December 23, 2011
Iraq ~ After the failure of the leaders meeting, Barzani to create a new initiative .. and ..
Iraq's Political Leaders Will Meet Next Week .. Meetings Taking Place On the Sidelines ...
House and Senate approve deal on payroll tax cut. The House and Senate have approved a measure extending the payroll tax cut, unemployment benefits and Medicare rates for doctors for two months by unanimous consent, after no members appeared to object to a deal hatched by Congressional leaders Thursday night. The bill now heads to President Obama for his signature, expected later Friday. .. and ..
U.S. troops leave as insecurity still haunts Iraq's future. Nearly nine years after the U.S.- led invasion, the U.S. troops at last withdrew from Iraq late in 2011 as scheduled in a security pact between the two countries.Violence in Iraq has dropped dramatically compared to its peak during the sectarian warfare in 2006 and 2007. But the country remains unstable and haunted by ghosts of chaos, and unable to revive due to deep sectarian and ethnic polarization.The Sunni extremist group of al-Qaida, insurgent groups allegedly tied to former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's now- banned Baath party as well as Shiite militias still represent major threats to security in Iraq. .. and ..
January 1, 2012 ~ EU celebrates 10th anniversary of the launch of the single currency .. and ..
Top Shiite cleric, Sistani, holds Iraqi politicians responsible for devastating Baghdad bombings .. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani contends that conflicts among Iraqi political leaders have created a crisis that threatens the nation and allows for such attacks .. and ..
Iraq's Meeting With Leaders - Parliament meeting postponed till further notice .. and ..
Republicans accuse Obama of failing to Iraq's negotiations - Baghdad / term New York Times reported that Republicans in the Senate, the U.S. blamed on President Obama's renewed sectarian tensions in Iraq, and asked him to re-open negotiations on a U.S. military force to keep a resident there. On the day that followed the departure of the last U.S. forces issued an arrest warrant for Tareq al-Hashemi, Iraqi Vice President, on charges of inciting murder. .. and ..
Monday Meeting .. Financial Kurdistan proceeds of all ports, border region back to Baghdad - The Minister of Finance the Kurdistan region, said imports of Abraham port that connects the Kurdistan region of Turkey, and the financial returns of all border crossings Kurdistan back to Baghdad. Baez said Talabani attending the parliament session held yesterday, then decided to postpone until next Monday, "The Ministry of Finance and the economy of the Kurdistan region has not received so far amounts allocated to projects within the petro-dollar" .. and ..
Government agrees to a proposal to separate the development of the provincial budget. Baghdad, term declared the head of the virtue in the House of Representatives Ammar Tohme approval of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's presentation of a proposal virtue parliamentary bloc to the Cabinet for approval and submission to the House of Representatives for approval at its next. Especially as the proportion of each of the provinces and the development of clear and specific, according to the rate of population which makes it easier to vote on this budget on the development of the provinces before the start of the fiscal year. and ..
Biden's statements is "an avowed intervention", MP - Ahrar bloc MP described the statements of US vice-president Joe Biden on Hashimi's case as "an avowed intervention in Iraqi internal affairs".In a statement, Mohammed Redha al-Khafaji said "we reject and denounce the US intervention in Iraqi affairs, particularly Biden who uttered the division of Iraq project". He pointed that the case of vice-president Tariq al-Hashimi should not be connected with other internal politics, which matter "proves that USA is still intervening in Iraqi internal affairs". He supported the stand of Iraqi premier Nouri al-Maliki. Biden contacted parliament speaker Usama Nujaifi and informed him that " USA is building its conditional relationship within a democratic Iraq , independent judicial system, real national partnership and exclude the armed forces from any political interference". .. and ..
Baghdad demonstrators demand handing over Hashimi to justice
Baghdad explosions for new sectarian conflict, Hashimi
Barzani stresses peaceful co-existence
White Bloc to mediate between Maliki and Alawi, MP
