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What up Keepm, been a minute. I see you're still arguing with stop signs LMAO!! You know "some" folks only look at the headlines and don't read the article. Keep smash'n Brotha, maybe "some" of them will learn something along the way. Peace Bro. Jam Oh yeah, you know we still gotta knock off a bottle of Hennessy when the ride is over.....1

19/04/2012 10:09 ANBAR, April 18 (AKnews) - Anbar province is days away from declaring regional autonomy, revealed a member of the provincial council. All administrative and legal preparations needed to proclaim autonomy has been completed and the announcement will be made in the coming days, said Muzher al-Mulla, an engineer and member of the council. He added the the move came after the failure of the federal government to meet the demands of citizens submitted months ago, including the release of innocent detainees, providing basic services, opportunities and other legal and constitutional demands. "Proclaiming Anbar an autonomous region took into consideration the rejection of terrorism and sedition, in addition to working to promote the national reconciliation," he said. "The experiment of Kurdistan Region has been proven a success with the region's formation and the exploitation of wealth according to a well-studied and scientific basis. "Turning the province into an independent region will be done according to the law, with a referendum and the approval of one third of the provincial council, and will be submitted to the Iraqi government for approval." Article 119 of the Iraqi constitution says provinces can become a region by referendum if one third of the council or one tenth of the voters request it. By Anwar Msarbat LINK

19/04/2012 11:07 BAGHDAD, April 19 (AKnews) - The Iraqi government's finance committee has formed a committee to investigate a governmental fraud attempt of 7tr IQD ($6bn) using fake documents. The fraud was discovered when the money was transferred. Committee member Najiba Najib said many MPs mentioned that the money was supposed to be taken from the state treasury using fake documents belonging to the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers. "The theft, according to preliminary information, was supposed to be done in two phases. The first included the amount mentioned above, and the second included a larger amount, but the robbery was thwarted before transferring the amount. Najib added: "The Ministry of Finance and the banks, in cooperation with the investigative committee, demand to reveal those behind the theft and how to pass the forged documents. The committee seeks to reveal the truth and addressing the imbalance in the Iraqi banks to prevent the recurrence of [this] in the future." The incident is the second of its kind in Iraq after the attempt to steal 1.9tr IQD ($1.7bn) in contracts signed by the Electricity Ministry with two fake companies. By Haider Ibrahim LINK

..A wave of bombing and shooting attacks in six different provinces across Iraq killed at least 34 people and wounded more than 100 on Thursday, security officials said. It was the deadliest day in Iraq since March 20, when shootings and bombings claimed by Al-Qaeda front group the Islamic State of Iraq killed 50 people and wounded 255 nationwide. Bombings in and around Baghdad killed at least 17 people and wounded 63, an interior ministry official said. A car bomb targeting Health Minister Majid Hamed Amin's convoy in Haifa Street in the heart of the capital, killed two civilians and wounded nine people, including four of the minister's guards. Another car bomb in the Al-Amil neighbourhood of south Baghdad killed two people and wounded 17. Two people were killed and four wounded in a car bomb against a checkpoint in Palestine Street in the east of the capital, while a fourth car bomb in Kadhimiyah, a Shiite shrine district in north Baghdad, killed two people and wounded seven. A car bomb against a Turkmen social club on Palestine Street killed two people and wounded six, and a roadside bomb in Zafraniyah in central Baghdad wounded six. In Taji, north of the capital, two roadside bombs killed one person and wounded five, while two car bombs and a suicide bombing killed five people and wounded 17. In Tarmiyah, also north of Baghdad, a suicide bomber blew up a vehicle by an army base, killing one soldier and wounding two. In northern Iraq, bombings in Kirkuk province killed nine people and wounded 24, high-ranking police officers said. A car bomb against the convoy of police Brigadier General Taha Salaheddin in the south of Kirkuk city killed two police and wounded 15 other people. Another car bomb in the city centre killed two police and wounded three, a high-ranking police officer said on condition of anonymity. Six bombs against houses in the town of Malha, 40 kilometres northwest of Kirkuk, killed five people and wounded six, police Brigadier General Sarhad Qader said. And in Ramadi in Anbar province, west of the capital, two car bombs against police patrols killed one person and wounded nine, a police source said. In Baquba, the capital of Diyala province, a suicide bomber blew himself up in home of police First Lieutenant Mohammed al-Tamimi, killing him and wounding four family members, an Iraqi army lieutenant colonel and Dr Ahmed Ibrahim of Baquba General Hospital said. A suicide car bomb against a police checkpoint in the city centre killed two policemen and wounded two other people. Another policeman was killed by gunmen in the town of Al-Mansuriyah north of Baquba, while a bomb against a home in the town wounded three people. A bomb targeting a home in Ghalbiyah, west of Baquba, also wounded three people. In Samarra in Salaheddin province, two car bombs exploded near checkpoints of an anti-Qaeda militia, killing three people and wounding six, militia commander Majid Abdullah and a police lieutenant colonel said. And a bomb in a restaurant in the main northern city of Mosul, capital of Nineveh province, wounded three people, a police captain said. Violence in Iraq has fallen sharply from its peak in 2006 and 2007, but attacks still continue across the country. In March, 112 Iraqis were killed, government figures showed. LINK

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Get'n real now! Great find. Thx.

The PM...crazy...

AGREED.....

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AFP – 3 hrs ago... Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi has accused Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shiite government of waging a systematic campaign against Sunni Arabs in Iraq. In an interview with the pan-Arab Al-Jazeera network aired late on Wednesday, Hashemi said the accusations against him of running a death squad "have a sectarian dimension," noting that he is the "fifth Sunni figure to be targeted" by Iraq's Shiite-led government. "More than 90 percent of the detainees in Iraq are Sunnis," said Hashemi, who pledged to return to Iraq to carry out his vice presidential duties despite Maliki's demands for him to face trial. Hashemi sharply criticised Maliki, saying that "corruption in the country is widespread" and warning that the prime minister's policies were threatening "the unity of Iraq." Hashemi also alleged that Maliki's government is providing "military assistance" to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, arguing that his support for Syria's leadership, which he has previously accused of funding terrorism, is motivated by sectarian considerations. "There is information about Iraqi militias fighting alongside the Syrian regime," Hashemi told Al-Jazeera. There are also "unconfirmed reports that Iraq's airspace is being used to help (Assad's) regime," he added, hinting at Iranian involvement. Maliki has rejected attempts by Sunni-led Gulf Arab states to arm Syrian rebels fighting to overthrow Assad, arguing that such a move will trigger an even bigger crisis in the region. The Syrian uprising has raised regional sectarian tensions. Syria's minority rulers are Alawites -- an offshoot of Shiite Islam -- who are trying to cling to power by brutally suppressing anti-regime protests led by the country's majority Sunnis. In Iraq, a Shiite-dominated government has ruled over the minority Sunni Arabs since the 2003 US-led invasion ousted Saddam Hussein. Hashemi spoke to Al-Jazeera in Doha during a controversial four-day visit that sparked a wave of criticism by Iraq's Shiite leadership, which demanded that Qatar extradite the fugitive leader. Qatar rejected Baghdad's request, saying it violated "diplomatic norms." Hashemi travelled to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, where he met Prince Saud al-Faisal, the kingdom's foreign minister. He has said he would return to Iraq's northern autonomous Kurdistan, which he fled to in December. LINK

AFP – 27 mins ago... ....US President Barack Obama dropped in on a meeting Wednesday between Vice President Joe Biden and the leader of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, the White House said in a statement. The visiting leader, Massud Barzani, also met with US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, according to the Pentagon. Neither the White House nor the Pentagon released further details on the talks. "The United States is committed to our close and historic relationship with Kurdistan and the Kurdish people, in the context of our strategic partnership with a federal, democratic and unified Iraq," the White House said. The meetings came a day after Obama called Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to congratulate him on the Arab summit held last week and to stress his support for a unified Iraq. The US leader also told Maliki that he backed Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's call for a national conference this week to bridge sharp differences between rival political blocs in the country, from which US troops withdrew last year at the end of a nearly nine-year-long war. LINK

I've been a member of this site for quite a few years and have seen some of the most hateful words about our current President. It's almost like people voted for him just so they can bash, not support, watch him potentially fail, just so they can shut us good ole black folk up. We gave ya one and see what he did??? He was being hammered before his FIRST YEAR WAS UP! Hmmm imagine that....couldn't wait huh???? Well I'll say this..I served for 3 US Presidents and let me tell you, if you say this is the WORST president we've had then you obviously were born in 2008. Seriously....I don't know how many friends any of you lost in a war that the past president's sent them to (especially this last one) but this one is ending wars, not starting them. Also, for those of you young ones that are so anti Obama and pro America and you feel that we should be kicking a$$ and taking names all over the world.....Come on down to the MEPS and get your paperwork started, I'll be waiting on ya. That's Military Entrance Processing Station, in case you didn't know. As far as who I'll "probably" vote for.....I didn't get my form to fill out nor was I questioned by any polster, so the assumption that my vote is race based, becasue I'm black, is absurd and insulting, being that I'm an independant voter who's voted for both parties. I'm not killing the messenger just stating my position. I'm not a major fan of either party, but it's the best system out there and it's all we got. You support who's there and if at the end, YOU come up short, then vote him out and move on to the next one. Chances are he won't be much better than the last one. We had this saying when I was in....."The only good base, was the one you just left. I'm out...

you guys have way to much time on your hands....geez.....

Good luck with that one....