Iraq, US plead for support

xrough · 05-03-2007, 22:56 PM

Iraq, US plead for support

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AFP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice urged the world on Thursday to rescue Iraq from chaos and bankruptcy.

They made their appeal for international solidarity in efforts to end the bloodshed at a conference in Egypt, which was overshadowed by the prospect of rare meetings between the United States and its foes Iran and Syria.

"We consider this conference in Sharm el-Sheikh to be an international show of support for Iraq, and the main aim of the International Compact is to rebuild a unified, democratic and federal Iraq and to distribute its wealth fairly," Maliki said in his opening remarks.

Foreign ministers and top diplomats from more than 50 countries gathered in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to launch the International Compact with Iraq (ICI), a five-year plan aimed at stabilizing war-torn Iraq.

The document includes a raft of measures to give fresh impetus to Iraq's economy, improve governance and offer financial assistance, in a process key players hope will bolster reconciliation between warring communities.

"We call on all participating countries to cancel Iraq's debt in order to allow it to begin the building and development and to fix the destroyed infrastructure," Maliki said.

Iraq's Finance Minister Bayan Jabr Solagh told AFP before the conference kicked off he expected countries including Saudi Arabia and Egypt to write off up to 40-50 billion dollars of debt at the meeting.

"Your support will allow the national unity government to continue dedicating itself to the political process and democracy," Maliki told participants.

The meeting was seen as the biggest diplomatic push to solve Iraq's many woes since the US-led invasion in March 2003 and Rice urged broad and sustained support for the new initiative.

"Today's Compact meeting is an historic event, but we all know it is the beginning of a process and not an end in itself," she said.

"This process will grow and strengthen as more countries and organizations commit to supporting Iraq, so we must all work to expand international participation in this compact," she added.

On her way to the conference, Rice said the onus was on Iraq's neighbors to show their commitment to ending violence, warning that their own stability was at stake.

Completing a shift in US policy, Rice was expected to hold rare meetings with Syria and Iran, two of Iraq's neighbors which Washington has repeatedly accused of supporting the Sunni insurgency and Shiite militias respectively.

A senior US state department official told reporters on condition of anonymity that Rice would meet Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem later Thursday.

The last high-ranking US official to hold talks with Syrian officials was then deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage, who travelled to Damascus in January 2005.

Speculation also abounded over a possible Rice meeting with her Iranian counterpart, Manouchehr Mottaki.

The two are expected to attend consultations together but it remained unclear whether they would engage in deep bilateral talks, which would mark the first high level talks meeting since diplomatic relations broke off in 1980.

On her way to Egypt, Rice indicated that she would also be ready to discuss issues other than Iraq with the Iranian foreign minister, including the standoff over the Islamic republic's nuclear program.

"I think I could handle any question as asked," she said.

Key points of the ICI plan include new laws on oil revenue sharing and on the return to public life of members of the late Saddam Hussein's regime.

Friday's meetings are expected to bring together Iraq's neighbors in a bid to step up cooperation on security issues, such as cross-border smuggling of weapons and militants.

The conference comes against the backdrop of an intense battle between US President George W. Bush's administration and the Democrat-dominated Congress over the war in Iraq.

On Tuesday, Bush dashed the hopes of some of Iraq's neighbors for a firm timetable for the withdrawal of US troops by vetoing a bill setting a start date for a pullout.

Ray · 05-04-2007, 10:32 AM

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Beleaguered Iraqis now fear their own security forces more than the insurgents

By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad
Published: 04 May 2007

"Be careful," warned a senior Iraqi government official living in the Green Zone in Baghdad, "be very careful and above all do not trust the police or the army."

He added that the level of insecurity in the Iraqi capital is as bad now as it was before the US drive to make the city safe came into operation in February.

The so-called "surge", the dispatch of 20,000 extra American troops to Iraq with the prime mission of getting control of Baghdad, is visibly failing.

There are army and police checkpoints everywhere but Iraqis are terrified because they do not know if the men in uniform they see there are, in reality, death squad members.

Omar, the 15-year-old brother-in-law of a friend, was driving with two other boys through al-Mansur in west Baghdad a fortnight ago. Their car was stopped at a police checkpoint. Most of the police in Baghdad are Shia. They took him away saying they suspected that his ID card was a fake. The real reason was probably that only Sunnis use the name Omar. Three days later he was found dead.

I was driving through central Baghdad yesterday. Our car was pulled over at an army checkpoint. I had hung my jacket from a hook above the window so nobody could easily see I was a foreigner. A soldier leaned in the window and asked who I was. We were lucky. He merely looked surprised when told I was a foreign journalist and said softly: "Keep well hidden."

The problem about the US security plan is that it does not provide security. It had some impact to begin with and the number of bodies found in the street went down. This was mainly because the Shia Mehdi Army was stood down by its leader, Muqtada al-Sadr.

But the Sunni insurgent groups increased the number of sectarian suicide bombings against Shia markets. The US was unable to stop this and now the sectarian body count is on the rise again. Some 30 bodies, each shot in the head, were found on Wednesday alone.

The main new American tactic is proving counter-productive. This is the sealing-off of entire neighbourhoods, either by concrete walls or barriers of rubbish, so there is only a single entrance and exit.

Speaking of Sunni districts such as al-Adhamiyah, a government official said: "We are creating mini-Islamic republics."

This is born out by anecdotal evidence. The uncle of a friend called Mohammed (nobody wants their full name published) died of natural causes. The family, all Sunni, wanted to bury him but were unable to reach the nearest cemetery in Abu Ghraib. Instead they went to one in Adhamiyah. As they entered the cemetery an armed civilian group, whom they took to be al-Qa'ida from their way of speaking, asked directly: "Are any of you Shia?" Only when reassured that they were all Sunni were they allowed to bury their relative.

The failure of the "surge" comes because it is not accompanied by any political reconciliation. On the contrary the government is factionalised. The two vice-presidents, Tariq al- Hashimi, a Sunni, and Adel Abdel Mehdi, a Shia, may make conciliatory statements, but one Iraqi observer noted: "Tariq only employs Sunni and Adel only Shia."

The Sunni feel they are fighting for their lives. Their last redoubts in east Baghdad (aside from Adhamiyah) are being overrun by the Mehdi Army. The Sunni insurgent groups, notably al-Qa'ida, are on the offensive in west Baghdad, where they are strongest. When the Americans succeed in driving away Shia militia their place is taken, not by government forces, but by Sunni militia.

People in Baghdad are terrified of being killed by a bomb or bundled into the boot of a car and murdered. Less dramatic, but equally significant in forcing people to flee Iraq for Jordan or Syria is the sheer difficulty of maintaining a normal life. Much of the trade in the city used to take place in open-air markets. But because of repeated bombs attacks only one is now open. This is in Karada, but many people no longer go there because it has come under repeated attack.

So many areas are now sealed off in Baghdad that there are continuous traffic jams. This presents a problem for drivers. If they to avoid the traffic jams by driving off the main road they may enter an area where militiamen rule whomay kill them.

One friend who had just returned from a trip to Syria found that, because of an attack on a government patrol, his neighbourhood had been closed to traffic. "I had to walk for 40 minutes with my heavy suitcase," he lamented.

Even in dangerous neighbourhoods such as Beitawin, off Saadoun Street in central Baghdad, notorious for its criminal gangs even in Saddam Hussein's time, people were queuing for petrol for hours yesterday evening because they have no choiceif they want to fill their tanks.

A bizarre flavour has been given to Saadoun Street because the government has encouraged artists to paint the giant concrete blast barriers with uplifting, if unlikely, scenes of mountain torrents, meadows in spring and lakeside scenes. Many of the pictures, all in garish greens, blues and yellows, look more like Switzerland than Iraq.

Muqtada al-Sadr, for his part, is encouraging artists to paint the blast barriers with scenes illustrating the anguish that has been inflicted on the Iraqi people by the US occupation.

The only "gated community" that functions successfully in Baghdad is the Green Zone itself, the four square miles on the right bank of the Tigris that is home to the government and the US embassy. It is sealed off from the rest of Iraq by multiple security barriers and fortifications.

Entering the zone recently I was questioned and searched, at different stages, by Kurds, Georgians, Peruvians and Nepalese.

No country in the world has such rigorous frontier procedures as what one American called "this little chunk of Texas". Living cut off in the zone it is impossible for the ruling elite of Iraq to understand the terrible suffering and terror beyond the compound's gates.

© 2007 Independent News and Media Limited

Beleaguered Iraqis now fear their own security forces more than the insurgents - Independent Online Edition > Middle East

No amount of pleading will get Iraq out of the mess, unless they stop their senseless Shia - Sunni historical hatred.

The article above indicates how insane is this rivalry.

This sectarian rivalry only muddles the whole issue and in the bargain it complicates all actions that are envisaged to bring sanity and progress to Iraq.

They are themselves ruining all hopes to bring the country on even keel.

Ray · 05-04-2007, 13:27 PM

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Don't Abandon Us

By Hoshyar Zebari
Friday, May 4, 2007; Page A23

Last weekend a traffic jam several miles long snaked out of the Mansour district in western Baghdad. The delay stemmed not from a car bomb closing the road but from a queue to enter the city's central amusement park. The line became so long some families left their cars and walked to enjoy picnics, fairground rides and soccer, the Iraqi national obsession.

Across the city, restaurants are slowly filling and shops are reopening. The streets are busy. Iraqis are not cowering indoors. The appalling death tolls from suicide attacks are often high because of crowding at markets. These days you are as likely to hear complaints about traffic congestion as about the security situation. Across Baghdad there is a cacophony of sirens from ambulances, firefighters and police providing public services. You cannot even escape the curse of traffic wardens ticketing illegally parked cars.

These small but significant snippets of normality are overshadowed by acts of gross violence, which fuel the opinion of some that Iraq is in a downward spiral. The Iraqi people are indeed suffering tremendous hardships and making grave sacrifices -- but daily life goes on for 7 million Baghdadis struggling to take back their capital and country.

Today, at an international summit on the future of Iraq in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, my government will ask the international community to maintain its engagement in our country to help us achieve our goals of security and stability. We recognize that our request conflicts with a plethora of voices decrying the situation in Iraq and those in the British and American publics who seek an expeditious withdrawal from a war they claim is all but lost.

So why should the world remain engaged in Iraq?

There is no denying the difficulties Iraq faces, and no amount of good news can obscure the demons of terrorism and sectarianism that have risen in my country. But there is too much at stake to risk failure, and everything to gain by helping us protect our hard-won democratic achievements and emerge as a stable, self-sustaining country.

We remain determined in spite of our losses. Spectacular attacks may dominate foreign headlines, but they cannot change the reality that Iraq has made steady political, economic and social progress over the past four years. We continue to strengthen our nascent democratic institutions, pursue national reconciliation and expand Iraqi security forces. The Baghdad security plan was conceived to give us breathing space to expedite political and economic development by "securing and holding" neighborhoods across the capital. There is no quick fix, but there have been real results: Winning public confidence has led to a spike in intelligence, a disruption of terrorist networks and the capture of key leaders, as well as the discovery of weapons caches. In Anbar province, Sunni sheikhs and insurgents have turned against al-Qaeda and to the side of Iraqi security forces. This would have been unthinkable even six months ago.

Contrary to popular belief, most government ministries are located outside the Green Zone, and employees drive to work every day despite death threats and attacks on colleagues and families. We government ministers are always at risk of assassination. When a suicide bomber attacked parliament last month, the legislators sat in defiance in an extraordinary session the following day. I am particularly inspired by the commitment of the young diplomats in the Foreign Ministry, a diverse mix of Sunni, Shiite, Christian, Arab and Kurdish men and women who serve their country without subscribing to religious or sectarian divisions.

Iraqis are standing up every day, and we persevere because there is no other option. We will not surrender our country to terrorists. They have failed to cripple the elected government, and they have failed to intimidate us into submission. Iraqis reject their vision of a future whose hallmarks are bloodshed and hatred.

Those calling for withdrawal may think it is the least painful option, but its benefits would be short-lived. The fate of the region and the world is linked with ours. Leaving a broken Iraq in the Middle East would offer international terrorism a haven and ensure a legacy of chaos for future generations. Furthermore, the sacrifices of all the young men and women who stood up here would have been in vain.

Iraqis, for all our determination and courage, cannot succeed alone. We need a healthy and supportive regional environment. We will not allow our country to be a battleground for settling scores in regional and international conflicts that adversely affect stability inside our borders. Only with continued international commitment and deeper engagement from our neighbors can we establish a stable democratic, federal and united Iraq. The world should not abandon us.

The writer is foreign minister of Iraq.

Hoshyar Zebari - Don't Abandon Us - washingtonpost.com

Here is another plea.

From the Foreign Minister himself!

Anyone listening?

Confed999 · 05-04-2007, 16:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Ray

Here is another plea.

From the Foreign Minister himself!

Anyone listening?

Nothing new. Been begging for help since before the first bomb fell...

xrough · 05-06-2007, 23:22 PM

If Iraqis want solution for the problem probably they should start resolve themselves because whatever help they get if this rivalry between factions won't stop things would be difficult..

Garry · 05-07-2007, 07:18 AM

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Originally Posted by xrough

If Iraqis want solution for the problem probably they should start resolve themselves because whatever help they get if this rivalry between factions won't stop things would be difficult..

Who are Iraqis?

xrough · 05-07-2007, 20:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Garry

Who are Iraqis?

The people of Iraq I think?correct me if im wrong..

Ray · 05-08-2007, 00:07 AM

Who are Iraqis?

Iraq with its population of about 22 million people has been shaped by a
number of cultural and ethnic factors.

· Most of the people are of Arabic origin. About 80% speak Arabic.

· Ninety-five percent of the people are Muslim. There are about twice as
many Shias (Shi’ites) as Sunnis. (Sunnis are the more numerous sect or
religious group in most Muslim countries.)

· Kurds are a large minority living in the uplands of northeast Iraq. They are
primarily Sunni Muslims.

Minority Groups

Other minorities of Iraq include Turks, Armenians, and Assyrians (Nestorian
Christians). Most of the country’s once large Jewish population resettled in
Israel in the early 1950s.

xrough · 05-17-2007, 23:17 PM

Iranian, US officials meet in Iraq on May 28

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Iranian and US officials will meet in Iraq on May 28 to discuss security in the country, a rare face-to-face meeting between the bitter rivals, Iran's foreign minister said on Thursday.

Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said the talks would focus on the situation in Iraq four years after the US-led invasion. The talks, being held at the request of Iraqi leaders, would be at ambassador level.

He dismissed the possibility of discussing other thorny issues, such as Iran's nuclear program.

"Negotiation is limited to Iraq, in Iraq, and will start in the presence of Iraqi officials," Mottaki told a news conference in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.

"Nothing but Iraq on the agenda."

Washington said this week talks would soon take place with Iran on how it could play a "productive role" in Iraq's security.

The United States has accused Iran of fomenting violence in Iraq by backing Shi'ite militia there, and of providing weapons and the technology for new versions of roadside bombs such as "explosively formed projectiles", or EFPs.

US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker said he did not expect "any stunning, startling breakthroughs" from the first meeting.

"Their support for militias, their involvement in the development and transfer of EFPs that are killing our forces, these are not good things," Crocker told reporters in Baghdad.

"It would be a very good thing if they brought their actions more into alignment with their words."

Iran denies the charges and accuses the United States of igniting tension between Iraq's Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari has welcomed the talks. US officials have often said they would meet Iranian counterparts but that talks would have to be limited to Iraq.

Violence is increasing in Iraq and US President George W. Bush is under increasing domestic pressure to wrap up the four-year-old conflict.

Nuclear standoff

Mottaki said deteriorating security in Iraq proved the US strategy there had failed.

"The policies were wrong," he said. He did not elaborate.

Tehran is locked in a standoff with the West over its nuclear program. Washington accuses it of wanting to produce nuclear weapons.

Iran says it seeks nuclear technology only to generate electricity that would allow it to export more oil.

Mottaki said Iran was ready to assure the world it had not diverted nuclear know-how to weapons production and would not do so in future.

"Iran's activity is peaceful, legal and permission for such activity comes from our membership of the NPT and not permission from any specific country," he said, referring to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that Iran has signed.

"We are flexible to talk to find a comprehensive solution on this issue ... the only price which we cannot pay for this solution is to ignore the essential right of the Iranian nation to have nuclear technology.

"Less than that we are ready for any compromise."

05-03-2007, 22:56 PM	#1 (permalink)
xrough Contributor Join Date: 01-08-07 Location: Manila Posts: 735 Country:	Iraq, US plead for support Iraq, US plead for support SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AFP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice urged the world on Thursday to rescue Iraq from chaos and bankruptcy. They made their appeal for international solidarity in efforts to end the bloodshed at a conference in Egypt, which was overshadowed by the prospect of rare meetings between the United States and its foes Iran and Syria. "We consider this conference in Sharm el-Sheikh to be an international show of support for Iraq, and the main aim of the International Compact is to rebuild a unified, democratic and federal Iraq and to distribute its wealth fairly," Maliki said in his opening remarks. Foreign ministers and top diplomats from more than 50 countries gathered in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to launch the International Compact with Iraq (ICI), a five-year plan aimed at stabilizing war-torn Iraq. The document includes a raft of measures to give fresh impetus to Iraq's economy, improve governance and offer financial assistance, in a process key players hope will bolster reconciliation between warring communities. "We call on all participating countries to cancel Iraq's debt in order to allow it to begin the building and development and to fix the destroyed infrastructure," Maliki said. Iraq's Finance Minister Bayan Jabr Solagh told AFP before the conference kicked off he expected countries including Saudi Arabia and Egypt to write off up to 40-50 billion dollars of debt at the meeting. "Your support will allow the national unity government to continue dedicating itself to the political process and democracy," Maliki told participants. The meeting was seen as the biggest diplomatic push to solve Iraq's many woes since the US-led invasion in March 2003 and Rice urged broad and sustained support for the new initiative. "Today's Compact meeting is an historic event, but we all know it is the beginning of a process and not an end in itself," she said. "This process will grow and strengthen as more countries and organizations commit to supporting Iraq, so we must all work to expand international participation in this compact," she added. On her way to the conference, Rice said the onus was on Iraq's neighbors to show their commitment to ending violence, warning that their own stability was at stake. Completing a shift in US policy, Rice was expected to hold rare meetings with Syria and Iran, two of Iraq's neighbors which Washington has repeatedly accused of supporting the Sunni insurgency and Shiite militias respectively. A senior US state department official told reporters on condition of anonymity that Rice would meet Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem later Thursday. The last high-ranking US official to hold talks with Syrian officials was then deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage, who travelled to Damascus in January 2005. Speculation also abounded over a possible Rice meeting with her Iranian counterpart, Manouchehr Mottaki. The two are expected to attend consultations together but it remained unclear whether they would engage in deep bilateral talks, which would mark the first high level talks meeting since diplomatic relations broke off in 1980. On her way to Egypt, Rice indicated that she would also be ready to discuss issues other than Iraq with the Iranian foreign minister, including the standoff over the Islamic republic's nuclear program. "I think I could handle any question as asked," she said. Key points of the ICI plan include new laws on oil revenue sharing and on the return to public life of members of the late Saddam Hussein's regime. Friday's meetings are expected to bring together Iraq's neighbors in a bid to step up cooperation on security issues, such as cross-border smuggling of weapons and militants. The conference comes against the backdrop of an intense battle between US President George W. Bush's administration and the Democrat-dominated Congress over the war in Iraq. On Tuesday, Bush dashed the hopes of some of Iraq's neighbors for a firm timetable for the withdrawal of US troops by vetoing a bill setting a start date for a pullout. __________________

05-17-2007, 23:17 PM	#9 (permalink)
xrough Contributor Join Date: 01-08-07 Location: Manila Posts: 735 Country:	Update: Iranian, US officials meet in Iraq on May 28 ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Iranian and US officials will meet in Iraq on May 28 to discuss security in the country, a rare face-to-face meeting between the bitter rivals, Iran's foreign minister said on Thursday. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said the talks would focus on the situation in Iraq four years after the US-led invasion. The talks, being held at the request of Iraqi leaders, would be at ambassador level. He dismissed the possibility of discussing other thorny issues, such as Iran's nuclear program. "Negotiation is limited to Iraq, in Iraq, and will start in the presence of Iraqi officials," Mottaki told a news conference in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. "Nothing but Iraq on the agenda." Washington said this week talks would soon take place with Iran on how it could play a "productive role" in Iraq's security. The United States has accused Iran of fomenting violence in Iraq by backing Shi'ite militia there, and of providing weapons and the technology for new versions of roadside bombs such as "explosively formed projectiles", or EFPs. US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker said he did not expect "any stunning, startling breakthroughs" from the first meeting. "Their support for militias, their involvement in the development and transfer of EFPs that are killing our forces, these are not good things," Crocker told reporters in Baghdad. "It would be a very good thing if they brought their actions more into alignment with their words." Iran denies the charges and accuses the United States of igniting tension between Iraq's Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari has welcomed the talks. US officials have often said they would meet Iranian counterparts but that talks would have to be limited to Iraq. Violence is increasing in Iraq and US President George W. Bush is under increasing domestic pressure to wrap up the four-year-old conflict. Nuclear standoff Mottaki said deteriorating security in Iraq proved the US strategy there had failed. "The policies were wrong," he said. He did not elaborate. Tehran is locked in a standoff with the West over its nuclear program. Washington accuses it of wanting to produce nuclear weapons. Iran says it seeks nuclear technology only to generate electricity that would allow it to export more oil. Mottaki said Iran was ready to assure the world it had not diverted nuclear know-how to weapons production and would not do so in future. "Iran's activity is peaceful, legal and permission for such activity comes from our membership of the NPT and not permission from any specific country," he said, referring to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that Iran has signed. "We are flexible to talk to find a comprehensive solution on this issue ... the only price which we cannot pay for this solution is to ignore the essential right of the Iranian nation to have nuclear technology. "Less than that we are ready for any compromise."

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xrough Contributor Join Date: 01-08-07 Location: Manila Posts: 735 Country:	If Iraqis want solution for the problem probably they should start resolve themselves because whatever help they get if this rivalry between factions won't stop things would be difficult..

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Ray Postmaster General *Military Professional* Join Date: 08-20-03 Posts: 25,850 Country:	Who are Iraqis? Iraq with its population of about 22 million people has been shaped by a number of cultural and ethnic factors. · Most of the people are of Arabic origin. About 80% speak Arabic. · Ninety-five percent of the people are Muslim. There are about twice as many Shias (Shi’ites) as Sunnis. (Sunnis are the more numerous sect or religious group in most Muslim countries.) · Kurds are a large minority living in the uplands of northeast Iraq. They are primarily Sunni Muslims. Minority Groups Other minorities of Iraq include Turks, Armenians, and Assyrians (Nestorian Christians). Most of the country’s once large Jewish population resettled in Israel in the early 1950s.

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