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Baghdad / Mesalla: the effects of digging a trench around the city of Kirkuk, security to protect them from terrorist attacks, are additional differences between Arabs and Kurds oil-rich province, as the Arabs considered it aims to achieve political purposes, and step into the road causing the city the northern province of Kurdistan.
The governor of Kirkuk, Najm al-Din Omar Karim said that "the province has taken a unanimous decision digging a trench around the city of Kirkuk to control to prevent terrorists from the introduction of car bombs or stolen or unauthorized," according to AFP.
He pointed to the spread of plateaus and hills of the northern and eastern side of the city and these constitute a barrier with flat land extends from the southern and western sides, which can infiltrate them without cars passing inspection. The governor confirmed the feasibility of digging the trench, recalling a similar experience in the implementation of the same idea around the city of Arbil, the largest city in the northern province of Kurdistan.
As head of the Turkmen Front Arshad Salhi for "obelisk" in an interview earlier that "the provision of security should be both residents of Kirkuk and to be digging the trench agreement of all the components of the provincial council, and to be in a circle to accommodate all the limits of Kirkuk, administrative and not a crescent toward areas for Nationalities certain. "
The project was digging the trench around the city of Kirkuk, a crescent-shaped only on the Arab areas, and faced a wide range of rejection by some political components and nationalism in the province as a "message of the Arab component accusation that it was behind terrorist operations.
And carried around the city of Erbil (320 km north of Baghdad) in 2006, a similar trench, in conjunction with the rising tide of violence in Iraq, which reached its height between 2006 and 2008.
The spokesman for the province of Arbil, Hamza Hamid Erbil, are not subjected to any terrorist attack or acts of violence over the years.
In turn, the governor of Kirkuk, said, "who carried out the trench around Arbil of the most important reasons for the stability of the security situation there."
In response to the adoption of the trench proof of the failure of the security forces, the governor said that "remains the biggest role of the security forces and the trench unit is not the only way to maintain security."
Kirkuk includes different nationalities (Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen). It is the main part of the vast territory claimed by annexation of Iraq's Kurdistan region's autonomous in the face of strong objections from the federal government in Baghdad.
The city of Kirkuk, which gathered 900 Iraqis, mostly Kurds, repeated attacks during the last period, most recently killed 41 people in 12 of the past month, in a suicide attack on a cafe in one neighborhood of June, in the south of the city, according to security and medical sources. With regard to the position of the central government of the project, the governor said that "Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki assured officials maintain that one, not against the trench if he keeps on the lives of citizens and the security of the city."
He continued, "Why object in Baghdad and all the Iraqi government headquarters behind the trench called the Green Zone."
The heavily fortified Green Zone, which is surrounded by the Tigris River and concrete walls, the headquarters of the Iraqi government and foreign embassies, including the U.S. and British governments. The cost of digging a trench of Kirkuk, which is 53 kilometers long and two meters deep and three meters wide, three billion and 500 million dinars (about 2.9 million U.S. dollars).
The project was completed two-thirds of which work began five weeks ago, and fully requires completion about three months, according to the governor.
From the other side, the project corresponds to Kirkuk's Arabs trench severe objections and see that he aims to achieve political goals rather than a security.
Abdul Rahman says singer Assi head of the political council of Kirkuk's Arabs Abdul Rahman singer Assi, told AFP that "This project is intended to isolate Kirkuk to be ready for annexation to Kurdistan." He described the Orontes trench as a "political collar is intended to at a later stage subsidiarity Kirkuk from Arab component even يتسيد where Kurds and be ready to join to the region."
He added, "We will stand against him because he serious project that aims to strip the oil-rich Kirkuk." In response, the governor said, "There is a misunderstanding among the Arabs because they seem to think that the trench from the southern and western side of the city," which is inhabited by Arab majority. He stressed that "the project serves all the people of Kirkuk are Arabs and Turkmen in addition to the Kurds."
The oil-rich Kirkuk, one of the most disputed areas between the Kurdistan region, which seeks to append it to him and the central government, which opposes it. Asi wondered "if the purpose of achieving the goals of security, you should think about all the areas of Kirkuk province, not the city (Kirkuk) only."
And around the Arab component take steps other than peaceful opposition, said the sinner "We will not go into any direction to stop the project is peaceful opposition," calling the central government to "play its role and to stop the project."
He also said the Orontes proof flowered member of the Kirkuk Provincial Council about Arabs boycotted the voting session on the project, said the trench "Aihama something in Kirkuk and the idea of a political rather than a security." He said that "other areas in the province are exposed to more attacks from the city of Kirkuk."
He demanded the government to stop the project, because "trench to isolate Kirkuk and not for security purposes."
Despite objections facing the project, said Qasim Hamza al-Bayati, director of roads and bridges in Kirkuk, which is involved in the implementation of the trench, told AFP that "work is continuing in the implementation of the trench without any obstacles and we are now at the stage of preparing molds concrete to watchtowers which number more than 56 Tower. " He stressed that "the trench will be completed in the next few weeks," he said, referring to "the completion of 70% of the project so far
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The governor of Kirkuk, Najm al-Din Omar Karim said that "the province has taken a unanimous decision digging a trench around the city of Kirkuk to control to prevent terrorists from the introduction of car bombs or stolen or unauthorized," according to AFP.
He pointed to the spread of plateaus and hills of the northern and eastern side of the city and these constitute a barrier with flat land extends from the southern and western sides, which can infiltrate them without cars passing inspection. The governor confirmed the feasibility of digging the trench, recalling a similar experience in the implementation of the same idea around the city of Arbil, the largest city in the northern province of Kurdistan.
As head of the Turkmen Front Arshad Salhi for "obelisk" in an interview earlier that "the provision of security should be both residents of Kirkuk and to be digging the trench agreement of all the components of the provincial council, and to be in a circle to accommodate all the limits of Kirkuk, administrative and not a crescent toward areas for Nationalities certain. "
The project was digging the trench around the city of Kirkuk, a crescent-shaped only on the Arab areas, and faced a wide range of rejection by some political components and nationalism in the province as a "message of the Arab component accusation that it was behind terrorist operations.
And carried around the city of Erbil (320 km north of Baghdad) in 2006, a similar trench, in conjunction with the rising tide of violence in Iraq, which reached its height between 2006 and 2008.
The spokesman for the province of Arbil, Hamza Hamid Erbil, are not subjected to any terrorist attack or acts of violence over the years.
In turn, the governor of Kirkuk, said, "who carried out the trench around Arbil of the most important reasons for the stability of the security situation there."
In response to the adoption of the trench proof of the failure of the security forces, the governor said that "remains the biggest role of the security forces and the trench unit is not the only way to maintain security."
Kirkuk includes different nationalities (Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen). It is the main part of the vast territory claimed by annexation of Iraq's Kurdistan region's autonomous in the face of strong objections from the federal government in Baghdad.
The city of Kirkuk, which gathered 900 Iraqis, mostly Kurds, repeated attacks during the last period, most recently killed 41 people in 12 of the past month, in a suicide attack on a cafe in one neighborhood of June, in the south of the city, according to security and medical sources. With regard to the position of the central government of the project, the governor said that "Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki assured officials maintain that one, not against the trench if he keeps on the lives of citizens and the security of the city."
He continued, "Why object in Baghdad and all the Iraqi government headquarters behind the trench called the Green Zone."
The heavily fortified Green Zone, which is surrounded by the Tigris River and concrete walls, the headquarters of the Iraqi government and foreign embassies, including the U.S. and British governments. The cost of digging a trench of Kirkuk, which is 53 kilometers long and two meters deep and three meters wide, three billion and 500 million dinars (about 2.9 million U.S. dollars).
The project was completed two-thirds of which work began five weeks ago, and fully requires completion about three months, according to the governor.
From the other side, the project corresponds to Kirkuk's Arabs trench severe objections and see that he aims to achieve political goals rather than a security.
Abdul Rahman says singer Assi head of the political council of Kirkuk's Arabs Abdul Rahman singer Assi, told AFP that "This project is intended to isolate Kirkuk to be ready for annexation to Kurdistan." He described the Orontes trench as a "political collar is intended to at a later stage subsidiarity Kirkuk from Arab component even يتسيد where Kurds and be ready to join to the region."
He added, "We will stand against him because he serious project that aims to strip the oil-rich Kirkuk." In response, the governor said, "There is a misunderstanding among the Arabs because they seem to think that the trench from the southern and western side of the city," which is inhabited by Arab majority. He stressed that "the project serves all the people of Kirkuk are Arabs and Turkmen in addition to the Kurds."
The oil-rich Kirkuk, one of the most disputed areas between the Kurdistan region, which seeks to append it to him and the central government, which opposes it. Asi wondered "if the purpose of achieving the goals of security, you should think about all the areas of Kirkuk province, not the city (Kirkuk) only."
And around the Arab component take steps other than peaceful opposition, said the sinner "We will not go into any direction to stop the project is peaceful opposition," calling the central government to "play its role and to stop the project."
He also said the Orontes proof flowered member of the Kirkuk Provincial Council about Arabs boycotted the voting session on the project, said the trench "Aihama something in Kirkuk and the idea of a political rather than a security." He said that "other areas in the province are exposed to more attacks from the city of Kirkuk."
He demanded the government to stop the project, because "trench to isolate Kirkuk and not for security purposes."
Despite objections facing the project, said Qasim Hamza al-Bayati, director of roads and bridges in Kirkuk, which is involved in the implementation of the trench, told AFP that "work is continuing in the implementation of the trench without any obstacles and we are now at the stage of preparing molds concrete to watchtowers which number more than 56 Tower. " He stressed that "the trench will be completed in the next few weeks," he said, referring to "the completion of 70% of the project so far
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