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On the occasion of the first shipment of gas .. Hamoudi calls to speed up the activation of new sources of income for the country On the occasion of the first shipment of gas .. Hamoudi calls to speed up the activation of new sources of income for the country News Source:Ali Abd al - Salman Section:page economic March 21, 2016 7:51 Hits:22 Counting board member of the Presidency of the Council of Representatives Sheikh d. Hamoudi decision to export the first shipment of liquefied gas through the port "Umm Qasr" encouraging and correct step that would push for thecreation of development and investment opportunities of the country, and to strive for self-sufficiency and the production and export of gas, and praised the great efforts of the Ministry of Oil and cadres which aimed to develop the economic sector, expressing hope to move all the other ministries to encourage and provide new sources of funding. He called Sheikh Hamoudi to accelerate the activation of other new revenue for thecountry sources, diversification of sectors available alternative for oil supplier, stressing the need to take advantage of the current financial situation, and anerror to continue the adoption of a higher proportion of revenue from a single supplier only , pointing out that " the responsibility of everyone today is to move to other sources and the use of aspects of experience and advanced research and studies in the same regard." he d. Hamoudi told a news briefing that the national product support campaign confirmed that there is a large and broad opportunities can be invested for thediversification of the economy , especially after the remarkable development of various sectors " of industry and minerals, agriculture, trade and other" stressing said "Enough Aicha at the mercy of fluctuating oil prices and must make another economic options of the country in the future ". http://burathanews.com/news/288977.html

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Employees of the popular crowd protesting to demand their salaries Number of readers: 13112 15-03-2016 03:01 PM Nearly 100 member of the popular crowd, demonstrated Tuesday afternoon, near the Imam Hussein Square (arena leading to the double-decker bridge) in Jadriya district of central Baghdad. And student demonstrators overdue salaries for several months. - See more at: http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?act=url&depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.ikhnews.com/index.php%3Fpage%3Darticle%26id%3D143881&usg=ALkJrhhucryHOzkN_HN-GP-TcNJnkih-sA#sthash.3UQiPIQD.dpuf

U.S. Marine Killed In ISIS Rocket Attack On Iraqi Base The unidentified Marine is the second American combat casualty since the U.S. began targeting ISIS in 2014. posted on Mar. 19, 2016, at 6:42 p.m. Salvador Hernandez BuzzFeed News Reporter Tweet Tumblr Karim Kadim / AP A U.S. Marine was killed Saturday after a base in northern Iraq came under attack by ISIS forces, Defense Department officials said in a statement. The Marine, who has not yet been identified, is only the second American casualty since the beginning of the U.S. military’s operation against ISIS. The last American death in Iraq occurred in 2014. The Marine was killed by rocket fire at a base near Makhmur, according to thestatement. Several other Marines were wounded in the attack and are being treated for their injuries, the Pentagon said. “This is the second combat death since the start of Operation Inherent Resolve, and it reminds us of the risks our men and women in uniform face every day,” the statement read. At the base where the attack occurred, American military advisers are helping Iraqi Kurds prepare to wrest Mosul away from ISIS control, The New York Times reported. The Pentagon said more information would be released about the Marine after his family is notified. http://www.buzzfeed.com/salvadorhernandez/us-marine-killed-in-isis-rocket-attack-on-iraqi-base?#.kypJ7dgW4

Iraq reels under fresh onslaught of IS chemical attacks Civil defence personnel spray and clean areas contaminated in a chemical attack on Taza. Picture: Marwan Ibrahim: Getty 10:40Sunday 20 March 2016 0 HAVE YOUR SAY AHMAD Rasool remembers the clouds of mustard gas vividly. It was mid-afternoon in August, when Islamic State mortars began to rain down on his position in Makhmour, northern Iraq – a relatively common occurrence on the frontlines in the war-torn north. However this time was different. Gas began to fill the air as the mortars smashed into the ground. It was like nothing Rasool had seen before: he and his small unit of 20 had just become the victims of the first chemical weapons attack on Iraq’s soil since the reign of Saddam Hussein. A young girl is treated at the general hospital in Kirkuk after being injured in an attack in nearby Taza. Picture: Mohammed Sawaf/Getty “They attacked with mortars, there was gas, but it wasn’t until after a few minutes that suddenly I had to really scratch my back,” Rasool said. “Red spots then started to appear on my skin, it was like boils, I had to scratch it constantly. I had never come across this kind of attack before. I didn’t know what to do. Some of the other soldiers, their skin and hands were swelling up.” Since that day, Makhmour has been targeted another four times with both chlorine and mustard gas. As the Islamic State has lost ground in Iraq over the past few months, the militant group appears to have changed its tactics. Digging in and fortifying Mosul – Islamic State’s largest city – has been coupled with an increasing use of chemical weapons causing panic and disarray on Iraq’s frontlines. Mortar bombs made simply of metal pipes, but also more sophisticated weaponry such as 122mm Grad rockets with a firing distance of 20 kilometres, have been modified to carry the potentially lethal agent. “There’s a big difference between normal attacks and chemical attacks,” said Rasool. “With the chemical attack it isn’t clear what is going to happen, what the harm will be. For me, it is more dangerous than a normal attack.” A spokesman for Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Malik Ellahi, said that the repeated reports of chemical weapons use was a “matter of serious concern”. On 25 February, Islamic State militants launched chemical rockets on Sinjar, the remote corner of northern Iraq where Islamic State attempted genocide against the local Yazidi population. Nineteen rockets, suspected to have contained chlorine gas, were fired. Nearly 200 people were treated for severe vomiting, nausea, and headaches. On 2 March, Tel Afar district near Sinjar was also hit by a chemical attack in which at least six rockets were seen emitting a yellow smoke on impact. Three civilians, including two children, were hospitalised with nausea, vomiting, and skin irritation. On 12 March, Taza, an Iraqi town near Kirkuk, was subjected to a large chemical attack as a barrage of rockets rained down on the settlement injuring 600 people and killing a child. Peshmerga Commander Mahadi Younis in Makhmour believes the weapons are being manufactured in nearby Mosul. Younis said the militants are experimenting all the time, and that the deadliness of the weapons will increase as the months go on. “They are experimenting with new tactics, and new ways of fighting us,” Younis explained. “With the chemical attacks that are happening here in Makhmour, they seem to be experimenting with each attack. I expect everything from them now. They use anything they have to survive, without even considering the lives of civilians.” Earlier this month, Marwan Ahmad, who lives in the small village of Keske near Dohuk, north of Mosul, described the panic as 20 chemical-laden rockets, which he suspects to be chlorine, struck the homes of civilians and their surroundings. Ahmad was sitting in his house, when the attack started. “I was just inside, and the rockets started coming down. I saw the smoke, and tears started running down my face, my skin was itchy, it started to go red, and it bubbled.” Ahmad now worries that similar, more lethal attacks, will follow in the coming weeks and months, especially as rumours continue of an upcoming coalition advance on Islamic State controlled Mosul. It is thought that the Islamic State has only been producing chemical weaponry over the past year, and that the longer the militants have in honing their weapon-making skills, the more lethal the chemical attacks will become. http://www.scotsman.com/news/iraq-reels-under-fresh-onslaught-of-is-chemical-attacks-1-4077215?

Political Sunday 20 March 2016 | 12:44 | Number of Views: 217 More than $ 400 billion of Iraqi funds abroad and the parliament confirms his inability to be recovered BAGHDAD / ... revealed to the Parliamentary Integrity Commission member Mishan al-Jubouri, Sunday, that the volume of smuggled Iraqi funds abroad is about more than $ 400 billion, while stressing the lack of the Commission re-smuggled funds set up by the House of Representatives to recover that money power. He said al-Jubouri's "Eye of Iraq News," that "Iraq's budget over the nine previous years, all of which were stolen and smuggled abroad by politicians influential power," adding that "the money that fled abroad size of approximately more than 400 billion dollars." "The committee re-smuggled funds set up by the House of Representatives is able to restore Iraqi funds smuggled abroad, as the committee is effective work," pointing out that "the restoration of Iraqi funds abroad needs to be coordinated with the UN Security Council and others." He Jubouri that "the country needs to restructure the Independent Electoral Commission as well as the work of the Iraqi election law amendment in order to form a new government based transparency and integrity to work." It is said that the House of Representatives formed a parliamentary committee made up of its members of financial committees, integrity and legal accountability and justice as well as people from the finance and foreign affairs and intelligence ministries, and fired upon by the Commission refund smuggled to Iraqi funds smuggled abroad illegally restored. http://aynaliraqnews.com/index.php?aa=news&id22=54650

Vice chest: Abadi does not know what he wants 01:55:00 20/03/2016 | (Voice of Iraq) - Baghdad 's deputy for the Sadr movement, said Prime Minister Haider al - Abadi does not know what he wants. He Attorney Mazen Mezni said , "Abadi wants to form agovernment with something you do not know, so he have to differentiate between a government and build a state capable of managing all institutions. " He explained that" the political blocs have become today, also live in a real crisis, because they do not know do you remain in theopposition, or be a key part of the government, without the knowledge oftheir share of the government. " He pointed Mezni that" most of thepolitical blocs did not dare to give any candidate because she is afraid to fall in a big problem with al - Abadi, in the process of choosing ministers, stressing that the Sadrists will not present any candidate to the Ministry, according to the will of the chest that the government will be technocrats. "He stressed that" sit - ins and demonstrations organized by the mainstream, it will not be canceled but the decision of its leader , Muqtada al - Sadr, as the political body of the Sadrist movement formed earlier committee and I went to most of the political blocs and I explained to Hedda over thediscipline of these demonstrations. " He predicted Mezni be" the next stage is difficult and bitter and paid for the people, for the absence of national and strategic outlook for the formation of a true technocrat government . " The Prime Minister Haider al - Abadi has extended horizon of the political blocs , which ended last Wednesday week to submit their Ministerial to change.The Abadi has formed" an independent committee of experts "to review theCVs of the candidates and raise the names after the audit and review to thePrime Minister , where there will be more than one name each bag of technocrats to choose the most efficient, and then submit it to the House.House Speaker Salim al - Jubouri, said last week that al - Abadi approach in the cabinet reshuffle a different approach to the blocks. there is no consensus in this methodology. it is said that the sit - ins called by the cleric Moqtada al Sadr began on Friday in front of the gates of the green Zone, and is still going on until now. Read more:http://www.sotaliraq.com/newsitem.php?id=323313#ixzz43RHP6rhw

Industrialists: views addressing industrial initiative and trying to acquisition 03/20/2016 BAGHDAD / JD / .. after it announced the Federal Government on the implementation of the industrial initiative through the launch of loans by the central bank to private banks for private industry support, rejoiced industrialists to investigate this initiative real goals to revive the national industry, but it seems that this initiative go to non-beneficiaries of traders and businessmen rather than industrial or unemployed, according to a number of Iraqi industrialists, accused of multiple views to address this initiative and seek to acquire them. The expert in the Industrial Affairs Abdul Hassan al-Shammari, said there was no real industrial initiative on the ground, and that everything that is said in the media by officials just words without action. He said al-Shammari told / KD /: There are two initiatives announced officially reported by the government, but it has not been applied effectively, including loan trillion and a half trillion dinars by the Central Bank of the sectors of agriculture, industry, housing, and the project other support industrialists and the unemployed with soft loans was launched Bank Central and $ 5 trillion to private banks. He pointed out that those loans did not reach the intended recipients, but there are multiple parties are trying to address these initiatives and the acquisition of the loans, it follows the banks any industrial not granted or unemployed state the amount of the exception who has knowledge with these banks, in addition to the launch of the traders and businessmen, not industrialists. He explained that when the government launched these initiatives did not lay down the conditions and mechanisms and the necessary instructions in order to be a soft loan, noting that each bank is developing its own conditions so that makes complex guarantees and no one can get those loans. It called on the central bank to issue clear instructions and conditions of the private banks on these loans to ensure the delivery of those loans to the beneficiaries. For its part, he stressed member of the Committee of Economy and Investment parliamentary MP Najiba Najib on the need to issue clear instructions by the central bank obliges industrial initiative for granting loans to beneficiaries banks, with negligent accounting. She said Najib told / KD /: he must compel private banks to grant loans are concessional and concessional guarantees also to enable the industrialists or the project owner to obtain the loan in accordance with the conditions and instructions issued to ensure the delivery of loans to the beneficiaries. She said authorities must impeding the implementation of this national project accounting, which would support the private industrial sector, whether banks or persons. The federal government announced earlier, the launch of the industrial initiative funded by the Central Bank to grant soft loans to Alsnaaan by private banks easy, accessible and guarantees for the private sector to support local industry http://www.dananernews.com/News_Details.php?ID=7040

Trade: The Board of Baghdad is lying and does not have any agreement on a new deduction amounts to ration 03/20/2016 BAGHDAD / JD / .. Trade Ministry denied the deduction of any new funds from citizens in exchange for receiving the ration card items, while confirming that the Maisdr of comments by members of the Baghdad Provincial Council was illegal and did not originally agreed upon with the ministry. The ministry said in quoting Commerce Minister Mohammed Shia 'Al Sudani statement received / JD / copy of it: that the ministry is not interested in statements by some members of the Board of Baghdad, adding the amount of one thousand dinars on the amounts paid by the citizen in exchange for receiving the food vocabulary and is and is not worth material received by the citizen of vocabulary month symbolism . The statement said that the ministry concerned according to the law ration cards and has no right to any destination in addition amounts or other deduction and Maisdr statements or press releases to members of the Board of Baghdad does not mean that decisions are being applied on the ground that it did not take prescription awareness unless issued by the central government. The statement noted that the ministry categorically denies relationship with any decision which is deducted the amount of (1000) dinars from citizens as well as the disqualification of the Baghdad Provincial Council by adding extra amounts on the ration card according to the law and that any agreement did not get on the subject. http://www.dananernews.com/News_Details.php?ID=7042

Massoud Barzani: Region will hold a serious dialogue with Baghdad before the referendum Interior warns of the presence of brokers to ring you issue the identities of gun MP Abdul Rahman Alloizi calls for respect for the powers - Abadi constitutional about the participation of [ the crowd] in the liberation of Mosul Council Muqdadiyah: the government reneged on its promises and returned the commander of the fifth division of the office a civilian martyrdom and wounding 14 others Panevjarin separate in Baghdad oil .. Arabia weapon that got out of control: see New York Times infallible calls occasion Nawrouz to entrench the values of cooperation, solidarity and community Foreign parliamentary: politicians begging distort image of the crowd in international forums their portfolios; confirms the cohesion of the National Alliance \ in Diyala and warns of rumors claw grade Massoud Barzani: Region will hold a serious dialogue with Baghdad before the referendum Interior warns of the presence of brokers to ring you issue the identities of gun MP Abdul Rahman Alloizi calls for respect for the powers - Abadi constitutional about the participation of [ the crowd] in the liberation of Mosul Council Muqdadiyah: the government reneged on its promises and returned the commander of the fifth division of the office a civilian martyrdom and wounding 14 others Panevjarin separate in Baghdad oil .. Arabia weapon that got out of control: see New York Times infallible calls occasion Nawrouz to entrench the values of cooperation, solidarity and community Foreign parliamentary: politicians begging distort image of the crowd in international forums their portfolios; confirms the cohesion of the National Alliance \ in Diyala and warns of rumors claw grade Nechirvan Barzani: Kurdistan is seeking to make tourism, agriculture and industry substitute for oil and gas Nechirvan Barzani: Kurdistan is seeking to make tourism, agriculture and industry substitute for oil and gas News Source:Ali Abd al - Salman Section:page economic March 19, 2016 20:53 Hits:23 The President of the Kurdistan Regional Government Nechirvan Barzani, onSaturday that his government is seeking to make tourism, agriculture and industry sectors , " a resource substitute" for the oil and gas sector, as pointed out investment "six billion dollars" in the tourism sector during the last period. Barzani said in a speech at an investment conference Tourism was held in Arbil, attended by Alsumaria News, " the Kurdistan Regional Government is planning to make the tourism sector with the agricultural and industrial sectors as a resource substitute for the oil and gas sector , " noting that "during the last period was six billion dollars to invest in the tourism sector in the Kurdistan region." he added Barzani, "between 2007 and 2016 the tourism sector has witnessed aremarkable development , " explaining that "in 2007 we had 105 tourist hotels in Kurdistan and now we have become 764 a tourist hotel." " the number of tourists during this period increased from 377 thousand tourists to 3 million tourists. " was launched on Saturday, the activities of tourism investment conference in Erbil with the participation of foreign and local companies in order to activate thetourism sector. According to informed sources that the size of the volume of imports of thetourism sector in the Kurdistan Region reached in the year 2013 more than $ 6 million, but the sector tourism in the Kurdistan region has seen a significant decline over the past two years because of the war against the "Daash" financial crisis in the Kurdistan region. http://burathanews.com/news/288874.html

Turkish military strikes PKK targets in northern Iraq Source: Xinhua 2016-03-19 17:53:52 ANKARA, March 19 (Xinhua) -- Turkey launched two separate aerial campaign against outlawed Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq on Friday and Saturday, Turkish Armed Forces said in a written statement. A total of 20 Turkish warplanes struck PKK targets in Sinat, Haftanin and Gara regions on Friday, the military said. On early Saturday, 10 warplanes hit Hakurk region, the statement added. The airstrikes against PKK positions in Iraq intensified in the aftermath of a suicide car bomb attack in capital Ankara on March 13 which killed at least 37 people. The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), a Kurdish militant group linked to the PKK, has claimed responsibility. On Feb. 17, a separate suicide car bomb targeted military shuttles in the capital city, killing at least 29 people and injuring 81 others. TAK claimed the responsibility of the attack. Turkish Interior Ministry stated that one of the suspected bombers, identified as 24-year-old Seher Cagla Demir, was trained in Syria by the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), the Syrian offshoot of the PKK. A two-year ceasefire between the government and the PKK collapsed in July last year and Turkish security forces have launched a major campaign against the group in the southeast of the country. More than 260 members of Turkish security forces and thousands of PKK members have been killed since last July in confrontations inside Turkey and in northern Iraq. The PKK, which has been waging a separatist war against Turkey since 1984, is listed as terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-03/19/c_135204198.htm?

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Iraq’s Dysfunctional Government by Proxy March 19, 2016 in Politics By Omar Sattar, for Al-Monitor. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. With Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi thought to be working on reforms that include the formation of a technocratic Cabinet, the issue of proxy appointments is back in the spotlight. For more than a decade, Iraqi government institutions have been run by proxy, with the prime minister appointing officials in acting capacities to lead government bodies, independent commissions and military commands because of parliament’s failure to vote on candidates due to political disagreements over the distribution of positions. In an interview with Al-Monitor, Hamdia al-Husseini, a member of the parliament’s legal committee, explained: “Acting officials include undersecretaries and independent commission heads, like at the Central Bank and integrity and intelligence commissions, as well as military commanders and other senior officials. They hold over 80% of the posts at government bodies, especially at the Ministries of Defense and Interior, in addition to security bodies and other important Iraqi official institutions.” Husseini added: “Appointment by proxy contradicts the constitution and the Civil Code of 1960prohibiting acting officials from holding their post for more than one annual term. “The issue of acting officials, whether in the Cabinet or the rest of the government institutions, is a critical one, because their decisions are not constitutional. Their appointment is not subject to any legal standards, as acting officials cannot be legally held accountable because they were appointed by the prime minister, not the parliament as per the constitution. “The problem of appointment by proxy will likely be resolved as part of the new Cabinet reforms Prime Minister Abadi is seeking to implement in addition to the formation of a technocratic Cabinet. “It is illogical to implement political reforms and form a professional Cabinet while most undersecretaries and director generals are being appointed without parliamentary approval as stipulated by the constitution.” Zaher Khatouni, a member of the Iraqi National Forces Alliance, spoke to Alforat News on Feb. 13 about the need “to select the new ministers on the basis of professionalism,” stressing that the issue of appointment by proxy should be settled. In a Feb. 28 statement, Kamel al-Zaidi, a member of the State of Law Coalition, said, “[We] will force the Iraqi parliament to urge the Cabinet to settle the issue of acting officials and replace them with qualified individuals.” He explained, “The problem of appointment by proxy arose as a result of the rivalry between political parties contesting these posts.” In one example of the issue, according to the Iraqi Commission of Integrity, 3,200 director general positions have been filled by acting appointments and without regard to the law limiting their tenure to one year. Mohsen Saadoun, a member of the parliamentary legal committee and the Kurdistan Alliance, told Al-Monitor: “The delay in resolving the problem is due to the inactivation of the parliamentary committee [to achieve national] balance, tasked with settling the issue of acting officials since 2005. But in February, the committee was able to hold several meetings, and it expects to find a final solution for the problem during March, to end the assignment of government employees by proxy by agreeing on allocating the higher ranks among the parliamentary parties that represent the Iraqi people and vote for them in parliament.” The committee had been formed during the legislature’s first session in 2005 with the goal of distributing government appointments as well as military commands in accordance with the social components of the Iraqi people — Arab Shiites and Sunnis, Kurds, Christians, Turkmens and so on — and their parliamentary representation. “The results of the general elections determine each political party’s share of government posts in a fair manner without marginalizing any party when it comes to leadership and decision-making,” Saadoun claimed. “Taking the election results into consideration does not imply sectarian or racial quotas with respect to distributing posts or adopting a technocracy, for each parliamentary bloc can nominate several qualified figures for each government post before the prime minister selects one among them.” In regard to the larger issue, Yasin Bakri, a political science professor at Nahrain University, told Al-Monitor: “The suspension of Article 61 of the Iraqi Constitution has been intentional over the past few years, ever since the constitution was adopted in 2005 until now. The prime ministers who were in office have been trying to control all aspects of the state by overriding parliamentary powers in terms of appointing senior public officials.” According to Article 61, the parliament must approve the appointment of the president and members of the Federal Court of Cassation, chief public prosecutor and the president of Judicial Oversight Commission, ambassadors, the army chief of staff and his assistants, division commanders and ranks above and the director of the intelligence service. “Just as the parliament approves the appointment of state senior officials, independent commission heads and military commanders, it must also approve their dismissal; therefore, the prime minister has limited powers over the members of parliament,” Bakri said. “In the event of the prime minister appointing senior officials by proxy, as is the case now, their dismissal is also the responsibility of the prime minister. For this reason, the latter may extort and control them, in his attempt to impose a dictatorship. However, resolving the problem of acting officials by ending the prime minister’s control and monopoly over the activities of government institutions will not eradicate the sectarian and party quota system in force since 2003.” Finding a solution to the issue of acting senior officials will not be easy. The implementation of the constitution, including the parliament’s power to approve candidates for senior positions, will be colored by the sectarian quota system, like the distribution of Cabinet portfolios, despite that average Iraqis as well as elites are opposed to this type of approach.hare http://www.iraq-businessnews.com/2016/03/19/iraqs-dysfunctional-government-by-proxy/

Rate of Arab and foreign currencies in Iraqi dinars on Saturday Department: Business & FinanceViews: 732Published on: Today, 10:12 Print story Send to Friend font size BAGHDAD / Sky Press: Mary finest U.S. dollar US $ 1 = 1,107.1000 Iraqi dinars 1 Iraqi dinars = US $ 0.0009 euro 1 euro = Iraqi dinars 1,247.4802 IQD 1 = 0.0008 euros Sterling pound £ 1 = 1,602.0827 Iraqi dinars IQD 1 = 0.0006 pounds Canadian Dollar 1 CAD = 850.8300 dinars IQD 1 = 0.0012 Canadian dollars Australian Dollar 1 AUD = 842.1509 dinars IQD 1 = 0.0012 Australian dollars Japanese Yen 1 Japanese Yen = 9.9245 Iraqi dinars IQD 1 = 0.1008 Japanese yen Egyptian Pound 1 Egyptian Pound = 124.6790 dinars IQD 1 = 0.0080 Egyptian pounds Saudi riyal 1 SAR = 295.2306 dinars IQD 1 = 0.0034 SAR UAE dirham 1 AED = 301.4363 dinars IQD 1 = 0.0033 AED Sudanese Pound 1 SDG = 181.5662 dinars IQD 1 = 0.0055 Sudanese pounds Algerian Dinar 1 DA = 10.0645 dinars IQD 1 = 0.0994 DA Bahraini Dinar 1 BD = 2,936.4490 Iraqi dinars IQD 1 = 0.0003 BD Jordanian Dinar JD 1 = 1,560.9447 Iraqi dinars IQD 1 = 0.0006 JD Kuwaiti dinar 1 KD = 3,681.6936 Iraqi dinars IQD 1 = 0.0003 Kuwaiti dinars Lebanese Pound 1 LP = 0.7342 Iraqi dinars IQD 1 = 1.3621 LP Shekel NIS 1 = 287.1036 dinars IQD 1 = 0.0035 NIS Libyan dinar 1 LD = 802.6535 dinars IQD 1 = 0.0012 LD Moroccan dirham MAD 1 = 114.6832 dinars IQD 1 = 0.0087 Moroccan dirhams Mauritanian ounce 1 UM = 3.2371 Iraqi dinars IQD 1 = 0.3089 UM Syrian Lira 1 SYP = 5.0355 Iraqi dinars IQD 1 = 0.1986 LS Somali shilling 1 Somali Shilling = 1.8006 Iraqi dinars IQD 1 = 0.5554 Somali Shilling Omani Rial RO 1 = 2,875.2110 Iraqi dinars IQD 1 = 0.0003 RO Qatari Riyal QR 1 = 304.0189 dinars IQD 1 = 0.0033 QR Tunisian Dinar 1 TND = 553.3425 dinars IQD 1 = 0.0018 Tunisian dinars Yemeni riyal 1 YR = 5.1481 Iraqi dinars IQD 1 = 0.1942 YR Djiboutian franc 1 Djibouti francs = 6.2307 Iraqi dinars IQD 1 = 0.1605 francs Djibouti http://skypressiq.net/13990-%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B1%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9%20%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9%20%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%8A%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%AA.html

19/03/2016 11:43 Number of readings 168 Section: Economy For the first time in its history .. Iraq is exporting liquid gas BAGHDAD / obelisk: Iraqi ports company, announced Saturday that the tanker carrying a cargo of liquid gas will start heading for the throats of the Red Sea, saying that the move is the first of its kind in the history of Iraq , which it issued Ghaz liquid. According to a company statement seen by "obelisk" the "advanced marine cadres will lay the boot and guide the tanker Panamanian specialized" Kura ", which kicks off on Sunday, the gas port of liquid on its way towards the sea, indicating that the tanker carrying the first shipment of natural gas condensed liquid (C5 plus)". the statement added, "this gas produced by Iraq for the first time in its history, adding that the company will participate in this event because of its expertise in providing safe navigation for the passage of this supertanker safely across Mamratna navigation in the Khawr Abd Allah and Khor Al - Zubair." http://almasalah.com/ar/News/71547/%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%84-%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AE%D9%87-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82-%D9%8A%D8%B5%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84

This reference candidate for prime minister in the event of a change Abadi : Political landscape sectionViews: 1979Published on: Today, 12:55 Print story Send to Friend font size BAGHDAD / Sky Press: According to leaks from within the corridors of the religious authority in Najaf on Saturday, that the reference made its candidate Hazem Al Hassoun for prime minister in the event of a change of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, as pointed out reservation National Alliance on Hassoun. She said a private sources to "Sky Press," that "a number of associates of reference met informally with some of the leaders of the National Alliance for the boot to put a firm Hassoun as prime minister in the event of a change of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi." He added that "the National Alliance, expressed reservations about the candidate reference under the pretext of not having sufficient experience in the management of the country and the odds on the Iraqi arena at the moment." The firm Hassoun was part of the six-party committee selected by reference earlier and whose work has been coordination between the forces and the Shiite parties and personalities, choosing the names of candidates to enter the National Assembly elections early in 2005. http://skypressiq.net/14013--.html

Updated: March 19, 2016 13:57 IST Captive British scribe appears in new IS video AP COMMENT · PRINT · T T Tweet inShare AP This photo posted online by the Islamic State group-affiliated Amaq News Agency on Friday shows British journalist John Cantlie, who is being held hostage by the militants, during a stand-up for an IS propaganda video in Mosul, Iraq. It is the first video featuring Mr. Cantlie to be released by the group since February 2015 when he appeared purportedly from Syria’s Aleppo province. TOPICS World United Kingdom human interest people mass media newspapers unrest, conflicts and war act of terror It is the first video featuring John Cantlie to be released by the group since February 2015. A captive British photojournalist has appeared in a new Islamic State (IS) group propaganda video purportedly from the IS-held city of Mosul. It is the first video featuring John Cantlie to be released by the IS since February 2015, when he appeared in what he said was Syria’s Aleppo province. The latest video was released by the IS-ffiliated Aamaq news agency Saturday. Mocks U.S. airstrikes In it, Mr. Cantlie is seen mocking U.S. airstrikes on IS media kiosks. The IS has long used Mr. Cantlie for propaganda purposes, featuring him in videos from Mosul, Aleppo and the Syrian town of Kobani, likely speaking under duress. Abducted along with Foley Mr. Cantlie has worked for several publications, including The Sunday Times, The Sun and The Sunday Telegraph, and was kidnapped with American journalist James Foley in November 2012. The IS beheaded Foley in August 2014. Keywor http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/captive-british-scribe-appears-in-new-is-video/article8374471.ece?

Go about freezing the assets of officials suspected of corruption in international banks 03/19/2016 BAGHDAD / JD / .. parliamentary Finance Committee announced that, for the determination of the Iraqi government to freeze the assets of officials issued arrest warrants against them on charges of corruption in the diary international banks as a prelude not Strdadha. The rapporteur of the committee MP Ahmad Rashid told meat / KD /: The Integrity Commission has issued arrest warrants against 18 ministers and about more than 100 director general accused of corruption. He said the government and the Integrity Commission are considering laws relating to this matter in order to work on the freezing of funds and assets of these officials deposited in foreign banks as a prelude to recovery. / http://www.dananernews.com/News_Details.php?ID=7037

Bankruptcy lurks Oil and Gas University in Basra News Source:Ali Abd al - Salman Section:page economic March 19, 2016 6:27 Hits:32 Basra Governorate Council has decided to provide support to the University of oil and gas, and to provide all the requirements for the development of two other colleges to develop their work. The head of the Oil and Gas Committee of the Board Ali Shaddad that the university has been working for three years with one kidney, pointing out that the Council voted unanimously to pay the debt owed bug university, due to the offered service for a large segment of the people of the province. Shaddad He added that the Council also studied the possibility of involving an investor in the financing of the university, in the shadow of the financial crisis experienced by Iraq at the present time: The head of the Oil and Gas University Ali Mashat part, the importance of the support provided by the provincial council to the university able to achieve the conditions of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research for the establishment of universities, which requires the presence of three faculties at the very least, and expressed the hope that progress Ministry oil in support of this young university: http://burathanews.com/news/288820.html

Baghdad Halts Kirkuk Oil Exports via KRI March 18, 2016 in Iraq Oil & Gas News By John Lee. Iraq Oil Report, citing Iraqi Oil Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi [Adil Abd Al-Mahdi], says Baghdad has stopped oil exports through the Kurdish region, to put pressure the Kurdistan Regional Government to resume talks about sharing oil revenues. Sources confirmed to Reuters that the state-run North Oil Company (NOC) has stopped pumping oil from fields it operates in the Kirkuk area through a pipeline to the Turkish port of Ceyhan. The NOC normally exports 150,000 barrels a day through the pipeline. http://www.iraq-businessnews.com/2016/03/18/baghdad-halts-kirkuk-oil-exports-via-kri/

Fri Mar 18, 2016 3:32 Iraqi Planes Throw Leaflets on Mosul Calling Residents Prepare for Army Operation TEHRAN (FNA)- A source in Iraq's Ministry of Interior announced that the Iraqi Air Force's planes dropped thousands of leaflets on the city of Mosul (405 km north of Baghdad), calling the residents to be prepared for the liberation operation of the city by the Iraqi army. The source said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “Today the Iraqi Air Force planes dropped thousands of leaflets on Tahrir neighborhood, as well as different parts in the left side of Mosul,” Iraqi News reported. The source, who asked anonymity, added: “The leaflets called the citizens to be prepared for the expulsion of ISIL terrorist members.” http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13941228000276

Followers of Iraqi cleric Sadr rally near Baghdad’s Green Zone BAGHDAD – Reuters Print PageSend to friend » Share on Facebook REUTERS photo Thousands of Iraqis staged a protest outside Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone on March 18 to demand measures to stem corruption, heeding a call by influential Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.At around 11 a.m. March 18, riot police stood aside and allowed leaders of the demonstrators to cut and pull aside barbed wire barriers to allow them to cross a bridge that leads to the zone, which houses government offices, the parliament and embassies.“Let’s get rid of them, they’re all thieves!”, chanted the demonstrators as they rushed across the bridge, aiming to hold their weekly Friday prayer at a Green Zone gate that leads to the parliament building.The Interior Ministry earlier said it had not authorized any sit-down protest, amid concern about clashes with the forces guarding the zone.Sadr on March 17 rejected calls to cancel the protest, calling the Green Zone “a bastion of support for corruption.”The cleric wants Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to replace cabinet ministers with technocrats unaffiliated with political parties in order to counter the systemic political patronage that has abetted corruption.The authorities beefed up security in Baghdad, deploying additional checkpoints and police patrols.Many bridges and roads into and inside the capital were blocked, making circulation nearly impossible near the central district, while helicopters hovered overhead. March/18/2016 http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/followers-of-iraqi-cleric-sadr-rally-near-baghdads-green-zone.aspx?pageID=238&nID=96629&NewsCatID=352

American ISIS fighter: 'I wasn't thinking straight' 7 7 Getty Images By Rebecca Kheel - 03/18/16 10:26 AM EDT An American captured by Kurdish forces earlier this week said he “wasn’t thinking straight” when he joined the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). “At the time I made the decision to go because I wasn’t thinking straight,” Mohamad Jamal Khweis said in an interview with a Kurdish TV station that aired late Thursday. “On the way there, I regretted. I wanted to go back.” Khweis, 26, of Virginia, was captured by the Kurdish Peshmerga on Monday near the town of Sinjar, which was retaken from ISIS late last year. In the interview, he detailed a journey that started in December and took him from the United States to London to Amsterdam to Turkey to Syria to Iraq. In Turkey, he said, he met an Iraqi woman whose sister was married to an ISIS fighter. The woman arranged his travel to Syria and later to Mosul, Iraq. “I made a bad decision to go with the girl and go to Mosul,” he said. In Syria, he said, he had to hand over his ID and passport, and was given the nickname “Abu Omar.” In Mosul, he underwent daily religious training along with about 60 to 70 other foreign recruits from countries including Russia, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan, he said. He didn’t meet any other Americans, he added. He said he decided to flee after about a month because he didn’t agree with ISIS's ideology. “The situation, I found it hard,” he said. “It was pretty hard to live in Mosul. It’s not like the Western countries. It’s very strict. There’s no smoking. I found it hard for everyone there.” He escaped Mosul with the help of a friend, he said, and walked to Kurdish territory. “I wanted to go to the Kurdish side because I know they are good with the Americans,” he said. The interview ended with a message to Americans: “My message to the American people is that life in Mosul is really, really bad. The people who are controlling Mosul don’t represent the religion. Daesh, ISIS, ISIL, they don’t represent the religion. I don’t see them as good Muslims.” http://thehill.com/policy/defense/273541-american-isis-fighter-i-wasnt-thinking-straight?

America: Iraq needs a financial support estimated at $ 15 billion 5:08:43 a.m. 3.18.2016 | (Voice of Iraq) - Twilight News US ambassador toIraq , Stuart Jones said Iraq needed financial support to an estimated $ 15 billion to address the financial crisis and continue to fight Tzim Daash which is still controlled areas in the north and west of the country since mid - 2014 , said Jones in a speech during the fourth forum held by theAmerican University of Sulaymaniyah , the second day in a row, said his country gave Iraq an amount of 600 million dollars, "he said , adding that Iraq is in need for 10 or 15 billion dollars to provide financial support tohim. he called the US ambassador federal government and the Kurdistan Regional government to cooperate to resolve differences and outstanding issues between them, and overcome security and economic problems. Add comment Read more:http://www.sotaliraq.com/newsitem.php?id=323021#ixzz43GfdvDlg

Abdul-Mahdi: cash payment system the main reason for the outbreak of financial corruption in Iraq 12:06:10 3.18.2016 | (Voice of Iraq) - Twilight News criticized Oil Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi , the cash payment , which followed the Iraqi state in theinternal and external dealings system, attributing this system the main reason for rampant corruption in the country. He said Abdul - Mahdi , in aspeech during the fourth forum held by the American University in the city of Sulaimaniya , the second day in a row, said that " the financial system in Iraq will depend payment in cash, and this is one of the main and the big factors in the rampant corruption in the country. and on the relationship between Baghdad and Erbil Abdul - Mahdi said he was" always hear that the past towards independence of the Kurdistan region and this decision but their obligations towards Iraq take the time to fulfill them from 10 to 20 years and which ensures that the region performs its obligations in that period. " Add comment Read more:http://www.sotaliraq.com/newsitem.php?id=323028#ixzz43Gf1gltg