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بيـــان

أن مشاركة الكتل السياسية ومكونات الشعب العراقي في العملية السياسية وحكومة الوحدة الوطنية جاءت على أساس الديمقراطية التوافقية
وأن التركمان والعرب في كركوك ساندوا العملية السياسية وفق هذا الأساس ولكن الملاحظ ومنذ خمسة سنوات بأن محافظة كركوك لم تتذوق طعم مثل هذه الصيغة من الديمقراطية بل ان المحافظة تحولت إلى محمية حزبية لقومية واحدة
ولقد سعى العرب والتركمان قدر الامكان تغيير هذه الحالة نحو الأحسن غير ان دعواتهم في هذا المجال أصبحت ضحية التسويف والمماطلة

لتجاوز هذه الأزمة ومعالجتها بشكل يرضي جميع مكونات الشعب في كركوك ولتحقيق المشاركة في إدارة المحافظة بصورة عادلة بحيث تشمل المشاركة في السلطتين التشريعية والتنفيذية يكون باعتماد مبدأ الإدارة المشتركة بنسبة 32% لكل من القوميات العربية والكردبة والتركمانية و4% للكلدوأشوريين

إن القوى السياسية والعشائرية العربية والتركمانية وممثليها في مجلس محافظة كركوك تدعم المقترح الذي تقدمت به خلية أزمة كركوك والمؤيدة من قبل اكثر من (110) نائب من أعضاء البرلمان العراقي والذي ينص على تقسيم محافظة كركوك إلى أربعة دوائر انتخابية حسب القوميات لتحقيق النسب اعلاه

تدعو الكتلتين العربية والتركمانية كافة القوى السياسية في مجلس النواب بالموافقة على هذا المقترح وتثبيته في قانون الانتخابات المزمع إصداره لتحقيق التوازن والوقوف أمام محاولات التغيير الديمغرافي في محافظة كركوك عبر اسكان عشرات الالاف من غير ابنائها فيها واضافتهم إلى سجلات البطافة التموينية وبصورة مخالفة للقانون

علما ان الادارة المشتركة وتقاسم السلطة بنسبة 32% يحظى بدعم وتأييد السيد رئيس الجمهورية جلال الطالباني الذي أكد في زيارته الأخيرة لمحافظة كركوك إلى ضرورة الأخذ بهذه النسبة

وتطالب الكتلتين العربية والتركمانية في مجلس محافظة كركوك دعوتها إلى مجلس النواب لبيان الحقائق أمام ممثلي الشعب العراقي

المجموعتين العربية والتركمانية في مجلس محافظة كركوك

2008-06-05

Obama pledges support for Israel

Aljazeera.net

June 4, 2008

Barack Obama, the US Democratic presumptive presidential nominee, has pledged to safeguard Israel's security if elected president in November.

Obama also described the US bond with Israel as "unbreakable today, unbreakable tomorrow, unbreakable for ever" and said he spoke as a "true friend" of Israel.

Hours after securing his party's nomination, Obama told the influential annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Council (Aipac) on Wednesday that rumours and suggestions he is unfriendly to Israel and to Jewish interests are unfounded.

Obama, the first African-American projected to win the presidential nomination for a major US political party, said that Jerusalem must remain the "undivided" capital of Israel.

"Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided," the Illinois senator said.

Obama drew a standing ovation as he addressed the gathering of one of US politics' most influential lobbying groups, and said that as president "I will never compromise when it comes to Israel's security".

He also said any deal between Israelis and Palestinians should preserve Israel's identity as a Jewish state and that Hamas should be isolated.

"We must isolate Hamas unless and until they renounce terrorism, recognise Israel's right to exist, and abide by past agreements," he said.

"There is no room at the negotiating table for terrorist organisations."

Palestinian anger

Hamas reacted angrily to Obama's speech, with Sami Abu Zuhri, a spokesman for the movement, telling AFP on Wednesday that it was "evidence of the hostility of the American administration to Arabs and Muslims".

Palestinian leaders in the West Bank also condemned Obama's speech with Saeb Erekat, the senior Palestinian negotiator, telling Al Jazeera that Obama "was giving ammunition to extremists across the region".

"He runs on the slate of change, but he closes all doors for peace by saying Jerusalem should be the united capital of Israel."

Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, also rejected Obama's speech."Jerusalem is one of the files under negotiation. The entire world knows perfectly well that we will never accept a state without [east] Jerusalem [as its capital]. That should be clear," he said in Ramallah.

Obama, who pledged to approve $30 billion in aid to Israel over the next 10 years, said he was not opposed to holding talks with "appropriate" Iranian leaders using "tough and principled diplomacy".

Action against Iran

Obama also vowed to do "everything in my power" to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

In his first major foreign policy speech since announcing he had clinched the nomination, the Illinois senator did not explicitly rule out military action against Tehran."The danger from Iran is grave, it is real, and my goal will be to eliminate this threat," he said.

The Illinois senator's comments come a day after US media projected that Obama had enough delegates to win the Democratic nomination and face John McCain, the presumptive Republican candidate, in the November election.

His Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, who also spoke at the conference later on Wednesday, has so far refused to concede the race.

Speaking shortly after Obama, Clinton said the US's "next president must be a Democrat and that Obama "will be a good friend to Israel".

Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds said the subtle language indicated Clinton was no longer running for the presidency but she still would not say she had suspended her campaign.

Republicans have criticised Obama for his offers to talk to Iran, but Obama countered in his speech that it was the failed policies of George Bush, the US president, in Iraq that had made Israel less safe.

Al Jazeera's senior political analyst Marwan Bishara said that Obama drew a Middle East map very similar to his Republican predecessors.

However, he distanced himself from the current administration's approach by criticising their positions as not only bad to US interests but also to those of Israel.

He also offered more than just sanctions but the option of "harsh" diplomacy, in a more multilateral approach than previous administrations.

Warmly received

Some Aipac attendees, however, liked what they heard."I was essentially very impressed - I am a Hillary supporter but I was looking for Obama to fill in the void that many Jewish voters saw in his platform and I was reassured that, despite all the rumours, he is supporting Israel," Marlene Goldenberg, 22, a student from Syracuse in New York state, told Al Jazeera.

Reverend Julius Hope, a Christian pastor from Detroit, said Obama had done more than enough to dispel any doubts that supporters of Israel may have had about him."He made sure that everyone understands - come hell or high-water - that he'll be there for Israel."


english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CF31CAE7-86D1-4B0F-89C1-36BF07AC0311.htm

War criminals must fear punishment. By George Monbiot

War criminals must fear punishment. That's why I went for John Bolton
As long as the greatest crime of the 21st century remains unprosecuted, we all have a duty to keep the truth alive
George Monbiot
The Guardian,
Tuesday June 3 2008

Article history

I realise now that I didn't have a hope. I had almost reached the stage when two of the biggest gorillas I have ever seen swept me up and carried me out of the tent. It was humiliating, but it could have been worse. The guard on the other side of the stage, half hidden in the curtains, had spent the lecture touching something under his left armpit. Perhaps he had bubos.

I had no intention of arresting John Bolton, the former under-secretary of state at the US state department, when I arrived at the Hay festival. But during a panel discussion about the Iraq war, I remarked that the greatest crime of the 21st century had become so normalised that one of its authors was due to visit the festival to promote his book. I proposed that someone should attempt a citizens' arrest, in the hope of instilling a fear of punishment among those who plan illegal wars. After the session I realised that I couldn't call on other people to do something I wasn't prepared to do myself.

I knew that I was more likely to be arrested and charged than Mr Bolton. I had no intention of harming him, or of acting in any way that could be interpreted as aggressive, but had I sought only to steer him gently towards the police I might have faced a range of exotic charges, from false imprisonment to aggravated assault. I was prepared to take this risk. It is not enough to demand that other people act, knowing that they will not. If the police, the courts and the state fail to prosecute what the Nuremberg tribunal described as "the supreme international crime", I believe we have a duty to seek to advance the process.

The Nuremberg principles, which arose from the prosecution of Nazi war criminals, define as an international crime the "planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances". Bolton appears to have "participated in a common plan" to prepare for the war (also defined by the principles as a crime) by inserting the false claim that Iraq was seeking to procure uranium from Niger into a state department factsheet. He also organised the sacking of José Bustani, the head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, accusing him of bad management. Bustani had tried to broker a peaceful resolution of the dispute over Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction.

Some of the most pungent criticisms of my feeble attempt to bring this man to justice have come from other writers for the Guardian. Michael White took a position of extraordinary generosity towards the instigators of the war. There are "arguments on both sides", he contended on the Guardian politics blog. Bustani might have received compensation after his sacking by Bolton, "but Bolton says that does not mean much". In fact, Bustani was not only compensated at his tribunal, he was completely exonerated of Bolton's accusations and his employers were obliged to pay special damages.

White suggested that Iraq might indeed have been seeking uranium from Niger, on the grounds of a conversation he once had with an MI6 officer. Alongside the British government's 45-minute claim, this must be the best-documented of all the false justifications for the war with Iraq. In 2002, the United States government sent three senior officials to Niger to investigate the claim. All reported that it was without foundation. The International Atomic Energy Agency discovered that it was based on crude forgeries. This assessment was confirmed by the state department's official Greg Thielmann, who reported directly to John Bolton. No evidence beyond the forged documents has been provided by either the US or the UK governments to support their allegation.

White also gives credence to Bolton's claims that the war in 2003 was justified by two UN resolutions - 678 and 687 - which were approved in 1990 and 1991, and that it was permitted by article 51 of the UN charter. The attempt to revive resolutions 678 and 687 was the last, desperate throw of the dice by the Blair government when all else had failed. When it became clear that it could not obtain a new UN resolution authorising force against Iraq, the government dusted down the old ones, which had been drafted in response to Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.

This revival formed the basis of Lord Goldsmith's published advice on March 17 2003. It was described as "risible" and "scrap[ing] the bottom of the legal barrel" by Lord Alexander, a senior law lord. After the first Gulf war, Colin Powell, General Sir Peter de la Billiere and John Major all stated that the UN's resolutions permitted them only to expel the Iraqi army from Kuwait, and not to overthrow the Iraqi government. Lord Goldsmith himself, in the summer of 2002, advised Tony Blair that resolutions 678 and 687 could not be used to justify a new war with Iraq.
Article 51 of the UN charter is comprehensible to anyone but the lawyers employed by the Bush administration. States have a right to self-defence "if an armed attack occurs against" them, and then only until the UN security council can intervene. On what occasion did Iraq attack the United States? Is there any claim made by the Blair and Bush governments that Michael White is not prepared to believe?

Conor Foley, writing on Comment is free, suggested that my action "completely trivialises the serious case" against the Iraq war and claimed that I was seeking to "imprison ... people because of their political opinions", as if Bolton were simply a commentator on the war, and not an agent. Does he really believe that the former under-secretary did not "participate in a common plan" to initiate the war with Iraq? What other conceivable purpose might the state department's misleading factsheet have served? And what more serious action can someone who is neither a law lord nor a legislator take? Bolton himself maintains that my attempt to bring him to justice reflects a "move towards lawlessness and fascism". This is an interesting commentary on an attempt to uphold a law which arose from the prosecution of fascists.

But there is one charge I do accept: that my chances of success were very slight. Apart from the 300-pound gorillas, the main obstacle I faced was that although the crime of aggression, as defined by the Nuremberg principles, has been incorporated into the legislation of many countries, it has not been assimilated into the laws of England and Wales. This does not lessen the crime but it means that it cannot yet be tried here. This merely highlights another injustice: while the British state is prepared to punish petty misdemeanours with vindictive ferocity, it will not legislate against the greatest crime of all, lest it expose itself to prosecution.

But demonstration has two meanings. Non-violent direct action is both a protest and an exposition. It seeks to demonstrate truths which have been overlooked or forgotten. I sought to remind people that the greatest crime of the 21st century remains unprosecuted, and remains a great crime. If you have read this far, I have succeeded.

monbiot.com

Iraqis united to reject the draft of a security agreement proposed by the U.S.

Juan Cole's 'Informed Comment':
Tuesday, June 03, 2008

US-Iraq Security Talks Hit Snag; Mosul Police HQ Bombed, 55 Killed or Wounded

The US is still hopeful that it can conclude a security agreement with the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki
on the framework for a US troop presence next year after the UN Security Council authorization runs out.

The negotiations have produced a sharp reaction from a broad cross-section of the Iraqi public, Sunni and Shiite, and different factions of the Shiites. The US embassy is trying to blame Iran for all this, but the allegation won't wash. Iran does oppose the pact, but so do lots of Iraqis, including close US allies in Iraq and the nativist urban slum youth of the Sadr Movement, who don't even like Iran.

Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that both Sunni and Shiite Iraqis have united to reject the draft of a security agreement proposed by the United States.

A high-level Iraqi source told the pan-Arab London daily that one point of dispute is that the US wants its troops to have complete freedom of movement in the country, whereas the Iraqis want it to be limited.

The Americans are said to be seeking to retain the right to dominate Iraqi air space up to 29,000 feet, and to gain open access to the land, air and water of Iraq. The US wants to retain the right to arrest and detain any Iraqi whom the US believes represents a security threat.

Washington desires the right to launch military operations to chase terrorists without seeking Iraqi government permission.

The US wants immunity from prosecution in Iraqi courts for American troops, contractors and corporations in Iraq. The US also wants to retain the right to define terrorism against Iraq. It does not want to give any undertaking that it will defend Iraq from any outside attack unless it is convinced about the nature of that attack. Likewise it is not offering to safeguard the democratic regime in Iraq.

Iraqis for their part are demanding a recognition of Iraqi sovereignty.

http://www.juancole.com/

Mass grave in Mosul/Ninewa in the areas vacated by the Peshmerga

Fatihoun News Agency

June 1, 2008

Joint Iraqi forces found a mass grave in Mosul in areas taken over by them soon after the withdrawal of the Peshmerga (The Kurdish Militia) from these areas.

Tens of bodies were reported by our correspondence to have been found at the headquarters of the Peshmerga in Al-Tanak district of Mosul situated near the Electricity Department.

Mosul people rushed to the mass grave seeking help from the Iraqi forces finding the bodies of missing sons and families.

http://www.almosul.org/000_Mosul_Observer.htm

Source from Fatihoun News Agency, Mosul, Iraq

مقبرة جماعية للمختطفين في مقر انسحبت منه البيشمركة بالموصلالمصدر : الموصل (فاتحون) -خاص:عثرت القوات المشاركة في عمليات نينوى على مقبرة جماعية للمغدورين في مقر اخلته قوات البيشمركة قبل ساعات في الموصل . وقال مراسل (فاتحون) ان عشرات الجثث وجدت مدفونة في مقر البيشمركة قرب دائرة الكهرباء في حي التنك . وهرع اهالي المدينة من ذوي المفقودين الى المكان يطلبون من القوات الحكومية مساعدتهم للتعرف على اولادهم المختطفين والذين وجد بعضهم في مقر البيشمركة

Long-Term Contracts Show Plans for Continued Iraq Occupation

A Blackwater security contractor in Mosul, Iraq. The depth of US involvement in Iraq is illustrated by a handful of new contract proposals made public in May.(Photo: Jacob Silberberg / AP)


by: Walter Pincus, The Washington Post

The depth of US involvement in Iraq and the difficulty the next president will face in pulling personnel out of the country are illustrated by a handful of new contract proposals made public in May. The contracts call for new spending, from supplying mentors to officials with Iraq's Defense and Interior ministries to establishing a U.S.-marshal-type system to protect Iraqi courts. Contractors would provide more than 100 linguists with secret clearances and deliver food to Iraqi detainees at a new, U.S.-run prison.

The proposals reflect multiyear commitments. The mentor contract notes that the U.S. military "desires for both Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Defense to become mostly self-sufficient within two years," a time outside some proposals for U.S. combat troop withdrawal. The mentors sought would "advise, train [and] assist ... particular Iraqi officials" who work in the Ministry of Defense, which runs the Iraqi army, or the Ministry of Interior, which runs the police and other security units.

The mentors will assist an U.S. military group that previously began to implement what are described as "core processes and systems," such as procurement, contracting, force development, management and budgeting, and public affairs.

Mentors would have to make a one-year commitment, with options for two one-year contracts after that. As a reminder of what they are getting into, the mentors must supply their helmets, protective body armor and gas masks, according to the announcement.

The marshals service would be organized by the State Department's bureau responsible for developing rule of law programs in Iraq. It "has plans to create an Iraqi service to be known as the Judicial Protection Service (JPS), modeled to some degree after the U.S. Marshals Service, that will ensure the safe conduct of judicial proceedings and protect judges, witnesses, court staff, and court facilities," a notice published last month said.

State's plan is to hire a contractor as a judicial security program manager, who would work out details of how such a service could be put together for the Iraqis. That person or group would develop not only the mission, size and structure of an Iraqi JPS service, but also the personnel, budgeting and training materials necessary, plus "all other aspects of creating the new organization so that the project can be contracted out."

In short, State wants a contractor to put together all the elements so the department can contract the project to another contractor.

State also is looking to hire a contractor to provide "100 plus linguists" who would work for a year each, with as many as four one-year options to follow.

Arabic and Kurdish translators are sought. "Native or near native capability in the foreign language and an excellent command of the English language are required," according to the notice. They will work not only at State's Baghdad embassy, but also at regional offices and with Provincial Reconstruction Teams.

Another contract noticed last week previews the opening, apparently in September, of a U.S.-run prison, now labeled a Theater Internment Facility Reconciliation Center, which is to be located at Camp Taji, 12 miles north of Baghdad. The new contract calls for providing food for "up to 5,000 detainees" and will also cover 150 Iraqi nationals, who apparently will work at the facility. The contract is to run for one year, with an option year to follow.

The U.S. holds about 20,000 Iraqis at two facilities today, mostly in Camp Bucca in southern Iraq and the rest at Camp Cropper near Baghdad. Along with the facility at Camp Taji, which is expected to hold Iraqis detained in Baghdad, another new reconciliation center, mainly for Sunnis, is being built at Ramadi in Anbar province, where many of these detainees were captured.

In March, Marine Maj. Gen. Douglas Stone, who runs the detainee program, told reporters that, on average. Iraqi detainees remain in a U.S. facility for 11 months.

But that might not be the case for the roughly 9,000 Iraqis whom he described as having "a very rigorous view of an ideology that we would broadly categorize as al-Qaeda." They are headed to the new reconciliation centers for what could be longer stays.

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National security and intelligence reporter Walter Pincus pores over the speeches, reports, transcripts and other documents that flood Washington and every week uncovers the fine print that rarely makes headlines - but should. If you have any items that fit the bill, please send them to fineprint@washpost.com.

TÜRKMEN KOORDİNASYON KURULUNUN 4. TOPLANTISI

Kurul bugün TP bürosunda toplanarak ,gündemde olan Irak"taki seçim
Yasası konusunda görüşmeler ve fikir alişverişi yaparak yasanın önemine
değinildi

Türkmen görüşünde (%32) paylaşımnın yasada yer almasının önemli olduğunu,
Türkmen milletvekillerinin Irak parlemantosunda yaklaşık 120 imza topluyarak
sondukları öneriye milletçe sahip çıkılmasının zarureti dile getirildi.

Türkmen siyasi parti ve Türkmen medyasının ana gündemi ,söz konusu seçim
yasası ile görüşlerimizin teşkil etmesi gerekliliği de dile getirildi.

Bütün Türkmen halkının ister yurt içinde ister yurt dışında ,ister siyasetçi
ister tarafsız ,bu konuda seferber olmaları istenildi.

Ayrıca TKK olarak konu ile ilgili bir dizi iç ve dış görüşmelerin yapılması
palnlandı.

Toplantıya katılanlar..

1.Türkmen Adalet Partisi
2.Türkmen Karar Partisi
3.Milli Türkmen Partisi
4.Türkmen Vefa Hareketi
5.Irak İslami Türkmen Birliği
6.Türkmen Bağımsızlar Hareketi
7.Türkmeneli Partisi
8.ITC temsilcisi (Münir kafili)
9.Sn.Ali Haşim Muhtaroğlu (ITC yürütme kurulu üyesi)

اجتماع الهيئة التنسيقية التركمانية

اجتماع الهيئة التنسيقية التركمانية

بتاريخ 1/6/2008 تم عقد الاجتماع الرابع للهيئة في مقر حزب تركمن ايلي في كركوك

تم التباحث في الاجتماع آخر المستجدات على الساحة السياسية عموما والساحة التركمانية خصوصا و مسودة قانون الانتخابات

حيث اشاد المجتمعون بجهود اعضاء مجلس النواب التركمان والتي اثمرت في جمع توقيع اكثر من 115 نائب والتي تؤيد ألاعتماد على نسبة 32% كأساس للانتخابات في محافظة كركوك

كما تم التأكيد على اهمية عمل كافة الاحزاب التركمانية والمثقفين التركمان والأعلام بهذا الاتجاه وضرورة إجراء اللقاءات الداخلية والخارجية ومواصلة الجهود لحين اقرار القانون الخاص بمحافظة كركوك

وقد شارك في الاجتماع ممثلي الاحزاب ادناه

1.حزب العدالة التركماني
2.حزب القرار التركماني
3.حركة الوفاء التركمانية
4.حزب تركمن ايلي
5.الحزب الوطني التركماني
6.حركة المستقلين ا لتركمان
7.الاتحاد الاسلامي لتركمان العراق
8.السيد منير القافلي ممثلا عن الجبهة التركمانية العراقية
9.السيد علي هاشم مختار اوغلو عضو الهيئة التنفيذية للجبهة التركمانية
العراقية