why are we waiting for this idiot to become relevant again. FINISH HIM!!
...and the inhabitants of Tikrit demonstrate their approval of the agreement!
http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/darti...middleeast&
col=
via GP
White House Declares Strategic VICTORY IN IRAQ!
YES!! 
YES!! 
YES!! YES!!
God Bless Soldiers everywhere for putting THEIR
lives on the line to protect us ALL from terrorism!
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MNF
FJI
Photos
Iraqi girls play in the chess club finale, in Shaykh Sa'ad City, Iraq, on Nov.15, 2008. The young girls of Shaykh Sa'ad Primary School attended a three week program as a way to exercise independent thinking.
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OT.. 
Hillary for Shadow Commander-in-Chief
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U.S. Troops in Baghdad Take a Softer Approach
Focus Shifts to Reconciling Factions
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...5040200220.html
excerpt:
“With violence down sharply this year, the U.S. military is broadening its efforts to reconcile Sunnis and Shiites, reintegrate former insurgents into society and repair the rift between residents and their government.”
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Notice the passive voice? “Violence” is a character that acts, and since violence is down, the US military can act more like the Department of State.
There are going to be people who will think that Barack Obama’s election has calmed Iraq -- it couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the major effort by the US military more properly called “COIN” than “The Surge.”
just an fyi / reminder:
United States Was Founded as a Constitutional
Republic and Not a Democracy
excerpt:
[Contrary to popular rhetoric, America was founded, not as a “democracy,” but as a constitutional republic--a political structure under which the government is bound by a written constitution to the task of protecting individual rights. “Democracy” does not mean a system that holds public elections for government officials; it means a system in which a majority vote rules everything and everyone, and in which the individual thus has no rights. In a democracy, observed James Madison in The Federalist Papers , “there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention [and] have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property.”
The right to vote derives from the recognition of man as an autonomous, rational being, who is responsible for his own life and who should therefore freely choose the people he authorizes to represent him in the government of his country. That autonomy is contradicted if a majority of voters is allowed to do whatever it wishes to the individual citizen. The right to vote is not a sanction for a gang to deprive other individuals of their freedom. Rather, because a free society requires a certain type of government, it is a means of installing the officials who will safeguard the individual rights of each citizen.
What makes America unique is not that it has elections--even dictatorships hold elections--but that its elections take place in a country limited by the absolute principle of individual freedom. From our Declaration of Independence, which upholds the “unalienable rights” of every individual, among which are “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” to our Constitution, whose Bill of Rights protects freedom of speech and the freedom of private property, respect for individual liberty is the essence of America--and the root of her greatness.
Unfortunately, with each passing Election Day, too many Americans view elections less as a means to protect freedom, and more as a means to win some government favor or handout at the expense of the liberty and property of other Americans. Our politicians promise, not to protect the basic rights spelled out in the Declaration and the Constitution, but to violate the rights of some people in order to benefit others.
Today's politicians want capital for failing banks--by forcing non-failing Americans to pay for them; subsidies for farmers--by forcing non-farmers to pay for them; prescription drugs for the elderly--by forcing the non-elderly to pay for them; housing for the homeless--by forcing the non-homeless to pay for it. The more “democratic” our government becomes, the more we cannibalize our liberty, ultimately to the detriment of all.
This Election Day, therefore, we should reject those who wish to reduce our republic to mob rule. Instead, we should vote for those, to whatever extent they can be found, who are defenders of the essence of America: individual freedom.
By Alex Epstein]
alas too late.. they did not listen, they're not listening
still, and to our detriment, perhaps they never will.. 
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Posted with a small but definite measure of satisfaction.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/me...main/
index.html
The U.S. military says Hajji Hammadi, a top-ranking al Qaeda in Iraq militant, was killed in a November 11 operation in Baghdad.
The military said Hammadi's terrorist activities included the abduction and slaying of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Matt Maupin. The soldier's remains were found in Iraq earlier this year, nearly four years after he was captured when his fuel convoy was attacked near Baghdad on April 9, 2004.
The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the blog post From the Front: 11/20/2008 News and Personal dispatches from the front and the home front.
via GP
how is this..
thought he wanted US to leave??
Top Iraq Shiite cleric demands MP vote on US pact
[The reclusive Sistani -- who usually communicates through close advisers and other associates -- has said he opposes any agreement that infringes on Iraq's "sovereignty" but that the government should make the final decision.
The official in his office said the lawmakers who had left for the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca had "run away from their responsibilities and scoffed at the millions of voters who have elected them."
"It's even more of a pity because some of them are members of the United Iraqi Alliance who claim to work according to the instructions of the Guide (Sistani)," he added, referring to the largest political bloc in parliament.
"They say they are committed to his instructions but they are not obeying the words of the Guide which are in the interests of the country."]
now that's progress!!
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priceless!!
Iraq 'Fails' Upward
excerpt:
[With George Bush gone, though, Mr. Maliki may have a harder time getting President Obama to approve U.S. troops leaving their bases, no matter how badly needed.
This still won't satisfy the Democratic left in Congress or in the blogosphere, but now they will be President Obama's problem, as he transitions from campaign rhetoric to international realities. To that end, we offer a brief compendium of campaign myths about "failure" in Iraq that are belied by the Maliki government's security deal with the U.S.
Foremost among the nothing-works-in-Iraq charges was that the government there was hopelessly divided and would never get its act together. Competence, however, is precisely what it reflected in this deal.
The status of forces agreement now moves from the cabinet to Iraq's parliament, where it must receive at least 51% approval. By all reports, that is considered almost certain. The parliament's two major parties -- representing Shiites and Kurds -- have the votes to approve the deal. On votes this fundamental, though, the Maliki government has sought strong majorities to broaden support for the government, which means support from Sunnis in parliament. That, too, looks likely. As one Sunni parliamentarian, with succinct logic, told the Wall Street Journal: "Under this security agreement, Iraq is in control; and under the U.N. mandate, the U.S. was in control, so which deal is better?"
The Iraq-as-failure lobby also insisted that Prime Minister Maliki, a Shiite, was a pawn of Iran, and that the Iranians effectively dominated the Iraqi political process. With this deal, as with the Maliki-ordered routs -- by the Iraq army -- of Shiite militias in Basra and Sadr City last spring, the Prime Minister established his bona fides as an independent player. Iran almost surely will try to blow up this agreement.
American voters were given to understand that the ungrateful Iraqis don't deserve U.S. support. Setting aside the historically poor results of American pull-the-plug policies toward allies (think Iran since the Khomeini revolution), the agreement's 2011 timetable makes clear that Iraqis understand that a U.S. presence is crucial to preserving their government's achievements.
As recent press reports make clear, those achievements are real. The Iraqi military has proven its ability to secure and pacify the cities. Civic activity has returned. Oil production has resumed. Nearby nations -- Jordan, Bahrain, the UAE -- are engaging Iraq diplomatically.
Not least, it is evident the Iraqi government wants a continuing relationship with the U.S. Indeed the first of the agreement's two separate parts normalizes the relationship indefinitely. This contradicts the failure mantra that we "never belonged there." We are there, and the successful completion of this task by the American military makes likely, for the first time, a permanent political U.S. presence in the Gulf region. This is a new platform that can be put to good purpose amid competitive pressure from our friends in Russia and China.]
RTWT..
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Iran Has Enough Nuclear Material for Weapon
Once again, terrific article!
Keep up your great work.
I may soon have the opportunity in my
life to go a different direction.
I've been spending a lot of time thinking about going to Iraq and helping rebuild your country.
My Girlfriend would join me as well,
as it is her idea.
Where does one start?
Any Ideas?
ht christian soldier via GP
GunBanObama
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C.Jordan, How exciting ,the two of you going to Iraq.You will keep us informed ,won't you?Does Mr. Ibid know of your plans? He surely would give you lots of advice.It is GOOD that you both agree,do these exciting things while you are young,I feel a little anxious, your the age of my grandson who is in the army.I am looking forward to seeing pictures or a video of all the places Mr.Abid has been telling us about, so have fun ,you two, you will be in my prayers. Jackie J
GunBanObama
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bg | 11.20.08 - 6:40 pm | #
Speaking of which------how many have been following the news about the run in the US on guns and ammo since the election? Especially ammo.
jackie j | 11.20.08 - 8:58 pm
Thank you Jackie,
Don't get too excited...
We have no plans yet, just desires.
I thought I would ask here for ideas.
Mr. Ibid does not know of my plans as I have revealed them here for the first time today.
I'm dipping my toe in the water here to see what sort of ideas come to the surface. Right now it would be hard to leave my job to go to Iraq, but could be a possibility.
My Girlfriend needs to do some time abroad for her schooling. She wants to go to Afghanistan, however i'm trying to get her to do otherwise.
We both agree to go to Iraq.
Iraq has been a fascination my whole life, I'm 30 years old. Growing up during the first Gulf War I wished the Iraqi's peace and a future. Now is the time for Iraq to be a beacon of hope for the rest of the region. I could not join the military because I got diagnosed with MS shortly after taking my test to enlist. So I'm destined to help in other ways.
I am tired and must turn in.. hope all that is readable.. thank you all in advance.
Omar;
Superb article, thank you! I have this little thing happening in the back of my head, wondering which of you and Mohammed is smarter. It seems to tick over to which ever one has written most recently.
Here's a fun site for every one: www.typalyzer.com . Enter a blog or other URL, and it will analyse the writer. Here's what it says about ITM:
"INTP - The Thinkers
[INTP]
The logical and analytical type. They are especially attuned to difficult creative and intellectual challenges and always look for something more complex to dig into. They are great at finding subtle connections between things and imagine far-reaching implications.
They enjoy working with complex things using a lot of concepts and imaginative models of reality. Since they are not very good at seeing and understanding the needs of other people, they might come across as arrogant, impatient and insensitive to people that need some time to understand what they are talking about."
Dear Mr Omar,
I enjoyed reading your article, and look forward to reading more. I think you gave a fairly comprehensive view of the situation as it stands regarding the SOFA deal.
I do feel that one thing needs to be pointed out is that while the Americans might have placed extra pressure than usual on the Iraqi government to accept the deal, and I dont doubt that, the Iraqi's might just have realized that in the long run over the next few years having the Americans still around would be a good counter balance to Iran. Iran has been trying to get a good grip on Iraq for a while now and the presence of the Americans would deter them in more ways than one.
The whole situation in Iraq is a very delicate one involving a host of related issues, and any leader needs to consider all the factors before implementing any decision. Unfortunately this is not what is happening and processes are made and implemented in isolation.
C. Jordan | 11.20.08 - 11:07 pm |
Congratulations on your adventure. I'm 47, but when I was in my twenties, I had the opportunity to do something like that but played it safe instead. I've regretted it.
Send Omar an email requesting Hameed's email. He knows a lot of people in Iraq and I'm sure that once you let him know what your skills are and what you'd like to do, he could arrange something for you.
Folks,
Believe it or not, I am kind of happy about Obama's win. You have to keep in mind, although he leans or is a liberal/socialist, he does not have the power to keep the promises he made to his extreme left wing base and is smart enough to know it (Summa Cum Laude, Harvard Law). I believe he might be the next JFK. If you read between his and Biden's lines during the campaign, you can see what I mean. Hell, he is dead in the water on gun control since the Supreme Court ruled the 2nd Ammendment is an individaual right. Some of these fear mongering pundits and politicians of the "Religious Right" seem to be as full of hate as AlQueda!
I also agree with him that we need to pull out if Iraq sooner than later. The Iraqi politicians are getting lazy and want us to carry most of the financial load. We can not afford the billions a day fighting a two front war. Iraq has the financial means to rebuild. We really need to focus on Afghanistan now. I believe Iran is just a bogeyman. Amahdinejad is on his way out, Iranians are tired of his shit and their economy is a shambles. They are afraid Israel is coming for their nuke facilities and the Saudis would be delighted. By the way Sunni Saudi Arabia hates Shia Iran. You have to understand Israel has very good non-nuclear submarines built by Holland and Germany armed with nuke cruise missiles and could completely destroy the Arab World. NO SANE NATION WANTS TO BE THE FIRST TO LAUNCH A NUKE, ONLY SUICIDAL MANIACS MIGHT.
Notice Bin Laden is not suicidal. As a matter of fact, he is a brilliant man. He is more brilliant than most of our governing class! Our governing class is short sighted and stupid. They have no clue when it comes to formulating Grand Strategy!
The most critical foreign policy/military issue is Pakistan. This is where the terrorists actually could get their hands on a nuke. Pakistan's Govt. is truly an ally but if the Taliban overthrows that govt, India would probably nuke them. God help us if a nuke goes off!
During my "vacation" I have done a lot of studying and read a lot of books. I have leaned a lot and of course most of my teachers are true conservatives. The NeoCons are liberals in disguise. Just look at how our govt has grown under Bush. Just look at how we are now poorer than the EU, China and Russia! We are on the verge of becoming a third world country with a lot of weapons.
America is rotting from within. America has become lazy and arrogant, losing her friends. America is losing at 4GW (Fourth Generation Warfare, war faught with means other than military). One hope I have about Obama is I think he has been briefed on 4GW. His suggestions for solving the Global War on Terror indicate knowledge of 4GW.
Our governent lead this nation into three wars on assumptions and not having clear heads due to anger.
- The Spanish American War (Accidental sinking of the battleship Maine (it has been proven her magazine exploded because of a fire in an adjacent coal bunker). It was a great excuse to expand the American Empire at the expense of the Spanish Empire.
- World War I. America and Britain's Govt's KNEW arms were on the Lucitania. Bob Ballard proved it with the same equipment used to search the Titanic to prove the Irish were locked below decks. Germany had every right to sink her.
- Vietnam, conclusive proof has not been brought forth but I bet the Tonkin Gulf Incident never happened. One thing I do know for sure, after bombing the shit out of them and killing millions of North Vietnamese and hundreds of thousands of innocent South Vietnamese. Vietnam has FORGIVEN us. So many of my Vietnam Veteran friends who went back to heal received absolution from their former adversaries, pretty Christlike for Communists, eh?
Lastly, Obama wants a push on "green jobs". Imagine what a shot in the arm that will be for the environmental industry!
I wish you the best and a Happy Thanksgiving.
And, of course,
Salaaaaaam eleikum Y'all!
Folks,
Believe it or not, I am kind of happy about Obama's win. You have to keep in mind, although he is a liberal/socialist, he does not have the power to keep the promises he made to his extreme left wing base and is smart enough to know it (Summa Cum Laude, Harvard Law). I believe he might be the next JFK. If you read between his and Biden's lines during the campaign, you can see what I mean. Hell, he is dead in the water on gun control since the Supreme Court ruled the 2nd Ammendment is an individaual right. Some of these fear mongering pundits and politicians of the "Religious Right" seem to be as full of hate as AlQueda!
I also agree with him that we need to pull out if Iraq sooner than later. The Iraqi politicians are getting lazy and want us to carry most of the financial load. We can not afford the billions a day fighting a two front war. Iraq has the financial means to rebuild. We really need to focus on Afghanistan now. I believe Iran is just a bogeyman. Amahdinejad is on his way out, Iranians are tired of his shit and their economy is a shambles. They are afraid Israel is coming for their nuke facilities and the Saudis would be delighted. By the way Sunni Saudi Arabia hates Shia Iran. You have to understand Israel has very good non-nuclear submarines built by Holland and Germany armed with nuke cruise missiles and could completely destroy the Arab World. NO SANE NATION WANTS TO BE THE FIRST TO LAUNCH A NUKE, ONLY SUICIDAL MANIACS MIGHT.
Notice Bin Laden is not suicidal. As a matter of fact, he is a brilliant man. He is more brilliant than most of our governing class! Our governing class is short sighted and stupid. They have no clue when it comes to formulating Grand Strategy!
The most critical foreign policy/military issue is Pakistan. This is where the terrorists actually could get their hands on a nuke. Pakistan's Govt. is truly an ally but if the Taliban overthrows that govt, India would probably nuke them. God help us if a nuke goes off!
During my "vacation" I have done a lot of studying and read a lot of books. I have leaned a lot and of course most of my teachers are true conservatives. The NeoCons are liberals in disguise. Just look at how our govt has grown under Bush. Just look at how we are now poorer than the EU, China and Russia! We are on the verge of becoming a third world country with a lot of weapons.
America is rotting from within. America has become lazy and arrogant, losing her friends. America is losing at 4GW (Fourth Generation Warfare, war faught with means other than military). One hope I have about Obama is I think he has been briefed on 4GW. His suggestions for solving the Global War on Terror indicate knowledge of 4GW.
Our governent lead this nation into three wars on assumptions and not having clear heads due to anger.
- The Spanish American War (Accidental sinking of the battleship Maine (it has been proven her magazine exploded because of a fire in an adjacent coal bunker). It was a great excuse to expand the American Empire at the expense of the Spanish Empire.
- World War I. America and Britain's Govt's KNEW arms were on the Lucitania. Bob Ballard proved it with the same equipment used to search the Titanic to prove the Irish were locked below decks. Germany had every right to sink her.
- Vietnam, conclusive proof has not been brought forth but I bet the Tonkin Gulf Incident never happened. One thing I do know for sure, after bombing the shit out of them and killing millions of North Vietnamese and hundreds of thousands of innocent South Vietnamese. Vietnam has FORGIVEN us. So many of my Vietnam Veteran friends who went back to heal received absolution from their former adversaries, pretty Christlike for Communists, eh?
Lastly, Obama wants a push on "green jobs". Imagine what a shot in the arm that will be for the environmental industry!
I wish you the best and a Happy Thanksgiving.
And, of course, Salaaaaaaam eleikum Y'all!
Obama supporters upset with recent events
I believe he might be the next JFK
Marzouq the Redneck Muslim | 11.21.08
- 2:21 pm |
please don't insult what's left of my intelligence..
i was around for JFK..
i knew JFK..
i am a JFK Democrat..
Obama is no JFK..
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completely OT-
Arrrr Sooner Nation ... Heave To and Prepared to Be Boarded
via TG
Ousting Maliki, Maybe
[My sources are telling me that serious efforts are underway to introduce a parliamentary no-confidence vote in Maliki’s government sometime in early December.
Supposedly the changes to the cabinet line-up would be minor, substituting Maliki for either Adel Abdel-Mahdi or Ibrahim al-Ja’afari or Ali al-Adeeb (…if Abdel-Mahdi gets it, then either of the other two candidates may take the vice-presidency slot vacated by him), and Hussein al-Shahrestani, the oil minister, for either Nadim al-Jaberi or Ali al-Adeeb (if the latter doesn’t become either the PM or the Vice-President, and conditional on him turning against Maliki, of course)
[snip]
Maliki derived a big part of his stature from the weekly teleconference he’s been holding with President Bush for the last year or so. That is over now. Maliki may have thought that he’d be the primary beneficiary from the power vacuum that shall be left behind as the Americans recede from Iraq under Obama. But Maliki may not last that long.
People forget that Maliki is not a very sophisticated player. His excessive caution, and occasional flashes of impetuousness, may be analyzed by some as wisdom, and political bravery. I supported what he did in Basra and Sadr City last March through May, because these actions strengthened the Iraqi state. But I still remember him for what he is, a decent man playing a role far too big for his wits.]
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
uhg..
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Marzouq the Redneck Muslim | 11.21.08 - 2:21 pm |
In a way, I'm glad, too. He inherits a piss poor economy and he has no idea how to fix it. His economic policies will just drive it further into the ditch. JFK's policies were similar to those of Reagan.
Therefore, at the end of his four years, he'll be wearing a sweater in the White House while he tells Americans about stagflation, the misery index, and malaise. Then, he will be voted out on his socialist ass.
He'll be the Democrats' Herbert Hoover.
Hey BG,
I didn't say I am sure. I was around when JFK was around too! I'm just hoping.
Good to see you on the site and still at it you stalwart soul you.
Recently I read a thesis by USAF COL RET Riccioni on Defense and the National interest. You may want to check it out. His thesis (lots of footnotes) was very good and it inspired me to write what I wrote.
Google D-N-I.
Marzoukie out!
testing 123..
Mo wrote"It seems that this is a message to the next American administration: that Tehran is capable of steering some influential politicians in Iraq and that it has something to offer in exchange for American concession regarding — my guess — the nuclear program.
The implication is that the US told Iran that we will permit its nuclear programs to procede if they allow this agreement and stop interfering in Iraq. I don't buy that. We will never allow Iran to go nuclear. Even with Obama in th eBig Chair.
Furthermore, he wrote There is a multitude of states that couldn’t care less about American success in Iraq but to whom Iran’s going nuclear is a red line — the nuclear issue is not a U.S.-Iran duel on Iraqi soil.
And this is the more true statement. No one in the mE wants a nuclear Iran, not Israel, the Saudis, Jordan, the Emoirtaes, Kuwait. . . .. no one except perhaps Syria.
Notice that both Israel and the US have been quite as of late on the Iranian nuke issue? What is more likely, IMO,is that both the US and Israel have toned down the heat on Iran until this agreement can be finalized. Doing so has weakoned Iran's hand in Iraq. They have lost power as a political pupeteer.
After the agreement is signed and sealed, we can then bring great pressure on Iran . . . financial, political, and militariliy. There is already more talk of the turmoil and oppression within Iran.
I look for the agreements to be signed and sealed, more pressure built up, and military action, either by the US or israel, by the end of December.
Are joint actions possible? Perhaps Israeli, Saudi, and US actions. Throw in Kuwait and Jordan support.
.
maybe u read the wrong books
Marzouq the Redneck Muslim | 11.21.08 - 6:22 pm |
in case you missed it..
AMERICA CAN CELEBRATE VICTORY IN IRAQ!
November 22nd --- Victory In Iraq Day!
God Bless Soldiers everywhere for putting THEIR
lives on the line to protect us ALL from terrorism!
OOH-RAH!!
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Kafir,Looks like we just might live out that adventure through C.Jordan and his girl friend.I have a son the same age as you.He was a single Dad from the time his son was in first grade.His son is my grandson who is in the army.I asked him once if he felt like he had missed out on a lot in his personal life, he still has not remarried.He said no that the greatest joy was raising his son.I can attest to that!I am now on a mission to help him find that special wife, of course he does not have a clue what mom is up too.I am sooooo picky.ha,ha.Anyway,I hope someday I can go to Iraq.O & M and Mr. Abid and maybe this young couple will probably be as close as I can get.Kafir,You are still so young, follow your dreams!
re: [Google D-N-I.
Marzouq the Redneck Muslim | 11.21.08 - 6:22 pm ]
On War #282: Obama’s First Test
[President Obama’s first national security test will in fact be a test of his honesty (hah). Will he govern as the centrist (not according to his record) he presented himself as being during the campaign? If so, he will allow present policies on women and gays in the military to remain in place (Clinton policy). Or, will he reveal himself as a cultural Marxist who deceived the American public in order to get elected and will govern from the left, not the center? If so, we will witness many experiments against reality, with the U.S. armed forces early victims. Our next President would do well to remember history’s verdict on such experiments, a verdict illustrated by the fate of the 20th century’s ideological regimes. In the end, reality always wins.]
my bet is on the latter..
i mean, just look what happened to Aaaaarnold,
he's turned into a first rate "girleyman".. *sigh*
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via GP
now this is truly worth reading..
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey
excerpt:
[Taken together, the Administration's policies in the War on Terror represent nothing less than a fundamental reorganization of our government and will ensure that the next President has the tools he needs to continue to defend the country.
The Administration's strategy in defending the Nation from terrorist threats has not only been comprehensive, but has also been successful based on what matters the most: Since September 11th, Al Qaeda has not managed to launch a single act of terrorism in the United States. This is a remarkable achievement that no one could have predicted in the days following the September 11th attacks. The credit for that goes to many people, including many brave men and women in our armed forces, and many brave men and women in law enforcement and intelligence services, who put their lives at risk routinely in parts of the world most Americans, to their great comfort, will never encounter. Much of that credit also goes to the President; in this area, as in many others, leadership and resolve matter.
As the end of this Administration draws near, you would expect to hear broad praise for this success at keeping our Nation safe. Instead, I am afraid what we hear is a chorus with a rather more dissonant refrain. Instead of appreciation, or even a fair appraisal, of the Administration's accomplishments, we have heard relentless criticism of the very policies that have helped keep us safe. We have seen this in the media, we have seen this in the Congress, and we have heard it from the legal academy as well.
In some measure, those criticisms rest on a very dangerous form of amnesia that views the success of our counterterrorism efforts as something that undermines the justification for continuing them. In an odd way, we have become victims of our own success. In the eyes of these critics, if Al Qaeda has not struck our homeland for seven years, then perhaps it never posed much of a threat after all and we didn't need these counterterrorism policies.
Other critics question the premise -- almost universally accepted following the September 11th attacks -- that the United States is engaged in a war against Al Qaeda and other groups. Even more common is the casual assumption among many in media, political, and legal circles that the Administration's counterterrorism policies have come at the expense of the rule of law. I am quite familiar with these criticisms, having heard them myself during my tenure as Attorney General.
Now it is hardly surprising that the questions of how we confront the terrorism threat should generate vigorous debate. These questions are among the most complex and consequential that a democratic government can face. There is, understandably, passionate debate about where the legal lines are drawn in this new and very difficult conflict and, as a matter of policy, how close to those legal lines we should go.
As the members of this Society know, however, answering legal questions often involves a close reading and a critical analysis of a text -- the Constitution, statutes, judicial decisions, and the like. Regrettably, this point is much too often lost in the public discourse on the subject.
Newspapers, commentators, and even prominent lawyers often discuss critical questions about national security policies with barely any acknowledgement that the answers may depend on the language of, say, the Constitution or a statute. And critics of this Administration's policies rarely draw distinctions between whether a course of action is permitted as a matter of law, and whether that course of action is prudent as a matter of policy.
[snip]
The next Administration will have the opportunity to review the institutions and the legal structures that this Administration has relied upon in keeping the nation safe over the past seven years. I am neither so proud as to think that the next Administration will be unable to make improvements, nor so naive as to think that the policy choices, or even the legal judgments, that they make will be identical to ours.
What I do hope, however, is that the next Administration understands the threat that we continue to face and that it shares the priority we have placed on remaining on the offense to prevent future terrorist attacks. Remaining on the offense includes not simply relying on the tools that we have established, but also encouraging a climate in which both legal and policy issues are debated responsibly, in a way that does not chill the intelligence community and deter national security lawyers from making the decisions necessary to protect us.
And I am hopeful that some time from now, after the next Administration has had the chance to review the decisions made and the legal advice provided, it will acknowledge that despite any policy differences, the national security lawyers in this Administration acted professionally and in good faith and that the country was safer as a result.]
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smart enough to know it (Summa Cum Laude, Harvard Law). I believe he might be the next JFK.//
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JFK was no big brain. But then, Obama isn't much on actual intellectual achievement either. The Harvard status was mostly based on his ONE great literary effort, Dreams From My Father (who, incidently, was a radical loudmouth egotistical philanderer) -- and that book was mostly ghost-written by Bill Ayers.
What Obama is: Summa Cum Loud.
Just wait till the copies of the emails he sent Odinga telling him how to subvert the Kenyan election come out. Of course, as a Muslim you'll probably approve.
bg | 11.20.08 - 9:49 am | #
Thank you.
jackie j | 11.21.08 - 9:04 pm |
Jackie,
Like your son, my dreams now revolve around my wife of sixteen years and our two daughters. My time for globetrotting adventures is past. I have a nephew that went to Spain after graduation and then moved to South America. He gathered contacts down there and came back to the US with a line of products made from Alpaca. He initially sold them at upscale stores like Nieman Marcus and now has a shop at a ski resort in Idaho.
So, I managed to do a little bit of vicarious living through him and, like you, I look forward to doing some more through C. Jordan.
Also, if you'll permit me to give you some advice in your daughter-in-law search: My wife and I are very different people. We don't share the same tastes in food, music, or movies. However, the thing we have in common is a strong dedication to the institution of marriage and the preservation of family. I have found that that one thing has trumped everything else and preserved our relationship through the hard times. Sure, it has been disappointing at times when I want to go eat at a Vietnamese restaurant but her idea of far-out foreign cuisine is Italian, but I'll take that over being divorced from someone just like me any day. Bottom line is don't just focus on compatibility. Look for someone who shares your family's values first and foremost. Treat compatibility as a "nice to have."
Obama's Indonesia Test
Democrats on Capitol Hill are obstructing military ties.
[In February, Defense Secretary Robert Gates visited Indonesia, pledging full military support. The State Department canceled joint military exercises with Kopassus two months later, under pressure from Senator Leahy. In retaliation, Jakarta has stopped cooperating in U.S. counter-narcotics efforts.
Mr. Obama has to decide whether to give in to this pressure and allow a critical U.S. alliance to falter. How his Administration handles this issue will say a lot about the tenor of his foreign policy.]
Obama will sing kumbaya with tyrants & and Bush isn't a diplomat?? i'm telling you, the irony is bass ackwards mind-boggling!!
Indonesians view Obama as a crusader for Islam
Barry Soetroro; Indonesian citizen; religion
Islam; serial number 203; class 1B
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HAPPY "VICTORY IN IRAQ" DAY!!
OOH-RAH!!
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via GP
Victory in Iraq Day
[Thank you to all who made this possible.
Thank you for serving.
Two years ago this war was lost.
The American public was tired of the daily bombings and the reports of death. Thanks to the efforts of the media and continual pounding from Democratic Party members America was ready to give up on this front and quit. America was told was the worst foreign policy decision in its history. Some believed this was the worst slaughter of American lives in history. Some even scoffed at the genocide that would occur if we left.
America no longer understood why victory was essential or why war was called war. The images of Saddam Hussein being pulled out of a spider hole were a distant memory.
America had lost its will to fight.
But, President George W. Bush would not accept defeat.
Despite the best efforts of Democrats and their partners in the media, President Bush understood what was best for this country and what was best for Iraq and the Middle East.
A new fighting plan with a surge of troops was organized.
A new general named Petraeus was put in charge.
America would finish the fight and bring democracy to Iraq.
President Bush would give it one last try.
Today, the rest is history.]
Thank You & God Bless All!!
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Heck I may be the next JFK ....
The Long War Journal - Clear and Present Danger - Gitmo and Obama and Why He Just Doesn't Get It
uh no he is no JFK, he's not even Teddy K
Victory Day for Iraq!
November 22, 2008.
Congratulations Iraq.
Don't wait for the MSM to respond or say it's ok, they banked on you losing.
Thanks for the links bg!
Maybe he's Special K? Danny Kay? My great aunt Kay!
Wolverine | Homepage | 11.22.08 - 3:00 pm | thanks..
Clear and Present Danger
[At one point, Obama was asked about the terrorist detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. He responded:
I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantánamo, and I will follow through on that. I've said repeatedly that America doesn't torture and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel of an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world.
The president-elect's comments were not surprising. He had often promised on the campaign trail to close Guantánamo. And in the days before the 60 Minutes broadcast, anonymous officials from his transition team had let the press know that the president-elect would deliver on his pledge.
[snip]
That many dangerous enemies lurk in Guantánamo's cells has often been a secondary concern, if a concern at all. Thus, when President-elect Obama spoke of regaining "America's moral stature in the world," he was endorsing the widespread perception of Guantánamo as an American sin that originated in the Bush administration's overreaction to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
This perception, however, was always skewed. The new administration will soon discover from its review of the Guantánamo files what motivated its predecessor: The scope of the terrorist threat was far greater than anyone knew on September 11, 2001. But for the Bush administration's efforts, many more Americans surely would have perished.
[snip]
Although the documents were released in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the Associated Press, the intelligence contained in the files was largely ignored by the mainstream press for more than two years. Thus, the New York Times reported only the day before the recent presidential election that the files contain "sobering intelligence claims against many of the remaining detainees."
Indeed, they do. When the Obama administration reviews the Guantánamo files, here is what it will find.]
RTWT!!
even we in the know will probably learn a
thing or two we hadn't known previously..
leap | 11.22.08 - 4:45 pm | you're welcome..
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Wolverine | Homepage | 11.22.08 - 4:59 pm |
no, O is G-D Ameri-K-K-K!!
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Kafir,what a nice family.No, you do not need to do any globe trotting unless its sharing with your family.Let me guess .Disneyland and etc is a big part of your life?Enjoy enjoy!They grow up so fast.Once when I was putting my 4 little ones to bed ,they were begging to go to disney land, in my haste to sit and rest I PROMISED.I was 2 wks over due with our 5th little angel.When my husband came in the kitchen and said in a very stern voice,Do not ever, ever promise our kids anything that you cannot deliver.He knew he was not going to chance disney land in my condition.That was on a monday nite. Sat, we were all @ disney in Anahim? calif.He most certainly hit a nerve by his scolding.I love your advice about a daughter-in-law.In reality I donot go there, That is his right to choose his mate.He is a total handsome package, needs no help from Mom.What do you think about Hillerys new job?will be very interesting to see how this works out.Compatable,Your rightYou donot have to agree on every thing,that would get to be boring.We married in 1957,such a romantic time!If I died tomorrow, i would not give up one day without my handsome marine and 5 beautiful children.God gave me exactly what I asked him for.Our secret? A good healthy ,wordy fight every so often, then omg,making up was heaven.In fact we created our lil word fights quite often!Mercy, I need to get out of here!
C. Jordan | 11.20.08 - 4:44 pm |
Please get in touch via Omar.
Kind regards
Dear Friends and readers at ITM.
Hope you are well.
Sorry you did not hear from me fro the past few days.
Along with some 120 or so guests from all over the world, we at Al Kindi engineering society held our second Conference in Baghdad last week from 17th -20th November. as the guests of the Iraqi prime Minister's Government.
We were treated very well.
When we landed at Baghdad International Airport from Dubai, I knelt and kissed the Tarmac at the bottom of the steps. It was 27 years ago since I was last there. It was so emotional.
I did not see it but some said it was shown on Iraqi TV. repeatedly.
I saw some members of my family and three Nephews. One had a letter of appreciation certificate from the American Military commanders he was helping. He also cooked for them at our home. Home made dolma and traditional rice meal and gave me the Photos showing them enjoying the meal at the site where they worked. He learned English with an American accent.Needless to say I was very pround of him.
I saw and met a US Major at the Al Rasheed Hotel Foyer and told him about how excellent the security arrangements are, and thanked him and his men for being in Baghdad. I gave him my card and he gave me his, and kindley offered to help me with anything I needed.
The whole experience was unbeliveable. It was heady I can tell you.
The agreement SOFA was signed as we left from Baghdad to Dubai on 22nd November.2008.
We were briefed about it by the deputy PM at a dinner party at the former house of Hassan Kamel at the green Zone.
We had Masqouf Fish, too, for me for the first time in 46 years?
My friend and fellow participant Mr. Ralph Warwicker and some interested individuals were escorted to visit Al Kadhim's Shrine. My first visit for the past 46 years.
We called him Abdulla and he now answers to this name?
The opportunities are great there. And we are going in there again next month to participate in an Iraqi Amercian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Exhibition.
as well follow on for projects.
My consortium contained more than 4,200 professionals including one American firm of consulting Engineers
please visit
www.ukdesignconsortium.com.
Kind regards
If the opposition pariotic and honest
(Voice of Iraq) - 22-11-2008
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By: Mahdi Kassem
If the opposition patriotic and honest Mahdi Kassem
As is well known: that democracy is not and whatever the nature of a real and genuine without opposition correct, even without a strong opposition, and especially in Parliament, it is the duty of the opposition objected to construction projects and government decisions and proposals which the opposition sees it as harmful to the public interest or It does not serve the interests of the people and should be, and therefore produce the appropriate alternative and better quality of this opposition, which is the other must take national interest into consideration, and not individual interests or narrow factional interests, or to the agenda of the strangers and outside powers. ..
If some trends and movements and fronts and parties "opposition" to the Convention Iraqi security current U.S. out of the national sense of genuine concern and sincere, honorable and fair national sovereignty, and far from achieving the goals of personal or factional narrow and selfish from behind this objection, the estimated price Iraqi citizens at this opposition tendency of high national spirit and originality Iraqi sincere, and that the intentions and purposes of the opposition and conflict is deepening crisis and chaos and uncontrolled airspace turmoil, in an effort to put things and situations to Mrbaha I, those days will be a form of opposition and Abbinp Almzattp and Ahamrnp, Not to mention the tendency of vandalism and destruction under the slogan:
Ali and my enemies, O Lord!! ..
Perhaps it is no coincidence that this slogan is the same lined up beneath Sadr supporters of former Baathists and Saddamists and Baathists Aldharyin current view rejection of the convention and security vociferously loud noise and high ..
In fact: If there is one, who has already harmed the stability of full security in Iraq are Baathists and Saddamists, and the Sadrists and Almqtdaiien primarily ..
Then the Baathists for the Convention itself contains the right to hunt remnants of the former regime of course, and only those resorting to violence and terrorism in order to return to power again, plus of course the killers are held accountable shown the former or after the time being, those who were involved in the commission Terrorist acts after the fall of the former regime ..
The Muqtada al-Sadr and the Sadrists in general, the withdrawal of occupation forces as well as stability and full security in Iraq will not hurt in their favor, since that would mean people time to work and live in the Pacific, and will also mean the government time to complete the reconstruction projects and provide more quality services and better , As well as seeking to reduce the unemployment rate, which will pull the rug from under the feet of this trend and its leader, and fans will reduce the number of "poor" a lot, and therefore will not find Moqtada al-Sadr, a large number of calls and meet his stock out to the streets and others from time-keeping forces or fighting The Iraqi regime, once to take it a fit of delirium and mania, inspired by Iranian masters ..
Incidentally if Moqtada al-Sadr is indeed partiotic and honest, for that he must strongly denounce and reject Iranian criminal interference in Iraqi affairs, at the same parallel and marginal and intensity of opposition to the U.S. occupation of Iraq ..
The difference between Ctlalin is not large:
U.S. occupation of Iraq directly and publicly known and measured, while the Iranian occupation of Iraq was a direct, secret, at the same time, which is pervasive throughout the services of the Iraqi state institutions, particularly in the areas of southern Iraq and in Baghdad ..
However, the Muqtada al-Sadr and his movement Sadr Igadan of these criminal interventions, which they play a big role in the instability of security in Iraq ..
But instead of Moqtada al-Sadr opposes the Iranian interference in Iraqi affairs or protesting against it, it is above the ground lived in Iran for the study, and from there carried out the agenda of Iran directly or through his followers who are in Iraq! ..
The campaign histrionics by the Sadrist bloc in parliament aimed at disrupting the reading convention security, and not only fit Balraa and hooligans, the best evidence that Moqtada al-Sadr's Sadrist implemented or commandments Iranian in Iraq ..
Not, of course, free of charge ..
We heard it and our readers a few weeks ago in the media, how the Iranian regime has bought some legislators graft, in order to block the vote on the Iran-Iraq Security Agreement and thus frustrate the process of its passing in parliament ..
Regardless of the percentage of health or not in the news, but the Sadrist bloc in parliament, had a "duty" Iranian perfect and perfection, and actively and style and effort really worth millions of dollars!! ..
mahdi_kasim@yahoo.com
Dear O and M
The Syrian Government and the Iranian Governments should stop interfering in Iraq's affairs forthwith.
We have no querrells with your people.
Please Leave Iraq and the Iraqis alone and mind your own bloody business. Your system of governments are dictatorships and tyrannical , ours is free and democratic whether you like it or not.
Why did not they shout when the Iraqis were shaklled and being killed In Mass graves?
Kind regards
Suhail: remarks on the Syrian Minister of Information Security Agreement as inappropriate interference in Iraq's affairs
By E S
Published 19.11.2008, 20:03
Uzmatik / Baghdad
Said a member of the Iraqi Independent MP Safiya al-Suhail "The statements made by Syrian Information Minister Mohsen Bilal on the Security Agreement between Baghdad and Washington, is a blatant interference in the internal affairs of Iraq."
The Syrian Information Minister Mohsen Bilal, said in a speech during the inauguration of the Council of Ministers of Information and Communications Arabs that "the American occupation to impose conditions on the Iraqi people through the Convention security imposed by the Iraqi government with the United States."
Described in an interview with Al-Suhail, "Uzmatik" on Wednesday, the Syrian minister's statements on the Security Agreement, as "inappropriate and represents the mentality of dictatorship still works most of Iraq's neighboring countries trying to impose its agenda on the Iraqi arena," it says.
Suhail and called on Syria and other neighboring countries "not to interfere in Iraq's domestic affairs and work to create understanding with the Iraqi government on the Convention security and other areas of concern to the interests of the peoples of these countries."
Suhail ruled that "the Iraqi government's initiative to bring the Convention security to neighboring countries, is the reason behind the statements made by Syrian Information Minister and other officials from Iraq's neighboring countries on the Security Agreement," stating that "the Iraqi government's aim of this move was to show them that a democratic Iraq Would not use its territory as a base to launch military operations, or a springboard for attacks against it. "
The Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced during a telephone conversation with Turkish President Abdullah Gul two weeks ago, that the Iraqi government will send a number of delegations to neighboring countries for the purpose of bringing to the draft agreement on security with Washington.
And invited the Independent MP in parliament Iraq's neighbors to start a "new page of relations with Iraq, away from the policies of intervention and hegemony that did not result in a change the new political situation in the country over the past five years."
The Iraqi government has agreed, at its special session, held last Sunday, the draft agreement on security with Washington so-called "Convention on the withdrawal of troops," and turned to the House of Representatives in order to ratify or reject, the Convention sets out the development of U.S. troops in Iraq beyond the end United Nations mandate at the end of 2008
"We had Masqouf Fish, too, for me for the first time in 46 years"
Congrats Hameed! You've been dreaming of the day for a long time now... and now you did it!
Long live a FREE Iraq!
Bravo
why hitlery for secstate?
http://www.americanthinker.com/
2...one_crisis.html
cf paglia and the cult of the "beautiful boy" (art and decadence in America)
was referred to as a "literate conservative" by a UofM prof this week...
HA!
Our question of the week?:
is obama carter over ford or jfk over eisenhower?
and a follow up:
is the legacy of W really "the inarticulate conservative" just a myth reinforcer of the "teflon" or "great communicator" backhand compliment of RwR?
Ron told the truth that so many were willing to finally hear after the "wealth/pride/ruin" cycle had run its course under the peanut farmer and nixon/rockefeller repubs had killed the party to be liked.
nothing is more articulate to the middle "undecided" blob than 1000 dollar gold and negative amortization on their house payment.
I lived through carter and remember the 400 plus days of the hostages in teheran. W didnt stand a chance against the snotty rich kids and their ego trip to elect the messiah.
What could W, or anyone for that matter, say to these Obots?!!
This is why I really have no sympathy for the herdthink that says I shouldnt try and profit from their stupidity. But I will now and with a vengeance because I have seen it cycle before and know what to expect.
B.O. will step in with a major tax cut. He'll cut ties with the radical left that he pimped to get elected and he will try to make it sound like he's doing it to save "families". Dont forget, he's half black and can act like a man still, as opposed to the pussies running the show on the "right" (ish..).
He will begin with 400 executive orders as his empiral soviet eminence will never be able to get past all the egos of the senate (supreme soviet)that will fight over controlling him like never before.
If he doesnt, there will be blood in the streets within the year as the devaluation will continue without a bottom.
The big loser? ironically the same vw driving hippies from the 60's he grew up worshipping.
they'll get health care all right..
euthenasia by abandonment. try and sue the gubmint and its golden vision of "helping" once it starts taking over the rest of the economy.
and by the way, if any of you think i am for the "bailout" of my beloved Detroit youre tripping.
I come from the Detroit that created thoughtcriminal environmental rapists like Henry Ford, not the Detroit that whines about how they cant get a job at his factory.
Plant jobs were always considered a stepping stone in my family and were respected as such. Micheal Moore (whose pappy worked at GM) thinks they are careers like being a doctor etc..
The hidden fact is that the command economy egotists in the congress have ruined not the auto industry, but its ability to provide tax revenue and sufficient voters combined. Right now they can only sell their votes to the waxmans and schooomas, but they are taking money from the plutos racket and will be killed off so they can focus on bmw in nc and other "foreign domestics" (newspeak or what?!!).
I am interested in the next wave of Iraqi pols to come out of the next election there and what effect they will have on their region so that obscenities that the Yemeni prez spending millions on his new mosque will be challenged.
the crash is about to happen after Christmas. The bump you see right now is just nerves. When the obama/clinton monster gets the keys for real its going to get very very ugly because all this fake civility will disappear and the blinded by ego marxists will want to powertrip instead of lead.
Maybe the east coast money establishment will be able to save them from themselves but its more Weimar now that ever so dont bet on it.
arsenal? check.
big dog? check.
friend in the country to stay with?
check.
let it fall. i'm sick of all this weak ass crap.
jackie j | 11.22.08 - 8:32 pm |
Jackie,
Thank you for your kind words.
That is his right to choose his mate
C'mon Jackie, we all know a man picks a wife like a tomato picks a farmer.
As for Hillary, I'm relieved, actually. The thought of her being president terrified me, until I considered an Obama presidency. Having her in such an important position makes me think there will be a steady hand at the helm of our foreign policy. In fact, Obama surrounding himself with Clintonites I think will be a good thing. Imagine if he was staffing the cabinet with Berkeley professors and Chicago "community organizers!"
P2 | 11.23.08 - 6:47 pm |
told my truly loving, generous, doting, Obama supporting dd & son in law (long time ago college grads with degrees up their you know what's) that i was rather amused with the way things turned out..
both Obama & Clinton in the WH following Bush policy..
why it's almost as if McCain did get elected, go figure..
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Kafir | 11.23.08 - 6:59 pm |
i don't like having to tell you this,
but, Hillary is a HUGE Alinskyite..
and not only that, but..
she's also an Illinois native..
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bg | 11.23.08 - 8:47 pm |
I know, but at least she's been exposed to the executive branch of our government. The only thing Obama ever executed were the Hopes and Dreams of the Chicago Anneberg Challenge students.
Dear M and O
Great news. The fedral Court ruled that the decision to suspend the MP Mr. Mithal Al Alousy and remove his immunity by the Iraq parliament because he visited Israel was unlawful.
The Iraqi Parliament speaker must offer the appropriate opology for this patriotic Iraqi who seeks peace and prosperity for his people.
He should be suitably compensated and his rights, name and reputation and his legal protection must be restored.
Let the Rule of Law operate in Iraq. Not the Law of the Jungle.
The emotional nonesense that permeates the whole atmosphere in Iraq with regards to Palestine is killing.
The Iraqis appear to have become more Palestinians than the Palestinians?
This self destruction tendency is really too much.
http://www.akhbaar.org/wesima_ar...1124-
58194.html
Kind regards
via GP
Al-Qaeda Thanks Iranian Regime
For Infrastructure Assistance
excerpt:
[Western security officials said the missive thanked the leadership of Iran's Revolutionary Guards for providing assistance to al-Qaeda to set up its terrorist network in Yemen, which has suffered ten al-Qaeda-related terror attacks in the past year, including two bomb attacks against the American embassy.
In the letter al-Qaeda's leadership pays tribute to Iran's generosity, stating that without its "monetary and infrastructure assistance" it would have not been possible for the group to carry out the terror attacks. It also thanked Iran for having the "vision" to help the terror organisation establish new bases in Yemen after al-Qaeda was forced to abandon much of its terrorist infrastructure in Iraq and Saudi Arabia.]
oh geesh.. like i've only been posting about AQ & Iran's (IMPOSSIBLE) relationship for the past several years now, gah!!
Iranian Blogfather Hoder Derakhshan Arrested in Tehran
excerpt:
[Note: It is true that Hossein was in Israel, on two separate occasions. However after his second trip here, he suddenly changed his opinion and started becoming vehemently anti- Israel in his blog. He also became a strong supporter of President Ahmadinejad and condemned Akbar Ganji and Ramin Jahanbegloo for being “pro regime change”.]
hearing it's propaganda (which imho makes a
lot more sense no matter how one views it)..
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Great news. The fedral Court ruled that the decision to suspend the MP Mr. Mithal Al Alousy and remove his immunity by the Iraq parliament because he visited Israel was unlawful.
Hameed Abid | 11.24.08 - 8:47 am |
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Hameed,
Hy heart is full reading the account of your return home to your homeland.
I hope you have much work after your organizational plans pan out! I hope you land many contracts and put millions of Iraqis to work!!!
Now that the Soldiers and Lawyers have done their thing it is time to ramp up the engineering! Heck YES!!!! Bring on the Sons of Martha, I bet you know what I'm talking about Hameed!
More reason to be thankful.
Salaam eleikum Y'all!
arsenal? check.
big dog? check.
friend in the country to stay with?
check.
let it fall. i'm sick of all this weak ass crap.
P2 | 11.23.08 - 6:47 pm | #
P2!
Check, Check, Check, Food Stash - Check.
I hope and believe you will be wrong about this. But..., as a wise man has said,'Hope for the best, prepare for the worst".
Marzouq out!
BG,
I am emailing you!
Salaam,
Marzouq
Dang. Don't have your email.
that was my doom and gloom button going nuts.
i apologize for the dreck, it just piles so high these days..
seen this?:
http://www.iht.com/articles/
reut...CONTRACTORS.php
one would ASSUME that the libs would be somewhat sapient and TRY to not blow it on day one but alas they wont and cant or they wouldnt be libs.
after all our successes the republicans are more interested in acceptance than truth and let these little increments crush them over time.
the entire contractor emergence is a DIRECT result of Boy Clinton. Brown and Root, Blackwater etc were stop gaps emplaced while he (and IT) squandered the peace dividend on weffair.
not good.
on the other hand THE ONE is going to save us with 700 billion of our own money so why should i be a killjoy.
funniest thing i found this week was libs and third railers( those above it all that cant get involved with the whole lib/con "thingy") taking about splitting the country and going to australia or canada. i then told them that australia is bordered by indonesia (B.O.'s true home?) and that Canada borders Medvedev's (read: Putin's)Russia.
can we call post 911 libs "neosovs"?!!
Marzouq the Redneck Muslim | 11.24.08 - 1:22 pm |
grannyshrek@gmail.com
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Life's getting a little rough for the irhabists
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/...ives/
195116.php
Hameed Abid | 11.24.08 - 8:47 am |
via GP
Change...
Iraqi Politician Mithal Al-Alusi
Acquitted For Traveling to Israel
GP excerpt:
[In September 2004, after making a public visit to Israel, Mithal al-Alusi was expelled from the Iraqi National Congress and sacked from his job at the De-Baathification Commission. This led him to establish the Democratic Party of the Iraqi Nation, which ran in the January 2005 election. It received only 4,500 votes, far from enough to gain a seat in the Council of Representatives. However, his list won enough votes to obtain one seat for Baghdad Province in the December 2005 election.
On February 19, 2005, Al-Alusi's car was ambushed by armed assailants in the Hayy Al-Jami'a neighborhood of Baghdad. His two sons Ayman, 30, and Jamal, 22, were killed in the attack, as well as one of his bodyguards.
In December 2005, Al-Alusi, the leader of the Democratic Party of the Iraqi Nation, DPIN, was elected to the Iraqi Council of Representatives as an independent. He supports a close alliance with the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Turkey and Israel.
On June 5, 2007, Mithal al-Alusi thanked America
and the Allied Forces for their sacrifices.]
Haaretz excerpt:
[The court affirmed that there is no explicit law against visiting Israel, even though passports issued by Saddam's Iraq warned recipients that they were not allowed to go there. Passports no longer carry that prohibition.
"There is no law preventing any Iraqi from travelling to any country," Alusi's lawyer Tariq Harb told Reuters.
He said the court had restored Alusi's immunity and that parliament had had no constitutional right to strip him of it.
"Alusi will regain all his rights," he said, adding that he would resume work at parliament soon.
Alusi, a secular Sunni politician, says he was the victim of a campaign against him because of his outspoken views against Shi'ite Muslim Iran, an ally to many of Iraq's ruling elite.]
again..
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good news via Joshua @ GP..
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Indonesia (B.O.'s true home?)
P2 | 11.24.08 - 3:21 pm |
well, he was a citizen of both Indonesia (aka: Barry Soetoro,
Muslim) & Kenya (alas finally, uh, recently admitted giving up
his Kenyan citizenship at some point) countries.. but we (me
& several others) believe he was born in Kenya (according to
his grandma & sister anyways) shortly before his Mom's flight back to the mainland was a scheduled to leave..
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Marine Makes Insurgents Pay the Price
http://www.military.com/news/art...-the-
price.html
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"Great news. The fedral Court ruled that the decision to suspend the MP Mr. Mithal Al Alousy and remove his immunity by the Iraq parliament because he visited Israel was unlawful."
Hameed -- that IS great news! I always thought that was one of the most offensive and stupidest things I've heard about the parliament there.
In fact, Iraq and Israel have an immense amount to offer each other. I wonder if Iraqis will ever wake up to that. Best of fortune to Mithal and his campaign(s).
C. Jordan;
outstanding story! It must be terrifying to "spray and pray" warriors to come up against opponents who actually hit what they aim at.
Marzouq the Redneck Muslim | 11.24.08 - 1:00 pm |
Thanks. Please encourage American companies to come to rebuild Iraq.
It has enourmous potential for employment and the purchasing power is great. they need everything. you name it they need it. They have the money and the intentions- authority to move and catch up with therest of the world.
There were two Englishmen with me. one from MEED and the other is one of my Consortium. The Prime Minister was so impresed by their Courage he arranged to get them out of our Bus and put them in an armoured vehicle and escorted them to the Hotel. Only their vehicle was driven so fast over a hump the tyre burst? We had a laugh.
There is a hell of a lot of goodwill amongst the Iraqis regular guys for the Americans.
The problem, some of them are frightened to show their appreciation lest they are targetted and accused as CIA agents, and pro Israel by Guess what- The Arab Nationalists, Saddam's Ramnents and the Iranian/ Syrian paid agents.
It is still good. May be this Mithal Al alousy acquital will change things. The Court ordered the Parliament and the Executive branch to carry out its Judgement without delay or appeal or objection citing the Constitutional Powers entrusted to it by the people.
We now know there is definitly Law and Order being created. And the powers are not in one man's hands only. There is freedom and there is democracy and human rights and the ruel of Law.
Our group and the people we met out there represented all sectors of Iraq.
All of us were willing able and eager to rebuild Iraq.
I am now invited back to Baghdad next month. Guess by whom- The Iraqi Parliament?? No more details yet.
I met few parliamentarians at the Rasheed Hotel where I stayed, and to be frank with you they are great people but very little upstairs? Their egos are so big they cannot get through the double doors. I told some of them, make hey while it is lasting. The people want to get rid of you in January 2010 election.
Kind regards
I know, but at least she's been exposed to the executive branch of our government.
Kafir | 11.24.08 - 12:18 am |
I have been exposed to women but that doesn't qualify me to be a gynecologist anymore than being inside a garage makes me a car.
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http://www.nypost.com/seven/1124...0418.htm?
page=0
An article by Micheal Yon.
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C. Jordan | 11.24.08 - 11:00 pm |
[“I was in my own little world,” the young corporal said. “I wasn’t even aware of a lot of the rounds impacting near my position, because I was concentrating so hard on making sure my rounds were on target.”]
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re: bg | 11.21.08 - 5:37 pm |
Ousting Maliki, Maybe (Updated)
excerpt:
[‘Usama al-Nujeifi, the MP from Allawi’s list, claims that the meeting held in Talabani’s house between the Kurdish bloc and several Arab Sunni blocs on Friday discussed the necessary mechanisms and alliances by which to bring down Maliki through a vote of no-confidence. Al-Nujeifi made these claims today to an Iraqi news wire agency (Arabic link).
This is only partly true: the no-confidence vote was not discussed during the public meeting, but it was certainly
in the air.
I guess al-Nujeifi, an MP from Mosul who has been critical
of the Kurds and thus implicitly supports Maliki, must have heard about the no-confidence vote from Allawi’s circle.]
Bayati dismisses "leaks" about
a no-confidence vote in Maliki
excerpt:
[Abbas al-Bayati, an MP for the UIA bloc, dismissed any "leaks" about preparations for a no-confidence vote in the Iraqi parliament that may bring down Maliki, according to statements he made today to the Al-Khaber News Agency (Arabic link).
[snip]
Al-Bayati is an important component of the Islamist PR machine, so I understand this statement to be a sign that the Maliki camp is indeed very worried about a no-confidence vote.]
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woah.. via TG
re: Ousting Maliki, Maybe (Updated)
excerpt:
[In other news, a piece in the New York Times today caught my eye: James Glanz, a mediocre reporter in the opinion of this blog, writes up a puff piece on Stuart W. Bowen Jr., the sanctimonious and not-at-all helpful IG on Iraqi reconstruction, clearly as a favor for all the negative leaks that Bowen had sent Glanz’s way. But a name appears that seems to be out of place, that of “Namir al-Akabi”, who was referred to earlier on this blog under the spelling Namir Karim al-‘Uqabi. Al-‘Uqabi is a well-heeled multi-multi-millionaire, so why is he trudging around in the dust looking as if he’s an earnest, go-getting subcontractor at a minor construction site, in Ramadi of all places? Al-‘Uqabi is connected to Maliki’s office, and to Nadhmi Auchi, so why is he riding the coattails of Bowen’s positive spin? I think I know why, but I can’t publish it. I’m sure it will come out in good time.]
Obama-Odinga-Rezko-Ayers-Auchi-Saddam Hussein
VIDEO NO LONGER AVAILABLE.. AGAIN!!
Obama got his money from Rezko, who got his 3.5 Million from Auchi.
Rezko described his friendship with Auchi as "close"
Nadhmi Auchi is an Iraqi-born billionaire who was charged along with Saddam Hussein for conspiring to assassinate Prime minister (president) Abdul Karim Qasim and stood trial in 1959. (Auchi gave fellow Baath Party members machine guns from his home for Saddam Hussein.)
Auchi also financially backed Saddam Hussein's plan for a pipeline from Iraq to Saudi Arabia
Auchi protected secret money for Saddam Hussein AND Muammar al-Gaddafi.
(Remember, Obama's Trinity church Pastor Wright went with Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan in 1993 to visit Libyan socialist leader Gadaffi.)
Raila Odinga was also financially backed by Muammar al-Gaddafi. Raila Odinga is Obama's cousin:
Obama's cousin Raila Odinga who just became co-President of Kenya this week (after an estimated 1,000 Christians were killed by fire and macheted by Muslims). Obama is said to be close to Raila Odinga, calling him several times a day, and even taking a break to call him during New Hampshire primary.
Odinga signed a secret pact with Muslim jihadists who were to ethnically cleanse Chritians. He wants to introduce Sharia law to a western embracing, mainly Christian Kenya!
Obama's cousin Raila Odinga was educated in communist E. Germany, and his father, Oginga Odinga led the communist oppostion during the Cold War.
Why does Raila Odinga use Obama's exact same campaign slogan: CHANGE.... Vote for CHANGE: Look at his website:
Weather Underground: Domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn!!
Besides Rezko, Rashid Khalidi a Columbia University Professor also held a fundraiser for Obama, Rashid Khalidi serves on the board of the non-profit organization that Bill Ayers and Barack Obama were paid directors of.
This organization granted funding to a controversial Arab group that is pro-Palestine and deeply resentful of Israel. They intensely support immigration reform and licenses and education to illegal aliens (but for which illegal aliens in mind?). Khalidi has been connected to numerous organizations, including: Palestinian News Agency, (PNA) and PLO, the Palestinian Liberation organization.
This Woods Fund, that Barack Obama and Bill Ayers were directors of raised money for AAAN: Arab American Action Network.
Obama and Bill Ayers don't just have just that in common, but Bill Ayers also contributed to Obama's current campaign, and Obama has been reported to visit with Bill in his home on numerous occasions and Bill has even been referred to as a mentor of Barack's.]
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Help get the Taliban off the Internet.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/...ives/
195120.php
'nuff said.
A peek into the workings of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Everybody writes books, these days.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/
Eng...=3.0.2740964732
excerpts:
Syria and Iran are happy about the existence of Al-Qaeda because its members attack their enemies for them, according to the leader of Islamic jihad in Egypt, Sayed Abdel Qader ibn Abdelaziz. Abdelaziz, also known as Doctor Fazel, makes his claims in a new book, excerpts of which are published in the Arab daily, Al-Sharq al-Awsat. …
The book entitled, 'Memo on Exoneration', has reportedly been written in response to several attacks launched against him by Al-Qaeda's second in command, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, several months ago. …
They [Al-Qaeda] are responsible for allowing the United States to enter Iraq and Afghanistan and the subsequent occupation," Fazel said. "They gave the Americans false information about their relations with Iraq and the presence of weapons of mass destruction to give them the excuse to invade the country.
"They did that only to exhaust the Americans on the battlefield even if those from Al-Qaeda have killed double the number of Iraqis than the United States."
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Somebody else believes in the Axis of Evil.
Mein Kampus
excerpt:
[So imagine my surprise when she shared with me "Course Paper / Fall 2008" instructions. The mandatory topic of this paper was the firing of U.S. Attorneys by the Attorney General. The "Bush White House" is accused of using the Justice Department to suppress voter turnout (perhaps this professor never heard of ACORN registering Mickey Mouse and household pets to vote in presidential elections, or perhaps this is not an ethical problem.)
The professor's written instructions harangue students to rely upon facts, not political opinions, in writing the paper and to use at least fifteen different sources. All sources, however, were not equal. Three of those fifteen sources were required to come out of the New York Times; five of those sources were required to come out of the Washington Post; two of those sources had to be the Guardian. Ten of the fifteen mandatory sources, in other words, had to come from periodicals rabidly hostile to President Bush. Three of the citations had to come from articles by Dana Priest of the Washington Post. But that was not all. No credit at all would be given for using sources that "have a reputation within the news industry for distributing their own political views at the expense of the facts, e.g. Fox News."
The shocking thing about all this is that no one reading it is probably shocked at all. The creeping Leftist totalitarianism in academia is so ubiquitous and so mundane that when it appears in a discipline not thought to be overflowing with nutty Leftists, like Criminal Justice, we yawn. We students are told to do a "research paper" which explicitly directs them to sources that they must use and sources that they must not use, we shrug in indifferent despair.
Our colleges have adopted the same attitude toward intellectual inquiry and scholarly objectivity that colleges in the Soviet Union and in Nazi Germany. The Communist Party in the Soviet Union demanded, for example, that biologists use the fantastically silly theories of Lysenko, and those who did not ended up in the Gulag. The Nazi Party insisted that colleges use Nazi racial theories in every area of study, and with very few exceptions, the professors of Germany nodded in agreement.
Is Mein Kampus a more descriptive term for many colleges in America today? Once politically correct thinking was limited to those disciplines which deal directly with politics. Today biologists must have politically correct views on Darwinism, geologists must have politically correct views on global warming, and criminal justice professors must have politically correct views on President Bush.]
God.Help.US.
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Hameed,
I hope momentum continues to build economically and on the Law and Order front. There is much work still to be done on Iraq's judicial system. I think it is doable over the long run. Heck, we are talking about the Cradle of Civilization and the Birth Place of Codified Law!!!
I would like to correspond with you directly and am working with BG as intermediary so we can exchange email addresses. I am just a "grunt" in the engineering field but have contacts who you could probably work with.
Salaam my dear friend. I feel we are close just from contact on ITM over these years.
Marzouq out!
Hello All: Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Holiday Season, especially to our brave troops and allies, who are keeping us safe around the world. Especially thanks to our troops!! Thanks for watching our backs, you are a wonderful bunch of guys and gals!! I hope all of your Christmas dreams come true. I wish everyone a great holiday season, and a lot of love goes out, from me, to our veterans. Without their sacrifices, and there are many, we wouldn't have our freedom today. We have a hard road ahead, that is true, but I guess we will take it one day at a time. Happy Holidays to all loyal Americans, who love and feel proud of our country, and to all peace and freedom-loving people all over the world. May God continue to bless our wonderful country, the USA !! Best wishes, Kathy L.
C. Jordan,
"In my own little world, focusing on sight picture", I LOVE Marines! I always had a special place in my heart for USMC and Navy Corpsmen.
P2,
NeoSovs, pretty accurate term. Same could be said for "Environmentalists". There is a term for them too, Watermellons - Green on the outside and red on the inside.
Salaam eleikum Y'all!
Richard B. | 11.25.08 - 5:57 am |
excerpt:
[Through time, trust and bonds have been built between the US and Iraqi soldiers, police and citizens. The United States has a new ally in Iraq. And if both sides continue to nurture this bond, it will create a permanent partnership of mutual benefit.
Surely, one could pick up a brush and approach a blank canvas using colors from the palette of truth, and, with a cursory glance, smear Iraq to look like a Third World swamp. But Iraq is a complicated tapestry with great depth and subtle beauty. This land and its people have great potential to become a regional learning center of monumental importance.
Iraqis are tired of war and ready to get back to school, to business and to living life as it should be.
Last week, I shed my helmet and body armor and walked in south Baghdad as evening fell. The US soldiers who took me along were from the battle-hardened 10th Mountain Division; about half the platoon were combat veterans from Afghanistan and/or Iraq. Though most were in their 20s, they seemed like older men. None had even fired a weapon during this entire tour, which so far has lasted more than eight months, in what previously was one of the most dangerous areas of Iraq.]
thank you!!
passing it on asap..
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Somebody else believes in the Axis of Evil.
Valerie | 11.25.08 - 7:37 am |
excerpt:
[Syria and Iran are happy about the existence of Al-Qaeda because its members attack their enemies for them, according to the leader of Islamic jihad in Egypt, Sayed Abdel Qader ibn Abdelaziz. Abdelaziz, also known as Doctor Fazel, makes his claims in a new book, excerpts of which are published in the Arab daily, Al-Sharq al-Awsat. …]
i call that "common sense".. not to mention "the enemy of
my enemy is my friend" tradition that is older than sand in
those parts of the globe..
bg | 11.24.08 - 11:12 am |
excerpt:
[In the letter al-Qaeda's leadership pays tribute to Iran's generosity, stating that without its "monetary and infrastructure assistance" it would have not been possible for the group to carry out the terror attacks. It also thanked Iran for having the "vision" to help the terror organisation establish new bases in Yemen after al-Qaeda was forced to abandon much of its terrorist infrastructure in Iraq and Saudi Arabia.]
then again.. sometimes the info i post
seems to be older than sand as well..
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then again.. sometimes the info i post
seems to be older than sand as well..
bg | 11.25.08 - 12:50 pm | ie:
The Third Jihad
The Muslim Brotherhood "Project"
The Muslim Brotherhood "Project" (Continued)
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re: bg | 11.25.08 - 6:54 am |
hope it works..
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via GP
Happy Basij Week!
[The Basij is a volunteer based Iranian paramilitary force founded by the order of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on November 1979. Originally consisting of those males "either too young or old for regular military service, the forces now include the ladies.]
aha, a glimpse into Obama's civilian
army up the one way Sharia road..
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Obama Will Keep Gates As Defense Secretary For a Year
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http://www.akhbaar.org/wesima_ar...1125-
58288.html
Dear O and M
The group here are losing their crediblity in my eyes. I am sure too in the rest of the countries eyes too.
Blackmailing and armtwisting the authorities for somethings that could be settled when the USA Army Forces and Iraq money is secured is something very disapointing.
Sirs,
I voted for you last time but in the next Election I will vote for some others, more sensible.
No one can remove corruption in the Iraq Judiciary in 24 hours and the none charged individuals in jail will be released in due course, if proven innocent. But to use these feeble excuses as a means to endenger Iraq is sad and regrettable.
Well it is a fee country after all?
Sorry folks , you blew it this time for good.
Kind regards
bg | 11.25.08 - 6:43 am |
These people are dreaming. Al maliky government is a national unity government. the kurds and the Ayad Alawin will have a hard time dislodging him.
I will tell you, he is not happy dealing dealing with some morons either. He is talking a different language- almost like chinese comapred to these idiots.
His party will win hands down in the next election as he has behaved evenhandedly and affected a great reconcilliation process. I felt it in Baghdad last week.
Unless he resigns, or get killed, he will be retained by the people's vote, watch the space.
Kind regards
Marzouq the Redneck Muslim | 11.25.08 - 11:51 am |
'The strangers are the friends yet to meet.' a Russian proverb.
We will be happy to work with your contacts for the rebuilding of Iraq.
Please correspond with Omar who I am asking and who will be kind enough to link us.
Kind regards
Bomb? and bullet-proof new tire:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13639_...2.html?
tag=bnpr
No inflation required.
[His party will win hands down in the next election as he has behaved evenhandedly and affected a great reconcilliation process. I felt it in Baghdad last week.]
Hameed Abid | 11.26.08 - 3:44 am |
well i certainly hope you're right Hameed..
as an aside..
the fact that the Dems detest Maliki alone is sufficient for
me to like him.. but you can add on the fact that Chalabi
was/is the Clinton's "inside DC man" so to speak cinched it
for me..
now toss Obama'a man Auchi into
the mix & whala.. GO MALIKI!!
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ps re: bg | 11.26.08 - 10:51 am |
but then again, what do i know??
just a SAMPLE:
From Baghdad to Chicago: Rezko and the Auchi empire
excerpt:
[Barack Obama has been appropriately strident in his condemnation of the mortgage-based financial corruption which nearly led to the collapse of the investment banking system in the United States. But there are some strong smelling financial skeletons in his own closet. Obama has his own personal housing crisis that is tied not into Fanny Mae, but into a corrupt international financial combine headed by Nadhmi Auchi, the convicted Iraqi billionaire at the center of the Elf Aquitaine corruption trial in France. Auchi has been shown to be the fountainhead of a source of corruption flowing from Iraq, to France, Italy, and the United States. His financial network, under a Luxembourg company called General Mediterranean Holdings, spread from Baghdad and the Middle East to Paris, (where Auchi successfully posited Saddam's UN Oil for Food scheme), London, Washington, and Chicago, making very few ripples and raising no concerns.
[snip]
Auchi has claimed to have been "a visitor to two White Houses", and his London web site flashes a picture of him at the Clinton White House between Bill Clinton and Al Gore (a long way from his early days with Saddam Hussein as part of a Baathist assassination squad.) Auchi is, however, also the shadowy puppet master to Antoin "Tony" Rezko, a Syrian American with whom he partnered for more than a decade in schemes from Baghdad all the way to Chicago. Their relationship began in the wake of the Iran-Iraq War, when the US was cultivating Iraq and Saddam Hussein. Rezko is now in federal prison awaiting sentencing for 16 counts of corruption involving Illinois officials. Buying influence is his métier, guided and financed by his master, Auchi. Rezko has also been a White House visitor, with his picture taken with Bill and Hillary Clinton for his contributions out of Chicago to the Clinton political war chest. Was Rezko then and now merely the main Chicago conduit for Auchi money? Or was he part of a larger Iraqi scheme dating back to Saddam to buy access to US government contracts and influence? What specifically was Auchi buying and where else did his money go? Was Obama, like the governor of Illinois, a recipient of Auchi's favors as part of Rezko's scheme to purchase government contracts through kickbacks from campaign contributions? There is no question that Obama, as a fledgling state senator, was a target of the Iraqi corruption combine, but did he become one of its pigeons? Was Rezko simply the front man for Auchi and Iraqi funding (whether it came from Saddam, Oil for Food, or General Mediterranean Holdings) over his entire Chicago career?]
old news, but RTWT anyways..
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eh, i'm sure he'll be visiting the
WH again soon, so why not..
Nadhmi Auchi and the leaked DoD IG report
excerpt:
[Auchi was suspected of trying to “bribe foreign governments and individuals prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom to turn opinion against the American-led mission to remove Saddam Hussein”; “arrange for significant theft from the UN Oil-for-Food Program to smuggle weapons and dual-use technology into Iraq” and “organize an elaborate scheme to take over and control the post-war cellular phone system in Iraq.”]
Obama, Auchi & Rezko
excerpt:
[Spring 2004: Nadhmi Auchi visits Illinois and Michigan, attending an event at Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago. Senator Obama shakes hands with Middle East businessmen at event at Four Seasons in Chicago, but aides say he does not remember Mr Auchi
2004: Mr Auchi makes first investment in 62-acre land development project Riverside Park in Chicago, according to Mr Rezko's lawyer.
June 16, 2004: AR Pizza established in Delaware. Mr Auchi is "passive investor" in the company
April 28, 2005: Mr Auchi's conglomerate General Mediterranean Holding (GMH) lends $3.5 million to Tony Rezko
May 23 2005: Fintrade Services SA, a Panamanian company related to Mr Auchi, registers loan to Mr Rezko, secured by Mr Rezko's stake in AR Pizza
June 15 2005: Mr Rezko's wife Rita buys garden plot on same day as Obamas buy neighbouring mock Georgian mansion from same seller. Mrs Rezko pays asking price of $625,000, with a $500,000 mortgage. Obamas pay $1.65 million, which is $300,000 less than the asking price
September 30 2005: GMH makes
$11 million loan to Mr Rezko]
and there are still tons more
of connecting Obama dots..
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Hameed, fantastic that you were able to return to Iraq after too long an absence. I cannot imagine the happiness and pride that you feel.
I would love to some day travel to Iraq and meet you there. Perhaps even do business in the future!.
Congratulations Hameed Abid! Please post your pictures and more of the news from the conference.
Today it is reported that the Sunni parties will force a national referendum on the SOFA in exchange for their votes. This seems to be more progress, I believe that after the next group of elections in 2009 the public will support the SOFA overwhelmingly. Keep moving forward!!
Al-Qaeda Uses Mentally Disabled
Woman As Human Bomb in Iraq
excerpt:
[One of two bombers who struck in Baghdad Monday was a mentally disabled woman whose explosives were detonated by remote control, officials said.
Brig. Gen. Qassim Atta, an Iraqi military spokesman, told CNN the incident outside the city's Green Zone was the latest in a series of terrorist bombings in which woman have been used to launch attacks.
At least 18 people, including 15 women, died
in the two Monday attacks, officials said.]
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thewiz | 11.26.08 - 12:17 pm |
Thank you, please get in touch via Omar.
Kind regards
[Today it is reported that the Sunni parties will force a national referendum on the SOFA in exchange for their votes.]
1LT J Fishman | Homepage | 11.26.08 - 1:12 pm |
nice to hear from you 1LT J Fishman!!
via TG
Maliki’s Life Just Got A Lot Harder
excerpt:
[Earlier Sunni demands, such as integrating Awakening groups and putting SOFA to a national referendum next year, were reasonable and doable, but these late additions are far off the reservation.
In other words, the Sunnis don’t intend to vote for SOFA. Their demands are too ludicrous, and they know it: the Shias and Kurds won’t accept them.
The Sunnis know that their votes are not necessary for SOFA to pass, but they are making full use of Sistani’s call of a “broad consensus on SOFA”—which many interpreted as the necessity of getting the Sunnis on board—to score all sorts of political points with their constituencies.
The idea was apparently proposed by Saleh al-Mutlag at a closed meeting today among the three main Sunni blocs at the Constitutional Hall of the Iraqi parliament.
This leaves Maliki in the unenviable position of being unable to satisfy the demands of either the Sunnis or Sistani. So effectively, he’s screwed.]
M or O, Hameed, anyone 
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via GP
as i have stated ad nauseam..
coming to a theater near you..
Mumbai Under Terror Attack!
excerpt:
[Terrorists are reported to be moving through city in emergency vehicles and staging multiple attacks. Shootings, explosions and other attacks are taking place throughout the city.
There are reports of hostages being held at several locations. Americans and other westerners are reportedly being rounded up by terrorists in several hotels.
All security personal are being called up but are still overwhelmed by the scope of the terror attack.]
come January 20 i will add 'soon".. in the meantime, check with your "local community organizers" for further details..
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just read that the germans have released Klar from prison after only 26 years of three life sentences.
he was a slumming richkid terrorist right up there with ayers ( cf excelon, his dad owned it..)that murdered civilians in the 70's.
http://www.independent.co.uk/new...er-
1033807.html
i can only hope that they have an rfid in him and are using him for bait but who knows..
dropped a girl from colombia off at metro last night and during the ride out found out she was a freedom fighter who was very happy to hear that there are so many of us in the resistance cheering her on.
she thinks the spend spend economy tanking is to drop oil demand and bankrupt china/ hugo etc.
interesting...
P2;
yeah, once you're SURE the world is being manipulated by {!the horror!} Western Industrialists} the conspiracy explanations just write themselves ...
bg | 11.26.08 - 4:36 pm |
This is posturing for getting concessions. They will be out voted and Maliki will sail through.
His Government is one of a National Unity and all parties are represented in its decision.
The Five most powerful Ministers voted for it.
Any objection will bring the wrath of the Electorates of the Sunny block. There is a lot of disquit there which I sensed from talking to some of them.
The Awakening Council will beat them in the next election. so It is their last gasp. Do not worry about this uselss and blackmailing noise. It is Water off a duck's back. In reality. It will have no teeth and no effect.
' The fox does not take notice of the farting of the sheep' an Arab Beduin proverb.
SOFA will be approved, come hell or high water. It is essential for protecting the wealth/ assets of the country inside and abroad, and keeping the friendship of the USA people.
Their past friendship with the communist block lead them to poverty and tyrannies and backwardness.
The friedship with the free world will be far better for Iraqis than otherwise.
I may be wrong though, depending of course, if the USA's promises of protection and help are materialised and continued by the new administration so that they do not feel let down, by the Change.
We shall wait and see.
Kind regards
Hameed Abid | 10.26.08 - 7:32 am |
Hameed,
Referendums take a lot of time and money to put together. With only two months left before the UN mandate runs out, I don't think there's time for what you suggest. If you decide to extend the mandate for another year so you can have time and Obama is elected, you may not get the SOFA you want. Your best bet is to negotiate with the Bush administration now. Kafir.
http://www.akhbaar.org/wesima_ar...1126-
58374.html
A referendum will be held next July 30th?
Let the people decide.
Kind regards
Thank You Troops!!
Thank You America!!
Thank You President Bush!!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY TO ALL!!
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Hameed Abid | 11.27.08 - 1:43 am |
via GP
Iraqi Parliament Backs US Withdrawal Plan
excerpt:
[The Iraqi parliament has voted to accept a deal on the future presence of US troops in the country.
The decision, praised by US President George Bush, means US troops will leave Iraqi streets by mid-2009 and will quit Iraq entirely by the end of 2011.
The agreement is the result of a year of negotiations with the US, with the Iraqis requesting several changes.
Some groups fiercely opposed the pact in parliament and at mass rallies, demanding that US troops leave earlier.
Iraq's Presidential Council must still ratify the deal but its approval is expected.]
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Hameed Abid | 11.27.08 - 2:17 am |
Google translation:
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi authorities announced Wednesday s will be a referendum in the third of July next to the Convention governing the U.S. presence in the country with the House of Representatives postponed a vote on Thursday to read.
Mowaffaq al-Rubaie, Iraq's national security adviser, during a meeting with Al-Arabiya satellite TV that "the Iraqi people through a referendum in July 30 next year will see that this Convention was correct or not."
The Shiite deputy Ridha Jawad Taqi of the United Iraqi Alliance spokesman told AFP that if the people reject the Iraqi government to the Convention will be either abolished or re-negotiated.
The first requirement for the referendum to the Iraqi Accordance Front, the largest Sunni Arab bloc in parliament (39 deputies).
Said Iyad Samarrai, head of the consensus in the parliament in a press conference: "It was agreed to hold a referendum on not later than July 30," he said.
He said al-Samarrai, a leader of the Iraqi Islamic Party, led by Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, "The importance of the Convention needs to the Iraqi people, he says," it says.
To recognize that President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and senior Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, want to ratify the agreement, an overwhelming majority in parliament has the Kurdish parties and Sunni demands to raise the ceiling on Wednesday.
And calling for "the Iraqi Accordance Front," the draft political reconciliation and draft a referendum on the Convention. But tied the approval in the forefront of demands to abolish the law of accountability, justice and the release of detainees and review the budget in the government.
With regard to draft political reform made by the political blocs Samarrai said: "We need a road map for reform of the political situation in the country."
Samarrai added that "the points that were reached are proposals from several political blocs on how to make the political to the better performance and defining the powers of the prime minister and the presidency of the republic and the nature of relations with political parties and abide by the constitution and the law review and consider the subject of terrorism detainees."
He said "the consensus Allen to convince most of these points blocs," he said, "The Front is determined to reach national consensus."
As the Kurdistan Alliance (56 seats) and paper to President Jalal Talabani demanded the correct relationship between the central government and Kurdish as well as to ask the government to abide by the Constitution the electronic site of the Patriotic Union of Alchristani.
And delayed the meeting for several hours Wednesday and continued through the political blocs negotiations for a fourth day after he completed the second reading of the Convention on Saturday.
Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani to the meeting on Wednesday afternoon, "has been postponed voting on the security agreement that was supposed to be this afternoon (today) Wednesday to Thursday to complete the discussions between political leaders."
"The general atmosphere is to the Agreement and the leaders agreed on all points raised Only a controversial one."
For her part, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Tuesday the U.S. government hopes that Iraq's parliament voted Wednesday to the accord which defines the future of the U.S. military deployment in this country.
The Board had finished the second reading of the security agreement between Baghdad and Washington, which provides for total withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of 2011 that the voting Wednesday.
The Iraqi government has admitted in the Nov. 16 security agreement between Baghdad and Washington, which govern future military presence in Iraq after December 31 when it expires next UN mandate of coalition forces currently deployed in Iraq under U.S. command.
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ps: More good news.
“Eighteen females in northern Iraq who were associated with Al-Qaeda in Iraq suicide bombing cells turned themselves into Coalition forces on Nov. 26.”
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BG,
I will 2nd that(12:04 PM)
Proclamation of Thanksgiving
Washington, D.C.
October 3, 1863
This is the proclamation which set the precedent for America's national day of Thanksgiving. During his administration, President Lincoln issued many orders like this. For example, on November 28, 1861, he ordered government departments closed for a local day of thanksgiving.
Sarah Josepha Hale, a prominent magazine editor, wrote a letter to Lincoln on 28, 1863, urging him to have the "day of our annual Thanksgiving made a National and fixed Union Festival." She wrote, "You may have observed that, for some years past, there has been an increasing interest felt in our land to have the Thanksgiving held on the same day, in all the States; it now needs National recognition and authoritive fixation, only, to become permanently, an American custom and institution." The document below sets apart the last Thursday of November "as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise."
According to an April 1, 1864, letter from John Nicolay, one of President Lincoln's secretaries, this document was written by Secretary of State William Seward, and the original was in his handwriting. On October 3, 1863, fellow Cabinet member Gideon Welles recorded in his diary that he complimented Seward on his work. A year later the manuscript was sold to benefit Union troops.
By the President of the United States of America.
A Proclamation.
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth.
By the President: Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward,
Secretary of State
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kids, nay, adults today haven't got a clue
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US troops always were, are, and always
will be the best humanity has to offer..
D-Day Prayer
transcript:
June 6, 1944
My fellow Americans: Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far.
And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer:
Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.
Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.
They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.
They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest-until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men's souls will be shaken with the violences of war.
For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and good will among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home.
Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.
And for us at home -- fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas -- whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them--help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice.
Many people have urged that I call the Nation into a single day of special prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.
Give us strength, too -- strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces.
And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.
And, O Lord, give us Faith. Give us Faith in Thee; Faith in our sons; Faith in each other; Faith in our united crusade. Let not the keenness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting moment let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.
With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogancies. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister Nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.
Thy will be done, Almighty God.
Amen.
God Bless Soldiers everywhere for putting THEIR
lives on the line to protect us ALL from terrorism!
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Dear O and M
Mabrouk to the Iraqi People for this SOFA agreement.
I note the Syrians are concerned about the American threat from the USA Forces in Iraq ??? As if the American Airforce and Cruise missles are relying on their lot in Iraq. The B52 Bombers are in Garcia and UK.
How stupid can one get?
The Syrians have a long Coast line and the American Fleets could land there any time they choose.
The Russians will not fight America to save a Syrian Tyrannical regime. Their best interests is with the West.
The Syrians have a big mouth and have always acted above their station.
They are poor and useless, corrupt and totally out of touch. Always creating an outside enemey to oppress and suppress their own people. A vile and a cheap dictatorship if there was one.
The American presnce in Iraq is by agreement with the majority of the elected parliament of the people of iraq. Whether the Syrian or any other fool in the Arab and Islamic world like it or not.
Criticising the will of the people of Iraq is a stark interference in the internal affairs of Iraq which should stop forthwith.
Being a dictatorship and tyrannical Arab and or Islamic country does not confer rights to meddle in the Iraqi's independent decisions by the Iraqi people looking after their own interests.
So if you are keen to evict the Americans from Iraq, put up and do it, or shut up and leave Iraq in Peace.
Kind regards
Hameed Abid | 11.28.08 - 3:49 am |
Hameed,
Are the Syrians illiterate as well? The agreement specifically states that the US will not use Iraqi soil to launch attacks on Iraq's neighbors. End of discussion.
Don't worry, Hameed. Pretty soon, the Syrians will be begging to come to Iraq for the good jobs and opportunities. Tell them to take a hike. Before that, though, those thousands of Iranians that make pilgrimages to Najaf and Karbala every year are going to see what a free, truly-democratic country looks like up close. If I were the GoI, I would make the routes they take monuments to freedom and reconciliation by lining them with Sunnis, Christians, and Yezidis welcoming the pilgrims and offering them refreshments. It won't be long before those people, when they get back to Iran, start asking themselves why they can't have that sort of thing in their own country. This is how you get the dominoes to start swaying back and forth.
hope everyone is having a great holiday.
mumbai just brings it all home just how good we still have it.
and yes i know they are still on the wall and i am praying for them and their families back home.
had a hard time with the lib ingrate relatives this year but we still ate together in peace which is sweet.
take care everybody!
ps: i apologize for the lions and agree that they should finally give up the right to play on tday every year. forget the big three.please send a bail-out qb!!
Kafir | 11.28.08 - 5:15 pm |
Yes! They are. totally cut from the real world.
As for the Iranians in Najaf anf Kerballa.
We went to visit both under police escorts and met with Governor of Najaf
who asked us to come and open offices there, now that the International Airport in Najaf is opened- with the help of the American Core of Engineers.
We saw Farsi being written and heard it spoken.
We were told they prefer Iraqi Architects and Engineers rather than Persians.
There is work being done at present and the Places are as I left them 46 years ago except for few facades done during Saddam's era. Rubbish is everywhere and mice and rats all over the place. Drainage is bad and the toilet facilities are terrible.
Democracy and freedom is taken hold.
They certainly need help though.
KInd regards
Dear M and O
Life is coming back to Baghdad. Please read on.
Music and ballet .. Baghdad defies the noise
(Voice of Iraq) - 29-11-2008
The first school to resume life after the events of 2003 .. The boss's dream of opening similar schools
Taliban Iezhvan the machine at the School of Cello Music and Ballet in Baghdad ( «Middle East»)
BAGHDAD: Hassani Bander
Whether that be within the building, constructed in 1968 so that fills you with the euphoria of the music of musical flow of wetted Osmaek after a trip might take with the noise of cars and private vehicles officials whistles ringing every moment in the streets of Baghdad, but would progress with you Nazerak Vanma With music and you see dozens of children who are Performing dance in the art of ballet in the operetta perhaps they will offer to a gathering of spectators from the noise of a street or they are only doing their methodology in the Journal.
This feeling Intab any visitor to music and ballet school located on the side of Karkh in Baghdad, which has been and remains the only school to attract children from primary school up to their middle school sections within the normal educational lessons and technical section of the specialized lessons in music and ballet.
We hope a successful director of the school Nayef Hammadi, Director of working for twenty years that will be open to other schools of music and ballet throughout the governorates of Iraq, or at least that lessons in the art of ballet music in Iraqi schools as usual for these lessons from the impact and influence on human life, as Contribute to the refinement of the human spirit and the Ttrf to higher levels so as not to think badly of others.
The Nayef told her in «the Middle East» that the school built in the sixties the twentieth century was and still accommodate the talents of the children who have the ear music, or have particular aspirations in the world of ballet music and art, noting that many students have yet to teachers At the same school after getting their diploma or become important players in the Iraqi Symphony Orchestra. Nayef noted that some school teachers are the best Musiqii Iraq, some of them out to his months of Iraqi musicians.
Nayef said that «our school the first school life resumed after the fall of (former Iraqi), while all schools remaining in Iraq are disabled, as always in the school began in April 23 (April) 2003, and students enrolled in daily attendance, and we forget what we have Happened outside the school building and to begin training and study it to your future, and indeed it was as we had students dancing ballet and playing music while chaos abroad did not know it by the end ».
The number of students in this school government may not exceed a few hundred and tens, but in a simple round in the courtyard at school, training rooms Music and dance halls is that each student a million dreams, a flying Bmusiqah ballet or a painting by train.
Children in this school unique in form and substance, and any child holding his instrument in the courtyard of the school or close to the classroom, as if to embrace the game and attributed it finally happened, says student Dalia Essam and small fingers close to the piano, which took him with her teacher she loves music and has a Piano, and Oorga Kmana at home and playing them all.
Dalia, a student in the first and only child of her family, the shame they hear us it will be beautiful music in the future, but she made damage to the piano and ask if the dreams and began playing with no thought of us as part of the piece we have heard on the radio and we On our way to school excellence in all its aspects.
The Aizan Peace, a student in the fifth primary, was flying in another world of music, it is flying with you hear the music and dance to perform the movements especially in the school operetta to be presented on Integrity entitled «grandchildren», says it Aizan daughter of painter mother and father are also paintings Is the dream of drawing the other. The Aizan dream of flying with the gulls that have chosen music and ballet schools of their own free will and it belonged continued to perform ballet dances at festivals in which it participates and from school on the integrity of the festival will be held after a month from now.
School, in spite of all excellence, but low wages professors compared to the development of their talents, and they need to more specialized staff that work is continuing and many and complex.
The Director of the school that specialized cadre of Russians and Bulgarians and the Arabs have left Iraq after entry in the first Gulf War in 1991, has been using Iraqi cadre school and still need another cadre.
Kind regards
Dear O and M
Iraq has won in soccur in Jordan.
Iraq's reserve team made Norway's international tournament
(Voice of Iraq) - 28-11-2008
Iraq has been reserve team championship Norway Quartet Bbakrp table after winning Friday at the age of the Syrian team in order to reserve compared to the Ache.
Iraq scored Hlkurd Mullah Mohammad player in the match that took place in the Jordanian city of Zarqa at the end of the tournament involving four teams were represented Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Norway, organized by the Norwegian Football Association with his Jordanian counterpart.
Iraq won the seven-point scoring title with Jordan and summer solution with five points and Norway third with four points and Syria at the bottom of the standings without losing the balance of the three games in the championship
Iraq had drawn negative in the first match in the championship with the team then beat Norway Jordan scored a game and seal victory over Syria to unanswered.
Dear O and M
Minister for Science and Technology (statement) * return of migrant skills will develop the future generations.
(Voice of Iraq) - 28-11-2008
Minister for Science and Technology (statement) * return of migrant skills will develop the ages
Baghdad / Mohammad al-Musawi
Said Science and Technology Minister Raed Fahmy struggled Al Kindi Engineering Society Conference which was held previously included Iraqi engineering skills sophisticated detection of the size and the ability of conferences and spiritual came from various parts of the world.
The Talking to (the statement) that the conference represents a significant milestone and carrying more than the most important indication that Baghdad has recovered and that the Iraqis in the diaspora have felt the optimism and development happening in the country and came to confirm their attendance to present their energies skills and services for the reconstruction of Iraq, as well as a touch of reality With the capacity within Iraq to unite efforts and studies and research for the advancement of the country, which is a great asset to Iraq and a catalyst for ages and we use good wishes and the transition from theory to the fields of applied and practical measures .. He pointed out that scientific capacity coming from abroad took in its many projects developed and realized in the world.
Fahmi added that the Ministry of Science, Technology and developed action steps to restore competence outside Iraq, and achieved concrete successes, but works to provide the appropriate conditions to attract skills in the diaspora, and a solution to some of the problems of salary system currently in place, as well as the need to intensify meetings, developments and the channels of communication and geographical location.
He expressed the hope that the conference will contribute to boosting the interrelationship between scientists at home and abroad .. He stressed the need for a policy platform for motivating employees in the scientific abroad to return and develop appropriate facilities for that, but who wish to stay abroad should make use of them in certain ways and develop an integrated strategy and coordinate efforts to that end, the sum, "I am very optimistic that the scientific spirit in the return to Iraq" .
He said the other hand, "We hope that next year is the passage of the ministry, of which we are in the process of submission, which requires national effort and the concerted efforts of more than one ministry, which addresses the important files and very large on the environment and addressing pollution in addition to the development of research and upgrading environmental sites And other projects, such as information technology, and entry into implementation, in cooperation with other ministries, as well as a renewable energies. " He said five of ministry employees were able to reap five gold medals and Cup first prize for inventors, scientific Club held in Kuwait for inventors and intellectuals. Thus, despite the difficult conditions spiral experienced by Iraq they had been able to demonstrate their science.
Finally commonsense won ...!!
28/11/2008
D. Hussein Abdul Khaliq
"The car empty more noise and noise from the cart full, and so the heads of people"
Bernard Shaw
Thursday was a historic day 27/11/2008 decisive in the history of Iraq, where Iraq's parliament voted an absolute majority in 149 (75%) yes to the Convention Iraqi security - the U.S., compared with 35 votes out of a total of 198 attended the meeting. Thus victory of reason to those addicted to loud noise, and thus won the will of the Iraqi people and decided to continue the march of civilization in defeating terrorists and the remnants of the Baath and organized crime syndicates, and start building their own modern democratic and prosperous, instead of heading towards the Somali model devastating wanted his enemies. On this historic occasion happy, we congratulate our people and political leaders of the honorable wise, and all those who sought to pass the Convention, all good friends of our peers in this great victory.
I offer my condolences and deepest condolences to the enemies of our people from the rulers of Iran, Syria and Veolhma in Iraq and outside of the remnants of the Baath young, old and new accessories under various surfaces and the names of political organizations and religious leaders such as Sadr and others. And also attributable infantile extreme left, who met with the extreme right at the horse hooves on the words of Lenin. All these Astmatwa in desperate attempts to prevent the passage of the Convention and leading all but returned to Nhoarham. Therefore, we recommend all of them, and further them and the mercy of themselves, to reconsider their position not to stand in the way the course of history because, as we have repeatedly stated that democracy in Iraq with harsh written, not retracted, but historically doomed to success and no matter how great the difficulties and Sacrifices. The fate of the battle is a battle between two camps, Camp supporters of life, democracy on the one hand, and between advocates of the death camp and the return of the rule of fascism, on the other, and eventually will be victorious as well as life and the inevitability of democracy in accordance with the logic of history.
He tried the Sadrists, the Baathists and their allies from the old and new, in several meetings to block the vote in Parliament in various illegal means, by triggering the riot in the parliament, without any respect for the sanctity of the place as the headquarters of the National Assembly to enact laws on behalf of the people, taking advantage of the tolerance and patience The Presidency of the Parliament and the House of Representatives, with the rest of misconduct, perverted to the parliamentary norms and ethics in place in the world, to democracy and freedom, and the boys acted offenders, Vtmedua on with their rise to noise and beaten offices and the slogans such as damaging the national interest (both of both ... .. To the Convention) echoing the cheers of a liar and a hypocrite (Yes, yes to Iraq) shameless intent and evil intentions, that I want to speak the truth of the void. The use of deputies to raise the noise and fuss in parliament to block the vote on the Convention for clear evidence of the free intellectual and Joaihm Anhiaarham mental and moral, so just like the empty vehicles mentioned in the above argument, George Bernard Shaw.
The overwhelming victory in the vote by members of parliament to the Convention is clear evidence of the political maturity shown by Iraqi politicians, and a victory for moderate forces and the realignment of political forces in Iraq and conduct vigorous pursuit of moderation and marginalize radical elements who want evil for Iraq, such as Sadrists, sympathizers with the remnants of the Baath Irradiance.
After each disaster since the Iraq because of these extremists destroyed a totalitarian ideologies, the Iraqi street and its political leaders noticed the dirty game that you want evil in Iraq, and risk deadly plague, and who want to make it an arena of fierce civil wars, as happened in Somalia when the group called for increased Patriotism, Fgamrt Bmstql the country, demanding the American forces get out of it and international, and succeeded in its endeavors, and had civil wars annihilating the past twenty years, and the country has become stateless, run by war lords and organized crime syndicates which have not only evil on the Somali people who have ordered him alone, But beyond these evils in the sea piracy to all countries in the world.
Should the Iraqi people and Ssayasih wise to learn lessons from history record calamities, and abandon the arrogance and showing off empty in anti-state Great America in particular, and Western countries in general. It is a golden opportunity to met with the State Great interest of our people will never repeat to say that if America was pursuing its own interests, why not seek the interests of Iraqis and also to invest America's relations with the benefit of our people which is the most serious stages of its history.
Experience has shown that anti-America and the West do not bring us only of mass destruction. Compare Gentlemen referees Gulf states to deal with the West, wisdom and rationality, Vtaist with peace, and thus benefited from the expertise and assistance according to a policy of common interests, and has invested its resources in building their countries, and the conversion of forests and deserts to expand, while the government invested even nationalism and Iraqi Althorgip country's wealth and the subjects In wars and mass destruction of Iraq's Vohallowa was called the black wing of the intensity of Ngelh forest to barren deserts and a source of sandstorms. Few of the mind, gentlemen, enough of noise and (showing off that a fly) and the late Nizar Qabbani said.
We have dealt the political forces leading power in all its wisdom and patience in order to please and win most of the political blocs, which took advantage of the opportunity to blackmail the government, and put forward conditions of the swap originally had nothing to do with the Convention security, such as demanding political reform and the release of some detainees accused of terrorist crimes against the people, They announced that they will not vote for the Convention on the grounds that they affect the sovereignty of the national government did not respond to their demands. Thus In order to achieve unity of political forces and the participation of everyone in the political process without removing any fateful hand, the government responded on their own terms. But as Dr. Aziz Haj asked in an article in this regard that (.. What is the relationship between the proposals in the release of political detainees, and the Convention? Does the agreement with sovereignty? That yes, no disruption? If it was, what meaning attempts to barter?! ). Hence, we know that crying on national sovereignty no more than crocodile tears.
The Their condition, a popular referendum on the Convention after seven months from now, the purpose is to a face-saving way out for taking them to vote on the Convention, and claim that they voted that the Government had responded to all their demands. Let, it is important that won almost unanimous vote in favor of the Convention. Those who voted against Viradthm not in their hands, respond to the trend warrants Sadrist Ali Khamenei, "Wali Faqih," the Guide of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the failure of Their goal is the Convention in all circumstances. We are confident that the vast crowd of our people are more aware of the interest of the national interest of some political blocs that will not tire of the conditions imposed by the conditions in political, trade-offs under various pretexts to stop the wheel of history, but crying to the moon. Therefore, we believe in the wisdom of our people and the Assembly over the suffering because of policies reckless and irresponsible adventures of some politicians, we believe that our people will vote in favor of the treaty in the forthcoming referendum. But the question is: if people voted in favor of the Convention, is the conspiracy theory Cesct owners to challenge the results? Our answer is no, it also challenged the results of the previous parliamentary elections, must continue to challenge the results of the referendum results were not identical to their wishes, or against the agreement, and only then confirm the validity Bogz faith.
Dear O and M
Baghdad will be rebuilt.
Baghdad Provincial Council: allocation of 1,500 billion Iraqi dinars to Baghdad in 2009 budget
By H M
Published 26.11.2008, 18:54
Head of the Baghdad Provincial Council on the allocation of certain Kazimi the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation 1500 billion dinars set aside for the city of Baghdad for the coming year 2009 of the total demanded by the governing council of the budget for the city of Baghdad of 2000 billion dinars.
Kazimi said in an interview with "Uzmatik" on Wednesday, that "failure to allocate the budget requested by maintaining the result of conditions in the lower oil prices, which affected the balance in Iraq and the budget of the provincial council in particular."
The head of the Baghdad Provincial Council said in an interview earlier for "Uzmatik" that "the plan Mozanp Baghdad provincial council of 2009 been filed to the Ministry of Planning for discussion and approval," and urged "the ministry's share amounted to 2,000 billion dinars."
Kazimi said that "Because of the limited budget will be the focus next year on important projects for the city of Baghdad, especially infrastructure, roads, education and attention to the beauty of Baghdad, in addition to completing what has been implemented during the current year."
He pointed out that Kazimi "strategic projects that will be completed next year, including sewage treatment plants, with a capacity of 100 thousand cubic meters Day, which will be addressed without sewage dumped into the Tigris River, will also be Akmal waste-recycling factory cost 98 billion dinars at a laboratory in by the Rusafa And another on the side of Karkh. "
The head of the provincial council in Baghdad that "will get the budgets of the ministries of Iraq, will be determined later," stressing that "the share of the budget disbursement of Baghdad on the age of the city." The Baghdad provincial council, which consists of 51 members, more than 25 of the committee responsible for each of the areas in which affairs of citizens. The Baghdad provincial council legislative authority to provincial level and the control of local administration
Dear O and M
It is a disgrace that one Million or more Iraqis live below the poverty line, in a country with so much wealth.
The Iraqi government should fix this shameful condition without any further delays or porastination. It is inexcuseable. Please read on.
A survey conducted by statistical institutions in the federal government and the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq, said Friday that as many as one million Iraqi citizens are currently living below the poverty line, including the largest proportion is concentrated in rural areas as well as varying rates of poverty among other province.
The Minister of Planning, Government of the Kurdistan region of Iraq Osman Huani "The survey was conducted to investigate the level of food security in Iraq, and show the results and accurate information regarding the level of living of the population and the extent of their dependence on the ration card program, funded by the state."
Huani said in an interview with "Uzmatik", "The survey showed that the level of the individual living in the provinces of Kurdistan region, is better than other Iraqi areas, and rely heavily on the program of the ration card items less than the rest of the population of Iraq."
The Planning Minister hoped that "become the information provided by survey basis for policymakers and economic programs in Iraq to develop food security policies."
Meanwhile, Director General of the Department of Statistics in the province of Irbil beauty of the Prophet Mohammed Amin that "the number of individuals, according to the survey, those living below the poverty line, more than 990 people across Iraq," he said, asserting that "the adoption of the survey based on international standards in determining the level of the poverty line Organization of the United Nations. "
And Mohamed Amin in an interview with "Uzmatik", "appropriation of $ 400 thousand dinars," about 350 U.S. dollars ", at a minimum monthly income per family living above the poverty line," noting that "the adoption of the proportion of the population in Iraq on the card program A steady decline in supply, because of the improved level of income but rely on still exists. "
He noted the Secretary that "the Iraqi authorities, in cooperation with the World Bank were about to announce soon the results of another, more comprehensive survey was carried out over four months, ten years and contains many other statistical aspects of the lives of individuals and families in Iraq."
In this regard, Adviser to the Government of the Territory Planning Minister Mohammed Othman said that "the new survey will show the level of absolute poverty, and will include aspects of nutrition, basic services and all other supplies needed by the individual."
Osman said in an interview with "Uzmatik", "The survey showed that 24% of Iraq's population living in poverty in various fields in the case of appropriation of $ 78 thousand dinars per month," about 66 U.S. dollars ", at a minimum monthly income per capita adequate To secure their own needs ".
The survey was conducted with support from the Food Program of the United Nations "WFP" in different parts of Iraq, where divided district of the Iraqi governorates and eliminate the 115 to fifteen units, were taken five years of the survey sample of each unit, for a total of 25,700 questionnaires, in addition That the survey showed that 49% of the population of the southern province of Muthanna living in poverty is the highest recorded, compared with less incidence of poverty was recorded in the Sulaymaniyah and went to 3.3%.
Kind regards
Hameed Abid | 11.29.08 - 3:16 am |
Hameed,
What was up with all the Farsi?
Is the GoI pouring money in there? One of their top priorities should be refurbishing all of their tourist sites and building new ones (Again, some enterprising Iraqi is going to make a killing opening the Garden of Eden theme park [and casino]).
As for the rats and mice, perhaps someone could persuade Cat Fancy magazine to produce an Arabic edition and start building a base of cat lovers in the area. Kittens and cats could be brought from shelters in the West and turned loose. Soon, no vermin just a lot of fat, happy felines.
via GP
George W. Bush..
[George W. Bush hopes history will see him as a president who liberated millions of Iraqis and Afghans, who worked towards peace and who never sold his soul for political ends.
"I'd like to be a president (known) as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace," Bush said in excerpts of a recent interview released by the White House Friday.
"I would like to be a person remembered as a person who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process. I came to Washington with a set of values, and I'm leaving with the same set of values."
He also said he wanted to be seen as a president who helped individuals, "that rallied people to serve their neighbor; that led an effort to help relieve HIV/AIDS and malaria on places like the continent of Africa; that helped elderly people get prescription drugs and Medicare as a part of the basic package."]
KUDOS!!
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"Once the news broke, Moqtada Sadr responded in his usual way. He called the agreement “a disgrace” and called on the Iraqi parliament to reject it."
Big mistake letting this man live. Oh well, maybe it's better than one's enemy is stupid.
some great In Country pix via Michael J. Totten
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Dear O and M
The idea of a Referendum, which I first advocated months ago on ITM was born out of our own Slogan at the British Parliamentary Election 1997, where I stood as a PC for the Referndum Party for the Wimbledon Constituency.
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Sistani supports a referendum on the withdrawal agreement with Washington
(Voice of Iraq) - 30-11-2008
A source close to the Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Sistani left Saturday to accept or reject the security agreement ratified by the Iraqi parliament Thursday to the Iraqi people through a referendum. The AFP quoted the source as saying «that left the rule of reference or not to accept the Convention for the Iraqi people through referendum, which will be after several months». The agency said the «Sistani expressed concern over the number of the first things the lack of national consensus as not to cause The stability of the country and the integrity of the Convention and clarity on some issues as the judiciary and the issue of entry and exit of U.S. forces ».
"The reference is concerned« failure to ensure that Iraq would emerge from the seventh Capter and having recognized the sovereignty of States and the maintenance of its financial resources and the government's ability to implement the Convention even at their present status and not to be subjected to U.S. pressure in the implementation of paragraphs ».
Sistani had stressed before the adoption of the Convention on the need to respect any agreement which would end the foreign presence sovereignty of Iraq and to have a national identity.
For his part, the Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani, said a referendum in Iraq on the Convention on the withdrawal of foreign forces is «wise step«.
Quoted by the official Iranian news agency quoted Larijani as saying that «the decision taken by the Iraqi parliamentarians on the need to hold a referendum to show the Iraqi people view on the adoption of this Convention or rejecting a wise step, he hoped that the Convention« a «.
The text of the draft convention «Convention was the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and organizing activities through its presence on the provisional Iraqi people to a popular referendum no later than on July 30 2009« called the Independent Electoral Commission to organize a popular referendum, according to the requirements of the Constitution and the law that Iraqi Government is committed to the outcome of the referendum "the sources said.
Patricia | 11.29.08 - 4:25 pm |
There was once a blind man who said, and I qoute, ' In the darkness all colours are the same.'
Mooky and his supporters do not wish Iraq to succeed and prosper. They are after pure dictatorships and ruling like the Taliban by bullets blackmail, arm twisting demonstrations and now bombs.
I think it is high time to send in the SAS or Seals for a bit of Anaconda on his supporters. He should be extradited and brought in from Iran, for trial for treason and murders of innocent people and ordering the illimination of Majid Al Khoi in Najaf in 2003.
Why is his blood being spilt and the murderers are free?
Who is behind this conspiracy of inaction and silence, to shield Muqtada Al Sader from Justice? Why is he rewarded for being free for ordering the murdering of innocent people, the murder squads? Is it because he is a Shiite? What is going on?
The Ballets spoke up and reason won the day on SOFA.
A thousand Congrtualtions to the Iraqi people.
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Now the Kurds should be sorted out lest they lose the lot. They should not have it both ways- What is yours is mine- give us 17% of your budget- and what is ours is our own- We keep what we have from natural resources of the country?
The Americans and The British should intervene here and help the Fedral Government.
Kind regards
Dear O and M
Even the heavens opened up to greet Baghdad. What a divine dimension/approval?
Heavy rain on Baghdad
29/11/2008
Heavy afternoon Amtargxirp accompanied by small hail lasted for hours, which is the second time this year when the fall of Baghdad .. abundance of rain this rainfall has caused the floading of some streets in the capital, where sewage disposal has not been able to absorb the rain water, which disrupted the movement of vehicles and pedestrians in the sunken areas, Iraq has witnessed in years and a wave of unprecedented drought. Past uncles did not see a lot of rain fall than the cultivated areas to the threat of drought, which impacted negatively on agricultural production of cereals and vegetables.
Keep it up Iraq. God loves you too.
Kind regards
via The Real Barack Obama (formerly Rezko Watch)
Transparency: An open letter to Barack Obama
POWERFUL!!
but will the M(arxist) S(oros) M(achine) respond??
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Kafir | 11.29.08 - 8:48 am |
I am being asked to write an outline plan- master planning for the Garden Of Eden area including the Marshes. We would appreciate ITM reader's ideas please by next Friday 5th December 2008.
Thank you all in advance.
Kind regards
The Third Jihad
via GP
Al-Qaeda #2 Warns America to Convert to Islam
[Under Islamic Sharia law, usury, like
drinking alcohol, is among the grand sins.
Zawahri then called on the American people to "embrace Islam to live a life free of greed, exploitation and forbidden wealth."]
i've no doubt Obama is our enemy, and it has nothing to do with race, religion, or politics.. it has everything to do with what the man told US he intends to do..
no guns,
no Constitution,
no Christian nation,
no defense of nation
no freedom of speech..
to be continued..
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re: to be continued..
if you have been LISTENING to what Obama has
stated, then you know what his intentions are..
(you might also like to look up Obama financier, mentoring guru George Soros & Maurice Strongs global objective, not
to mention The Muslim Brotherhood Project.. yes, they have been feeding off of each other ever since Hitler & the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem wedded causes.. else the world would be well on it's way to being in a state of peace by now vs pieces)..
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gun sales up 49%
can't imagine why..
can you??
==
via GP
Obama & his Dhimmis have no morals
NYT aka: M(arxist) S(upport) M(achine)
[If he can pull this off, and help that decent Iraq take root, Obama and the Democrats could not only end the Iraq war but salvage something positive from it. Nothing would do more to enhance the Democratic Party’s national security credentials than that.]
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Here's a horror story in the making:
http://tinyurl.com/Obama-Grijalva
Opening the borders, or moving them.
Zawahri then called on the American people to "embrace Islam to live a life free of greed, exploitation and forbidden wealth."]
bg | 11.30.08 - 4:15 pm |
This form of speaking animal- the human being- is dysfunctional and a liability and shameful example amongst the true muslims and especially the God fearing and respectable Egyptians.
He is trying the same technique the Prophet has used at his time to threaten, intimidate and cajole and terrorise smaller countries weaker than himself to surrender to Islam - Isaw the same letter to the ruler of Bahrain at the time form the prophet.- or pay dues and avoid being invaded or destroyed by the Islamic army then.
How fanciful can one get?
Please do not take him seriously or even acknowledge him. He is a criminal just like his boss, ordering the killings and opression of innocent people in the name of his twisted form of Islam- Islam is innocent of this stray dog who's linage is suspect.
What a bloody fool! He is full of his own importance spewing venom to appeal to the weak minded shoeless fools like himself and his master.
Please ignore this idiotic emabarrasment and aim to destroy him for his crimes against humanity, and please do not use the political correctness lark. It is such a waste of time on morons and speaking animals like him.
It is such a wasteful effort just to deal with such stupid murderer.
Kind regards
Dear O and M
For my Iraqi people;
"Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark"... If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?"
--John Adams, the Novanglus, 1775
Good Luck Iraq an thank you USA/UK; Bush/Blair.
Kind regards
Hameed Abid | 11.30.08 - 2:41 pm |
There are differences between the Garden stories of the Bible and the Koran. If you're going to recreate the Garden, focus on the common aspects: Creation; Satan's deception; original sin; Adam and Eve's expulsion from the garden; Cain and Abel.
Decide what you're going to do. Are people going to walk through the Garden? Drive? How will you depict the characters or will you? This could be a sensitive area so give this a lot of thought.
I would also go looking for some grant money and create an institute for the study of Intelligent Design. I'm sure that money won't be hard to find. There are a lot of big Churches in America that would love to fund something like that.
Then, as a related project, I would create an Abrahamic Faiths center at Ur, again emphasizing the faiths' common themes as much as possible, but allowing for divergence.
At some point, you could organize religious tours. Start at the Garden, move to Ur, then to Israel (Jerusalem, Bethlehem), on to the Vatican in Rome, then to Mecca, and ending up at Najaf for a discussion of Sunni and Shia Islam.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/...ddams-
fall.html
Dear O and M
Those who rediculed my intents and suggestion for a beauty contests on this Blog.
Go and get and eat your cake.
Baghdad and Iraq lives. Thanks to the USA/UK liberation.
Kind regards
http://www.sotaliraq.com/iraqnew...ws.php?
id=31024
Dear O and M
This Kurdish article can be said to be defamatory and liabellous if it was published in UK/USA.
Some comments therein are unfortunate.
Kind regards
Dear O and M
It should be the aim of each Province to provide one laptop computer to every pupil in Iraq by the year 2010.
The English language should be compulsary from the age of eight onwards.
India progressed to the moon as a result of the teaching in the English Language from childhood.
Good luck Iraq.
800 calculator/computers? on the distribution of 80 secondary school in Basra
1/12/2008 - 09:00
Said a spokesman for the Committee to Support the age of Basra and services that the Committee will today, Monday, the distribution of 800 calculator US-made F H P 80 secondary schools, at a cost of 600 million dinars more than 500 thousand U.S. dollars.
The Al-Fahd al-Rashid (Voices of Iraq) "will support the age distribution of Basra and services 800 calculator sophisticated US-made F h P 80 secondary school at ten each school as well as the protection of a UPS 800 and 800 benches and 800 swivel chair." He pointed out that the processing across the local company And the beneficiary is the Educational Directorate of Basra.
He noted that the leopard to the Commission for the ages "took about 57 projects in the education sector included the construction of additional classrooms and processing requirements and sources of scientific equipment and furniture."
For his part, Al-Basil Abdel-Hassan, member of the expert on computers that "an agreement has been with the company processed a bodies of the purchase Mnacye well known to be a condition of payment dues of $ 600 million dinars."
And the Commission for the ages and services Basra formed under the chairmanship of Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Safa net debt, to coincide with the start of the process (of outreach Knights) to hunt down armed elements in the city and enforcing security and the law.
The city of Basra, the status of the province of Basra, about 590 km south of Baghdad.
Kind regards
Iraq first country in the world to study and teach Christianity officially.
Follow-up / Iraq today
UNESCO paid tribute to the UN, Iraq, as the first country in the world to study the Christian religion recognizes the educational official said that Hussein dry narrator, director of studies in Kurdish and other nationalities, in the Ministry of Education, saying: ministry received a statement from the deployment of a global UNESCO provided Acknowledgment Organization of the Iraqi government, the Ministry of Education, for its special education curriculum Christian school in the mainly Christian neighborhoods in Iraq, is to me in the world, in terms of respect for the components of Iraqi society Tifaa all colors). The dry: (Iraq is the only country in the world, which studies Christianity formally, in other countries in the world, including even the Christian, there are only a few schools and civil missionaries proselytizing Christianity only on Iraq Vinafth The components of the religious and nationalist equally with Islam and Arabism, the It found both the Ministry of Education after April 9, 2003 platform supervisors in Baghdad and the provinces to the teaching of Christianity systematically applied in high schools to begin the (Tigris) and (faith) and (model gains) and (Excellency) and schools (innovation) and then circulated to all schools In the Christian-majority areas in Iraq
Dear O and M
I thought woem have equal rights under the Iraqi constitution.
If not we might as well be under the Talibans rule.
The newly freed Iraqis should wake up and treat their women with more respect and equality. Those who treat them like beasts should be punished.
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Women claim to grant a their own passport without the consent of parents or guardians or husbands etc.
(Voice of Iraq) - 01-12-2008
The women's gathering of political parties in the Kurdistan region a memorandum to the offices of the House of Representatives in the region, demanded the cancellation of the instructions issued by the Directorate General of the travel and nationality, and not to allow women to obtain a passport only with the consent of parents.
The arrows Omar told a gathering of "Radio Sawa" that the memo in addition to its focus on women's right to travel, including the need to emphasize the rights of women and against violence against women and ensure children's rights and citizenship education, pointing out that:
"This is the opposite of the instructions issued to the paragraphs and articles of the Constitution, because it provides for equality between men and women to personal liberty and public freedoms in all, and on that basis we have this note to the House of Representatives, said that on behalf of women's gathering of political parties in the region call for the cancellation of these instructions and give the right For women to obtain a passport (group G) unconditionally and that equality with men. "
For its part, Ibrahim expressed Kamilp member of the House of Representatives told the "Radio Sawa" and the bloc in support of women's problem within the Council to these demands, pointing saying:
"We made a presentation to this particular subject, and we have within the women's bloc to form a sub-committee to follow up the cancellation process, and I honor a member of the Committee, and when we return to the Chamber of Deputies will take this with us and we'll signatures on behalf of women's bloc to submit to the Council in order to repeal and a The right road. "
The women's gathering of political parties in the region managed to collect more than 66 thousand signatures women in the Territory of the three governorates of Arbil, Dohuk and Sulaymaniyah, to provide such signatures attached a note to the offices of the House of Representatives in the Territory.
Details from the correspondent of the "Radio Sawa" in Dahuk Jameel Khoshnav
Dear O and M
The Iraqi horse riders team will be riding high at The Sultanate of Oman..
To invite Arab Equestrian Federation of Iraqi Arabs to participate in the UAE title
(Voice of Iraq) - 01-12-2008
Baghdad / Voices of Iraq: The President of the Iraqi Central Equestrian Federation that received Monday, the official invitation of his Omani counterpart to participate in the international championship of the effectiveness of appeal will be held in the capital Muscat during the month of February next February.
Haider said Hussein Al-Jumaili (Voices of Iraq) "The Equestrian Federation of Central Monday received the official invitation of the Omani Federation of the game to participate in the international championship of the effectiveness of the appeal, which will be held in the capital Muscat during the period of the sixth until the twelfth month of February with the participation of more than 12 elected Arab and Asian. "
He said "Iraq will be eight players in the tournament, four of them of the effectiveness of the sword and the same challenge to the effectiveness of Spearing."
Jumaili said that "the 16-rider continue trained in the Training Center of the Equestrian Federation of Iraqi Jadiriyah district (central Baghdad), under the supervision of the Iraqi team coach Jaseb Jabr, who ran to stabilize during the month of January January next eight riders who will represent Iraq in the international championship competitions in the Sultanate Oman during the month of February, "he said.
He added that "Iraq will team training camp outside the capital Muscat in the coming year will last for 20 days in preparation for participation in the activities of the international championship."
Good luck Iraqis.
++
ht Pundita via TRBO
Dancing in the dark with evil
excerpt:
["What can I say, as an American who lived through 9/11, to Mumbaikers? My commuting route shut down by the Pentagon terrorist bombing, a bus dispatcher at Pentagon City Metro subway plaza, which had been hastily transformed into a bus depot, sequestering an empty Metro bus for me, in the evening, when all the other stranded commuters had dispersed, telling the bus driver, “Find a route. Take her home.”
What can I say — I whose conversation trails off mid-sentence whenever I hear a plane flying low, as I forget everything else and tense, listening?
What hard-earned wisdom, what words of advice, can I dredge up for others who also allowed their government to deliver them into the arms of evil?
The first human right is the right to be free of massacre. If you’ve lost that right in a democracy that’s not the fault of politicians. That’s your fault. Learn to save yourselves because let me tell you that democracy is a death trap to those looking for a king to do their thinking for them."]
wow..
don't bother looking up the meaning of profound..
that's it in a nutshell..
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Carry out the development of the nation park in central Baghdad
1/12/2008 - 14:35
Baghdad / Voices of Iraq: Baghdad Secretariat said Monday, on completion of the rehabilitation and development of the nation's central park in full for an opening in the next few days.
In a statement, the secretariat received (Voices of Iraq) a copy of it "completed the rehabilitation and development of the nation's park (central Baghdad) in full for an opening in the next few days", stating that "radical change that has occurred on the park is the establishment of a number of modern buildings in it."
He pointed out that "the allocation of one (buildings) to create a cultural forum" and the other devoted to be "an exhibition of art (Calleri) in the orientations of the secretariat to embrace the cultural, intellectual and creative care writer and artist and intellectual" along with "other rooms allocated for the establishment of an internal Center of the International Network ( Internet). "
The development project "included the completion of planting about 15 trees, roadways, and different plants and flowers" in addition to the "briefing garden fence built using bricks made of clay (چف values)" and to "preserve the heritage features which bear" as "a modern lighting system installed and terraces Seating as well as the rehabilitation of monuments and paintings inside it. "
They pointed out that the park "is ready to receive visitors and patrons of the new ones, who had the status of municipality Rusafa of reconstruction and development of a modern manner" commensurate with the "status of this park, which was established in the late fifties of the last century has seen a number of political events, historical mission" .
Kind regards
Hameed Abid | 12.01.08 - 4:09 am |
dear Hameed..
albeit i understand where you are
coming from & your honest intent..
there is no way i will "ignore" these barbaric cults that Islam has spawned.. why do you & yours not confront vs ignore them??
i believe Muslims "ignoring" these beast from within in the belief they will not get bitten is extremely wrong headed..
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Brian H | 12.01.08 - 1:25 am |
that's to be expected, i mean after all, even FARC was guaranteed Obama would win the presidency around the same time or right after Obama was..
btw.. i also hear Putin is going to help Chavez adorn Venezuela countrysides with Nuslear Reactors..
viva la revolucion from w/in..
we have lost via appointments vs shots being fired.. gah!!
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Kafir | 12.01.08 - 8:41 am |
Brilliant.
Thank you for this creative thoughts.
I will cetianly do so.
The Minister of state whome we discussed this project with at Baghdad Al Rasheed Hotel was wondering how to use the area to attract tourists and to provide guides and tours all around the place.
How can we get a grant to prepare the survey and the master plan in The USA?UK for this project?
Where should we go for applying.
I am keen to build a Synagogue, a Church, and a Mosque a Hussainiah plus Temples for other minority religions around a car free vista for all to enjoy the worships and the leisurely serene walks and the quite reflections with cascading water falls, fountains, into planted ponds, small lakes with ducks and other water birds, with small rivers and green hedges, flowing through and shaded walkways , cafes, and amphetheatre settings and deckings. with pergolas full of colourful flowers and plants etc. etc.
What do you all think?
Kind regards
Hameed,
Sorry for the slow take-up. Was in the woods last week away from pc. I'll be in touch.
Salaam!
Hameed Abid | 12.01.08 - 10:07 am |
During Saddam's time three Lion statues stood outside the Club. They represented the former dictator and his two sons Uday and Qusay.
Hameed,
If those three lions are still there, they should put up signs renaming them after the battle cry of the French Revolution: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity or perhaps replace Equality with Democracy.
Hameed Abid | 12.01.08 - 1:07 pm |
Hameed,
Most Christian denominations have some sort of fund for missions. Grant money might come from these funds. I am a Lutheran, here is their website. There is a contact page wherein you can write directly to the president of the denomination. Another large church is the Baptists. Maybe other ITM readers can provide links to the organization heads of their respective denominations. The Catholic Church is centrally managed out of The Vatican so you could probably go directly to them. In the UK, the Anglican Church is the official state religion so there should be some ministry set up to promote it. In Iraq, most of the Christians are from the Eastern Orthodox Church. I'm not sure how that church is organized so you may have to contact some Iraqi Christians and enlist their help.
Here is a list of offices of the Israeli government. They might be able to direct you to any programs they know of that promote Judaism. Don't forget the Muslims! Sistani's office in Najaf and Iraq's own Sunni endowment might be interested enough to provide some funding. Don't go asking the Saudis, though, those Wahabbists ruin everything they get their filthy hands on.
Before contacting any of these, have your plans together and professional-looking. Have the cost estimates be close to reality and have some proof that the Government of Iraq is supporting the idea. Also, the thing needs to be self-sustaining. Perhaps include a Theological University campus in the plan in addition to the tourism money that it will generate.
Let them know that this is an Inter-Faith project so that they don't think you want them to shoulder the burden alone.
Hameed,
There is another project I thought of that would be great:
Build a world-class university on the site of Babylon (now Al Hillah). There would be three main schools of study:
Engineering: Since the hanging gardens of Babylon were one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, that would be a fantastic place to study that discipline.
Political Science and Law: Babylon was the name of Hammurabi's kingdom and the birthplace of the code of Hammurabi, the origin of the rule of law. Students would study democracy, the natural outgrowth of the rule of law.
History: As the cradle of civilization, this is where history began. It should be studied here as well.
Also, the university could serve as Iraq's military academy. Cadets would study history and political science along with rule of law, human rights, and military strategy taught by military instructors from all over the West. Graduates would receive a commission in the Iraqi military. Generations of Iraq's best and brightest would make up the leadership of a world-class defense force.
ht Valerie via Gateway Pundit
It Is Time to Take a Serious Stand Against These Terrorists - And "Reclaim Our Religion"
["It is not enough for moderate Muslims to be revolted by the attacks in Mumbai as we have been revolted by the attacks on the New York office towers, Amman wedding, London transport system, Madrid trains, Beslan school, Jerusalem pizzeria, Baghdad markets and numerous other places. It is time to take a serious stand against these perpetrators and reclaim our religion. Muslims must be more vocal in their sentiments regarding such criminals, and Islamic states must counter this behavior [forcefully]. To borrow an unpopular phrase, the Islamic states must launch a psychological preemptive strike against these terrorists, and, more importantly, [against] those who encourage them. Muslim preachers who fail to condemn terror must either be reeducated or discredited completely, and those who excuse terror [by] using certain conflicts as a pretext must be silenced, because the poison that they spread today will come back to haunt us all tomorrow.
"Some media outlets can also act as a conduit for the terrorists' propaganda. The stories of reformed radicals such as Sayyed Imam, also known as Dr. Fadl, must be highlighted to the ignorant minority. Our message must be clear: 'These acts of violence contradict all human values and can be justified by nothing.
Nothing."]
Amen & better late than never, and/but as you all know
by now, i most certainly could not agree more.. so here's hoping we see some action vs hearing about it!!
==
ht Valerie via GP
Muslim body refuses to bury 9 killers
[The council said it was trying to send a message to
all cemeteries in India that none of the bodies should
be buried on Indian soil.
Bhai Jagtap, a Congress MLA from VP Road-JJ constituency, told TOI some Muslim organisations had approached him demanding that the terrorists should not be buried in any cemetery in India.]
interesting, comments section as well..
it really felt good reading so many "free
thinking - freedom of speech" opinions!!
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Kafir | 12.01.08 - 8:40 pm |
Babylon University is an Iraqi university located in Hilla, Babil, Iraq, it was established in 1991.
There is no Military Acadamy yet.
The faculties are
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Material Engineering
Faculty of Science
Faculty of Dentistry
Faculty of Nursing
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Faculty of Fine Arts
Faculty of Physical Education
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Professional Education
Faculty of Agriculture
Faculty of Basic education for Girls
Faculty of Management and Economy
Kind regards
Dear O and M
Let these morons who harmed the reputation and name of Mithal Al Alousy eat cake.
All Iraqis by LAW are entitled to travel to Israel anytime they choose, including for medical treatment and tourism etc.
Please read on.
Supreme Judicial Council: There is no legal reason why the Iraqis are forbidden to travel to Israel
02/12/2008
Radio Sawa - the spokesman of the Supreme Judicial Council Abdul Sattar Bayraktar that the revocation of the Council for the parliament's decision to lift the immunity of MP Mithal al-Alusi, based on the constitution of Iraq.
Bayraktar said in an interview with "Radio Sawa" that the court decision was contrary to the Constitution is not based on law, although the Federal Court's decision binding on all authorities and all authorities implemented, denying the existence prevents the MP from entering the parliament sessions or the lifting of his immunity, end Saying:
Bayraktar stressed that the right of every Iraqi to travel to Israel without any restrictions is guaranteed by law:
Bayraktar stressed that the Supreme Judicial Council took it upon himself to adopt transparency in governance issues that comes before him, without allowing any political interference, noting that there are many decisions reverse the decisions of the government or parliament for violating the law and the Constitution, and are posted on the Court Federal website to inform them:
In response to a demand for women's parliamentary bloc, increasing the number of women judges, Bayraktar said that the judiciary continue to appoint judges, including judges, but on the principle of merit and not the principle of quotas, adding that the number of judges before the fall of the former regime had six judges, but now more than 55 judge, he said:
Kind regards
bg | 12.01.08 - 12:24 pm |
We have confronted them squarly in our midst.
More intel. assets should be deployed to get rid of them within yours.
Al Qaeda and the insurgents and the Militias and the Lawless in Iraq are being wiped out one by one.
More action should be concentrated in Pakistan Waziristan, and forgetting the political correctness.
Pakistanis extremists have been loose and these should be rounded up.
More should be done to educate the Islamic Imams and to give them funds to teach the kids how to read and write and how to be good citizens.
Most, if not all the evils deeds have come from ignorance and lack of knowledge and lack of education- Illiteracy is a big factor and should be eliminated by all Nations of the World. They should be grants for the leaders of the communities to set up langauge classes to teach the illiterates.
The USA army succeeded in calming down the awakenings and turning them against the Al Qaeda by setting up reading and writing classes as well as paying salaries.
Kind regards
Dear O and M
The Iraqi women are in the driving seats again.
Good for you ladies.
Tell the morons backwards , illitrates and ignorant knuckle heads to go to hell.
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The Washington Post: With an end to the violence .. Iraqi women seeking freedom from new
(Voice of Iraq) - 02-12-2008
The Washington Post reported today, Tuesday, the low levels of violence in Iraq to encourage women to go out into the streets and driving pleasure and freedom which had disappeared after since 2003.
And Mary Beth Cerden wrote an article stating that the militias with black masks almost disappeared from most streets of Baghdad, and the number of car bombings reduced to the rate of almost one a day or two; which prompted the Iraqi Women to get rid of fears and go to the streets. "Iraqi women have disappeared from the streets since 2003 for fear of terrorist groups, but after the sharp decline in violence this year, the women risked driving on the roads, after it is cut off for punishment, which could amount to murder. The writer says that Cerden While some data indicate the increasing phenomenon of women to drive vehicles in the streets, has not yet been issued any license to drive since 2003. The writer quoted a member of the House of Representatives Safiya al-Suhail saying: "Women Atdn's driving everywhere, but we have gone through a special circumstance, and today the situation is encouraging to return to exercise leadership."
Kind regards
'Chemical Ali' sentenced to death in Iraq
BOO-HOO.....
SO SAD,TOO BAD......
YOU CAN KEEP INSANE MAN AND HIS
SONS WARM IN HELL!!!!!!!!
YouTube Smackdown in the New York Times
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G...h?
v=GWILAhthKGs
courtesy of Hirabist Hunter
Now we know: Al-Qaeda is really a snuff film company.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/...ives/
195234.php
well, in addition to lots of other senseless, vile murders.
Suicide bombers that didn't really commit suicide, coached, rehearsed, and edited suicide tapes ... it's all a production. Art. Street theater.
In light of this report, it appears reasonable to think that Al-Qaeda is a product of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group which also produced the Hamas Covenant.
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cg...=sd&
ID=SP109206
excerpts:
The indoctrination campaign must involve ulama, educators, teachers and information and media experts, as well as all intellectuals, especially the young people and the sheikhs of Islamic movements. ....
It is necessary to establish in the minds of all the Muslim generations that the Palestinian issue is a religious issue, ....
What we have here is a group that endorses advertising to stir up murder in the name of God, and snuff films to tell the story.
To all posters:
I've never traded currencies and don't know much about it. I have considered purchasing some Iraqi Dinars for a long time, and would appreciate any advice.
I found these conversion rates on the Iraq government web site.
http://www.cbi.iq/pdf/C.B.I.%20F...%
20AUCTIONS.pdf
If my understanding and my math is correct, $1,000 invested in 2004 ($1 = 1600 ID) would now be worth approximately $1,364. ($1 = 1173 ID)
Question No. 1: Is my understanding correct that the Dinar is slowly but steadily appreciating?
Question No. 2: If Iraq's only significant export is oil, shouldn't the Dinar eventually begin to move with oil prices (i.e., shouldn't analysis for investing in Dinars be similar to the analysis for investing in oil futures)?
Finally, can anyone give me any learned advice about future prospects for the Dinar and advisability of purchasing some for a long term investment?
[More intel. assets should be deployed
to get rid of them within yours.]
Hameed Abid | 12.02.08 - 4:30 am |
tell that to the CAIR et el..
not to mention there are 2 things the Dems adamantly refuse to allow anyone in the US.. including, and in addition to literally stopping President Bush from doing, do:
1) deploy more intel assets to route out terrorists in plain sight, buried w/in in our institutions, or from under their rocks..
2) drill here - drill now, as to avoid
dependency on oil via enemy nations..
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Hameed Abid | 12.02.08 - 4:30 am |
please watch & listen if you haven't already..
Undercover Mosque
just remember the following..
those are not my words, nor did i or anyone else on this planet put those words in their mouths.. and those words they are spewing are not only crystal clear, but extremely chilling considering the fact that they are the same words that are continually denied by the Collective Muslim Community as being a part of the Islamic religion..
when, where & how was any of this confronted by the
Collective Islamic Community is what i'd like to know??
and what do you make of this ?? and there's
tons more (Google Springtime in Islamberg)..
SO WHERE ARE THE TRUE MUSLIMS WHO ARE SUPPORTING
THEIR FELLOW MUSLIMS WHO ARE FIGHTING FOR ISLAM??
thus far their bottom line seems
to abide by the following strategy..
American laws will protect us.
Democrats and Leftist will support us.
The UN will legitimize us.
CAIR and MAB will incubate us.
The ACLU will support us.
Western Universities will educate us.
Mosques in the West will shelter us.
OPEC will finance us.
Moderate Muslims will fertilize us.
Hollywood will love us.
We will use your welfare system to sustain us.
and my apologies if you are referencing Iraq alone.. yes,
much Kudos to Iraqis ( ) as i believe they will be the
catalyst for the direly needed reformation awakening of
Islam..
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[Most, if not all the evils deeds have come from ignorance
and lack of knowledge and lack of education- Illiteracy is
a big factor and should be eliminated by all Nations of the World. They should be grants for the leaders of the communities to set up langauge classes to teach the illiterates.]
Hameed Abid | 12.02.08 - 4:30 am |
oh yes, i agree, but the bottom line
is, that is an excuse, not a cause..
i offer Ayman Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden, Mohammed Atta
& several of the other 9/11 murdering assassins as proof..
"illiterate people" are deliberately & shamelessly pawned & used by RICH SPONORS OF TERRORISM, be they individuals (ie: Osama), organizations (ie: CAIR), or nations (ie: SA)..
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if you have ever wondered why someone volunteers for special forces read this article http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/
01...201pollack.html
while the regulars were cowering behind buses, the black cats were going room to room after these obscene pieces of shit.
sua sponte.
so absolutely tragic...
Mr. Abid, You have touched something dear to my heart ,Iraqi women driving!I have taught many ladies from many countries,as a licenced driving instructor.We have our own driving school here in the states,40 years now.And ,guess who signs them up for lessons?The husbands!In America,the same.When the ladies have the moral support,they learn to drive much faster if they know the husbands are with them 100%.We teach from ages 15 to 80.Yes it does change the lives of both for the better.Men actually have time for things like golfing and other things they didn;t have time for. And the ladies love to do the kids shopping and buying gro,s is fun now.Afganistan has a driving school now, did you know?I donot teach in car training much anymore, but how I loved it!Ladies , hop on Itm and tell me your results,would you?I still work in the office and get to interact with all the students, its in my blood.And to the husbands,letting your wives learn to drive is not a threat to your lives.We are your helpmates.Shareing the everyday errands will be so wonderful for you and a happy wife is great, right?Yes, we do have a few hubbys who feel threatened by a little freedom for the wives in the us too.Trust me,You will love it.I know because later on they call and tell me so.I have a small problem once in a while, cultures are a little different here about our ladies taking private lessons with out a family member coming along.Our rules and regulations from our state does not allow us to permit it. It hinders them really.So , ladies, stay in there and learn, you are in for a new life! Good luck! Jackie J
Batman | 12.02.08 - 12:07 pm |
When the freedom dauned on Iraq and the market econonmy has begun, the iraqi dinars were being bought and Sold at 1500=1$.
Ten days ago at Al Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad I changed $100 and was given 1,080. Iraqi Dinars. It appreciated nearly 28%.
Yes! Go for the Iraqi Dinars as long term investments.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?h...le+Search&
meta=
Good Luck.
Kind regards
jackie j | 12.02.08 - 11:20 pm |
http://www.akhbaar.org/wesima_ar...1203-
58768.html
This picture tells it al.
Kind regards
Dear O and M
It is about time.
128 security officers and men sent in Karbala, to the criminal justice Courts on charges of bribery and torture
By A S
Published 2.12.2008, 22:34
Uzmatik / Karbala
Karbala's governor, today, Tuesday,, on the transfer of 128 officers and security elements to justice on charges of bribery and torture.
This came during a ceremony established the Office of the Ministry of Human Rights in Karbala to mark the international day for human rights presence of a number of local government officials and citizens.
Khazali said on the sidelines of the commemorative "Uzmatik", "We recently discovered that many of the elements of the security agencies engaged in psychological and physical torture against citizens, and for this we refer to 128 people, including six officers, including the judiciary."
For his part, the Director of the Office of the Ministry of Human Rights Ihab Abbas in Karbala in an interview with Al-Mayahi "Uzmatik", "The Iraqi people are still unaware of many of its rights," explaining that "many citizens unaware that they have the right to prosecute any violation of government or not government Their rights and humanized ", he said.
And what can be provided by the Ministry of citizens who file complaints to the Mayahi responded that "the Ministry of Human Rights has the power to follow up any complaints and access to any place of respect, through the ministry representatives who have the right to inspect prisons and to address the ministries and relevant agencies complain."
He questioned citizens attended the celebration to respect human rights in Iraq, said Painter Ayed Miran "The Iraqi human thinking is focused on many of the waiver of his rights, because it does not find a strong stand on the side", he said.
With reduced other citizen Samer Qasim, a criticism made by some circles for a number of government departments, especially security, said that "the situation in Iraq better today than it was before," he said, noting that "most Iraqis today direct criticism of senior officials in the State where And without fear, "he said.
The Ministry of Human Rights was introduced in Iraq in 2003, and follow up cases of abuse of human rights, which citizens are exposed, and a follow-up files of prisoners and familiarize citizens with their rights.
Dear O and M
We will rebuild Baghdad and Iraq, come hell or high water.
For those who tried to paralyse the country, and impede its progress. Get lost.
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Lay the foundation stone of a project to prepare the army in Baghdad
Lay the foundation stone of a project to prepare the army in Baghdad
Secretary of the development of Baghdad, on Tuesday, foundation stone for the rehabilitation and development of a military Canal at a total cost exceeding 60 billion dinars, according to the statement of the secretariat of the capital.
The statement, which received (Voices of Iraq) a copy of "The Mayor of Baghdad Sabir Issawi, a day (Tuesday) foundation stone for the rehabilitation and development in both the military channel a total cost exceeding 60 billion dinars (50 million dollars)."
The statement quoted Issawi, saying that "the project submitted to the prime minister was approved after the implementation of a distinctive design," adding that the duration of the project is the completion of two years.
Issawi said that "the first phase of the project included the development flare on both sides of the channel fully with highway flares, while the second stage is a return to their army and the old stone Ixaiha for orderly watercourse to create added to the Tigris River, will be in Phase III and Phase IV development of the highway And the conversion of full-sized recreational facilities by private sector involvement in building restaurants and Kavteriaat. "
The army is a watercourse running from Baghdad north to south-east and along more than 50 km.
Kind regards
Dear O and M
We are rebuidling Baghdad.
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Iraq today / annexation Abdel-Ilah
Baghdad provincial council allocated more than 28 billion dinars for the construction and rehabilitation of schools scattered across the capital. An official source in the Council: The Council allocated 28 billion and 600 million dinars for the construction and rehabilitation of schools across the province, adding that the amount distributed per billion dinars for the restoration of five Building schools and one in the upbringing of Karkh first, and two billion dinars for the restoration of nine schools and other construction in the second Educational Karkh, and the amount of seven billion dinars to build six schools and the rehabilitation of 22 schools in the education of Karkh third. He said he was allocated a total of five billion dinars to repair 16 schools and the construction of three schools Rusafa first in the education, and 13 billion dinars to build 14 schools and rehabilitate another 14 schools in the education of Rusafa second, pointing out that the purchase cost of Dar 600 million dinars in the rehabilitation of school district, Tariq. The source said the Council decided to allocate ten million dinars each school lacks Support in the light of raising the diagnosis of the acid rapidly and timely, noting that the generators will provide a capacity of 60 and 10 amperes for the operation of scientific laboratories. The source said that the President of the Council given Kazimi called for a national campaign to aid education and educational reality is that many of the shortcomings,
Kind regards
Dear O and M
Brick by brick we will build Iraq.
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Follow-up / Iraq today
Asali said a leading spokesman on behalf of the media investment Karbala that the investment in the province was granted a leave of the shopping mall and hotel apartments compared Stadium Karbala and 5-donum area. Asali said that the company was awarded to investment houses and the construction of the holiday shopping mall (Mall) and apartments on the latest models and architectural value of the project and $ 40 million for three years from the date of receipt of the contract and will be held near the Mall of the stadium Karbala. Another transmitted by the water eliminate the appointed date two local companies to implement development projects within the regions and to accelerate reconstruction in 2008. This was announced by the governor of Karbala and added that the cost of almost two billion dinars will be two opening Group Hajj and Engineering Construction Ltd. and project implementation of projects is the implementation of a carrier of drinking water to (handicap) eliminate areas along the 4500 Qatar Canutail type 200 mm well as the implementation of part of the line The main sustenance of the Judiciary and the 3-km-long type of Qatar also Canutail 600 mm and these projects will begin in the next few days noting that these projects will reduce the pieces of drinking water continued to eliminate
Kind regards
Dear O and M
It will soon be possible for USA travellers to go directly to Najaf.
They wish to attract investors in anticipation of the millions of pilgrims to be
arriving there from all over the world.
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Najaf airport management is considering bids for international flights
(Voice of Iraq) - 03-12-2008
The Chairman of the Committee supervising the international airport of Najaf, Hazem al-Haydari that the airport management is considering a number of offers of international companies to begin flights to some European countries from Najaf.
Haidari stressed in an interview with "Radio Sawa" that trips to Aruba and the United States and other countries of the world starts from the airport of Najaf after the completion of legal approvals:
Haidari and the Najaf airport began receiving flights from some neighboring countries, noting there are plans to fly to other countries soon:
He pointed to the Haidari endeavors by the concerned at the airport to increase the number of passengers and flights.
Kind regards
Dear O and M
The Iraqis should start the privatisation process soonest.
Keeping the consultants companies at the universities and the ministries and keeping the Construction companies within the public sector is a mistake.
There will be no competition from the private sector and the socialist system which was there before has another image today.
The use of Public Private partnership- PPP and Private Finance Initiative should be adopted soonest.
I sugested this system of getting the Infrastructure built at other people's money.Will be better than complaining that there is no money in the kitty.
Kind regards
Kind regards
Warning of low budget to 30 billion dollars .. Abdul Mahdi: next year is difficult to Iraq and will carry serious economic problems
(Voice of Iraq) - 03-12-2008
Deputy President Adel Abdul Mahdi of the financial and economic problems and service described as serious and said Iraq suffer them next year by the decline in the price of oil, expressed surprise at the lack fire alarm so far in the face of these problems. The warning came in a meeting with Abdul-Mahdi for the editors of local newspapers, including the range and two days after the launch of a similar warning after meeting President Jalal Talabani on Sunday. The vice president of the republic that the budget set for 2009 risk reduction and changes to it as it was built On the basis that the price of a barrel of oil Limits $ 62 card and export up to two million barrels per day, adding that he expected to cause the price of oil drop in the budget, making it about 30 billion might not be enough to pay staff salaries and the cost of the ration card.
The «22 billion dollars that go to staff salaries and retirees and the rest to social welfare network and the ration card obligations excluded other threats to the process of construction and reconstruction of oil revenues that are the source of the foundation budget«.
He considered that 2009 will be a difficult year in Iraq.
He also said the budget deficit already, expressing regret that with all these economic challenges has been dealing with this issue seriously.
He considered that the budget suffers mainly from a large deficit should not use the cover of the currency found in the Central Bank of Iraq, which is 40 billion dollars also ruled out the idea of borrowing to meet the shortfall.
Abdel Mahdi attributed the problems to delays in the payment of the Iraqi economy forward through legislative measures and investment said it did not happen because of what he called the parties to remain steadfast determination and delays in the completion of those procedures.
Abdel Mahdi attributed the cause of economic crisis also not rely on the private sector.
He said the solution lies in the acceleration of the oil investment and find oil resources and speed up investment in production and returned all the way wiser to build a strong economy.
He noted that oil and gas law is impeding investment
As in the meeting, which lasted more than two hours to address a number of aspects, political and media service in addition to financial and economic side.
There may vice president objected to the formula by which the establishment of councils backing in a number of governorates asked «Is there a document of the councils referral to judge the council and the legitimacy of its establishment? .. Is it civil society organizations or the security services? Is it part of the reconciliation movement or Asahoat «?
After Abdul-Mahdi said: that the state does not build civil society organizations and the security services do not establish personal decisions and actions is unclear, adding that the State Asahoat not manufactured, but are community-based initiatives supported by the State, denied that the establishment of boards of reference have been discussed or addressed to him or Passed in any of the levels in the state administration in either the House or the Presidency or the Council of Ministers.
The Vice President of the Republic that the consensual democracy in Iraq is not disabled are required and said it lies in the balance of power and have a clear system, but stressed at the same time that public service should not subject to quotas.
And on the differences between Kurdistan and the federal government said Abdul-Mahdi «The mission of the Presidency Council is monitoring the implementation of the Constitution is the Constitution and abide by the amendments in force when they become effective text«.
He pointed to the existence of legislative institution interpreted otherwise receive in each case the differences persisted no legal authority exists a solution
Dear O and M
One of the things I noticed when talking to some of the Iraq delegates at our Al Kindi Conference was the amount of FEAR, Fear of talking, fear of making decisions , Fear of expressing their displeasure at some government quarters and fear of being creative.
I told them, including some of the Ministers and some deputies I met. You must lead by thinking outside of the box.
Your people have not been able to think for themselves, you must empower them and delegate more.
You must try and work as teams.
Noe of us is as good is all of us, I said.
Show them , by practical means, the difference between a LEADER and a BOSS.
That way you will get results.
You must also recognise the professions as a whole.
Not recognising them is a clear factor in the failing of the Islamic and Arab Societies.
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"To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted."
--Alexander Hamilton, Report on Manufactures, December, 1791
Kind regards
Hameed Abid | 12.02.08 - 3:32 am |
Outstanding. Add a school of Political Science and make it Iraq's military academy and you're there. Now, how to attract international faculty and students?
Mrs. Bush was on fox this morning..
They have decked the halls of the
White House with Red,White and Blue!
YeeHaw!
Gosh,i for one,will miss her
What a class act lady!
...
OH,and don't forget the troops!
TREATS FOR TROOPS..DONATION SITE...
Batman, interesting Q's on dinars and foreign currency investments. Heres a few thoguht on the subject but keep in mind that I am not a financier or investor.
First, the value of dinars is very much a vote of confidence or no confidence on the government of Iraq. If you belive the great experiment will succeed than dinars may be a good investment. But if the government fails to do a decent job than the economy of Iraq will falter and dinars will decline in value.
Another factor is that foreign currencies values are also relative to US currencies. If the dollar drops, other currencies rise. So US monetary policies will have direct consequences on dinar values.
Its even more complicated than that because while a poor US monetary policy should cause a decline in the dollar, the dollar will still rise if foreign policies are considered to be even worse than the US's.
Last, dinars and oil are related but will not necessarily trade together. Oil trades on a supply and demand equation. Dinars are also dependant on a succesful Iraqi government with sound fiscal policies.
In fact, oil and dinars may track opposite of one another. If Iraq fails and its oil production collapses then oil will rise as the dinar falls. Oil may even skyrocket as a failed Iraq could destabilize the entire ME.
Conversly, oil will fall as a succesful Iraq increases production.
Also, will the Iraqi government be transparent or will it be dominated by corruption? Will tribal concerns run policy or good economics? Will oil revenues be invested in the people of Iraq and in infrastructure or will it be used to buy foreign investments? LOts of variables to consider.
Bottom line, are dinars a good investment? Don't know. Depends on how succesful Iraq becomes. What will O'bama do? Will he stay to finsh the job? What happens should Iran be attacked by the US? Or worse, Israel? Will Iran continue its decline in oil production? Will Russia continue to be a major exporter? Will Brazil's new oil field have an impact on pricing?
I'd say take a risk with small investment but don't make too large a percentage into dinars.
Hameed Abid | 12.03.08 - 4:33 - 5:27 am |
good going Iraq/is!!
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ht Dr. Jasser via AIFD
like i've been saying for months on end now..
"They're Winning"
excerpt:
[This past Saturday, the New York Times ran an op-ed piece entitled “What They Hate about Mumbai,” focusing specifically on the free market sins of that great city. With contrived evenhandedness, the op-ed managed to blame both Hindus and Muslim extremists—without blaming either party in particular for the murderous attacks.
Without realizing it, the Grey Lady had hit upon a great travel series. In the best spirit of jihad for dummies, why not a year’s worth of op-eds focusing on “Why They Hate____” filled in, mad-libs style, with the U.S., Britain, Italy, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Kenya, and the other 74 countries where radical Islam has reared its violent head? With only the moral blindness that the New York Times could capture, each op-ed would portray the attacks in a contrived even-handed way, without blaming, or even naming, the perpetrators of the attacks—Muslim jihadists.
Watching and reading the last 5 days of reports of the Mumbai attacks was an Alice in Wonderland experience. Even after an Islamic terrorist group took credit, TV anchors and reporters assiduously avoided the term Islamic terrorist. They must have consulted with the Thesaurus for the Politically Correct to determine that the word “gunmen” would not offend any jihadist.
The real truth is that there is war against
the West and the Jews by Islamic jihadists.
[snip]
It is time to stop caving in to the PC crowd. If we refuse to use the term Islamic terrorist, we conveniently take away any onus of responsibility for Islamic groups to halt the murderous ideology they propagate. In fact, in nearly EVERY claim of responsibility, which I studied, for hundreds of violent Islamic attacks which took place since 9/11, the common justification by the Muslim terrorist perpetrator was that there was a “war against Muslims” by the West and the Jews that had to be avenged. The real truth is that there is war against the West and the Jews by Islamic jihadists. And no amount of territorial withdrawal or peace negotiations will assuage them.
But thankfully, there remains a glimmer of hope, and not from the condescending columnists of the New York Times or the State Department know-it-alls, but from courageous Muslim moderates in this country like Zuhdi Jasseror brutally honest Muslim columnists in the Middle East. While the West refuses to utter the term Islamic extremists and as a corollary holds no one responsible, at least one Muslim columnist has the guts to tell the truth of where the responsibility lies.
Aijaz Zaka Syed, a Muslim columnist who wrote
a column for Sunday's Khaleej Times Online:
"It’s all very well for us to say Islam has nothing to do with extremism and terrorism. We can go on deluding ourselves these psychopaths do not represent us..."
"The great religion that preaches and celebrates universal brotherhood, equality of men and peace and justice for all has been hijacked by a demented, miniscule minority. And, as my friend says, only Muslims can solve this problem. Only Muslims can confront these anarchists in their midst..."
"Only they can get their faith freed from the clutches of extremism. This is no time to hide. It’s time to stand up and speak out. For the terrorists will continue to speak on our behalf, until we do not speak up. This is no time for silence. Enough is enough!"
Indeed, enough is enough. It is time to start listening to folks like Mr Syed or the courageous Zuhdi Jasser, rather than cave in to the PC crowd. Reporters seem incapable of reporting Islamic radicalism at home unless there is a conviction. And even then, as The New York Times has so dishonestly but consistently demonstrated, there are only good sheiks and good Islamic groups, not bad ones that preach jihad.]
links @ link (also added a couple of my own)..
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Andrea/fall pj/s | 12.03.08 - 8:24 am |
A Red, White And Blue Christmas
Treats For Troops
!!~ Merry Christmas - Happy Holidays ~!!
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re: bg | 12.03.08 - 11:53 am |
excerpt:
[It all comes together. After more than 7 years since 9/11, we can now issue a verdict: Islamic terrorists have won our hearts and minds. Let’s thank those who made it happen: the U.S. government, European governments and the mainstream media. It’s time to stop placating or being intimidated by Islamic front groups who masquerade as civil rights groups. In 2007, the perversity of was demonstrated when the FBI released its annual 2007 hate crime reports. Of the total 1,628 victims of anti-religious hate crimes, 69.2% were Jewish and 8.7% were Muslim. Yet by my still unfinished account, there were at least 40 times more stories last year about Islamophobia than about anti-Semitism.
The Mumbai massacre was a heavily planned
plot carried out by Islamic terrorists. Period.
Memo to Obama: Until the onus of responsibility is put on Islamic “civil rights” groups that want to ban free speech and claim that anyone who uses the term Islamic terrorist is a racist, there is no hope of winning the battle.]
Allahu Akbar, Amen!!
ps: Allahu Akbar is recited on many occasions:
1. In the beginning of prayer of Hazrat Bibi Fatimah (upon whom be peace);
2. When animals are slaughtered; and
3. By the mujahids of Islam.
to be continued..
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continued..
re: [3. By the mujahids of Islam.]
flashback to 2004
Mammoth Mujahid conference in Kerala
excerpt:
[The conference under the theme "Religion for Peace and Purity" was inaugurated by the renowned Islamic scholar Dr. Zafarul-Islam Khan on 26 December. The deliberate attempt of some elements to slander Islam as a symbol of terrorism cannot be justified, said Dr. Zafarul Islam. Any atrocity committed by terrorists belonging to the community cannot be attributed to Islam. Islam does not give sanction to any such illegal deeds or acts. It was the suppression of civic rights and injustice that led to the growth of terrorism in the Orient. Resistance against occupation and prolonged oppression cannot be termed as terrorism. What the Palestinians are now doing is only resistance for survival and liberation of their occupied lands, he added.]
typical of Islamic double speak..
my conclusions:
1)
none of these huge gatherings (and there have been many
by many religious groups) seem to have done Mumbai.. nor
several other nations attacked by Islamic terrorists a damn
bit of good.. talk is cheap is not just a cliché, it's a truism..
2)
iow: terrorism is both condemned & condoned
depending on "one way street" Islamic views..
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Dear O and M
OPEC will meet in ORAN Algeria this month. So what?
It is in the interest of OPEC to increase the production of OiL rather than to reduce it.
The Global financial crises has affected the Arab Economies and budgets too. Iraq is suffering from that these days. To Lose $100 per barrel since July is a big loss.
They should not think that they are living in isolation. If the Industrialised nations stop importing Oil in large amounts the Income of OPEC will be reduced.
The supply and demand equation, perhaps?
It is the duty of OPEC to support the buyers financial well being by reducing the fuel prices, so that these economies could slowly recover and then will be healthy enough in due time to demand more Oil and its price will increase again.
At present the OPEC countries are greedy and selfish and only thinking about killing the gooses that lay the golden Eggs.
Stupid and short sighted may be applicable here.
Kind regards
Abbas Fadel, the Iraqi hero invincible world champions Sweden in the championship for the Body building contest in Sweden
(Voice of Iraq) - 03-12-2008
Cairo - The Iraq - Al-Bilal
Abbas made the heroic Iraqi Fadel first place heavy weight championship in Sweden for the construction of bodies after the technical and physical possibility of high-level dazzles the rulers and the public a say Badilath and its ability to compete with high-League game world.
The heroic Iraqi Abbas Fadhil (29 years) in a telephone conversation, which did not tremble from his eyelid Mnaazeltp world champions and display them side by side on the same platform competition that has gained the confidence of the son of Iraq Asmar not been in Sweden in the days of only 18 months in duration, very few of adjustment And stability within the new society and then engage in training and the excellence that this moment does not reduce Aguid Swedish language, however much determined to prove I deserve it relied on myself to the preparation of training material is also a very important element in the game of building objects that require special programs and food supplements Food proteins and very high net addition to the monthly contribution in the best indoor training alone needs a budget to high price.
Abbas said .. Being good at not fluent in Swedish language was seen me in the room frequented by champions Sweden filled with a mockery of smashing my confidence and discouraged, but parents took me the entire Iraqi people and encouraged by my mother calls through telephone and stimulate some to your friends who prepare meals simple nice achievement for the new Iraq .
The hero Fadel Abbas, his Swedish newspapers have hailed the completion of Iraq's rulers, especially (Abbas Fadel kidnapped attention through offering distinctive, especially in the hand muscles that had been identified as the best hand in Sweden for incurred huge masses of muscle and the area around a large circular motion up to 56 Cm a sudden in the game of building objects as well as abdominal muscle side is unique thing in his being very muscular and perfect free water or grease, which was called Baladilp Alnashvp muscle as well as fragmentation of the dorsal muscles and recycled broad similarities perverse highlighted by the governors, which resolved to win it Despite the presence of giants participants to the star by Abbas)
Well done Abbas
Kind regards
ps re: bg | 12.03.08 - 2:11 pm |
mini flashback for demonstration purposes only..
[Under cross-examination, he testified that he expected to enter the witness protection program after his 10-year prison term. He conceded that “muhajid” means “brother who fights for Islam,” and does not necessarily connote physical fighting.]
but then again, it most certainly does.. uhg!!
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via GP
Major Eric Egland..
excerpt:
[Major Egland saw first hand in Iraq and Afghanistan that the troops are well equipped to engage in combat, but need the American people to equip them to engage communities. Soldiers and Marines have proven that providing tailored responses to local needs--whether medical supplies, water filtration systems or enough sports equipment to start a soccer league--builds trust and makes the people more willing to stand up, so our troops can stand down and come home--victorious.
Besides his important work in Iraq, Eric is focusing on national security reforms, including making sure wartime earmark abusers face consequences. Eric Egland is launching an assault on backroom contracting deals during wartime.]
more & links @ link..
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via TLWJ
Iraqi Army develops the heavy
mechanized and armored forces
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via TLWJ
Yemeni al Qaeda leader: State conducts terror attacks
[Yemen's security forces have repeatedly orchestrated terror attacks within Yemen in order to manipulate US and international perceptions, the most wanted fugitive in September's terror attack on the US Embassy in Sana'a said in an interview Tuesday.
[snip]
"I am ready to prove the reality that some attacks were planned in co-ordination and agreement of the Political Security and its agents to gain foreign support and to confirm to America that they (the Yemeni state) launch war against terrorism," Dhayani said in the explosive interview.
Yemen's Political Security Organization (PSO) is an internal intelligence arm that reports directly to President Saleh. It is responsible for much of the regime's efforts to stifle the free press and silence journalists, political opposition, and critics. The force is seeded with Salafists and al Qaeda sympathizers and has absorbed numerous "reformed" al Qaeda operatives.
Galib al Qamish, the head of the PSO, regularly negotiates with representatives of al Qaeda to reach mutually beneficial agreements. Some analysts have long postulated that the PSO deploys militants within Yemen for political ends. Yemen's military has utilized extremists to train tribal paramilitary forces in Yemen's Sa'ada war. Dhayani's interview is the first open source collaboration of theories that the Yemeni state orchestrates terror attacks to gain international sympathy and aid.
[snip]
Dhayani said of the dozens of attacks in Yemen over the last two years, some are "reactions by those young people who suffered from torture in prisons, in addition to, some of it was made by the security apparatuses and its agents."]
thank you Hamza Ali Saleh al Dhayani..
same goes for Palestine & a few other RICH
DESPOTS poor countries (ie: Kenya)..
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Brian H | 12.01.08 - 1:25 am |
excerpt:
[President elect Barack Obama is planning to nominate for Secretary Of The Interior, Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva.
Grijalva has acknowledged that he once belonged to, and still supports a radical Anti-U.S. organization called MEChA. This radical organization is working for Mexican Reconquista, the return to Mexico of the seven southwestern states of the U.S.
In support of this program Grijalva promotes open borders and opposes a border fence and voter ID requirements.
In fact, Grijalva refers to patriotic Americans who oppose open borders and support voter ID requirements as “cockroaches”.]
"the enemy of my enemy is my friend"
excerpt:
[Grijalva also opposes all mining in the west as he wants the minerals and coal to remain in the ground so if Mexico is successful in Reconquista, the mineral wealth will remain for Mexico to exploit. He opposes all logging and most ranching as well as hydroelectric dams on rivers that enter Mexico.]
Obama: "I will Bankrupt the Coal Companies"
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P2 | 12.02.08 - 2:06 pm |
excerpt:
[My story begins innocuously, with a dinner reservation in a world-class hotel. It ends 12 hours later after the Indian army freed us.
My point is not to sensationalize events. It is to express my gratitude and pay tribute to the staff of the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai, who sacrificed their lives so that we could survive. They, along with the Indian army, are the true heroes that emerged from this tragedy.
[snip]
(We later learned that minutes after we climbed the stairs, terrorists came into the Harbour Bar, shot everyone who was there and executed those next door at the Golden Dragon. The staff there was equally brave, locking their patrons into a basement wine cellar to protect them. But the terrorists managed to break through and lob in grenades that killed everyone in the basement.)
[snip]
Some may say our survival was due to random luck, others might credit divine intervention. But 72 hours removed from these events, I can assure you only one thing: Far fewer people would have survived if it weren't for the extreme selflessness shown by the Taj staff, who organized us, catered to us and then, in the end, literally died for us.
They complemented the extreme bravery and courage of the Indian commandos, who, in a pitch-black setting and unfamiliar, tightly packed terrain, valiantly held the terrorists at bay.]
thanks for posting that P2.. even though i got goose bumps
reading it, i still can't imagine the literal horror of the reality..
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Mr.Abid,The picture does say it all.Learning to drive should be an exciting experience.A good teacher should be able to take a student who has never attempted to drive and turn out a good ,well trained driver.It is the instructors duty to do so and have the student really enjoy learning.You are so great with your advice,this would be good to pass along .Our state has a program that helps those who can't afford the cost.It is true that the greatest hinderance to finding a better paying job is a drivers license.Certain conditions have to be met.Hopefully that could be added into the budget.God knows ,the ladies deserve it.
Well, I see that a Russian battleship, a nuclear sub and two supply ships made it all the way to Venezuela as a "show of force." Hearty congrats to the Russian fleet! Way to go guys!
What we should have done, very quietly, was to send a hundred of our own ships to the Caribbean. The night before the big show in Venezuela, we could have sneaked up and surrounded them.
Not say a word, don't do a thing. Just sit there quietly for a day and then sail off.
Imagine what the Russian sailors would have felt like to look out and see a hundred US warships. Would be like taking a cap gun to an Alabama gun show, lol.
Dear All
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Dear O and M
I have been recommending a Law for the Iraqi Disabled- DDA - for a long time now on these Pages of ITM.
The Iraqi Parliament should have one urgently.
USA and UK have them and these could be easily translated into Arabic and made Law in Iraq.
Association for the Disabled in Dahuk passed a law calling for the care of the disabled in the Kurdistan region of Iraq
By R S
Published 4.12.2008, 00:05
Uzmatik / Dohuk
Association called for the disabled in the civil Dohuk, Wednesday evening, the need to adopt a special law to care for the disabled in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, he noted in the care of disabled persons in the province to the territorial Government has allocated a monthly financial assistance for about A blind in Dahuk.
The head of the Zine for the disabled in Dahuk Nasrat Mohammad Salim, in an interview with "Uzmatik", "The issuance of a special law sponsored by the disabled and those with special needs those responsible would be required to work to improve the conditions of the disabled, care and maintenance of their rights."
The sound that "the disabled in society are suffering health problems and psychological, and that they need to care for the rehabilitation and integration into wider society."
A head of the Zine for the disabled on "assistance, in coordination with the State disabled the region, including the distribution of more than a piece of land and payment of monthly financial aid to more than 900 disabled, in addition to providing health services, and supplies them therapeutic, and rehabilitative and educational sessions."
For his part, the director of the care of disabled persons and persons with special needs in Dahuk, Salah al-Youssef that "his focus was now on the rehabilitation of disabled children," adding that the Chamber "four institutes for the rehabilitation of disabled children and those with special needs, benefiting 100 120 annually between children" .
Yousuf said that "the territorial Government has allocated a monthly financial assistance for about a province Desisted across Dahuk," pointing out that his "is planning to create employment opportunities for persons with disabilities and those with special needs who have the capability to do the work, to allow their integration into the wider society."
The Director of the care of disabled persons that "his also plans to conduct a comprehensive census to collect all the information on the numbers of disabled status and degree of disability, with the aim of building an integrated database to view the problems of the disabled and ways to address it."
There was little in Dahuk, 460 miles north of Baghdad, according to informed sources, more than six thousand disabled people across the province, receiving mostly auspices of the Government of the Territory, as well as a number of civic organizations, including the Zine for the disabled in Dahuk, which was founded in 1995 and more than Four thousand members, with branches in the districts, Zakho, and Semel, and Amadiyah.
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Dear O and M
Thank you Italy for this mega project.
Close to signing the final version of the draft Port Greater Iraq
Put an Iraqi delegation from the Ministry of Transport with an Italian company specialized version of the draft final port of Greater Iraq at a time when Iraq regained its membership of the Federation of Arab ports.
The director said Capt. Salah al-Khodair Ports in a statement that a delegation headed by Deputy Minister of Transport and the Ministry adviser and general manager of Iraqi ports has arrived in Italy yesterday for the purpose of discussing the final version of the draft port of Iraq, which has prepared an Italian company, among the Italian government to grant spent on the preparation of studies and data engineering Of the projects proposed by the Iraqi government, adding that the final version signed by the two sides will be presented to the prime minister as the executive authority being put to the investment. The port project is the large Iraq in the far south of Iraq in Faw, 130 kilometers from Basra, which includes the pavement depth of 30 kilometers from the coast of South Triangle FAO length of 100 km between Ra's al-Bishah Southeast FAO Khor Abdullah entrance to the west of Umm Qasr, Basra and composed 100 of the giant platform within our territorial waters in addition to administrative and wanted first-class hotels and a network of highways linking Iraq's internal network and the estimated cost of the investment announced about 20 billion dollars and competing to win the deal build 3 international companies, including British joint Iraqi. In a related context, director of ports for the restoration of Iraq's membership in the Federation of Arab ports and effectively.
Dear O and M
Thank you Italy for this mega project.
Close to signing the final version of the draft Port Greater Iraq
Put an Iraqi delegation from the Ministry of Transport with an Italian company specialized version of the draft final port of Greater Iraq at a time when Iraq regained its membership of the Federation of Arab ports.
The director said Capt. Salah al-Khodair Ports in a statement that a delegation headed by Deputy Minister of Transport and the Ministry adviser and general manager of Iraqi ports has arrived in Italy yesterday for the purpose of discussing the final version of the draft port of Iraq, which has prepared an Italian company, among the Italian government to grant spent on the preparation of studies and data engineering Of the projects proposed by the Iraqi government, adding that the final version signed by the two sides will be presented to the prime minister as the executive authority being put to the investment. The port project is the large Iraq in the far south of Iraq in Faw, 130 kilometers from Basra, which includes the pavement depth of 30 kilometers from the coast of South Triangle FAO length of 100 km between Ra's al-Bishah Southeast FAO Khor Abdullah entrance to the west of Umm Qasr, Basra and composed 100 of the giant platform within our territorial waters in addition to administrative and wanted first-class hotels and a network of highways linking Iraq's internal network and the estimated cost of the investment announced about 20 billion dollars and competing to win the deal build 3 international companies, including British joint Iraqi. In a related context, director of ports for the restoration of Iraq's membership in the Federation of Arab ports and effectively.
Kafir
Please read on.
Babylon Chamber of Commerce established a joint stock company to build and manage the first "Mall" in the province
Chamber of Commerce began proceedings Babil province establish a joint stock company to run a modern commercial market, "Mall", the first of its kind held in the maintenance of the land area in 2150 2. The Chairman of the Chamber endorsed Afaihan that has been initiated legal and administrative procedures for establishing the company, which will contribute to the construction and management of the first commercial market, "Mall" held in the city of Hilla, in 2150 the land area of 2, adding that the IPO will be room in the company once the registration with the Registrar of Companies in the Ministry of Commerce available to all members of conservative investing their money in this market. And that room completed architectural design on the market, which consists of four layers and consists of a variety of shops and service facilities, elevators, escalators and moving, as well as a garage for cars and rest areas and a playground for children. He added that the room felt Afaihan to participate in the investment market traders and people who want to maintain that, saying he was rejected several offers of investment market by foreign investors submitted recently.
Kind regards
http://www.iraqdirectory.com/Dis...ws.aspx?
id=7489
Dear O and M
Foreign investment is encouraged in Iraq next month.
All are welcome.
Kind regards
http://www.iraqdirectory.com/Dis...ws.aspx?
id=7542
Iraq is trying to get back its treasures from an Auction House.
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Ah, I’ve been waiting for this.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...8120303495.html
U.S. to Raise 'Irregular War' Capabilities
Excerpts:
The Pentagon this week approved a major policy directive that elevates the military's mission of "irregular warfare" -- the increasingly prevalent campaigns to battle insurgents and terrorists, often with foreign partners and sometimes clandestinely -- to an equal footing with traditional combat. …
Designed to institutionalize lessons the U.S. military has learned -- often painfully -- in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001, the policy aims to prepare the military for the most likely future conflicts and to prevent the type of mistakes made in the post-Vietnam War era, when hard-won skills in counterinsurgency atrophied.
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The accomplishment in Iraq by our military, which defined the need for, educated, and built its own functional equivalent of the State Department in a 4-year span, is not to be underestimated.
I would also strongly advise those who would change our school system to look at our military’s recent experience. The largest and most effective educational system in our country now resides in the US military.
All the proposals I’ve read so far seem to be directed toward imposing national standards, a national bureaucracy, and therefore national inefficiency on an already overly bureaucratic, judgment-impaired oppressive system. Our experience has shown, however, that our strength is in our size and our ability to quickly raise up people with skill sets appropriate to unexpected situations.
I’d like to see Colin Powell at Dept. of Education, and so would others.
Yes, we are going to consider modifying our school system in light of our experience in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Anonymous Group meets with Obama Aides to oppose any kind of rational interrogation policy.
These are supposedly high-ranking former military people, who want to comment, not on military matters, but on how the CIA is supposed to deal with captured terrorists in a fast-moving situation. At least, that is the impression the article wants to give.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...8120303379.html
Human Rights First -- who are they?
Dear O and M
Congratualtions on this historic document with the friendship and cooperation with USA.
Iraq will be great again with the USA's help and will be an effective partner in fighting terrorism and extremism. It will support and spread liberty, democracy, the Rule of law and Freedom, throughout the world and especially in the Middle East and Islamic countries.
The next move should be to join NATO and after that to Join the EU, such as potentially Turkey.
Once with NATO Iraq will not need to purchase arms and spend its assets on armaments.
It should dismantle the socialist economy and privatise and create working conditions for full employment, although some Iraqis are unemployable.
It is the begining of a very exciting era and very constructive one for IRAQ.
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URGENT / Presidency of the Republic ratified the Convention on the withdrawal of U.S. troops
4/12/2008 - 15:43
Baghdad / Iraq vote: Council approved the Presidency of the Republic, on Thursday, the Convention on the withdrawal of U.S. forces and the reform document, as the President of the Office of the President.
He said Naseer al-Ani told (Voices of Iraq) that "the Presidency Council endorsed today (Thursday) unanimously by the Convention on the withdrawal of U.S. troops, including the referendum in the middle of next year as well as the ratification of the reform document."
The Iraqi Council of Representatives has approved on 27 November from the month of November last of the Convention on the withdrawal of troops.
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Dear O and M
Syria has now replaced Iraq as the third 'axis of evil' to join Iran and North Korea.
We note the demonstrations organised by the Syrians and the iraqis who are harboured there and we felt sorry for them.
The Syrians are hypcrites to the nth degree and could not be relied upon whatsoever.
This shouting and apparent love for the Arabs and the Islamic nations is not but a facade for whose benefits, we do not know.
Syria has appointed itself to be the Regent on Iraq and championed all shouts and cryings for its assumed deprived liberty, whilst in fact, it plotted to create and encouraged the killings of Iraqis of each other, Exactly as she did Lebanon in 1975. They saw an opportunity to use its army to occupy Iraq as they did Lebanon.
Iraq should send the Syrian Ambassador back to Demascus and should build an Israeli like wall and keep them out.
With friends and fellow Arabs like them who needs enemies?
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Maliki's adviser: Syrian campaign against the agreement are to keep the direction of foreign troops in Iraq
(Voice of Iraq) - 04-12-2008
The media advisor Yassin Majid, the Iraqi prime minister, deplored the negative attitude of the Syrian Security Agreement between Iraq and the United States, asked whether Damascus would ask permission from the Arab states to a peace agreement with Israel to regain the occupied Golan Heights, he said.
Majid said in an interview to "Radyoussoa that" media and political campaigns of the Convention against Syria security disappointing, expressing surprise at the lack of support for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Iraq, which is enshrined in the Convention, adding:
Yassin criticized the information campaign waged by Damascus to Baghdad by hosting the figures does not want the success of the political process in Iraq, pointing out that Syria's position similar to the position of the former Iraqi regime, which was host to the figures feed the Iraqi people, such as bread, Leith Shbeilat, and other known receiving oil vouchers, as He said:
Majid asked whether Syria would allow Arab countries to intervene in the matter of procedure in the event of signing a peace agreement with Israel to regain the Golan Heights, which is still occupied since.
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via GP
Obama Won't Immediately Withdrawal From Iraq
as if President Bush was wrong to stay the course??
btw: Hospitals in Hawaii to Obama:
You Were Not Born Here!
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The US Supreme Court is supposed to hear one of the cases questioning Obama's citizenship Friday, and the Chicago Tribune has breaking news.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/
ne...,0,664988.story
excerpt:
The Obama campaign has maintained that he was born in Hawaii, has an authentic birth certificate, and is a "natural-born" U.S. citizen. Hawaiian officials agree
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This is really news to me, because I read that the Hawaiian officials specifically refused to confirm anything at all about the actual document, and refused also to confirm anything about the document posted by the Obama Campaign on its "Fight the Smears" website.
Had the appropriate Hawaiian officials made any statement that would have allowed me to conclude that the original birth certificate was a normal document in good order establishing Barack Obama's birth in Hawaii, this controversy would have evaporated for me. They were asked to do that, and they did not.
So this paragraph in the Tribune article appears to be new information, and if true, would naturally have to appear with the name of the person who made the statement.
Here's a petition
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=...ew&
pageId=81550
bg, I see we are running in parallel gutters today!
More than I could possibly read about global warming, today, but I wanted to share.
http://co2science.org/index.php
H/T John Coleman
are you ready for it..
because like it or not..
it's coming..
and you thought you'd heard & seen it all by now huh..
well just you wait..
you ain't seen nor heard nothin' yet..
it's going to be non-stop stupefying propaganda from one
end of the planet to the other crisscrossing back & forth
over & over again..
via Gateway Pundit
New Egyptian Pop Song Compares Obama to Saladin
[The song goes on to curse Bush for having wasted several years. "People believe that Obama will be like Saladin (Salaheldin in Arabic)...
The singer goes on to say that no matter what Obama will do he will not bring back [former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq] Hariri nor [Hamas's] Sheikh [Ahmad] Yassine. [Hariri was killed in Beirut by a car bomb, which was blamed on Lebanese and Syria; and Yassine was killed in Gaza by an Israeli raid.]
"Arafat will not return, he is dead and everyone knows
it is the deed of the Mossad," says the singer.
"You Arabs are waiting for Obama to take action in your
place, to have pity and come to your rescue. You Arabs,
neither Bush nor Obama will protect you. Only with your
own hands can you protect yourself."
Shaaban's music breakthrough came in 2000 with a song
titled "Ana Bakrah Israel" (I Hate Israel) accompanied by
the catchy refrain "But I Love Amr Moussa."]
oh it gets worse..
Egyptian Cleric to Obama: Convert to Islam
[My message to him is three-fold. First, I invite him to convert to Islam. This is the call of the Prophet and of Allah. Oh Obama – convert to Islam, and you will be saved. I hope that Allah will reward you twice: Once for converting to Islam, and another reward for all those who will convert in your footsteps. If you want glory – you will find it in Islam. If you want honor – you will find it in Islam. In religions other than Islam there is utter humiliation, even if you are the president of the entire world.]
however, Obama does not have to "convert" to
Islam, all he & Uncle Jerry have to do is "revert"..
to be continued..
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continued..
and not much better..
Baghdad Scuttlebutt: Pssst! Obama's a Shi'ite
[It's not just right-wing kooks in Middle America who believe Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim: conspiracy theorists across the Middle East have embraced the idea with the same fervor they bring to other bizarre notions. I am not a bit surprised when, later in the conversation, Mohammed assures me that Israel was responsible for the 9/11 attacks and that Saudi Arabia had agreed to bail out the U.S. economy in exchange for an American invasion of Iran.]
(no, he would be a Sunni, father having being Lou claiming to be Taliban.. oh okay, so the Odinga's, his parents & his & their friends were all & still are communists.. look, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem fully engaged Muslims in Hitler's quest to annihilate Jews & whoever came next (which probably would have been Hitler etal), nuff said)
ok.. since Obama loves to talk, hows about he starts off
by confronting the lies that have been perpetrated upon
innocent people's literally turning them into "madmen"??
wait, wait!!
i can feel it!!
i can see it coming!!
Obama the "uniter" (Farrahcon)..
is the 12th Imam (Amadjekoff)..
no, no, he's the Messiah (Farrahcon)..
will part the clouds, the sky will open, and not only will the
ancient rift between Shia & Sunni heal, but the Palestinians
will embrace their long lost Israeli cousins, everyone around the world will rejoice in these miracle's by holding hands and
singing hakuna matata, uh, er, kumbaya (yeah, that's it)!!
well either that.. or the thousands of idiots out there will
start killing each other & everyone else off in earnest for
Allah.. i mean why stop when you've been on a centuries
old roll.. but what do i know!!
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Dear O and M
And WE will go back to Baghdad to help him. As I have most of my tribe and Family live there, although they moved there when I was in UK.
My own brother moved out since though.
Kind regards
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Secretary of Baghdad, Sadr City, dreams turn to (beautiful) districts of the capital in 10 years .. One resident said: Somnh Issawi, a thousand years
05/12/2008
BAGHDAD: Ali Nasir «Middle East» - dreams of the Secretary of Baghdad, Sabir Isawi transfer of Sadr City suburb of the poor and densely populated neighborhoods in the class within a decade through massive investment. Issawi says «you will see with your own eyes that this dream will become a reality and will become better and Sadr City district of Baghdad beautiful».
Before the US-Iraqi Joint last spring, the Shiite neighborhood controlled by the Mahdi Army led by cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. The estimated number of militiamen around sixty thousand firing rockets and shells at the heavily fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad where the U.S. embassy and the Iraqi government. The chief engineer of Baghdad's 40-year-old has been in place since 2005, told the French press to allocate at least ten billion dollars for a period of ten years which will work on the landscape radically altered for the suburbs, which are constructed misery since 1959. The zone is earmarked for housing the poor Shiites come from rural areas, especially from the southern province of Maysan in search of work designation «Revolution City» in the first matter, but the name changed to «Saddam City» after receiving former President Saddam Hussein's power. But residents decided in the wake of the US-led invasion in 2003 called «Sadr City» after Moqtada al-father, Imam Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr who was assassinated in 1999.
Issawi is pregnant and Ph.D. in agriculture to double the drinking water to the population lacks strongly and building of two underground (metro) and the allocation of green space, in addition to a number of gardens. But enthusiasm impeded by the indifference of people who see only the buildings piercing bullets and shattered shop fronts and sidewalks and roads destroyed by four years of battles and skirmishes. Said Abu Haidar, one of the dealers bitterness and sorrow and clear, «in any year are we now? 2008? Must wait until 3008,'ll notice a thousand years ». For his part, Abu Ammar, a carpenter who works in sarcastic «getting electricity and we have enough fuel these days with the approach of the elections», referring to provincial elections expected to take place on January 31 (January) next. June Issawi, 30 thousand construction of apartment buildings on the edge of Sadr City and then destroyed the homes of those who will live there. But Jalal Abkhi official in Sadr's movement rejected the idea of apartments as they would be separated between the families now living under one roof in separate homes, although lack of space. He said that «people are not in need of apartments but want more services and infrastructure». In addition, the secretariat Issawi says Baghdad has allocated fifty million dollars to clean up «a military» a length of 25 km and is located between Sadr City, Sunni Adhamiya after Balausak filled, as well as the bodies during the era prior to the sectarian violence. He notes that the design of green spaces, restaurants and cafes in the region.
For his part, an official with the secretariat of Baghdad, Abdul-Hakim Al «Middle East» that the working group in charge of design development reviewed designs have been prepared for several sites in Sadr City, specifically areas (behind the barrier, the Order of Glory in granular, fragment and thirst) first stage of the project To build some 30 thousand housing units under construction vertical. He added that Secretary of Baghdad, also briefed the animated illustrations showing the future shape of Sadr City after the completion of the project and 4 showed large commercial towers and a large number of multi-storey shopping malls and apartment buildings and public entertainment places, streets and other services and green areas. He pointed out that when approving the project and included in the plan year (2009) bearing the preparation of detailed designs and the Declaration on the implementation of the first phase and then evaluate the offers and select the best design and architectural and construction. The Cabinet had agreed in principle to the draft reconstruction of Sadr City (10 × 10), which means an amount of 10 billion dollars spent on a period of 10 years through a higher committee has executive powers and make Sadr City site contains all the modern requirements and services model and compensation for her distinguished years Injustice and deprivation they suffered for decades past.
Kind regards
Dear O and M
The Iraqi Executive Authority should purge asap those civil servants who abuse their positions of power and authority harm the hapless Public.
They should either be reducated or sent away and transfered elswhere.
Some people including my own Family had to wait for weeks until they received their rightful - borrowed-money to build their homes, and only after greasing the palms of those greedy Bank officials? It is a disgrace?
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Two Bagdadi newspapers call to "renounce" bureaucratic behavior to deal with citizens
Baghdad / Voices of Iraq: newspapers called Bgdaditan issued Thursday, Iraqi officials to leave the bureaucratic approach in dealing with citizens.
The daily Sabah (semi-official daily) in an article by editor-in-chief Falah torch entitled (bureaucracy and state institutions) "is red tape and bureaucratic manifestations of diseases remain the third world countries, including Iraq as a result of the absence of institutional work and have rules which has been working mechanisms back more than half A century ago without any changes to demonstrate the principle of the use of time. "
The torch that "these ills has taken root during the long years of the time Almqubor to form one of the top addresses the negative legacy inherited by the new system, which had to operate in the framework of laws and regulations and guidelines enshrined in previous times the overall approach of national spirit among citizens."
The author said that "the harmful aspects of red tape and bureaucracy is reflected today in the Iraqi state institutions are blatant and if we add it the appearance of favoritism party, sectarian and national quotas system came the reality is needed to be reviewed by the authorities that govern the state and begin proceedings to deal with them effectively and heavy pattern The behavior of administrative corruption. "
He concluded by saying "the citizen, who has reviewed the ministry or impossible to meet the Minister or his agent, even if the level of Director-General did not find Maimer tunnel through which to escape from the humiliating loss of time and here we call upon the rights and the House of Representatives to stand in front of the hard realities of state institutions as Legislative and regulatory authority at the same time. "
In the same vein, the writer said Abdul Karim al-Lami in an article published by the Solidarity (independent daily) entitled (patronage destroy institutions), "none of us in our world today denied that the bureaucracy has very bad in the life of human societies and institutions of constitutional and administrative functions, but in the whole legislative, executive and judicial Public authorities. "
He added, "no doubt Allotrope the bureaucratic style of authoritarian character in the life of human populations will produce results reflected a terrible negative impact on the lives of individuals and society, but are not limited to the spread of such phenomenon in the frameworks and regulatory bodies, especially government institutions and large corporations lead to the emergence of a bureaucratic administrative lobby Controls the overall functions and activities of these institutions is to develop and complete the Atrgip not achieve any progress or any simple action, but the approval and blessing of the bureaucratic lobby. "
And the writer that "the negative effects of this style envisages serious bureaucratic interests within the framework of narrow selfish people and people who practiced Itvennon me to apply to the other members of the company or the institution itself is nothing but to prevail, and they show Elitism distinct mission, which will lead to powerful loss Rights already established in many employment contracts and agreements between the worker or employee of a company or institution other hand, which in turn leads to frustration as well as the devastating psychological effects. "
The writer, "In this context we see that Musharraf Alforman or workers - hold degrees higher than the winning university qualifications through the so-called proxy, which finds some of the people to be the highest and best of the law, let alone that illiteracy applied to his forehead as seen in the bureaucratic offices Controlled by a simple hand of the profession to the highest managerial positions after a period of time where later the tyranny of all staff who join the newly to the company. "
The author regretted that "the great (because) most of them university graduates, but even worse than that, he surrounded himself with a group of clerks Allberoukratiin La Paz and the number of workers and Alvrashen who are selectively chosen despite the lack of knowledge and experience in the nature of the work and the tasks entrusted to them" .
The writer at the end of his article to get rid of such negative phenomenon where they were found and cleared all institutions and companies such as causing obstruction and delay the process of sustainable development and overall economic development.
Kind regards
Dear O and M
The Iraqi Executive Authority should purge asap those civil servants who abuse their positions of power and authority harm the hapless Public.
They should either be reducated or sent away and transfered elswhere.
Some people including my own Family had to wait for weeks until they received their rightful - borrowed-money to build their homes, and only after greasing the palms of those greedy Bank officials? It is a disgrace?
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Two Bagdadi newspapers call to "renounce" bureaucratic behavior to deal with citizens
Baghdad / Voices of Iraq: newspapers called Bgdaditan issued Thursday, Iraqi officials to leave the bureaucratic approach in dealing with citizens.
The daily Sabah (semi-official daily) in an article by editor-in-chief Falah torch entitled (bureaucracy and state institutions) "is red tape and bureaucratic manifestations of diseases remain the third world countries, including Iraq as a result of the absence of institutional work and have rules which has been working mechanisms back more than half A century ago without any changes to demonstrate the principle of the use of time. "
The torch that "these ills has taken root during the long years of the time Almqubor to form one of the top addresses the negative legacy inherited by the new system, which had to operate in the framework of laws and regulations and guidelines enshrined in previous times the overall approach of national spirit among citizens."
The author said that "the harmful aspects of red tape and bureaucracy is reflected today in the Iraqi state institutions are blatant and if we add it the appearance of favoritism party, sectarian and national quotas system came the reality is needed to be reviewed by the authorities that govern the state and begin proceedings to deal with them effectively and heavy pattern The behavior of administrative corruption. "
He concluded by saying "the citizen, who has reviewed the ministry or impossible to meet the Minister or his agent, even if the level of Director-General did not find Maimer tunnel through which to escape from the humiliating loss of time and here we call upon the rights and the House of Representatives to stand in front of the hard realities of state institutions as Legislative and regulatory authority at the same time. "
In the same vein, the writer said Abdul Karim al-Lami in an article published by the Solidarity (independent daily) entitled (patronage destroy institutions), "none of us in our world today denied that the bureaucracy has very bad in the life of human societies and institutions of constitutional and administrative functions, but in the whole legislative, executive and judicial Public authorities. "
He added, "no doubt Allotrope the bureaucratic style of authoritarian character in the life of human populations will produce results reflected a terrible negative impact on the lives of individuals and society, but are not limited to the spread of such phenomenon in the frameworks and regulatory bodies, especially government institutions and large corporations lead to the emergence of a bureaucratic administrative lobby Controls the overall functions and activities of these institutions is to develop and complete the Atrgip not achieve any progress or any simple action, but the approval and blessing of the bureaucratic lobby. "
And the writer that "the negative effects of this style envisages serious bureaucratic interests within the framework of narrow selfish people and people who practiced Itvennon me to apply to the other members of the company or the institution itself is nothing but to prevail, and they show Elitism distinct mission, which will lead to powerful loss Rights already established in many employment contracts and agreements between the worker or employee of a company or institution other hand, which in turn leads to frustration as well as the devastating psychological effects. "
The writer, "In this context we see that Musharraf Alforman or workers - hold degrees higher than the winning university qualifications through the so-called proxy, which finds some of the people to be the highest and best of the law, let alone that illiteracy applied to his forehead as seen in the bureaucratic offices Controlled by a simple hand of the profession to the highest managerial positions after a period of time where later the tyranny of all staff who join the newly to the company. "
The author regretted that "the great (because) most of them university graduates, but even worse than that, he surrounded himself with a group of clerks Allberoukratiin La Paz and the number of workers and Alvrashen who are selectively chosen despite the lack of knowledge and experience in the nature of the work and the tasks entrusted to them" .
The writer at the end of his article to get rid of such negative phenomenon where they were found and cleared all institutions and companies such as causing obstruction and delay the process of sustainable development and overall economic development.
Kind regards
Pravda is laughing at the US MSM
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/ind...ew&
pageId=82647
The man with no visible past.
"Barry Sotero, AKA Barack Obama, along with the Democratic National Committee and the Federal Election Commission have successfully ignored a Federal Lawsuit asking him to produce a valid Birth Certificate," the piece by Mark McGrew states. "When the time to respond to that lawsuit expired, under Federal Court Rules, they all admitted that he was not a citizen of The United States of America and deemed to have committed fraud. A normal man would have been found to have admitted he was not a U.S. citizen." ....
"McGrew explains that Obama's "certificate of birth" is not a birth certificate, but a certification of live birth that any foreigner can acquire by applying for one in the state's vital records department, regardless of where the baby was born."
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The Obama Campaign was all over John McCain's citizenship status, and John McCain produced his documents, and the Washington Post reported on the story, multiple times.
J.C. Penney, Old Navy, Toys-R-Us and Sports Authority all have ads in today's Washington Post advertising inserts.
I smell a rat.
http://www.breitbart.com/article...&
show_article=1
Scientists get closer to creating artificial life
Excerpts:
“The J. Craig Venter Institute succeeded in synthetically reproducing the DNA of a simple bacteria last year.
The researchers had initially used the bacteria e. coli to build the genome, but found it was a tedious, multi-stage process and that e. coli had difficulty reproducing large DNA segments.”
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This is known technology using, NOT artificially produced oligonucleotides, but plasmid packaging cell lines. Craig Venter is one of those people who produces really great headlines based on pedestrian results.
The article really says that the packaging cell lines couldn’t handle the very large DNA for a bacterium. So, they tried yeast, another known way to produce proteins and, naturally DNA.
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excerpts:
“The researchers inserted relatively short segments of DNA fragments into yeast cells through homologous recombination method.
They found they were able to build the entire genome in one step, according to the study set to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.”
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Entire genome, one step, using short segments of DNA …
Sounds like quite a brute force operation, most especially because assembly cannot be order-specific. The order of the “genes” on a DNA strand just might be important, especially when one considers how much alleged “nonsense” sequence material is included, and the alarming variety the allegedly low number of identified “genes” are contained on typical DNA.
The real trick here would be in separating out a DNA with perfect gene order from the variations. Now THAT’s an interesting achievement. It’s not mentioned here, so I must presume they did not do it.
Mona Charon: They won’t give him credit.
http://
www.realclearpolitics.com...him_credit.html
Some of us did notice.
The United States and the people of Africa were very fortunate that George W. Bush was president.
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Just as a reminder: news from Afghanistan and some of the reporting about the way the 9/11 terrorists, as well as the terrorists in Mumbai prepared for their big scene, suggests that these people have some very nasty habits in addition to bloody murder. If Iraq has irhabists filtering in from Africa, they may be bringing along a little something besides evil intent. They could be bringing disease.
Just because it's not being reported does not mean it's not happening. Iraq would do well to test the women and boys those jerks have abused.
Muslim attitudes worsening world-wide.
Conspiracy theories for the weak-minded are very popular.
Valerie | 12.05.08 - 7:19 am |
re: [It is either amazing that he will pull it off or it is amazing that so many millions of people believed him]
no.. what is amazing is the fact that so many US authorities
are more or less AIDING, ABETTING & ALLOWING him to PULL
IT OFF period..
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Hameed Abid | 12.05.08 - 3:42 am |
got a link??
thanks in advance..
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Brian H | 12.05.08 - 8:50 am
I suspect that the survey contains a map of the activities of a specific subset of imam.
It appears to me that many democrats are taking aim at the US and Iraqi agreement also. Some are saying that things are going so well in Iraq that the troops can come home in 16 months. These timetables make me nervous. If I were trying to overthrow I would just prepare now for attempting a coup after the US left. How convenient for democrats to broadcast when that is.
so pirates arent terrorists because the lawyers cost too much for the mixed economies of what used to be the west, natural born doesnt mean 'in the US' anymore, the congress gets to run the auto industry and the neosovs are surprised that 5500000 people aint got no job no more.
wow!
where are the Men? where are the leaders? dont these people realize that theyre about to get thousands killed. they probably woouldnt care.
hence, the gulag.
via GP
Iraqi Lawmakers Ratify Historic Pact With US
excerpt:
[The more long-term danger is that Iraq's reborn central government becomes too strong and, by military or parliamentary coup, the current democratic arrangements are dismantled by a renewed dictatorship that abrogates
the alliance with the United States.
Such disasters are possible. But if our drawdown is conducted with the same acumen as was the surge, not probable. A self-sustaining, democratic and pro-American Iraq is within our reach. It would have two hugely important effects in the region.
First, it would constitute a major defeat for Tehran, the putative winner of the Iraq war, according to the smart set. Iran's client, Moqtada al-Sadr, still hiding in Iran, was visibly marginalized in parliament -- after being militarily humiliated in Basra and Baghdad by the new Iraqi security forces. Moreover, the major religious Shiite parties were the ones that negotiated, promoted and assured passage of the strategic alliance with the United States, against the most determined Iranian opposition.
Second is the regional effect of the new political entity on display in Baghdad -- a flawed yet functioning democratic polity with unprecedented free speech, free elections and freely competing parliamentary factions. For this to happen in the most important Arab country besides Egypt can, over time (over generational time, the time scale of the war on terror), alter the evolution of Arab society. It constitutes our best hope for the kind of fundamental political-cultural change in the Arab sphere that alone will bring about the defeat of Islamic extremism. After all, newly sovereign Iraq is today more engaged in the fight against Arab radicalism than any country on earth, save the United States -- with which, mirabile dictu, it has now thrown in its lot.]
CK = WaPo = 
Thank You President Bush etal!!
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another Dane in trouble with the "one way streeters" ..
New Danish Book Draws Jihadist Ire
excerpt:
["Abu Salem requests that all who love the Prophet Muhammad help spread the news of the upcoming publication and notify religious leaders of what ‘these pigs' are attempting to do. One forum visitor responded to the post, suggesting that Bin Laden attack Copenhagen, repeating the call: ‘Bin Laden, Copenhagen!' several times. Another forum visitor wrote: ‘Our blood... our souls... our children... our money... all that we have... the entire world… anything so that a single hair of your distinguished head [i.e. Muhammad] is not harmed.'"]
i'm afraid it's impossible for these fanatics to "live" in this
world.. and that would be fine by me.. unfortunately for
all of us, they are not about to let anyone who does not
abide by their beliefs "live" in it either..
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slightly OT..
Obama warned on CIA
exerpt:
[A former CIA deep-cover spy says President-elect Barack Obama needs to radically reshape what he terms the "dysfunctional" CIA -- or face more strategic intelligence failures.
[snip]
The retired CIA officer, an Arabic speaker and 20-year veteran, stated in his recently published book, "The Human Factor," that the CIA's clandestine service should be streamlined and given clear marching orders and more focus on its mission: recruiting and handling human spies while avoiding trivial sources.
The officer wrote of his frustration as an overseas agent recruiter who couldn't make a phone call without five bureaus at CIA headquarters first approving it.
He also wrote that "most" CIA employees work in the United States but that there is an urgent need to "get the CIA spying on and in foreign countries."]
Amen Ishmael..
Dr. Jasser has (more or less) been preaching
the samo samo.. what else is new.. *sigh*
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http://www.akhbaar.org/wesima_ar...1205-
58891.html
bg | 12.05.08 - 11:14 am |
The link?
Kind regards
Hameed Abid | 12.05.08 - 7:12 pm |
beautiful, thanks.. 
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bg; the CIA problems are even deeper. Seems no one with any CIA experience wants the head job at CIA. They are afraid that O and his dem cohorts are gonna put them all in jail for those nasty interogation techniques that saved their (the Congress') butts.
And large numbers are leaving the service. Why stay if ya can't do the job? And if ya stay and another 9/11 hits, ya know Congress and the WH will throw ya under that big yellow bus, even if you didn't have the tools to do the job.
We will be in a very vulnerable spot for the next couple of years. Unless the Big O wises up.
And he might, looking at how he has picked a centrist staff so far.
They Won't Give Him Credit
Valerie | 12.05.08 - 8:05 am |
of course not..
excerpt:
[I can see it now. The world will be very different. The president of the United States will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his lifesaving aid to victims of disease in Africa. Government and civic leaders from Europe and Asia will express their admiration. Americans will walk a little taller. Barack Obama will bow his head as the ribboned medal is extended ...
But wait. The president who deserves such an honor is in office now. It is George W. Bush who has devoted so much time, energy, and money (well, our money, but it was legal) to fighting AIDS and other diseases in Africa.
[snip]
When he traveled to Africa earlier this year (his second trip to the region as president), President Bush was greeted by enthusiastic crowds and grateful heads of state. Of the 10 nations around the world that expressed the most positive feelings toward the U.S.A. in a recent Pew poll, eight were in Africa. (The other two were Israel and the U.S.) President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania paid tribute to Mr. Bush, saying, as the Christian Science Monitor reported, "Different people may have different views about you and your administration and your legacy. We in Tanzania, if we are to speak for ourselves and for Africa, we know for sure that you, Mr. President, and your administration have been good friends of our country and ... of Africa."
[snip]
But for the most part, the beautiful people in America -- the Hollywood and university types, the book and magazine publishers, and of course, the major media -- have shown complete indifference to George W. Bush's dedication to a cause they purport to value. In fact, they've pointedly ignored it. It goes without saying that if Obama does even half of what Bush has done for AIDS sufferers in Africa, he will be -- in the eyes of those same people -- a candidate for canonization.
Of course the left can say whatever they like about George Bush and the war in Iraq and the war on terror. But when he does something completely in line with their own stated principles and values, it is simply mean-spirited of them to deny him his due.]
i mean.. not after the millions they spent on portraying
Obama to be perceived as being the worlds Savior, the
Second coming of Christ, the Messiah, the 12th Imam..
etc, etc, etc.. how else will the Soros Dems & MSM bury
Bush if Obama doesn't get all the credit for Aid to (gasp)
Africa, Victory in Iraq, etc..
matters not race, creed, or party
affiliation, i ehat hypocrites..
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They Won't Give Him Credit
Valerie | 12.05.08 - 8:05 am |
of course not..
excerpt:
[I can see it now. The world will be very different. The president of the United States will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his lifesaving aid to victims of disease in Africa. Government and civic leaders from Europe and Asia will express their admiration. Americans will walk a little taller. Barack Obama will bow his head as the ribboned medal is extended ...
But wait. The president who deserves such an honor is in office now. It is George W. Bush who has devoted so much time, energy, and money (well, our money, but it was legal) to fighting AIDS and other diseases in Africa.
[snip]
When he traveled to Africa earlier this year (his second trip to the region as president), President Bush was greeted by enthusiastic crowds and grateful heads of state. Of the 10 nations around the world that expressed the most positive feelings toward the U.S.A. in a recent Pew poll, eight were in Africa. (The other two were Israel and the U.S.) President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania paid tribute to Mr. Bush, saying, as the Christian Science Monitor reported, "Different people may have different views about you and your administration and your legacy. We in Tanzania, if we are to speak for ourselves and for Africa, we know for sure that you, Mr. President, and your administration have been good friends of our country and ... of Africa."
[snip]
But for the most part, the beautiful people in America --
the Hollywood and university types, the book and magazine publishers, and of course, the major media -- have shown complete indifference to George W. Bush's dedication to a cause they purport to value. In fact, they've pointedly ignored it. It goes without saying that if Obama does even half of what Bush has done for AIDS sufferers in Africa, he will be -- in the eyes of those same people -- a candidate for canonization.
Of course the left can say whatever they like about George Bush and the war in Iraq and the war on terror. But when he does something completely in line with their own stated principles and values, it is simply mean-spirited of them to deny him his due.]
i mean, after spending millions portraying Obama to be
perceived as the worlds Savior, the Messiah, the 12th
Imam, etc..
how else are the Soros Dems & MSM going to bury Bush if
not by giving Barack all the credit for Aid to (gasp) Africa,
Victory in Iraq, etc, etc, etc..
race, creed, or party affiliation
matters not, i ehat hypocrites..
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hey Valerie & Brian H..
ht Lame Cherry via TRBO
[I honestly see a new dawn on America which is quite
libertarian as America will no longer need to have any
poor, any prisons or any licenses or passports.
Barack Obama as a late registered baby from a British Commonwealth has just posted a non document online as his passport to the White House. It would not be accepted anywhere in the United States if a normal person tried to use a document like this, so it certainly goes as a legal precedent that no one needs identification anymore which is legal.
All people will have to do in court is say just like Barack Obama as their defense.
Prisons can now be emptied as all crimes involving money which is almost all crimes no longer matter. Mr. Obama has laundered money, dry cleaned money, used 300 million in counterfeit funds to steal the American election and it matters not to the Justice Department, Patrick Fitzgerald US Attorney, the FEC or the IRS.]
ht annie sweetie oakley via TRBO
Electoral College scam: Where dead people vote
excerpt:
[A lawyer playing a major part in a California lawsuit urging officials to prevent the state's 55 Electoral College votes from being recorded for Barack Obama until questions about his citizenship are resolved has written to county clerks around the state, seeking an investigation into a process that has allowed a dead woman to be listed as an official elector.
[snip]
Kreep previously told WND that because of the lack of proof of Obama's U.S. citizenship and the consequent questions over his ability to meet the Constitution's requirement that only a "natural born citizen" can be president, the Obama administration will be considered by some to be fraudulent.
"We will file lawsuits on his actions, every time. As long as we have money , we will keep filing lawsuits until we get a decision as to his citizenship status," he previously told WND. "We're already talking to groups who are willing to be plaintiffs."]
1) "is" Obama appointment
unconstitutional (no BC)??
2) "is" Hillary appointment
unconstitutional (A1-S6)??
3) election fraud, period!!
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via MJ Totten (whom btw, views
things from the dark side himself)
What's Next in Iraq ( 12/01/08 )
excerpt:
[Her view is the darkest. But Iraqis who think the job should only require a few more years are still pessimistic about what they think is likely to happen when the negotiated Status of Forces Agreement goes into effect and American troops withdraw from Iraqi cities in 2009. “We’ve seen hell,” an Iraqi intelligence source said when I met him in his house. “And that hell, if the American forces evacuate, will repeat. If Obama forces an evacuation from Iraq soon, everything will turn against him in this land.”
[snip]
Not everyone holds such a bleak view, however. And pessimists have been losing the argument in Iraq ever since General David Petraeus radically transformed the American counterinsurgency strategy. But once American soldiers withdraw from urban areas, the Iraqi Army and Iraqi Police will be on their own whether they’re ready or not.
I spoke to Captain AJ Boyes at Combat Outpost Ford on the outskirts of Sadr City. His company did more of the fighting in Sadr City back in the spring than any other, but he stresses that the Iraqi Army took and holds 75 percent of Sadr City all by itself. He isn’t nearly as gloomy about the future in this country as some of the others I spoke to.]
[snip]
“Well, yes,” he said. “It will. Any time something new happens in a counterinsurgency, when there are new security forces, there is an immediate spike in violence because the insurgents are testing the ability of the new element. When we leave and transition all of what we do now to the Iraqi security forces, will there be a spike in activity? Absolutely. One hundred percent.”
[snip]
He thinks Iraq will be okay, even so. The Iraqi Army and Iraqi Police are still shaky institutions at best, but they are much more competent than they were a few years ago. The Iraqi Army proved itself earlier this year, against nearly all expectations, when it took back areas under the control of Moqtada al Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia in Basra and Sadr City with only a limited amount of help from Americans.]
i believe Iraq/is will shock & awe the world!!
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via TLWJ
Iraqi Security Forces Order of Battle Update:
December 2008
excerpt:
[Iraqi Air Force Developments.
Details concerning the Iraqi Air Force were briefed on Nov.
2 and were previously addressed in "Iraq announces plan to expand the Air Force."
On Nov. 3, the first four of the 15th Special Operations Squadron's Mi-17v5 helicopters arrived. They are to receive the remaining 22 by the end of the year. This is ahead of previously briefed schedule, as they were scheduled for an early 2009 delivery. The aircrew and personnel have been training using 4th Transport Squadron's helicopters since January 2008.
The 12th Training Squadron received five more Bell 206 helicopters on Nov. 7. This doubles the number of Iraqi owned training helicopters. The Iraqis are also receiving helicopter training using 10 US National Guard OH-58 helicopters.
[snip]
Iraqi Ministry of Interior Forces.
On Nov. 20, 142 personnel graduated the Ministry of Interior's Operator Selection Course and joined the National Emergency Response Brigade. Operator is the polite term used to refer to special operations personnel. Originally there were 4,800 applicants. Those applicants were vetted by SWAT forces reducing the group down to 217 candidates. Of those 217 candidates, 142 graduated. An additional six more simular sized classes are expected to fill out the Ministry of Interior's premier special operations brigade.
The Baqubah National Emergency Response Brigade appears to have split off a new brigade, the Diyala Emergency Police Brigade. The Diyala Emergency Police Forces appear to be expanding to a divisional sized force.
A new Emergency Response Unit has been identified at Balad and the Muthanna Emergency Police are getting HMMWVs.]
more @ link..
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Dear O and M and all ITM readers.
For your information the Arab world and some Islamic countries are resisting having Iraqi Cultural Centres established at their countries for fear of them showing the people how democracy and freedom works.
Does not that take the biscuit guys?
What to do you all think please?
Kind regards
Dear O and M
In one of the Housing workshops we had at the Al Rashhed Hotel.Baghdad last month. I suggested after, listening to the proceedings, that the biggest problems Iraq is facing is trnsferring form a command/ socialist economy to a market economy.
Hoever, since the majority of the key decision makers to affect this change are happy where they ahve been for a long time and some are corrupt, dealing with the private sector is considered encroachments on their parishes and they will resist it and condemn the private Sector.
Things and projects did not move because the old laws of of old regimes are still in force and have not been replaced or repealed as require by the constitution.
To enter the private sector or even the mixed ecnomy sector, Iraq should employ . top management consultants to review all trade and other laws with a view to make them line up with the Market eccnomy.
The qouta system of prcelling the key jobs has exacerbated the process and there delayed the reconstruction development.
IRAQ must privatise urgently and it s laws should streamlined fast, if it si to attract Investors and Overseas private finance.
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Iraq: Involve the private sector in the proposed laws.
(Voice of Iraq) - 06-12-2008
BAGHDAD - Adel Mahdi life - 06/12/08 / /
Prime «Baghdad Chamber of Commerce» Amjad al-Jiboury that the private sector in Iraq is still marginalized led to stalled projects Imarip many in the current year due to not being consulted, the fact that the private sector with companies downplayed the long-entered the country recently.
He said during a meeting «Federation of Chambers of Commerce» IV, which concluded yesterday in Baghdad that the Iraqi government announced that the current economic period, a period of transition to a market economy, but we have yet to see the signs of stage-oriented market economy. He explained: «We have offered to the Ministries of Planning, Trade, Finance that the members of boards of local chambers of commerce representatives, to be partners in the development of laws and programs for the transition to a market economy, but we have not found positive responses. He expressed the hope that the Iraqi government take into account the voice of the private sector when enacting laws on trade and investment and to provide support.
The expert at the Iraqi Ministry of Planning, Bata Khalifa Al-Kubaisi, that the Iraqi economy and has the unilateral opening up to foreign trade very much up to 93 percent and domestic production does not exceed 7 percent in the private sector is involved in small part because of reluctance to invest funds in the Country as The security situation is still unstable. The new investment laws were enacted «ink on paper». A waste of time.
The President of «Union of Iraqi businessmen» For his part, to Iraq needs a package of laws to move the economy, with the participation of the private sector in a good position that has the ability to review those laws.
Kind regards
Dear O and M
People are coming to Iraq.please read on.
Inaugurating the exhibition and conference on energy on the ground of Baghdad International Airport with 80 international companies
By H M
Published 5.12.2008, 20:40
Opened on the ground Baghdad International Airport, exhibition and conference with Iraq's energy 80 international companies and 300 personal and global experts in the field of oil.
"Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani in an interview with" Uzmatik "on the sidelines of the opening of the exhibition on Friday, said that" the number of companies attending the exhibition, shows the stability of the security situation in Baghdad, and the readiness of these companies to work in Iraq. "
The al-Shahristani, "The department has an ambitious plan to develop oil fields and increase production to seven million barrels per day during the coming years," noting that "his ministry invited companies to participate in the implementation of different contracts, both in the establishment of refineries, or a new pipeline, in addition to the rehabilitation of oil facilities ".
The Oasis delegation visited the Chinese province of Wasit, on the nineteenth of October, to discuss the creation of the requirements of work in the field of humpback oil, 28 km west of Kut, Wasit province, which both sides agreed the end of last August, to give effect to an earlier agreement with China, which Had been stopped due to the embargo imposed on Iraq since 1990 and the deteriorating security situation which followed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, the first contract to be agreed upon with a foreign company.
Meanwhile, Industry Minister Fawzi Hariri, in an interview with "Uzmatik" "The exhibition represents a positive step on the security front, where most companies reluctant to come to work in Iraq," he said, adding that "big companies, with their weight in the global economy, participated In the fair. "
The vice president of the Iraqi American Chamber of Commerce Majed Michel, "Uzmatik" "The Chamber is working in cooperation with the Iraqi oil ministry, to attract international companies to invest and work to develop Iraqi oil fields," explaining that "one of the companies that participated in the exhibition company CONCO X-bum of America, Dutch Shell and French Total Company and Mitsubishi of Japan, Korean Asrki. "
The deputy director of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of America Iraqi Majed Michel said in an interview earlier for "Uzmatik" in the nineteenth of November last more than 80 international companies will participate in oil and energy exhibition to be held in the fifth month of December, this year 2008 And lasts three days, from companies including French, Dutch, British, Italian, American and Chinese companies from South Korea.
The Iraqi Oil Ministry has decided to sign contracts to develop Iraqi oil fields, after a delay adoption of the oil and gas law in the Iraqi parliament, due to differences between the political blocs over some paragraphs that allow for broad investment and foreign companies in Iraq's oil sector, Iraq needs to develop oil fields To increase its oil production by a million and 500.
Kind regards
Batman
Have bought iraqi dinars yet? Please read on.
Iraqi dinar rise against the U.S. dollar one point in the central auction
Dinar rose against the dollar Thursday, the Central Bank in an
auction for the sale and purchase of foreign currency exchange rate recorded at 1172 dinars per dollar, compared to 1173 dinars in the previous session
The bulletin issued by the Central Bank of our newspaper received: a copy of which was that "the total volume of demand for the dollar amounting to 143 million and 310 thousand dollars at the exchange rate lower than the previous meeting, one point was 1172 dinars per dollar."
The Central sales volume recorded a total request amounted to 141 million and 180 thousand dollars at the exchange rate was 1173 dinars per dollar at a meeting on yesterday, Wednesday,.
The bulletin indicated that the request was distributed by 55 million and 305 thousand dollars in cash covered the bank exchange rate of 1,178 dinars per dollar, including the central bank and a commission of six dinars to the dollar.
It added that the value of remittances outside the country reached 88 million and five thousand dollars covered the central exchange rate was 1175 dinars, including the Central Bank and the commission of three dinars per dollar.
With did not make any of the 13 banks participating in the auction, offers to sell the dollar.
The central bank held five meetings weekly for the sale and purchase of foreign currencies.
Kind regards
Dear O and M
This is a clear message to the Arab countries. Support newly freed and democratic Iraq or be damned by the super powers. Take head fellow arabs.
In my opinion any future dealings, except through expediency- by the USA/UK/Germany/Japan/Canada/France/South Korea/India and the rest of the free world, with the Arab/Islamic countires should be in proportion to how much human rights, freedom and democracy they allow for their people, since none of them are in power by the consent of their people.
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London, and agencies: the British Times newspaper on Monday morning the subject of the Baghdad security agreement with the headline: Deadline for Baghdad, the Convention on the withdrawal of U.S. troops should be synchronized with the region to embrace Iraq.
Multi-opening qualities security agreement between Iraq and the United States, and considers the most important legislation passed by the parliament since the fall of the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003, but it also says "The Convention on the withdrawal of U.S. troops is a turning point has to be recognized by Iraq's neighbors, the time has come to embrace Arab governments, Iraq's new democracy, and to support the government of Nuri al-Maliki and refrain from using Iraq as a pretext to stir up animosity against America. "
In what seems like the advice of neighboring countries, the Arab Times says "sooner U.S. forces leave Iraq, the more able Obama (President-elect) of direct interest to Israel and the Palestinian territories, and this would be in the interest of the region." But the Daily Telegraph speaks of a dispute between Iraqi and British governments with regard to the presence of British troops in southern Iraq, saying that British Defense Secretary John Hutton is ready to withdraw troops from southern Iraq at the end of this month if Baghdad did not agree to guarantee immunity for British soldiers in the event of firing And killing Iraqis.
It is expected to be completed authorization granted by the United Nations of foreign troops in Iraq on the last day of this year, according to the newspaper that the Hutton "personally angry because Maliki had not agreed so far to grant British troops immunity from prosecution in Iraq when the mandate of international immunity" . The newspaper says the British defense secretary believes that his troops would face an unacceptable risk is to appear before the trial if Iraq had been killed during the self-defense.
Britain wants no immunity for its soldiers killed Iraqis
Also revealed the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph from a disagreement between Iraqi and British governments with regard to the presence of British troops in southern Iraq. The newspaper published Monday that British Defense Secretary John Hutton is ready to withdraw its troops from southern Iraq at the end of this month if Baghdad did not agree to guarantee immunity for British soldiers if they opened fire and killed Iraqis.
The paper added that the UN mandate's foreign forces in Iraq will end the end of this year, noting in this regard that the Hutton angry personally from Nouri al-Maliki because it has so far not agreed to give British troops immunity from prosecution in Iraq once the immunity of international authorization.
The Daily Telegraph also noted that British Defense Secretary John Hutton believes that his troops would face an unacceptable risk is to appear before the trial if Iraq had been killed during the self-defense.
Dear O and M
Iraq should wave the requirement of the entry visas to all free world nationals and follow the example of Dubai.
I wanted an English Project Manager- Investor- to come with me to Baghdad next week, and the Offices handling the visa sections are on Holiday? Can you believe it? What a joke? How can they attract investors if that is what they are doing? How could they encourage Overseas decision makers to visit and help rebuild the Country.
Our Foreign Minister and Cabinet :, get your fingers out and remove this stupid socialist law and red tape.
Clen the slate and apoint new persoannals to serve the Overseas investors.
I did not care if I had not experienced this calamity personally. Wake up guys. Change with the times.
Also reduce the air fares to Baghdad/Basra. It is prohibitively high. To reach Dubai and back from London one pays £269 pounds. To reach Baghdad which is shorter distance I was quoted yesterday one thousand and five hundred pounds, Why?
The UAE's two million people are handling over 60 million tourists/Investors/travellors each year.
Iraq with 26 millions should aim for more than this figure.
Kind regards
Dear O and M
This si the immediate effect of SOFA.
Rising real estate prices in Baghdad after signing the security agreement
05/12/2008
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Real estate prices rose in relatively secure areas in Baghdad over the last period, especially after the adoption of security agreement with Washington, making it more difficult to buy a house or find an apartment for rent in a serious housing crisis.
Abu Abbas and the "Office nemovitosti Zayouna" in central Baghdad that "property prices rose significantly during the period, especially after the recent ratification of the security agreement with the United States."
The Parliament approved the "withdrawal of foreign forces" in the 27 last month.
He explains that "the increase amounted to more than 50% over the past two years (...) it was the price per square meter in 2005 about $ 500 in the Zayouna high, but more than a thousand dollars now."
He adds that "a large number of friends outside Iraq in the Arab and European countries such as Sweden and Germany have contacted us over the past two days seeking to purchase homes."
The Abu Abbas that "the relative improvement in security in Baghdad in particular help many of stability rather than resorting to flee to neighboring countries."
Said Abu Mustafa's Office, "Mustafa" in Baghdad (the center) that "real estate prices have increased significantly despite the sales decline was the price per square meter in 2003 by about $ 400, but arrived here more than 900 dollars."
But referring to the "small number of buyers these days (...) Most of working with foreign companies or government departments and the majority of real estate sold a euphemism for small areas or parts of houses because the price close to potential."
Said one adviser to the Ministry of Labor told AFP that the rate "per capita income of workers in government institutions is 750 thousand dinars (about $ 600)."
The following Abu Mustafa sixtieth "All the big house or a piece of land to divide into parts that we can not sell a single deal at all. However, the search for a house or apartment for rent is very difficult because at least medium-rent apartment half a million dinars (420 dollars) a month ".
The turn Iyad Abu Mohammad (40 years) Director of the Office "Salhia Complex" in Baghdad, said: "The prices of apartments in the complex rose by 100% over the past two years following the improvement of the security situation."
He explains that "the rate of apartment prices in 2006 were the limits of fifty thousand dollars, but a hundred thousand dollars now rents also increased significantly."
Omar al-Ani as the Director of the Office of the "eye of the Sun" real estate in the upscale Mansour district (west) that "house prices rose significantly over the past months, the square meter price of at least thousand dollars, while limits of $ 500 two years ago."
The al-Ani, said the families there looking for the purchase of properties in neighborhoods evenly, according to sectarian affiliation.
The sectarian violence prompted residents to search for places to meet their desire to live in central revive a relatively homogeneous and stable.
On the rent-Ani shows that average at least $ 600 per month for the average house and $ 400 for an apartment.
He says a secret Abu real estate broker in the Ghadeer central Baghdad that "most of the houses they sell now cut off from the big house or rent it is very difficult and beyond the average $ 420 per month."
"Umm Anmar (38 years) it spent more than two months in search of a house in terms of the Rusafa (east of the Tigris)," the price is rising terribly and every time we ask them found increased more than the past. "
It adds to our "About 140 million dinars (118 thousand dollars), we can not buy a house in the 150-square-meter area in central Baghdad reasonable (...) Even parts of houses need to at least 12 thousand dollars for the construction of a kitchen or bathroom and stairs to become a natural home."
It says it is looking for a house in the "hand Rusafi, because most of their relatively stable."
Notable gainers were real estate during a wave of sectarian violence, a very large decline in some areas, especially on the Karkh (west of the Tigris), such as the session and the Justice and Islamic Jihad.
For its part says the housing minister Ismail Dizah Yi statement to AFP that the study compiled by the Ministry confirm the country's need for two and a half million housing units until 2015. "
"It must be built more than 200 thousand units this year and are not taken, but through investment as the only solution must go to investors to build housing units."
Shows that the ministry "is currently building 28 apartment complexes in the governorates."
The following wondered, "Is that enough parks? Answer is no because we need to do more and a drop in the ocean to the housing problems."
The sealed, saying that "the government supports projects across the national bank real estate and housing fund."
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Dear O and M
The Iraqis will rebuild Iraq.Trust me.
264 million dinars for the preparation of designs for sewerage and three cities in Wasit
264 million dinars for the preparation of designs for sewerage and three cities in Wasit
Engineering Services contracts approved in the province of Wasit to the assignment of three projects for the preparation of designs for sewerage Thelat city government, a total cost of $ 264 million dinars in a public tender.
The director of information maintained Thamer Abdul-Saheb al in an interview with "Uzmatik", today, Thursday, that "the maintenance of the Contracts Committee agreed to refer a tender to prepare designs for cities sewerage pit and Zubayp and Sheikh Saad total cost of $ 264 million dinars to maintain."
Tai said that "the project includes the preparation of an integrated study for the design of the tanker lines, networks and stations, sewage and rainwater in the three cities," explaining that "the Office of Scientific Advisory Services University of Qadisiyah will be the implementation of the work done and set a period of 300 days."
He Taie that "new designs take into account the aspects of each field Tobgravep city such as land and underground water level and nature of Anhaddaradtha addition to population density and the amount of horizontal expansion."
The city of Kut, Wasit province, 180 kilometers southeast of Baghdad, is currently implementing a major project of streams by a specialized Iraqi firms and a cost of $ 46 billion and 600 million Iraqi dinars is expected to be completed within 36 months from the date of direct operate in June 2007.
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bg | 12.05.08 - 9:45 pm |
Art Show
Yes, John Kerry, our soldiers are terrorizing the children in Iraq.
Hameed Abid | 12.06.08 - 3:48 am |
Personally, Hameed, I am not surprised. There's a long held theory that the main reason Muslim governments rail at Israel and the US is to divert attention from their own failings.
If that is true, then having a peaceful, prosperous, multi-ethnic and multi-sectarian democracy in their own back yard is the worst thing that could happen to them because "the street" will be able to see Muslims living well despite Israel and the West.
That's why I say that Iraq needs to invest in diversifying its economy. If you build factories and textile plants and huge agricultural businesses, eventually, Iraq will need to begin importing guest workers. Those workers will then write home to their relatives about their experiences in a free society.
In addition to that, as we've been talking about, if Iraq creates a tourism industry, then people from all over the world will be coming there on holiday. The buzz about Iraq will be impossible to ignore.
Eventually, a tipping point will be reached when the rest of the Muslims say "Hey, why can't we have that here?" After that, these dictatorial governments will be swept away and a lot of new Muslim clerics who do not preach radicalism will "magically" appear.
Hameed Abid | 12.06.08 - 4:43 am |
Hameed Abid | 12.06.08 - 5:30 am |
Because of the law of supply and demand.
In the first case, it is so expensive to fly to Baghdad because there are few airlines serving that market because most people going there do so in military or government aircraft. As the security situation improves and as Iraq becomes more of a tourist destination, these prices will fall when more airlines start serving Iraq. In the mean time, the GoI should subsidize Iraqi Airways so they can provide cheap travel into Iraq.
In the second case, the security improvements have increased demand for housing while the supply has stayed fairly constant. This has naturally caused the prices to escalate. To counter this, you need to increase supply, meaning build more housing.
It is so great to see capitalism taking hold in Iraq whether the old socialists like it or not.
Kafir | 12.06.08 - 9:07 am |
Thank you for your comments. Supply and demand had affected the construction industry in Dubai and Abu Dhabi UAE.
The iraq so called five stars hotels are still run as if they are government departments. My room telephone was not working and after three days of reporting it to the front desk, the man told me the maintenance Engineer will come ove and fix it. He did not come. So I told them to take it and replace it.
Next time I asked what happened another day late, they told me the Engineer went home as it is after thre pm and he finishes work at three.
For a five Star Hotel, the service was appaling. The place is tired and the people are not happy working there. Just Like the Gestabo and very serious.
If you smile at them they suspect you being mad.
As for the food menue. It was the same for five days. morning . lunch and evening.
Otherwise, all is well.
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Dhi Qar: the creation of more than 30 cars and rail bridges of the water source downstream with the 15 global companies.
(Voice of Iraq) - 06-12-2008
The Nassiriya News / Abdul Razzaq al-Aboudi:
A local official in the province of Dhi Qar, said the pipe-General had participated in the implementation of more than fifteen foreign company also included a bridges of about thirty for cars and trains.
Source news network said that the draft downstream Nasiriyah General started as an idea Khmsinat its creation in the last century began with the implementation of the main Mbzl Musayyib in 1954 by a Dutch company and then the implementation of the Western Mbzl Shatrah in 1959 continued implementation steps and stop because of the country until the end of the year 2003, with the introduction of Once again pumping station, which opened on the first of December of this.
Adding that the project contains a number of facilities, which include "a bridge of 31 cars and 4 bridges and 32 railway bridges for pedestrians and 66 water and a number of other mouths Alambazl subsidiary and associated middle and southern sections by Saifun concrete along 320 meters below the bottom outlet, a Euphrates River is to remove three holes 4 p.m. * 5 p.m. and the conduct of about 100 m 3 / sec for each opening, and the discharge of water into the southern reaches of the estuary year and then to the Arabian Gulf.
He pointed out that the pumping station project is located about 13 kilometers south of the city of Nasiriyah with 12 electric pump superstars made a special request the conduct of each 20 m 3 / sec rate is the total discharge of nearly 220 m 3 / sec, and will contribute to the rehabilitation of more than six million meters in Central and southern Iraq, reducing the water levels of groundwater and preservation of agricultural land reclamation projects implemented, as soon-agricultural land in Iraq, salt, which is estimated at 80 million tons a year as well as used for navigation purposes river in central and southern Iraq and improve the water quality of rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates and reduce salt.
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Kafir | 12.06.08 - 8:34 am |
ooh, i love that picture!!
almost posted it myself (was actually waiting
for the op, but you beat me to it).. thanks!!
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Iraqi security official: Eid al-Adha will be safest in Baghdad .. Iraqi buying Chinese clothing .. And others (bale meaning second hand) .. And a third from abroad
06/12/2008
Iraqis shopping in Baghdad's Sadr City yesterday in preparation for the Eid Al-Adha
BAGHDAD: Ali Nasir «Middle East» - as every day passes by the Iraqis, begin active movement at the height you see in the major markets, such as Shorja and Kadhimiya in Baghdad, which was invaded by a new phenomenon in receiving containers loaded with ready-China ready clothing sold in the port of Basra Without the dealer to know what the content, but they know it will generate profits of up to four times the original price.
Nevertheless, prices remain the cheapest of the Iraqis, including class differences seemed clear at the present time, there are layer showing signs of wealth and rarely find them in local markets Vtdahm be from outside Iraq, and the middle class represented by staff who form the pillar of the President in shopping Markets, and then layer the poor, who see them crowding the vendors of used clothing from America, Europe and sold them at prices that can be described with such symbolism, even though a significant portion of the garments bearing well-known international brands, according to Almtda Abu Yassin, who confirmed that he could buy Chinese clothing; is sold At a good price, although substandard, but it is the only drawback rapid consumption contrary to used clothing called in Iraq (bale is outstanding), known as manufactured in factories and distinguished bearing the names of global brands and features quality, yet Iraqis do not stress the importance of the name of the product as much as his ability to rely Almtaulp.
In this season we find that people purchasing groceries in the crowded streets of Baghdad were packed with cars and people and markets, in turn prepared a law enforcement security plan in Baghdad preparing for pre-holiday season, there are, depending on relations manager for the Interior Ministry Alaa al-Ta'i, ready to plan or all joints and the Interior Ministry and the «traffic police In full the promised deployed at intersections and near the market to regulate traffic and to seek alternative routes or a diversion to ease the momentum in a given region, while intensive patrolling and deployed near the market, and on the public road ». And the Tai «Baghdad security plan is the responsibility of imposing law and the Ministry of the Interior part of the plan, as is well known, Baghdad is divided into eight parts, each section supervised by the commander of all security and location of military units and the internal security is liable, Thus, the task of the Ministry of the Interior supervising the work units and departments, intelligence gathering and protect roads and intensify checkpoints and traffic and other tasks that will ensure better security situations to Baghdad ».
The Tai «We can say that this day would be a safer holiday since the people of Baghdad and we wish all our hearts that our people enjoy the security, safety and stability and the situation is back better than ever». For its part, completed the secretariat of Baghdad, according to her spokesman, Abdul Hakim preparations to receive Baghdadi families in every tourist and recreational facilities free of charge to mark Eid al-Adha.
He said, that «Baghdad Secretariat has created tourist and recreational facilities Kmtenze Zawra and the zoo and gardens (Abu Nwas) and Cornish gardens and the city of Adhamiya Games (Rusafa) and all the gardens and parks throughout the city to receive CBS and families and visitors coming from all over the country».
He added that Abdul «visitors will find all services in these parks, tourist sites and places, like restaurants, sit down and Barcat parking as well as to create the security environment to make the appropriate times families have a happy Eid».
"A municipal districts that provided supplies for the opening of its service facilities, which include public gardens and parks within the neighborhoods of citizens to spend enjoyable times of boundaries as well as to clean and decorate the streets around the Palmracd religious holy mosques and entrances and streets leading to it. He added: municipal departments would step up efforts to clean up the streets and the lifting of waste from inside residential neighborhoods in order to maintain the cleanliness of the capital, and create an atmosphere appropriate to celebrate a happy Eid days. The secretariat of Baghdad, parks and tourism facilities had received during the Eid al-Fitr last more than three million visitors, especially after security and stability witnessed in the capital thanks to the implementation of the law enforcement and the surge.
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Voices of Iraq / / latest news, security, Irbil / / cancellation of the guarantor and bail to enter and reside in Irbil, Dohuk and the abolition of the guarantor to enter the residence of the Irbil, Dohuk
6/12/2008 - 18:55
Irbil / Voices of Iraq: Irbil governor Nawzad Hadi, Saturday, it was adopted procedures for the entry of new entrants to the governorates of Erbil, Dohuk would abolish the conditions of bail and residence.
The Al Hadi (Voices of Iraq) that "Confirmation of the new arrangements would facilitate the entry of coming to the governorates of Erbil, Dohuk," he said, they "focused on the abolition of the guarantor paragraph and end the issue of residence as a condition of entry."
The authorities imposed on the territory of Iraqi Kurdistan wants to enter the Territory's three provinces (Erbil, Sulaymaniyah and Dohuk), from residents of other provinces to obtain a residence permit or guarantee that a resident of the Territory provinces, raising a lot of criticism from inside and outside the region.
According to Hadi, the new arrangements "to require the newcomer to the provinces fill of information form only," noting that this action "was taken to prevent infiltrators and terrorists from entering."
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The rest of Iraq should do the same with the free world's citizens.
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Hameed Abid | 12.06.08 - 3:48 am |
With freedom will come prosperity to Iraq. With prosperity will come jealousy and even hatred by many in the Arab world and some Islamic people.
The Jews changed worthless desert into a garden. I know of very few Muslims who say "The Israelis are prosperous and we can learn from them". Instead the standard of living in Israel is resented by poor Muslims. It will not be much different for Iraqis as the standard of living rises in Iraq. Even Iraqis who scrimp and save to start a business and then work their butts off to make the business prosper will be resented by Iraqis who are still poor.
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Hameed Abid | 12.06.08 - 11:28 am |
Hameed,
A couple of years ago, there was a story about clothing made in Iraq being sold in the U.S. At the time, I looked up the stores that had it, but they did not have web sites. I called them but they had not gotten their shipments in yet.
Does anyone know what became of that? I would like to buy Iraqi goods in order to support the Iraqis. All I can find is a couple of articles from 12/07 about sending Iraqi goods to the US in time for the holidays but no follow up.
Richard B. | 12.06.08 - 12:31 pm |
The difference is that the Muslims all say that Israel was not possible without the help of the USA. Now, they will see average Muslims making a garden out of their own country.
via GP
Bush: War in Iraq Is Decisively On Its Way to Being Won
[Throughout the past eight years, I've seen the tremendous talent and courage of those who wear the uniform. Their efforts have overthrown tyrants, made our Nation safer, put terrorists on the run, and opened the door to liberty for more than 50 million people. And now, thanks to their work in Iraq and the courage of the Iraqi people, a hopeful new era is dawning for their democracy and ours.
Earlier this week, Iraq's Presidency Council approved two landmark agreements that will solidify Iraq's democratic gains, affirm its sovereignty, and put its relations with the United States on a strong and steady footing.
The first agreement that America and Iraq have signed is called a Strategic Framework Agreement. This pact sets out a common vision for U.S.-Iraqi relations in the years ahead. Under this agreement, we will work together to bring greater stability to Iraq and the region. We'll promote trade and investment between our nations. And we will support Iraq's leaders and their citizens as they strengthen their democratic institutions.
Only a few years ago, such an agreement was unimaginable. Chaos and violence were consuming Iraq. Terrorists were seizing new ground and using violence to divide the Iraqi people along sectarian lines. And the nation was nearing the point of political collapse and civil war.
Today, violence is down dramatically. Our forces have struck powerful blows against al Qaeda. The Iraqi military is growing in capability, taking the lead in the fight against the extremists, and working across sectarian lines. Sunni, Shia, and Kurdish leaders are sitting together at the same table to peacefully resolve their differences and chart their country's future. And there is hope in the eyes of young Iraqis for the first time in many years.
The second agreement that America and Iraq have signed is a Security Agreement, known as a Status of Forces Agreement. One of the primary purposes of this agreement is to ensure protection for our troops and Defense Department civilians as the Iraqi government begins to exercise greater sovereignty. Our military commanders have assured me that the agreement's provisions meet this purpose. At the same time, it also respects the authority of the Iraqi government. And it lays out a framework for the withdrawal of American forces in Iraq -- a withdrawal that is possible because of the success of the surge...
As we enter this new phase in America's relations with Iraq, we have an opportunity to adopt a new perspective here at home. There were legitimate differences of opinion about the initial decision to remove Saddam Hussein and the subsequent conduct of the war. But now the surge and the courage of brave Iraqis have turned the situation around. And Americans should be able to agree that it is in our Nation's strategic and moral interests to support the free and democratic Iraq that is emerging in the heart of the Middle East.
The American people have sacrificed a great deal to reach this moment. The battle in Iraq has required a large amount of time and a large amount of money. Our men and women in uniform have carried out difficult and dangerous missions and endured long separations from friends and family. And thousands of our finest citizens have given their lives to make our country safer and bring us to this new day. The war in Iraq is not yet over -- but thanks to these agreements and the courage of our men and women in Iraq, it is decisively on its way to being won.]
God Bless Us All, Every One!!
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might as well share a not too
far fetched prescient story..
A Message & A Warning from a Time Traveler (4/06)
[“Historians in my time know
that it began on June 5, 1968,”]
scary stuff, that being the date Sirhan
assassinated Robert F. Kennedy..
not to mention Ayers (having dedicated his Manifesto
to Sirhan Sirhan amongst other less notables) being in
the news again.. *sigh*
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Dear O and M
This Iraqi Jewish shrine should be preserved asap. with new facilities such as a restaurant and cafes and other shops and a place for the families to enjoy a relaxing break.
It will be one of the many tourists attractions for our welcoem visitors in few months' time.
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Nahum Prophet shrine in the Qush to be saved from collapse? (1 2)
05/12/2008
Tommy Habeeb
In the past and during the summer in the days of Qush, entered the building may fall and turn into ruins, or rather the remaining known or act as the shrine of the Prophet Nahum Alolqoci, despite the warnings and involves access to the building of the risks, show that when access to the architecture exhibition is to collapse at any moment, But I succeeded in filming architecture from the inside without risk.
This position carries with it the folded pages of the history of time, reflecting Iraq's diversity and tolerance and coexistence that prevailed in those times. The writing on the shrine us to refer to some pages of historical Mesopotamia Vartoit that touch on anything of Iraqi history, which has prejudice with this issue.
The domestic arena to bring the public prayers
But before that, I would like to appeal to the relevant authorities, to work to rebuild this said, the Isle Construction to fall, as I said before, and needs to be dignified by the best start in the renovation of the building and I believe this process will be futile (renewal), but re-construction and demolition Aslam will be the construction of a building in place and retain the firm.
Extend the presence of Jews in Iraq to the ancient times before the existence of Christian and Islamic religions in the home, in the year 732 BC was able Nglt Plasser Assyrian captivity some of the tribes, the Jews and transferred to Assyria, after the death of Jews Nglt Plasser declined to pay tribute to the Assyrians, the Commission again Assyria To discipline the rebels and this time the families of the ten Lions said they no longer ever, is dubbed Balospat ten lost.
Beginning in 626 BC Babylon Independent launched a series of battles led to the complete collapse of what was the name of the Assyrian Empire.
When extracted Babylon Assyrian freedom from tyranny, and ruled the Assyrian empire was the share of countries of Assyria to be a new Mr. Power Chaldean, and when Jerusalem announced disobedience to the State Chaldean modern forces headed towards the West, and in 597 BC. M. The Chaldean Babylonian armies to conquer the defenders of Jerusalem and the families of the 3023 Jewish troops and taken to Babylon. This was the first families collectively, the second was in front of captivity in 587 BC. M. And the third in 581 BC. M (Jeremiah 52: 29 30) and the paragraphs quoted Gul coli: Alliance against Babylon).
These excerpts reflect the historical purpose was to demonstrate here in the land of Mesopotamia, known Bmezobutamia. The contribution of the Jews and historic role in building and the composition of the civilizations that emerged and flourished and then escaped and disappeared throughout the country, and this has become a place of historical monuments of Iraq and cherished by a Qawsh shrine of the Prophet Nahum (Alolqoci).
Writing in Hebrew, installed in one of the walls from the inside
This is the shrine of the Jewish religious shrines are deployed in Iraq. And Nahum Hebrew name meaning Moiz, one of the prophets twelve young Qush known for his tongue eloquently and accuracy of their Meanings, which is near the site of the event therefore elaborate in his description of the site and the battles and incidents in the Chamber of Nineveh time of the collapse of that city, along with the collapse of the Assyrian state in the 612 before Christmas.
The Dictionary of the Bible on the location of Qush, as stated in a letter written by the Rev. Dr. Peter Malik and the Rev. Dr. John Alexander Tmsen material Alolqoci, issued:
The Prophet Nahum Alqochea, recalls the tradition that Qush among the countries of Galilee. According to another tradition was located south of Beit Guvrin in the hillsides of Judea, while late counterfeiting, which says that Nahum was home to the UNESCO to travel a distance of two northern Mosul is worthless.
But in the Bible edition of the Dominican fathers of 1878 sponsored by the Committee attaches to the printing, which has the highest share Patriarch Abdul Joshua Khayyat, Bishop David Akulaims, and this version used in the churches of East and the Chaldean Syriac and translated version of the simple known (Pshetta) stated:
Nahum was from the town of Qush under the opening, where he says: inspired by the vision of Nahum Nineveh travel Alalqoci and Qush a small town in the vicinity of Nineveh Bachor.
Bishop attaches via Quch Papana in Al-26 history to those who claim to Palestinian Qush saying:
Does not say we scientists in any part of the land of Palestine is Qush Is She swallowed by the ground and there was no evidence of them after .. Or is it a lost needle Out of sand and deserts Altaul Galilee and swallowed by the ground .. Goes on to say: The Jews themselves come to visit every year tens and hundreds of families from all over Iraq. And even the whole Asia and Europe.
It seems that determining the Qush blamed the Prophet Nahum countries in the Galilee, or South Beit Guvrin in the hillsides of Judas that this was precisely the tradition and there are no investigations or archaeological discoveries support this tradition. But the other tradition which defines Qush near the ruins of Nineveh era of the Prophet Nahum is likely, since the ruins of this shrine is still fresh and visible city Qush city is still full of historic populations retain their ancient Chaldean Bmatherha and heritage, not only the Jews themselves were to go to the shrine Annually.
It was based on the care of the shrine to the year 1950 named Moshe, who lived off the door of a home shrine, the man was working in the repair of gold jewelry in exchange for House of Sake is Asamaro Qush market, and was wearing a head (Poshia) such as those used by the people of Sulaymaniyah , And it seems that he presented Qush of this city, was keen to keep working on the lantern oil (Shraa) Mcaolp around the clock
Kafir | 12.06.08 - 3:16 pm |
There was a textile industry in Iraq.
It was mobilised to serve the mad wars efforts etc.
I have suggested it be sold to the private sector asap with conditions about keeping on some of the productive employees. and put new machinery.
One of the problems we met when we were discussing this issue of the privatisation with the Iraqi Officals was the concern that it will create unemployment.
So the State remained 'the milking Cow' and its old institutions are Competing 'unfairley as they do not have to post bonds etc.' with the private sector and killing it and /or preventing it from working profitably.
There is clear frustrations we felt from the private sector. No one dares criticize the system for fear of being 'blacklisted'. It is a mess.
When state organisation compete for tenders, whether construction or consultancy or Importing Cars,and other goods they do not care how cheap it is. When they make a loss they do not mind as long as they keep being paid guaranteed salaries. Some use their positions for influence peddling and for bribery and corruption.
They win the projects and they do not employ new 'unempoyed' persons. whilst the private sector will employ new persons to have to get the job done on time and to avoid penalties for nonecompletion or delays.
In some cases, we are told, thirty per cent or more of the Budgets allocated to the Provinces are sent back to the Ministry of Fianance because they were unable to spend it?
Officials are paralysed and fearful lest they will be discovererd to have made the wrong decisions. So they procrastinate, and find ways to passs the buck and never make decisons.
When we talked we were considered as if we came from the moon.
The socialist system is not yet dead.
The whole of Iraq is in ruins and it does need shaking, and put back up together again like pieces of a Lego.
But we will do it.
Kind regards
Richard B. | 12.06.08 - 12:31 pm |
Last year i was in Jordan for the Eid.
We hade a meal in an Iraqi Hotel in Amman and there were a group of Israe;i palestinians with their Palestinian Teachers from Haifa.
I spoke to soem of them. Both the children and the teachers.
They appear to be extremly well dressed knowledgable, well fed and happy.
They hoped to be visiting Baghdad soon , they said, Inshaallah.
Many Iraqi leaders have visited Israel- in secret- and with the recent High/ Fedral Court ruling about the Iraqi freedom of travels everywhere in the world, without let or hindrance as approved by the Iraqi Constitution, to go to Israel if they choose to , after the MP. Mithal Al Alousy Court caseruling. There will be many Tourists from Iraq going to visit Israel for holidays and for purchasing goods via Cyprus, Turkey, Jordan or Egypt.
The royal Jordanian Flights are scheduled to go to Tel Aviv and the Iraqi will use it for their future travels.
I note The Iraqi Islamic Party head Mr. Al Mishhadani did not mind if there was an Israeli Embassy in Baghdad just like in Cairo and Amman and Mauretania.
Egypt and Jordan benefitted from the peace dividends with Israel for over thirty years. Why not Iraq?
If the Palestinians - who are the ones with the grievance- are dealing and trading daily with the Israelis in millions of dollars. Why not the Iraqis? Do they have to get permission from Syria or Iran?
Iraq must look after its own national interests first and leave the leadership of the Arab/Islamic world to somebody else. They cannot afford it.
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Dear O and M
Happy Dewali, Eid, Hannukhah, and Christmas and the New year to all readers and posters at ITM.
May God - whatever you conceive him to be- bless you all.
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Baghdad Secretariat: open all parks closed for the holidays
Follow-up / Iraq today
Director of Relations and Information in Baghdad Secretariat, the Secretariat is determined to open all parks in the capital, Baghdad citizens for days before the Eid al-Adha. Hakim said that Abdul-Zahra, "the secretariat of Baghdad restored most parks deployed in areas where sectarian violence in recent years as Adhamiya and Sadr City, which led to the closure." He pointed to "the completion of maintenance work in city parks and entertainment in each of the main Zawra and Sedea Rusafa and theme parks to be ready to receive citizens and Awaihm in the days of Eid." Venus, he said that the secretariat of Baghdad, meets regularly and continuously with the leadership of Baghdad to discuss the problems that could stand Hail Imam Iraqi citizen and has developed a comprehensive plan in coordination Iraqi security forces to avoid any emergency or problem that may occur during the Eid al-Adha.
Great to see the kids with their families enjoying themselves in Bghdad and elsewhere in the country..
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Dear O and M
the Kurdish province approved the Iraqi Constitution where freedom of expression is allowed, yet they gag their own people and put them in jail for expressing their views on matters considered Taboo socially. They have not broken the Law just said what considered their right to write about.
It is a shame to see this hypocracy and double dealings.
Humand rights in Kurdistan is equally as important as that for the rest of Iraq.
Are we creating a State within a State?
There is right to respect for private life.- Article 8- Convention of human rights
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Kurdistan province, Human Rights condemns a decision by the justice region sentenced an article
By S R
Published 6.12.2008, 17:59
Uzmatik / Irbil
Condemned the Ministry of Human Rights in the Kurdistan region of Iraq decision of the judicial authorities Territory prison doctor and author of six months, an article published on homosexuality last year, the government was contrary to the law of journalism by the Parliament of the province.
The Minister of Human Rights Yousuf Mohammed Aziz in the first official reaction to the decision, in an interview with "Uzmatik", today, Saturday, that "the decision of the competent judicial prison doctor and writer Adel Hussein violates the law of journalism by the National Council for the Kurdistan region, in the twenty-second Last September, and was opposed to freedom of opinion among journalists. "
The Correctional Court of Arbil had been arrested by the syndicate member of the Co-Adel Hussein in the twenty-fourth of last November, and issued a jail sentence of six months, and fined him $ 125 thousand dinars which amounts to about U.S. $ 100, the same day, Hussein is a doctor specializing in sexual diseases And reproductive Arbil, published an article on homosexuality in the Kurdish newspaper Hawlati weekly half in March of last year, 2007, provided the prosecution in the Kurdistan region pretext against him, accusing him of violating public morals.
Aziz said that "the ministry against the detention of any journalist because of the exercise of its work, and we call on journalists to leave their exercise the utmost freedom", stressing that his ministry "is following up on all complaints from the media about violations of their rights."
The Minister for Human Rights in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, "Labor Law press release issued by the National Council of Kurdistan region may require some time to apply," and urged the competent judicial authorities to "immediately applied with regard to the situation of the writer Adel Hussein."
The law gives the journalistic work of the Parliament of Kurdistan, in September, told reporters immunity from arrest and imprisonment, and provides for the imposition of a fine not less than one million Iraqi dinars, "the equivalent of less than U.S. $ 850," and no more than five million dinars, but fine Imposed on newspapers and publications in the event of the commission of offenses ranging from 5 - 10 million Iraqi dinars.
For his part, said ministry spokesman Nazim Dalbnd of "Uzmatik" "The Ministry of Human Rights strongly condemns the prosecution case moved to arrest the doctor and writer Adel Hussein, for writing the article," adding that "We consider the action to arrest the doctor, writer and his imprisonment Contrary to the law of journalism and against the principles of human rights ".
The spokesman called the Ministry of Human Rights "the release of Hussein," noting that "does not in any violation of the law."
The international organizations as Reporters without Borders, Amnesty International, demanded the release of data with the doctor and writer Adel Hussein, saying his imprisonment is contrary to the principles of freedom of expression, while noting the Chairman of the Committee for the Defense of freedom of the press and the rights of journalists at the Press Syndicate Zirk Kamal earlier for " Uzmatik "that the ruling by the court against Hussein is the eighth violation of the rights of journalists in the Kurdistan region since the law of journalism of the Kurdistan parliament.
The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq, UNAMI, issued last Tuesday, its semi-annual report on the Iraq and noted that the human rights situation in Iraq remains dangerous, the report also pointed out that the conditions of detainees in the country, including those in the province of Kurdistan, a source of great concern to the Organization International, because many of whom deprived of their liberty for years and are living in difficult physical conditions, and recommended that the Kurdistan Regional Government for modifications in policies, including review of current policies of the arrest of journalists and media workers, and provide answers on the individual cases where the United Nations requested clarification Legal foundations and the reasons for the arrests.
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Dear O and M
Now Mrs. Clinton will achieve what her husband could not- due to Arafat's failure to keep his words and stick to his commitments.
A peace treaty between Israel with the Palestinians and the Arabs and in that order..
It is now a window of opportunity which should be seized fast.
Netanyaho will oppose it if he is elected, which he could be next year.
So since Olmert is till legally able to negotiate and make deals asper the recent Court ruling, people should keep their heads down and get onto the business and work hard, 24 hours if need be to be come to a reasonable acceptable deal.
Let the forces of good triamph and the people involved must take courageous decisions and defeat the evil doers and the prepertuators of hate save the Arab and Israeli Children and put an end once and for all to this terrible cycle of death for over 60 years.
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Clinton confirms its determination to bring peace in the Middle East and Livni expresses its confidence in creating a better reality in the region
07/12/2008
Radio Sawa - The U.S. Secretary of State appointed Hillary Clinton to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, it will work tirelessly to bring peace and stability in the Middle East, according to the Israeli media.
With Olmert's office issued a statement stating that the Prime Minister discussed with Clinton the situation in the Middle East in all aspects of telephone congratulated her on the appointment, Haaretz newspaper quoted a source close to Olmert that impression from his conversation with Clinton is that they will be on Often and in the process of direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.
The Clinton also spoke with defense and foreign ministers of Israel Ehud Barak and Tzipi Livni.
Livni expressed its confidence that it would be able to cooperate with Clinton to create a better reality in the Middle East.
A tripartite meeting between Brown and Olmert and Fayad in London
At another level, to meet British Prime Minister Gordon Brown early next week, the heads o