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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

you can't be serious......

Get'n real now! Great find. Thx.

The PM...crazy...

AGREED.....

All good.....

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....

While this is a well thought out scenario (+1 for you), there's still the issue of what is owed by the Iraqi's. All their debt has NOT been forgiven. They still owe countries billions of dollars. Whether they hold Iraqi dinar or not, the unforgiven debts still need to be paid. Based on your scenario, IMO, if they try to do something "slippery" at the prompting of Iran, when the storm comes and Iran leaves them out in the cold, as I'm sure they will, Iraq will, once again, be at the mercy of world. Then they will have no barganing chips and will ultimately be our little %*tches once again. I really don't think they want that. My

Hmmmmmmmm

All you koolaid drinkers please brush your teeth before they fallout....

Cedar Hill is about 2 1/2 hrs north of Austin. It's a suburb of Dallas.

Chase in Cedar Hill Tx, has a DeLaRue machine...doesn't mean much though...

Good chat, thanks for posting..

It's amazing to me that everything that has been going on has been Pres Obama's fault. - We pull our troops out of harms way in Iraq, a country that HATES OUR GUTS!!!......Obama's fault - Sunni's and Shiite's fighting for.....EVER!!!...Obama's fault.... - no RV yet......Obama's fault... - Policies, political debatilng blah blah blah.....Obama's fault... - The wars that were started in the previous administration.....Obama's fault... - Housing crisis.....huh??? yep you guessed it...Obama's fault. - Let's not forget all the outsourcing and shipping out of American jobs to other countries....Let's just go ahead and make that Obama's fault to...(why not) Oh yeah that would add to the unemployment numbers....Let's give that to the O too. Some people have absolutely no clue who to blame, and I get that you blame the guy that's there now, but for goodness sake! STOP THE FREAK'N WHINNING!!!!! As Americans you have the right to vote for any political figures you choose to, I know, I fought for your freedoms to do so but the broken record is truly getting old. I know I know, bash away....you know who I'll blame.......Ob Well you get the picture.....

(Reuters) - Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority rejected a call for all-party talks on Wednesday, ignoring U.S. pressure for dialogue to resolve a sectarian crisis that has erupted since American forces left the country this week. With fears mounting that the nation of 30 million might one day fragment in chaos in the absence of the U.S. troops who toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki warned Saddam's fellow Sunnis they faced exclusion from power if they walked out on his ruling coalition. The main Sunni-backed party, furious at terrorism charges leveled by the Shi'ite-run authorities against Iraq's Sunni vice president on the day Americans left, rejected Maliki's call for all-party talks in the coming days and vowed to try and unseat the prime minister in parliament, a move unlikely to succeed. Having stuck by a decision to withdraw U.S. forces in 2011, a return of the kind of sectarian blood-letting that killed tens of thousands of Iraqis after Saddam fell could embarrass President Barack Obama as he campaigns for re-election. Vice President Joe Biden called Maliki and the Sunni speaker of parliament on Tuesday to press for urgent talks among Iraq's leaders. But there was little sign of a thaw on Wednesday, although it remained unclear how far the rhetoric reflected a real threat to the fragile coexistence of Sunnis with the majority Shi'ites and ethnic Kurds, both oppressed under Saddam. Maliki, calling on the Kurds to hand over Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi who has taken refuge in their autonomous region, said he wanted Hashemi's Sunni-backed Iraqiya block to end a boycott of parliament and of his year-old power-sharing government. "But," he warned, "If they insist, they are free to do so and they can withdraw permanently from the state and all its institutions." SUNNIS SLAM MALIKI Iraqiya said it would not attend talks with Maliki, "since he represents the main reason for the crisis and the problem, and he is not a positive element for a solution." As well as Hashemi, who stands accused of running death squads based on televised confessions by men claiming to be his bodyguards, the other most senior Sunni politician, deputy prime minister Saleh al-Mutlaq, is also under fire from Maliki, who has asked parliament to remove Mutlaq from office. Hashemi has dismissed the charges against him as a fabrication, a denial that has credibility in Washington, where one U.S. official said he believes the charges were unfounded. The White House on Tuesday said it was "obviously concerned" about the arrest warrant issued for Hashemi. In his calls to Baghdad, Biden had "stressed the urgent need for the prime minister and the leaders of the other major blocs to meet and work through their differences together." Shi'ite leaders insist there is no political motive behind the case against Hashemi. But Sunnis, outnumbered about two to one by Shi'ites, see it as proof that Maliki, now freed of the trammels of U.S. occupation, is determined to tighten his personal grip on government and to marginalize the Sunnis. In a system devised under U.S. occupation to divide power, Iraq has a Shi'ite prime minister with Sunni and Kurd deputies, a Kurdish president with Shi'ite and Sunni vice presidents, and a Sunni parliament speaker with Shi'ite and Kurd deputies. Having long shunned the U.S.-backed institutions set up when Saddam's decades of one-man rule ended, Sunni voters propelled Iraqiya into first place in a fragmented parliament last year. But Maliki was able to draw on other Shi'ite and Kurdish groups to build a coalition, in which Iraqiya eventually took part. Tensions among the major groups has, however, hamstrung the government, leaving key posts such as that of defense and interior minister unfilled and obstructing legislation that could clarify rules for investing and exploiting Iraq's vast oil and gas reserves. Iraq sits astride a Sunni-Shi'ite faultline running through the Middle East, fuelling mutual accusations of foreign influence, whether from Shi'ite Iran to the north or from the Sunni-ruled Arab states to the south. In an interview with Reuters, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari, an ethnic Kurd, said that the country's domestic schisms risked inviting more interference from outside: "As long as your internal front is fragmented and not united ... others who want to interfere will be encouraged," he said. "That's why it is very important to deal with this crisis as soon as possible." (Additional reporting by Serena Chaudry in Baghdad; Writing by Alastair Macdonald) LINK

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's Shiite-led government issued an arrest warrant Monday for Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, the country's highest ranking Sunni official and an outspoken critic of the prime minister, on terrorism charges. The move, a day after the last American troops left Iraq and ended the nearly nine-year U.S. war, signaled a sharp new escalation in sectarian tensions that drove Iraq to the brink of civil war just a few years ago. Interior Ministry spokesman Adil Daham told reporters about the warrant and state-run television aired what it characterized as confessions by alleged terrorists held by the Interior Ministry who were said to be linked to al-Hashemi. They claimed they received orders from him to attack government officials and police officers. "An arrest warrant has been issued against Vice President al-Hashemi under the terrorism law and five judges have signed this warrant," said Daham as he waved a copy of the order. On Sunday, judges investigating al-Hashemi's bodyguards over the alleged attacks banned the vice president from traveling outside of Iraq. Al-Hashemi and Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki are old rivals, and the arrest order appears to be politically motivated. Since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein and his Sunni-dominated Baath party regime, the Sunni minority has constantly complained of attempts by the Shiite majority to sideline them. Al-Hashemi is one of the leaders of the Sunni-backed political bloc Iraqiya, suspended its participation in parliament on Saturday to protest the control of key posts by al-Maliki. The boycott by Iraqiya, headed by Ayad Allawi, was in response to the government's failure to share more powers, particularly the authorities that control security forces, said Sunni lawmaker Hamid al-Mutlaq, a member of the bloc. Iraqiya narrowly won the most seats in last year's parliamentary election, but Allawi was outmaneuvered by al-Maliki, who kept the premier's post after cobbling together key support from other Shiite parties. For more than a year now, al-Maliki has effectively controlled the Interior and Defense Ministries, which oversee the police and military, while conflicts between Sunni and Shiite politicians have delayed the appointment of permanent ministers. The crisis is a reminder that the U.S. left behind an Iraq still riven by sectarian division. The United States completed its withdrawal from the country early Sunday, with the last troops crossing the border into neighboring Kuwait. Al-Mutlaq warned that Iraqiya could take a further step if its demands are not met — pulling its seven ministers out of al-Maliki's coalition government. In a statement issued Saturday, Iraiqiya criticized the "unjustified" random arrests conducted by the government's security forces against Sunni areas. LINK

Can we please close this thread. It's starting to be a bit much. Everyone is entitled to their opinion....EVERYONE! Please just calm down. What's done is done.