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Collapse of Iraqi Kurdistan. By Andre Vltchek* by dr.schuber
It used to be presented as a huge success story. We were told that in the middle of a ravished Middle East, surrounded by despair, death and pain, a land of milk and honey was shining brightly like a torch of hope.
Or was it more like a delicious cake surrounded by rot? This exceptional place was called Iraqi Kurdistan, or officially the “Kurdistan Region.”
This is where the victorious global capitalism has been injecting “massive investments,” while the West was “guaranteeing security and peace.”
Here, Turkish firms were building and financing countless projects, while their road tankers and later a pipeline, were moving mind-boggling quantities of oil toward the West.
At the smart Erbil International Airport, European businessmen, soldiers and security experts were rubbing shoulders with UN development specialists. Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Turkish Airlines, MEA and other major airlines were busy inaugurating flights to this new “hip” hub of the Middle East.
Never mind that the government of the Kurdistan Region kept clashing with the capital city of Baghdad, over the oil reserves, over the extent of self-rule, and many other essential issues.
Never mind that (as it often happens in extreme capitalist societies), the macroeconomic indicators were suddenly in frightening contrast with the growing misery of local people.
As long as the oil was flowing, as long as this self-administered region was pledging eternal allegiance to the West. But then the economy began slowing down, and then it halted. All social indicators nosedived.
The happiness of Western and Turkish investors, and especially of the political handlers, looked increasingly out of place, becoming almost insulting to those who were trying to make ends meet.
And on the day that I was leaving, February 9, 2016, “Iraqi Kurdistan” suddenly exploded in series of violent protests, over “austerity measures to avert an economic collapse.”
Reuters reported: “Protests intensified in Iraq’s Kurdistan region on Tuesday… A decade-long economic boom in the autonomous region came to an abrupt halt in 2014 when Baghdad slashed funding to the Kurds after they built their own oil pipeline to Turkey and began exporting oil independently.
That left the KRG struggling to meet a bloated public payroll of 875 billion Iraqi dinars ($800 million) per month. The KRG has tried to make up the shortfall by increasing independent oil sales to around 600,000 barrels per day (bpd), but at current prices the region is still left with a monthly deficit of 380-400 billion Iraqi dinars ($717 million).”
But the dispute with Baghdad and the financial shortfall are not the only issues that led to the present situation. Social policies in the Kurdistan Region had long been grotesquely inadequate, and the welfare of the local population had never been considered a priority.
One night, I met a UN education specialist, Ms. Eszter Szucs, who is based in Erbil. We had a short, intense talk:
“Iraqi Kurdistan is definitely not a social state. People are unhappy with the situation. They protest a lot, but it does not do them any good. Natural resources are privately owned. Social services are mostly extremely expensive: those who can afford it travel to get medical treatment in Turkey. The Kurdish Region is a very complex place.”
“Not a paradise in the heart of the charred Middle East?” I ask, ironically.
“Definitely not,” she replies. “There is of course really substantial investment flowing from abroad: mainly from the West and Turkey. But it is directed toward macroeconomic growth, through the oil industry. Not much comes back to the pockets of the ordinary people.”
I know that. I saw those “ordinary people” digging out dirty roots for dinner, in the middle of the villages located right near the oil refineries owned by KAR, the Kurdish oil company.
On February 9, 2016, protesters flooded the cities and towns of Sulaymaniyah, Koya, Halabja and Chemchemal. Suddenly, it was clear that the “success” of Iraqi Kurdistan has been nothing more than a house of cards. It became unsustainable, and it began its gradual collapse.
As we drove on Route 2, the road connecting the cities of Erbil and Mosul, I asked my interpreter: “Why do you think there are no funds to pay salaries, pensions, even wages of the local armed forces, the Peshmerga?”
“No money because the oil prices collapsed, and because of war with the ISIS,” the interpreter says. “Before, Baghdad was covering 75 percent of the costs of welfare for our people… Now it is sending nothing.”
I am wondering: “But why should you get money from Baghdad, if you are much closer to Washington. You keep pledging allegiance to the West, antagonizing rest of Iraq, threatening to declare full independence. You even built a direct pipeline leading to Turkey…”
“But Baghdad is still our capital…”
“But you are severing links with Iraq, and the Middle East…”
Silence.
“Do you get any money, any substantial help from the United States?” I ask.
“No.”
“Do Kurdish people feel disappointed because they get no support from the West?”
“Yes, very disappointed,” replies my interpreter. “We feel unsafe in our own land, especially lately. Everything could collapse at any moment. People here just want to get out of here – go to the US or UK.”
Is this the end of euphoria?
The road is surrounded by garbage dumps. Electric wires and high fences cut through the land. And the land lies idle; there is almost no agriculture left here. It is all oil, military bases, and inactivity and apathy.
Our car is stopped at several checkpoints. My colleague is harassed, because she has a Syrian visa in her passport. I have Iranian visa in mine… As our documents are being scrutinized, Turkish trucks and road tankers are sailing by, freely, enjoying undefined but obvious privileges.
South of Erbil, in the villages near Qushtapa, the road is severely damaged by Turkish and Kurdish tankers and trucks. On this thoroughfare connecting Iraq, Turkey and Iran, there seem to be more trucks and tankers than ordinary cars or buses. It is all about business, about “trade.” People hardly travel.
A few days ago, outraged citizens blocked the road, demanding changes in social policies, and that the government take action.
I make it all the way to the village of Degala. There, guards and local people look at me with suspicion.
“Why are you protesting?” I ask.
They try to avoid real issues first: “We want our road to be fixed…”
I insist: “Why, really?”
After a while, the ice is broken and one of the villagers begins with his lament: “For six months we are not getting paid. On this road we see it clearly: there is so much business, so much money, but we get absolutely nothing. We are so angry! Trucks are carrying food and oil, but they don’t stop here. We are abandoned.”
As we drive towards Erbil, I see again that total neglect: fields lie idle. There is no diversification of the economy.
I ask my driver: “Was it always like this? Was Kurdistan producing food under Saddam Hussein? Was there agriculture?”
“Yes,” he shrugs his shoulders. “It was like… a different country.”
“Better?” I ask.
“Of course, much better.”
Then silence, again.
And now, there is a war.
One year ago, I managed to get all the way to the front line, just 7 kilometers from Mosul. I was shown the hills occupied by ISIS, I saw the destroyed bridge over the Khazir River, and then Sharkan village, Hassan Shami, and other villages bombed and ruined by the US forces.
Battalion commander Colonel Shaukat from the Zeravani militarized police force (part of the Peshmerga armed forces), took me around, in his armored Land Cruiser. Machine guns, smokes and bravado everywhere…
I asked him: “How many civilians died in those villages?”
“Not one,” he replied. “I swear! We provided great intelligence, so the US forces knew what to bomb.”
He treated me as if this was my first warzone. Hundreds died. It was obvious, and the relatives of the victims later confirmed it to me. There was hardly anything left of the villages. Most likely, most of the villages vanished during the attack. Colonel Shaukat was trained primarily in the UK. He knew how to talk.
This time I speak to Omar Hamdy, the manager of the 5-star Rotana Hotel in Erbil:
“I am Iraqi, from Mosul. I lost my brother and uncle in that city, after ISIS took it. Of course ISIS were created and trained by the West and Turkey, but I also blame the Iraqi army – 54,000 of them just threw away their weapons and ran away.”
I said: “But they were most likely scared, knowing that behind the ISIS were the NATO countries.”
“Yes, definitely,” he replied.
“And what about Russia?”
“I am actually very, very interested in Russia and what it is now doing in the Middle East. Russia truly fights against ISIS. The US – they come; bomb the villages taken by ISIS, kill mainly civilians, and also ‘by mistake’ drop the weapons to the area, so ISIS can get their hands on them… I have many friends who are actually fighting against ISIS, in Mosul, therefore I am always well informed.”
Families are on both sides of the line, and the mobile phones are working. It is possible to keep informed about the situation in Mosul, by simply calling relatives and friends.
Then he continues:
“Even if Mosul would ever be freed from ISIS, there would be many different factions and perpetual conflicts.”
“Not unlike the Libyan scenario?” I interrupt him.
“Exactly. Not unlike the Libyan scenario…. Also, what worries me is what is happening to the children of Mosul; ISIS is heavily indoctrinating them.”
“That happens in many countries that the West destabilized,” I utter.
He does not know. He only knows that it has been happening in his city and country.
When I returned to my hotel, a British dude was practicing politics with a female receptionist. Military talk, about training local military folks, and then oil production talk – it is all in vogue, or at least acceptable as a social interaction between “hip” locals and macho expats.
There are all those private security experts, military men, instructors, intelligence officers and advisors. It is one huge mind-blowing medley of military bravado, openly paraded and spiced with turbo-capitalist dogmas.
I am studying local sources. And more I do, it becomes obvious that things are going from bad to worse.
Statistics Director in Suleymaniyah, Mahmud Osman, told recently BasNews:
“Compared to 2014, in 2015 the expenditure of each family has decreased by 30 percent – that it includes buying basic needs, home stuff, traveling and so on… the unemployment rate in the [Kurdistan] Region was 7 percent in 2013, but now it has risen to 25 percent…”
The poverty increased dramatically, too. And the Region has extremely lax ways of calculating poverty: if a family does not spend IQD 105,000 ($87) in a month, the family is considered poor. That is $21.75 per person per month, lesser than a dollar a day! Not to mention, that Kurdish families have, on average, more than four members.
I ask my driver how much a family of five needs to survive in and outside Erbil.
”At the absolute minimum, $1,000 a month in the city, and $600 in the countryside.”
“How many families are making that much?” I wonder.
“Not even one half… Much lesser than half,” he says.
I am puzzled; I want to know, to hear from the people of “the Region,” whether their lives have truly collapsed.
In Kawergosk village, an elderly man, Mohamad Ahmad Hasen, is chillingly frank about the situation:
“They [the government, the system] are not helping us with absolutely anything. And now we have absolutely nothing. There, look, see that huge oil refinery? They are on their own and we are on our own. There are no new jobs and we are living hand-to-mouth.”
In another village, I speak to one of many families that managed to escape from ISIS-occupied territories. They come from the city of Hammam al-Alil, near Mosul. They all agree that things were much better before the US invasion:
“During Saddam Hussein, Iraq was a proud and decent country. Security was good. Now we don’t even know who our enemies are, and who is behind them.”
Next door, a woman shares her plight. According to a conservative culture of Mosul, she is not supposed to talk to us. But she has several children, all near starvation. She is fed up, and she says:
“Our men are in the Peshmerga. They are fighting ISIS. I have seven children. My neighbor has seven children. Nobody is working anymore. There is no help. Even the Peshmerga is not getting paid. It is all extremely difficult and I am not even sure how are we going to survive!”
But Turkish truck and tankers are moving up and down the roads, day and night.
Not long ago, during our meeting in Istanbul, Professor E. Ahmet Tonak summarized the situation between Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan:
“Turkey is very supportive of the regime in Erbil; if for nothing else, at least for economic reasons. Whoever goes there – to northern Iraq – or what we call southern Kurdistan, would notice that Turkish companies are dominating that Kurdish Region almost completely… There is oil there, obviously, but there is also another, political factor: the Iraqi Kurdish regime is the only friendly Kurdish force Ankara has in the entire area.”
But the allies of the Kurdistan Region do not seem to be too interested in the plight of local people.
While the social system is collapsing, Erbil is turning into one of the most segregated places on earth: with 12-lane roads, fragmented communities, absolutely no public transportation, almost no cultural institutions, but plenty of malls for the rich, as well as luxury hotels for the expats.
In the area where the majority of people live on less than $1 per day, a decent hotel room now costs over $350, and the daily rate for car hire from a hotel is around $400.
There is great fear in the Kurdistan Region. And fear is feeding anger. And anger may lead to violence against the corrupt pro-Western regime.
And what is Erbil’s “solution”? Reuters reported on February 11, 2016:
“Massud Barzani, de facto president of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, declared in early February that the “time has come for the country’s Kurds to hold a referendum on statehood.”
Baghdad is watching and warning: “Don’t do it! You will not be able to survive without us.”
But the regime in Kurdistan Region appears to be too stubborn. As in all colonies of the West, it is business as usual: “Profit over people.”
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.
(*) Andre Vltchek is a philosopher, novelist, filmmaker and investigative journalist. His latest books are: “Exposing Lies Of The Empire” and “Fighting Against Western Imperialism”.
Discussion with N. Chomsky: On Western Terrorism. Point of No Return is his critically acclaimed political novel. Andre is making films for teleSUR and Press TV. Vltchek presently resides and works in East Asia and the Middle East.
Source: RT, Published time: 14 Feb, 2016 08:39
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/332408-iraqi-kurdistan-collapse-turkey-oil/
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tlm724
“Profit over people.” says it all ! Thanks Bondlady for posting this. It is a cold, hard look at Kurdistan and most likely the whole of Iraq from the perspective of the people not the government !
http://www.bondladyscorner.com/t163104-collapse-of-iraqi-kurdistan
Bayati: Change Abadi means changing all the power structure
22/02/2016 10:26 | Direction Press Special /
MP for the National Alliance Abbas al-Bayati, said on Monday that the word mandate contained in the words of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi Aigsd to abandon the House of Representatives for his powers and therefore must Ministerial change to get the confidence of Parliament.
Al-Bayati said in an interview for “direction Press” that Rais Minister Haider al-Abadi request of the House of Representatives delegation in general at the ministerial change in the framework of prodding and encouragement.
He added that the survival of Prime Minister is a foregone conclusion locally, regionally and internationally, and there is no data to change in this regard, pointing out that the change Abadi means changing all the power structure.
He said the parliamentary atmosphere when hosting the Prime Minister has been encouraging and positive, that does not mean that the change would go on the road to the temple and it is obstacles and we have to show some obstacles to Abadi.
Referred to as the Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, the House of Representatives called for a mandate in the ministerial change and the formation of the government is far from the quota system, called the parliamentary blocs to be working to support reforms and change for Iraq. http://aletejahtv.org/index.php/permalink/100799.html
[tlm724] He added that the survival of Prime Minister is a foregone conclusion locally, regionally and internationally, and there is no data to change in this regard, pointing out that the change Abadi means changing all the power structure.
[tlm724] I hope he stays and it looks like he will Wink
[tlm724] He said the parliamentary atmosphere when hosting the Prime Minister has been encouraging and positive, that does not mean that the change would go on the road to the temple and it is obstacles and we have to show some obstacles to Abadi.
http://www.bondladyscorner.com/t163107-bayati-change-abadi-means-changing-all-the-power-structure
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Arab League hails Iraq’s economic measures
2/22/2016 0:00 BAGHDAD – Farah pumice
praised Chancellor of the Arab League measures the Iraqi government in the face of the financial crisis, calling for an international award for Iraq in order to overcome the challenges caused by the decline in the sale of crude oil prices in world markets.
And saw a consultant of international arbitration Arab League Najat Hussein in a statement »Sabah», that «the government’s actions need an international award, especially that Iraq is passing through more than a year of economic crisis.
She pointed out that the economic situation facing the additional challenge as a result of the high financial needs to face the terrorist organizations of the security forces, which cost nearly one-third of the general budget for Iraq processing costs.
She said Hussein, a sovereign Iraqi businessman, said that «the country is not bankrupt, as described by some local media or Arab, as it has the financial reserves of about $ 60 billion, in addition to deposits and property of the bank Rafidain and Rasheed government balance is estimated at $ 300 billion, the highest in the Middle East and the region, she says.
And he praised the expert team of economic advisers working with the Prime Minister, indicating that they see and experience, but they are in dire need of international assignment.
He announced the Information Office of the Prime Minister, Dr. Haider al-Abadi Earlier this month, the government put several measures and decisions concerning the subject matter of the five economic reforms, including the file, noting that the government’s past steps to achieve restructuring of the economy in the country. Regarding the rapid and results of the government’s measures, Hussein have shown that activation of the tax code has achieved good earnings in early 2016, they are allowed to pay the salaries of employees and retirees, and fully secure payments for this year.
However Chancellor that the country has confirmed the need for further economic reform, especially since he has a precious natural resources, in addition to the important sectors (industry, agriculture) and the possibility monetize your properly, as well as religious, archaeological and recreational tourism resource, urging on the investment of these sectors to meet the challenges including the reconstruction of liberated areas, which represents the weight of another, as well as the need to secure displaced persons and bring them back to their areas.
http://www.alsabaah.iq/ArticleShow.aspx?ID=110963
Tlm724: She said Hussein, a sovereign Iraqi businessman, said that «the country is not bankrupt, as described by some local media or Arab, as it has the financial reserves of about $ 60 billion, in addition to deposits and property of the bank Rafidain and Rasheed government balance is estimated at $ 300 billion, the highest in the Middle East and the region, she says.
And he praised the expert team of economic advisers working with the Prime Minister, indicating that they see and experience, but they are in dire need of international assignment.
http://www.bondladyscorner.com/t163144-arab-league-hails-iraq-s-economic-measures
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Hammoudi: Parliament will vote today on a list the behavior of Representatives
2/22/2016 0:00 BAGHDAD – Omar Abdel-Latif, first deputy chairman of the House of Representatives Hamoudi detect the presence of a media campaign Tsagaitih of parliament, between the council will vote today on a list the behavior of Representatives.
He said Hamoudi during his speech at a seminar to discuss the quarterly report on the performance of the parliament during the legislative term of the first of legislative second year of the current session and attended by «morning»: the »parliament today in front of a media campaign Tsagaitih intensive and because the political system in the country’s parliamentary When Down the House fall experience, stressing that this campaign has always relied on what completed the House of Representatives?».
He said »people should know that the target for this is not the parliament alone, but people also wanting Ptsagath want the return of authoritarianism and dictatorship Needless to say, the role of the people and transparency in place at the moment »,
warning that» the second aspect of this campaign depends on determine how the members themselves and guide the permanent criticism and stinging them and hold them accountable for others such as bad services, economic and security situation ».
attributed Hamoudi reasons for the existence of this campaign is the fact that parliament is more hand appear directly on the TV screen while the executive branch appear to once a week, as well as the creation of the information department of the Board press center open to accusations of Representatives among them,
Altsagaitih and campaigns carried out by some of them if he left angry vote or discuss the interviews, and the parliament shall bear other liability when these members inaccurate and launch reckless accusations in order to gain media and provoked ».
He hinted first Deputy chairman of the House of Representatives that Monday will vote on a code of conduct of Deputies, which will include penalties determined by the competent committees at the House of Representatives who exceed their statements or positions or launch their accusations in order to protect the parliament itself,
in addition to obtaining a mandate from the Council for a transition of members between the commissions »He pointed out that» the Council will continue to negligence on the subject of the final accounts and summoned by a major financial and legal committees also noted the Office of financial supervision ».
http://www.alsabaah.iq/ArticleShow.aspx?ID=110994
tlm724: people should know that the target for this is not the parliament alone, but people also wanting Ptsagath want the return of authoritarianism and dictatorship Needless to say, the role of the people and transparency in place at the moment », warning that» the second aspect of this campaign depends on determine how the members themselves and guide the permanent criticism and stinging them and hold them accountable for others such as bad services, economic and security situation ».
attributed Hamoudi reasons for the existence of this campaign is the fact that parliament is more hand appear directly on the TV screen while the executive branch appear to once a week,
show the people !!
http://www.bondladyscorner.com/t163148-hammoudi-parliament-will-vote-today-on-a-list-the-behavior-of-representatives
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Parliament plans to separate its members absent from the limit
BAGHDAD / long-Presse Confirmed the Presidency of the Council of Representatives member Hamoudi, on Sunday, said the council would work to members who exceeded Gaabathm legal limit season, and while noting the need to adhere to “literal rules of procedure” of the parliament.
He said the Information Office of Hamoudi said in a statement received (range Press version) it, that “the presidency of the Council of Representatives member Hamoudi, attended yesterday, discussion seminar hosted by the information department of the Council, and in cooperation with the perceptions Foundation, to discuss the performance of the parliament’s report during the legislative term of the first of the legislative year the second of the current session.”
He stressed Hamoudi according to the statement, that “parliament will soon go to separate members who exceeded Gaabathm the legal limit,” stressing the need to “abide professionally rules of procedure of the parliament.”
He said Vice President of the House of Representatives that “the doors of the House of Representatives, documents and archives are open to all media and civil society organizations in order to collect accurate information.” The Hamoudi “We find the lack of correct criticism to parliament, in a lot of negatives about the menu and remote continued his work, such as electricity or exceeded limits or service issues or other things that may be the responsibility of the executive bodies.” LINK
tlm724: that “parliament will soon go to separate members who exceeded Gaabathm the legal limit,” stressing the need to “abide professionally rules of procedure of the parliament.”
He said Vice President of the House of Representatives that “the doors of the House of Representatives, documents and archives are open to all media and civil society organizations in order to collect accurate information.”’
http://www.bondladyscorner.com/t163155-parliament-plans-to-separate-its-members-absent-from-the-limit
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National Defence processing industry products reach their final stages contracts
Baghdad / Munir al-Jubouri She and the Ministry of Industry and Minerals, on Sunday, ready to meet the needs of the Ministry of Defense of military equipment, while confirming that the contract between the two ministries reached its final stages, indicated the Ministry of Defence that the local product is preferable to any other product.
The Secretary General of the Ministry of Defense Lt. Gen. Mohammed Jawad through a joint press conference with Director General of the leather industries Inc. Ahmed Al Kaabi, held at the company’s headquarters in Baghdad, attended (range press) “a delegation from the Ministry of defense and at the direction of the commander in chief of the armed forces visited the Ministry of Industry factories to see the ministry products and raise motivating workers in the factories,” stressing that “serious ministry contracted with the Ministry of Industry will not be our requests are limited to military equipment but also include other axes.”
He added Jawad that “the defense convinced the production and the Ministry of Industry factories and supply contracts with them and reached the final stages,” noting that “we we’ve become convinced that most of our contracts in 2016 it can be equipped with the Ministry of Industry if they blocked our need because we prefer the national product on any other product. ”
for his part, Director General of the leather industries Inc. Ahmed Al Kaabi, during the conference that” the defense Ministry is determined to use military equipment produced by our ministry factories ” noting that “the technical details regarding the contracts between the two ministries will be announced later.”
Kaabi added that “the Ministry of Industry and minerals factories will meet the need of the defense Ministry, according to the required specifications.”
It is said that the Ministry of Industry and minerals confirmed on Tuesday (2 February 2016), all coordinated with the defense Ministry to form a committee to evaluate the products of war, indicating that access to the necessary support to allow them to secure 70 percent of the equipment and weapons they need and the defense and interior ministries as well as the popular crowd, and provide a lot of hard currency for the country, while the leadership shown by the crowd was ready to buy the national war products If the allocated budget for that.
the Minister of Industry and minerals in (3 December 2015) confirmed, the ability of the ministry to compete with foreign goods, on condition that the application of the customs tariff and the protection of the national product and the lack of support for the dollar exchange rate laws.
the Ministry of Industry and minerals, announced, (the 25th of November 2015), the approval of the Council of Ministers of the forty-fifth its session, which was held in the (November 24, 2015), the decision to activate the necessary ministries and government agencies of all, buy public its products. LINK
tlm724: Ministry of Industry and Minerals, on Sunday, ready to meet the needs of the Ministry of Defense of military equipment, while confirming that the contract between the two ministries reached its final stages, indicated the Ministry of Defence that the local product is preferable to any other product.
http://www.bondladyscorner.com/t163157-national-defence-processing-industry-products-reach-their-final-stages-contracts
The bombing of targets for (Daash) in Mosul
Alliance destroys 5 of banks Mosul. . And fears of targeting infrastructure
Author: Editor: AZ 02.21.2016 20:15 Long-Presse / Baghdad Targeted international coalition, five banks in Mosul is believed that some of them still includes money and important documents related to the names of the organization and functional structure in the city.
On the other hand, Vice Nineveh confirms that uses Daash fortified rooms in these banks for about a year and a half in order to hide, believing that it will not turn out to be military targets.
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Local authorities do not hide in fear of Nineveh breadth of attacking the infrastructure in Mosul process, but a member of the provincial council said that the raids are without our advice.
Artillery battalion and Apache
In the meantime, the number of affiliated advisers of international alliance, in addition to trainers with American military equipment and weapons, including artillery battalion and 4 aircraft, to edit Nineveh camp.
He revealed Olokua Abdul Rahman, a member of the Nineveh provincial council in his speech (term) for “the arrival of an unknown number of experts and advisers to a drunken Americans, southeast of Mosul.”
The Olokua “the arrival of an American artillery battalion, along with four Apache aircraft within 23 dedicated connector plane will arrive successively to the camp.”
Conversely transfer Olokua, a senior military official at the headquarters of the Liberation of Nineveh, saying that “the band 15 Iraqi military will be completed in a drunken camp number 28 of the current month of February.”
The band began Vanguards of 15 to reach the camp drunken 11 days ago. The band 15 is the new name for the second band, which collapsed after the fall of Mosul last summer.
It is expected to take part in the liberation of Mosul, 73 brigades and 72 belonging to the Iraqi army. Two brigades recently finished the Tdrebathma at the hands of US forces and grants leave open late January will end with the announcement of the start of Thariralamousel process.
It is also expected to participate Iraqi army brigade 93, who participated in the liberation of Ramadi process before that Kirkuk be drawn to his rehabilitation. It descended most of the affiliates of the Tal Afar Turkmen.
On the other hand has not yet resolved the participation of 11 battalions from the local police being trained at Camp Speicher, but, according to local officials, inevitably they will contribute in the maintenance of the land.
And held the “Edit Nineveh” camp, 10 km away from the control of Daash areas in Mosul, the vast land area of 1,500 square kilometers, has been leased from a farmer in a drunk.
Intensify air strikes
And intensify the international coalition aircraft, the US-led strikes on selected targets, within the city of Mosul, Daash taken elements of their base.
The Mmousine Saeed, a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Mosul, in contact with the (range) that “American planes bombed since Friday night until yesterday 20 different locations in Mosul.”
Mmousine pointed out that “one of the strikes targeted weapons stores to Daash in dignity Industry Zone, killing four gunmen inside.” As the headquarters was bombed by insurgents in the areas of good governance, Yarmouk, the train station, garage Baghdad.
Kurdish official explained that “the bombing targeted a bank which was used as a substitute for the disbursement of the salaries of the militants.”
The latter bank, is the fifth target blows the international coalition, since the first raid, which destroyed the Rasheed Bank in the flower district of mid-January.
Mmousine asserts that “the first strike, which came after nearly a year and a half from the control Daash on the connector, undone Daash millions of dollars hidden in a bank.”
The military sources have revealed that the strike has using two bombs each weighing about 908 kilograms, which led to the destruction of the entire building.
How managed banks Mosul
For his part, attributes the Alloizi Rahman, MP from Nineveh, was delayed “to strike the Western alliance banks to US strategy first began to strike smuggling corridors Daash oil and then moved on to targeting their money.”
It is believed Alloizi, in an interview with the (range), “Some of these banks are still where some of the money.” He added that “he has his sources inside Mosul, furnish information on places to hide Daash Alliance for money.”
But Mmousine, an official of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Mosul, said that “Daash launched a massive campaign on the banks of the city after targeted the Rasheed Bank flowers district last month for fear of similar strikes.”
And the bombing of Air Alliance, the middle of this month, the central bank Bank in exchange for maintaining the building, Rasheed Bank in Pedal Street, and Bank of Abu Tammam in the neighborhood officers, and mortgage bank Faisaliah district.
The sources expected the city to Rasheed Bank was Includes $ 25 billion Iraqi dinars, while the other three banks were empty.
On the other hand it is likely to be Alloizi Daash has been used heavily fortified rooms in those banks, private banks and targeting operations had been delayed for a long time after the occupation of Mosul to hide. ”
In turn, says Olokua, a member of the Nineveh provincial council, he said that “Daash retain important documents and a database relating Banazare and his staff and payroll in those banks.”
The Central Bank of Iraq, the end of last June, as “suspended all banking activities and electronic payment systems and clearing banks deployed in Mosul since June 10, 2014”.
The Iraqi government and the House of Representatives may eternally, in June 2015, their fears of a relationship between the Jordanian Capital Bank branch in Mosul, Iraqi banks in the capital, Baghdad, and demanded the central bank Batalallma on the details of his work.
The US CNBC television the US economic news station had reported, last year, the Capital Bank of Jordan Bank owns 72% of the shares of National Bank of Iraq, a member of the Capital Bank Group, and has several branches in Iraq, one in Mosul.
On the other hand Olokua reveals a fear of the government and the Council of Nineveh of “escalation targeting the international coalition to other infrastructure in the city, along the lines of what happened in Ramadi that were largely destroyed.”
A member of the Nineveh provincial council that the last “spoke with the international coalition fears about the destruction of the city,” stressing that “the coalition strikes directed to locations within the city without being consulted.”
Conversely Olokua confirms that the parties to the international coalition confirmed its commitment to the provincial council not to destroy the city, “but sometimes you have to hit some sites that are holed up inside elements of Daash.” LINK
tlm724: Thanks BondLady !!
Targeted international coalition, five banks in Mosul is believed that some of them still includes money and important documents related to the names of the organization and functional structure in the city
Kurdish official explained that “the bombing targeted a bank which was used as a substitute for the disbursement of the salaries of the militants.”
The latter bank, is the fifth target blows the international coalition, since the first raid, which destroyed the Rasheed Bank in the flower district of mid-January.
Mmousine asserts that “the first strike, which came after nearly a year and a half from the control Daash on the connector, undone Daash millions of dollars hidden in a bank.”
The military sources have revealed that the strike has using two bombs each weighing about 908 kilograms, which led to the destruction of the entire building.
For his part, attributes the Alloizi Rahman, MP from Nineveh, was delayed “to strike the Western alliance banks to US strategy first began to strike smuggling corridors Daash oil and then moved on to targeting their money
“Some of these banks are still where some of the money.” He added that “he has his sources inside Mosul, furnish information on places to hide Daash Alliance for money.”
But Mmousine, an official of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Mosul, said that “Daash launched a massive campaign on the banks of the city after targeted the Rasheed Bank flowers district last month for fear of similar strikes.”
And the bombing of Air Alliance, the middle of this month, the central bank Bank in exchange for maintaining the building, Rasheed Bank in Pedal Street, and Bank of Abu Tammam in the neighborhood officers, and mortgage bank Faisaliah district.
The sources expected the city to Rasheed Bank was Includes $ 25 billion Iraqi dinars, while the other three banks were empty
In turn, says Olokua, a member of the Nineveh provincial council, he said that “Daash retain important documents and a database relating Banazare and his staff and payroll in those banks.”
The Central Bank of Iraq, the end of last June, as “suspended all banking activities and electronic payment systems and clearing banks deployed in Mosul since June 10, 2014”.
The Iraqi government and the House of Representatives may eternally, in June 2015, their fears of a relationship between the Jordanian Capital Bank branch in Mosul, Iraqi banks in the capital, Baghdad, and demanded the central bank Batalallma on the details of his work.
The US CNBC television the US economic news station had reported, last year, the Capital Bank of Jordan Bank owns 72% of the shares of National Bank of Iraq, a member of the Capital Bank Group, and has several branches in Iraq, one in Mosul.
http://www.bondladyscorner.com/t163120-alliance-destroys-5-of-banks-mosul-and-fears-of-targeting-infrastructure
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Virtue attributes the recovery of money diverted to the multiplicity of actors and the lack of seriousness failure
History of edits:: 22.2.2016 14:51 {Baghdad} Euphrates News attributed the head of the Virtue Ammar Tohme, retrieve the money diverted to the multiplicity of agencies involved in combating money contraband and the absence of seriousness failure.
He said Tohme said in a statement the agency {Euphrates News} received a copy of it today that “the multiplicity of actors in this matter form a cause of the dispersion and the intersection rather than complement each other to achieve common goals for example, if it were to adopt the file management on the one hand be directly responsible or basic and the rest of those dolly and supportive working under the supervision of the core of the possible saving efforts and assembled toward a unified rather than dispersion.
He said the “absence of seriousness and follow-up to the concerned authorities to recover the money smuggled clear, for example, to recover the money smuggled Fund was established in 2012 and did not meet during these years, but nine times and did not recovers Dinara one, which requires activation controlled parliament on his work and repetition of joint meetings with his parliament committees competent. ”
he pointed out the weakness of the incentive or the equivalent offered to informers, and we propose to determine the percentage of the total money to the informant determined by the Council of Ministers of each case and the approval of the parliament, noting that “BSA said that he has an important file and do not know the reasons for the delay follow-up actions and recovery to him and is supposed to clearly specify the methods and routes used by corrupt in money smuggling is it through the auction sale of the dollar, or through documentary credits phantom and others.
he “for the purpose of determining the controls those ports and closed down as a precautionary measure to combat corruption control, and at least is supposed to provide those responsible for the fight against and recover the money smuggled account for the money smuggled and registered with the authorities concerned to follow-up, as the declaration of the value of the amounts provides pressure on the regulators to continue and the completion recoverable. ”
he said that” the central bank governor said the weakness of the attention of the central bank earlier in the block money out outside Iraq .. and this needs to identify people for negligence or negligent who recognizes the responsibility of the sites concerned at the central bank, and is a new administration handled this imbalance causing a great loss of foreign currency seized by speculators means illegal. ”
The House of Representatives today discussed the money smuggled in the presence of the competent committees and the Governor of the Central Bank on the Keywords, the intelligence chief and a representative of the Foreign Ministry and Head of Supreme Audit Salah Nouri al-Khalaf and Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance Fadel Prophet and the representative of the President board of integrity, and a representative of the Supreme Judicial Council as well as the presence of a representative of the anti-money Laundering Office. ”
The head of the House of Representatives Salim al-Jubouri, the formation of a supreme committee shall prosecute and recover the money smuggled tasks.
According to a parliamentary source said” the parliament speaker face to form a higher committee takes his deputies management and membership committees of integrity, financial and legal foreign, security and defense and accountability, justice and relations shall prosecute and recover the money smuggled and hold hearings with the executive bodies of the relevant tasks, “noting that” al-Jubouri said this file is a priority for the Council in the next stage, “.anthy
http://alforatnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=109465
tlm724: absence of seriousness and follow-up to the concerned authorities to recover the money smuggled clear, for example, to recover the money smuggled Fund was established in 2012 and did not meet during these years, but nine times and did not recovers Dinara one, which requires activation controlled parliament on his work and repetition of joint meetings with his parliament committees competent. ”
he pointed out the weakness of the incentive or the equivalent offered to informers, and we propose to determine the percentage of the total money to the informant determined by the Council of Ministers of each case and the approval of the parliament,
noting that “BSA said that he has an important file and do not know the reasons for the delay follow-up actions and recovery to him and is supposed to clearly specify the methods and routes used by corrupt in money smuggling is it through the auction sale of the dollar, or through documentary credits phantom and others.
not one dinar recovered since 2012 !
he said that” the central bank governor said the weakness of the attention of the central bank earlier in the block money out outside Iraq .. and this needs to identify people for negligence or negligent who recognizes the responsibility of the sites concerned at the central bank, and is a new administration handled this imbalance causing a great loss of foreign currency seized by speculators means illegal. ”
The House of Representatives today discussed the money smuggled in the presence of the competent committees and the Governor of the Central Bank on the Keywords, the intelligence chief and a representative of the Foreign Ministry and Head of Supreme Audit Salah Nouri al-Khalaf and Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance Fadel Prophet and the representative of the President board of integrity, and a representative of the Supreme Judicial Council as well as the presence of a representative of the anti-money Laundering Office. ”
The head of the House of Representatives Salim al-Jubouri, the formation of a supreme committee shall prosecute and recover the money smuggled tasks
get on it quick ! Suspect
http://www.bondladyscorner.com/t163124-virtue-attributes-the-recovery-of-money-diverted-to-the-multiplicity-of-actors-and-the-lack-of-seriousness-failure
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Urgent .. Council of Representatives decides the display format to a vote on ending the state management proxy process
History of edits:: 22.2.2016 15:01
{Baghdad: Euphrates News} House of Representatives has decided to offer a formula to vote to end the state management proxy process.
The head of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council Ammar al-Hakim, has stressed on more than one occasion the need for commitment and political commitments in the state-building and the completion of the State Administration proxy file, indicating that Government agencies, ‘
the wrong approach and will not appease or compromise on our project. several political parties and blocs have rejected the style of acting appointment of government institutions, demanding an end to the administration acting in all aspects of the state. is over
A reporter and Euphrates News Agency {} “The House of Representatives will be presented at the next meeting format to a vote on the inclusion of heads of independent bodies, the process of change, modification or voting within the Council, in a move to end the process of the State Administration proxy” follows .. http://alforatnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=109459
[tlm724] House of Representatives has decided to offer a formula to vote to end the state management proxy process
[tlm724] this means if it goes through then the CBI governor will either be appointed permantly or replaced, I vote for the latter but we will see
Reflection: If it’s appointed, does that mean Maliki’s boy will be in there for good? If that’s the case, I doubt Iraq will change.
Tlm724: It’s hard to say which way it will go, we gotta wait this one out Reflection. I hope Abadi has a bigger plan for the CBI and it’s governorship !
http://www.bondladyscorner.com/t163128-urgent-council-of-representatives-decides-the-display-format-to-a-vote-on-ending-the-state-management-proxy-process
