THE ELECTION AND THE SITUATION IN IRAQ

Hi again, sorry for all this absence but I was so busy because my mother is sick( Breast Cancer) and my aunt too so they were have under treatment and because of the collage...
I miss your comments and opinions about the situation in Iraq so I come back again to discuss the situation in Iraq after the vote on Consititution and Election , the progress in the democracy process and the primary results of the election...

The Iraqian people approve thier self three times during this year... The first one was in the first election in January 2005 and in the vote on Consititution in October,15,2005 and finally in the last election in December, 15 , 2005 .... They choose the persons that they think they are good for leading the Iraq in the next four years......
There was cheating in the last election and there were many errors but no one try to solve the problem or try to know the causes of these errors ....
I was hoping that Dr. Alawi may take a large number of voters but because of the cheating Dr. Alawi took less than theDesired
The situation in Iraq after Election is too bad and cant be hold, its the hell exactly, the explosions are every where and everytimeand you dont know your enemy or the terrorists ......
The most important winners in the election are :

1st: U.I.A. 132 seats

2nd Tawafok Aliraqia 57 seats

3rd Kurds Alliance List 47 seats

4th Iraqi National List 25 seats

And in my next blog I will discuss each party or list separtly

Merry Christmas and Happy new year 2006

May all wishes come true and amy God help Iraq to have a new life in the new year

THE VOTE ON CONSTITUTION

The vote on constitution in Iraq was a historic day and a Day that the Iraqian people aprrove the courageous and bravement to defeat the terrorists and most of Iraqian went to the voting station to say NO to terrorists either they vote yes or no to the draft of Constitution ... The important thing that is they participated in the vote because the is the Democracy .....

Sunni Arabs voted in surprisingly high numbers on Iraq's new constitution Saturday, many of them hoping to defeat it in an intense competition with Shiites and Kurds over the shape of the nation's young democracy after decades of dictatorship. With little violence, turnout was more than 66 percent in the three most crucial provinces.
The constitution still seemed likely to pass, as expected. But the large Sunni turnout made it possible that the vote would be close or even go the other way, and late Saturday it appeared at least two of a required three provinces might reject it by a wide margin.

75 percent, voter turnout in the Sunni heartland of Tikrit had exceeded their highest expectations.
"Once they were convinced that the security was there and it was a safe vote, then they started coming out in droves,".

After polls opened at 7 a.m., whole families turned out at voting stations, with parents carrying young children, sometimes in holiday clothes. Men and women lined up by the hundreds in some places or kept up a constant traffic into heavily bunkered polls, dressed their best in suits and ties or neatly pressed veils, or in shorts and flip-flops, weary from the day's Ramadan fast.

"I'm 75 years old. Everything is finished for me. But I'm going to vote because I want a good future for my children," Said Ahmad Fliha said after walking up a hill with the help of a relative and a soldier to a polling site in Haditha, a western Sunni town.
Some nine million Iraqis cast ballots, election officials said, announcing a preliminary turnout estimate of 61 percent.
The grim reality is that the democratic process has brought few tangible improvements to the Iraqi people's lives. Throughout the day the voting and counting had to be done without benefit of electricity because the insurgents blew up the power lines again.

In Baghdad, men counted votes by lanterns because the electricity was out in parts of the city. Results were written on a chalkboard. Outside, Iraqi soldiers huddled in a courtyard, breaking their fast. Northeast of the capital, in Baquba, men sat around long tables, putting "yes" votes in one pile and "no" votes in another.
A day that U.S. and Iraqi leaders feared could become bloody turned out to be the most peaceful in months, amid a heavy clampdown by U.S.-Iraqi forces across the country.




We hope Iraq return to his place among the countries and start building his future and approve the prosperity and progress for his poeple...

THANK U

SOME FACTS ABOUT THE LAST ELECTION

Hi , I found in a site a comment about the last election contain a facts about the voting and the role of Kurds in Nineveh to restrict the arrival of ballot boxes to Baghdad and the role of Sunni , Shiea , Kurds and other minorty in the vote on consititution.... Read it below please and thank u:

AUANEWSWATCHPOLITICS-IRAQ:

Voting Shenanigans Cloud Key ProvinceGareth Porter WASHINGTON, Sep 28 (IPS)

- If the referendum on Iraq's draft constitution next month is conducted fairly, it now appears very likely that the document will be defeated by a two-thirds majority in the three Sunni-dominated provinces of Anbar, Salahadeen and Nineveh, plunging Iraq into a new political crisis.

However, one way such a defeat could be averted is by massive vote fraud in the key province of Nineveh.

According to an account provided by the U.S. liaison with the local election commission, supported by physical evidence collected by the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI), Kurdish officials in Nineveh province tried to carry out just such a ballot-stuffing scheme in last January's election.

The Sunni Arab majority of about 1.7 million in Nineveh -- including Sunni insurgent organisations -- appears to be united behind a "no" vote on the constitution. Kurds number only about 200,000 and non-Kurdish, non-Arab minorities another 500-600,000. The non-Arab, non-Kurdish minorities -- Assyrian Christians, Shabaks, Yezidis and Turkmen -- which hold the balance in the province, are overwhelmingly opposed to the constitution. Heavy-handed control by the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) of non-Kurdish towns, exercised through Kurdish militia and intelligence presence in non-Kurdish areas, has alienated all four groups.

They fear the draft constitution would legitimise Kurdish plans to absorb into Kurdistan the areas of Nineveh where they are the majority, eliminating the limited recognition of status and rights as minorities they now have. In the January election, the Kurds dealt with the problem of being a relatively small minority in the province by stuffing the ballot boxes, as recounted by Maj. Anthony Cruz, an Army reserve civil affairs officer assigned to work with the province electoral commission. Cruz, now back in Los Angeles, provided a detailed account of the election in Nineveh to IPS in interviews.

The 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division ("Stryker Brigade") was responsible for getting ballot boxes and ballots to polling places on the Nineveh plain in January's election. But it relied on battle-hardened Kurdish pershmurga militiamen to maintain security in the towns and villages, and did not know its way around the area well enough to deliver ballot boxes there with Kurdish help, according to Cruz.

So the Brigade agreed to send a U.S. convoy with the voting materials to meet a Kurdish delegation in the Kurdish town of Faida on the border of Kurdistan 50 miles north of Mosul, so that the convoy could be guided to the largely Christian and Shabak towns on the Plain of Nineveh.

When the convoy arrived in Faida the day before the election, however, the promised Kurdish guides never came. Instead, says Cruz, the Kurdish mayor of the town came demanding the ballots for what he called Kurdish towns on the list. The convoy commander wanted to take all the ballots back, because the mission had been aborted.

A tense standoff followed, and the convoy commander called Cruz for a decision on what to do with the ballots. He advised the commander to give the mayor enough ballots for four towns, and the convoy returned to Mosul.

On election day, Cruz recalls, the U.S. military tried to find helicopters to carry the ballot materials out to the six remaining district towns on the list, but was were able get ballots to only one town, Bashiqa, which is almost entirely Christian, Shabak and Yezidi, before the 5:00 p.m. close of voting.

But according to Cruz, Kurdish militiamen stole the ballots boxes from the polling place, returning them later after obviously tampering with them and offering bribes to the election workers to accept them. Meanwhile a much more ambitious vote fraud scheme was unfolding in Sinjar, a relatively small district town in the west known to be a predominantly Sunni Arab area.

Around 12,000 ballots had been sent to Sinjar, but on election day KDP officials in Sinjar requested a number of ballots far in excess of the estimated electorate in the town and surrounding villages, according to Cruz. He recalls that the request was supported by the office of the interim president of Iraq, Sunni Arab Ghazi Al-Yawer. Cruz remembers joking about the "500 percent voter participation rate" in Sinjar. Nevertheless, the Stryker Brigade Combat Team complied with the request for the ballots.

Later, the province Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) forwarded 38 ballot boxes, 174 plastic sacks and 14 cardboard cartons of ballots that had obviously been tampered with to the national IECI. In some boxes, reams of ballot papers that had not even been folded were visible. In others, boxes had been resealed with red and green duct tape.

When Cruz asked the local IECI director how many of the fraudulent ballots had come from Sinjar, he was told, "All of them." The average number of ballots per ballot box nationwide was 500, and if each of the 236 boxes and bags of votes from Sinjar had that many ballots, those bags would have contained about 115,000 ballots.

The total number of legitimate votes in Nineveh was only 190,000. The Kurds apparently wanted to bolster their claims on Sinjar and much of the Plain of Nineveh. They also were apparently trying to ensure that non-Kurdish minorities would not have enough votes to gain representation in the interim National Assembly or in the province council. It did succeed in reducing the vote for the national Assyrian Christian list to exactly 3,346, despite an electorate approaching 100,000.

The Iraqi Turkmen Front list garnered only 1,342 votes, despite an electorate that was many times larger. Judging from the large disparity between the 77,000 legitimate votes for the Kurdish list for the national assembly and the 110,000 legitimate votes for the Kurdish list for province council, the Kurds deliberately shifted a substantial number of votes to Al-Yawer in return for his role in getting the additional ballots need for the vote-stuffing exercise.

Al-Yawer was threatened with a minimal vote in the province because of the Sunni boycott. Although it displayed the boxes and bags of fraudulent ballots, the national IECI downplayed the seriousness of the ballot-stuffing in Nineveh and covered up the Kurdish role in it. In his press briefing on Feb. 8, IECI spokesman Farid Ayar blamed the ballot fraud on unidentified "militiamen or armed men".

According to Maj. Cruz, however, the only such incident in the province was in Bashiqa. Ayar refused to divulge which party would have profited from the fraudulent ballots, telling the journalists, "I can't accuse any party, because we don't know.

" The KDP obviously miscalculated in thinking that electoral officials in Nineveh could be bribed to turn a blind eye to such crude ballot stuffing. But no damage was done by the failed attempt. The IECI helped by diverting press attention from the Kurds, and U.S. news media never dug into the story behind the mountain of fraudulent ballots exhibited by the commission. In the constitutional referendum, the Shiite government will share the Kurdish interest in doing whatever is necessary to avert the defeat of the constitution in Nineveh. Meanwhile, the U.S. military remains heavily dependent on Kurds in Nineveh. The KDP may well believe that a more sophisticated Kurdish ballot-stuffing scheme will work on October 15.

*Gareth Porter is an historian and national security policy analyst. His latest book, "Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam", was published in June.

THE CONSITUTION AND THE SITUATION IN IRAQ

The vote on consituation will be done in months and the Iraqian people will vote on it in October,15 ,2005 in all around the Iraq and this consitution will be the implant for the new Iraq and will defeat the terrorists and may stop the river of blood and the death of thousands of innocent people and stop the entrance of the terrorists from the neighboring countries....

The Iraqian people will vote for Iraq not for anyone else fro his progress , prosperity, for his future and for them selves......

I hope it will get will and the Iraq will have a new life and safety days filled with happiness....


May God Save all Iraqian people for the new Iraq

Thank u....

THE RIVERS OF BLOOD IN IRAQ

Hi again, I finish my exams before two days ago but I was watching the News in these days and I was confused and shocked because of the large number of poeple that have been killed every day..

Thousands of people flocked to the funerals Thursday of the nearly 1,000 Shiite pilgrims killed in a stampede during a religious procession,as critics blasted the government for failing to prevent the tragedy.

Wednesday's disaster on a bridge in north Baghdad appeared to have been sparked by a rumor that a suicide bomber was among the more than one million people gathering at a Shiite shrine in the capital.
Most of the victims on Imams bridge were trampled or crushed in the midday stampede. Others plunged 30 feet into the muddy Tigris river. The majority of those killed were women and children, officials said.
Iraq's Ministry of Interior announced Saturday that 1100 people had died and 1200 were injured in the crush.
You cant imagine the death of 1100 people in one day and in one place because some one shout that there is suicider between the poeple... In my region more than 15 people have been killed 4 from the same family, this is a murder and we must help those people who were doing there religious procession ... So f any one can help those people told me and they wll be gratefull to him.....

Yesterday Baghdad witness at least 11 explosions and these explosions by a suicider attacks aimed mostly Shiite regions in ALHURIYA, SHOALLA, KADEMIA, MASHTAL, NEW BAGHDAD and in other places in Zayona, Palestine ST. , and AMERIYAH and these attacks killed more than 180 poeple and 500 injured in a bloody day in Baghdad...

I ask my self sometimes when this river of blood wll stop and the Iraqi lve in Peace an prosperity... When will the Iraqi go out and feeling safety??????????????? These questions no one have thier answer but we still have the trust in GOD....
Thank u

I WILL BACK SOON

Hi again.... sorry for all this absence but I was not in Baghdad I was in Mosul city for few days and there where I was there wasnt internet connection available so I couldnt send anything all this time and I will have the final exams in the next week so I will be busy in the next days but I will write about the constituation if it was annouced officially for the vote....

See u again and very soon

Bye

IRAQ CONSTITUATION

Hi again, Today the National Assembly in Iraq will vote on the Constitution of Iraq that will be law of asministartionfor the state of Iraq and I have the Arabic copy and english one and if any one want it I will send it by the mail HERE

The vote on constitution will be after two monthes and exactly on 15/10/2005 and then the election in the new year.....

Full Text Of Iraqi Interim Constitution

LAW OF ADMINISTRATION FOR THE STATE OF IRAQ FOR THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD

PREAMBLE
The people of Iraq, striving to reclaim their freedom, which was usurped by the previous tyrannical regime, rejecting violence and coercion in all their forms, and particularly when used as instruments of governance, have determined that they shall hereafter remain a free people governed under the rule of law.
These people, affirming today their respect for international law, especially having been amongst the founders of the United Nations, working to reclaim their legitimate place among nations, have endeavoured at the same time to preserve the unity of their homeland in a spirit of fraternity and solidarity in order to draw the features of the future new Iraq, and to establish the mechanisms aiming, amongst other aims, to erase the effects of racist and sectarian policies and practices.
This Law is now established to govern the affairs of Iraq during the transitional period until a duly elected government, operating under a permanent and legitimate constitution achieving full democracy, shall come into being.
CHAPTER ONE - FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
Article 1.
(A) This Law shall be called the "Law of Administration for the State of Iraq for the Transitional Period," and the phrase "this Law" wherever it appears in this legislation shall mean the "Law of Administration for the State of Iraq for the Transitional Period."
(B) Gender-specific language shall apply equally to male and female.
(C) The Preamble to this Law is an integral part of this Law.
Article 2.
(A) The term "transitional period" shall refer to the period beginning on 30 June 2004 and lasting until the formation of an elected Iraqi government pursuant to a permanent constitution as set forth in this Law, which in any case shall be no later than 31 December 2005, unless the provisions of Article 61 are applied.
(B) The transitional period shall consist of two phases.
(1) The first phase shall begin with the formation of a fully sovereign Iraqi Interim Government that takes power on 30 June 2004. This government shall be constituted in accordance with a process of extensive deliberations and consultations with cross-sections of the Iraqi people conducted by the Governing Council and the Coalition Provisional Authority and possibly in consultation with the United Nations. This government shall exercise authority in accordance with this Law, including the fundamental principles and rights specified herein, and with an annex that shall be agreed upon and issued before the beginning of the transitional period and that shall be an integral part of this Law.
(2) The second phase shall begin after the formation of the Iraqi Transitional Government, which will take place after elections for the National Assembly have been held as stipulated in this Law, provided that, if possible, these elections are not delayed beyond 31 December 2004, and, in any event, beyond 31 January 2005. This second phase shall end upon the formation of an Iraqi government pursuant to a permanent constitution.
Article 3.
(A) This Law is the Supreme Law of the land and shall be binding in all parts of Iraq without exception. No amendment to this Law may be made except by a three-fourths majority of the members of the National Assembly and the unanimous approval of the Presidency Council. Likewise, no amendment may be made that could abridge in any way the rights of the Iraqi people cited in Chapter Two; extend the transitional period beyond the timeframe cited in this Law; delay the holding of elections to a new assembly; reduce the powers of the regions or governorates; or affect Islam, or any other religions or sects and their rites.
(B) Any legal provision that conflicts with this Law is null and void.
(C) This Law shall cease to have effect upon the formation of an elected government pursuant to a permanent constitution.
Article 4.
The system of government in Iraq shall be republican, federal, democratic, and pluralistic, and powers shall be shared between the federal government and the regional governments, governorates, municipalities, and local administrations. The federal system shall be based upon geographic and historical realities and the separation of powers, and not upon origin, race, ethnicity, nationality, or confession.
Article 5.
The Iraqi Armed Forces shall be subject to the civilian control of the Iraqi Transitional Government, in accordance with the contents of Chapters Three and Five of this Law.
Article 6.
The Iraqi Transitional Government shall take effective steps to end the vestiges of the oppressive acts of the previous regime arising from forced displacement, deprivation of citizenship, expropriation of financial assets and property, and dismissal from government employment for political, racial, or sectarian reasons.
Article 7.
(A) Islam is the official religion of the State and is to be considered a source of legislation. No law that contradicts the universally agreed tenets of Islam, the principles of democracy, or the rights cited in Chapter Two of this Law may be enacted during the transitional period. This Law respects the Islamic identity of the majority of the Iraqi people and guarantees the full religious rights of all individuals to freedom of religious belief and practice.
(B) Iraq is a country of many nationalities, and the Arab people in Iraq are an inseparable part of the Arab nation.
Article 8.
The flag, anthem, and emblem of the State shall be fixed by law.
Article 9.
The Arabic language and the Kurdish language are the two official languages of Iraq. The right of Iraqis to educate their children in their mother tongue, such as Turcoman, Syriac, or Armenian, in government educational institutions in accordance with educational guidelines, or in any other language in private educational institutions, shall be guaranteed. The scope of the term "official language" and the means of applying the provisions of this Article shall be defined by law and shall include:
(1) Publication of the official gazette, in the two languages;
(2) Speech and expression in official settings, such as the National Assembly, the Council of Ministers, courts, and official conferences, in either of the two languages;
(3) Recognition and publication of official documents and correspondence in the two languages;
(4) Opening schools that teach in the two languages, in accordance with educational guidelines;
(5) Use of both languages in any other settings enjoined by the principle of equality (such as bank notes, passports, and stamps);
(6) Use of both languages in the federal institutions and agencies in the Kurdistan region.
CHAPTER TWO - FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS
Article 10.
As an expression of the free will and sovereignty of the Iraqi people, their representatives shall form the governmental structures of the State of Iraq. The Iraqi Transitional Government and the governments of the regions, governorates, municipalities, and local administrations shall respect the rights of the Iraqi people, including those rights cited in this Chapter.
Article 11.
(A) Anyone who carries Iraqi nationality shall be deemed an Iraqi citizen. His citizenship shall grant him all the rights and duties stipulated in this Law and shall be the basis of his relation to the homeland and the State.
(B) No Iraqi may have his Iraqi citizenship withdrawn or be exiled unless he is a naturalized citizen who, in his application for citizenship, as established in a court of law, made material falsifications on the basis of which citizenship was granted.
(C) Each Iraqi shall have the right to carry more than one citizenship. Any Iraqi whose citizenship was withdrawn because he acquired another citizenship shall be deemed an Iraqi.
(D) Any Iraqi whose Iraqi citizenship was withdrawn for political, religious, racial, or sectarian reasons has the right to reclaim his Iraqi citizenship.
(E) Decision Number 666 (1980) of the dissolved Revolutionary Command Council is annuled, and anyone whose citizenship was withdrawn on the basis of this decree shall be deemed an Iraqi.
(F) The National Assembly must issue laws pertaining to citizenship and naturalization consistent with the provisions of this Law
(G) The Courts shall examine all disputes airising from the application of the provisions relating to citizenship.
Article 12.
All Iraqis are equal in their rights without regard to gender, sect, opinion, belief, nationality, religion, or origin, and they are equal before the law. Discrimination against an Iraqi citizen on the basis of his gender, nationality, religion, or origin is prohibited. Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and the security of his person. No one may be deprived of his life or liberty, except in accordance with legal procedures. All are equal before the courts.
Article 13.
(A) Public and private freedoms shall be protected.
(B) The right of free expression shall be protected.
(C) The right of free peaceable assembly and the right to join associations freely, as well as the right to form and join unions and political parties freely, in accordance with the law, shall be guaranteed.
(D) Each Iraqi has the right of free movement in all parts of Iraq and the right to travel abroad and return freely.
(E) Each Iraqi has the right to demonstrate and strike peaceably in accordance with the law.
(F) Each Iraqi has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religious belief and practice. Coercion in such matters shall be prohibited.
(G) Slavery, the slave trade, forced labor, and involuntary servitude with or without pay, shall be forbidden.
(H) Each Iraqi has the right to privacy.
Article 14.
The individual has the right to security, education, health care, and social security. The Iraqi State and its governmental units, including the federal government, the regions, governorates, municipalities, and local administrations, within the limits of their resources and with due regard to other vital needs, shall strive to provide prosperity and employment opportunities to the people.
Article 15.
(A) No civil law shall have retroactive effect unless the law so stipulates. There shall be neither a crime, nor punishment, except by law in effect at the time the crime is committed.
(B) Police, investigators, or other governmental authorities may not violate the sanctity of private residences, whether these authorities belong to the federal or regional governments, governorates, municipalities, or local administrations, unless a judge or investigating magistrate has issued a search warrant in accordance with applicable law on the basis of information provided by a sworn individual who knew that bearing false witness would render him liable to punishment. Extreme exigent circumstances, as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction, may justify a warrantless search, but such exigencies shall be narrowly construed. In the event that a warrantless search is carried out in the absence of an extreme exigent circumstance, the evidence so seized, and any other evidence found derivatively from such search, shall be inadmissible in connection with a criminal charge, unless the court determines that the person who carried out the warrantless search believed reasonably and in good faith that the search was in accordance with the law.
(C) No one may be unlawfully arrested or detained, and no one may be detained by reason of political or religious beliefs.
(D) All persons shall be guaranteed the right to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, regardless of whether the proceeding is civil or criminal. Notice of the proceeding and its legal basis must be provided to the accused without delay.
(E) The accused is innocent until proven guilty pursuant to law, and he likewise has the right to engage independent and competent counsel, to remain silent in response to questions addressed to him with no compulsion to testify for any reason, to participate in preparing his defense, and to summon and examine witnesses or to ask the judge to do so. At the time a person is arrested, he must be notified of these rights.
(F) The right to a fair, speedy, and open trial shall be guaranteed.
(G) Every person deprived of his liberty by arrest or detention shall have the right of recourse to a court to determine the legality of his arrest or detention without delay and to order his release if this occurred in an illegal manner.
(H) After being found innocent of a charge, an accused may not be tried once again on the same charge.
(I) Civilians may not be tried before a military tribunal. Special or exceptional courts may not be established.
(J) Torture in all its forms, physical or mental, shall be prohibited under all circumstances, as shall be cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. No confession made under compulsion, torture, or threat thereof shall be relied upon or admitted into evidence for any reason in any proceeding, whether criminal or otherwise.
Article 16.
(A) Public property is sacrosanct, and its protection is the duty of every citizen.
(B) The right to private property shall be protected, and no one may be prevented from disposing of his property except within the limits of law. No one shall be deprived of his property except by eminent domain, in circumstances and in the manner set forth in law, and on condition that he is paid just and timely compensation.
(C) Each Iraqi citizen shall have the full and unfettered right to own real property in all parts of Iraq without restriction.
Article 17.
It shall not be permitted to possess, bear, buy, or sell arms except on licensure issued in accordance with the law.
Article 18.
There shall be no taxation or fee except by law.
Article 19.
No political refugee who has been granted asylum pursuant to applicable law may be surrendered or returned forcibly to the country from which he fled.
Article 20.
(A) Every Iraqi who fulfills the conditions stipulated in the electoral law has the right to stand for election and cast his ballot secretly in free, open, fair, competitive, and periodic elections.
(B) No Iraqi may be discriminated against for purposes of voting in elections on the basis of gender, religion, sect, race, belief, ethnic origin, language, wealth, or literacy.
Article 21.
Neither the Iraqi Transitional Government nor the governments and administrations of the regions, governorates, and municipalities, nor local administrations may interfere with the right of the Iraqi people to develop the institutions of civil society, whether in cooperation with international civil society organizations or otherwise.
Article 22.
If, in the course of his work, an official of any government office, whether in the federal government, the regional governments, the governorate and municipal administrations, or the local administrations, deprives an individual or a group of the rights guaranteed by this Law or any other Iraqi laws in force, this individual or group shall have the right to maintain a cause of action against that employee to seek compensation for the damages caused by such deprivation, to vindicate his rights, and to seek any other legal measure. If the court decides that the official had acted with a sufficient degree of good faith and in the belief that his actions were consistent with the law, then he is not required to pay compensation.
Article 23.
The enumeration of the foregoing rights must not be interpreted to mean that they are the only rights enjoyed by the Iraqi people. They enjoy all the rights that befit a free people possessed of their human dignity, including the rights stipulated in international treaties and agreements, other instruments of international law that Iraq has signed and to which it has acceded, and others that are deemed binding upon it, and in the law of nations. Non-Iraqis within Iraq shall enjoy all human rights not inconsistent with their status as non-citizens.
CHAPTER THREE - THE IRAQI TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT
Article 24.
(A) The Iraqi Transitional Government, which is also referred to in this Law as the federal government, shall consist of the National Assembly; the Presidency Council; the Council of Ministers, including the Prime Minister; and the judicial authority.
(B) The three authorities, legislative, executive, and judicial, shall be separate and independent of one another.
(C) No official or employee of the Iraqi Transitional Government shall enjoy immunity for criminal acts committed while in office.
Article 25.
The Iraqi Transitional Government shall have exclusive competence in the following matters:
(A) Formulating foreign policy and diplomatic representation; negotiating, signing, and ratifying international treaties and agreements; formulating foreign economic and trade policy and sovereign debt policies;
(B) Formulating and executing national security policy, including creating and maintaining armed forces to secure, protect, and guarantee the security of the country's borders and to defend Iraq;
(C) Formulating fiscal policy, issuing currency, regulating customs, regulating commercial policy across regional and governorate boundaries in Iraq, drawing up the national budget of the State, formulating monetary policy, and establishing and administering a central bank;
(D) Regulating weights and measures and formulating a general policy on wages;
(E) Managing the natural resources of Iraq, which belongs to all the people of all the regions and governorates of Iraq, in consultation with the governments of the regions and the administrations of the governorates, and distributing the revenues resulting from their sale through the national budget in an equitable manner proportional to the distribution of population throughout the country, and with due regard for areas that were unjustly deprived of these revenues by the previous regime, for dealing with their situations in a positive way, for their needs, and for the degree of development of the different areas of the country;
(F) Regulating Iraqi citizenship, immigration, and asylum; and
(G) Regulating telecommunications policy.
Article 26.
(A) Except as otherwise provided in this Law, the laws in force in Iraq on 30 June 2004 shall remain in effect unless and until rescinded or amended by the Iraqi Transitional Government in accordance with this Law.
(B) Legislation issued by the federal legislative authority shall supersede any other legislation issued by any other legislative authority in the event that they contradict each other, except as provided in Article 54(B).
(C) The laws, regulations, orders, and directives issued by the Coalition Provisional Authority pursuant to its authority under international law shall remain in force until rescinded or amended by legislation duly enacted and having the force of law.
Article 27.
(A) The Iraqi Armed Forces shall consist of the active and reserve units, and elements thereof. The purpose of these forces is the defense of Iraq.
(B) Armed forces and militias not under the command structure of the Iraqi Transitional Government are prohibited, except as provided by federal law.
(C) The Iraqi Armed Forces and its personnel, including military personnel working in the Ministry of Defense or any offices or organizations subordinate to it, may not stand for election to political office, campaign for candidates, or participate in other activities forbidden by Ministry of Defense regulations. This ban encompasses the activities of the personnel mentioned above acting in their personal or official capacities. Nothing in this Article shall infringe upon the right of these personnel to vote in elections.
(D) The Iraqi Intelligence Service shall collect information, assess threats to national security, and advise the Iraqi government. This Service shall be under civilian control, shall be subject to legislative oversight, and shall operate pursuant to law and in accordance with recognized principles of human rights.
(E) The Iraqi Transitional Government shall respect and implement Iraq's international obligations regarding the non-proliferation, non-development, non-production, and non-use of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, and associated equipment, materiel, technologies, and delivery systems for use in the development, manufacture, production, and use of such weapons.
Article 28.
(A) Members of the National Assembly; the Presidency Council; the Council of Ministers, including the Prime Minister; and judges and justices of the courts may not be appointed to any other position in or out of government. Any member of the National Assembly who becomes a member of the Presidency Council or Council of Ministers shall be deemed to have resigned his membership in the National Assembly.
(B) In no event may a member of the armed forces be a member of the National Assembly, minister, Prime Minister, or member of the Presidency Council unless the individual has resigned his commission or rank, or retired from duty at least eighteen months prior to serving.
Article 29.
Upon the assumption of full authority by the Iraqi Interim Government in accordance with Article 2(B)(1), above, the Coalition Provisional Authority shall be dissolved and the work of the Governing Council shall come to an end.
CHAPTER FOUR - THE TRANSITIONAL LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY
Article 30.
(A) During the transitional period, the State of Iraq shall have a legislative authority known as the National Assembly. Its principal mission shall be to legislate and exercise oversight over the work of the executive authority.
(B) Laws shall be issued in the name of the people of Iraq. Laws, regulations, and directives related to them shall be published in the official gazette and shall take effect as of the date of their publication, unless they stipulate otherwise.
(C) The National Assembly shall be elected in accordance with an electoral law and a political parties law. The electoral law shall aim to achieve the goal of having women constitute no less than one-quarter of the members of the National Assembly and of having fair representation for all communities in Iraq, including the Turcomans, ChaldoAssyrians, and others.
(D) Elections for the National Assembly shall take place by 31 December 2004 if possible, and in any case no later than by 31 January 2005.
Article 31.
(A) The National Assembly shall consist of 275 members. It shall enact a law dealing with the replacement of its members in the event of resignation, removal, or death.
(B) A nominee to the National Assembly must fulfill the following conditions:
(1) He shall be an Iraqi no less than 30 years of age.
(2) He shall not have been a member of the dissolved Ba'ath Party with the rank of Division Member or higher, unless exempted pursuant to the applicable legal rules.
(3) If he was once a member of the dissolved Ba'ath Party with the rank of Full Member, he shall be required to sign a document renouncing the Ba'ath Party and disavowing all of his past links with it before becoming eligible to be a candidate, as well as to swear that he no longer has any dealings or connection with Ba'ath Party organizations. If it is established in court that he lied or fabricated on this score, he shall lose his seat in the National Assembly.
(4) He shall not have been a member of the former agencies of repression and shall not have contributed to or participated in the persecution of citizens.
(5) He shall not have enriched himself in an illegitimate manner at the expense of the homeland and public finance.
(6) He shall not have been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude and shall have a good reputation.
(7) He shall have at least a secondary school diploma, or equivalent
(8) He shall not be a member of the armed forces at the time of his nomination.
Article 32.
(A) The National Assembly shall draw up its own internal procedures, and it shall sit in public session unless circumstances require otherwise, consistent with its internal procedures. The first session of the Assembly shall be chaired by its oldest member.
(B) The National Assembly shall elect, from its own members, a president and two deputy presidents of the National Assembly. The president of the National Assembly shall be the individual who receives the greatest number of votes for that office; the first deputy president the next highest; and the second deputy president the next. The president of the National Assembly may vote on an issue, but may not participate in the debates, unless he temporarily steps out of the chair immediately prior to addressing the issue.
(C) A bill shall not be voted upon by the National Assembly unless it has been read twice at a regular session of the Assembly, on condition that at least two days intervene between the two readings, and after the bill has been placed on the agenda of the session at least four days prior to the vote.
Article 33.
(A) Meetings of the National Assembly shall be public, and transcripts of its meetings shall be recorded and published. The vote of every member of the National Assembly shall be recorded and made public. Decisions in the National Assembly shall be taken by simple majority unless this Law stipulates otherwise.
(B) The National Assembly must examine bills proposed by the Council of Ministers, including budget bills.
(C) Only the Council of Ministers shall have the right to present a proposed national budget. The National Assembly has the right to reallocate proposed spending and to reduce the total amounts in the general budget. It also has the right to propose an increase in the overall amount of expenditures to the Council of Ministers if necessary.
(D) Members of the National Assembly shall have the right to propose bills, consistent with the internal procedures that drawn up by the Assembly.
(E) The Iraqi Armed Forces may not be dispatched outside Iraq even for the purpose of defending against foreign aggression except with the approval of the National Assembly and upon the request of the Presidency Council.
(F) Only the National Assembly shall have the power to ratify international treaties and agreements.
(G) The oversight function performed by the National Assembly and its committees shall include the right of interpellation of executive officials, including members of the Presidency Council, the Council of Ministers, including the Prime Minister, and any less senior official of the executive authority. This shall encompass the right to investigate, request information, and issue subpoenas for persons to appear before them.
Article 34.
Each member of the National Assembly shall enjoy immunity for statements made while the Assembly is in session, and the member may not be sued before the courts for such. A member may not be placed under arrest during a session of the National Assembly, unless the member is accused of a crime and the National Assembly agrees to lift his immunity or if he is caught in flagrante delicto in the commission of a felony.
CHAPTER FIVE - THE TRANSITIONAL EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY
Article 35.
The executive authority during the transitional period shall consist of the Presidency Council, the Council of Ministers, and its presiding Prime Minister.
Article 36.
(A) The National Assembly shall elect a President of the State and two Deputies. They shall form the Presidency Council, the function of which will be to represent the sovereignty of Iraq and oversee the higher affairs of the country. The election of the Presidency Council shall take place on the basis of a single list and by a two-thirds majority of the members' votes. The National Assembly has the power to remove any member of the Presidency Council of the State for incompetence or lack of integrity by a three-fourths majority of its members' votes. In the event of a vacancy in the Presidency Council, the National Assembly shall, by a vote of two-thirds of its members, elect a replacement to fill the vacancy.
(B) It is a prerequisite for a member of the Presidency Council to fulfill the same conditions as the members of the National Assembly, with the following observations:
(1) He must be at least forty years of age.
(2) He must possess a good reputation, integrity, and rectitude.
(3) If he was a member of the dissolved Ba'ath Party, he must have left the dissolved Party at least ten years before its fall.
(4) He must not have participated in repressing the intifada of 1991 or the Anfal campaign and must not have committed a crime against the Iraqi people.
(C) The Presidency Council shall take its decisions unanimously, and its members may not deputize others as proxies.
Article 37.
The Presidency Council may veto any legislation passed by the National Assembly, on condition that this be done within fifteen days after the Presidency Council is notified by the president of the National Assembly of the passage of such legislation. In the event of a veto, the legislation shall be returned to the National Assembly, which has the right to pass the legislation again by a two-thirds majority not subject to veto within a period not to exceed thirty days.
Article 38.
(A) The Presidency Council shall name a Prime Minister unanimously, as well as the members of the Council of Ministers upon the recommendation of the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister and Council of Ministers shall then seek to obtain a vote of confidence by simple majority from the National Assembly prior to commencing their work as a government. The Presidency Council must agree on a candidate for the post of Prime Minister within two weeks. In the event that it fails to do so, the responsibility of naming the Prime Minister reverts to the National Assembly. In that event, the National Assembly must confirm the nomination by a two-thirds majority. If the Prime Minister is unable to nominate his Council of Ministers within one month, the Presidency Council shall name another Prime Minister.
(B) The qualifications for Prime Minister must be the same as for the members of the Presidency Council except that his age must not be less than 35 years upon his taking office.
Article 39.
(A) The Council of Ministers shall, with the approval of the Presidency Council, appoint representatives to negotiate the conclusion of international treaties and agreements. The Presidency Council shall recommend passage of a law by the National Assembly to ratify such treaties and agreements.
(B) The Presidency Council shall carry out the function of commander-in-chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces only for ceremonial and protocol purposes. It shall have no command authority. It shall have the right to be briefed, to inquire, and to advise. Operationally, national command authority on military matters shall flow from the Prime Minister to the Minister of Defense to the military chain of command of the Iraqi Armed Forces.
(C) The Presidency Council shall, as more fully set forth in Chapter Six, below, appoint, upon recommendation of the Higher Juridical Council, the Presiding Judge and members of the Federal Supreme Court.
(D) The Council of Ministers shall appoint the Director-General of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service, as well as officers of the Iraqi Armed Forces at the rank of general or above. Such appointments shall be subject to confirmation by the National Assembly by simple majority of those of its members present.
Article 40.
(A) The Prime Minister and the ministers shall be responsible before the National Assembly, and this Assembly shall have the right to withdraw its confidence either in the Prime Minister or in the ministers collectively or individually. In the event that confidence in the Prime Minister is withdrawn, the entire Council of Ministers shall be dissolved, and Article 40(B), below, shall become operative.
(B) In the event of a vote of no confidence with respect to the entire Council of Ministers, the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers shall remain in office to carry out their functions for a period not to exceed thirty days, until the formation of a new Council of Ministers, consistent with Article 38, above.
Article 41.
The Prime Minister shall have day-to-day responsibility for the management of the government, and he may dismiss ministers with the approval of an simple majority of the National Assembly. The Presidency Council may, upon the recommendation of the Commission on Public Integrity after the exercise of due process, dismiss the Prime Minister or the ministers.
Article 42.
The Council of Ministers shall draw up rules of procedure for its work and issue the regulations and directives necessary to enforce the laws. It also has the right to propose bills to the National Assembly. Each ministry has the right, within its competence, to nominate deputy ministers, ambassadors, and other employees of special grade. After the Council of Ministers approves these nominations, they shall be submitted to the Presidency Council for ratification. All decisions of the Council of Ministers shall be taken by simple majority of those of its members present.
CHAPTER SIX - THE FEDERAL JUDICIAL AUTHORITY
Article 43.
(A) The judiciary is independent, and it shall in no way be administered by the executive authority, including the Ministry of Justice. The judiciary shall enjoy exclusive competence to determine the innocence or guilt of the accused pursuant to law, without interference from the legislative or executive authorities.
(B) All judges sitting in their respective courts as of 1 July 2004 will continue in office thereafter, unless removed from office pursuant to this Law.
(C) The National Assembly shall establish an independent and adequate budget for the judiciary.
(D) Federal courts shall adjudicate matters that arise from the application of federal laws. The establishment of these courts shall be within the exclusive competence of the federal government. The establishment of these courts in the regions shall be in consultation with the presidents of the judicial councils in the regions, and priority in appointing or transferring judges to these courts shall be given to judges resident in the region.
Article 44.
(A) A court called the Federal Supreme Court shall be constituted by law in Iraq.
(B) The jurisdiction of the Federal Supreme Court shall be as follows:
(1) Original and exclusive jurisdiction in legal proceedings between the Iraqi Transitional Government and the regional governments, governorate and municipal administrations, and local administrations.
(2) Original and exclusive jurisdiction, on the basis of a complaint from a claimant or a referral from another court, to review claims that a law, regulation, or directive issued by the federal or regional governments, the governorate or municipal administrations, or local administrations is inconsistent with this Law.
(3) Ordinary appellate jurisdiction of the Federal Supreme Court shall be defined by federal law.
(C) Should the Federal Supreme Court rule that a challenged law, regulation, directive, or measure is inconsistent with this Law, it shall be deemed null and void.
(D) The Federal Supreme Court shall create and publish regulations regarding the procedures required to bring claims and to permit attorneys to practice before it. It shall take its decisions by simple majority, except decisions with regard to the proceedings stipulated in Article 44(B)(1), which must be by a two-thirds majority. Decisions shall be binding. The Court shall have full powers to enforce its decisions, including the power to issue citations for contempt of court and the measures that flow from this.
(E) The Federal Supreme Court shall consist of nine members. The Higher Juridical Council shall, in consultation with the regional judicial councils, initially nominate no less than eighteen and up to twenty-seven individuals to fill the initial vacancies in the aforementioned Court. It will follow the same procedure thereafter, nominating three members for each subsequent vacancy that occurs by reason of death, resignation, or removal. The Presidency Council shall appoint the members of this Court and name one of them as its Presiding Judge. In the event an appointment is rejected, the Higher Juridical Council shall nominate a new group of three candidates.
Article 45.
A Higher Juridical Council shall be established and assume the role of the Council of Judges. The Higher Juridical Council shall supervise the federal judiciary and shall administer its budget. This Council shall be composed of the Presiding Judge of the Federal Supreme Court, the presiding judge and deputy presiding judges of the federal Court of Cassation, the presiding judges of the federal Courts of Appeal, and the presiding judge and two deputy presiding judges of each regional court of cassation. The Presiding Judge of the Federal Supreme Court shall preside over the Higher Juridical Council. In his absence, the presiding judge of the federal Court of Cassation shall preside over the Council.
Article 46.
(A) The federal judicial branch shall include existing courts outside the Kurdistan region, including courts of first instance; the Central Criminal Court of Iraq; Courts of Appeal; and the Court of Cassation, which shall be the court of last resort except as provided in Article 44 of this Law. Additional federal courts may be established by law. The appointment of judges for these courts shall be made by the Higher Juridical Council. This Law preserves the qualifications necessary for the appointment of judges, as defined by law.
(B) The decisions of regional and local courts, including the courts of the Kurdistan region, shall be final, but shall be subject to review by the federal judiciary if they conflict with this Law or any federal law. Procedures for such review shall be defined by law.
Article 47.
No judge or member of the Higher Juridical Council may be removed unless he is convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude or corruption or suffers permanent incapacity. Removal shall be on the recommendation of the Higher Juridical Council, by a decision of the Council of Ministers, and with the approval of the Presidency Council. Removal shall be executed immediately after issuance of this approval. A judge who has been accused of such a crime as cited above shall be suspended from his work in the judiciary until such time as the case arising from what is cited in this Article is adjudicated. No judge may have his salary reduced or suspended for any reason during his period of service.
CHAPTER SEVEN - THE SPECIAL TRIBUNAL AND NATIONAL COMMISSIONS
Article 48.
(A) The statute establishing the Iraqi Special Tribunal issued on 10 December 2003 is confirmed. That statute exclusively defines its jurisdiction and procedures, notwithstanding the provisions of this Law.
(B) No other court shall have jurisdiction to examine cases within the competence of the Iraqi Special Tribunal, except to the extent provided by its founding statute.
(C) The judges of the Iraqi Special Tribunal shall be appointed in accordance with the provisions of its founding statute.
Article 49.
(A) The establishment of national commissions such as the Commission on Public Integrity, the Iraqi Property Claims Commission, and the Higher National De-Ba'athification Commission is confirmed, as is the establishment of commissions formed after this Law has gone into effect. The members of these national commissions shall continue to serve after this Law has gone into effect, taking into account the contents of Article 51, below.
(B) The method of appointment to the national commissions shall be in accordance with law.
Article 50.
The Iraqi Transitional Government shall establish a National Commission for Human Rights for the purpose of executing the commitments relative to the rights set forth in this Law and to examine complaints pertaining to violations of human rights. The Commission shall be established in accordance with the Paris Principles issued by the United Nations on the responsibilities of national institutions. This Commission shall include an Office of the Ombudsman to inquire into complaints. This office shall have the power to investigate, on its own initiative or on the basis of a complaint submitted to it, any allegation that the conduct of the governmental authorities is arbitrary or contrary to law.
Article 51.
No member of the Iraqi Special Tribunal or of any commission established by the federal government may be employed in any other capacity in or out of government. This prohibition is valid without limitation, whether it be within the executive, legislative, or judicial authority of the Iraqi Transitional Government. Members of the Special Tribunal may, however, suspend their employment in other agencies while they serve on the aforementioned Tribunal.
CHAPTER EIGHT - REGIONS, GOVERNORATES, AND MUNICIPALITIES
Article 52.
The design of the federal system in Iraq shall be established in such a way as to prevent the concentration of power in the federal government that allowed the continuation of decades of tyranny and oppression under the previous regime. This system shall encourage the exercise of local authority by local officials in every region and governorate, thereby creating a united Iraq in which every citizen actively participates in governmental affairs, secure in his rights and free of domination.
Article 53.
(A) The Kurdistan Regional Government is recognized as the official government of the territories that were administered by the that government on 19 March 2003 in the governorates of Dohuk, Arbil, Sulaimaniya, Kirkuk, Diyala and Neneveh. The term "Kurdistan Regional Government" shall refer to the Kurdistan National Assembly, the Kurdistan Council of Ministers, and the regional judicial authority in the Kurdistan region.
(B) The boundaries of the eighteen governorates shall remain without change during the transitional period.
(C) Any group of no more than three governorates outside the Kurdistan region, with the exception of Baghdad and Kirkuk, shall have the right to form regions from amongst themselves. The mechanisms for forming such regions may be proposed by the Iraqi Interim Government, and shall be presented and considered by the elected National Assembly for enactment into law. In addition to being approved by the National Assembly, any legislation proposing the formation of a particular region must be approved in a referendum of the people of the relevant governorates.
(D) This Law shall guarantee the administrative, cultural, and political rights of the Turcomans, ChaldoAssyrians, and all other citizens.
Article 54.
(A) The Kurdistan Regional Government shall continue to perform its current functions throughout the transitional period, except with regard to those issues which fall within the exclusive competence of the federal government as specified in this Law. Financing for these functions shall come from the federal government, consistent with current practice and in accordance with Article 25(E) of this Law. The Kurdistan Regional Government shall retain regional control over police forces and internal security, and it will have the right to impose taxes and fees within the Kurdistan region.
(B) With regard to the application of federal laws in the Kurdistan region, the Kurdistan National Assembly shall be permitted to amend the application of any such law within the Kurdistan region, but only to the extent that this relates to matters that are not within the provisions of Articles 25 and 43(D) of this Law and that fall within the exclusive competence of the federal government.
Article 55.
(A) Each governorate shall have the right to form a Governorate Council, name a Governor, and form municipal and local councils. No member of any regional government, governor, or member of any governorate, municipal, or local council may be dismissed by the federal government or any official thereof, except upon conviction of a crime by a court of competent jurisdiction as provided by law. No regional government may dismiss a Governor or member or members of any governorate, municipal, or local council. No Governor or member of any Governorate, municipal, or local council shall be subject to the control of the federal government except to the extent that the matter relates to the competences set forth in Article 25 and 43(D), above.
(B) Each Governor and member of each Governorate Council who holds office as of 1 July 2004, in accordance with the law on local government that shall be issued, shall remain in place until such time as free, direct, and full elections, conducted pursuant to law, are held, or, unless, prior to that time, he voluntarily gives up his position, is removed upon his conviction for a crime involving moral turpitude or related to corruption, or upon being stricken with permanent incapacity, or is dismissed in accordance with the law cited above. When a governor, mayor, or member of a council is dismissed, the relevant council may receive applications from any eligible resident of the governorate to fill the position. Eligibility requirements shall be the same as those set forth in Article 31 for membership in the National Assembly. The new candidate must receive a majority vote of the council to assume the vacant seat.
Article 56.
(A) The Governorate Councils shall assist the federal government in the coordination of federal ministry operations within the governorate, including the review of annual ministry plans and budgets with regard to activities in the governorate. Governorate Councils shall be funded from the general budget of the State, and these Councils shall also have the authority to increase their revenues independently by imposing taxes and fees; to organize the operations of the Governorate administration; to initiate and implement province-level projects alone or in partnership with international, and non-governmental organizations; and to conduct other activities insofar as is consistent with federal laws.
(B) The Qada' and Nahiya councils and other relevant councils shall assist in the performance of federal responsibilities and the delivery of public services by reviewing local ministry plans in the afore-mentioned places; ensuring that they respond properly to local needs and interests; identifying local budgetary requirements through the national budgeting procedures; and collecting and retaining local revenues, taxes, and fees; organizing the operations of the local administration; initiating and implementing local projects alone or in conjunction with international, and non-governmental organizations; and conducting other activities consistent with applicable law.
(C) Where practicable, the federal government shall take measures to devolve additional functions to local, governorate, and regional administrations, in a methodical way. Regional units and governorate administrations, including the Kurdistan Regional Government, shall be organized on the basis of the principle of de-centralization and the devolution of authorities to municipal and local governments.
Article 57.
(A) All authorities not exclusively reserved to the Iraqi Transitional Government may be exercised by the regional governments and governorates as soon as possible following the establishment of appropriate governmental institutions.
(B) Elections for governorate councils throughout Iraq and for the Kurdistan National Assembly shall be held at the same time as the elections for the National Assembly, no later than 31 January 2005.
Article 58.
(A) The Iraqi Transitional Government, and especially the Iraqi Property Claims Commission and other relevant bodies, shall act expeditiously to take measures to remedy the injustice caused by the previous regime's practices in altering the demographic character of certain regions, including Kirkuk, by deporting and expelling individuals from their places of residence, forcing migration in and out of the region, settling individuals alien to the region, depriving the inhabitants of work, and correcting nationality. To remedy this injustice, the Iraqi Transitional Government shall take the following steps:
(1) With regard to residents who were deported, expelled, or who emigrated; it shall, in accordance with the statute of the Iraqi Property Claims Commission and other measures within the law, within a reasonable period of time, restore the residents to their homes and property, or, where this is unfeasible, shall provide just compensation.
(2) With regard to the individuals newly introduced to specific regions and territories, it shall act in accordance with Article 10 of the Iraqi Property Claims Commission statute to ensure that such individuals may be resettled, may receive compensation from the state, may receive new land from the state near their residence in the governorate from which they came, or may receive compensation for the cost of moving to such areas.
(3) With regard to persons deprived of employment or other means of support in order to force migration out of their regions and territories, it shall promote new employment opportunities in the regions and territories.
(4) With regard to nationality correction, it shall repeal all relevant decrees and shall permit affected persons the right to determine their own national identity and ethnic affiliation free from coercion and duress.
(B) The previous regime also manipulated and changed administrative boundaries for political ends. The Presidency Council of the Iraqi Transitional Government shall make recommendations to the National Assembly on remedying these unjust changes in the permanent constitution. In the event the Presidency Council is unable to agree unanimously on a set of recommendations, it shall unanimously appoint a neutral arbitrator to examine the issue and make recommendations. In the event the Presidency Council is unable to agree on an arbitrator, it shall request the Secretary General of the United Nations to appoint a distinguished international person to be the arbitrator.
(C) The permanent resolution of disputed territories, including Kirkuk, shall be deferred until after these measures are completed, a fair and transparent census has been conducted and the permanent constitution has been ratified This resolution shall be consistent with the principle of justice, taking into account the will of the people of those territories.
CHAPTER NINE - THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD
Article 59.
(A) The permanent constitution shall contain guarantees to ensure that the Iraqi Armed Forces are never again used to terrorize or oppress the people of Iraq.
(B) Consistent with Iraq's status as a sovereign state, and with its desire to join other nations in helping to maintain peace and security and fight terrorism during the transitional period, the Iraqi Armed Forces will be a principal partner in the multi-national force operating in Iraq under unified command pursuant to the provisions of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1511 (2003) and any subsequent relevant resolutions. This arrangement shall last until the ratification of a permanent constitution and the election of a new government pursuant to that new constitution.
(C) Upon its assumption of authority, and consistent with Iraq's status as a sovereign state, the elected Iraqi Transitional Government shall have the authority to conclude binding international agreements regarding the activities of the multi-national force operating in Iraq under unified command pursuant to the terms of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1511 (2003), and any subsequent relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions. Nothing in this Law shall affect rights and obligations under these agreements, or under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1511 (2003), and any subsequent relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions, which will govern the multi-national force's activities pending the entry into force of these agreements.
Article 60.
The National Assembly shall write a draft of the permanent constitution of Iraq. This Assembly shall carry out this responsibility in part by encouraging debate on the constitution through regular general public meetings in all parts of Iraq and through the media, and receiving proposals from the citizens of Iraq as it writes the constitution.
Article 61.
(A) The National Assembly shall write the draft of the permanent constitution by no later than 15 August 2005.
(B) The draft permanent constitution shall be presented to the Iraqi people for approval in a general referendum to be held no later than 15 October 2005. In the period leading up to the referendum, the draft constitution shall be published and widely distributed to encourage a public debate about it among the people.
(C) The general referendum will be successful and the draft constitution ratified if a majority of the voters in Iraq approve and if two-thirds of the voters in three or more governorates do not reject it.
(D) If the permanent constitution is approved in the referendum, elections for a permanent government shall be held no later than 15 December 2005 and the new government shall assume office no later than 31 December 2005.
(E) If the referendum rejects the draft permanent constitution, the National Assembly shall be dissolved. Elections for a new National Assembly shall be held no later than 15 December 2005. The new National Assembly and new Iraqi Transitional Government shall then assume office no later than 31 December 2005, and shall continue to operate under this Law, except that the final deadlines for preparing a new draft may be changed to make it possible to draft a permanent constitution within a period not to exceed one year. The new National Assembly shall be entrusted with writing another draft permanent constitution.
(F) If necessary, the president of the National Assembly, with the agreement of a majority of the members' votes, may certify to the Presidency Council no later than 1 August 2005 that there is a need for additional time to complete the writing of the draft constitution. The Presidency Council shall then extend the deadline for writing the draft constitution for only six months. This deadline may not be extended again.
(G) If the National Assembly does not complete writing the draft permanent constitution by 15 August 2005 and does not request extension of the deadline in Article 61(D) above, the provisions of Article 61(E), above, shall be applied.
Article 62.
This law shall remain in effect until the permanent constitution is issued and the new Iraqi government is formed in accordance with it.

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WHAT IS GOING ON IN IRAQ??????

What is going on in Iraq these days,these weeks,the last two years,the death became a common thing in Iraqian people live and the explosions and terror attacks getting increase day after day and week after week and the number of the innocent people killed is getting increase every minute.

The Iraq was governed by three governements since the invasion in March,2003,these three government didnt offer to Iraqian people anything that may will benfit from it!!!!!

The water is rarely absence and the electric power was forgotten and these days the supply of the power is by 6 hours off and 1 hour on,that mean only 4 hours form total 24 the power is on in Baghdad the capital!!!!!!!!!!.

I sustained the responsibility of all thevents in Iraq to the terrorists but also the government sustain some of these attacksa because there is a leakage in the government and the governemnt gave the promises onl without any action to prove his progarms......

Today all Iraqian poeple in whole country stans for 3 minutes mourning for the victims of the last two attacks in Almusaib and Baghdad and this thing is the least thing done to those people ....God bless thier families and relatives and frineds for thier loss...

I want Iraq to be the first in everything and we must stop the blood bath in Iraq and work as one hand to defeat the terrorists in Iraq and to start treating this injured country by start the construction and building ......

My friend start blogging in a new blog and need some encouragement to keep on blogging...

HEREWAR ON TERRORISTS

THE BLOOD BATH IN IRAQ

Before two days,Iraq witness a carnage and a the biggest murder since six monthes.
The carnage took place in a city in the south of Baghdad (in the way between Baghdad and Hilla)called Mussayib..... The terrorists are trying to push he Iraq to civil war through these attacks and in this attacks more than 100 people were killed and more than 300 wounded !!!!!!
Imagine the scene,Its horible thing that 100 people died in one day and in the same city,suicide bombing in Mussayib, Iraq, about 70 kilometers (40 miles) south of Baghdad, Sunday, July 17, 2005.

We must not forget the other massacre in Baghdad in densly civil region in Baghdad,when a suicider blowed him self in American aptrol that was giving the childrens the cookies and chocolates and this attack kill more than 32 children killed and more tah 30 people injured and one soldier of Us army have benn killed in this attack despite that the suicider was aiming to kill the Americans...............
This week only more than 300 poepel have been killed in Iraq......???????!!!!!!

The pictures below show some scenes from the massacre in Iraq ....

EGYPT DIPLOMATABDUCTED IN IRAQ

Egypt's top envoy to post-Saddam Hussein Iraq was kidnapped in Baghdad just weeks after arriving in the war-torn country, Egyptian diplomats said Sunday. Two diplomats, speaking in Cairo and Baghdad on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said Ihab al-Sherif was kidnapped late Saturday in the Iraqi capital. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry confirmed the diplomat was missing and said "contacts are underway with the Iraqi government and all other sides to clear up the truth about the disappearance of ambassador Ihab al-Sherif." Al-Sherif, 51, was taken Saturday night by about eight gunmen after he stopped to buy a newspaper in western Baghdad, witnesses said. He was pistol-whipped and forced into the trunk of a car as the assailants shouted that he was an "American spy," the witnesses said. The abduction is an apparent bid to discourage the country's Arab neighbors from bolstering ties to the embattled U.S.-backed government.

HERESEE THE PICTURE

The series of kidnapping didnt stop in Iraq and I think it will continue till the presence of strong Government that can spread the peace in all around the country....

The news also told that this diplomate was a top envoy in Esrael!!!!!!!,and he will try to make an agreement between Iraq and Esrael.......

THE DEATH IN IRAQ

Every one hera by the number of innocent people killes in Iraq for nothing for just they were in the wrong time and place,but yesterday the member of NATIONAL ASSEMBLY was killed by the terrorists in the city of Kirkuk with his son and three of his guardes....




THE PICTURE FROM THE ACCIDENT SITE BY THE CBSNEWS.........

DARI ALFIADH (one of the SHIA members and the older one of them so for this reason he became the first prisdent of the National Assembly)till the choosing of the new president which is now HAGHEM ALHASNI (one of SINA members) ...............



This person is not the first one that have been killed by the terrorists that they are trying to plant the hatefull feeling between the Iraqi people, but the Iraqian poeple are smarter from these terrorists and they pass the most hard stages in the way to Country of Deomcracy and freedom for every one live in this beautifull country....

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THE SITUATION IN IRAQ

I am sorry for all this absence but I think that my blog doesnt appear to most of you and I dont know the cause.

I would like you to know that I have lauched a site that contain pics from the last war and from daily dairy of Iraqian life

here.

The situation in Iraq and espicially in Baghdad is very very bad and the bombed cars return to the streets despite of the presnce of the that number of security men .

Every one heard about the three explosions in Karada District before two days, the people that were live in this area said that the US army with ING members were searching this area looking for bombed cars before one day from the explosions.....That means there was News about bombed cars and didnt declare the News to the people living in this area and the result was more than 40 innocent people died in the three attacks ......

In the north of Baghdad and exactly in the SHOALA District where most of the people that live in this area are SHIEA, more than 12 bombed cars exploded in this area during the last seven days and killed more than 50 persons ......

All these attacks if ti refers to think it refers to the failure of the terrorists in reaching to thier aims but it may also the failure of the new Government in preventing of these attcks despite of all the operation that made to defaet the terror in Iraq......

From other side people of Baghdad have nodrinking water since five days and I think this will take longer time and as u know Baghdad is very hot and may temperature raise to 50 Degree centigrade in the afternoon and with the absence of Electric power in most of the day.....

Thank you

MY FRIEND

Yesterday I finish my final exams and my holiday starts but you cant go anywhere because of the OPERATION LIGHTENING that took place in Baghdad and the surrounded area of Baghdad....
This operation was useful to the capital by capturing more than 900 suspected person and killed more than 36 terrorists and decrease the percentage of the bombed cars in Baghdad from 6 cars in day to 0.6 at day but more than 900 person killed in Iraq during the last month and this number is the more since the end of the war in april 2003 .....
From those 900 only 200 policemen and memebers of the new army and the others were in the wrong time and wrong place ,were innocent people killed by the mistake from the army members or from the terroist attacks....

Before three days my friend was killed by th US army because the driver of the car didnt respond to the alerts of the soldiers or didnt notice thier alerts an he have 20 years old....
My friend was hating the terroists and he was gratefull to theUS army because they safe Iraq form Saddam and he was wish to live in peacefull invironment and before he was returing home me and him were talking about the terrorists attacks and how we must be carefull and the result taht he was kille dby the US army and my friend is the second one that have been killed by the US army casue the first one was killed on road joining Baghdad By Baquaba before two years ago...............

My GOD help Iraq to pass this critical situation to start building the new Iraq after defeating the terrorists .....

THANK YOU
I have another site contain some picture form the last war ,those picture I downloaded them from: www.cbsnews.com/iraq
my site is :
http://www.spaces.msn.com/members/hercules84/

THE LIFE

Hi again and I miss your comments and I am sorry for all this abscence but I was very very busy because of the final exams and the bad situation and the attacks of the bombed car in every time and every place and evry body know that more than 500 people died uring the last two weeks because of the terrorists attacks but the newest news said that ALZARQAWI is injured and he is in dangerous situation.

I was also busy because my aunt is sick with cancer of the Fourth stage (METASTASIS) and its the last stage in the disease , so she make two operation to remove it but it is with no benefit because the disease was distributed to Spleen and liver and from their was distributed to the breast and lymphatic node.

The other problem is that the treatment is very expensive here and most the drugs are missed or very very expensive ,if you go to the hospital that treat these cases you will hate your self becaus eof the large number of people that visit the hospital asking for treatment .....

So I will disappear for few days due to my final exams and for goign with my aunt to the chemotherapy...................

I am very sorry because I didint write anything about what is happing but I will say it in a few words :

The situation is very bad and the people are afraid from civil war and the bombed car cant be stopped until this moment and no one know what will happen during the nconig days...

MAY GOD HELP IRAQ DURING THIS TIME AND SAVE HIS PEOPLE FORM ANY INJURY

AMIEN

I AM BACK

I am back again but not for along time and I want to thank every one who hlp me during my trouble and I am gratefull to you.
These days I was so busy because the funeral of my cousin cause I stay in Aldoura all this past time and the incoming days I have the final exams of my college so I must to read hard because I failed in 3 subjects from total 7 subjects and the situation is too bad and unsafety becaus more than (20) bombed cars exploded during this week.
THE NEW GOVERNMENT
Following Iraq's historic elections, lawmakers engaged in weeks of negotiations to form the nation's first freely elected government in 50 years. They first chose a presidential council, which in turn selected an interim prime minister – the most powerful post in Iraq. He will lead lawmakers in drafting a permanent constitution, paving the way for elections for a permanent government in December 2005.
Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari
Ibrahim al-Jaafari is the head of the Dawa Party, which ran with coalition of Shiite groups under the name United Iraqi Alliance. Their ticket, which enjoyed the tacit endorsement of the highly influential Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, won the most seats in the election, though not the two-thirds majority needed to select the president outright.
A presidential council was sworn in April 7, 2005, and they immediately named Al-Jaafari, a moderate, interim prime minister. He'll also serve as acting defense minister, as lawmakers were unable to reach agreement on a permanent person for that important post.
During his campaign, al-Jaafari said his first priority would be to address the violence that has crippled the country's recovery from decades of war and hardship. He has also said he favors a constitution that draws not only on Islam.
Al-Jaafari was born in Karbala, the home of Shiites' holiest shrine, and attended medical school at Mosul University. He joined the Dawa Party in 1966, but left Iraq in 1980 when Saddam cracked down on the party's leaders. He fled through Syria and spent 10 years in Iran before moving to London to join the Iraqi opposition in exile.
President Jalal Talabani Iraq's two key Kurdish parties came in second place in the elections, giving strength to their goal of preserving Kurdish autonomy in northern Iraq and ensuring a Kurdish voice in the formation of the new constitution. As the second-place winners, the group was also eyed as the deciding vote in choosing the next prime minister.
The Kurds quickly said that wanted Jalal Talabani to be interim president, a largely ceremonial position to which he was named April 6, 2005.
Talabani is a Sunni Kurd who joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party as a teenager and then founded the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of two key Kurdish parties, in 1975. He helped lead the Kurdish fight in Iraq's north against former dictator Saddam Hussein.
Vice President Ghazi al-Yawer
U.S.-educated businessman Ghazi al-Yawer was named as one of the new government's two interim vice presidents. The ticket led by al-Yawer, who was president in the first government to take over from the U.S. Coalition Provisional Authority, won less than 2 percent of the vote in the January 2005 elections.
Al-Yawer is a prominent Sunni member of the Shammar tribe. He was born in 1958, the same year Iraqi army officers overthrew his country's monarchy. His grandfather, Ahmed Ajil al-Yawer, had served as a member of the king's parliament.
In 1959, al-Yawer's Shammar tribe supported an aborted military revolt against Gen. Abdul Karim Qassim. One of the largest tribes in the Gulf region, the Shammar includes Shiite as well as Sunni Muslim clans.
Al-Yawer is a civil engineer, who received his degrees in Saudi Arabia and at Georgetown University. In the mid-1980s, he moved with his family to Saudi Arabia. Returning to Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein, al-Yawer built good relations with Kurds and Shiites.
Vice President Adil Abdel-Mahdi
Adil Abdel-Mahdi was chosen as one of two interim vice presidents; he'd previously served as minister of finance in the government formed after the United States transferred power to the Iraqis.
Abdel-Mahdi is an official in the powerful Shiite Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. Long based in neighboring Iran, the group opposed a U.S. administration but holds close ties with the other U.S.-backed groups that opposed Saddam Hussein, including the Kurds and the Iraqi National Congress.
He was educated in France, and is the son of a respected Shiite cleric who was a minister in Iraq's monarchy.
Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi
The list of Cabinet members approved by the interim National Assembly April 28, 2005, marked a surprising political comeback for former Pentagon favorite Ahmad Chalabi, a Shiite who will be one of four deputy prime ministers. He'll also serve as acting oil minister, as lawmakers were unable to reach agreement on a permanent person for that important post.
Chalabi, 60, an MIT graduate and mathematician, left Iraq with his family in 1958 and became one of the most visible faces of Iraqi opposition in exile, forming close ties with the Pentagon as he lobbied Washington to help topple Saddam Hussein. After Saddam's fall, he became a member of the Governing Council and was touted by some in Washington to become Iraq's next leader.
But he fell out with the United States last year over accusations he leaked intelligence to Iran. Many also blamed him for flawed evidence on Saddam's alleged weapons of mass destruction program. Shunned by the Americans, he moved to build ties with Iraqi Shiites and made a political comeback. By joining the United Iraqi Alliance, led by Shiite cleric and ally Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, he secured a seat in the new parliament.
Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari
Hoshyar Zebari belongs to a powerful Kurdish tribe in northwest Iraq and he is the uncle of Massoud Barzani, one of the two leaders who control the Kurdish areas.
The country's first Kurdish foreign minister, Zebari was a guerrilla fighter during Kurdish rebellions against Saddam Hussein. He has traveled worldwide to canvass support for what he calls a new, united and democratic Iraq.
He has held the foreign minister's post in both the interim government, formed in June 2004, and in the first U.S.-picked provisional cabinet, the Governing Council.
Interior Minister Bayan Jabr
Bayan Jabr became a Shiite activist while studying engineering at Baghdad University in the 1970s. He fled to Iran amid a Saddam crackdown on Shiite political groups and joined the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). He later headed SCIRI's office in Syria. After Saddam's fall, he became minister of housing and reconstruction in the first U.S.-picked provisional cabinet. He is a senior member in the Shiite United Iraqi Alliance.
Finance Minister Ali Abdel-Amir Allawi
Ali Abdel-Amir Allawi, a wealthy businessman, was previously a consultant to the World Bank and heads a London-based investment company, Pan-Arab. He was elected to Parliament on the United Iraqi Alliance.
His uncle on his mother's side is deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi. On his father's side, he is a cousin of outgoing interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.
Ali Allawi, born in 1947, left Iraq in 1956 for Britain, where he went to high school. He graduated from MIT with a degree in engineering and received an economics degree from Harvard. His father was health minister during Iraq's monarchy, which was overthrown in 1958.

THANK YOU ......

THE LIFE IN IRAQ

You cant imagine the bad situation in Iraq and in exactly in the midddle of the Iraq in the region which is now known as the (TRIANGLE OF DEATH).You heard about the kidnapping od Shiaa around these places and the attacks on the ING and the new army and the patrols of the US army and amny other attacks on the innocent people that use this road to travel between the cities of the middle and south.

I am very gratefull to everyone help duirng this funeral and I am ask if any one can get to me a Visaor housing to any country in the Europe or in the America because I think that I received a threaten from someone told me that I will be killed if I didnt stop talkign about the figthers in Iraq bbut unitil now I am not sure form this threaten but I will be more carefull and I will stop writing for a little while until I invesitagate about this letter. So I will absence for some days and every one get anyhting to me he can send an email to me and thank you very much.

ANOTHER SAD DAY IN MY LIFE

Hi again and sorry for all this absence but I have an urgent situation in the last days cause my cousin was killed by the terrorists in the city of AL-DOURA in south of Baghdad without any reason known and I will get mad to know the reason of killing my cousin in his small super market near his house.

My cousin's age is 47 years old and have five children and the younger one have less than one year,now this child will grow up as an orphan because the terrorists kill his father just for getting fun and make a disturbance in the area.

My cousin is very honest man and faithfull for his friends and his relatives ,when my father died he helped me and my family in every thign we were need and every day was coming to visit us and if we need anything we were told him, he was like my father and he told me consider me as your father and evrything you want just ask it from.

What a miserable life we live, you dont know when you will die, I expect my death in every moment becaus eof this bad and unsafety situation.

The story of killing my ocusin was that : two guys get off from thier cars infront of my counsin's supermarket and they were having guns (8.5 mm makaroof) and inter my cousin's superamrket and shot him on the chest area and when my cousin drop they shot him in his head and neck region from very near distance and this cause the death in the same moment and the two guys run away after killing him, what a murders are there ?? they took him form his small children, the innocent children and make five children without father just for getting fun.

These days Iraq is like a forest the strong eats the weak and we are the victims... I cant hold this life, I cant hold anything ,I missed the most lovely person to me and to my family and his family... God bless this hero who was died when he was working to bring food to his family...

I am very confused and shocked and as much as I was happy for the new Iraq Iam now very sorry this absence of mu father before six months and now my cousin and I dont know who will u lose in the next days.......

I am very sorry for my sad blgo but please forgive me because this is the only place that I can talk freely without any fear from the terrorist and I want to told you

HAPPY EASTER TO YOU AND MAY GOD HELP US AND YOU TO PASS THIS PROBLEMS.

Thank you....

IMPORTANT EVENTS DURING THE LAST 2 YEARS

Jan. 29, 2002

In his State of the Union address, President Bush vows to prevent Iran, Iraq and North Korea from ever acquiring weapons of mass destruction. "States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil arming to threaten the peace of the world," Mr. Bush tells Congress.



March, 2002

Vice President Dick Cheney receives a public warning from Jordanian King Abdullah II that expanding the terrorism war to Iraq could destabilize the region and undermine gains in Afghanistan. Cheney receives similar cautions during this whirlwind trip of the Middle East.





May 14, 2002

In a victory for the United States, the U.N. Security Council unanimously approves an overhaul of sanctions against Iraq; the resolution aims to tighten the 11-year-old military embargo on Saddam's regime while easing the flow of civilian goods into the poverty-stricken nation.



July 5, 2002

In talks with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Iraq rejects weapons inspections proposals.





Aug. 1, 2002

In a letter to Annan, Iraq invites Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix to Iraq for technical discussions on remaining disarmament issues.



Aug. 6, 2002

Annan writes to Iraqis pointing out that what they are proposing is at odds with U.N. resolutions and asks that Iraq accept inspections.





Aug. 26, 2002

Vice President Dick Cheney warns of grave consequences from not acting quickly against Saddam. He says the logic of those who argue against a pre-emptive strike is "deeply flawed."



Sept. 12, 2002

In a major speech to the United Nations, President Bush urges world leaders to take a tough stand with Iraq on weapons inspections. Mr. Bush makes it clear that if the U.N. is unwilling to act, the United States will.





Sept. 16, 2002

In a letter to Annan, Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri says Baghdad will allow the return of weapons inspectors to "remove any doubts" it still has weapons of mass destruction. The offer is quickly dismissed by Washington as a tactical ploy.



Oct. 16, 2002

The president signs a Congressional resolution allowing the use of military force, if necessary, to compel Iraq to get rid of its biological and chemical weapons and disband its nuclear weapons program. The resolution was passed by strong margins in both the House and Senate.





Nov. 8, 2002

In a surprisingly unanimous vote, the U.N. Security Council approves a tough new resolution aimed at forcing Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences" that would almost certainly mean war.



Nov. 13, 2002

Iraq grudgingly accepts the U.N.'s demands in a bitterly worded letter to the secretary-general. The letter attacks the plan at length and reiterates that Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction. A day earlier, Iraq's parliament recommended that Saddam reject the resolution.





Dec. 19, 2002

After reviewing Iraq's weapons declaration, top weapons inspectors report it contains gaps and inconsistencies. Blix said there was "relatively little given in the declaration by way of evidence concerning the programs of weapons of mass destruction."



Feb. 14, 2003

Reporting on the inspections in Iraq, Blix tells the U.N. Security Council his team has not found any weapons of mass destruction and interviews with scientists have been useful.





March 7, 2003

Addressing a pivotal meeting of the U.N. Security Council, Blix says Iraq "can be seen as active, or even proactive," in its cooperation to disarm. His presentation ushers in a final round of diplomatic activity on the road to possible war.



March 17, 2003

Facing a bitterly-divided Security Council, the U.S., Britain and Spain abandon efforts to win U.N. backing for a war. In a nationally televised address that follows, President Bush gives Saddam 48 hours to flee Iraq or face a U.S.-led invasion.





March 19-20, 2003

The opening salvos of war arrive with a series of bombs aimed at Saddam and his men in Baghdad. The attacks involve more than 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles as well as bombs dropped from two F-117A Nighthawk stealth jets, military officials said.



April 9, 2003

Without fanfare and with scarcely a shot fired, American armor rolls into the center of Baghdad, liberating the city as Iraqis celebrate in the streets. The U.S. military declares Saddam's collapsing government no longer controls the capital.





April 11, 2003

In his first comments since the fall of Baghdad, President Bush says he doesn't know if Saddam is dead or alive, "but I do know he's not in power." He stops short of declaring victory, saying there are still military objectives to be met.



May 1, 2003

President Bush, speaking on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, declares "major combat operations in Iraq have ended."





May 12, 2003

Longtime State Department official L. Paul Bremer replaces Retired Lt. Gen. Jay Garner as head of the interim administration in Iraq.



July 13, 2003

A U.S.-appointed 25-member national governing council of prominent Iraqis from diverse political and religious backgrounds takes office.





July 22, 2003

Qusai Hussein, Saddam's son and heir apparent, is killed along with older brother Odai in a gunbattle with U.S. troops.



Aug. 7, 2003

A bomb explodes outside the Jordanian Embassy, throwing cars onto rooftops and killing 19 people.





Aug. 19, 2003

A truck bomb hits U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, killing 22, including top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello. The U.N. mission subsequently quits Iraq.



Aug. 29, 2003

A car bomb explodes at Iraq's holiest shrine during Friday prayers, killing top Shiite cleric Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim.





Sept. 3, 2003

Military control of a huge swath of Iraq is handed over to Polish forces; members of Iraq's new Cabinet are sworn in.



Oct. 27, 2003

Four suicide bombers target Red Cross headquarters and four Iraqi police stations in Baghdad, killing 40.





Nov. 12, 2003

A suicide bomber attacks the headquarters of Italy's paramilitary police in the southern city of Nasiriyah, killing more than 30.



Nov. 15, 2003

Paul Bremer and the Iraqi Governing Council agree on a plan to transfer power to a provisional Iraqi government on July 1, 2004.





Dec. 13, 2003

U.S. forces capture Saddam Hussein hiding in a "spider hole" in Adwar, 10 miles south of Tikrit.



Jan. 28, 2004

British Prime Minister Tony Blair, dogged by failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, is cleared of wrongdoing in the suicide of British weapons inspector David Kelly.





Feb. 1, 2004

Twin suicide bombers kill 109 at two Kurdish party offices in the northern city of Irbil.



Feb. 2-3, 2004

President Bush and the British government order separate investigations into intelligence failures in Iraq.





Feb. 10, 2004

A truck bomb explodes outside a police station in Iskandariyah, 30 miles south of Baghdad, killing 53.



Feb. 11, 2004

A car bomb blows up amid a crowd of Iraqis waiting outside an army recruiting center in Baghdad, killing 47.





March 2, 2004

A series of coordinated blasts kill 181 people at shrines in Karbala and Baghdad, as thousands of Shiite Muslim pilgrims gather for a religious festival.



March 8, 2004

The Iraqi Governing Council signs an interim constitution for the country.





June 17, 2004

The commission investigating 9/11 says there was no evidence of a "collaborative relationship" between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, a conclusion that runs counter to repeated assertions by President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other administration officials.



June 18, 2004

Russian president Vladimir Putin says Russia gave the Bush administration intelligence indicating Saddam's regime was plotting terror attacks on the U.S. at home and abroad. But a U.S. official says the information did not add to already existing information.





June 28, 2004

The U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority transfers control to an interim Iraqi government, two days earlier than expected. The new leaders are to run most day-to-day activities and plan for January 2005 elections. The United States remains in control of Iraqi security.



Jan. 30, 2005

Iraq's holds its first free elections in more than 50 years. The voting is hailed as a success around the globe, and the Iraqi electoral commission says national turnout is about 60 percent.





Feb. 17, 2005

Iraq's electoral commission certifies the election results, allocating 140 seats to the clergy-backed United Iraqi Alliance, giving them a majority in the new parliament. It sets the stage for the new National Assembly, which will be in power for 10 months and draft a new constitution.



March 16, 2005

Iraq's first freely elected parliament in half a century holds its opening session, meeting under tight security and despite nearby explosions targeting the gathering. Interim President Ghazi al-Yawer, a Sunni Arab, urges members to unify, saying "We either all win or we all lose."

Collected by me....

FULL INFORMATION ABOUT IRAQ

Hi again ,I return back to write and publish some news about the situation in Iraq, but today I have the full information about Iraq and I was taken this information from american site.

Background:
Formerly part of the Ottoman Empire, Iraq was occupied by Britain during the course of World War I; in 1920, it was declared a League of Nations mandate under UK administration. In stages over the next dozen years, Iraq attained its independence as a kingdom in 1932. A "republic" was proclaimed in 1958, but in actuality a series of military strongmen ruled the country, the latest was SADDAM Husayn. Territorial disputes with Iran led to an inconclusive and costly eight-year war (1980-88). In August 1990, Iraq seized Kuwait, but was expelled by US-led, UN coalition forces during the Gulf War of January-February 1991. Following Kuwait's liberation, the UN Security Council (UNSC) required Iraq to scrap all weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles and to allow UN verification inspections. Continued Iraqi noncompliance with UNSC resolutions over a period of 12 years resulted in the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and the ouster of the SADDAM Husayn regime. Coalition forces remain in Iraq, helping to restore degraded infrastructure and facilitating the establishment of a freely elected government, while simultaneously dealing with a robust insurgency. The Coalition Provisional Authority transferred sovereignty to the Iraqi Interim Government (IG) in June 2004 and the election of its president, Ghazi al-Ujayl al-YAWR, was held in January 2005.

Geography
Iraq

Location:
Middle East, bordering the Persian Gulf, between Iran and Kuwait
Geographic coordinates:
33 00 N, 44 00 E
Map references:
Middle East
Area:
total: 437,072 sq km land: 432,162 sq km water: 4,910 sq km
Area - comparative:
slightly more than twice the size of Idaho
Land boundaries:
total: 3,650 km border countries: Iran 1,458 km, Jordan 181 km, Kuwait 240 km, Saudi Arabia 814 km, Syria 605 km, Turkey 352 km
Coastline:
58 km
Maritime claims:
territorial sea: 12 nm continental shelf: not specified
Climate:
mostly desert; mild to cool winters with dry, hot, cloudless summers; northern mountainous regions along Iranian and Turkish borders experience cold winters with occasionally heavy snows that melt in early spring, sometimes causing extensive flooding in central and southern Iraq
Terrain:
mostly broad plains; reedy marshes along Iranian border in south with large flooded areas; mountains along borders with Iran and Turkey
Elevation extremes:
lowest point: Persian Gulf 0 m highest point: unamed peak 3,611 m; note - this peak is not Gundah Zhur 3,607 m or Kuh-e Hajji-Ebrahim 3,595 m
Natural resources:
petroleum, natural gas, phosphates, sulfur
Land use:
arable land: 13.15% permanent crops: 0.78% other: 86.07% (2001)
Irrigated land:
35,250 sq km (1998 est.)
Natural hazards:
dust storms, sandstorms, floods
Environment - current issues:
government water control projects have drained most of the inhabited marsh areas east of An Nasiriyah by drying up or diverting the feeder streams and rivers; a once sizable population of Marsh Arabs, who inhabited these areas for thousands of years, has been displaced; furthermore, the destruction of the natural habitat poses serious threats to the area's wildlife populations; inadequate supplies of potable water; development of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers system contingent upon agreements with upstream riparian Turkey; air and water pollution; soil degradation (salination) and erosion; desertification
Environment - international agreements:
party to: Law of the Sea signed, but not ratified: Environmental Modification
Geography - note:
strategic location on Shatt al Arab waterway and at the head of the Persian Gulf

People
Iraq

Population:
25,374,691 (July 2004 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 40.3% (male 5,198,966; female 5,039,173) 15-64 years: 56.7% (male 7,280,167; female 7,094,688) 65 years and over: 3% (male 357,651; female 404,046) (2004 est.)
Median age:
total: 19.2 years male: 19.1 years female: 19.3 years (2004 est.)
Population growth rate:
2.74% (2004 est.)
Birth rate:
33.09 births/1,000 population (2004 est.)
Death rate:
5.66 deaths/1,000 population (2004 est.)
Net migration rate:
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2004 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.03 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1.03 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.89 male(s)/female total population: 1.02 male(s)/female (2004 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
total: 52.71 deaths/1,000 live births male: 58.58 deaths/1,000 live births female: 46.55 deaths/1,000 live births (2004 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 68.26 years male: 67.09 years female: 69.48 years (2004 est.)
Total fertility rate:
4.4 children born/woman (2004 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
less than 0.1% (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
less than 500 (2003 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
NA
Nationality:
noun: Iraqi(s) adjective: Iraqi
Ethnic groups:
Arab 75%-80%, Kurdish 15%-20%, Turkoman, Assyrian or other 5%
Religions:
Muslim 97% (Shi'a 60%-65%, Sunni 32%-37%), Christian or other 3%
Languages:
Arabic, Kurdish (official in Kurdish regions), Assyrian, Armenian
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 40.4% male: 55.9% female: 24.4% (2003 est.)

Government
Iraq
Country name:
conventional long form: Republic of Iraq conventional short form: Iraq local long form: Al Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah local short form: Al Iraq
Government type:
none; note - the Iraqi Interim Government (IG) was appointed on 1 June 2004
Capital:
Baghdad
Administrative divisions:
18 governorates (muhafazat, singular - muhafazah); Al Anbar, Al Basrah, Al Muthanna, Al Qadisiyah, An Najaf, Arbil, As Sulaymaniyah, At Ta'mim, Babil, Baghdad, Dahuk, Dhi Qar, Diyala, Karbala', Maysan, Ninawa, Salah ad Din, Wasit
Independence:
3 October 1932 (from League of Nations mandate under British administration); note - on 28 June 2004 the Coalition Provisional Authority transferred sovereignty to the Iraqi Interim Government
National holiday:
Revolution Day, 17 July (1968); note - this holiday was celebrated under the SADDAM Husayn regime but the Iraqi Interim Government has yet to declare a new national holiday
Constitution:
interim constitution signed 8 March 2004; note - the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL) was enacted 8 March 2004 to govern the country until an elected Iraqi Transitional Government can draft and ratify a new constitution in 2005
Legal system:
based on civil and Islamic law under the Iraqi Interim Government (IG) and Transitional Administrative Law (TAL)
Suffrage:
formerly 18 years of age; universal
Executive branch:
chief of state: Interim Iraqi Government (IG) President Ghazi al-Ujayl al-YAWR (since 1 June 2004); Deputy Presidents Ibrahim al-JAFARI and Rowsch SHAWAYS (since 1 June 2004); note - the President and Deputy Presidents comprise the Presidency Council head of government: Interim Iraqi Government (IG) Prime Minister Ayad ALLAWI (since 28 June 2004) cabinet: 31 ministers appointed by the Presidency Council, plus a Deputy Prime Minister, Barham SALIH elections: scheduled to be held January 2005
Legislative branch:
Iraqi Interim National Council formed in July 2004
Judicial branch:
Supreme Court appointed by the Prime Minister, confirmed by the Presidency Council
Political parties and leaders:
note - the Iraqi political parties included below reflect only the major groups; new political parties continue to emerge, indicative of a rapidly changing political landscape; Al-Sadr Movement [Muqtada Al-SADR]; Da'wa Party [Ibrahim al-JA'FARI]; Iraqi Hizballah [Karim Mahud al-MUHAMMADAWI]; Iraqi National Accord or INA [Ayad ALLAWI]; Iraqi National Congress or INC [Ahmad CHALABI]; Jama'at al Fadilah or JAF [Ayatollah Muhammad ' Ali al-YAQUBI]; The Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq or SCIRI [Abd al-Aziz al-HAKIM]; Constitutional Monarchy Movement or CMM [Sharif Ali Bin al-HUSAYN]; Independent Iraqi Alliance or IIA [Falah al-NAQIB]; Iraqi Independent Democrats or IID [Adnan PACHACHI, Mahdi al-HAFIZ]; Iraqi Islamic Party or IIP [Muhsin Abd al-HAMID, Hajim al-HASSANI]; Iraqi National Unity Movement or INUM [Ahmad al-KUBAYSI, chariman]; Muslim Ulama Council or MUC [Harith Sulayman al-DARI, secretary general]; Kurdistan Democratic Party or KDP [Masud BARZANI]; Patriotic Union of Kurdistan or PUK [Jalal TALABANI]
Political pressure groups and leaders:
an insurgency against the Iraqi Interim Government and Coalition forces is primarily concentrated in Baghdad and in areas west and north of the capital; the diverse, multigroup insurgency is led principally by Sunni Arabs whose only common denominator is a shared desire to oust the Coalition and end US influence in Iraq
International organization participation:
ABEDA, AFESD, AMF, CAEU, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, ISO, ITU, LAS, NAM, OAPEC, OIC, OPEC, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO (observer), WToO
Diplomatic representation in the US:
chief of mission: Ambassador (vacant) chancery: 1801 P Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20036 telephone: [1] (202) 483-7500 FAX: [1] (202) 462-5066
Diplomatic representation from the US:
chief of mission: Ambassador John D. NEGROPONTE embassy: Baghdad mailing address: APO AE 09316 telephone: 00-1-240-553-0584 ext. 4354; note - Consular Section FAX: NA
Flag description:
three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and black with three green five-pointed stars in a horizontal line centered in the white band; the phrase ALLAHU AKBAR (God is Great) in green Arabic script - Allahu to the right of the middle star and Akbar to the left of the middle star - was added in January 1991 during the Persian Gulf crisis; similar to the flag of Syria, which has two stars but no script, Yemen, which has a plain white band, and that of Egypt which has a gold Eagle of Saladin centered in the white band; design is based upon the Arab Liberation colors

Economy
Iraq
Economy - overview:
Iraq's economy is dominated by the oil sector, which has traditionally provided about 95% of foreign exchange earnings. In the 1980s financial problems caused by massive expenditures in the eight-year war with Iran and damage to oil export facilities by Iran led the government to implement austerity measures, borrow heavily, and later reschedule foreign debt payments; Iraq suffered economic losses from that war of at least $100 billion. After hostilities ended in 1988, oil exports gradually increased with the construction of new pipelines and restoration of damaged facilities. Iraq's seizure of Kuwait in August 1990, subsequent international economic sanctions, and damage from military action by an international coalition beginning in January 1991 drastically reduced economic activity. Although government policies supporting large military and internal security forces and allocating resources to key supporters of the regime have hurt the economy, implementation of the UN's oil-for-food program beginning in December 1996 helped improve conditions for the average Iraqi citizen. Iraq was allowed to export limited amounts of oil in exchange for food, medicine, and some infrastructure spare parts. In December 1999, the UN Security Council authorized Iraq to export under the program as much oil as required to meet humanitarian needs. The drop in GDP in 2001-02 was largely the result of the global economic slowdown and lower oil prices. Per capita food imports increased significantly, while medical supplies and health care services steadily improved. Per capita output and living standards were still well below the pre-1991 level, but any estimates have a wide range of error. The military victory of the US-led coalition in March-April 2003 resulted in the shutdown of much of the central economic administrative structure, but with the loss of a comparatively small amount of capital plant. The rebuilding of oil, electricity, and other production is proceeding steadily at the start of 2004 with foreign support and despite the continuation of severe internal strife. A joint UN and World Bank report released in the fall of 2003 estimated that Iraq's key reconstruction needs through 2007 would cost $55 billion. In October 2003, international donors pledged assistance worth more than $33 billion toward this rebuilding effort.
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $37.92 billion (2003 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
-21.8% (2003 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $1,500 (2003 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 6% industry: 13% services: 81% (1993 est.)
Population below poverty line:
NA
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA highest 10%: NA
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
29.3% (2003 est.)
Labor force:
7.8 million (2004 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture NA, industry NA, services NA
Unemployment rate:
NA (2003 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $12.8 billion NA expenditures: $13.4 billion NA, including capital expenditures of NA (2004 budget)
Agriculture - products:
wheat, barley, rice, vegetables, dates, cotton; cattle, sheep
Industries:
petroleum, chemicals, textiles, construction materials, food processing
Industrial production growth rate:
NA
Electricity - production:
36.01 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
33.49 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2001)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2001)
Oil - production:
2.2 million bbl/day; note - prewar production was 2.8 million bbl/day (January 2004 est.)
Oil - consumption:
460,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
1.7 million bbl/day (January 2004)
Oil - imports:
NA (2001)
Oil - proved reserves:
113.8 billion bbl (1 January 2002)
Natural gas - production:
2.76 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
2.76 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
3.149 trillion cu m (1 January 2002)
Current account balance:
$1.136 billion (2003)
Exports:
$7.542 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)
Exports - commodities:
crude oil
Exports - partners:
US 48.8%, Jordan 8.4%, Canada 8%, Italy 7.9%, Morocco 5.3% (2003)
Imports:
$6.521 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)
Imports - commodities:
food, medicine, manufactures
Imports - partners:
Turkey 18.1%, Jordan 13.4%, Vietnam 10.7%, US 6.9%, Germany 5%, UK 4.7% (2003)
Debt - external:
$93.95 billion (2003 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
more than $33 billion in foreign aid pledged for 2004-07 (2004)
Currency:
New Iraqi dinar (NID) as of 22 January 2004
Currency code:
NID, IQD prior to 22 January 2004
Exchange rates:
New Iraqi dinars per US dollar - 1,890 (second half, 2003)
Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications
Iraq

Telephones - main lines in use:
675,000; note - an unknown number of telephone lines were damaged or destroyed during the March-April 2003 war (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
20,000 (2002)
Telephone system:
general assessment: the 2003 war severely disrupted telecommunications throughout Iraq including international connections; USAID is overseeing the repair of switching capability and the construction of mobile and satellite communications facilities domestic: repairs to switches and lines destroyed in the recent fighting continue but sabotage remains a problem; cellular service is expected to be in place within two years international: country code - 964; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region), and 1 Arabsat (inoperative); coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, and Turkey; Kuwait line is probably nonoperational
Radio broadcast stations:
after 17 months of unregulated media growth, there are approximately 80 radio stations on the air inside Iraq (2004)
Television broadcast stations:
21 (2004)
Internet country code:
.iq
Internet users:
25,000 (2002)

Transportation

Railways:
total: 1,963 km standard gauge: 1,963 km 1.435-m gauge (2003)
Highways:
total: 45,550 km paved: 38,399 km unpaved: 7,151 km (2000 est.)
Waterways:
5,275 km (not all navigable) note: Euphrates River (2,815 km), Tigris River (1,895 km), and Third River (565 km) are principal waterways (2004)
Pipelines:
gas 1,739 km; oil 5,418 km; refined products 1,343 km (2004)
Ports and harbors:
Umm Qasr, Khawr az Zubayr, and Al Basrah have limited functionality
Merchant marine:
total: 13 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 83,221 GRT/125,255 DWT by type: cargo 6, passenger/cargo 1, petroleum tanker 5, roll on/roll off 1 registered in other countries: 3 (2004 est.)
Airports:
111; note - unknown number were damaged during the March-April 2003 war (2003 est.)
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 79 over 3,047 m: 21 2,438 to 3,047 m: 36 1,524 to 2,437 m: 5 914 to 1,523 m: 7 under 914 m: 10 (2004 est.)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 32 over 3,047 m: 2 2,438 to 3,047 m: 4 1,524 to 2,437 m: 5 914 to 1,523 m: 12 under 914 m: 9 (2004 est.)
Heliports:
6 (2003 est.)

Military

Military branches:
note: in the summer of 2003 the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) began recruiting and training a New Iraqi Army (NIA) that would have a purely defensive mission and capability; in March 2004, the Iraqi Interim Government established a Ministry of Defense to create an Iraqi Armed Force; at that time the NIA was renamed the Iraqi Armed Force - Army (IAF-A); plans also were put into effect to reconstitute an Iraqi Army Air Corps (IAAC) and Coastal Defense Force (navy), but there are no plans to reconstitute an Iraqi Air Force; the Army's primary new focus will be domestic counterinsurgency, which is a change of direction from the CPA's intent to create an army not involved in domestic politics; in mid-2004 the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps (ICDC) was designated the Iraqi National Guard (ING) and subordinated to the Defense Ministry and the Iraqi Armed Forces Pre-war Iraqi military equipment was largely destroyed by Coalition forces during combat operations in early 2003 or subsequently looted or scrapped (September 2004)
Military manpower - military age and obligation:
18 years of age; the Iraqi Interim Government is creating a new professional Iraqi military force of men aged 18 to 40 to defend Iraqi territory from external threats (September 2004)
Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 6,547,762 (2004 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 3,654,947 (2004 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 304,527 (2004 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$1.3 billion (FY00)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
NA

Transnational Issues
Iraq

Disputes - international:
coalition forces assist Iraqis in monitoring boundary security, but resolution of disputes and creation of maritime boundaries with neighboring states will remain in hiatus until full sovereignty is restored in Iraq; Turkey has expressed concern over the status of Kurds in Iraq
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 150,000 (Palestinian Territories) IDPs: 1,340,280 (ongoing US-led war and Kurds' subsequent return) (2004)....

Thank you.

BOMBED CAR NEAR OUR COLLEGE

Hi again and very sorry for all this absence and not being in touch all this time because I was very busy because I didnt return back from my college until the 16:00 and I dont have the enough time to go to Internet.

Yesterday a bombed car exploded near our college(about 50 meters from our college) at 8:35 a.m.

4 people injured and about ten cars destroyed by the explosion and many people take a pictures to the bombed cars and when Ferid was taking a picture, one of the policmen arrested him because he was taking a picture to blast site and our Dean and secuirty men of our college go to the policmen to let him go away and told them that Ferid is innocent but the policmen insist to take Ferid to the police station to invistage with him, but today I knew that they let him go away after finshing the invistegation with him in the afternoon,what a bad chance to this guy.

Today was the first meeting of the members of the National Assembly in the presence of all the members of the assembly and the it was a protocol conference because the the winners didnt deal about the shape of the new government.

The next days will witness another meetings to start decide the law of the Iraqi government.

Thank you.

THE FINAL RESULTS OF ELECTION

Hi again and I am sorry for all this absence and as I told in my last blog that I was having the mid year exam which they were finished today and I begin to wrote my blog as I promise you.

This week was full of sadness and funerals because I go to 5 funerals in this week only, 2 of the were to 2 young people died in explosion of mine put on the side of the road and there was a third guy with them his leg was cut due to the explosion,these days you dont know when you will die because the bombed cars are in every place and kill from the civilians and innocent peoples more than the others. Today I will talk about the ethnoreligious areas in Iraq.and about some fact of the election but in my next blog I will write the members of the Transitional National Assembly .

I am very gratefull to any one help me and will help me in everything he did because these days I need some money urgently and I didnt find any job till today...

Ethnoreligious Areas

Iraq has long been a religious, ethnic and ideological mix. Shiite Muslim Arabs are the majority, but Saddam's Baathists were Sunni Muslims. In forming a new government, Shiite leaders insisted their share of power should reflect its majority, a position that worried other minorities as well as Iraq's mostly Sunni Arab neighbors. Iyad Allawi, a Shiite who was chosen as prime minister of the interim government, heads a group that stresses secularism and counts Sunnis and Shiites among its members.
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/america_at_war/postwar/religion.html

ELECTION RESULT

The final allocation gives seats in the Transitional National Assembly to 12 parties out of the 111 political entities on the ballot.

Iraqis voted for lists of candidates, rather than individuals, in the National Assembly election. In all, some 19,000 candidates were competing, and by law at least 30 percent of the candidates on each list were women. When the vote was certified Feb. 17, 2005, the United Iraqi Alliance, which carried the endorsement of top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, had won the majority of seats. But the alliance lacked the two-thirds majority needed to select the president, making coalition-building an essential task in forming the new government. Another challenge was including Sunni Arabs, who came out to the polls in low numbers and were therefore under-represented in the allocation of seats.

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Votes And Seats
In results certified by the Iraqi Electoral Commission Feb. 17, 2005, 12 of the 111 parties and candidate lists that competed in Iraq's election got enough votes to gain seats in the new National Assembly. Here are the parties that won:
United Iraqi Alliance: 4,075,295 votes; 140 seats
Kurdistan Alliance: 2,175,551 votes; 75 seats
Iraqi List: 1,168,943 votes; 40 seats
Iraqis: 150,680 votes; 5 seats
Turkomen Iraqi Front: 93,480 votes; 3 seats
National Independent Elites: 69,938 votes; 3 seats
Communist Party: 69,920 votes; 2 seats
Islamic Kurdish Society: 60,592 votes; 2 seats
Islamic Labor Movement in Iraq: 43,205 votes; 2 seats
National Democratic Alliance: 36,795 votes; 1 seat
National Rafidain List: 36,255 votes; 1 seat
Reconciliation and Liberation: 30,796 votes; 1 seats
Total votes: 8,456,266
Invalid votes: 94,305 total
Minimum number of votes needed for seat: 30,750

Turnout was 58 percent
"This is a new birth for Iraq, a free Iraq," election commission spokesman Fareed Ayar said.
Of about 8.56 million votes cast in the election, the UIA received 4.08 million, the combined Kurdish parties garnered 2.17 million and the Iraqi list of interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi got 1.17 million.

But the shape of the government is not clear until this moment because many resources said that Dr. Ibraheem (ISALMIC DAAWA PARTY) iwill win and become the vice president ,Jalal Altalbani will be the president of Iraq but all this is talk and nothing is true and can be believed.

About Transitional National Assembly

Given the allocations, no single party has the two-thirds majority that is necessary to name the three-member Presidency Council, which is the Assembly’s first order of business. Consequently, the parties will have to engage in negotiations and coalition building in order to make governmental appointments and enact legislation.
While the Presidency Council serves a largely ceremonial function, it is entrusted with the task of appointing a prime minister, who will exercise the majority of executive and administrative powers. The prime minister and his or her Council of Ministers is subject to approval by a majority vote in the Assembly.
According to the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL), the Assembly must also muster a two-thirds majority to overturn presidential vetoes of proposed legislation.
The primary task of the Assembly is to draft a constitution. Several political leaders who fared poorly in the elections have indicated that they are still interested in participating in the constitutional process. This is in keeping with the provisions of the TAL that says the Assembly shall proceed with this task “by encouraging debate on the constitution through regular general public meetings in all parts of Iraq and through the media, and receiving proposals from the citizens of Iraq as it writes the constitution.”
According to the TAL, the Assembly has until August 15 to propose a draft of the document to the Iraqi people, who will vote on it in a referendum October 15. If the voters approve the constitution, it will serve as the basis for a new election December 15 to establish a constitutional government.
More than 8.5 million Iraqis participated in the January elections despite threats of violence and terrorist attacks. Voter turnout was slightly above 58 percent.
Voters also cast ballots for governorate councils in each of Iraq’s 18 provinces.
"This is a birth for Iraq, a free Iraq," said IECI spokesman Farid Ayar as he released the election results February 13.

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MY BLOG

Hi again ,I am sorry for not being in touch all this time because I have the second term of the mid year exam that have been delayed by the college because of the election so these days I am very busy till the next monday.
As I said before I go to the internet when I have the enough money and time because here the internet is expensive to me and I don't the money to go everyday to the internet and I don't find any job until this day because I was looking for a job ,but don't worry I will write about the final results if they will be annouced today as I hear yesterday from the news and in the next day I will write about the semi final results if the final were not annouced.
Thank you.

SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE ELECTION

Hi again,today I will talk about Iraqian parties that were competed in the last election, in 30 January,2005 , instead of the final results of election because the annoucing of the final results have been delayed a the final resulsts will be annouced in the next coming days.

United Iraqi Alliance

Abdul Aziz al-Hakim

Widely expected to dominate the election, the United Iraqi Alliance fielded 228 candidates, drawn largely from the Shiite political establishment and tacitly endorsed by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. The list included Shiite cleric Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the key Shiite political organization, the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. Al-Hakim opposed Saddam Hussein from exile in Iran before returning after the U.S.-led invasion and serving on the Iraq Governing Council.
Also running with the alliance was Ahmad Chalabi, a Secular Shiite banker who led the Iraqi National Congress, an umbrella for groups that included Iraqi exiles, Kurds and Shiites. Chalabi, a one-time Pentagon confidant, fell out of favor with Washington in 2004 after claims he passed intelligence information to Iran.

The Iraqi List
Ayad Allawi

Considered more secular than the United Iraqi Alliance, The Iraqi List fielded 233 candidates. The list included a mix of Shiites and Sunnis, but Shiites accounted for the majority of top names. The group is led by interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, who's considered a moderate with a reputation for toughness in dealing with the multiple insurgencies gripping Iraq. The 60-year-old Shiite physician spent three decades in exile and has a long history of working with the U.S. government. A former member of Saddam's Baath Party, he comes from a wealthy family that was close to the royal family that ruled before Saddam took power.

Iraqis Party
Ghazi al-Yawer

A mix of Sunnis and Shiites, the Iraqis Party fielded 80 candidates. The party is led by interim President Ghazi al-Yawer, and favored by many Sunnis who agreed with al-Yawer's opposition to U.S. attacks aimed at wiping out insurgents in the hotbed cities of Fallujah and Mosul. Al-Yawer is a prominent Sunni member of the Shammar tribe, which includes Shiite clans and is one of the largest tribes in the Persian Gulf region. A civil engineer born in Mosul, he studied in Saudi Arabia and at Georgetown University in the United States. His post as interim president is largely ceremonial.

Kurdish Alliance List

Jalal Talabani, left, Massoud Barzani, center, and retired U.S. Lt. Gen. Jay Garner in Dukan, Iraq, April 22, 2003. (Photo: AP )
Expected to get the bulk of the Kurdish vote in northern Iraq, the Kurdish Alliance fielded 165 candidates. The biggest names were Kurdistan Democratic Party leader Massoud Barzani and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan leader Jalal Talabani. Talabani is a Sunni Kurd who joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party as a teenager and then founded the PUK in 1957. Barzani, also a Sunni Kurd, leads the party founded by his father in 1946. He took over the party leadership when his father died in 1979 and has survived two assassination attempts. He also helped negotiate a short-lived autonomy agreement with Iraq's government in 1970 that ended nine years of fighting.

Assembly of Independent Democrats
Adnan Pachachi

Expected to fare well among intellectuals and the urban middle class, the Assembly of Independent Democrats fielded 78 candidates. The most notable was Sunni elder statesman Adnan Pachachi. A prominent secular Sunni, Pachachi is seen as a possible compromise figure to lead a future government. He was foreign minister in the government toppled in the 1968 coup by Saddam's Baath Party, and a member of the post-U.S. invasion Iraqi National Council.

National Democratic Party

The National Democratic Party, which has found some support among the educated Sunni middle class, fielded 48 candidates. One was Naseer Kamel al-Chaderchi, a Sunni lawyer, businessman and landowner who leads the party. A member of the former Iraqi Governing Council, al-Chaderchi is the son of Kamel al-Chaderchi, who played a leading role in Iraq's democratic development until 1968, when the Baath Party seized power.

National Rafidain List

An Assyrian Christian group, the National Rafidain List was expected to pick up some support for its 28 candidates from Iraq's tiny Christian community.
The People's Union
The People's Union was one of few groups whose candidates didn't have close ethnic or religious ties, and was seen as a possible pick among Iraqi expatriates living in secular countries. Its 275 candidates were drawn from secular Iraqis who fear clerical rule and leftists, including many women.

IRAQ AFTER ELECTION

Now we can talk about the new born of Iraq after the great victory in the election before few days.
Now we can talk about the rebuilding and reconstruction of Iraq & we can talk also about the future of Iraq and when must set the date for leaving the (Multiple Identity Forces).
The Iraq passes the hardest level in the game, but still have some problems
And as I think these problems easily resolved by the unity and courageous of Iraqi people.

These days Iraq witness many violnace attacks against policemens and members of the new army but all this attacks will not give any success for the terrorists in Iraq because Iraq pass the most difficult stage which was the elction and succeed in this exam with high degree of courageous and patience.

I am very happy because it passes peacefully but also sad on the people that died in the battle from the invasion till nowaday,may God bless every one died for this country.

i will write aout the final results of election but until now the UAI is first of all then the list od the vice president(The Iraqi list) then the others after it.

thank you .

I am sorry for all this absence but I am little busy these days and there is no internet conecton available, so please forgive me and thank you again.

ELECTION DAY

30 January ,2005 the braves of Iraq vote in the first Democarcy experiment in the middle east I cant describe the scene of the the large numbe4r of people that were eager to go and vote in these election without any difference in the dectrine or caste between any person in all Iraq.

The percentage of particepating was over the anticipations in all tense regions in the west and north of Iraq and in Baghdad inspite of all the explsoins that we were hear all the days before and in the day of election but the Iraqi people insist to go and vote to defeat the terroroists the enemy of peace and democarcy in Iraq but they loss this battle of foiling the election and begin to loss there war in Iraq due to resolve and brave of the Iraqi people that any one in this world have the same courage .
I wish you were here in Iraq in the election day to see the future of Iraq hold by the courageous of those people and I was sure that the good days are very near and the Iraqi people decide their futre and defeat all the evil power that are work to stop the heifer of progress in Iraq but they were in fault because they choose the wrong country and wrong people ,I'm very glad because I was having the chance to participate in these elections and vote to build a new Iraq and amke a new future for this country that have witness many troubles since hundreds of years .
The success of the election was acheived by many factors :

First: the courageous of the Iraqi people.

Second: the courageous of the security menincluding (ING,policemen,members of new army).

Third:the prepartion of the Higher commission of election.

Fourth: the assistant of the Us army and all the government that support Iraq.

Every one is surprised from the percentage of voters that have been showed up in the primery results was more than 60% in all Iraq and more than 50 % in every voting station from the total number of people that have the rigth to vote.
These elections witness some violence works which was made to terrify the voters, to prevent them from voting because 9 suicidal operations on 9 voting stations in Baghdad and a bombed car in Baghdad also ,many Mortar shells have been dropped in diffferent places in Iraq and the number of the victims that went down in these attack was 36 persons ,6 people were from the security and the others were civilianshave been killed and more than 97 persons have been injured, msot of them were civilians.
These elections were a great victory in the history of Iraq against the terrorists and shows the unity of Iraqi people in the crisis to defeat the enemy,now we must work hard to treat the wounded Iraq and begin the reconsruction because we have much work to do.
I would like to thanx every one participate in the prepartion for this election,every one go and vote in this election,the Government that provide the democracy environmet,to all the members of the new army and policemenand ING members in association withUS troops that they work hard to prevent any terror attacks.

THANK YOU.

THE DANGEROUS SKIES OVER IRAQ

Hi again, Iam sorry for not being in touch all this time because I was having the mid year exams and I was busy because Iwas looking for a job during my holiday because I need some money after the elections.

I cant get out during the next three days due to curfew form Saturday till mondayso please forgive and I hope i see after the election . thank you.

The C-130 transport is often called a flying truck, and that has never been truer than right now,
The Air Force is flying in as many as 800 tons of cargo a day into Iraq – up more than a third since November. Every ton in the air is a ton that doesn't have to be hauled by truck over Iraq's dangerous roads.
Reducing the number of truck convoys is one way to reduce the number of Americans killed or wounded by roadside bombs and ambushes, which is why the U.S. military is relying more and more on airlift to supply the 150,000 troops in Iraq.
"Missions seem more critical than they did before," said Capt. Kurt Kresmer, as he prepared to fly one of those missions.
More critical and more dangerous: a C-130 makes an inviting target for the insurgents.
"They're obviously watching us fly in and out," said Kresmer. "Their tactics have changed. They're trying to get up small arms fire to hit us."
Today's mission is carrying equipment and soldiers from Kuwait into Balad, one of the airfields C-130 crews like the least.
"I still get butterflies in my stomach going into certain places," said Airman Ian Hughes, a cargo handler on today's mission.
Every member of the crew who can afford to take his eyes off the instruments keeps a lookout for ground fire.
With clear skies, it’s a good day for flying. But does that make it a safe day for flying?
"It's a good point. The clearer it is the easier it is to see us," Kresmer said.
The best defense is flying high. "Only some of their more sophisticated weapons can reach up and touch us at this altitude," said the pilot.
When it's time to land, Kremser handles his cargo plane like a racec.ar, banking sharply to become as difficult a target as possible.
Another load of troops and all their gear delivered out of the reach of the insurgents – at least for now.

STATICS OF ELECTION

17/1/2005 more than 1,260,000 of Iraqian people in 14 countrybegan to register their names for the elections in order to participate in the elections and this the first time after 35 years of unjustice, for the first time they vote for thier government democraticly.
The total nomber of Iraqian peoples in these 14 country are2,350,270 person and only 1,863,843 have the rigth to vote .
the contries and the number of the voting center in each country:
Australia in (Malborne & Sydney) contain (9)centers contain (38) voting station.

Canada in (Calegri,Otawa & Toronto)contain (5)centers contain (38) voting station.

Danemark in (Cobenhagen)contain (1)center contain (10) voting station.

France in (Paris)contain (1)centers contain (5) voting station.Germany in (Berlin,Colone,Mahaim & Munich)contain (4)centers contain (38) voting station.

Iran in ( Al-ahwaz,Karemshah,Mashehed,Orameah,Kum & Tahran)contain (12)centers contain (70) voting station.

Netherland in (Amesterdam,Roterdam & Zoleah)contain (3)centers contain (24) voting station.

Sweden in (Gotenberg & Stockholm)contain (3)centers contain (39) voting station.

Syria in (Damsascus)contain (10)centers contain (134) voting station.

Turkey in (Anqra & Astanbul)contain (3)centers contain (20) voting station.

UAE in (Abu Dhabi & Dubai)contain (2)centers contain (44) voting station.

England in (Glascko,London & Manchester)contain (3)centers contain (100) voting station.

Jordan in (Aman)contain (13)centers contain (120) voting station.

Finally in USA in (Chicago,Detroit,Los angelos,Nashfeil & Washington DC)contain (10)centers contain (159) voting station.
Voting Center refers to a School or large building contain amny of rooms that contain the Voting boxes that are called Voting stations.
The event of Elections :

01 November: Voter and candidate registration began
22 November: Deadline for registering parties and individuals wanting to stand for election
23 November: Deadline for registering on electoral lists in the provinces
30 November: Deadline for registering on electoral lists in Baghdad
15 December: Election campaign kicks off
30 January: Election day

PURPOSE OF THE VOTE
Voters will choose 275 members of a national assembly, whose main task will be to debate and approve a new constitution. There will also be elections to 18 provincial assemblies as well as to the autonomous Kurdish parliament in the north.

PARTIES AND CANDIDATES :

More than 120 parties have so far been authorised to field candidates for the assembly. They are obliged to present a list of at least 12 candidates, and no more than 275. Every third name must be a woman's, to ensure that at least 25% of the seats in the assembly go to women.
Mr Chalabi may well feature in January's poll The parties likely to figure prominently are the two Kurdish groupings, Kurdish Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which are already firmly established, the Shia-led Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, SCIRI, the Islamic al-Dawa, and the Iraqi National Congress, an exile group chaired by one-time US ally Ahmed Chalabi. There have been suggestion that Mr Chalabi may lead a Shia list including supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr.
The Communist party, which opposed the US-led invasion, may also feature.
On the whole, voters are expected to cast their ballot according to sectarian and ethnic divides. Shias, who are a majority in Iraq, are likely to back Shia parties, both religious and secular.
The Kurds, who have had virtual autonomy in the north for some years will in all probability back their already well-established parties.
Sunni representation is seen as the main concern. Some of their parties have also said they plan to boycott the poll, including the influential Association of Muslim Scholars.
The potential lack of Sunni participation in the vote could have long-term repercussions for the legitimacy and stability of the government elected.
Individuals may also run. To do so they must file a 500-signature petition with the electoral commission. The chairman of this body said in mid-November that so far 126 of the 198 who had applied had been accepted.
Former senior Baathists are barred from both standing as individuals or on party lists, as are current members of the Iraqi armed forces, or any armed militias.

THE REGISTRATION PROCESS
The tight timetable combined with the violence in places like Falluja thwarted any suggestion of conducting a proper census of Iraq's estimated 12 million voters. Instead, electoral rolls based the United Nations "Oil for Food" lists - drawn up in the 1990s by Saddam Hussein's regime, have been used. Voters can see the lists to make corrections and revisions, as many are incomplete.
All Iraqis with a valid ration card will be able to vote in the poll.

THE DAY ITSELF

This will be a single, national ballot without constituencies.
The electoral register is based on the ration card list Voting papers are being printed in Switzerland to avoid counterfeiting and will be distributed to the thousands of voting stations to be set up across the country. Centres will be established in each of the 18 provinces to collate results before sending them on to Baghdad.
Once voters have cast their ballot, their name is crossed off the voter register and their thumb marked with indelible ink to prevent them from voting more than once.
Seats will then be allocated on the basis of proportional representation, which means that each party will get the same proportion of seats in the assembly as it gets in the popular vote.
FOREIGN ELEMENTS

The electoral commission has asked the United Nations to send international monitors. Around 35 UN experts have already arrived.
And a hefty military presence is likely, amid great concern that insurgents will overshadow the poll. US forces this month have quelled the rebellion in Falluja, but commanders say they will not be withdrawing imminently.
They are also engaged in ongoing battles in the northern city of Mosul, where insurgents have reportedly torched election materials and issued death threats to election workers, and have been raiding Sunni strongholds in Baghdad.

below you will some some of the links that related to Election in Iraq.

http://www.iri.org/countries.asp?ID=7539148391
http://www.ifes.org/reg_activities/iraq-reg-act.htm
http://www.iri.org/countries.asp?ID=7539148391
http://www.ndi.org/worldwide/mena/iraq/iraq.asp

THE ASSASSINATING OF BAGHDAD GOVERNER

The governor of the Baghdad region, known for cooperating closely with American troops, was assassinated along with six bodyguards as he drove to work Tuesday in yet another bloody day of insurgent attacks that exposed grave security flaws in Iraq with elections less than a month away.
The militant group of Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al Qaeda in Iraq, claimed responsibility for killing Gov. Ali al-Haidari and his bodyguards, according to a statement posted on a Web site known for carrying such claims.
"We tell every traitor and supporter of the Jews and Christians that this is your fate," the statement said. Its authenticity could not immediately be verified. Al-Haidari's three-vehicle convoy was passing through Baghdad's northern neighborhood of Hurriyah when gunmen opened fire, said the chief of his security detail, who asked to be identified only as Maj. Mazen. "They came from different directions and opened fire at us," Mazen said, reached on al-Haidari's cell phone. Al-Haidari was the target of an assassination attempt last year that killed two of his bodyguards. He is the highest-ranking Iraqi official killed since the former president of the now defunct Governing Council — Abdel-Zahraa Othman, better known as Izzadine Saleem — was assassinated in May. Al-Haidari worked closely with the U.S.-led multinational forces on rebuilding the capital. In an interview published Tuesday in al-Mutamar newspaper, he said infrastructure in Baghdad was improving because of cooperation between his office and the troops.
Other assaults Tuesday killed five American troops as well as 10 Iraqi commandos, bringing the death toll in the last three days to more than 70.
A group called the Islamic Fury Brigades released video that shows a bomber loading a van with explosives and attacking a convoy of western contractors.
Despite the violence, which U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces have been helpless to prevent, American and Iraqi leaders insist the Jan. 30 vote would go forward.
"As we approach Election Day, terrorists increase their savagery," said Iraqi minister of security Kasim Dawoud. "They will try to stop the process, but we won't allow them."

I took some of this news from some of news sites that talked about the assassination of the Baghdad governor Mr. Ali al-Haidari in Baghdad.

When I was paging and in the search about the terrorist attacks in iraq I found an exciting site about the news of Iraqand this site belong to CBS NEWS.

the site of www.cbsnews.com" target="_blank">

Go to the title of Iraq and you will see every thing about Iraq form the invasion till today.

in this link you ll see some picture about the attacks and the normal life in Iraq after Saddam

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post war on Iraq.

Thank you.

THE NEW YEAR

Before Three days we were in the year "2004" & this year was very long in the Iraqian life because this year witness many terror attacks either on civilain targets or military bases and or police stations and in this year many innocent peoples have been killedin explosions caused by mines and bombed cars and other causes are much more.
To me .this year was very very sad year in my life because I lost my dear Fatherthat was died because of heart attack"this cause is now common because of these bad situation and this cause increased in high percentage in the last five years".Me and my family met the Christmas and the new year with half-heartedly and sadness because of the missing of the important person in the family.
My father was a great man,very cultured and spent "32" years in teaching the students of high schools and he was on of the members of the "IRAQI COMMUNIST PARTY" & was arrested many times because he was writing in the journal of the PARTY and he was owning a great library filled with large number of different books with different subjects from the political,novels of famous writers,the stories about the world war 1&2 and others more......
I write about my father because he was great thinker and good man and all our neghbours were come him and asked him about general information and about the political situation so I promise my self to write and talk about him in every where and every place.
God blessed you my great father.....My life without you is of no value because you were the raeson of life to me but I will try elevate your name and walk on your avenue.

MERRY CHRISTMAS IN IRAQ

The Angels said when the ( JESUS )was born:

"" GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST & ON THE EARTH PEACE TO MEN ON WHOM HIS FAVOUR RESTS "".

This christmas of this year is different because of the Christian in Iraq were afraid from terrorists attacks in the days of the Christmas,few percentage of Chrtistian went to churches in the days of Christmas!!!!.

High percentage of Iraqi Christians were migrate from Iraq to the neighboring country asking for safety shelter that is absence in their home and country at all.
Before three weeks , two Churches have been destroyed by figthers in the city of Mosul and after that they burn the library of one of them which was contain antique books,codics,and holy books.
The Christian Alliance troops will celebrate far from their family ,their parentsand their country becaus they are help another country (IRAQ,AFGHANSTAN)in planting the Props of Democracy .

Merry Christmas for every one help Iraq and his people ,Merry Christmas for Alliance Troops ,Merry Christmas for Iraqi peoples,Merry Christmas for every one sacrifice to save this country ,Merry Christmas for Iraqi children,Merry Christmas to G.W.Bush,Toni Plair and Dr. Eiad Alawy.Merry christmas for every one read my blogs ..................................
Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerry Chrissssssssssstmas to you IRAQ.

Happy new year 2005 ,I hope that the new year be goog to Iraq and his peoples

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerry Christmassssssssssss .

THE PARADISE IN IRAQ

Hello again into share some of Iraqi news .

forgive me in not blogging all this time because we dont have Electric power from weeks ago or it come 2 hours for every 24 hours .All Baghdad suffer from the same situation , and worse because of there is no fuel to cars,no petrol for heaters , no liquid Gas for cooking !!!!!!!

The queue of the cars to refuel is extend for large distance may to 3-4 kilometers and the drivers may be wait for 10-15 hours to refuel !!!!!!!!!!!!!.

The Iraqi peoples these days are very nervous and tense to any problem with or wihtout reason because of this wretch situation and miserable living.

The Iraqis are very patient and they were always suffer from Gelding ,injustice and oppressing in the past and now they are suffer from deficiency in every thing form thier fortune and inspite of Iraq is the first in the provision of petrol but Iraqipeoples suffer from deficiency in fuel dervatives .

The General situation in Baghdad is bad and near our college which lie in Haifa street and every days battles take place in this street during our time of study and the explosions are very near toour college and in nigth the streets became empty about the 8:00 P.M.!!!!!!!!

May GOD help this country to have happy life and beautifull days because he pestilent

THE WAY TO ELECTIONS

hi again to share some of Iraqi news and I am these days very busy because of term exams.

The remaining time for the Elections is less than 2 months but these two months will be very long in the Iraqian and soldiers life because these days will witness terroristic worksagainst voting centre ,police stations,police ,ING,Alliance patrols in whole Iraq trying to obstruct this democratic event.

The attack on police station in the west of Baghdad before few days & kill more than 16 cops and injured more than 20 another and releasing about 50 of the prisoners was the begining following it in the next day another attack on another police station and on the Green Zone with bombed car aimed these two places in different times and the attacks will be continous until the date of Elections .Inspite of this most of Iraqis peoples are waiting for the Elections & prticulary the (SHEA'A) ,they are waiting for the Elections because they will be the winners in this Elections .In this voting they will put an end to the terroristics attacks in Iraq and star in curing and building the wounded Iraq & stop this river of blood of innocent Iraqis.In the other side the (KURDS) are with the delaying of the Elections if they were be delayed and with the establising ofElectins in their exact time to ensure their future and decide the identity of (KIRKUK).The (SENNA) are completley against the Elections and they are requesting for delaying the Elections and now most of (SENNA) aggregations and parties requesting to delaing the Elections and their reason is that Iraq is under the power of the Invader and the absence of safety situation.

The other minorities (the christian,Turkuman,Yezedian,Sabea'a and others )have no great effect on the running of the Elections because they are act (7%) of the total of Iraq .delaying of the Elections will give the Terroristsa big chance to rearrange their selfes, aggregating and rearming and take a rest and put a new planes to delay the Elections again.As I think the Elections will be made at the exact date and this will be considered as a great victory upon theterrorsits and a bridge to pass to other side where the Progress and prosperity for Iraq are achieved .but my God help us to stay alive until the Elections.
Thank you .

THE VICTORIES OF THE GOVERNMENT AND USA IN IRAQ

The Government and the United States of America begin to gain the successes in Iraq that the USA and Government achieved it in Iraq.
These victories begin from the invasion of Falluja by the RED DAWN operation to get ride of figthers that have safety shelter in this city and the invasion was successfull due to kill more than 1200 and arrest more than 1600 arabian and Iraqian figthers ,then the ANGRY GHOST operation against the figthers in Mosul city in the north of IRAQ,those figthers were terrifying ,threating and killing the peoples that cooperate with US army or ING,another victory was achieved in Aadhmia city in Baghdad,in Ramadi,Baquaba and finally but it's not the end of operations against figthers in the Death Triangle in the south of iraq, these triangle lies between (LATIFIA,MAHMODIA&YOUSIFIA)which the battles take place now in this place against the figthers with the support of USA army and british army because more than 5000 soldiers figthing now to destroy this spot of terrorists and to clear Iraq from those criminals which they were threating,kidnaping,or attacking any person or car pass from this road,and this day more than 210 figthers have been captured form this number there was 15 iraqian figthers and the ohters are from IRAN,SYRIA,AFGHANSTAN,YEMEN,SAUDIA and other islamic country.
The other victory was come from outside the Iraq and exactly from Egypt from the (SHARM AL_SHEIKH) converence which was made to help Iraq and his peoples.

A two-day Iraq conference in the Egyptian seaside resort of Sharm al-Sheikh ended on Tuesday with calls for international support for the upcoming elections, slated for late January, and for national dialogue in Iraq.
The conference was attended by all countries bordering Iraq and of course by Iraq itself and host Egypt. They were joined on the second day by the United States, the European Union, the G8 industrialised countries and China, as well as the Arab League and Organisation of the Islamic Conference.

The most important victory was the oppointing the date of Elections in the 30 ,January ,2005 and this oppointment of the date is a great victory against terroists that figth in Iraq, and finally the cancelling of the debts of Iraq in the PARIS CLUB because the members decide to cancel 80% of debts to help Iraq in his construction and building.
we hope the Iraqi have a good life with brigth future and happy days to achieving prosperty to Iraq .

A SAD daY FROM MEMORY

A Day from my memory:Hello again,I wish if I could everyday post a blog but it's difficult to me because I don't have internet in my house because it's expensive to me so I go to the Internet cafe when I have the enough time and money to post these blogs,so forgive if I being late in post blogs ,and I thanks every one send to me Email because this encourage me and help me to keep on writing blogs. Let's hear some of Iraqi news & how they spend their dangerous live with these explosions & bombed cars & battles that may take place in the streets near the houses of civilians in some location in this Iraq,but inspite of all this you see the peoples go to their work and office like every thing normal. I will tell you about the Iraqi originality and how they respect the neighboring relations and help their neighbor in his dreariness in danger time and critical situations. I life in city were the (Sheaa) life and we are near the (Sadir city), in sometimes the (Mahdi army) were coming in our sector and put a blowing bottles and trying to target the Us army, and all these events were take place in out sector and in AL-Sadir city so no one was get out after the 5:00 P.M. and I'm talking about events took place in August month. I was failed in two lessons in the second stage so I was go to study in my aunt house in (Al-DOURA)city in the south of Baghdad because there it was more safety and more quit environment from our city. In 16/8/2004 my father suffer from a heart attack after middle of night, my mother begin screaming so our one of neighbor,which is an engineer, come as fast he can and my brother go to another neighbor which is a medical assistant and say that we must take him to a hospital and the time was 1:30 A.M. and all streets were fully empty,no cops,no ING,no American patrols in all of Baghdad,another next-door neighbor told us to come behind his car and go to hospital and the other two neighbors,the medical assistant and the engineer, with my brother and uncle in our car and go to hospital in the Gas station which is near our house three members of MAHDI army try to stop our car but our next door neighbor know those members and they permit us to go and stay with us and he come back home to took my father identify card and related paper and told them that my father died because of heart attack,all these events took place and I was not in home because I was studying in my aunt house and our neighbors help us in every thing in funeral even they want to come with us to mosul because we burn our died their and they are ready to present any help we want and all of them were know that is dangerous situation but they come with us inspite of the danger. That is an example of some of Iraqi peoples.

Posted by SALEEM A. HANNA

22/11/2004

Monday

THE KIDNAPING OF SCIENTIFIC EFFICACY

The targeting of scientists,professors and Doctors in IRAQ:

I am very gratefull to every one give his opinion about my blogs and this will encourage me to keep on writing.

Today i have another spiny subject, that is the killing,kidnaping or threating the famous scientists or doctors or professors in all branches of thier speciality.

The number of the leaving scientists is a terrifying number either they leave in time of Saddam Hussain or now after the (OPERATION FREEDOM OF IRAQ).

In the time of Saddam the rating were very very low as compared with the neighboring country so most of them leave Iraq and go to America and little more go to Europe and few of them go to the Arabian countries.In these days they leave the Iraq and either stay in Syria or Jordan situation in Iraq become better to comeback to thier works and offices.

The leaving of scientific efficacy form Iraq to other countries cost the Government very much because it decreases the working hand in Iraq.

The migration scientific efficacy is not a normal condition ,there must be someone behind migartion from Iraq,someone trying to obstruct the building and construction in Iraq.

The government msut work as best it could to induce the escapee to come back to Iraq participating in the construction of Iraq because no one anxious on the country unless he was the son of this country, and because they cant find another placeother than their home,their contry.

SALEEM A.H.

18/11/2004

WEDNESDAY

The role od media in the war on IRAQ

THE audio and vedio media play a danger role in the war on Iraq because it was always annoucing the achievement of the terorist and how they take this city or kidnap the foriegners that they are come to work wiht the alliance force.

these media were supplied by riched peoples in the Saudia Arabia or from the UAE or other country.the role of Aljazeera channel in Iraq is very dangerous because show the achievment of the Terrorist and falling of the Government in capturing those Terrorist,it give to the Arabian viewer the thing he want to see he want the falling of US army in Iraq and winning the powers of Terrorist in the Iraq and then they try this thing in other countries to enforce thier principles on other peoples may be in Europe or in America exactly.

so we must stop this terrorist channel by fired all the staff of channel and close the officeuntil it stop annoucing and viewing the cassettes that show the operations of the figthers against the US armyDid anyone asked himself why the office of the Alarabiya channel was aimed by a bombed car in Al-Mansour city in the west of Baghdad?

The answer is the channel name the figthers as "TERRORISTS"!!!!IS it now time that who say the truth will be killed ????

The government didnt deal with these events by thee most powerfull force to spot those acts done by others in the coverage of "DEMOCRACY".The internet also play a vital role in declaring communiquesor or viewing the scenes of butchering foreigner peoples work americans as a translators or drivers.95% of the working channels in iraq work as best as it can or pay money to peoples to tell things didnt happened and try to find the mistakes of the forces that work in Iraq,they give the viewer scenes that increase the hating upon the soldiers & always try to show the dark side of invader.The Government in Iraq doesnt have the practicability to control the role of media of Iraq becauseof little payment and the workers are in dangerous from the terrorists so that they cant tell everything or talk comfortably.We must not forgetthe rolew of media in the war on Iraq because it play as a vital role in deciding who will win in the (OPERATION FREEDOM OF IRAQ).

Thank you very very much for every one give his comments because this will increase enthusiasm in myself.

SALEEM A.H.

15/11/2004

MONDAY

The invasion of Falluja

The city of Fallujathis city is being as the most famous city in the cities of Iraq not for thing but every one thougth that Falluja is figthing the americans and the people of Falluja thougth they are figthingthe invader which is the Zionist,but they now provide shultter for terroristand foreigner figthers that come enter form Syria which give them money and weapons to figth the US army and those figthers came from islamic countriesaround the world because they thougth if they were dying during figthing the faithless they will go to the paradise and meeting the God.they believe in these thing because they dont have neither money,work ro house to live so he dont have anything to do so he go to the Mosque for praying and he hear that if he figth the faithless he will go to the paradise and have everything he want.The invading of Falluja now was must be done from the first attacks to the US army to stop this time of attacks,in Mosul also there conturncy against the the new army and the police stations and they burnt six police stations in the city.Baquaba in the east of Iraq is now closed and under prohibiting stroll and before two days there were many attacks on the police stations in thecity and 45 peoples have been killed in these events,we should not forgetthe (49) persons of the Iraqi National Gurad(ING)that been killed by the figthers in this.The cith of Diala in the east of Iraq is the mostdangerous city in the Iraq because the day not pass unless aperson of the new army or persong of the ING or police man killed in this city and thier an expiditonary of assassinations on the peoples that work with e government or with Americans.Parmoda triangle is not the sea but is now in Iraq and between Baghdad and Babil and this triangle lies between three contouracies cities (Latifia,Yousifia and Mohmoodia)and these cities belong Conservative of Babilin this triangle many important persons in the government died and manyconvoys of the foreigners that work with americans and in this place the figthers killed 11 officers in the intelligence of Spain they were killedand burned in thier cars in this road that is lies south to baghdadand cnnect Baghdad with the cities of the north,also in this road the Sheaa in iraq every Thursday and saturday go to visit Blessed thresold in Karblaa And Najaf, and those people attacked and many peple killed but no one annouce about this thing because its a danger sitaution if it was annouced .

lets be patience and wait what we gain from the invading of Falluja and the battles with the terrorist in the Mosul,Baquba and Ramadi.

Saleem A. H.

bombed cars

hi again,today i discuss an improtant issue being as usuall thign in the Iraqian life , is the bombered cars that kills the innocent civilians becasue they were in the wrong place and time or they go to do thier job in building Iraq and we see every day many people killed and amny building destroyed.

Yesterday the hit two churches in the south of capitol (Baghdad) !!

why are they aimed the churches ?did they contain ameriacns or cops or ING or members of new army ???

they do this trying to let us leave the iraq and leave the country and make they people of the country evryone in different place, then after they bombed the churches ,bombed car exploded near the Yarmook hospital becajse there were cops near the hospital treating the injured and try to save the hospital peoples from other attacks.

so we must stop these cars because in this month only(Ramadan )more than 40 bombered car explode and more than (300) peoples died or injured ion these attacks in time we need every person in the building and constructing of the iraq.

we stop this river od Iraqian blood and kill all the terrorists in al the city of iraq and the american army with new iraqian army begin this work in faloja and ramadi and then the turn will come on Latifia and Mahmodia and Mosul and Baghdad to start building iraq

FOR BEST IRAQ

TO HAVE A CLEAN IRAQ FROM ANY TERRORIST .WE MUST BUILD HIM WITH ONE HAND AND DEFEND HIM FROM ANY ATTACKS OF THE TERRORIST.WE MUST DO AS AMERICA DO FIGTH ANY TYPE OF TERRORISM AND AHTING AND LET EVERY BODY LIVE HIS OWN LIVE AND AS HE WISH WITHOUT HURTING ANOTHER .
THE FREEDOM OF COUNTRY START FROM THE FREEDOM OF THE PEOPLE OF COUNTRY SO WE MUST FIGTH TO HAVE THIS THING TO HAVE AN IRAQ FREE FROM ENEMIES AND FORIEGN FIGTHERS.