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[Washington Examiner Site Feed] Representative of Iraqi Shiite spiritual leader urges parties to ...: Sheik Abdul-Mahdi al-Karbalaie, the representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in the holy city of Karbala, told worshippers during his regular Friday sermon that failure to break the deadlock could lead to a "constitutional vacuum" that would create "great dangers for Iraq."

[World] Iraqi militia leader gets death sentence; lawmakers struggle over ...: "Regrettably, the Iraqi law is being used by the government as a tool to settle old scores with the people who helped to stabilize the country," said legislator Mustafa al-Hiti. "The government should be aware that such actions will not help enhance security and the political process ahead of the coming elections."

[EUROPE TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS] Analysis by Reidar Visser: Constitutional Disintegration « EUROPE ...: Through instructing the parliament to revisit only a limited section of the bill, Hashemi is entering unchartered constitutional territory that can easily become something of a quagmire unless there is a disciplined legal committee and strong-minded parliamentary presidency to do the navigation. Add to this the political context of all of this - and especially the fact that the Kurds are seeing an opportunity to press for a few more changes that would enhance their share of the pie, especially through larger minority quotas that could include pro-Kurdish representatives of the smaller communities in the north - and it is easy to be pessimistic about the prospect of an early resolution.

[Iraq and Gulf Analysis] Constitutional Disintegration « Iraq and Gulf Analysis: In theory, then, without doing too much injury to the existing bill (and while saving both time and the risk of parliamentary delays), the IHEC should be able to cut a deal with Hashemi whereby new semantics could pave the way for a nineteenth electoral district proper for out-of-country voting (of maybe 20-30 seats), all in return for a withdrawal of the veto. In this way, the expatriate vote could be kept separate from the 5% quota for minority/compensation/national seats while at the same time satisfying the constitutional requirement of 1 deputy per 100,000 Iraqis (which after all is confirmed also in the recently-passed bill).

[AskCherLock.com] AskCherLock.com » A Step Towards Armageddon: Yesterday, in a move that inched Iraq another step closer to civil war, Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, a Sunni Muslim, vetoed the country’s new election law. According to al-Hashimi, the new law does not provide for enough representation for Iraqi Sunnis who fled the country over the last few years to escape the violence perpetrated against them by the Shi’ite majority.

[Fruits and Votes] Fruits and Votes » Prof. Shugart's Blog » The Iraqi electoral law ...: If the attempt by Hashemi to restrict the veto to a single article thus seems somewhat problematic, reactions to the veto by Iraqi parliamentarians have been even more worrying and serve to reinforce the impression of constitutional frailty in today’s Iraq. In a strongly worded letter, the second speaker of the parliament, Khalid al-Atiyya, a Maliki [the PM] ally, today dismisses the veto for being unconstitutional “because it does not refer to a violation of a single clause of the constitution or to the by-law of the parliament”.

Mudville Gazette: Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi has until Wednesday to veto the law, which legislators approved after weeks of wrangling, primarily over how the vote would be held in the disputed northern city of Kirkuk. The two ultimatums underscored the deep divisions among Iraqi politicians and raised fresh concerns about Iraq's ability to hold a credible election by Jan.

[Gather News Essential] Iraq sentences militia leader to death | Gather: Under the constitution, parliament can override a second veto with a three-fifths majority, thereby passing a law seen as vital to Iraq's ability to move toward full sovereignty and political stability after years of bloodshed. Speaker Ayad al-Samarie said Thursday that political blocs agreed to vote after failing to craft an immediate solution to the vice president's demand.

[Pj News| Latest Daily News About World News, Business, Tech and Entertainment] British troops hunt soldiers' assassin | Pj News| Latest Daily ...: The Great New Wonderful: A striking drama, set one year after 9-11, concentrates on a variety of New Yorkers who either are battling to handle their emotions in regards to that atrocious night or in reference to their lives as if nothing had occurred. They contain a couple with a dysfunctional child, an older lady snared in a miserable matrimony, a set of security guards, and an outwardly affable accountant who worked at the World Trade Center, and survived.

[Answers.com: Today in History] Iraq: Definition from Answers.com: Sunni-Shiite revenge attacks and clashes had become increasingly common in ethnically mixed Baghdad and urban areas N of Baghdad, while in Shiite-dominated S Iraq rival Shiite militias fought each other for control in some cities. There was increasing doubt on the part of the United States over the ability of Maliki's government to deal with the rising sectarian violence, and a strain in the relations between the governments of the two nations was evident publicly.

[SWJ Blog] 6 August SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): But, he added, “it will not offer specific resource requests or recommendations.” If the review determines that additional resources are required to complete the Afghanistan mission, requests would then go through the normal chain-of-command process, Morrell said, to be validated and forwarded to Gates. Gates then would decide whether to recommend to the president that he commit additional resources for the Afghanistan mission.

[Truck and Barter] Truck and Barter: Iraq Dinar Discussion JULY 2008: . By another company director said Iraqi ports, Mahmoud Saleh, said that there are important strategic projects to enhance the relationship with the Arab Gulf states, adding that the importance of the large port project, which is one of the most important infrastructure projects strategy, and would give Iraq a new appearance in the waters of the Arabian Gulf and from the port to the World On the high seas, and contribute when done in getting the Iraqi port of stifling bottleneck of navigational channels, the current link between the Arab Gulf and the port of Umm Qasr and Khor Al-Zubair and get rid of knots ALGHATES shallower water, which hampers the entry of large ships with more height on the eleven-meter draught which is better Currently available as well as the completion of the problems the following line and treaties on him and take advantage of the end of the Iraqi land in the Faw area where the project will be set up to provide freedom of international navigation and direct correlation high seas. .. He explained that the project, which extends to a distance of more than 22 kilometers in Ras al-Bishah Faw area of land in another Iraqi territory to be referred to a specialized international companies to execute overlooking the depths exceeding 28 meters deep which provides a comfortable height for the largest ships and oil tankers and giant consists of 50 quays To receive commercial ships and supertankers and the right of the regions of the unloading and shipping, warehouses, administrative facilities and housing complexes and associated railway lines and roads network quick and selected areas of free trade and the establishment of an international airport in a subsequent period, pointing out that the completion of this edifice of economic work does not eliminate the existing ports, but would work to alleviate the momentum Happening at the present time and will serve as a secondary ports as the more ports added strength to the economic development of the country .

[Rosettasister's Weblog] http://www.thechancetheater.com/ « Rosettasister's Weblog: Lamberth, he supplies no information or precedence on the changes of Federal Rule 6 that governs grand juries and how this application has changed how it is applied to the Constitution and the Fifth Amendment therein. There has never been standing as law, nor has there ever been a constitutional convention for ratification by the then 38 states to change the written words by definition on the origins of the grand jury as defined by the Constitution of the United States.

[Truck and Barter] Truck and Barter: Dinar Discussion MAY 2008: Must activate the economic decision that this resolution does not remain imprisoned in the famous remark by saying (that the economic effect to his decision through a political window) because this image reflects the economic role of the marginalized Iraqi, who does not live up to resolution actor, but is at best take the role of referendum Only in the same oriented economic expert said, that the high prices of goods and services resulting from imbalance by GNP, a weak contribution of the commodity sectors to generate output in favour of imports which led to a clear imbalance between supply and aggregate demand since the latter was an increase by increases in wages and salaries, despite The presence of (economic recession) experienced by the Iraqi economy and added .In order to address this rise in prices must activate the local component of the presentation to be high and will be responsible for coverage of aggregate demand, but noted that the (import content of the presentation of the total) is responsible for coverage of aggregate demand, which explains ups, but monetary policy does not exist now in Iraq to the There are greater increases in the price level, and there is an important aspect must be recalled that the increase (spending on services), although their importance did not contribute to addressing the imbalances in the structure of the gross national product and therefore must be given the amounts allocated to invest a larger portion of the state budget in order to activate the role of Commodity sectors by stimulating the real sector Almttml agriculture, industry and others.

[TPMCafe - America Abroad feed] TPMCafe | Talking Points Memo | Letter to Europe: By making such hay of the human rights issues in the context of this security discussion, the letter contains the implied suggestion that the purpose of the nonproliferation agenda regarding Iran is to keep Iran militarily weak so as to prepare the way for a future military intervention or revolutionary overthrow of the country's government. Now perhaps I'm misreading the global situation, but it is my guess that issuing dark hints about possible future US regime change escapades in the Middle East is not the way to attract European support for a coordinated policy on Iran and nuclear nonproliferation.

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