Barzani: despite our differences we are all united in defending Kurdistan
7/18/2015
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani visited Peshmerga forces on the frontline north of Kirkuk on the Eid ul-Fitr feast on Friday, warning soldiers and commanders about looming threats by the Islamic State (ISIS) group.
The president praised the Peshmerga for confronting the ISIS terrorist group, in a meeting with top commanders and other security officials in Kirkuk. He then left to visit the Peshmerga trenches on the Mekhmour front.
Kirkuk province police director Sarhad Qadir told Rudaw that Barzani warned all security forces in the area about looming ISIS threats.
He said the president also had stressed that the frontiers of Kirkuk city should be protected vigilantly against possible ISIS attacks.
According to Qadir, Barzani also called on the Peshmerga -- as a national force -- to stay away from political and factional disputes in the area.
He said that, despite differences among different Kurdish factions, they were all united in defending Kurdistan.
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Conscious / Kurdistan supports the orientation of the Federal Government on the oil agreement
7/18/2015
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Kurdistan Alliance bloc said it supports the direction the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government to find a new formula serve the parties with respect to the oil agreement.
A member of the cluster Muhsin al-Sadoun in a press statement transferred reporter (and the Iraqi News Agency Information / INA) , said that previous versions of the agreement the oil between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government have witnessed many stops, and the deal is difficult for the Kurdistan region and also the government was unable to fulfilling financial obligations.
He added Sadoun We are looking for new formulas to achieve the purpose of which will be the largest financial revenue of the federal budget and thus bypass any future dispute between the parties. " SOURCE
Al-Bayati, calls upon the Government of the territory to rescue the oil agreement collapse
7/18/2015
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He called the State of law Coalition mp Abbas Al-Bayati, Saturday, the Kurdistan Regional Government to cooperate and coordinate in order to save the oil agreement prior to its collapse.
Al-Bayati said the agency/information/the territorial Government, need to adhere to the oil agreement with Baghdad, constants and not just meetings and dialogues in order to save the agreement from collapse ", stating that" the Central Government has made unremitting efforts to prevent the collapse of the agreement is important for all the parties. "
He added that "differences between the two sides can be addressed through negotiations and understandings", noting that "the territorial Government has constitutional violations in this aspect as they are exporting oil outside the State."
Al-Bayati stressed that "differences between the parties intentions lies and activate committees tasked to resolve this crisis," expressing "the hope of reaching a solution on this issue shortly after Eid al-Fitr." Finished/25 t SOURCE
Wise response to bandages: calls to change the parliamentary system to a presidential sexy surprise
7/18/2015
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Wise response to bandages: calls to change the parliamentary system to a presidential sexy surprise
The Chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Ammar al-Hakim, on Saturday, the Secretary-General calls for the movement of AAH Sheikh qais khazaali on convert parliamentary system to a presidential, as calls for an interesting surprise.
Hakim said during the Eid prayers held in Baghdad and its lackey/information/, "demands that change the current parliamentary system to a presidential demands an interesting puzzlement, as if we did not learn of the dictatorship".
Wise said, "my advice to promoters of these demands should not compare our presidential systems in stable States of construction sober institutional and democratic experience."
He was Secretary-General of the AHL Al-Haq movement Sheikh qais Al-khazaali, reiterated earlier Saturday during Eid prayers, his call to change the parliamentary system to a presidential "bug out". Finished/25 SOURCE
Economist warns of growing foreign currencies at the expense of Iraqi currency
7/18/2015
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Warned Economist Salim Al-uqaili, Saturday, from growing the value of foreign currency in Iraq at the expense of local currency, adding that fiscal and monetary policy still chaotic.
He said Al-uqaili/information/agency, that "the Iraqi market is now open to world markets directly without restriction and this will lead to the entry of foreign currency to the country, which would make the Iraqi currency in reducing and worsened", pointing out that "all Iraqi traders prefer the dollar or the euro and Sterling on the currency."
He said Al-uqaili, that fiscal and monetary policy in the country remains chaotic and must be processed before the deepening foreign exchange ", noting that" external works to make the Iraqi currency in low mode versus other currencies to achieve specific objectives.
He noted that "the Central Bank not clear this aspect and it should develop mechanisms to ensure the protection of the Iraqi currency vulnerable to currencies to maintain their strength.
Recall that the Iraqi currency to suffer from significant deterioration in value against foreign currencies, namely the us dollar. Finished/25 t source
Protests All Over Iraq~~Blame and Actions July 18 2015
7/18/2015
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Political parties are silent on the killings of protesters in Basra
The message criticized the repressive actions of the governor of Basra, which seeks to cling on to his job despite repeated demonstrations calling for his dismissal, amid great popular thoroughly by the silence of the political party to which he belongs Nasraoui.
BAGHDAD / Obelisk: identical message received by the "obelisk" from its office in the southern provinces, with news reports of clashes in Basra between demonstrators demanding better services, especially electricity, and between the police and paid by the governor of Basra Majed Nasraoui to the attack on the demonstrators.
According message home Imad Hassan, who knows himself as from the people of Basra, and observer of the affair of his city, the deaths of protesters at the hands of the police, while others were wounded, in during the demonstrations that erupted in Shafi areas, and the house of AVI, and Ghamaj, and Halhh Hassan, and the whey, and in the town of Qurna, and El Hamdaoui.
And confirmation of the message citizen, said "obelisk" office in the south, that of the Governor of the police force, fired shots to disperse a peaceful demonstration kicked off on Thursday evening, in the district of the city north of Basra to protest against the deterioration of services large and shortage of hours of processing power to the province of Basra.
The letter criticized the repressive actions of the governor of Basra, which seeks to cling on to his job despite repeated demonstrations calling for his dismissal, amid great popular thoroughly by the silence of the political party to which he belongs Nasraoui, which seemed not interested in what happened in this southern province.
In the description of the backgrounds tense scene in Basra, the poet Nasser pilgrims, a post on the social networking site interactive books, in which he said that "the angry demonstrators cut off Basra from Baghdad, demanding electricity."
"The protesters had cut the connecting main road between Basra and other provinces, felled trees and burning tires, causing Pachtnaqat traffic prevented vehicles from passing, I counted six of them demonstrations spontaneous chanting punish People's Congress, and hold negligent officials, in providing electricity."
And it comes in light of the rising discontent and widespread of Mural Photo Nasraoui, in the phenomenon of Iraqis remember frescoes dictator Saddam Hussein in Basra, and the cities of Iraq. Citizens were forced to "write" on the images critical of the conservative terms, and invites him to stop "glorification" Profile, media and marketing person for what is wasteful in the wealth of the people, and wasteful her.
And suffer Basra from lack of services, and the reluctance of infrastructure projects, and the growing phenomenon of "cheating" in the project because of rampant corruption, but that did not deter their portfolios of publicity itself in the corners of the different city, marketed himself as a "builder" and "savior", the province, with looms stick "force" against anyone who objected to his policies, and reveals his claims.
Video demonstrations in Basra in May. SOURCE
07/18/2015
Dozens demonstrate for the provision of services in Baghdad
Demonstrators demanded the provision of services and drinking water for the region.
BAGHDAD / Obelisk: dozens of residents of a popular neighborhoods southwest of the capital Baghdad, Sunday systems, a peaceful demonstration in front of the local council building to demand the provision of services and potable water for the region.
The reporter said, "obelisk", said that dozens of residents of the Amil district of southwestern Baghdad demonstrated, today, in front of the local council building in the region.
He said the reporter, that the demonstrators demanded the provision of services and drinking water for the region. SOURCE
07/18/2015 11:33
Those with Spyker victims demonstrating in central Baghdad
Demonstrators carried slogans Taattalib officials to reveal the fate of missing their children or their bodies on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr.
BAGHDAD / Obelisk: Dozens of victims with Spyker, Saturday, in front of the Green Zone in central Baghdad, demanding to reveal the fate of missing persons from their children on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr.
A source said in an interview with the local media and I followed "obelisk", that "dozens of victims with Spyker base demonstrated, this morning, in front of the Green Zone in central Baghdad in a rally, carrying pictures of their children slain."
"The demonstrators carried banners Taattalib officials to reveal the fate of missing their children or their bodies on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr." SOURCE
07/18/2015 11:06
Dozens demonstrate in Basra
The demonstrators also demanded the provincial council legislation or local law provides for the issuance of the decision to prevent security forces from using live ammunition and excessive force against demonstrators.
BAGHDAD / Obelisk: Dozens of young civilian activists in late on Friday near the local government headquarters in Basra to demand the disclosure of the offending killing a teenager during his participation in protests against the deterioration of the electricity sector in the district of the city, also called for the prevention of the security forces to use live ammunition against demonstrators.
He said one of the organizers of the demonstration, civil rights activist Ali Quraini in an interview with the local media and I followed "obelisk", that "dozens participated in a peaceful demonstration to demand the disclosure of the circumstances of the death of a demonstrator in the district of the city and provide the perpetrator to justice, within one week," noting that "the demonstrators also demanded the Council conservative legislation or local law provides for the issuance of the decision to prevent security forces from using live ammunition and excessive force against demonstrators, where there are other methods to deter rioters can resort to them when necessary, which include the use of water cannons. "
In turn, the civil rights activist and teaching at the University of Basra, d said. Kazem Sahlani in an interview that "the demonstration is the cry of protest against the abuses committed by the security forces against demonstrators," explaining that "these violations were repeated during demonstrations scattered witnessed during the current year area direction and spend the Shatt al-Arab and the district of Abu Fertile, and finally reached the stage of killing a human demonstrator in Elimination of the city, and we are here to protest against such abuses and to demand not to be repeated. "
It is noteworthy that spend the city saw in the late hours of Friday night, popular protests, hundreds participated in because of the deterioration of the electricity sector, has been continued until dawn on Friday, and punctuated by clashes with security forces, according to the head of the security committee in the provincial council Jabbar al-Saadi, "the clashes resulted in the killing a young man and wounding two others, "and soon expanded that simultaneous protests, with record high temperatures to include other areas located north of the province, including Shafi areas and Ghamaj and whey, in addition to the elimination of Qurna, have been some of the roads cut through setting fire to tires.
In the meantime, government departments have been in those areas to the excesses included a siege of a police station and break into the office of the Supreme Council of the Islamic in the district of the city and the burning of the municipal council headquarters in Bani Mansour area, and hours after holding the Provincial Council extraordinary session during which he decided to form an investigative committee immediately to find out the circumstances of the killing demonstrator, in addition to compensation for his family, and still so far the situation is a bit tense in areas that have seen protests despite the promotion of additional security forces. SOURCE
Council Khalidiya : we are suffering shortages of food and fuel
Saturday July 18, 2015 13:27
The head of the Council of Khalidiya spend in Anbar province, Ali Dawood, Saturday, that the judiciary suffers from a scarcity of food and fuel, while appealed to Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi Bzabz open the bridge in front of trucks loaded with these materials.
David said in an interview to the Sumerian News, "The elimination Khalidiya, (23 km east of gray), is suffering from severe shortages and scarcity of food, vegetables and fuel as a result of the closure of the bridge in front of Bzabz trucks loaded with essential items such Khalidiya the lives of the people."
David, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi appealed to "open the bridge in front of Bzabz food, vegetables and fuel as the source of life of the people."
The head of the Khalidiya spend in Anbar province, appealed to David, on Wednesday (July 15, 2015), the central and local governments to provide safe drinking water and fuel within the judiciary, pointing to the existence of a great lack of such essential items.
The head of a district council in Anbar province Khalidiya David in the former international and local organizations appealed to time, to send humanitarian aid to displaced families in the judiciary, confirming the presence of more than 500 families in need of emergency aid.
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