Azzaman, June 24, 2011
Scores of development projects are under construction in the southern Iraqi Province of Missan of which the city Amara is the capital.
“Our ministry is currently implementing 53 development projects of different kinds in the province,” said Minister of Reconstruction and Housing Mohammed al-Daraji.
Daraji was touring the province for a first-hand view of his ministry’s projects which range from new roads to the construction of hundreds of new housing units.
Daraji held meetings with the provincial officials including governor Ali Dawi.
Missan is one of Iraq’s least developed provinces. The minister outlined an ambitious program to develop the province.
He said his ministry’s companies were constructing roads hundreds of kilometers long and building 18 new structures.
The minister also visited Missan’s largest housing project of 405 housing units.
But there has been delays in implementing many of the ministry’s 53 development projects.
The minister said part of his visit was to enquire about the reasons for the delays and how to expedite the reconstruction process.
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Human Rights Ministry investigates conditions of Sri-Lankan workers in Missan
6/25/2011 3:23 PM
MISSAN / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraq’s Human Rights Ministry has formed a special committee to investigate the conditions of Sri-Lankan workers in a Lebanese company in southern Iraq’s Amara city, the Ministry’s Director-General in Southern Iraq’s Provinces said on Saturday.
“The Human Rights Ministry has formed a special committee to investigate the conditions of the Sri-Lankan workers.
Some of the workers attempted suicide, while others announced a hunger strike, both due to non-payment of their wages for 18 months from the Lebanese Talaat Husamiddin Company for Building of Rural Housing Complexes in al-Kheir village, 65 km to the south of Amara,” Ahmed Hadi Bonnia told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Bonnia, after meeting the Village’s Mayor, a representative of the company and the Sri-Lankan workers, said he had found the workers in very poor health and psychological condition, stressing that the Ministry “has to take into consideration the human aspects, away from the race, sect or nationality of the said workers, through respect of their rights, being heads of families, waiting for them in their country.” He noted that they total 41 workers, including 30 on the company's site and 11 at its Baghdad office.
“The committee has brough its report about the humanitarian conditions of the Sri-Lankan workers to the Minister’s office, in order to raise their case to the Council of Ministers, so that their wages may be paid by the Iraqi government,” he added.
Amara, the center of Missan Province, is 390 km to the south of Baghdad.
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Iraqi Shiite Sadrist MP condemns U.S. air attacks on Missan
7/20/2011 9:41 AM
MISSAN / Aswat al-Iraq: A Legislature of the Shiite Sadrist al-Ahrar (Liberals) Bloc have condemned the U.S. air raids on areas of southern Iraq’s Missan Province on Monday and Tuesday.
“We strongly condemn the air raids by U.S. warplanes on some areas of Missan Province,” Rafi’e Abdul-Jabbar told Aswat al-Iraq news agency, expressing surprise for “non-informing the Iraqi security bodies with the operation (by the U.S. side).”
Abdul-Jabbar considered “the bombardment of peaceful areas in Missan Province as a hostile attempt to plant terror among its peaceful inhabitants,” pointing out to the “existence of bad intentions by the occupation forces against the people of the Province, reflected in such attacks.”
A Missan security source has informed Aswat al-Iraq that the city of Amara, the center of Missan Province, had witnessed U.S. air raids on Monday and Tuesday, against its Ufiya and Abu-Rummana areas, using live ammunition.
The Iraqi Army suspects that the said areas had been used by armed groups to launch rockets on al-Buteira military airport, used as a by the U.S. and Iraqi security forces, 5 kms to the north of Amara.
Amara, the center of Missan Province, is 390 km to the south of Baghdad.
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URGENT / No extension of the Agreement with the Americans - Talabani
7/20/2011 1:32 PM
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has denied the existence of any plan to extend the U.S.
troops' presence in Iraq, despite the Iraqi Army not being entirely prepared to protect the country's borders, a Presidencial statement announced on Wednesday.
“The extension of the American-Iraqi Agreement is not possible, because such an extension necessitates the approval by two-thirds of the Parliament members.
This will not be achieved,” the statement quoted Talabani as saying in an interview with the Chinese Central Television (CCTV).
“The Iraqi military commands of the air-force, the navy, the army and the ground forces, have raised reports confirming the inability to protect the Iraqi borders after the withdrawal of the American forces,” he said.
He pointed to the “necessity of the existence of some American Trainers in Iraq, despite the fact that the presence of the American forces in their current manner is something that is opposed by the political forces in Iraq.”
President Talabani, in his interview, spoke about the nature of the political system in Iraq, saying that “Iraq’s nature and components of nationalities, religions and sectarian components necessitate a democratic federal system, but this issue is left for the will of the people and the voters.”
Commenting on relations with China, Talabani said, “There exists no obstacle in expanding relations between Iraq and China and to develop them on all material, social and political aspects.
The Iraqi leadership has a great wish to strengthen those relations, and I have a feeling that the Chinese Leadership possesses a similar wish to strengthen relations with Iraq.”
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Iraqi Army corners Missan’s Police after latter’s Director’s sacking
8/12/2011 9:38 PM
MISSAN / Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi Army force has cornered the building of southern Iraq Missan’s Police Directorate after sacking its Director-General, Missan’s Security & Defense Committee Chairman reported on Friday.
“An Iraqi Army Force has cornered the Building of Missan Police Directorate in Amara City, the center of Missan Province, in the background of sacking its Director, Major-General Ismail Arrar by the Interior Ministry and appointing Major-General Hakim Jassim to replace him,” Sarhan al-Mousawi said.
Mousawi said that “Arrar’s sacking decision is not legal, because the Iraqi Constitution had given the authority of appointing or sacking Director-Generals to the Province’s Council only.”
He demanded the Iraqi government and the Parliament to “interfere to settle the said problem, in order to avoid undermining the stable security situation witnessed by Missan Province, since Major-General Ismail Arrar took his position as Missan’s Police Director-General.”
Amara had witnessed on Thursday evening a demonstration by dozens of its citizens, supporting a decision to sack Missan’s Oil Company’s Director and to keep its Police Director-General in his post.
Missan Province’s Council had voted in majority to reject the decision, issued by the Iraqi government, to transfer Missan Police’s Director-General, Major-General Arrar al-Majidi and replace him by Major-General, Jassim al-Hasnawi, as well as sacking the Director-General of Missan’s Oil company, the Director of Internal Affairs and the Director of Protection of Installations, charged with incompetence.
Amara, the center of Missan Province, is 390 km to the south of Baghdad.
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Iraqi Oil Report
Leaders in the oil-rich provinces of Basra, Dhi Qar and Missan are trying to shift power from the central government to the provinces, proposing to combine into a new southern region modeled after the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in the north.
Over the past month and a half, provincial leaders have increasingly voiced dissatisfaction with Baghdad over issues including oil development, electricity distribution, unemployment, and the continuing presence of U.S. troops. Some have proposed re...
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Five rockets fall on Bueira Airport, north of Amara
8/16/2011 10:11 AM
MISSAN / Aswat al-Iraq: Five rockets fell on the Buteira military airport, north of the city of Amara, the center of southern Iraq’s Missan Province, on Monday night, causing no human or material damage, a Missan security source reported.
“The Bueira Military Airport, 10 km to the northwest of Amara city, had been target for a five rockets attack, that caused no human or material losses,” the security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency on Tuesday.
He gave no further details, but said that an Iraqi Army force had inspected the areas close to the venue of the rocket attack, searching for the launchers of the rockets.
The Buteira Military Airport is used by the Iraqi Army forces and had been target for several Katusha rocket attacks by unknown armed gunmen.
Amara, the center of Missan Province, is 390 km to south of the Iraqi Capital of Baghdad.
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Iraqi TribalFederation in Missan formed
12/7/2011 7:01 PM
12/7/2011 7:01 PM
MISSAN /Aswat al-Iraq: The chairman of the Independent Iraqi Authority for CivilSociety Organizations announced the formation of the General Federation ofIraqi Tribes in Missan province, making it the first independent foundationthere.
"The aimof the organization is to unite the tribal decision, Iraqi unity anddevelopment of Iraqi tribes," Basil Abdul-Wahab al-Azzawi told Aswatal-Iraq.
He added thatthe Federation aims at cooperating and developing relations among Iraqi tribesto execute their national role in political, social and humanitarian fields.
Sheik TalibSaddam, Federation Coordinator in Missan province, told Aswat al-Iraq thatother aims are to combat poverty, unemployment, deterioration in educational,health and environmental fields, eradication of corruption and coordinationwith local and central governments.
He added that15 committees shall be formed in fields of education, national reconciliation,investments, projects, women and children, sports and youth, media, veterans,investigation, politics, democracy, peasants’ affairs and human rights.
Amara, thecenter of Missan province, lies 390 km south of the capital, Baghdad.
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Aswat Al Iraq / Missan , Security
600 Tribal Chieftains in Missan, south Iraq, express support for security forces after US withdrawal
12/29/2011 5:36 PM
MISSAN / Aswat al-Iraq: 600 Iraqi Tribal Chieftains in southern Iraq's Missan Province have expressed support
for the security forces in their province, after the withdrawal of the American forces from the province, according
to a statement by the Director of Tribes in Missan on Thursday.
"600 Tribal Chieftains in Missan Province have announced today (Thursday) their support for the Iraqi police, army
and Internal Security Forces, in a broad security conference held in Amara, the center of Missan Province," Colonel
Hassan Abdl-Naby, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency, pointing out that "the conference was attended by the Chairman
of Missan's Council, Abdul-Hussein al-Saedy, the Province's Council Members and Parliament Members, along with
the Director-General of Missan Pollice, Lt-Brigadier, Ali al-Hashimy."
On his part, the Chief of al-Sudan Tribe and Legislature, Sheikh Mohammed Saadoun al-Seyhoud, told Aswat al-
Iraq new agency that "the said announcement by Missan's Chieftains was not strange, because their active role in
supporting the Security Forces in protecting security and order in the Province, during the operations that took
place in 2007 and the period that followed those operations that witnessed a considerable stability in the Province."
"Everybody, including the Tribal Chieftains, are demanded to become on hand, to prove for those who voted on
the deterioration of the security conditions in the Province, after the departure of the Americans, that they had been
mistaken," he said.
Amara, the center of Missan Province, is 390 km to the south of Baghdad.
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