Demonstrations swept Iraq's cities

[Sara Johnson]

Demonstrations sweptIraq's cities

09/09/2011 12:13

Baghdad / Basra / Najaf / Babylon 9 September / October (Rn)- swept through a number of Iraqi cities on Friday, demonstrations called forby activists and civil society organizations through social networking sites onthe Internet calling for the provision of services and reforms in the country,as some called for a legislative election early.

The demonstrators came out in the capital, Baghdad, Basra,Najaf, Babylon and other cities, denouncing the poor public services providedto citizens.

Saw Tahrir Square in central Baghdad, since Monday morning,hundreds of demonstrators calling for the provision of services and employmentopportunities, while security forces cordoned off the scene cordoned off andclosed all the roads leading to the Green Zone.

The demonstrators demanded that Prime Minister Nurial-Maliki presented his achievements within a cent on the second to the peopleto evaluate government performance, according to a correspondent of the Kurdishnews agency (Rn).

The protesters carried banners criticizing the work of thegovernment, and denounced some of them what they termed "the government'ssilence about the attacks" external sovereignty of Iraq, in reference toexposure of border areas in Kurdistan to the Turkish shelling and Iran for morethan a month, and the establishment of Kuwait to build a port in the PersianGulf Icok experts Iraqis, it affects the waterway only to Iraq.

Other protesters carried Iraqi government for the deaths ofMahdi Hadi media by an unidentified gunman burst into his home last night amidthe Karrada district of Baghdad, the Mahdi is one of the main organizers of thedemonstrations in Tahrir Square.

In Najaf, Dozens of supporters of the current LDP and anumber of civic activists in the yard Sadrain the city center, demanding an endto "excesses" of neighboring countries on the country and theelimination of administrative corruption and waste of public money, and theabolition of sectarian quotas.

The head of the Democratic Movement in Najaf Hussain Mohi-Din(Rn) "come up with today's demanding off the excesses of the neighboringcountries on our territory and stop its repeated aggressions, especially on theterritory of the Kurdistan region and to eliminate corruption and waste ofpublic money that has become a general feature we hear every day."

He added that "the country is not built by splittingand sectarianism that tore apart the unity of the people and Dzoth,"noting that "today called Fri Fri Shahid Mahdi Abdul Hadi, who wasassassinated."

The demonstrators raised slogans condemning the performanceof the Maliki government, and chanted "Hey Prime Minister set usback," and "No to quotas and sectarianism," and "No amnestyfor fake certificates," and "early elections are the solution."

In Basra, launched a demonstration organized by the youth ofchange and civil society organizations and the Communist Party, and some calledfor the government to drop the al-Maliki.

The representative of civil society organizations Makkial-Tamimi (Rn) that "the demands Tazahratna bring down the government andnot to improve services, after the demonstrations called for the twenty fifthof February to improve services did not improve anything to this moment."

He pointed out that "one of the main demands of a demonstrationtoday also is working to solve the electricity crisis and provide jobs for theunemployed and monitor the amounts allocated for the provision of freshwaterfor drinking and the fight against the tongue of saline and address the problemof water drainage and to address the problem of accumulated waste in thestreets of the province."

A spokesman for young people change, Mohamed Hassan (Rn)that "the demands of the demonstration is not new to the Iraqi governmentafter it failed to provide services to citizens, especially after the secondyear is nearing to an end the situation has not changed very little."

However, to say "But what makes the government does notrespond to these events is the adherence to authority and not to provideservices and the absence of a partisan support such demonstrations and calls onall people to participate in it."

He explained that "the demands raised for the localgovernment today is working to end the foreign presence and the implementationof the security agreement between Iraq and Washington and the development ofsecurity services and the enactment of the parties and the holding of a quickand early, after failing of this government to implement any of the demands ofthe people."

The governor of Basra, Khalaf Abd al-Samad (Rn) that"the local government supports these demonstrations demanding the right toprovide the citizens and particularly as we have identified on Tuesday toprotest the local government in protest at the Ministry of Electricity."

He stressed, saying that all the demands that today is thedismissal of a constitutional right and my people and we are working on theimplementation and application of penalties for each of the limits to provideservices to citizens. "

Iraq has seen the formation of his government after a fewmonths, a series of protests demanding reforms and provide opportunities forthe unemployed and the fight against corruption and the provision of electricpower, and decreased unit demonstrations in nearly two months and currentlylimited to Fridays.

The demonstrations have seen in Iraq is the largest since2003, comes as he prepares to end the U.S. military presence in the supposeddate - according to a security agreement - that the end of the year.

Several hundred residents of Babylon Friday morning in frontof the provincial council building, amid tight security required to exempt thegovernor Mohammed Ali al-Masoudi resolution of the provincial council and theprovision of services to the people of the province.

He said peace bayonet, spokesman for the protesters (Rn)that "we are out of this to demand the provision of electricity to thecitizens by the solution became problem needs international intervention,"according to the recipe, adding, "We have turned for through the work ofthe provincial council for the last lag evident in his work and a broader failureto resolve intractable problems of Babylon. "

He added, "and its members (the Provincial Council) isnot only the benefits of self-interest to them and this is what drives usalways to demand the dissolution of several times where we went out to protestand seek to achieve this public demand."

The war, "We also call for exemption governor MohammedAli al-Masoudi Babylon, which was chosen according to the consensus of thepolitical blocs of the ruling of the work of the Council of the province."

http://www.aknews.com/ar/aknews/4/260971/

[Heavyduty053]

Demonstrations sweptIraq's cities

09/09/2011 12:13

Baghdad / Basra / Najaf / Babylon 9 September / October (Rn)- swept through a number of Iraqi cities on Friday, demonstrations called forby activists and civil society organizations through social networking sites onthe Internet calling for the provision of services and reforms in the country,as some called for a legislative election early.

The demonstrators came out in the capital, Baghdad, Basra,Najaf, Babylon and other cities, denouncing the poor public services providedto citizens.

Saw Tahrir Square in central Baghdad, since Monday morning,hundreds of demonstrators calling for the provision of services and employmentopportunities, while security forces cordoned off the scene cordoned off andclosed all the roads leading to the Green Zone.

The demonstrators demanded that Prime Minister Nurial-Maliki presented his achievements within a cent on the second to the peopleto evaluate government performance, according to a correspondent of the Kurdishnews agency (Rn).

The protesters carried banners criticizing the work of thegovernment, and denounced some of them what they termed "the government'ssilence about the attacks" external sovereignty of Iraq, in reference toexposure of border areas in Kurdistan to the Turkish shelling and Iran for morethan a month, and the establishment of Kuwait to build a port in the PersianGulf Icok experts Iraqis, it affects the waterway only to Iraq.

Other protesters carried Iraqi government for the deaths ofMahdi Hadi media by an unidentified gunman burst into his home last night amidthe Karrada district of Baghdad, the Mahdi is one of the main organizers of thedemonstrations in Tahrir Square.

In Najaf, Dozens of supporters of the current LDP and anumber of civic activists in the yard Sadrain the city center, demanding an endto "excesses" of neighboring countries on the country and theelimination of administrative corruption and waste of public money, and theabolition of sectarian quotas.

The head of the Democratic Movement in Najaf Hussain Mohi-Din(Rn) "come up with today's demanding off the excesses of the neighboringcountries on our territory and stop its repeated aggressions, especially on theterritory of the Kurdistan region and to eliminate corruption and waste ofpublic money that has become a general feature we hear every day."

He added that "the country is not built by splittingand sectarianism that tore apart the unity of the people and Dzoth,"noting that "today called Fri Fri Shahid Mahdi Abdul Hadi, who wasassassinated."

The demonstrators raised slogans condemning the performanceof the Maliki government, and chanted "Hey Prime Minister set usback," and "No to quotas and sectarianism," and "No amnestyfor fake certificates," and "early elections are the solution."

In Basra, launched a demonstration organized by the youth ofchange and civil society organizations and the Communist Party, and some calledfor the government to drop the al-Maliki.

The representative of civil society organizations Makkial-Tamimi (Rn) that "the demands Tazahratna bring down the government andnot to improve services, after the demonstrations called for the twenty fifthof February to improve services did not improve anything to this moment."

He pointed out that "one of the main demands of a demonstrationtoday also is working to solve the electricity crisis and provide jobs for theunemployed and monitor the amounts allocated for the provision of freshwaterfor drinking and the fight against the tongue of saline and address the problemof water drainage and to address the problem of accumulated waste in thestreets of the province."

A spokesman for young people change, Mohamed Hassan (Rn)that "the demands of the demonstration is not new to the Iraqi governmentafter it failed to provide services to citizens, especially after the secondyear is nearing to an end the situation has not changed very little."

However, to say "But what makes the government does notrespond to these events is the adherence to authority and not to provideservices and the absence of a partisan support such demonstrations and calls onall people to participate in it."

He explained that "the demands raised for the localgovernment today is working to end the foreign presence and the implementationof the security agreement between Iraq and Washington and the development ofsecurity services and the enactment of the parties and the holding of a quickand early, after failing of this government to implement any of the demands ofthe people."

The governor of Basra, Khalaf Abd al-Samad (Rn) that"the local government supports these demonstrations demanding the right toprovide the citizens and particularly as we have identified on Tuesday toprotest the local government in protest at the Ministry of Electricity."

He stressed, saying that all the demands that today is thedismissal of a constitutional right and my people and we are working on theimplementation and application of penalties for each of the limits to provideservices to citizens. "

Iraq has seen the formation of his government after a fewmonths, a series of protests demanding reforms and provide opportunities forthe unemployed and the fight against corruption and the provision of electricpower, and decreased unit demonstrations in nearly two months and currentlylimited to Fridays.

The demonstrations have seen in Iraq is the largest since2003, comes as he prepares to end the U.S. military presence in the supposeddate - according to a security agreement - that the end of the year.

Several hundred residents of Babylon Friday morning in frontof the provincial council building, amid tight security required to exempt thegovernor Mohammed Ali al-Masoudi resolution of the provincial council and theprovision of services to the people of the province.

He said peace bayonet, spokesman for the protesters (Rn)that "we are out of this to demand the provision of electricity to thecitizens by the solution became problem needs international intervention,"according to the recipe, adding, "We have turned for through the work ofthe provincial council for the last lag evident in his work and a broader failureto resolve intractable problems of Babylon. "

He added, "and its members (the Provincial Council) isnot only the benefits of self-interest to them and this is what drives usalways to demand the dissolution of several times where we went out to protestand seek to achieve this public demand."

The war, "We also call for exemption governor MohammedAli al-Masoudi Babylon, which was chosen according to the consensus of thepolitical blocs of the ruling of the work of the Council of the province."

http://www.aknews.co...knews/4/260971/

Sounds to me like the natives are about fed up with the tactics to stall. i smell an Rv getting closer.

[wpsmit]

Looks like they had better RV very soon if they like having their heads attached to their bodies!

Thanks, Sara

[wicked93gs]

looks to me as if they are fed up with the poor perfomance of their government...I dont see an RV in this at all...looks like this new democracy is going down....will probably be replaced my another dictator...wait, it already has one