Washington: Conference on "Genocide" Kurdish people

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2018-03-14 BY SOTALIRAQ

Washington: Conference on "Genocide" Kurdish people

With the participation of a large number of members of Congress and US politicians in addition to the presence of Andrew Beck, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq and Iran, began on Tuesday in Washington, DC, a special conference on genocide genocide against the Kurdish people.

A number of attendees delivered speeches during the conference sponsored by the Kurdistan Foundation 24 for information and research, recalling the massacre of Halabja and Anfal campaigns and the displacement that affected the people of Kurdistan during the rule of the Baath Party, especially under the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

The conference was organized on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the massacre of Halabja, which killed tens of thousands of dead, wounded and disabled as a result of the bombing of the city by chemical weapons by the former Iraqi regime.

The bombing of the city of Halabja by the Saddam regime in March 1988 with chemical weapons resulted in 5,000 deaths and 10,000 injuries.

The Halabja massacre, which the United Nations called genocide, is the biggest chemical attack against a civilian population of one race, according to international organizations.

The representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government in America participated in the statement of Sami Abdul Rahman.

The conference is held at the Newzmuseum, one of the most important museums in the United States.

https://www.sotaliraq.com/2018/03/14/واشنطن-مؤتمر-عن-جينوسايد-الشعب-الكور/

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Iraqi government delegation visits the Kurdistan Region to participate in commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the bombing of Halabja in Kymiaoui

A delegation from the Presidency of the Iraqi Federal Government of Kurdistan Region for the purpose of participating in the commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the chemical bombardment of the city of Halabja, and the governor of Halabja proxy, "The Secretary-General of the Federal Council, Dr. Mahdi Alalak, heads this delegation."

Acting governor of Halabja, Ali Osman, said that "a delegation from the Presidency of the Federal Council of Ministers will visit the Kurdistan Region for the purpose of participating in the commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the chemical bombardment of the city of Halabja."

He added that "the delegation consists of eight members, headed by the Secretary-General of the Federal Council of Ministers, Dr. Mahdi Alalak, is scheduled to arrive in the Kurdistan Region on 15 March, and participate in 16 of the decrees to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the chemical bombardment of the city of Halabja."

Osman pointed out that "in addition to representatives of the Iraqi government, will participate in those decrees representatives of other countries."

The delegation of the Federal Government of Iraq consists of the Secretary General of the Federal Council of Ministers, Mehdi Alalak, Director of the Prime Minister's Office, Iyad Al Waeli, Military Adviser to the Prime Minister, Khalid Hammoud, Abbas Mohammed from the Cabinet Office, Special Assistant to the Secretary-General, Mohammed Zayed Nasser, and Special Assistant to the Director of the Prime Minister's Office, Abbas Tohma.

The city of Halabja was hit on March 16, 1988 by chemical bombardment by the Iraqi regime's regime at the time, which resulted in the deaths of about five thousand citizens and wounded more than ten thousand others, in addition to the displacement of thousands of other residents of the city.

https://www.sotaliraq.com/2018/03/14/وفد-حكومي-عراقي-يزور-إقليم-كوردستان-لل/

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2018-03-14 BY SOTALIRAQ

Saddam Hussein and European countries face new lawsuits

An official responsible for the file of chemical bombardment of Halabja, Gabriel Merrill, on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in the International Tribunal against the former regime president Saddam Hussein, and European companies involved in supplying him with chemical weapons used against the Kurdish people.

"There are many European companies involved in the sale of chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein," Merrill told a news conference in Halabja today. "The former regime president used oil and Iraq's wealth to exterminate his people."

He added that Saddam Hussein got those weapons easily, and used them against the Kurdish people, indicating that it is from those companies "Carkova" German helped the former regime to provide weapons as well as a French company as well.

Merrill said European governments were jointly involved in the chemical bomb attack on Halabja, adding that a Turkmen had been a mediator between Saddam Hussein's government and Europe and was transferring millions of dollars to those companies.

"We will sue those who sold chemical weapons to the Baath regime," he said.

https://www.sotaliraq.com/2018/03/14/صدام-حسين-ودول-اوربية-يواجهون-دعاوى-قض/

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This may not be the right place to post this, but some good info.

 

 

Qatar’s spying on US officials more dangerous than Russia or Iran

March 13 2018 06:01 PM

Desperate Emir of Qatar cracks down on royal family members

 

 

Despite the fact that Qatar is tiny compared to Russia “it’s enormously wealthy and beneath its façade of moderation, it seeks to export Islamic supremacism around the world,” according to an analyst quoted by al Arabiya on Tuesday.

According to a report by Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, and a New York writer focusing on radical Islam, Qatar is far more of a threat than it was on 9/11due to its close ties to terror.

 

These links have made it a pariah nation in the region causing neighboring countries to take a unanimous stance to boycott it.

 

The report states that according to intelligence community, they have been suspicions over the years that Qataris played a larger role in 9/11, and spying on Americans as part of their plot to interfere in the United States’ domestic affairs.

 

The report details Qatar’s history of spying and harboring terrorists listing examples including how the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks was transported away on a special Qatari government jet with blacked out windows, when the FBI arrived in Qatar to arrest him.

 

Greenfield refers to Qatar as the main patron of the Muslim Brotherhood, an international Jihadist network, with close ties to Iran and how it spreads terrorist propaganda through Al Jazeera channel “to influence American policy through think tanks like Brookings while spying on Americans.”

 

He considers Russia’s backing for the Shiite axis in Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen not nearly as destabilizing as Qatar’s backing for the Islamist militias that wrecked Syria, Yemen, Libya, Egypt and much of the region.

 

He sums up Qatar’s role in destabilizing the region with the support of Iran saying that “Qatar’s Iranian allies may be the final winners of the Arab Spring’s humanitarian catastrophe, but it was Qatari propaganda and weapons that kickstarted the region’s unholy wars.”

 

According to him, Qatar has the world’s most influential hostile state propaganda service, far more so than Russia’s RT, adding that: “It hasn’t given up on influencing Americans.”

 

With regards to influencing the US elections, Greenfield says: “Obama administration colluded with Qatar’s arms shipments to terrorists by instructing NATO forces not to interdict these shipments which later ended up in the hands of Jihadists in Libya and Mali. Qatar bought weapons from the genocidal Muslim Brotherhood regime in Sudan, whose leader is wanted by the ICC for crimes against humanity, and shipped them to Jihadists in Syria through the terror state of Turkey.”

 

Qatari espionage against Americans

 

 

He said that instead of investigating the role of Qatar in influencing American elections, Special Counsel, Robert Mueller, a former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) assigned to look into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections; He is reportedly taking the “Qatari propaganda at face value” and directing his investigation accordingly.
He pointed out that US President Trump has been critical of Qatar and if Mueller uses Qatari opposition research to undermine a sitting president on behalf of a terror state, he will actually be doing what Trump has been accused of.
According to Greenfield’s report, “Mueller had been accused of covering for the Muslim Brotherhood’s activities in America before. But now he risks being guilty of colluding with the Brotherhood’s Qatari backers to bring down an anti-Qatari president for the terror state that shielded the mastermind of the September 11 attacks.”
Thus he believes: “There could be no greater act of treason than that.”
He says that Qatar passed damaging information produced by espionage to Mueller through the media.
“Mueller needs to make it clear that he won't be colluding with Qatar. If he employs material produced by Qatari espionage on Americans as part of their plot to interfere in our domestic affairs, he's the one who needs to be investigated for collusion,” Greenfield added.
He warns that the media in the United States hardly ever runs stories critical of Qatar, and if Qatar’s terror backing and fake news operations have been supplemented by a domestic spying and blackmail operation against Americans, this cannot be tolerated.
“Americans who collude with Russia should be held accountable. So should those who collude with Qatar,” he said.

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2018-03-15 BY SOTALIRAQ

Iraqi government confirms the destruction of all remnants of chemical weapons

The Iraqi government announced the completion of the destruction of all chemical weapons remnants, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the city of Halabja with chemical weapons.

"The achievement of the Iraqi government, which included the destruction of these dangerous weapons, and its commitment to international conventions in this field," the Iraqi government said in a tweet on the Twitter website.

Although the tweet did not mention the anniversary of the Halabja bombing, it confirmed Iraq's compliance with the decisions emanating from the OPCW document.

The Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Ahmed Ozumjo, congratulated after his meeting with Iraqi Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Abdul Razzaq al-Issa, Iraq to end the destruction of the remnants of chemical weapons.

In a statement at the organization's headquarters in the Dutch capital The Hague, Ozumjo presented the Iraqi minister with an official testimony acknowledging that Iraq had completely destroyed its chemical weapons residues. The Iraqi official also briefed the organization on the latest activities of the organization, including progress in the destruction of past weapons and the peaceful use of chemistry.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has confirmed in the previous period that the four former chemical weapons production facilities in Iraq have been completely destroyed, noting that there is still one facility under inspection until 2028.

The city of Halabja was hit on March 16, 1988 by chemical bombardment by the Iraqi regime's regime at the time, which resulted in the deaths of about five thousand citizens and wounded more than ten thousand others, in addition to the displacement of thousands of other residents of the city.

The Kurdistan Regional Government decided in June 2013 to turn Halabja into a province and annex districts: Halabja, Sharapazir, Penjwin and Sadiq Sadiq, which were administratively linked to Sulaymaniyah governorate.

Text of the Tweet:

"The Iraqi government welcomes the announcement by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) that Iraq has destroyed the remains of chemical weapons and has carried out all its duties related to the chemical weapons document. The Iraqi government is committed to the decisions of the arms document and its vision of a world free of chemical weapons and without the threat of using them."

Editing: شونم عبدالله خوشناو

https://www.sotaliraq.com/2018/03/15/الحكومة-العراقية-تؤكد-تدمير-جميع-بقاي/

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Can Maliki somehow be classified as a chemical weapon?

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Abadi 's policy is related to the Halabja incident and deals with the Peshmerga and the New Testament

 

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Shafaq News / Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi described the crime of bombing Halabja Balkmiaoy criminal crimes. 
"Our people and the whole world remember this day the tragedy of the city of Halabja, which was subjected to the bombing of the chemical weapons by the former regime, the crime that shook the conscience of the world and led to the martyrdom of thousands of innocent civilians of our dear Kurdish people was one of the most terrible crimes committed by the regime Baathist and witness to its tyranny, tyranny and oppressive policy against all Iraqis. "

"As we recall this terrible tragedy, we affirm our pride in the unity of our people and the blood of the Kurdish people, with the blood of the rest of the Iraqis in the victorious liberation operations against the Da'ash terrorist gang. 
"We express our sadness and solidarity with the families of the victims and with the people of the Kurdish people, we affirm our concern for security and stability and constitutional rights and fair with the spectrum of the Iraqi people within one Iraq, and move together towards a new era of brothers and cooperation to rebuild and reconstruction and achieve the aspirations of our citizens. 
"We confirm that Iraq has fulfilled the international obligations to destroy all chemical weapons remnants used in the era of the former regime in the cities of Halabja and other Iraqi cities where this work was re-activated under the current government and was fully completed and Iraq received an international certificate that supports this task," Abadi said.
Officials called on the Kurdish state to compensate the families of the victims of the Halabja bombing and the reconstruction of the city. 
The March 16 anniversary marks the 30th anniversary of the chemical attack on the city of Halabja, which was targeted by former President Saddam Hussein in 1988. 
The attack reportedly killed some 5,000 people on the same day, mostly women and children, and injured about 10,000. 
Thousands were subsequently killed because of complications from the use of chemical weapons. 
It is believed that the gases used by the regime of Saddam Hussein against the Kurdish city, including gas mustard and sarin.

 

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