60 killed in wave of terror bomb attacks across 12 cities in Iraq. America went to war with Iraq, because Saddam Hussein broke the Nuclear proliferation treaty, which stated if that country was/is suspected of building or owning nuclear weapons, or weapons of mass destruction in general (such as chemical or biological weapons) than that country must allow UN inspectors to inspect as to verify the claim. Saddam refused to allow an inspection, and even after being pressured to allowing inspectors in he refused to grant them full access to do their job.
Therefore, because Saddam was not cooperating with the inspections he was breaking the nuclear proliferation treaty. No WMD’s were found. Suddam was later convicted and executed by a Iraqi court with an Iraqi Jury, and an Iraqi executioner. Saddam is dead…and yet now – still no WMD’s can be found. Yet, soldiers and innocent civilians are still being killed. The answer is; yes!
Bombs Target Police. Once Hidden, Iraq Rape Numbers Emerging. Iraq: The gloves come off. Washington, DC - I must confess I didn't see it coming. Yes, Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has always shown autocratic tendencies, unsurprisingly given the traditional political role models with which Iraqis are working.
And yes, he has long over-centralised security power in his own hands, maintaining personal control over the Interior, Defence and National Security Ministries and making the Baghdad Operations Command directly answerable to his personal office. But this, too, is not entirely unexpected, given the tenuousness of Iraqi internal security. And finally, yes, Abu Isra has been transparently uncomfortable in sharing any authority with the Iraqiyya bloc, the largest vote-getter in the last elections, and has essentially reneged on many of the elaborate power-sharing arrangements reached in the so-called Irbil accords, which facilitated formation of his government.
Not for the faint-hearted Iranian influence I confess I didn't see this crisis coming. Iraqi Leader Calls for Unity, Political Stability. How to Save Iraq From Civil War. U.S. Holds On to Biometrics Database of 3 Million Iraqis. Iraq: Bomb blasts in Baghdad kill at least 15. 26 November 2011Last updated at 13:16 A series of explosions in and around the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Saturday has killed at least 15 people and wounded more than 20, officials say.
Three bombs exploded in the commercial Bab al-Sharqi district of central Baghdad, killing eight people. Another two explosions hit a truck carrying construction workers on the road between Baghdad and Falluja. Violence in Iraq has fallen in recent years, but militants still carry out regular attacks. "I saw a woman, who was serving tea to customers, lose a leg in one of the explosions," a market vendor near the site of the Bab al-Sharqi blast told the AP news agency. Fallujah Hospital "received seven bodies and seven wounded" from the truck blast, Dr Omar Delli told the AFP news agency. Violence has declined from its peak in 2006-2007, but the attacks have raised concerns over whether the planned withdrawal of US troops will lead to a worsening of the security situation.
Iraq War’s ’Missing’ $6.6 Billion Is Discovered in Central Bank. Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) -- A new Pentagon audit resolves a lingering Iraq-war mystery, concluding that $6.6 billion of U.S.- controlled reconstruction money was transferred to the Central Bank of Iraq, not lost or stolen. The Coalition Provisional Authority, created by the U.S. to run Iraq after the invasion, controlled more than $20.7 billion during its 14-month life, including $6.6 billion held when it was dissolved on June 28, 2004.
“That money is not missing,” said Inspector General Stuart Bowen in a telephone interview. A 2010 Bowen audit couldn’t account for the money. Today’s report says “sufficient evidence exists showing almost all” the $6.6 billion was transferred to the central bank. The inability to account for the money led to suspicion in Iraq that the funds had been stolen. “That’s not true,” Bowen said. Any doubts about how the money was handled after it left U.S. control is an Iraqi -- not U.S. government -- question, Bowen said.
U.S. --Editors: Steven Komarow, Jim Rubin. U.S to pull out of Iraq after nearly 9 years of war. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed on Friday to pull all U.S. troops from Iraq this year, symbolically ending the war but dashing U.S. hopes of leaving a few thousand troops to buttress a still shaky Iraq and offset neighbouring Iran's influence. After months of negotiations with officials in Baghdad failed to reach an agreement to keep possibly thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq as trainers, Obama announced he would stick to plans to pull out the remaining force of 40,000 by year's end. "After nearly nine years, America's war in Iraq will be over," Obama told reporters.
The announcement is a milestone more than eight and a half years after the Bush administration led the invasion to topple Saddam Hussein based on warnings of weapons of mass destruction that turned out not to exist. In Iraq, where the U.S. force peaked at around 190,000 during the height of President George W. Obama's announcement in the White House briefing room was freighted with political overtones. Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China - Wiki. The Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China (MSS) is the security agency of the People's Republic of China, responsible for counter-intelligence, foreign intelligence and political security. It is headquartered near the Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China in Beijing.
Article 4 of the Criminal Procedure Law gives the MSS the same authority to arrest or detain people as regular police for crimes involving state security with identical supervision by the procuratorates and the courts.[1] The offices of the Bureau of State Security and Bureau of Public Security in Hubei Province (Wuhan) The precursor of the modern MSS was the Central Department of Social Affairs (CDSA), the primary intelligence organ of the Communist Party of China (CPC) before its accession to power in 1949. The CDSA operated from the communist base area of Yan'an in Shaanxi Province in northern China during the 1937–45 Second Sino-Japanese War. And other offices: Coordinates: Coalition Provisional Authority - Wiki. History of the CPA[edit] The Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) was established on 20 January 2003 by the United States Government two months before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[1] It was intended to act as a caretaker administration in Iraq until the creation of a democratically elected civilian government.
Garner's swift dismissal from his post by U.S. authorities came as a surprise to many within the CPA. In an interview with the BBC program Newsnight, Garner publicly stated that his preference was to put the Iraqi people in charge as soon as possible and to do it with some form of elections. Privately, there was intense pressure from the U.S. Government to begin a process of removing members of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party from their positions within the Iraqi government and military. Upon assuming the post of chief executive of the CPA in May 2003, L. Iraq's Republican Palace in Baghdad under CPA occupation in August 2003. Structure of the CPA[edit] IRAQ: Who's in charge? Who's in charge of Iraq now? The U.S.
-led occupation government has begun to gradually hand over power to the interim government named June 1, but it will remain the main authority in Iraq until the official transfer of sovereignty June 30. Many questions remain about how power will be exercised after that date. A United Nations Security Council resolution currently under consideration is expected to resolve some of these issues. Who is in charge of security?
That is the most controversial issue between the Iraqi Interim Government (IIG) and the U.S. -led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). How and when will questions about the new government's power and legitimacy be decided? In the forthcoming Security Council resolution, expected by the end of next week. What is the make-up of the interim government? It is a mix of politicians--some of whom served on the Iraqi Governing Council (ICG)--exiles and non-exiles, technocrats, and regional administrators. Who holds the key posts in the IIG? Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Introduction The subject of summary or arbitrary executions had been discussed in the United Nations for many years within the framework of a wider discussion on human rights.
The Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities had for a long time reported on this subject under the item entitled "Disappearances and summary executions". Over the years, the Sub-Commission's reports revealed increasing instances of alleged summary executions. The Commission on Human Rights, by its resolution 1982/29 of 11 March 1982, recommended that the Economic and Social Council request the Chairman of the Commission to appoint an individual of recognized international standing as special rapporteur to submit a comprehensive report to the Commission at its thirty-ninth session on the occurrence and extent of the practice of summary or arbitrary executions, together with his conclusions and recommendations.
Cables Reveal 2006 Summary Execution of Civilian Family in Iraq. As revealed by a State Department diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks last week, US forces committed a heinous war crime during a house raid in Iraq in 2006, wherein one man, four women, two children, and three infants were summarily executed. The cable excerpts a letter written by Philip Alston, Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions, addressed to then Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. American troops approached the home of Faiz Harrat Al-Majma’ee, a farmer living in central Iraq, to conduct a house raid in search of insurgents in March of 2006. “It would appear that when the MNF [Multinational Forces] approached the house,” Alston wrote, “shots were fired from it and a confrontation ensued” before the “troops entered the house, handcuffed all residents and executed all of them.” Mr. The details revealed in the cable are a valuable insight into how many of these house raids turn out.
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