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Kurdistan share
of fuel smuggled - Media monitor
9.3.2006
Press from 9.Mar.2006
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Kurdistan share of
fuel smuggled
(Kurdistani Nwe)
A source from the (Kurdistan Regional Government's)
councils of ministries told Kurdistani New that the
director of Beiji refinery discriminates against
Kurdish areas and (favours) the rest of Iraq in
sending fuel.
According to the source, in three days the director
has send more than one million litres of fuel to
Salahaddin province, the same amount he had sent to
Sulaimaniya in a week. "We have suspicious that the
director of Beiji refinery is involved with
smugglers to take fuel outside Iraq, especially to
Syria, because fuel shortages in Mosul and Anbar
provinces are less compared to the rest of the
cities," the source said. Authorities said they will
follow up the issue.
(Kurdistani Nwe issued
daily by Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.)
Prime Minister Receives Arab League Envoy
(Al-Bayan)
Prime minister Ibrahim al-Ja'afari received March 7
Hussein al-Doori, envoy for Arab League
secretary-general Amr Musa. He gave Ja'afari a
letter from Musa expressing the Arab League's
support of Iraq, the unity of the Iraqi people and
the country's security and stability. In a press
conference, Doori said the Arab League and its
secretary-general care about the Iraqi issue and
support its political process.
He said the letter focused on the importance of
forming a national unity government and respecting
that the election results reflected the Iraqi
people's choices. He maintained that all should
respect the constitution and that there (should not
be) any objection to the largest (parliamentary)
bloc's nominee for the premiership. (Several slates
are asking Ja'afari's coalition, the United Iraqi
Alliance, to pull his nomination as prime minister.)
(Al-Bayan is issued
four times weekly by the Islamic Dawa Party, chaired
by Iraqi prime minister Ibrahim al-Ja'afari.)
More Than 2,000 Women Abducted in Iraq
(Al-Taakhi)
The Iraqi "woman's freedom" organization announced
that more than 2,000 women were abducted in Iraq
since the fall of the regime in April 2003. Director
Yenar Mohammed said on international women's day,
March 8, that "that no less than 2,000 Iraqi women
were abducted in Iraq over the past three years."
She added that some were sold like goods inside and
outside of Iraq. She added that there are more than
200 women detained in al-Kadhimiya jail, and that
since the beginning of the so-called era of
democracy and freedom, the status of women has
worsened compared to the Ba'athist era.
(Al-Taakhi is issued
daily by the Kurdistan Democratic Party.)
(Sadr Calls for) Anti-Sectarianism Demonstration
(Al-Sabah al-Jadeed)
The young Shia cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, has called
on Iraqis to hold a demonstration on March 11 to
reject sectarianism and support national unity among
the Iraqi people. In a statement, Sadr asked all
Iraqis regardless of their backgrounds to take part
in the demonstration for the sake of Iraq, Islam and
the Prophet Mohammed.
He called on Iraqis to move forward toward a free,
independent, peaceful and stable Iraq. The
demonstration will take place in al-Fardows Square
in Baghdad, and only Iraqi flags will be raised to
represent national unity. The motto of the
demonstration will be "Peace and Islam, unity and
reconciliation."
(Al-Sabah al-Jadeed is
an independent daily paper.)
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