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The results are sent to the Federal Supreme Court and in accordance with the Constitution
Said the spokesman for the Office of the Independent High Electoral denominator bonded "After completion of action on complaints and check all the results in full by the Commission will send the results to the Federal Supreme Court in accordance with the Constitution.
He bonded in a press statement embedded reporter, "The next Saturday will be the completion of the electronic archiving of the process of universal suffrage and will allow for representatives of political entities to obtain a picture forms as received from the stations.
And the slave "During the next few hours will be announced the voting results of the military and the sick, prisoners, displaced persons and population movements."
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Haider Jourani: end of life of Parliament will not affect the current government
A member of a coalition of law Haider Jourani that "the Federal Court is the body that have the powers to resolve the question of convening emergency sessions of parliament in case of the first sitting of the next parliament, despite the end of the age of the Legislative Council."
The Jourani in a telephone conversation That "the end of the age of the Parliament will not affect the government to the fact that the old stops after completion of four calendar years, The government continues, and operate according to laws in force until the formation of next government."
He explained that "the issue of government depends on the first two theories, the Government is four calendar years commencing with the first meeting of the Council of Ministers and ending with the last meeting of the fourth year and other theory says that the government linked to the Council of Representatives when it ended his four years of government be closed and converted to a caretaker administration This, according to constitutional interpretation."
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Iraqi Oil Minister questions tenure
VIENNA, March 18 (UPI) -- The embattled Iraqi oil minister said he doesn't want to continue in the post in the next Iraqi government.
Iraq could boost oil exports by as much as 100,000 barrels per day when the Tawke oilfield in Iraqi Kurdistan resumes production within the month. Production there was halted in September because of lingering disputes between the Kurdish and central government over oil jurisdiction. Iraq aims to transform its oil sector with contracts inked with international companies in December.
Iraq, meanwhile, is inching closer to shaping its new government as results from March 7 parliamentary elections trickle in. Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani told the Emirati newspaper The National he did not wish to have another term in office, however.
"I wouldn't try to stay unless I was forced to stay," he said in Vienna. "It wouldn't be my wish,"
Shahristani faced challenges to his authority by Kurdish leaders who continue to strike oil deals in defiance of his ministry. Lawmakers called the minister in for questioning most recently on Nov. 9, when he was asked about alleged corruption and declines in oil revenue.
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Iraqi-owned Bank Opens on U.S. Base
1st Infantry Division Headquarters
Story by: Maj. Luke Hammond
CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE ADDER, Iraq – The Iraqi-Based Industrial Zone at Contingency Operating Base Adder has long been a place where aspiring business-minded Iraqis work with U.S. forces and support the local economy by providing jobs. Whether they are contractors competing for contracts on COB Adder, or vendors selling everything from paintings to rugs, the IBIZ is abuzz with constant activity.
However, on Jan. 13, COB Adder saw one of the most significant events to happen in IBIZ since its establishment: the grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony of Warka Bank. Warka has one of the largest banking operations in Iraq, operating over 150 locations throughout the country.
Initially proposed in the summer of 2009, the establishment of a bank within IBIZ presents will greatly aid Iraqi businesses and U.S. objectives. The bank will bring to the area – for the first time – electronic funds transfer capabilities. Having EFT capability within the IBIZ is a critical turning point in how U.S. forces and contracting agencies such as KBR pay the Iraqi contractors who will soon do a majority of the business on COB Adder. The base, also known as the Tallil – meaning "rule of Ali" – Airbase, is home to over 13,000 Soldiers and civilians and serves as a major logistics hub for U.S. forces in the nine provinces overseen by United States Division-South.
Until recently, contractors received payment for services rendered by drawing funds directly from the local finance unit. This made the payment of contractors impossible without U.S. forces assistance. While the payment process has largely shifted to EFT, not having an EFT-capable bank nearby meant that many of the contractors were forced to drive miles away from COB Adder in order to draw the funds to pay their workers. In addition, having EFT capability allows for local workers to be paid electronically, provided they establish an account and gives local contractors the ability to conduct all their financial business at COB Adder.
It is also a much more secure method of payment, without the risk of cash being lost or stolen. The introduction of EFT capability also supports two of the U.S. drawdown's objectives: reduction of Iraqi reliance on U.S. support and the removal of the U.S. dollar from the Iraqi economy.
While reducing U.S. presence is an ongoing mission, making the Iraqi Dinar primary form of currency is more of a challenge. By eventually making EFT a standard practice, the amount of foreign currency introduced into Iraq is reduced dramatically.
The opening ceremony for Warka Bank drew elected Iraqi officials, including Ali Sadkham Eleqai, the Nasiriyah District Chairman, leaders from the Dhi Qar Provincial Reconstruction Team and a smattering of U.S. Soldiers, Defense Department civilians, and other well-wishers. Abass Matrood, the regional manager for Warka Bank, Safa Abd Ali, a local manager, and his staffers -- many of them women -- also attended. The ceremony began with a brief introduction of the bank and its capabilities by the COB Adder IBIZ manager, Maj. Luke Hammond. He was followed by Matrood, as well as Eleqai. Lt. Col. Alan Shumate, commander of the Special Troops Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, has oversight of the IBIZ operations. He, Matrood and Ali cut the ceremonial ribbon, and everyone entered the bank for refreshments and cake. Matrood was especially happy to see the completion of the latest branch. He oversees five different banks throughout the Dhi Qar province and sees this latest branch as a benefit to the local economy.
"This is a proud day for the Warka bank," said Matrood. "We appreciate our partnership with the U.S. forces at Imam Ali base and anyone is welcome to open an account here today." http://www.investorsiraq.com/images/smilies/happy.gif
During the construction of the bank, many people wondered if there even was a market for a bank at COB Adder, but only 24 hours after the opening ceremony, the bank was busy with customers, helping U.S. Soldiers, Defense Department civilians and contractors alike. http://www.investorsiraq.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
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Iraqi elections only the first step on a long road
Despite the great importance of the Iraqi election, it remains one mile in a long journey. And irrespective of the nature of the new government, it should address a host of challenges, remarked Kamel Youssef Hussein in a comment piece for the UAE newspaper Al Bayan.
At the forefront is the rebuilding of the country. To achieve this, there is a need to eradicate corruption and establish a culture of transparency. To start with, the government has to study carefully cases of people who suffered during the invasion and should pursue ways to compensate them. The government should also legally prosecute the responsible.
Second, there should be a new strategy to handle oil concessions since the current method is ineffective in providing a strong platform for developing oilfields and hence meeting the overall economic development needs of the country.
Third and foremost, Iraq needs to reopen issues of smuggled money during the occupation. This issue can be considered in accordance with the international law to examine the fate of $150 billion allocated for the reconstruction programme. US investigators expected that cases will be filed by the end of this year in the US against US officials, who are suspected of embezzling large amounts of money destined to rebuild Iraq.
While this is taking place, a question arises: is there any Iraqi action to restore Iraqi funds?
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Iraq election could change history
By SALIM MANSUR, QMI Agency
The recent “tiff,” as George Jonas over at the National Post described the brouhaha between the United States and Israel, pushed aside the emphatically more significant story about the Iraq election from the top of the mainstream media’s news cycle. The election by all accounts was fair, yet there is obviously some distance to go before it might be said a culture of democracy flourishes in Iraq — the land once ruled by the great king Hammurabi in the second millennium before Christ.
Nevertheless, this can be said of the Iraq election, despite the violence of those who fear democracy: It is a transformative event in Arab history and its consequences will have far-reaching effects over time across the Middle East. For more than 1,300 years, Sunni Muslims — first Arabs and then those who have followed them — have shaped Islam doctrinally, and dominated Muslim history with sword and fire. Their words and written accounts, their narrative of Muhammad, his family and companions, were made into the official version of Islam to be absorbed without questioning by Muslims through the centuries. I speak of this from the inside experience of an individual born, raised and married among Sunni Muslims. Sunni Arab dynasties took it as their privilege to rule by claiming the mantle of the prophet, and the authority it symbolized, for their own. They colonized the land between the Persian Gulf and the Atlantic and crushed mercilessly any opposition just as they had done at the outset of Muslim history by benefiting from the massacre of the prophet’s family.
Shiite Arabs as a minority mourned the terrible injustice done to the prophet’s family. They kept alive the memory of Karbala in modern Iraq, where Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of Muhammad, was brutally killed in 680. Shiite Arabs have been the persecuted minority, powerless and mocked by Sunni Arab rulers from the first century of Islam. Even after modern Iraq was created by Britain following the First World War and Shiite Arabs found themselves as a majority in the country, Sunni Arabs ruled over them.
It is a quirk of history that George W. Bush, by forcing regime change in Baghdad, broke the Sunni Arab imperium in the Middle East. We have followed the effects of Bush’s monumental decision, which opened the door for democratic change in Iraq, as an example for the region, and how spitefully the Sunni Arabs have responded.
Shiite Arabs, at first with misgivings and then with maturing confidence, have taken hold of their rendezvous with freedom that Fouad Ajami, a Shiite Lebanese-American scholar of the Middle East, aptly described as the “foreigner’s gift.”
Iraqi leaders, religious and secular, have learned from their own history of persecution that freedom can only be defended through the legitimacy of democratic politics. Shiite clerics in Najaf — Shiite Islam’s holiest city located in Iraq — have maintained their tradition of keeping religion separate from politics and this might prove to be the critical element in the advancement of Iraqi democracy.
Iraq is rich in oil and water and is now gifted with freedom. If Iraqi resoluteness in defending democracy remains unshaken, it will transform the region for better.
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Mohamed Hussein Saleh: Return of counting and sorting the best from the uncertainties of the election results
A member of the National Coalition, Mohamed Hussein Saleh, "The re-counts and sorting the best of uncertainty while announcing the election results," adding that "doubts about the user's computer program that may affect the results."
He was President of the Republic and the ministers have called for re-counts and counting of the election results in some centers, depending on the count and the hand count to ensure the continuity of the democratic process in the country.
Barham Salih, in contact with the agency and the independent press (Iba), "The right of any political bloc re-claim the counting process and the screening that they have evidence of breach of access or fraud."
There are some blocs and political figures to the existence of cases of breach and fraud in some provinces and centers.
Salih stressed that "the situation best suited to ensure the acceptance of all results is the counting process and the hand count, especially in light of mutual accusations among some political blocs and the Electoral Commission about the introduction of electronic counting and sorting."
Previously, the Electoral Commission keep a number of its employees after accusing some of the political blocs of the existence of fraud in the issue of the introduction of electronic data.
He called the Commission for the elections, "the need to expedite the announcement of the results to form the next House of Representatives," noting that "the current parliament as a legal opinion is still within his term as its first legislative term was first suspended in the twenty-second of the month to forget 2006 and the current government unconstitutional because, while the formation of new Council of Representatives becomes a caretaker government. " He said.
A number of deputies and observers that the constitutional period of the current Parliament had ended on the sixteenth of this month, which coincided with the first meeting him in 2006.
Paragraph I of Article (54) of the Iraqi Constitution to be "The electoral term of the Council of Representatives shall be four calendar years, starting with the first session and ending by the end of the fourth year."
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Bayazid Hassan Abdullah: the occurrence of the breach and fraud because of the dominance of political blocs, some centers in the provinces
A member of the list of change Bayazid Hassan Abdullah, "The occurrence of the breach and fraud took place because of political blocs control centers and stations on the election in some governorates."
Abdullah said in connection with the Agency for the independent press (Iba) "A lot of the electoral observers of political entities, they could not do their jobs well for the control of some political blocs centers and polling stations."
Has been accused of blocks and blocks of political figures to do the violations of other influential and fraud many centers and polling stations in some provinces.
With regard to the claim president of the republic and the ministers re-counts and hand counts instead of electronic Abdullah stressed that "the right of any party to demand a political re-counting and counting of the electoral process and does not need more than a day or two," and stressed "the delay in announcing the results for a certain period is better than announcing a as quickly as possible. " He said.
He continued, "The re-counting and sorting satisfy all the political blocs and they give in to the final announcement of the results of the elections."
It is scheduled to announce the election commission on the final results of the election due in the coming period.
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Amar Tima: Delays in election results are worrying and consequences do not serve one
Considered a member of the National Coalition Iraqi Ammar Tohme process delay the election results as "disturbing that may lead to undesirable positions and by a lot of political entities and do not lead to service one."
And begun to characterize the state of fear within the Iraqi street to delay the election results of some parties to resort to aggravate the security situation.
The Tima in contact with the agency and the independent press (Iba) "The delay in announcing the results raises the suspicion of the possibility of manipulation, especially as there are cases of violations were diagnosed within the Office itself."
Some have called for mass and political figures not only to expel the accused officials of fraud and violations and referring them to justice but to trial.
With regard to the claim the President and the Minister of re-counting and sorting and manually confirmed its taste is "necessary that the electoral commission announces the final results before entering into the details of the claim re-counting and sorting to verify the results more."
He stressed that "first it's better for the final results before re-counting, sorting, and not become an issue is not fair and suspicious and worrying about fraud."
Varied results announced by the Election Commission during the last period of the progress of some of the political blocs at the expense of other, adding to the demand by some political blocs re-counting and sorting of the occurrence of fraud and breach of these results are not final.
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South Refineries Company officials declare their rejection of the ministry's decision to share profits with annual
Refineries Company officials expressed their disapproval with the South and their rejection of the decision of the Ministry of Oil, annual profit sharing between the ministry and its employees.
He told a group of staff of South Refineries Company in the provinces of Basra, Nasiriyah and Missan in a letter received by the independent press (Iba) copy via e-mail "We condemn what was done by the Iraqi Oil Ministry recently Bmnasfp and sharing of the net annual profit for the company employees and robbed of nearly 3 million Iraqi dinars from each employee, without legal justification."
The letter "confirms that the law of profit with the employees in their company's net profit for the stimulus to increase production as well as refrain from pursuing the ministry to obtaining the 20% of the profits of staff for the years 2007, 2008 and 2009, which declined to the Financial Inspection Office for approval by the Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani, of violating a legal cross - pumping oil derivative in the black national refineries with crude oil source to delude the public opinion, the stability of production "(as saying).
The employees demanded the minister to "solve the crisis, which put the company in it," stressing that "the process by arguing that the ministry is a serious precedent in the oil sector," noting that "no one claims the right to associate after the minister to dissolve trade unions and the confiscation of its working methods and dispersal and transfer of their members." (by letter)
The letter said the move was "aimed at a certain social group was the main reason to build Iraq, despite the deterioration of the means of production and despite the deterioration of the health status of most of the associate."
The staff in their letter that the ministry had not only "this measure, but approved the allocation of 70% of the amount remaining after deduction will take place only where the 30% remaining 20% over the previous years."
The letter noted that "after repeated threats and intimidation of the former ministry for those trying to make a peaceful strikes inside or outside we saw that many employees preferred to keep quiet and the atmosphere, recalling Saddam's terror."
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