BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The Iraqi Parliament has started its session on Saturday, with the attendance of 222 out of its total 325 members, the Parliament’s media source reported.
“The Parliament’s 15th session has started before noon Saturday, under chairmanship of its Speaker, Usama al-Nujeify, with the attendance of 222 legislatures,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The same source told Aswat al-Iraq early in the day that the Parliament’s session on Saturday, would discuss the law on parties, the Cabinet’s trimming and the government’s program, with the attendance of Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki.
“The session also includes the voting on the Parliament’s internal system, the 1st reading of the parties’ law, the discussion of the Cabinet’s trimming and the government’s program, along with the reports of the Parliament’s Security & Defense Committee about the Iranian bombardment of the Iraqi territories in Kurdistan Region and the U.S. bombardment on Babel and Missan Provinces,” he said.
He added that the session would also “discuss the 1st reading of the project on ratification of the Memo of Understanding (MOU), signed between Iraq and the European Union, regarding their strategic partnership in the field of energy, along with the 2nd reading of the draft-law on the Industry & Minerals and the draft-law on the UN Agreement for Human Rights.”
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Victims of joint U.S.-Iraqi landing on Tikrit village reaches 4 killed
7/30/2011 11:44 AM
SALAHAL-DIN / Aswat al-Iraq: The number of victims of the joint U.S.-Iraqi air-landing on al-Rifeiat tribe’s village in Balad township of Salahal-Din Province on Saturday, has reached 4 civilians killed, the Tribe’s Sheikh reported.
“The number of victims of the joint U.S.-Iraqi air-landing on al-Rifeiat village of Balad township, 95 km to the south of Tikrit, has reached 5 persons killed,” Sheikh Yousif al-Rufeie told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
He added that he had raised a court case against the said joint U.S.-Iraqi air-landing at Balad’s police, charging the joint force’s soldiers with “having executed the four persons, including an old man, with cold blood,” stressing that the bodies of the victims were handed over to Balad’s General Hospital to prove the means of the killing.
Rifaie had told Aswat al-Iraq early in the day that 3 of his tribe’s men have been killed and 6 others, including women and children, had been injured in a joint U.S.-Iraqi air-landing on his village, south of Tikrit.
Tikrit, the center of Salahal-Din Province, is 175 km to the northwest of Baghdad.
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Hamdiya Hanan al-Husseini accused of corruption
Dubai - East July 28 accused the former director of the electoral district in the Electoral Commission has accused Hamdiya Husseini, Hanan al also exploiting its membership in the coalition of state law, headed by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to obtain moral and material privileges for her and her brothers. She noted al-Husseini to get Fatlawi on luxury apartments inside the Green Zone and Baghdad real estate agent and her hometown in the city of Hilla, registered in its name and the name of her brothers as well as an exception of her brother Colonel in the former Republican Guard of measures of accountability, justice and appointed commander of the police the province of Dhi Qar, after being granted the rank of Major General by Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.
Hamdiya Husseini reveal documents indicting MP Hanan al and her brothers
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Revealed the former head of the electoral district in the Electoral Commission for elections Hamdiya Husseini for possessing documents that pointed to the involvement of the interviewer MP Hanan al charges related to the administrative and financial corruption, noting that "the interrogation was for the purposes of political and personal."
Hamdiya Husseini said in a statement to the Agency all of Iraq [where] on Monday that "the process of questioning the Commission is one of the secretions of the results of the last legislative elections, a political and personal questioning of an MP for the coalition of state law Hanan al."
She added: "I have evidence relating to the corruption of administrative and financial against Fatlawi in the coverage of her brother called [Sabah Saeed Mohsen Fatlawi] the decisions of the accountability and justice as he takes a position in security high rank of director general is currently working in the Ministry of Interior as well as the allocation of house large [Villa] inside the Green Zone by General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers for the other brother named [Ehab Saeed Mohsen Fatlawi]. "
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U.S. Loses Ally as Iraqi General Waits for Trial
BAGHDAD — When the commander of an elite Iraqi counterterrorist unit escaped arrest on a bribery charge earlier this year, a melee between his bodyguards and the police was captured on video and landed on YouTube. It was leaked, according to the commander and two people involved in the case, by American officials who believed he was innocent and wanted to discredit the Iraqi investigation by portraying it as a circus.
The commander’s fate is a uniquely Iraqi tale of intrigue involving charges of corruption and competing versions of reality, and it shows the tension between a United States now on the verge of withdrawal and an increasingly assertive Iraqi government.
The facts in the case may be murky, but at least one consequence is clear: while the commander is in jail awaiting trial, the United States has lost a crucial partner in combating the Shiite militias that have been largely responsible for driving American combat deaths to the highest level in three years. American officials say that since the commander’s arrest, joint operations with his brigade have ground to a near halt.
The commander, Gen. Nomon Dakhil, who later turned himself in, led the Emergency Response Brigade, a special forces unit under the Ministry of Interior. He now sits in a sweltering room in a police station in the Green Zone. Wearing an Adidas jersey and sitting in front of a table piled with religious texts and five cellphones, General Dakhil explained that earlier this year he cooperated with American units in southern Iraq to concentrate on militias attacking United States bases with rockets.
“After targeting these guys, they stopped,” he said. Now, he said, “every day there are attacks” on the Americans.
Maj. Gen. Jeffrey S. Buchanan, the top United States military spokesman, said in a statement that the brigade’s “operations against these militias have been significantly reduced” since General Dakhil’s arrest.
General Dakhil believes he ran afoul of Iraqi political and military leaders with ties to the militias. “All the guys that worked against me are the Shias,” said the general, who is a Shiite himself.
The fallout from the continuing investigation has been extensive. After the general’s arrest in March on charges of taking a $50,000 bribe in a construction deal for a new military facility, some American investigators tried to involve themselves in the investigation, which was led by Raheem Hassan al-Uqailee, the head of Iraq’s Integrity Commission, the country’s top anticorruption body.
Mr. Uqailee complained about the interference to the American ambassador, James F. Jeffrey. At least two American officials have been reprimanded for interfering in the Iraqis’ investigation, and one was ordered to leave the country. An internal investigation conducted by the Ministry of Interior’s inspector general found no evidence that the general had accepted a bribe and declared the case a setup involving other Iraqi officials who had a grudge against the general for removing a relative of an official from his unit.
Mr. Uqailee says there is videotaped evidence from a sting operation that justifies continuing to pursue the criminal charges. But some who have seen the video say it is far from conclusive. Mr. Uqailee believes the corruption goes beyond General Dakhil, and says he has passed on information — which he declined to describe in detail — that suggests involvement by Americans in the corruption case that ensnared the general.
He said, “We have told the general inspector from the Americans about what information we have about the American side, we gave them all the information about the case, but with regret I say that the Americans have worked against us on the case.”
Stuart W. Bowen Jr., who leads the office of the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, confirmed that his office was investigating the case to determine if Americans were involved in any corrupt construction deal.
In April, Iraqi officials say, American troops tried to forcibly remove the general from custody. Mr. Uqailee said the troops “tried to free General Nomon from prison,” but that Iraqi security forces refused to turn him over. “There was a fight between them, with words not weapons,” Mr. Uqailee said.
The American military denies that soldiers tried to free the general but acknowledges a “verbal argument” that was quickly resolved at the jail where he is being held. General Dakhil said several American special forces soldiers had come to the jail to say goodbye before returning home, and were turned away, resulting in a verbal fracas.
A senior United States Embassy official in Baghdad, speaking anonymously according to ground rules for the interview, played down how Iraqi officials described the episode, saying, “There are always little confrontations by the nature of two military forces coming together.” He elaborated: “If it wasn’t a gun battle it’s not a real confrontation.”
General Dakhil has been replaced by a new general, who is believed to have ties to the Mahdi Army, the now-disbanded Shiite militia controlled by the anti-American cleric Moktada al-Sadr, who is closely aligned with the Iranian regime that the United States military says is supporting attacks on American soldiers.
After the American invasion upended a long reign of Sunni dominance, Sunni leaders feared that the new Shiite-dominated government would allow Shiite militants a free hand to wage sectarian strife. A crackdown on militants in 2008 led by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki bolstered his credibility with the Americans whose invasion allowed him to come to power. But many Sunnis have long feared that once the Americans left, and Iran gained influence over Iraq, that Mr. Maliki would back off.
General Dakhil’s troops worked closely with American Navy Seal and Green Beret personnel, and American officials vouch for his leadership.
“We had a very good relationship with General Nomon; he was an outstanding partner,” said Col. Scott Brower, commander of the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Arabian Peninsula. (He referred to the general by his first name, as is common in Iraq.)
The embassy official said: “This is not a minor thing. This was a key unit, an important commander. We had a very close relationship, professionally, with him, and saw him as a first-class leader and fighter, and that says nothing about the validity of the charges.”
In discussing the case, some Iraqi officials, including Mr. Uqailee, recalled a 2006 incident in which the electricity minister at the time, Ayham al-Samaraie, who held United States citizenship, escaped from jail after being arrested on a corruption charge. The Iraqis have long suspected United States involvement.
As General Dakhil awaits trial, even his close relationships with the Americans have not helped him.
“They tried to help me in any way they can,” he said. “They know it’s a political case.”
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