Trouble looms for Iraq's Kirkuk oil province

At least the lunacy as stopped for now in the north.

Barzani: "We are in the union of Iraq" (click here)
07.04.2008
Northern Iraqi leader Mesud Barzani stated that they are included in the union of Iraq and they will remain so. Barzani said: "after the fall of the Baas regime, Kurds have taken effective roles in Iraq. The Kurdistan region was some in a sort of independent state before the fall of the Baas regime. However, the Kurdish parliament has decided to live in unity with Iraqi fellows, according to their own discretion. Therefore, Kurds are taking effective roles in the new Iraq. According to the common law of Iraq, the rights of Kurdish people are being recognized."

Action against PKK key to dialogue with Iraqi Kurds, says Babacan (click here)
Tuesday, April 8, 2008

...“We are open to dialogue with all the parties in Iraq with no discrimination,” Ali Babacan told a joint press conference with the visiting foreign minister of Laos, Thongloune Sisoulith.
He said dialogue was underway with Iraqi Kurdish officials through different channels, apparently referring to the recent contacts in northern Iraq by a Turkish delegation led by Turkey's acting special envoy to Iraq, Murat Özçelik....

Poor Mr. Maliki, he even has to put up with Bush's Death Squads after his protests regarding the occupation of Blackwater is reinsituted in Iraq.

Interesting, isn't it?

Blackwater returns to Iraq and Baghdad erupts into violence all over again.

Gee, it would seem as though Georgie wants war more than anyone else, doesn't it?


But, the same people that returned the Blackwater Death Squads to Iraq will point fingers at the Sistani Shi'ites in Baghdad's Sadr City as the culprits. Why do the people of Iraq have to accept 'danger' in their lives and WHY would anyone expect them to without retribution or the initiative to dominate their own 'definition' of survival under regime after regime after regime?

One might ask, why would any Iraqi think their central government doesn't have control over the country.

Hm?


Iraq's Al Maliki condemns Blackwater contract renewal (click here)
AgenciesPublished: April 07, 2008, 14:47
Baghdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki criticised the renewal of a US contract with security contractor Blackwater, saying the company has committed a “massacre” against Iraqis.

The US State Department had said Blackwater’s contract would be renewed pending an FBI investigation into a September 2007 incident in which the company’s guards are accused of wrongly killing 17 Iraqis....

Bush lies and what do we know? Right? Bush lies and people die. What else is new? He and Cheney are planning "another go-at-it" in Basra. The USA troops need to be removed from Iraq. As soon as possible. The Civil War is 'REACTIONARY' to daily developements that threaten the citizens. Iraq simply is just not that big a place to be carrying on a war no different than that of Vietnam. For God Sakes, KNOCK IT OFF !

BUSH/CHENEY have successfully 'displaced' the 'image' of Osama bin Laden with the Shi'ite Cleric ad Sadr. Iraq is COMPLETELY the "W"rong war, but, its dividend of oil is more of a Neocon reward than anything Afghanistan has to offer in the way of War Plunder !

Four U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq (click here)
www.chinaview.cn
2008-04-08 15:28:47
BAGHDAD, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Four American soldiers were killed in separate incidents in Iraq, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.
Two soldiers assigned to Multi-National Division-Baghdad were killed by a rocket propelled grenade attack at about 6 p.m. (1500 GMT) Monday, a brief military statement said without specifying the location of the incident.
A third soldier was killed when a roadside bomb explosion followed by small arms fire attack on his vehicle while patrolling an eastern Baghdad area Monday, another statement said.
A fourth soldier died as a result of wounds sustained from a roadside bomb explosion while conducting convoy operations in the volatile province of Diyala, northeast of Baghdad, on Sunday, a statement said.
It was the second U.S. soldier announced dead in Diyala province, as an earlier statement announced the death of another soldier in the same attack.
The names of the deceased soldiers are being withheld pending notification of the next of kin, the statements added.
The latest deaths bring the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq to some 4,023 since the Iraq war broke out in 2003, according to media count based on Pentagon figures.

Why were the Blackwater contracts extended? Because Bush wants to place more people in positions to attempt to bloster the attempts by the Iraqi military to kill more citizens, that's why. If Blackwater can go back to doing their jobs as ? guards ? they can put the people now taking that role back 'in play' in the Iraqi military. Right or "W"rong, Bush's 'Musical Soldiers' do nothing but cause issues no one can solve.

Govt. Extends Blackwater's Deal a Year (click here)
By ANNE GEARAN – 3 days ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid investigations into fatal shootings of civilians and allegations of tax violations, Blackwater USA's multimillion-dollar contract to protect diplomats in Baghdad has been renewed, the State Department said Friday.
A final decision about whether the private security company will keep the job is pending, the department said. Moyock, N.C.-based Blackwater is one of the largest private military contractors, receiving nearly $1.25 billion in federal business since 2000, according to a House committee estimate.
Blackwater provides security for diplomats in Baghdad, where the sprawling U.S. Embassy is headquartered. Its private guards act as bodyguards and armed drivers, escorting government officials when they go outside the fortified Green Zone.
Iraqis were outraged over a Sept. 16 shooting in which 17 Iraq civilians were killed in a Baghdad square. Blackwater said its guards were protecting diplomats under attack before they opened fire, but Iraqi investigators concluded the shooting was unprovoked.
An FBI probe began in November. Prosecutors want to know whether Blackwater contractors used excessive force or violated any laws....

The people of Iraq have a lot of fears. Well earned fears, based in the incompetence of the Bush/Cheney military and militias. First anarchy, now civil wars with the USA backing the deaths of citizens while justifying their actions as necessary to secure the 'Western Infrastruture' of Iraq.

A nation ruined (click here)
Volume 25 - Issue 08 :: Apr. 12-25, 2008
INDIA'S NATIONAL MAGAZINE
from the publishers of THE HINDU
JOHN CHERIAN
The war against Iraq, now five years old, is unquestionably one of the most unpardonable crimes against humanity.
...The number of Iraqis killed under American occupation varies from 100,000 to more than a million, according to the source. The British polling agency ORB says more than 1.2 million Iraqi non-combatants have been killed in the last five years. Another recent poll jointly conducted by leading Western television networks including the BBC and ABC revealed that half the residents of Baghdad lost at least one of their relatives in the violence following the U.S. occupation. Seventy per cent of the respondents wanted the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops....

...Nobody questions the rationale for the U.S. participating in the fight against fascism, which that war symbolised. But the Iraq war is an illustration of unprovoked aggression in which the armies of the U.S., the U.K. and Australia played a major role. Demands that George W. Bush, Tony Blair and the Australian Prime Minister of the time, John Howard, be prosecuted by a war crimes tribunal are growing louder by the day. Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero, in a speech delivered in May 2005, said that “the colonial invasion of Iraq, and the ugliest of lies of the lie machine that propagated and justified these barbarous acts will forever remain among the greatest and unpardonable crimes against humanity”. The Nuremberg Charter clearly states that initiating a war of aggression is a “supreme international crime”.

It wasn't that Saddam was removed from Iraq. It was 'the way' he was removed that was incompetent and ludicrous ! Today, the people of Iraq have far worse odds of living any definition of longevity than ever in their history !

Within in 24 hours after the Green Zone Militias were defeated in Basra, Maliki was again exerting his POLITICOS regarding 'criminals' in Basra !

There was a time when Mr. Maliki and al Sadr were of likes minds. Their political wills were not different from each other, or so it was portrayed.


NOW, that the USA has armed men to take orders from Maliki he has his own militia no different than Hakim or the Sistani Shi'ites. The Maliki dilemma is that how does he maintain his militia without the USA catching on that he is not in control of Iraq? He does it in the name of 'national security' and picks on the Sistani Shi'ites rather than start a civil war with the Badr Brigade.


I guess Generals Bush/Maliki figure they will deal 'the deadly blows' to the militias one at a time. First, take down the Mahdi Army and then turn on the Badr Brigade. I suggest 'they work it out' before there is more genocide of people standing 'on the side lines.'

You know Maliki isn't such a dumb guy. He knows who likes him and who doesn't and after the slaughter of 1000 people in Basra at no provocation, he knows his political will has waned so he may as well call the people there 'enemies.' First the Sistani Shi'ites and then Hakim's folks. Sounds like genocide to me !!

A man holds up a banner depicting Mr Maliki as an American pawn during a protest in Sadr City.

One might ask themselves, if Iraqi, British and American forces came and killed children in the name of 'exticating militias,' while there is a sustainable peace otherwise would citizens actully give a damn about who maintains control over the region and oil? Heck NO !!!!! Dead citizens, dead children, dead HUMAN BEINGS matter and when it is done continually with political entities that have UNBALANCED 'power bases' in a government then all people of every ethnicity have a right to exist and have their own power to stop others that would see the world differently.



An Iraqi man carries the body of his son, who was killed during clashes in Basra, during a funeral, while militia loyal to Moqtada al-Sadr guards a street in the city.

The Western rhetoric about 'loyality' is idiotic. The Mahdi Miliatia exists to protect the people of Southern Iraq from political entities in Baghdad !

Powerful blast kills 8 in Iraq's Basra - AKA "Let's see if we can still get away with killing more people."

Eight people were killed in the Basra explosion, which residents believed was caused by a US air strike.

AgenciesPublished: April 07, 2008, 10:24
Basra: An explosion has destroyed a house in Basra and rescue workers were trying to pull out bodies from the debris, Iraqi police said on Monday. Eight people were killed in the explosion overnight, which residents believed was caused by a US air strike. Television footage showed relatives wailing in grief and children picking through the rubble. British forces responsible for US-British military activity in the area, denied any role in the blast. "Coalition and Iraqi security forces were not involved in the incident," they said in a statement.

Neighbors in the Hayaniyah area are examining the rubble of a house they said was destroyed in an air strike Friday evening in the militia stronghold of Basra, Iraq, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Saturday. April 5. 2008.

Police said five people were killed and nine injured in the strike (click here), acknowledging they included an unspecified number of militants (other wise known as local militia) who had fired a mortar at Iraqi security forces. British military spokesman Maj. Tom Holloway said an attack helicopter hit a position from which militants were firing at Iraqi forces in Hayaniyah, but he gave no information about casualties and did not specify whether the aircraft was U.S. or British. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

NOW. There was a bomb dropped on unsuspecting people that were not engaged in any warfare, simply killed for the sake of killing. The people being pulled from the rubble according to 'the locals' were LOCALS. While the RHETORIC of the USA/British military, still occupying the area, state they know nothing about any bomb drop as to whether it was British or USA and are stating it was militants. YET. That was YET, the bodies were still being pulled from the rubble and remain unidentified !

In Vietnam, the people became the enemy. The citizens of South and North Vietnam became the enemy. The enemy was indistinguishable from average citizens, innocent people, if there is such a thing, were killed, so were their children and soon after children became more then 'child soldiers' they became bombs that would exploid when children walked into American and South Vietnamese encampments.

If the citizens reports of an airstrike are markedly different than that of the occupying Western military it is because they live opposing realities. To the citizens of Bosra, their militias have always protected them. The militias protected them from Saddam and today as far as they are concerned their militias protect them from the lethal politics of the Green Zone Iraqis, Shi'ites or not.

It is time to end this travesty the Republicans call a war and stop the killing. When the USA forces leave NOTHING will change in Basra because the USA DOES NOT MAINTAIN order Basra, the militias do. The militias always have and the militias always will.