitutional impasse alloy.

Third, the regions and other administrative units and gnawed will have annexed many of the powers of the executive and chaired by Prime Minister, it is useful quarters of the Supreme President of the Republic of the remaining powers.

Here familiarity current Turkish experiment, the Turkish Constitution endorsed parliamentary system, but some features of a presidential system, thereby creating the current political stalemate in Turkey, although the post of prime minister is the strongest terms for the executive head of the task force sovereign and executive powers some reasonable, where has the right of legislation laws approved by Parliament plus the right to request modification or reconsideration of the (even though he routed binding if Parliament insisted, or resort to the Constitutional Court to determine its constitutionality, which means another tactic available to him), has the right to chair Cabinet meetings when necessary, and a number of appointments.

These powers granted the additional post of president made him an executive office Secondly, the problem of conflict with the Prime Minister occasionally been branded and other Turkish contemporary life, Perhaps limiting their access to a dangerous dominance of the elite secular Turkish policy until the 1990s and the prominent role given to the army, which really gives constitutional coup, but that this role is today in a rejection of Turkish and international conferees, the current crisis is the result of this duplication of the executive authority, There is today in an unprecedented one party has an absolute majority in parliament, a party governor not classified some secular, which complicates the problem.

Constitutionally the party that wins, giving President and the Prime Minister, who originally owned, but the secular parties feel that it means almost absolute authority of the Justice and Development Party, at the same time find it difficult to resist the constitutional referendum, and here came the Justice and Development Party idea of the election of the President directly by the people, This means a fundamental shift in the Turkish political system to model the semi-presidential or mixed, and only then, will justify the extensive powers of the President.

Originally recent experience in Iraq so far is not suitable to be ground rule and evaluation firm, Instability is not linked to the constitutional institutions, but all aspects of life, and that these institutions have not yet crystallized independent personalities.

With the approval of a federal system and the establishment of the Federation Council, the role of the central authority weaker than it was throughout history, and there is no justification for weakening the executive head more, Territories have invested double executive power to maneuver and pounce on the remaining powers, and the conflict of powers within this power will weaken and devote more fragile, This is what is needed by another country.

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Commission says it has documents against Defense Minister

(Voice of Iraq) - 10-06-2007

Integrity Commission says it has documents against the Minister of Defense and intends to legally questioning before Parliament

The Deputy Chairman of the Integrity Commission in the Chamber of Deputies Omar Abdel Sattar attorney for the Committee to confirm the issuance of documents and Defense Minister Abdul Qader Al Obeidi decisions he described as the illegal separation of inspector general in the ministry.

He Abdul Sattar told the "Radio Sawa"
The proximity of the interrogation Defense Minister legally by members of the House about the expulsion of Inspector and performance defense forces.

The Accord Front demanding continuous coverage and Defense Minister Abdul Qader Al Obeidi in the cabinet reshuffle.

Correspondent "Radio Sawa" Omar Hamadi :

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Originally Posted by neno

Baghdad-Timor : Statement Baqir Jabr counterpart, Minister of Finance said that 45 Iraqi state debts are canceled on Iraq with rates ranging between 80 and 100%, totaling 140 billion dollars.
The strike achievement falls within the framework of the agreement signed between the Iraqi government and the International Monetary Fund, praising the role of States, which promised to cancel 80% of its debt from Iraq as well as that announced their commitment to the Paris Club rules.

Zubaidi stressed that the 2007 budget differ from the previous year's budget, pointing out that the rate of implementation of the budget ministries other than good unable to do so stressing that the funds will be withdrawn from the ministries that have been unable to implement the budget and giving it to other ministries and pointed out that this year witnessed a relatively stable inflation fluctuating between 40 and 45%, pointing to the success of the Iraqi Central Bank in the collection of hard currency reserves reached 21 billion dollars, calling that a good amount could provide a reassuring stability.


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Since it's been kind of a slow news day I was going over some earlier articles and saw this one. I think its kind of major! This article points out a couple of the benchmarks for our reval our dinar experts have been talking about. I highlighted a couple of important areas that demonstrate stability and debt forgivenss.

Commander of the American forces in the "death triangle" accuse local authorities south of Baghdad how

Said Major General Rick Lynch, the performance of provincial governments and weak political interventions in security affairs, represented the biggest obstacles facing American and Iraqi forces in dealing with armed groups.

He added Lynch responsible for the American forces in the areas south of Baghdad, leading to what is known as the triad of death, that the political decisions are taken on sectarian basis, pointing out that the weak performance of the government was concerned over the security issue and transfer of files to the Iraqi authorities.

Lynch said in a meeting with reporters on Sunday that he is dealing with local authorities at the provincial level and in doubt that these authorities dealt actually a representative of a government that respects the human rights of all Iraqis in this province.

The parliament in the recent selection of the electoral commission, but Washington is pressing towards a more specific date for the elections before the Council to begin Batalth summer.

The General Lynch believed that the elections will be crucial if there was genuine representation in the provincial councils, so do not come decisions, according to the calculations of sectarianism.

The Sunni Arabs had boycotted the local elections in 2005 and now General Lynch says that this must not be repeated, and its troops will facilitate holding of elections, but the government in Baghdad to put a date to it.

But Lynch expressed concern about the performance of provincial officials and said that leaders at the highest levels of responsibility to make bad decisions because they are jumping from one platform sectarian and not Iraqi.

The American General that its forces have arrested two armed men in the 40th and the town of Hilla three weeks ago, but a phone call from one government officials led to the release by the investigation.

Lynch ended by saying that his statements to police forces in Hillah gives example after another of similar interventions, stressing that this is a big problem, he said.

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With an arrest warrant looming, an Iraqi union leader warned during a U.S. visit failed negotiations will escalate the standoff in Basra's oil sector.

Faleh Abood Umara, general secretary of the Iraq Federation of Oil Unions,

said a five-day cooling off/negotiation period, which began Wednesday, is crucial to keep Iraq's oil sector pumping and 1.6 million barrels per day flowing to the global oil market.

IFOU, an umbrella group representing more than 26,000 workers, has threatened to strike since early May over the draft oil law and other working conditions.

It postponed the strike twice after meeting with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki May 16. IFOU says Maliki agreed to their demands, which included union entry to negotiations over the oil law.

Citing a lack of response from Maliki, and sparked by the Iraq Pipeline Company's halt of regular bonus payments, the Iraq Pipelines Union began the strike Monday, shutting off oil products from Baghdad and the southern regions.

The situation in Basra, Iraq's main port city and oil export hub, escalated Tuesday as Iraqi armed forces surrounded striking workers and Maliki issued arrest warrants for union leaders.

"I am one of them," said Umara, waiting to talk to Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, in his office. "Luckily I was out of the country." Warrants were issued for 10 union leaders, he added.

While the strike is on hold until Monday, Naftana, a British solidarity group, reports union officials in Basra say troops are still surrounding workers in Sheiba, in Basra province, and the warrants are still active.

U.S. Labor Against the War, a large, anti-war faction of U.S. unions, reports

a Iraqi general tasked with arresting protesters refused, threatening to resign and join the striking workers.

Umara said if no deal is reached, the warrants will likely be executed and the strike back on.

"Not just the oil unions are going to strike throughout the country," he said, "but all the other unions will be striking as well, in solidarity."

Umara and Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein, president of the Electrical Utility Workers Union, are touring the United States this month.

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NATION-WIDE STRIKES COMING WITHIN A WEEK?

Iraq oil strike on hold, troops remain | Iraq Updates

Iraqi prime minister isolated, beleaguered Observers say Maliki has alienated potential supporters.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Tariq Hashimi, the country's Sunni vice president, faced each other across the room as the Sunni leader spoke angrily of the bad blood festering between Sunni and Shiite officials.

The room hushed as Hashimi demanded to know whether the prime minister had been accusing his political bloc of being infiltrated by terrorists.
"Are you talking about us? If you are . . . we would ask for proof," said Hashimi,

according to his account of a recent closed-door meeting of Iraq's top political and national security officials. "I am treated as an opponent," he said, his voice rising.

"If you continue treating me like this, it is better for me to quit."

Maliki sat, silent.

Iraq's government is teetering on the edge.

Maliki's Cabinet is filled with officials who are deeply estranged from each other and more loyal to their parties than to the government as a whole.

Some are jostling to unseat the prime minister. Few, if any, have accepted the basic premise of a government whose power is shared among each of Iraq's warring sects and ethnic groups.

Maliki is the man U.S. officials are counting on to bring Iraq's civil war under control, yet he seems unable to break the government's deadlock.

Even Maliki's top political adviser, Sadiq Rikabi, says he doubts the prime minister will be able to win passage of key legislation ardently sought by U.S. officials, including a law governing the oil industry and one that would allow more Sunni Arabs to gain government jobs.

"We hope to achieve some of them, but solving the Iraqi problems and resolving the different challenges in the [next] three months would need a miracle," Rikabi said.

Interviews with a broad range of Iraqi and Western officials paint a portrait of Maliki as an increasingly isolated and ineffectual figure, lacking in confidence and unable to trust people.

Iraq's intractable problems would, of course, challenge the most skilled of politicians. But skilled politicians are in short supply here.

Most of Iraq's current leaders grew to adulthood as members of underground militias, skilled in the arts of conspiracy, not compromise.

And many of those leaders appear to believe that their side can still win a decisive military victory in the country's civil war.

Maliki, 57, shares that background and world view. A longtime Shiite leader, he fled to Iran soon after Saddam Hussein took power and spent the subsequent years in exile in Iran and Syria, plotting Saddam's overthrow.

He was never expected to become prime minister and emerged as a compromise candidate after his Islamic Dawa Party's first two choices were rejected by the Americans and the Kurds.

Nonetheless, he took office amid hopes that he could succeed where others had not.

"Al-Maliki had an amazing opportunity," said a senior Iraqi politician, speaking on condition of anonymity because he still does business regularly with the prime minister. "He had amazing support from [President] Bush.

Amazing support even from the regional countries, the Arabs - even Saudi Arabia at the start.

"He did not seek the right tactics. The guys around him did not enable him to do his job. All of these guys around him were small-minded and sectarian."
Now, fellow Iraqi officials describe the prime minister as dangerously out of touch. They accuse him of insulating himself with a tight-knit group of advisers from his party and of shutting others out of decision making.

Parliament recently humiliated the prime minister by twice refusing to approve his nominations for six Cabinet positions that had been vacant for nearly two months.

A Western diplomat in Baghdad, speaking on condition of anonymity because he deals with the government, said Maliki had alienated would-be partners.

"Al-Maliki is to blame for that because he has surrounded himself with his Dawa colleagues in his prime minister's office," the diplomat said. "It is a very big problem and doesn't promote trust.

"He isn't a natural leader. You either have it or you don't."

The most problematic relationship in the government remains the one between Maliki and Hashimi. Their failure to find a way of sharing power feeds into the violent struggle between Sunnis and Shiites on the street.
Some of Maliki's advisers consider Hashimi's Tawafuq bloc, which holds 44 seats in the Iraqi parliament, a front for terrorists.

A few of its members have been linked to violence in Baghdad; their homes have been raided and their bodyguards detained.

For his part, Hashimi blames Maliki for not reaching out to him. He describes his experience in government as one slight after another from the prime minister.

Last year, he says, he sent Maliki 30 messages that went unanswered.

By early May, Hashimi and Maliki had gone a month without speaking to each other. The vice president threatened to withdraw the Sunni bloc from the government.

Maliki then called him in for a meeting.
Both sides pledged greater cooperation,

but Hashimi says nothing has changed.

Iraqi prime minister isolated, beleaguered Observers say Maliki has alienated potential supporters. | Iraq Updates

Syria maintains health centers for the care of 1.2 million Iraqi refugees

Damascus Mundhir Stables : Dr. Abdul Rahman Attar, head of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, "the patriarchal

WLDI sponsored Iraqi refugees arriving in Syria for more than the 1.2 million Iraqis could provide the necessary assistance

and care in cooperation with international organizations, particularly the High Commissioner for Refugees.

Lawrence Julies representative of the High Commissioner for Refugees of the United Nations in Damascus earlier said that "fears that Syria reconsider review its policy toward Iraqi refugees into its territory, with the growing popular resentment of the results of this resort, especially security fears."

He explained in a statement to Al-Attar (for the time), "The Syrian Red Crescent Organization in collaboration with a number of organizations have health clinics in areas of Mrs. Zainab - Jaramana-thriving Barzeh - - -

Qudsyya destroyed in the Governorates of Deir Ezzor and Hasaka aimed at providing services for the Iraqis to take care of the health, social and nutritional programs implemented within Red Crescent branches in every region.

Syria and receive according to statistics UNHCR million and 200 thousand Iraqi refugees displaced as a result of the American occupation of Iraq and the tragic conditions experienced by the country since the invasion with figures

talking informally about 2 million Iraqis in Syria, 700 thousand in Jordan, and 80 thousand in Egypt. while 40 thousand of them residing in Lebanon at the time showed the United States of America finally ready to receive seven thousand Iraqi refugees only.

جريدة (الزمان) الدولية - العدد 2719 - التاريخ 11/6/2007

Newspaper (time) - International No. 2719-the date 06/11/2007

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Defense Ministry hosted a special conference to discuss the security and economic situation in the province of Babylon

The direction of the Prime Minister hosted by the Ministry of Defense on Friday VIII of the June 2007 conference included Defense Minister Abdul Qader Mohammed Jassim and His Excellency the Minister of Industry and Minerals Fawzi Hariri, the Governor and Senate leaders Babylon province during the conference was to discuss economic and security situation in the province and how to start running factories and implementation of projects and strengthen service army forces there.



The conference was attended by a number of general managers in the Ministry of Industry and Minerals, in the corner of the Defense Department

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Press statement

\10 2007

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki full library today, OC Central Command Admiral William Falun confirmed that the United States is working strongly for the success of the Iraqi government in all fields.

He said sovereignty : We are fighting on several fronts, because we want to get out of reality into reality deserves another challenge and sense of pessimism know anything, because the price of democracy, stability and the political transition is not easy, but our solid and Atenkser Ankhadda of terrorism and the militias and we managed not slacken significantly with those outside the law.

And Mr. Prime Minister, an considerable work ahead of us and arduous, and the challenges and complications due to the transition from dictatorship to democracy,

We are determined to achieve progress in the process of enacting laws, such as the construction of oil in addition to completing the drafts legal elections, accountability and justice, and we believe that the political project we must abide by it and abide by all of the product that democracy and elections.

For his part, the Commander of the Central Region : come bring a clear vision of the American administration and Congress, there is a strong will to support your government and your people.

He expressed appreciation for the sacrifices of Iraqi soldiers who are working to re-establish security and stability in Iraq 'and multinational forces committed to helping them to carry out these tasks.

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parliamentary blocs agree on the change and compatibility looking at options

Guards Almchidani .. Is Egosawneh the presidency of the parliament?
Baghdad-Sabah.
The members of the House "Sabah" that most political blocs, including the Accord Front agreed to find a replacement for Dr. Mahmoud Almchidani to the presidency of the Council, in a closed meeting yesterday.

This comes after a number of protection Almchidani attack on the deputy Fried Hussein and detained some time where sources said the chairman of the Council encouraged his bodyguards to do so. No indication of Dr. Salim Abdullah to "Assabah" any information about what took place behind closed doors meeting included members Adnan Al-Dulaimi compatibility Izzaldin State and Abdul Karim al-Samarra'i with Dr. Mahmoud Almchidani to discuss options that could be taken. Sources said that this options ranging from election of a replacement or grant compulsory leave open the first deputy, Sheikh Khaled al-Attiyah during the presidency of the Council. It is supposed to receive parliamentary blocs proposals Accord Front yesterday to be placed alongside the other proposals in order to vote on Monday.

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He says deputy Dawa Party-Iraq Abdel Karim Al-Enezi told AFP he had submitted a proposal to grant leave Almchidani forced open during the first deputy, Sheikh Khaled al-Attiyah functions of the presidency until the election of a new president to submit Accord Front candidate for the position. Al-Enezi stressed that the council's powers broad and many Almchidani including the right to dismiss or withdraw confidence from him, pointing out that the Accord Front is trying to convince him to resign in order to preserve the dignity.

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He continued that the Council remains open its meetings to be voted on Monday. The MP said the coalition consolidated Ridha Jawad Taqi of the "morning" : that the recent assault on the deputy Fried by Dr. Almchidani and some individuals are protected tips of the HRDC cup where Council members discussed the issue of changing Almchidani and replaced by a new candidate the Iraqi Accord Front. He stressed that the change is settled by all parties in the House and the discussion taking place on the selection mechanism which is left to agree on giving it a new candidate. He disclosed that the decision of the House of Representatives are supposed passed yesterday provides for the freezing of the functions of head of the Chamber of Deputies and the withdrawal of his powers until the selection of an alternative. MP for the Kurdistan Alliance Mahmoud Othman revealed the absence of any objection from the Accord Front to demand change where he expressed representatives in the House of understanding to this request and to reach a solution. He said the political blocs waiting for the results of talks planned by the front with Almchidani to reach a formula solution through approval of the resignation or any new formula but stressed that Almchidani will remain chairman of the House of Representatives indicating that the absence of a solution would force the House to adopt democratic options for the implementation of this the issue can only MP Othman did not disclose these options.

The Democratic nomination in accordance with the mechanisms of alternative Accord Front, which belongs to Dr. Mahmoud Almchidani. The Front is composed of three components and from the Islamic Party Tariq al-Hashemi, Vice President and the people of Iraq, led by Adnan Al-Dulaimi and Dr. peace Zubai Deputy Prime Minister and the National Dialogue Council led by Khalaf Al-Alyan, who belongs to Dr. Almchidani chairman of the parliament. It is attention to Messrs. Iyad al-Samarra'i, Osama Al to replace one Almchidani replaced, but the problem is, according to observers that these two candidates belonged to the Islamic party. In the event that members did not find a substitute for Almchidani front of the dialogue they conviction that the Islamic party will have two other senior without obtaining the dialogue on something. It was not possible to "Assabah" therefore questioned that matter any of the members of the RUF who fought to resolve the crisis.
The Accord Front joined in earlier times to advocate change Almchidani also subjected to a lot of criticisms because of the way in the management meetings of the Council.

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