In Iraq's Diyala province, a new security force is now in operation to stop female suicide bombers. The 'Daughters of Iraq' is made up of women who have been trained by US troops to help with searches at checkpoints. The women may be unarmed, but the US military says they carry the weapon of intuition.
Female force keeps Diyala secure in Iraq - 28 Jun 09 (Video):
Imam Khaled Saleh, Wiydan Adel Murad, Muneera Mueen Khalaf, Sabrya Majeed Hussein, are among the courageous women who want to make Iraqi streets more secure.
For VIDEO, please click on:
source Al Jazeera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4dEyhSjTZ8
Sunday, 28 June 2009
Talabani's bodyguards attack KNN journalists
KurdishMedia.com
· 26/06/2009
· 26/06/2009
London (KurdishMedia.com) 26 June 2009: While the population of a Sulemani neighbourhood protesting against Talabani’s empty promises, the KNN journalists were insulted by Talabani’s bodyguards, reported speiy.com website on Friday.
While Talabani visiting Sulemani, people protesting outside his resting place. Three journalists of KNN TV channel were forced to stay in their vehicle for 40 minutes while they were insulted by Talabani’s bodyguards, according to speiy.com report. Talabani is on a visit to Sulemani.
One of the journalists, Bryar Namiq, told speiy.com that while they were forcibly trapped in their vehicle by Talabani’s bodyguards, the protesters chanted anti-PUK slogans and supported the Gorran list, Movement for Change, led by Nawshirwan Mustafa.
Sulemani was a stronghold of the PUK, led by Talabani, but the reform wing which re-grouped as "The Movement for Change" parliamentary list marginalised PUK.
http://kurdmedia.com/article.aspx?id=15822
Saturday, 27 June 2009
Kerkuk: Sadrists demand protection for Turkmens
Kerkuk : Sadrists demand protection for Turkmens
In aftermath of bombing, demands for national unity and purge of security forces
see:
http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/7823/Kirkuk_Sadrists_Demand_Protection_for_Turkmen
In aftermath of bombing, demands for national unity and purge of security forces
see:
http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/7823/Kirkuk_Sadrists_Demand_Protection_for_Turkmen
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Union of the Diaspora Turkmens: A Call to the Free People of the World
A CALL TO THE FREE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD
UNION OF THE DIASPORA TURKMENS (UDT)
There has been another vicious attack on the peaceful Turkmen people of Iraq.
On Saturday June 20th, 2009 at noon, a truck bomb exploded in the busiest centre of the town of Taze Khurmatu , 15 km south-west of Kerkuk, killing 75,wounding over 200 innocent people and destroying the entire neighbourhood.
This has been the latest in the chain of terrorist attacks against the Turkmens in Iraq ; it follows the attacks against them in Telafer, Kerkuk, Tuz Khurmatu, Amirli, Yengije, etc...
These terrorist attacks are particularly vicious as they are directed against the peaceful, unarmed and unprotected Turkmen community of Iraq.
The Iraqi authorities with their local police and security forces have failed to stop these attacks in the past and the recent terrorist attack in Taze Khurmatu shows once again that they are either unable or unwilling to ensure adequate protection for the Turkmens.
The Turkmens represent Iraq’s third largest ethnic group and despite the fact that they constitute a main ethnic community in Iraq alongside the Arabs and the Kurds, they continue to be discriminated as they remain the only ethnic group without any means of self-defence or community protection, because the central and local Iraqi authorities deny them the right to possess weapons and to organize their own self-defence and the protection of their community.
We are asking the Iraqi authorities: the President of the Republic, Mr. Talabani, the Prime Minister, Mr. Maliki, the Members of the Iraqi Parliament and the Presidents of all political parties, to revise their policy concerning the security in the Turkmen region.
We ask them to encourage and allow the Turkmens to form their own local law enforcement units, and provide them with financial support and proper training. We in the Union of the Diaspora Turkmens (UDT) ask the free peoples and all the human rights organizations of the world to help us by putting pressure from their side upon the Iraqi authorities to grant the Turkmens their right to defend themselves and form law enforcement units of each locality from the local Turkmens.
Otherwise these tragedies and the human suffering of the Turkmens will continue.
UNION OF THE DIASPORA TURKMENS (UDT)
turkmencenter@yahoo.com
Tazehurmatu faciasında zarar gören Türkmen kardeşlerimiz için acil yardım kampanyası Duyurusu
22 Haziran 2009
Tercüme/ Cengiz Bayraktar
http://www.tanis-turkmen.nl/index.php?sub=news&oi=13904&lang=tr&page=1
Tercüme/ Cengiz Bayraktar
http://www.tanis-turkmen.nl/index.php?sub=news&oi=13904&lang=tr&page=1
Tazehurmatu faciasında zarar gören Türkmen kardeşlerimiz için acil yardım kampanyası Duyurusu
Hollanda’daki Türkmen Diasporasının Dikkatine:
Tazehurmatu faciasında zarar gören Türkmen kardeşlerimiz için acil yardım kampanyası Duyurusu
Türkmen Tazehurmatu ilçemizde 20 Haziran 2009 tarihinde vukuu bulan korkunç terör olayında Irak’ toprak birliğinden yana olan barışsever Türkmen milletinin düşmanlarının ne kadar vahşi oldukları bir kez daha görülmüştür.
Korkak teröristler bu katliamı işleyerek, Türkmen topraklarını kolayca ele geçirmek için Türkmenleri korkutmaya kalkışmışlardır, ama Türkmenlerin nedenli fedakâr bir millet olduklarını bilmemektedirler, yüce Türkmen milletli yakın tarihte dünkü Tazehurmatu katliamına benzer nice katliamlar yaşamamışsa da ecdattan kalma topraklarını savunmada azminden, iradesinden zerrece zaafa düşmemiştir. Allah’ın ve dostlarının yardımıyla ve de yüce Türkmen milletinin elbirliğiyle bugünde yarında düşmeyecektir, bu korkak teröristlerin amaçları da kursaklarında kalacaktır.
Bu elim münasebetle Türkmen Parti, kurum ve kuruluşlarına seslenmek istiyoruz ve diyoruz ki: birlik ve beraberliğiniz sözde kalmasın fiilde de olsun ve daha fazlası içinde çaba gösterin, Günümüz Türkmen durumu sizden bunu talep etmektedir. Türkmen milletinin azılı düşmanları bir Türkmen’i diğer bir Türkmen’den ayırt etmemektedir, bu Türkmen düşmanlarına karşı gelmenin tek yolu tüm Türkmenlerin el birliği etmesi ile olur.
Sayın Başbakan Maliki’den de, Telafer’den Mendeli’ye Türkmen bölgelerini korumak için bir an önce Irak ordusundan birlik göndermesini ya da Türkmen askeri birliklerinin kurulması için ilgili kurumlara emir vermesini istiyoruz.
Türkmen- Tanış Derneği- Hollanda, bu korkunç olay arifesinde Tazehurmatu’lu Türkmen kardeşlerinin acılarına ortak, yaralarına bir nebzede merhem olabilmek için yardım kampanyası düzenlemeye karar vermiştir.
Yardım etmek isteyenler aşağıdaki Tanış Hesap numarasına yapabilirler:
Stichting Tanis
ING Bank 9482709
Adres: Heemskerk
Banka yoluyla ödeme yapma imkânı olmayan ve de yardım yapmak isteyenlerin Sayın Yalçın Mutapçı ( Tel: 0640318673 ) beyi veya Sayın Ekber Hüseyin ( Tel: 0642395535) beyi aramaları rica olunur.
Tanış- Türkmen Derneği , Harlem- Hollanda da 5 Temmuz 2009 tarihinde, Saat 14:00’te Türkmen Tazehurmatu ilçesinde şehit düşenlerin pak ruhlarına taziye merasimi düzenleyecektir. Söz konusu merasime, İstanbul Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi hocalarından Sayın prof. Dr. Suphi Saatçi ile diasporada yaşayan Türkmen yazar Sayın Mehmet Tütüncü, teşrif edecekler ve Türkmenlerin son siyasi durumları hakkında bilgi sunacaklar.
Herkesin katılması rica olur
Tanış-Irak Türkmenleri Derneği Heyeti – Hollanda
http://www.tanis-turkmen.nl/index.php?sub=news&oi=13904&lang=tr&page=1
Monday, 22 June 2009
Duyuru: TRT-Türkiye'nin Sesi Radyosu
Duyuru: TRT-Türkiye'nin Sesi Radyosu www.kerkukfeneri.com sitesi Kerkük temsilcisi Ömer Begoğlu ile canlı yayında Tazehurmatu'daki patlama olayını değerlendirecektir. Tarih: 23 Haziran 2009 saat: 09.30
Targeting Iraq's Turkmens in Taza Hurmatu
Videos
Of the Bomb Attack on the Iraqi Turkmen Town of Taze Hurmatu
please click on the link above
This attack is the latest in the chain of attacks against the Turkmens.
Remember: TELAFER, KERKUK, TUZ HURMATU, AMIRLI, YEGECE...
Sunday, 21 June 2009
Turkey gets ready to help people after attack in Taza Hurmatu
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=178690
Turkey has begun carrying out preparatory efforts to help survivors of yesterday's bomb attack in Taza.
The Prime Ministry Directorate General for Emergency Rule said in a statement that the preparatory efforts had begun after providing the necessary coordination among the General Staff, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Health and the Turkish Red Crescent.
"Earlier, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that we could bring in those who were injured in the attack for medical treatment by a military plane. We are planning to send humanitarian aid including medical equipment, foodstuff and potable water to the people in Kerkuk by the same plane," it said.
At least 70 people were killed and more than 100 others were injured when a truck laden with explosives exploded as worshippers left a Shiite mosque in Taza, 20 kilometers south of Kirkuk on Saturday.
21 June 2009, Sunday
Turkey has begun carrying out preparatory efforts to help survivors of yesterday's bomb attack in Taza.
The Prime Ministry Directorate General for Emergency Rule said in a statement that the preparatory efforts had begun after providing the necessary coordination among the General Staff, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Health and the Turkish Red Crescent.
"Earlier, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that we could bring in those who were injured in the attack for medical treatment by a military plane. We are planning to send humanitarian aid including medical equipment, foodstuff and potable water to the people in Kerkuk by the same plane," it said.
At least 70 people were killed and more than 100 others were injured when a truck laden with explosives exploded as worshippers left a Shiite mosque in Taza, 20 kilometers south of Kirkuk on Saturday.
21 June 2009, Sunday
TÜRK KONSOLOSU ZİYARETİ, KERKÜK VALİSİNİ MEMNUN ETTİ
CHA - Kerkük Valiliğini ziyaret eden Türkiye’nin Musul Başkonsolosu Hüseyin Avni Botsalı, Kerkük’le ilgili olan sorunların tarafların aralarında konuşarak çözüleceğine inandığını söyledi.Türkiye’nin Musul Başkonsolosu Hüseyin Avni Botsalı, beraberindeki heyetle Kerkük Valisi Mustafa Abdurrahman ile bir araya geldi.
Kerkük Valisi Mustafa Abdurrahman, bu ziyaretten duyduğu mutluluğu dile getirerek bu ziyaretlerin tekrarlanmasını istedi.
Gerçekleşen ziyaretin kardeşlik ziyareti olduğunu ifade eden Abdurahman, “Bu ziyaretten çok mutluyum. Hüseyin Bey’le biz bağlantılarda bulunmuştuk. Geçen aylarda bir restoranta meydana gelen patlamada yaralananların Türkiye’deki tedavisi için çok yardımcı olmuştur. Bu ziyaret gayri resmi bir ziyarettir. Kardeşlik ziyaretidir ve ilişkileri daha da kuvvetlendirmek için yapılan bir ziyarettir.” dedi. Türkiye’nin Musul Başkonsolosu Botsalı, Kerkük’le ilgili olan sorunların tarafların aralarında konuşarak çözüleceğine inandığını söyledi.
Botsalı ilişkileri kuvvetlendirmek adına burada olduklarını ifade ederek, “Bu gayri resmi bir ziyarettir. Kerkük ile bağlantımız sürekli vardır. Kardeşlerimizle biz bugün bir aradayız. Arkadaşlığımızı ve ilişkilerimizi kuvvetlendirmek için buradayız. Türkiye Irak’a kardeş ülke gözüyle bakıyor. Biz kardeşiz. Kerkük bizim konsolosluk yetkisinde değildir. Ama bir Türk diplomat olarak Irak’ta inanıyorum ki Kerkük’le ilgili olan sorunlar siyasiler arasında, tarafların aralarında konuşmakla çözülecektir. Her sorun için bir çözüm mutlaka vardır” dedi.
Türkiye Dişİşleri Bakanı Ahmet Davutoğlu’nun önümüzdeki günlerde yapacağı Irak gezisi öncesi bu görüşme dikkat çekti.
The killing of unarmed Turkmens in Iraq - Cui bono?
Victims of the explosion in the Turkmen city of Taza HurmatuMany dead in Turkmen sub district of Taze Khormatu by a suicide truck bomb
by Mofak Salman
At least 22 people have been killed by a suicide truck bomb attack in Turkmen sub district Taze Khormatu south of Turkmen city of city of Kerkuk.
The attack struck near a mosque in Taze Khormatu, a predominantly Turkmen Shiite town, at around 1:00 pm (1000 GMT) and women and children among its victims.
The attack happened as worshippers were leaving the packed Al-Rasoul mosque; run by the Turkmen community, after midday prayers and the force of the blast left a deep crater in the ground.
According to the Turkmeneli TV, the explosion had flattened about 30 homes at least 65 people have been killed and over 175 Türkmen were injured, many of them seriously.
The latest attack comes weeks before US forces are due to withdraw, leading to concerns that violence could escalate. The Taze Khormatu bombing comes week ahead of a deadline for US troops to withdraw from towns and cities in Iraq, as part of a landmark security accord signed between Washington and Baghdad in November.
Many Turkmens think this explosion was carried out by a specific group who wanted to control the city of Kerkuk and change the demography of the town. The most striking thing was that the attack was carried out in a residential area with no presence of a police station or governmental building in the area.
At least 22 people have been killed by a suicide truck bomb attack in Turkmen sub district Taze Khormatu south of Turkmen city of city of Kerkuk.
The attack struck near a mosque in Taze Khormatu, a predominantly Turkmen Shiite town, at around 1:00 pm (1000 GMT) and women and children among its victims.
The attack happened as worshippers were leaving the packed Al-Rasoul mosque; run by the Turkmen community, after midday prayers and the force of the blast left a deep crater in the ground.
According to the Turkmeneli TV, the explosion had flattened about 30 homes at least 65 people have been killed and over 175 Türkmen were injured, many of them seriously.
The latest attack comes weeks before US forces are due to withdraw, leading to concerns that violence could escalate. The Taze Khormatu bombing comes week ahead of a deadline for US troops to withdraw from towns and cities in Iraq, as part of a landmark security accord signed between Washington and Baghdad in November.
Many Turkmens think this explosion was carried out by a specific group who wanted to control the city of Kerkuk and change the demography of the town. The most striking thing was that the attack was carried out in a residential area with no presence of a police station or governmental building in the area.
20 Haziran 2009, Irak'ta Meydana Gelen Terörist Saldırı Hk.
Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Dışişleri Bakanlığı
http://www.mfa.gov.tr/no_100_-20-haziran-2009_-irak_ta-meydana-gelen-terorist-saldiri-hk__.tr.mfa
http://www.mfa.gov.tr/no_100_-20-haziran-2009_-irak_ta-meydana-gelen-terorist-saldiri-hk__.tr.mfa
No:100, 20 Haziran 2009, Irak'ta Meydana Gelen Terörist Saldırı Hk.
KERKÜK'ÜN TAZEHURMATU NAHİYESİ'NDE FACİA
Kerkük'ün 20 km. güneyindeki Türkmen nahiyesi Tazehurmatu’da 20 Haziran 2009 Cumartesi günü öğle saatlerinde meydana gelen patlamada en az 65 kişi hayatını kaybetti ve 175’in üstünde Türkmen yaralandı.
Tazehurmatu’nun merkezindeki cami yakınında Pazar yerinde bomba yüklü kamyonla intihar saldırısı düzenlendi. Güvenlik ve polis güçlerinin yardımı ile Kerkük ve civar bölgelerden Tazehurmatu’ya koşan yüzlerce Türkmen’in yardımı ile ölenlerin cesetleri toplanırken, yaralılar da Kerkük Hastanesi’ne ulaştırıldı.
Ölenlerin ve yaralıların çoğunu, kadın ve çocuklar oluşturuyor. Patlama sonucu savaş alanına düşen Tazehurmatu’da 30’un üzerinde evin de yıkıldığı bildirildi. Yıkılan evlerin ve binaların altında kalanların olup olmadığını anlamak için, enkazda arama kurtarma çalışmalarının devam ettiği de gelen haberler arasında.
Bu nedenle ölü sayısının artabileceği kaydedildi. Bütün Türkmenleri yasa boğan bu faciadan dolayı Türkmeneli’nde 3 günlük yas ilan edildi. Yürekleri burkan ve vahşetten öte bir insanlık faciasına dönüşen bu saldırıyı Kerkük Vakfı olarak kınıyor, Türkmen toplumu ve özellikle Tazehurmatu halkına başsağlığı, şehit düşen masum soydaşlarımıza Allah’tan rahmet diliyoruz.
Saturday, 20 June 2009
Kerkük'e bağlı Tazehurmatu ilçesinde meydana gelen bombalı saldırı nedeniyle
Kerkük'e bağlı Tazehurmatu ilçesinde meydana gelen bombalı saldırı nedeniyle ITC TT bir kınama mesajı yayınladı Bugün Kerkük'e bağlı Tazehurmatu ilçesinde meydana gelen bombalı saldırıda onlarca insan ölmüş ve yaralanmıştır. Bu menfur terör saldırısını şiddetle kınıyor ve Irak'taki tüm kesimlere şiddete son vererek ülkenin barış ve huzuruna katkıda bulunmaları çağrısında bulunuyoruz. Merkezi hükümetten ve Kerkük'teki bölgesel yönetimden saldırının faillerini bir an önce bulmasını talep ediyoruz.
ITCTürkiye Temsilciliği
http://www.kerkuk.net/haberler/haber.aspx?dil=1055&metin=2009062027
ITCTürkiye Temsilciliği
http://www.kerkuk.net/haberler/haber.aspx?dil=1055&metin=2009062027
Iraqi Oil – Critics from within
See:
http://www.iraqoilreport.com/the-biz/critics-from-within-1772/#respond
Excerpt:
The Iraqi Oil Ministry’s plan to boost oil and gas production via eight contracts up for bidding by international oil companies has run into a major roadblock: the head of the South Oil Co., Iraq’s largest producing state entity, has gone public with opposition.
Fayad al-Nema, director general of the SOC, told Ahmed Rasheed of Reuters top officials in Iraq’s oil production industry worry the contracts being offered for large scale foreign investment in Iraq for the first time in three decades are bad for Iraqis.
Iraq Oil Report is told at least 20 other higher ups in the operational side of the Oil Ministry have also criticized the plan, and the Iraqi Parliament’s Oil & Gas Committee is to hold a special session to discuss the procedure
Below are comments from Kamil Al-Adhadh:
Kamil Al-adhadh said:
Colleagues,
As Economists, I and many of my colleagues, have always maintained the rational position that the oil & gas resources in Iraq should be utilised to achieve sustainable development, and to help build up alternative non-oil industries in Iraq, so as to rid the economy of the so called “Dutch Disease”, of the rentier economy. Therefore, we stood up against long term contracting for Oil Extraction; i.e., leasing it to foreign oil companies and cartels for a decade or two. Such leasing would completely deny national sovereignty over oil production and its integration within the economy.
Hence, it militates against a strategy for sustainable development. For these reasons we stood up against PSAs; Production Sharing Agreements. Instead, we advocated Service Contracting, for short and medium terms, only, not for decades. Also, we called upon re-building our National Oil Companies, and mobilising existing national skills and talents, within and outside Iraq. This has always been our recommended strategy to the Iraqi Oil Ministry, MoO.
We have also, defended the position of Dr. Sharistani, the Iraqi Oil Minister, when he moved away from PSAs, and when he stood up firmly against the Regional Kurdish Authority which signed such damaging PSAs with some second grade Oil Companies, without even consulting with the Federal Government, and had, therefore, infringed upon the constitutional provision that Oil & Gas resources are the absolute ownership of all the Iraqi people. We are all, also, aware of the huge and complicated difficulties, facing the MoO to formulate the right policies and to upgrade output. Yet, despite these vagaries, the MoO, had achieved, during the last three years, some progress on various grounds.
Now, in light of the recent protests by the leading technical heads of the South Oil company, concerning the first round bidding to contract out a few huge fields in Zubair, West Qurna, and North & South Rumella, we can understand and support these protests, if they are directed against long term contracting, i.e., for 20 years or more, for the same reasoning we had already maintained against PSAs.
But, our perplexity is aroused by the way such crucial national issues are publicly discussed, or rather flanged out. These issues are amenable to cool, scientific and quantitative studies and discussions. Why, on earth, can we not sit with each other to discuss rationally these matters?
Why don’t we set up impartial expert committees, composed of well known and highly experienced and talented Iraqi professionals, who are squattered every where around the world, to investigate, study, assess and recommend, in the lights of Iraq`s long term interests, and its endeavour to achieve sustainable development?? Why should such vital national issues be used for confrontations and slandering? Why stubbornness and strife are our degrading mode of behaviour???
We just ask, why?? I like to direct these questions to all leaders, professionals and politicians.
Than you for listening.
Kamil AL-adhadh.
Ps: You may care to circulate, and pass this
- 16 June 2009 at 12:18 pm
See:
http://www.mees.com/postedarticles/oped/v50n30-5OD02.htm
http://www.iraqoilreport.com/the-biz/critics-from-within-1772/#respond
Excerpt:
The Iraqi Oil Ministry’s plan to boost oil and gas production via eight contracts up for bidding by international oil companies has run into a major roadblock: the head of the South Oil Co., Iraq’s largest producing state entity, has gone public with opposition.
Fayad al-Nema, director general of the SOC, told Ahmed Rasheed of Reuters top officials in Iraq’s oil production industry worry the contracts being offered for large scale foreign investment in Iraq for the first time in three decades are bad for Iraqis.
Iraq Oil Report is told at least 20 other higher ups in the operational side of the Oil Ministry have also criticized the plan, and the Iraqi Parliament’s Oil & Gas Committee is to hold a special session to discuss the procedure
Below are comments from Kamil Al-Adhadh:
Kamil Al-adhadh said:
Colleagues,
As Economists, I and many of my colleagues, have always maintained the rational position that the oil & gas resources in Iraq should be utilised to achieve sustainable development, and to help build up alternative non-oil industries in Iraq, so as to rid the economy of the so called “Dutch Disease”, of the rentier economy. Therefore, we stood up against long term contracting for Oil Extraction; i.e., leasing it to foreign oil companies and cartels for a decade or two. Such leasing would completely deny national sovereignty over oil production and its integration within the economy.
Hence, it militates against a strategy for sustainable development. For these reasons we stood up against PSAs; Production Sharing Agreements. Instead, we advocated Service Contracting, for short and medium terms, only, not for decades. Also, we called upon re-building our National Oil Companies, and mobilising existing national skills and talents, within and outside Iraq. This has always been our recommended strategy to the Iraqi Oil Ministry, MoO.
We have also, defended the position of Dr. Sharistani, the Iraqi Oil Minister, when he moved away from PSAs, and when he stood up firmly against the Regional Kurdish Authority which signed such damaging PSAs with some second grade Oil Companies, without even consulting with the Federal Government, and had, therefore, infringed upon the constitutional provision that Oil & Gas resources are the absolute ownership of all the Iraqi people. We are all, also, aware of the huge and complicated difficulties, facing the MoO to formulate the right policies and to upgrade output. Yet, despite these vagaries, the MoO, had achieved, during the last three years, some progress on various grounds.
Now, in light of the recent protests by the leading technical heads of the South Oil company, concerning the first round bidding to contract out a few huge fields in Zubair, West Qurna, and North & South Rumella, we can understand and support these protests, if they are directed against long term contracting, i.e., for 20 years or more, for the same reasoning we had already maintained against PSAs.
But, our perplexity is aroused by the way such crucial national issues are publicly discussed, or rather flanged out. These issues are amenable to cool, scientific and quantitative studies and discussions. Why, on earth, can we not sit with each other to discuss rationally these matters?
Why don’t we set up impartial expert committees, composed of well known and highly experienced and talented Iraqi professionals, who are squattered every where around the world, to investigate, study, assess and recommend, in the lights of Iraq`s long term interests, and its endeavour to achieve sustainable development?? Why should such vital national issues be used for confrontations and slandering? Why stubbornness and strife are our degrading mode of behaviour???
We just ask, why?? I like to direct these questions to all leaders, professionals and politicians.
Than you for listening.
Kamil AL-adhadh.
Ps: You may care to circulate, and pass this
- 16 June 2009 at 12:18 pm
See:
http://www.mees.com/postedarticles/oped/v50n30-5OD02.htm
What is the future of the Iraqi oil?
What is the future of the Iraqi oil?
http://brusselstribunal.org/
(Originally published in Arabic:
http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E0CDF98B-9FE5-4560-9F04-D9555DEA8099.htm.
Translated by the BRussells Tribunal)
Saadallah Al-Fathi
Former president of the Iraqi refineries, former Head of Energy Studies Department in Opec Secretariat, Vienna.
Translation 11 June 2009.
A lot is being said about the miserable conditions that relate to the Iraqi oil industry. The House of Representatives called in the Ministers, who led the ministry since the invasion, for questioning them on the situation and about the claim of corruption in the Ministry. The media stresses in particular on the questioning of the current minister, Hussain al-Shahristani, who stayed longer period than those preceded him, especially when his predecessors together with the Deputy Prime Minister had written reports which led to this subpoena.
The people are divided between supporters and opponents of the Minister and exchanged letters and proposals on how to put this point of view or the other. It is unfortunate that some people have focused on this person or that or this party or any other party without any mention of the occupation and the tragedy that it brought to the people of Iraq and its oil industry.
Six years passed since the occupation, the oil industry did not recover even to the level before the invasion and it began after the occupation to deteriorate, despite the billions that were directly injected their results were weak in comparison even with the years of siege then and the scantiest possibilities. Total oil production in 2008 reached (2.4) million barrels per day , in comparison with 2.6 MB / day in 2001.
And despite the fact that this represents an improvement over previous years, but there are signs of deterioration in the southern oil production, which fell more than 200 thousand barrels per day to reach 1.73 MB / day in April 2009. The North Oil Company has increased production to 600 thousand barrels per day, two-thirds of its output prior to the occupation, and its fields suffers of problems and the lack of progress in adding new capabilities of the (Khormala Dome), where the Ministry engineers are prevented from completing the construction by the Kurds.
This represents a violation by the Kurds and an extension of their authority outside their areas without a firm stand from the government to impose its authority over its territory and resources and, as in all contracts signed by Kurds in spite of the Ministry and the Baghdad government. It is not likely that the administrative changes and accelerated plans will lead to a quick solution as long as the division and the general situation of instability resulting from the occupation is still existing, and the sector administration, since the invasion, is not being able to put foreword its priorities and addressing the bottlenecks with courage and responsibility, because of being a prisoner of the political balances between the rival blocs, whose only interest is their narrow gains.
So far there is no policy that gains a broad support to move towards the future. In the beginning, everything was left to the Americans on the basis of them being the destroyer and the saviour of the Iraqis and they work for the most part in isolation from the Iraqis. We all know the extent of theft and waste undertaken by U.S. companies as an introduction to deploy and prevalence of corruption throughout Iraq. Some of the projects started since the occupation are still unfulfilled, such as water injection project in the south and all the high cost of the business regardless of payment.
Then came Iyad Allawi in 2004 to announce the allocation of the amount of exports to finance operations and speed up repairs and modernization, and to give the national oil company management and operation of producing fields only, and the assignment of the discovered fields to foreign companies, without considering the differences between the fields and that one general rule can not play a purpose.
Presenting the style of participation in production as a priority has raised a storm that does not die down until today. All this would lead to a production capacity of 8 MB / day in 2010. Non of this is achieved, and those who came after him followed the principle of trying to “ manage thing”.
Their argument is that there is no oil law and no permanent constitution is being approved, and other matters which could have been put aside for the time being, despite their importance, by applying an independent legislation for each project. The existing laws would have ensure that if there was a will to adapt them.
The present Minister came out to present new ideas to the public, and before they become mature he changes his mind and all the exerted efforts would go in vain. As what happened with the projects of technical assistance agreements that were negotiated with foreign experienced oil companies after a long period of work, on the basis of being appropriate and effective because they have limited objective, risks, and appropriate funds within the possibilities of Ministry, and that the participation of Iraqis is high and that it will be a training school for them.
Instead of moving in that direction the Minister presented the giant producing fields, run by Iraqis since the nationalization and even before him, to deliver them to the foreign companies to develop them through long-term service contracts and without the slightest justification. Then he announced a new licensing for a large number of the discovered fields and in a manner unprecedented in any of the oil-producing countries. Any reached agreement is the prerogative of the government without the approval of the House of Representatives. In such a climate, which is not trusted neither by the Iraqis nor by investors, the result will be further non-performance and the deterioration of the fields.
The situation does not differ much in the refineries and gas processing facilities, which work with no more than 65% of their capacity at the time when the country imports petroleum products over the past six years. In spite of an improvement in 2008, the production of light products (LPG, gasoline and average distillate) did not exceed 225 thousand barrels per day, which is less by 25% of the average level in 2001 and 2002.
The situation was bearable because of the significant decline in demand for products by 18% since 2005 due to the deteriorating economic situation and unemployment and the number of Iraqis who have been forced to seek refuge in neighbouring countries or the internally displaced people.
Some boast of declining rates of importation, without referring to the deterioration of demand for products and lower refinery production.
Yes, imports are being reduced by about 60% in 2008 compared to 2005 and this positive result, if it were, due to improvement in production and the reduction of smuggling, not only because of the increasing number of Iraqis unemployed and those who left the country or internally displaced persons. A lot is being said about refinery projects since the occupation, but little achievement so far and so many doubts exist about their utility, especially the two refineries of Al Imara and Kirkuk, with the capacity of 150 thousand barrels a day each.
Meisan province does not consume more than 20 thousand barrels per day and Kirkuk is fed by the pipeline of products and has a refinery with the capacity of 30 thousand barrels a day.
New capacities, if created, will constitute a burden of getting rid of the surplus, in a time which ignores quick and serious work to develop refineries vertically to get rid of the fuel oil products and increase light products and reduces the need for more crude oil. The increase in refining capacity has been realized only by building small units in sites that need storage capacities or to be connected to pipelines and not to small refineries, with specifications of low level products which will be burden on the future refinery industry, even if they meet some immediate needs.
But it seems that pleasing the local administrations of some areas comes before the proper planning of projects, where the need for large refinery projects is working very slowly. The site of the Centre refinery has been moved more than once for reasons which did not appear reasonable, especially after the millions spent on the site by the ministry since the late eighties. This site was planned to be a substitute for Al Dora refinery, which is being expanded just by the capacity of workers and away from any future perception of adding big refinery capacities as alternative to the old units and expansion of the capacity without the consideration of product specifications and without consideration to the age of the infrastructure of the refinery and its site in the Centre of the city with population of over five million people.
The preservation of the highest rates of use in refineries stays elusive either because of the increasing technical problems or the loss of engineers and operators with experience and sometimes even with lack of access as much oil required as in Aldora or because of the inability to get rid of excess fuel oil, as in Aldora and sometimes in Baiji, in particular.
The units for the removal of sulfur from gas oil have remained below the reform in Baiji, Basra and even not existing in Al Dora , in spite of the availability of financial resources. The fact is that these projects were diagnosed and extracting this high percentage of gas oil from sulfur damages the environment and equipment. If the surplus of fuel oil is an obstacle to the functioning of the refineries with high capacities, the solution does not seem to be close because of the failure of the successive departments to improve the system of export capacity in the south, which can not absorb the fuel oil produced in Basra, not to mention the rest of the refineries.
One would have hoped to do the transfer of the surplus for export to the south and by Iraqi hands and equipments instead of relying on other expensive outlets not run by the Iraqis. The hydrogen cracking unit at Baiji to get rid of a large proportion of fuel oil are not working, despite the strenuous efforts to reform and put it in operation in 2001. Iraq was the first since 1959 in the establishment of advanced manufacture of lubricating oils with a capacity of nearly half a million tons a year and has produced at least 200 thousand tons in 2002, despite the devastation that has hit parts of it since the aggression of 1991 and the urgent need for chemicals and spare parts, but even in 2004 produced about 90 tons before it began to decline to 22 thousand tons in 2008. Instead of addressing the root causes of the decline in the production of oil, dependence on imports is costing huge amounts of money and the quality can not be controlled as the private sector mostly imports rather than Iraq being one of the countries that export base oils. At the end of this sad story, we find that the natural gas production and consumption in 2002 amounted to 865 million cubic feet per day of dry gas has dropped in 2008 to nearly 480 million cubic feet per day. The gas burned in vain in 2008 reached about 500 million cubic feet per day. As a result, the electricity industry was forced to use the liquid fuels as alternative, including crude oil, which average usage reached in 2007 about 70 thousand barrels per day and gas oil more than eight thousand barrels per day in electricity generation, which would have greatly benefited from a cleaner, easier and more economic gas, if it was available.
The same thing applies to the production of liquid gas, which in 2002 reached a total of 4000 tons, per day from the campuses in the north and the south, to one thousand tons per day from refineries and the surplus was exported to the neighbouring countries until the occupation. In 2008 the total production reached 2000 tons per day from compilers of gas and 600 tons per day from refineries , and import continues at least partially to compensate for the lack of need of the citizens.
Successive governments have done nothing serious for the advancement of this fact. Some have relied on some of the import and found it easy especially in 2004 and 2005, where the rate of import of products reached approximately 150 thousand barrels per day, out of which 25 thousand barrels per day was of liquid gas.
Finally, in 2007 the Ministry claimed to have found the solution by signing of a principle agreement with a foreign company to deposit all the gas produced in the south for now and in the future, and all South gas installations and compounds that arise subsequent to establishing a joint company in inappropriate conditions, rather than the Ministry strengthens its operational modalities by summoning the executing companies for the repair and rehabilitation and modernization of the South gas facilities, in particular, and the north and the completion of gas pipeline projects for sufficient connection between them.
The suggestion here is not to criticise the workers in the oil sector who themselves have built and occupied this industry, in conditions which were seldom appropriate. They themselves have reconstructed whatever was destroyed in the successive wars. They were the ones in charge of the direct execution of the projects. They represent a school for a large number of professionals, and in spite of the losses they incurred since the occupation so far, they are still able to deliver once the right conditions for working as a national unit become available.
But breaking out of this bleak situation is not easy in the circumstances where the administration lacks a clear vision and does not have the ability to take difficult decisions and to motivate staff to move forward. The call is to establish oil saving committee which takes decisions to achieve specific objectives of the current oil industry, to break out of this situation and be tied only to its objectives and be outside all the usual contexts, may be the best possible proposal, because the Hurricane which Iraq faces would require a declaration of emergency, which has its own provisions.
The assured solution is linked to what is outside the scope of oil, for the country has to get rid of the occupation and the culture that came with it. If oil was the reason for the occupation of Iraq, then the occupiers have failed so miserably and dragged with them those who came on their tanks, and those who joined them.
Saadallah Al-Fathi
Former president of the Iraqi refineries, former Head of Energy Studies Department in Opec Secretariat, Vienna.
http://brusselstribunal.org/
(Originally published in Arabic:
http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E0CDF98B-9FE5-4560-9F04-D9555DEA8099.htm.
Translated by the BRussells Tribunal)
Saadallah Al-Fathi
Former president of the Iraqi refineries, former Head of Energy Studies Department in Opec Secretariat, Vienna.
Translation 11 June 2009.
A lot is being said about the miserable conditions that relate to the Iraqi oil industry. The House of Representatives called in the Ministers, who led the ministry since the invasion, for questioning them on the situation and about the claim of corruption in the Ministry. The media stresses in particular on the questioning of the current minister, Hussain al-Shahristani, who stayed longer period than those preceded him, especially when his predecessors together with the Deputy Prime Minister had written reports which led to this subpoena.
The people are divided between supporters and opponents of the Minister and exchanged letters and proposals on how to put this point of view or the other. It is unfortunate that some people have focused on this person or that or this party or any other party without any mention of the occupation and the tragedy that it brought to the people of Iraq and its oil industry.
Six years passed since the occupation, the oil industry did not recover even to the level before the invasion and it began after the occupation to deteriorate, despite the billions that were directly injected their results were weak in comparison even with the years of siege then and the scantiest possibilities. Total oil production in 2008 reached (2.4) million barrels per day , in comparison with 2.6 MB / day in 2001.
And despite the fact that this represents an improvement over previous years, but there are signs of deterioration in the southern oil production, which fell more than 200 thousand barrels per day to reach 1.73 MB / day in April 2009. The North Oil Company has increased production to 600 thousand barrels per day, two-thirds of its output prior to the occupation, and its fields suffers of problems and the lack of progress in adding new capabilities of the (Khormala Dome), where the Ministry engineers are prevented from completing the construction by the Kurds.
This represents a violation by the Kurds and an extension of their authority outside their areas without a firm stand from the government to impose its authority over its territory and resources and, as in all contracts signed by Kurds in spite of the Ministry and the Baghdad government. It is not likely that the administrative changes and accelerated plans will lead to a quick solution as long as the division and the general situation of instability resulting from the occupation is still existing, and the sector administration, since the invasion, is not being able to put foreword its priorities and addressing the bottlenecks with courage and responsibility, because of being a prisoner of the political balances between the rival blocs, whose only interest is their narrow gains.
So far there is no policy that gains a broad support to move towards the future. In the beginning, everything was left to the Americans on the basis of them being the destroyer and the saviour of the Iraqis and they work for the most part in isolation from the Iraqis. We all know the extent of theft and waste undertaken by U.S. companies as an introduction to deploy and prevalence of corruption throughout Iraq. Some of the projects started since the occupation are still unfulfilled, such as water injection project in the south and all the high cost of the business regardless of payment.
Then came Iyad Allawi in 2004 to announce the allocation of the amount of exports to finance operations and speed up repairs and modernization, and to give the national oil company management and operation of producing fields only, and the assignment of the discovered fields to foreign companies, without considering the differences between the fields and that one general rule can not play a purpose.
Presenting the style of participation in production as a priority has raised a storm that does not die down until today. All this would lead to a production capacity of 8 MB / day in 2010. Non of this is achieved, and those who came after him followed the principle of trying to “ manage thing”.
Their argument is that there is no oil law and no permanent constitution is being approved, and other matters which could have been put aside for the time being, despite their importance, by applying an independent legislation for each project. The existing laws would have ensure that if there was a will to adapt them.
The present Minister came out to present new ideas to the public, and before they become mature he changes his mind and all the exerted efforts would go in vain. As what happened with the projects of technical assistance agreements that were negotiated with foreign experienced oil companies after a long period of work, on the basis of being appropriate and effective because they have limited objective, risks, and appropriate funds within the possibilities of Ministry, and that the participation of Iraqis is high and that it will be a training school for them.
Instead of moving in that direction the Minister presented the giant producing fields, run by Iraqis since the nationalization and even before him, to deliver them to the foreign companies to develop them through long-term service contracts and without the slightest justification. Then he announced a new licensing for a large number of the discovered fields and in a manner unprecedented in any of the oil-producing countries. Any reached agreement is the prerogative of the government without the approval of the House of Representatives. In such a climate, which is not trusted neither by the Iraqis nor by investors, the result will be further non-performance and the deterioration of the fields.
The situation does not differ much in the refineries and gas processing facilities, which work with no more than 65% of their capacity at the time when the country imports petroleum products over the past six years. In spite of an improvement in 2008, the production of light products (LPG, gasoline and average distillate) did not exceed 225 thousand barrels per day, which is less by 25% of the average level in 2001 and 2002.
The situation was bearable because of the significant decline in demand for products by 18% since 2005 due to the deteriorating economic situation and unemployment and the number of Iraqis who have been forced to seek refuge in neighbouring countries or the internally displaced people.
Some boast of declining rates of importation, without referring to the deterioration of demand for products and lower refinery production.
Yes, imports are being reduced by about 60% in 2008 compared to 2005 and this positive result, if it were, due to improvement in production and the reduction of smuggling, not only because of the increasing number of Iraqis unemployed and those who left the country or internally displaced persons. A lot is being said about refinery projects since the occupation, but little achievement so far and so many doubts exist about their utility, especially the two refineries of Al Imara and Kirkuk, with the capacity of 150 thousand barrels a day each.
Meisan province does not consume more than 20 thousand barrels per day and Kirkuk is fed by the pipeline of products and has a refinery with the capacity of 30 thousand barrels a day.
New capacities, if created, will constitute a burden of getting rid of the surplus, in a time which ignores quick and serious work to develop refineries vertically to get rid of the fuel oil products and increase light products and reduces the need for more crude oil. The increase in refining capacity has been realized only by building small units in sites that need storage capacities or to be connected to pipelines and not to small refineries, with specifications of low level products which will be burden on the future refinery industry, even if they meet some immediate needs.
But it seems that pleasing the local administrations of some areas comes before the proper planning of projects, where the need for large refinery projects is working very slowly. The site of the Centre refinery has been moved more than once for reasons which did not appear reasonable, especially after the millions spent on the site by the ministry since the late eighties. This site was planned to be a substitute for Al Dora refinery, which is being expanded just by the capacity of workers and away from any future perception of adding big refinery capacities as alternative to the old units and expansion of the capacity without the consideration of product specifications and without consideration to the age of the infrastructure of the refinery and its site in the Centre of the city with population of over five million people.
The preservation of the highest rates of use in refineries stays elusive either because of the increasing technical problems or the loss of engineers and operators with experience and sometimes even with lack of access as much oil required as in Aldora or because of the inability to get rid of excess fuel oil, as in Aldora and sometimes in Baiji, in particular.
The units for the removal of sulfur from gas oil have remained below the reform in Baiji, Basra and even not existing in Al Dora , in spite of the availability of financial resources. The fact is that these projects were diagnosed and extracting this high percentage of gas oil from sulfur damages the environment and equipment. If the surplus of fuel oil is an obstacle to the functioning of the refineries with high capacities, the solution does not seem to be close because of the failure of the successive departments to improve the system of export capacity in the south, which can not absorb the fuel oil produced in Basra, not to mention the rest of the refineries.
One would have hoped to do the transfer of the surplus for export to the south and by Iraqi hands and equipments instead of relying on other expensive outlets not run by the Iraqis. The hydrogen cracking unit at Baiji to get rid of a large proportion of fuel oil are not working, despite the strenuous efforts to reform and put it in operation in 2001. Iraq was the first since 1959 in the establishment of advanced manufacture of lubricating oils with a capacity of nearly half a million tons a year and has produced at least 200 thousand tons in 2002, despite the devastation that has hit parts of it since the aggression of 1991 and the urgent need for chemicals and spare parts, but even in 2004 produced about 90 tons before it began to decline to 22 thousand tons in 2008. Instead of addressing the root causes of the decline in the production of oil, dependence on imports is costing huge amounts of money and the quality can not be controlled as the private sector mostly imports rather than Iraq being one of the countries that export base oils. At the end of this sad story, we find that the natural gas production and consumption in 2002 amounted to 865 million cubic feet per day of dry gas has dropped in 2008 to nearly 480 million cubic feet per day. The gas burned in vain in 2008 reached about 500 million cubic feet per day. As a result, the electricity industry was forced to use the liquid fuels as alternative, including crude oil, which average usage reached in 2007 about 70 thousand barrels per day and gas oil more than eight thousand barrels per day in electricity generation, which would have greatly benefited from a cleaner, easier and more economic gas, if it was available.
The same thing applies to the production of liquid gas, which in 2002 reached a total of 4000 tons, per day from the campuses in the north and the south, to one thousand tons per day from refineries and the surplus was exported to the neighbouring countries until the occupation. In 2008 the total production reached 2000 tons per day from compilers of gas and 600 tons per day from refineries , and import continues at least partially to compensate for the lack of need of the citizens.
Successive governments have done nothing serious for the advancement of this fact. Some have relied on some of the import and found it easy especially in 2004 and 2005, where the rate of import of products reached approximately 150 thousand barrels per day, out of which 25 thousand barrels per day was of liquid gas.
Finally, in 2007 the Ministry claimed to have found the solution by signing of a principle agreement with a foreign company to deposit all the gas produced in the south for now and in the future, and all South gas installations and compounds that arise subsequent to establishing a joint company in inappropriate conditions, rather than the Ministry strengthens its operational modalities by summoning the executing companies for the repair and rehabilitation and modernization of the South gas facilities, in particular, and the north and the completion of gas pipeline projects for sufficient connection between them.
The suggestion here is not to criticise the workers in the oil sector who themselves have built and occupied this industry, in conditions which were seldom appropriate. They themselves have reconstructed whatever was destroyed in the successive wars. They were the ones in charge of the direct execution of the projects. They represent a school for a large number of professionals, and in spite of the losses they incurred since the occupation so far, they are still able to deliver once the right conditions for working as a national unit become available.
But breaking out of this bleak situation is not easy in the circumstances where the administration lacks a clear vision and does not have the ability to take difficult decisions and to motivate staff to move forward. The call is to establish oil saving committee which takes decisions to achieve specific objectives of the current oil industry, to break out of this situation and be tied only to its objectives and be outside all the usual contexts, may be the best possible proposal, because the Hurricane which Iraq faces would require a declaration of emergency, which has its own provisions.
The assured solution is linked to what is outside the scope of oil, for the country has to get rid of the occupation and the culture that came with it. If oil was the reason for the occupation of Iraq, then the occupiers have failed so miserably and dragged with them those who came on their tanks, and those who joined them.
Saadallah Al-Fathi
Former president of the Iraqi refineries, former Head of Energy Studies Department in Opec Secretariat, Vienna.
Thursday, 18 June 2009
( yeni Irak’ta rolü ) Parolası altında Türkmen Toplantısı 20.6.2009da Bağdat’ta yapılacaktır
( yeni Irak’ta rolü ) Parolası altında Türkmen Toplantısı 20.6.2009da Bağdat’ta yapılacaktır
Türkmen parti ve şahsiyetlerinin 20.06.2009 günü Bağdat’ta düzenlenecek toplantısına yurtdışından davet edilen Türkmenlerin birinci liste adları.
YURTDIŞI TÜRKMEN ŞAHSİYETLERİ:-
• NİHAT BACALAN (TÜRKİYE).
• HİCRAN KAZANCI (TÜRKİYE)
.• ADNAN SAKALLI (TÜRKİYE).
• SİNAN VASFİ (TÜRKİYE).
• ALİ İHSAN NAKİP (AMARİKA).
• SAFUVAT NEFTÇİ. (HOLLANDA)
.• ŞİT CERCİS. (HOLLANDA).
• AYHAN BAYRAKTAR. (KANADA).
• ORHAN KETENE. (AMARİKA) .
• GANİM OSMAN. (ALMANYA).
• SAVAŞ KARAKAPLAN. (DENİMARK).
• EFŞİN HÜRMÜZLÜ. (KANADA) .
• MURAT SARIKAHYA. (FRANSA).
• ERSAN İHSAN (AMARİKA) .
• MEHMET SAİP. (HOLLANDA).
• YALÇIN MATAPÇI. (HOLLANDA)
.• BURHAN BAYATLI. (KANADA).
• ABDULSELAM MOLLA YASİN. (NORVEC)
• MEHMET SAMET.( DANIMARKA)
• ŞÜKRAN KAYACI. ( DANIMARKA)
• AYDIN MARUF. (SURİYE).
• HASAN AYDINLI. ( BALÇİKA )
• NECAT KILINÇI. (İNGİLTERE).
YURTDIŞI BÜYÜK TÜRKMEN MEMURLARI:-
• AHMET BEYATLI.
• ABDULLAH TÜTÜNÇÜ.TÜRKMEN ŞAHSİYATLARI (TÜRKİYE):-
• ABBAS TÜRKMEN.
• FATİH TÜRKCAN.
• İSMET ABDULMECİT.
• MARUF HÜSEYİN RIZA.
• NİZAMETTİN BAYRAKTAR.
• ÜMİT AKKOYUNLU.
• NEFİ DEMİRCİ.
• SAVAŞ AVCI.
• AYDIN BAYATLI.
• KEMAL BAYATLI.
• FUAT TÜRKMEN.
• CÜNEYT MENGÜ.
• SALAH AVNİ.
• YAŞAR İMAMOĞLU.
• ATİLLA BAYRAKTAR.
• MEHMET TÜTÜNCÜ.
• İZZETTİN ALPARSLAN.
• AVNİ ÖMER LÜTFÜ.
• ALİ BAYATLI.
• NEBİL BAYATLI.
• AHMET ABDULLAH DONDURMACI.
• NURETTİN HAMİT.
BAĞDAT TOPLANTISINA KATILAN YAZARLAR.A. YURTDIŞI YAZARLAR:-
• HABİP HÜRMÜZLÜ. TÜEKİYE.
• Prof. Dr. MAHİR NAKİP. TÜRKİYE
• Prof. Dr. SUPHİ SAATÇI. TÜRKİYE
• MOVAFFAK SELMAN. İNGİLTERE
• CENGİZ KETENE. TÜRKİYE
• AZİZ KADİR. İNGİLTERE
• SADUN KÖPRÜLÜ. TÜRKİYE
• ÜMİT KÖPRÜLÜ. FİNLENDA
• SÜNDÜS ABBAS. İNGİLTERE
• NİHAT BAYATLI.
• YILMAZ CİHAT ÇAYCI. İSVİÇ
• İMAT DEMİRCİ. İNGİLTERE
• İZZETTİN KERKÜK. TÜRKİYE
• HASAN ÖZMEN. TÜRKİYE
• ŞEMSETTİN KÜZECİ. TÜRKİYE
• BURHAN YARALI.
• NESRİN ERBİL. TÜRKİYE
• SALAH NEVRES. AUSTRALİA
• FAZIL MEHDİ BEYAT. TÜRKİYE
• NÜSRET MERDEN. İSVİÇ
• SUPHİ NAZIM. SURYAB.
YURTİÇİ YAZARLAR:-
• ATA TERZİBAŞI.
• KASIM SARIKAHYA.
• AHMET BEHCET.
• MEHMET ÖMER KAZANCI.
• YALMAN HACEROĞLU.
• İBRAHİM AVCI.
• FARUK KÖPRÜLÜ.
• ABDÜLAZİZ SEMİN BEYATLI.
• Dr. ÇOBAN ULUHAN.
• VAHDETTİN BAHATTİN.
Not:- Toplantıya masaj, görüş ve düşüncelerini göndermek isteyen Sayın davetliler aşağıdaki E-mail adresine gönderebilirle.
Saygılar.. Bagdat_toplantisi@yahoo.com.tr
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Yalçın Mutapçı Başkanlığında Bir Heyet Laheyde Türkiye Enstitü’sü Tarafından Düzenlenen Panele katıldı
Yalçın Mutapçı Başkanlığında Bir Heyet Laheyde Türkiye Enstitü’sü Tarafından Düzenlenen Panele katıldı
Hiltermann; Barzani’nin, Kerkük ile ilgili Planları Kâğıt Üstünde kaldığını belirtiPanelin tek konuşmacısı, Uluslararası Kriz Ggrubu(IGG) adlı kuruluşun Irak proje direktörü Sayın Dr.Joost Hiltermann idi.
Hiltermann; Barzani’nin, Kerkük ile ilgili Planları Kâğıt Üstünde kaldığını belirtiPanelin tek konuşmacısı, Uluslararası Kriz Ggrubu(IGG) adlı kuruluşun Irak proje direktörü Sayın Dr.Joost Hiltermann idi.
Panel sonrası Başkan Yalçın, IGG Direktörü Dr.’Joost Hiltermann'la bir araya geldiMutapçı, Hiltermann’a Osmanlı dönemindeki Musul ve Kerkük Sancağına ait harita armağan ederek, bu Tarihi haritalardan anlaşıldığı gibi tartışmalı bölgelerin tamamının Türkmenlere ait olduğunu söyledi.
Hiltermann da bunun doğru olduğunu söyledi ancak genel olarak günümüz Türkmenlerin seslerini fazla duymadıklarını belirtti.Mutapçı’ya, Barzani’nin, Kerkük ile ilgili planları kâğıt üstünde kaldı dedi. Barzani’nin Kürdistan’ına Kerkük’ü de katma planlarında başarılı olmadığını söyledi.
Dr.Joost Hiltermann sözlerine şöyle devam etti ister Barzani ister Talabani 2003 yılında Irak Anayasasındaki meşhur140. Maddeyi hararetle savunduklarını ama bu konuda da hüsrana uğradıklarını belirtti. Hiltermann, bu başarısızlıklar sanırım hem Barzani’yi hem de Talabani’yi özellikle Irakta yapılması düşünülen seçimde zor durumda bırakacak dedi.
Söz konusu panelde, Sayın Hiltermann’nin ele aldığı önemli konuları maddeler halinde aşağı alıyoruz:
1.Irak’ta güvenlik açısından önemli gelişmeler kaydedildi zira Bağdat ve Musul gibi bazı şehirlerde güvenlikten bahsetmek mümkün değildir dedi.
2.Irak sorununun dünya gündeminde yerini yitirdiğini ve haberlerde pek fazla Iraktan bahsedilmediğine işaret etti.
3. Amerikan askerlerinin Irak’tan çekilmesi Irak hükümeti olmak üzere Irak milleti ve özelliklede Kürt siyasi partiler içinde büyük endişe ve rahatsızlık yaratmıştır. Amerikan güçlerinin yokluğu , ordudan yoksun zayif bir parlamanto, ülkede yeniden istikrarsızlık, güvenlik sorunu ve mezhep çatışmasına yol açabilir dedi.
4.Kürt Partilerin, Irak, Türkiye, İran ve Suriye Kürtlerini de içine alan geniş kapsamlı bir Kürt devletini kurma hayallerinin imakansız olduğunu söyledi
5. Kerkük ve diğer Türkmenlerin yaşadığı bölgeler hakkında, başta Kerkük olmak üzere bazı bölgelerde henüz bir paylaşım sorunu yaşanıyor. Bu bölgelerde, nüfusu en fazla olan etnik, Turkmen milletidir ve bu Türkmenler diğer etnik gruplara nazaren çok barışseverdiler, Irak’ın diğer etnik milletleriyle de barış içinde yaşamak istiyorlar. Kavgaya meyilli olmayan ve şidette baş vurmadıkları içinde medyada kendilerinden pek söz edilmiyor dedi.
6. DR,Joost, Kerkük’ün demoğrafik yapısını değiştirme konusuna değinmeden, Kerkük Türkmen çoğunluklu bir şehirdir dedi. Saddam döneminde Kerkük’ü zorla terkeden Kürtler 2003 ‘den sonra geri döndüler dedi. ( Dr.Joost, ehil kişi olarak ya bu konuda iyi bir araştırma yapmamış, yahut da birilerinin çıkarına, Irak dışından komşu ülkelerden getirilen ve kerkük’e yerleşitirilen 100 binlerce yabancı Kürt’ten hiç söz etmedi).
7. Türkiye ve kuzey Iraktaki kürtler arasındaki ilişkiye gelince Dr. Hiltermann, Amerikan askerlerinin Irak’tan çekilme haberini duyan Kürt Partiler yeni bir partner aramaya başladılar ve en uygun mütefikin Türkiye olduğunda hemfikirler. Kürterin istikrarlı, güvenli bir Kürt bölgesi için iyi bir ekonominin şart olduğunu ve bununda ancak sınırlarını genişleterek mümkün olduğunu, Kerkük gibi petrol zenginliğine sahip olan şehirleri ele geçirip Türkiye yoluyla dünyaya pazarlamak istediklerini söyledi. Bunun örneklerini son zamanlarda Turkiye ve Kürtler arasında yapılan Petrol anlaşmalarında da görmek mümkün ve tabi ki Turkiye’ninde çıkarlarını da göz önünde tutmak lazım dedi.
Haber: Cengiz Bayraktar
http://bizturkmeniz.com/tr/index.htm
http://bizturkmeniz.com/tr/index.htm
İşgalden Günümüze Telafer
İşgalden Günümüze Telafer
16 Haziran 2009, Salı.
Ortadoğu Stratejik Araştırmalar Merkezi'nin (ORSAM) düzenlediği "Türkmen Aydınları Toplantıları'nın" üçüncüsü İstanbul'da gerçekleştirildi.
Ortadoğu Stratejik Araştırmalar Merkezi'nin (ORSAM) düzenlediği "Türkmen Aydınları Toplantıları'nın" üçüncüsü İstanbul'da gerçekleştirildi. Irak ve Türkmenler için önemli olan konuların mütalaa edildiği toplantıların bu seferki konusu "İşgalden Günümüze Telafer" 13 Haziran Cumartesi günü İstanbul'da gerçekleşitirilen toplantıda ORSAM Danışmanı ve Ortadoğu Analiz Dergisi Genel yayın Yönetmeni Habib Hürmüzlü oturumu yönetirken, ORSAM Başkanı Hasan Kanbolat, Dr. Ahmet Telaferli ve ORSAM Danışmanı Dr. Serhat Erkmen konuşmacı olarak katıldılar.
Nüfusun tamamı Türkmenlerden oluşan Telafer'in geniş çaplı olrak kouşulduğu toplantıda, "Telafer'in stratejik önemine değinildi. ITC TT V. Sadun Köprülü'nün de katıldığı toplantıya çok sayıda davetli iştirak etti.
ITC TTEnformasyon ve Halkla İlişkiler Şubesi
Monday, 15 June 2009
Concert: Turkish General Staff Company of Mehteran in Mons (Belgium)
Turkish General Staff Company of Mehteran in front of the Faculté Polytechnique of Mons (Belgium)(the green drake on the right is part of the Doudou festivities of the city of Mons)
Click on pictures to enlarge
Click on pictures to enlarge
Saturday 20th June 2009
Concert by Turkish Military Band during the Doudou festivities in front of the Faculté Polytechnique of Mons.
Concert par la Musique militaire de Turquie, devant la Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, à l’occasion de la Ducasse de Mons.
In 2005 the ‘DOUDOU” has been recognized by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
The ‘Doudou’ is the popular name of a week of joyful collective festivities which starts on the week-end of the Trinity. Its origin goes back to the 14th century.
http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/masterpieces/
Le Doudou, reconnu en 2005 par l'UNESCO au titre de Patrimoine oral et immatériel de l'Humanité.
A Mons, le Doudou, c'est le nom populaire d'une semaine de grande liesse collective qui débute le week-end de la Trinité. La Ducasse rituelle en constitue l'apogée. Ses origines remontent au XIVème siècle. Quatre moments forts la caractérisent. Voir liens ci-dessous
http://www.mons.be/default.aspx?GUID=%7bEC0B8C13-BCC4-48BB-9681-5E54D2C6DAE7%7d&LNG=FRA
http://www.mons.be/default.aspx?GUID=%7b0C259051-BD23-4A9F-9905-5D8132696867%7d&LNG=FRA
Musique du Doudou :
http://www.fmlb.be/
Ducasse de Mons :
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducasse_de_Mons
Le dragon :
http://www.ducassedemons.info/dragon/index.htm
Monday, 1 June 2009
PKK'nın finans ağının merkezi Almanya'da
PKK'nın finans ağının merkezi Almanya'da
ABDURRAHMAN ŞİMŞEK
01.06.2009
http://www.sabah.com.tr/Gundem/2009/06/01/pkknin_finans_aginin_merkezi_almanyada
SABAH, PKK'ya yılda bir milyar euro civarında kaynak sağlayan Avrupa'daki şirketlerin izini sürdü. Çoğu Almanya'daki bu şirketlerin sağladığı para, Kürt İşverenler Birliği'nce PKK'ya aktarılıyor
Terör örgütü PKK'nın silah ve cephanelerinin Almanya'da faaliyet gösteren Uluslararası Kürt İşadamları ve İşverenler Birliği (KARSAZ) üyesi şirketlerin sağladığı gelirle satın alındığı öne sürüldü. Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı (MİT), terör örgütü PKK'nın Avrupa'daki para trafiğini aylar süren çalışma sonucu deşifre etti. MİT'in hazırladığı raporlardaki bilgilerden yola çıkan SABAH muhabiri, Avrupa'da on gün boyunca PKK'nın, uyuşturucu geliri başta olmak üzere bütün finans kaynaklarının idare edildiği şirketlerin izini sürdü. Muhabirimiz, Almanya'nın Frankfurt ve Isenburg, Hollanda'nın Rotterdam kentleri ile Belçika'nın başkenti Brüksel ve Fransa'nın başkenti Paris'te şirketlerin adreslerini bulup görüntüledi. Araştırmamıza göre, PKK'nın Avrupa faaliyetlerinin odağında Almanya yer alıyor.
Merkezi Frankfurt'ta bulunan KAR-SAZ'a üye Almanya'daki şirketler, örgütün uyuşturucu parasının aklanmasında ve Kandil başta olmak üzere Kuzey Irak'taki PKK kamplarına gönderilmek üzere silah ve mühimmat temin edilmesinde önemli rol oynuyor. Almanya'daki şirketler KAR-SAZ'ın toplam cirosunun yüzde 70'ini kontrol ediyor. KAR-SAZ'ın kâğıt üzerindeki resmi adresi ise Kaiserstrabe 60 Frankfurt. Ancak bu adreste sadece Çinli firmaların bulunduğu bir han var. KAR-SAZ'ın izine Almanya'dan sonra Belçika'da da rastlanıyor.
KAR-SAZ, Brüksel'deki KON-KURD adlı Kürt dernekleri federasyonuna bağlı. İstihbarat raporlarına göre KON-KURD'u, perde arkasında PKK'nın Canan Kurtyılmaz'dan sonraki yeni Avrupa sorumlusu Sabri Ok yönetiyor.
BİN ÜYESİ VAR
PKK'nın finans kaynağı KAR-SAZ'a üye bin şirket bulunuyor. İstihbarat raporlarında bu şirketlerden 279'unun adı geçiyor.
Buna göre 279 şirketten 147'si Almanya'da bulunuyor. Avrupa'da da Fransa'da 49, İsviçre'de 14, Hollanda'da 13, İngiltere'de 12, Avusturya'da 10, İsveç'te 8, Yunanistan'da 2, Danimarka, Belçika ve Romanya'da ise birer şirket var. Türkiye'de de biri İzmir, diğeri Diyarbakır'da olmak üzere iki KAR-SAZ üyesi bulunuyor. Bunlardan birinin Satranç Anonim Şirketi olduğu öne sürüldü.
Raporlara göre, Diyarbakır'daki bir işadamı derneği de KAR-SAZ üyeleri arasında yer alıyor. KAR-SAZ üyesi şirketlerin çoğu gıda, inşaat ve tekstil şirketi. Türkiye, Hollanda ve Fransa makamlarının PKK'nın mali kaynaklarıyla ilgili raporları, KAR-SAZ'ın yılda 1 milyar Euro kara para akladığını ve bu parayı terör örgütüne gönderdiğini ortaya koyuyor. SABAH'ın ulaştığı belgelere göre, PKK, uyuşturucu gelirini bir Alman bankası aracılığıyla Ermenistan ve Güney Kıbrıs'taki bazı bankalara gönderiyor.
PKK'ya ait şirket ve kişilere ait bu hesaplardaki parayla da terör kamplarına gönderilecek silah ve mühimmat satın alınıyor. PKK'nın kasası KAR-SAZ'ın faaliyetleri, Hollanda istihbarat teşkilatı AIVD'nin hazırladığı raporda, şu ifadelerle yer alıyor: "Çalışmalarımız sonucunda Mustafa Yıldırım ve Hacı Karakoyun'un PKK'nın finansörü olduğu anlaşılmıştır. Yıldırım, şirketleri aracılığıyla PKK'nın topladığı parayı ticaret adı altında Kuzey Irak'a aktarmaktadır. Bir muhbirimize göre Hollanda'da PKK'nın uyuşturucu alanında ve siyasi alandaki büyük gruplardan birinin başında Metin Cansız yer alıyor." PKK'nın uyuşturucu trafiğini yöneten isimlerden birinin halen cezaevinde olan Hakkâri Yüksekovalı Hikmet Serdar olduğu öne sürülüyor.
ŞİRKETLER PARAVAN MİT
raporlarına göre, KAR-SAZ'ın Fransa'daki adresi ise "16 Rue Petites Ecuries 75010." KAR-SAZ'ın bir dönem Paris temsilciliğini yapan Diyarbakır Liceli M. Zülküf Ekin adına Paris Ticaret Odası'na 425 118 999 sicil numarası ile kayıtlı 32 bin 927 Euro sermayeli AZED Constuction adlı bir müteahhitlik firması bulunuyor. Aynı adreste 2001 yılında 120 bin euro sermayeye sahip Paris Ticaret Odası'na 435 194 832 numara ile kayıtlı olan Enterprise MEDEN ve ZEDAR Prestation adlı şirketler yer alıyor. Ancak raporlarda bu üç şirketin PKK'nın uyuşturucu parasını aklayıp KAR-SAZ'a aktarmak için faaliyet gösteren tabela firması olduğu ileri sürülüyor.
Yayın tarihi: 01 Haziran 2009 - PazartesiWeb adresi: /Gundem/2009/06/01/pkknin_finans_aginin_merkezi_almanyadaTüm hakları saklıdır.Copyright © 2003-2009, TURKUVAZ GAZETE DERGİ BASIM A.Ş.
ABDURRAHMAN ŞİMŞEK
01.06.2009
http://www.sabah.com.tr/Gundem/2009/06/01/pkknin_finans_aginin_merkezi_almanyada
SABAH, PKK'ya yılda bir milyar euro civarında kaynak sağlayan Avrupa'daki şirketlerin izini sürdü. Çoğu Almanya'daki bu şirketlerin sağladığı para, Kürt İşverenler Birliği'nce PKK'ya aktarılıyor
Terör örgütü PKK'nın silah ve cephanelerinin Almanya'da faaliyet gösteren Uluslararası Kürt İşadamları ve İşverenler Birliği (KARSAZ) üyesi şirketlerin sağladığı gelirle satın alındığı öne sürüldü. Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı (MİT), terör örgütü PKK'nın Avrupa'daki para trafiğini aylar süren çalışma sonucu deşifre etti. MİT'in hazırladığı raporlardaki bilgilerden yola çıkan SABAH muhabiri, Avrupa'da on gün boyunca PKK'nın, uyuşturucu geliri başta olmak üzere bütün finans kaynaklarının idare edildiği şirketlerin izini sürdü. Muhabirimiz, Almanya'nın Frankfurt ve Isenburg, Hollanda'nın Rotterdam kentleri ile Belçika'nın başkenti Brüksel ve Fransa'nın başkenti Paris'te şirketlerin adreslerini bulup görüntüledi. Araştırmamıza göre, PKK'nın Avrupa faaliyetlerinin odağında Almanya yer alıyor.
Merkezi Frankfurt'ta bulunan KAR-SAZ'a üye Almanya'daki şirketler, örgütün uyuşturucu parasının aklanmasında ve Kandil başta olmak üzere Kuzey Irak'taki PKK kamplarına gönderilmek üzere silah ve mühimmat temin edilmesinde önemli rol oynuyor. Almanya'daki şirketler KAR-SAZ'ın toplam cirosunun yüzde 70'ini kontrol ediyor. KAR-SAZ'ın kâğıt üzerindeki resmi adresi ise Kaiserstrabe 60 Frankfurt. Ancak bu adreste sadece Çinli firmaların bulunduğu bir han var. KAR-SAZ'ın izine Almanya'dan sonra Belçika'da da rastlanıyor.
KAR-SAZ, Brüksel'deki KON-KURD adlı Kürt dernekleri federasyonuna bağlı. İstihbarat raporlarına göre KON-KURD'u, perde arkasında PKK'nın Canan Kurtyılmaz'dan sonraki yeni Avrupa sorumlusu Sabri Ok yönetiyor.
BİN ÜYESİ VAR
PKK'nın finans kaynağı KAR-SAZ'a üye bin şirket bulunuyor. İstihbarat raporlarında bu şirketlerden 279'unun adı geçiyor.
Buna göre 279 şirketten 147'si Almanya'da bulunuyor. Avrupa'da da Fransa'da 49, İsviçre'de 14, Hollanda'da 13, İngiltere'de 12, Avusturya'da 10, İsveç'te 8, Yunanistan'da 2, Danimarka, Belçika ve Romanya'da ise birer şirket var. Türkiye'de de biri İzmir, diğeri Diyarbakır'da olmak üzere iki KAR-SAZ üyesi bulunuyor. Bunlardan birinin Satranç Anonim Şirketi olduğu öne sürüldü.
Raporlara göre, Diyarbakır'daki bir işadamı derneği de KAR-SAZ üyeleri arasında yer alıyor. KAR-SAZ üyesi şirketlerin çoğu gıda, inşaat ve tekstil şirketi. Türkiye, Hollanda ve Fransa makamlarının PKK'nın mali kaynaklarıyla ilgili raporları, KAR-SAZ'ın yılda 1 milyar Euro kara para akladığını ve bu parayı terör örgütüne gönderdiğini ortaya koyuyor. SABAH'ın ulaştığı belgelere göre, PKK, uyuşturucu gelirini bir Alman bankası aracılığıyla Ermenistan ve Güney Kıbrıs'taki bazı bankalara gönderiyor.
PKK'ya ait şirket ve kişilere ait bu hesaplardaki parayla da terör kamplarına gönderilecek silah ve mühimmat satın alınıyor. PKK'nın kasası KAR-SAZ'ın faaliyetleri, Hollanda istihbarat teşkilatı AIVD'nin hazırladığı raporda, şu ifadelerle yer alıyor: "Çalışmalarımız sonucunda Mustafa Yıldırım ve Hacı Karakoyun'un PKK'nın finansörü olduğu anlaşılmıştır. Yıldırım, şirketleri aracılığıyla PKK'nın topladığı parayı ticaret adı altında Kuzey Irak'a aktarmaktadır. Bir muhbirimize göre Hollanda'da PKK'nın uyuşturucu alanında ve siyasi alandaki büyük gruplardan birinin başında Metin Cansız yer alıyor." PKK'nın uyuşturucu trafiğini yöneten isimlerden birinin halen cezaevinde olan Hakkâri Yüksekovalı Hikmet Serdar olduğu öne sürülüyor.
ŞİRKETLER PARAVAN MİT
raporlarına göre, KAR-SAZ'ın Fransa'daki adresi ise "16 Rue Petites Ecuries 75010." KAR-SAZ'ın bir dönem Paris temsilciliğini yapan Diyarbakır Liceli M. Zülküf Ekin adına Paris Ticaret Odası'na 425 118 999 sicil numarası ile kayıtlı 32 bin 927 Euro sermayeli AZED Constuction adlı bir müteahhitlik firması bulunuyor. Aynı adreste 2001 yılında 120 bin euro sermayeye sahip Paris Ticaret Odası'na 435 194 832 numara ile kayıtlı olan Enterprise MEDEN ve ZEDAR Prestation adlı şirketler yer alıyor. Ancak raporlarda bu üç şirketin PKK'nın uyuşturucu parasını aklayıp KAR-SAZ'a aktarmak için faaliyet gösteren tabela firması olduğu ileri sürülüyor.
Yayın tarihi: 01 Haziran 2009 - PazartesiWeb adresi: /Gundem/2009/06/01/pkknin_finans_aginin_merkezi_almanyadaTüm hakları saklıdır.Copyright © 2003-2009, TURKUVAZ GAZETE DERGİ BASIM A.Ş.
News from Iraq
Nineveh
A fight developed between a group of Ayzidis and checkpoint personnel (Peshmerga, Kurd Forces) in the town of Sinjar, about 74 miles to the northwest of Mosul Thursday.
Arrest warrants were issued by Friday morning and a force was sent to detain the Ayzidis.
Armed confrontations broke out during the detention and six civilians were injured, three of them are critical including a 13 year old boy and three Ayzidis were detained.
-Two insurgents threw a grenade at an American patrol in Zinjili neighborhood in western Mosul on Friday. One civilian was wounded, Iraqi police said. Also one vehicle was burned. The U.S. military confirmed the incident in a statement saying that one American soldier was killed.
Diyala
Around 9:30 a.m. a booby trapped motorbike detonated near a butcher's shop owned by Sahwa leader of al Amin and Swamra neighborhoods, Khazaal al Samarrai in central Baquba on Friday. Al Samarrai was killed in the explosion and six others were wounded including four Sahwa members.
Around 1 p.m. a roadside bomb targeted civilians in a bus stop in the town of Khalis, about 9 miles to the north of Baquba at on Friday. One civilian was killed and three others were injured.
Around 1:30 p.m. a magnetic bomb targeted the poet Khalid al Saadi near the court house in Khalis, about 9 miles to the north of Baquba on Friday. The bomb was stuck to his car. All six people in the car including al Saadi were killed.
The house of a displaced Shiite family was blown up in Amin neighborhood, central Baquba at 3 p.m. Friday. The family has just repaired the house that was previously damaged and were about to return to their neighborhood.
Kirkuk
- A roadside bomb targeted the convoy of the 12th division commander of the Iraqi army the major general Abdul Ameer Al-Zaidi at Sufra village in western Kirkuk (about 34 miles west of Kirkuk). A source from the division confirmed the incident saying that several guards were wounded without further details. '
A fight developed between a group of Ayzidis and checkpoint personnel (Peshmerga, Kurd Forces) in the town of Sinjar, about 74 miles to the northwest of Mosul Thursday.
Arrest warrants were issued by Friday morning and a force was sent to detain the Ayzidis.
Armed confrontations broke out during the detention and six civilians were injured, three of them are critical including a 13 year old boy and three Ayzidis were detained.
-Two insurgents threw a grenade at an American patrol in Zinjili neighborhood in western Mosul on Friday. One civilian was wounded, Iraqi police said. Also one vehicle was burned. The U.S. military confirmed the incident in a statement saying that one American soldier was killed.
Diyala
Around 9:30 a.m. a booby trapped motorbike detonated near a butcher's shop owned by Sahwa leader of al Amin and Swamra neighborhoods, Khazaal al Samarrai in central Baquba on Friday. Al Samarrai was killed in the explosion and six others were wounded including four Sahwa members.
Around 1 p.m. a roadside bomb targeted civilians in a bus stop in the town of Khalis, about 9 miles to the north of Baquba at on Friday. One civilian was killed and three others were injured.
Around 1:30 p.m. a magnetic bomb targeted the poet Khalid al Saadi near the court house in Khalis, about 9 miles to the north of Baquba on Friday. The bomb was stuck to his car. All six people in the car including al Saadi were killed.
The house of a displaced Shiite family was blown up in Amin neighborhood, central Baquba at 3 p.m. Friday. The family has just repaired the house that was previously damaged and were about to return to their neighborhood.
Kirkuk
- A roadside bomb targeted the convoy of the 12th division commander of the Iraqi army the major general Abdul Ameer Al-Zaidi at Sufra village in western Kirkuk (about 34 miles west of Kirkuk). A source from the division confirmed the incident saying that several guards were wounded without further details. '
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