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Maliki in US: Routine Visit or Facing Critics?

By RUDAW 15 hours ago

The Iraqi prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki has faced serious opposition from the country's Sunni and Kurdish groups since his re-election in 2010. Photo: AP
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – US arms sales to Iraq, security and the war in Syria will be at the center of talks during Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s upcoming trip to Washington, according to sources knowledgeable about the November 1 visit.

However, other sources note that Maliki’s critics also have been invited to Washington, indicating a more substantial discussion with the Shiite premier over security and his policies toward the country’s large Sunni and ethnic Kurdish minorities.

"The prime minister's visit is to strengthen relations between Iraq and the United States," Iraqi MP Khalid al-Assadi told Rudaw. "The issue of arming Iraq's armed forces and maintaining the strategic agreement between both countries will be among the topics of discussion on this visit," said Assadi, who is from Maliki's own State of Law coalition.

Assadi said that Maliki will also discuss the situation in Syria with America's top officials, among them President Barack Obama.

Other sources say that US Vice President Joseph Biden had in a telephone call invited Iraq's Sunni parliamentary speaker Osama Nujeifi to visit Washington in November. Also, the head of the Sunni-dominated Iraqiya bloc, Ayad Allawi, is already in the United States.

The sources say it is likely that the Americans want to have a hearing with Iraqi leaders, given the fact Nujeifi and Allawi are both strong critics of Maliki.

Unofficial Kurdish sources have also said that Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani has been invited to Washington.

The Iraqi prime minister has faced serious opposition from the country's Sunni and Kurdish groups since his re-election in 2010, and the Americans have expressed reservations about his close ties with neighboring Iran and Syria. But Maliki has managed to hold on so far.

Also of concern to the United States is the deteriorating security situation in Iraq, where daily bombings and sectarian Shiite-Sunni violence are on the rise.

This year, Iraq has registered some of its worst violence. The UN says more than 1,000 Iraqis were killed in July, making it the most violent month in years.

About 6,000 civilians have been killed and some 10,000 injured so far this year, with Baghdad province worst hit. This year’s death toll has already exceeded the number of deaths for all of 2012.

- See more at: http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/241020131#sthash.lSh8BQcz.dpuf
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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It also forgot to mention serious opposition from Sadr. haha Maliki has got 99 problems but a b**ch aint one.
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on weapon purchase of irack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctsIEzCNRa8
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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American solder "watches" while Shiite iracki beheads a sunni iracki
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Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Good news guys US yet again has delayed handing over maliki the f16s xD
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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The SAA has capture the city of Al-Safira which is 20 km south of Aleppo and is bombing ISIS+Nusra controlled Tel Eren and Tel Hassel his last obstacle before he can surround rebel control neighborhoods in eastern Aleppo.
The situation is very difficult for rebels now their situation is the same as it was a year and half ago and the regime is trying to secure as much towns and cities in Aleppo as possible before Geneva 2.
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Reality of iracki everyday livings
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Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Nov 1 13, 12:00
American solder "watches" while Shiite iracki beheads a sunni iracki
Alan those Sunnis were terrorists. An American wouldn't let them kill civilians.
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How would you know jj!?
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Nov 1 13, 11:48
How would you know jj!?
I don't know for certain, but if you say they are Shia. Then I would assume they were part of the Mahdi army, the Mehdi army engaged in surges before 2006 with the US army on Sunni extremist groups. Notice how they are blindfolded and handcuffed, I'm certain they were rounded up.
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US President Obama and i-racki PM Nouri Maliki are expected to discuss the escalating violence in i-rack at a White House meeting, officials have said.

Mr Maliki has sought US help countering a resurgence of al-Qaeda extremists, almost two years after the US withdrew its troops.

The White House said aid to i-rack was "an essential piece of our engagement".

The UN estimates more than 5,700 civilians have been killed in 2013 in i-rack.

On Thursday, Mr Maliki met Vice-President Joe Biden, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Martin Dempsey, on his first visit to Washington DC in two years.

The White House said Mr Maliki and Mr Biden discussed how US assistance could aid the Iraqis to isolate militant networks.

Later, Mr Maliki said he blamed i-rack's power vacuum for a resurgent al-Qaeda, and said he sought US assistance in fighting the militants.

"We were partners and we shed blood together fighting terrorism," Mr Maliki said at the US Institute of Peace in Washington.

"This allowed us to win over terrorism in i-rack," he added, before acknowledging the rising bloodshed.

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We need to benefit from [US] experience, from the intelligence information and from training”

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i-rack has seen a spill-over of violence from the conflict in neighbouring Syria, where fighters linked to the Islamic State of i-rack - a Sunni militant umbrella group that includes al-Qaeda - have risen to prominence.

The i-racki government has also faced widespread criticism over corruption and problems with the provision of basic services, with many Sunni Muslims accusing Mr Maliki, a Shia Muslim, of marginalising the religious majority.

Some US officials say Mr Maliki has ignored calls from Washington to give Sunnis and Kurds a greater role in the government, and have raised concerns regarding increased ties with Iran.

Mr Maliki defended his actions on Thursday, saying he had followed the i-racki constitution and that democracy "needs lots of time".

He has reportedly requested Apache attack helicopters and other military equipment from the US to help i-racki government forces press the fight against the al-Qaeda militants.

"We are talking with the Americans and we are telling them that we need to benefit from their experience, from the intelligence information and from training," Mr Maliki said.

White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters on Thursday he expected Mr Obama and Mr Maliki to discuss i-rack's military needs during Friday's meeting.

Mr Carney said there was "no question" the US leader would express his concerns regarding escalating violence in i-rack and the "the need to take steps, peaceful steps, to reduce that violence".

"We believe that continued assistance is necessary, and denying that assistance would be contrary to our interests," he added.
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Nov 1 13, 10:05
ALAN
Nov 1 13, 12:00
American solder "watches" while Shiite iracki beheads a sunni iracki
Alan those Sunnis were terrorists. An American wouldn't let them kill civilians.
JJ, the American army is filled up with immature young people that wouldn't have anything against having some civilians killed for the sake of entertainment.
I am confused by God's wisdom:
In this world of States
Why have the Kurds remained Stateless, dispossessed,
What for have they all become fugitives, condemned?


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And free the captive
If he be unjustly confined
Assist any person oppressed
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JJ, the American army is filled up with immature young people that wouldn't have anything against having some civilians killed for the sake of entertainment.
True, but not that I'm agreeing with what they are doing. I think it's disgusting that you execute someone like that. Plus I doubt these people got what you call a "fair trial".
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i-rack oil pipeline running from Kerkûk to Turkish port of Ceyhan bombed, pumping shut down
Kerkûk - Agence France-Presse


Militants bombed a major oil pipeline in KRG early on Nov. 2, disabling it and forcing pumping to be suspended, security officials said.

Three blasts went off along the pipeline, in Nineveh province, which runs to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, according to two security officials. They did not cause any casualties.

An official with the state-owned North Oil Co in the city of Kerkûk said the suspension was caused by a technical fault, and said repairs were being carried out on the pipeline, with pumping expected to resume on Nov. 3.

Militants frequently attack the pipeline, which ferries a significant portion of i-rack's oil exports to international markets.

i-rack is heavily dependent on crude sales, which account for 95 percent of government revenues and an estimated two-thirds of gross domestic product, and is looking to dramatically boost them in the coming years.

Officials are aiming to increase production capacity to nine million bpd by 2017, a target that the International Monetary Fund and International Energy Agency have warned is over-optimistic.

November/02/2013
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Military expert: the western regions of i-rack Won’t be stable because of “ISIS”

4 / 11 / 2013

witebej - An i-racki retired military expert Major General Ahmed Fadel al-Mashhadani declared for Khandan Website that “The Islamic State of i-rack and Sham aka ISIS has exploited the environment and demography of the west of i-rack to control and spread out its power and affect even they win the battles in Syria or not”.
He also added: to control and prevent ISIS influence and power, the western area of i-rack should divide to several sectors and starting new service projects so as to reduce their supporters.

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Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Military expert: the western regions of i-rack Won’t be stable because of “ISIS”

4 / 11 / 2013

witebej - An i-racki retired military expert Major General Ahmed Fadel al-Mashhadani declared for Khandan Website that “The Islamic State of i-rack and Sham aka ISIS has exploited the environment and demography of the west of i-rack to control and spread out its power and affect even they win the battles in Syria or not”.
He also added: to control and prevent ISIS influence and power, the western area of i-rack should divide to several sectors and starting new service projects so as to reduce their supporters.

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This military expert is a lying bastard. His statement is influenced by Arabism or Ba'athism. 1. The terrorists are gone, they went back to shithole they came from. 2. We don't need to divide anything (dividing into several sectors will lead to different parts, maybe, being lost to Iraq, and getting Iraqi army to these divided areas). 3. There are no generals in Iraq, they all have that status by being someone's bitch.
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Iraq's Maliki gets U.S. arms, but no Apache gunships

BAGHDAD, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Iraqi strongman Nouri al-Maliki does not appear to be getting the Apache attack helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles he's pressed U.S. President Barack Obama for to bolster Baghdad's struggle against al-Qaida insurgents, but he's still expected to get other weapons systems despite the misgivings of U.S. lawmakers.

During Malikli's meetings with top U.S. officials during a visit to Washington last week, including a Friday session with Obama in the White House, he urged the Americans to speed up the delivery of 36 Lockheed Martin F-16IQ Block 52 fighters to help Iraq's security forces.

But U.S. officials don't see how that kind of air power will necessarily be of much use against agile, small groups of insurgent forces or suicide bombers.

And given Washington's undisguised dismay at Maliki's autocratic inclinations and the failure of his Shiite-dominated government to engage with minority Sunnis and Kurds since the U.S. military withdrawal in December 2011, the burly Iraqi prime minister does not seem to have won enthusiastic support during his first visit to Washington since the pullout two years ago.

In that time, al Qaida, on the ropes when the Americans departed, has recovered in their absence and is waging a murderous offensive against Baghdad in which nearly 7,000 people have been killed so far this year alone amid fears of a new civil war.

Even Iraq's growing importance in the civil war in neighboring Syria, where Iraqi jihadists have become one of the most powerful rebel forces fighting the regime of President Bashar Assad, does not appear to have swayed Obama's strategists into meeting Maliki's drive to acquire the Boeing AH-64A/D Apache gunships, ideal counterinsurgency weapons, for fear he'll eventually use them against his political rivals in Iraq.

He's also been lobbying, for far unsuccessfully, for an undisclosed quantity of Lockheed Martin's AGM114 Hellfire missiles, carried by the AH46s.

U.S. lawmakers proved unresponsive when he pressed the U.S. Congress on these weapons, and pushed him in return to do more to prevent Iran airlifting weapons to its ally Assad through Iraqi air space.

Still, Maliki's in line to receive an impressive array of U.S. weapon systems and other military equipment along with the 36 F-16s Baghdad he's ordered, with deliveries scheduled to start in 2014.

Maliki wants them now, and ultimately wants to acquire 96 of them to rebuild an air force that under Saddam Hussein was one of the most powerful in the Middle East.

The Obama administration's extremely reluctant to involve U.S. forces in the Middle East quagmire again, but it also wants to halt the jihadist surge across the region before it coalesces into a cohesive juggernaut, and this may point to an easing of restrictions on arms sales to Maliki.

As it is, the prospect of $6 billion-$7 billion in sales could yet prove irresistible to Lockheed Martin and other U.S. defense companies involved in the F-16 production line at a time of sharp domestic defense cuts.

In August, the U.S. agreed to provide an integrated air defense system worth $2.6 billion that includes 681 Stinger anti-aircraft missiles built by Raytheon Missile Systems and 40 truck-mounted launchers.

It also includes three Raytheon Hawk MIM-23 air-defense batteries with 216 missiles.

Iraq's lack of control over its air space was one reason why the U.S. Defense Department had argued that U.S. forces should remain in Iraq beyond 2011.

In the end, the U.S. pulled out its forces because Maliki's government refused to grant them immunity from prosecution.

Another pending U.S. contract, worth $339 million, involves the sale of 19 mobile radio systems and 10 microwave systems.

The U.S. Defense and Security Agency has also informed Congress of the potential sale to Iraq of 50 M1135 Stryker armored fighting vehicles worth $900 million. The 8-wheeled, 16.5-ton AFV is built by general Dynamics Land Systems Canada.

Despite all this, Maliki has dropped heavy hints he might seek advanced weaponry elsewhere, particularly Russia.

In October 2012, he signed a $4.3 billion arms deal in Moscow that includes 42 Pantsir S-1 air-defense missile units and 20 Mil Mi-28NE Night Hunter attack helicopters.

"Many countries are offering military equipment," said Safa al-Sheikh Hussein, Maliki's deputy national security adviser and a former air force general.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2013/11/04/Iraqs-Maliki-gets-US-arms-but-no-Apache-gunships/UPI-69121383584708/#ixzz2jqYgUwd1
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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British guy was bashed almost to death by locals in Basra as a result BP has stopped all it's activities from there....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epzVFXKnOmg
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Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Wtf why? Poor guy...
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Karma is a bitch BP, good job Iraqis. BP (British Petroleum) took part in the Lausanne treaty by discovering oil in Kurdistan and telling British fag king. Now they showed their finger to us, and get beat by Arabs. Hehehe, BP getting beat, and Arabs losing economical profit :D
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Before BP, it was called something like Anglo-Persian petroleum
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He apparently took down a pic of a Shia flag of some sort at the place of his work, a Basrayy saw him do it and dobbed him when he learned he was going to be attacked he tried to leave iraq but got attacked as seen in the video\....
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Flows of foreign workers leave for Basra airport fearing more similar attacks...

http://www.basnews.net/so/News/Details/mod/5779
Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time.
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Flows of foreign workers leave for Basra airport fearing more similar attacks...

http://www.basnews.net/so/News/Details/mod/5779
Good, very good. We are making progress.
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I think this is stupidity so what he took a "flag" down from their own car!!!???

(Xandan): The oil company is Schaumburg (not BP sorry), all foreign workers to be air lifted to Baghdad then to Dubai.

The British worker attacked was working at Rumelan oil refinery
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