www.eyeiraq.comEye MediaCopyright (C)Eye Iraq Media Agencyhttp://www.eyeiraq.com/images/EYEIRAQ.jpghttp://www.eyeiraq.com/RSS_eng.aspxhttp://www.eyeiraq.com/RSS_eng.aspx300* Saad Haidar Hussein# # the ones who are demanding freedom and equality of women with men, their demands are limited on the political side and authoritarian, as if gender equality can be solved by the accession of women sovereign position must they forget that women have not touched on many aspects and left the man even though these fields more tendering and softness, but women cannot get involve in these because it does not fit with the composition of the female example, we, in Iraq, did not know a female composer enchanted the audience and the public with her tunes, because the yarn starts from men and do not think women never said the initiative; it is because the instinct of the female prevented from doing so as well as failed women to break into the fields of manly sport like wrestling, boxing; the artist Yusuf Omar said that the place I recommend women to go is to stay away and applaud with the public, it is a way of encouraging because her performance will not reach the performance of men.# Women do not want to give up their femininity even one iota, but wants the man to give up his manhood when approaching womanhood of manhood gender equality will be achieved and the ancient Arabs used to say that if a man dances, he will be diminished because they see the dancing art of feminist, but the men of the Arabs were dancing, kings rules and sheikhs danced with the sword, stick and dagger, and danced by the gun, this increased masculinity and pride of men. Woman has her dance and man has his one, and whether one accepts to dance men shrug his shoulders! And if accepted by some men, it will not be accepted by women; as a real female wants a real man.http://www.eyeiraq.com/NewsDetails_eng.aspx?newsId=20518Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:00:00 AM GMTBy: Abdul Razzaq al-Sultani # # Iraqis Still paying the bill daily in cold blood, the result of complicated choices that are the secretion of a natural policy confusion and inconsistency in attitudes and delay in forming a government, a real understanding of the democracy data that had been misunderstood or have been interpreted according to the moods and whims of personal access to power and stick to sites that represent a real translation of the nature of the horizon narrow as the angular positions remain strong in the memory of the days Fortunately, that history indexes everything and cannot be forgotten; so that the persistence of the system-governmental organizations to stay in power is one of the large and frequently breaches, then to ignore constitution grossly and work in subjective interpretations that has nothing to do with reality, it is really deteriorating and rampant corruption, poor services, dangerous degrading in security all affected the democratic process and unfortunately it has turned into a tool of the enemies of change, and it became necessary to prospect future strategic meanings and attitudes, and signs that lead to the building of the political system and to devote significant momentum towards tracks that have productions of national consensus; under the difficult circumstances experienced by Iraq such as the disruption to joints of State, they must march forward in the political process, and here was and still calls our major national leaderships, who sacrificed all what precious, for their salvation and freedom from dictatorship, and be a pivot for the deprived persons of our people to ensure the success of the political process and resolve problems and crises through diplomatic means and in conformity with the institutional structure of the Iraqi state; the thing which needs to stand with courage and faith to bring about the development of a concrete and clear terms to build a government of national partnership which does not rule out any component which of the national powers to heal and keep the lead in order to expand political participation.http://www.eyeiraq.com/NewsDetails_eng.aspx?newsId=19949Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:00:00 AM GMTIf you are a student I understand your duties, comprehend your lessons, progress on your mates, have knowledge of your teachers, keep in good attach with your colleagues, be a mole referred to you stigmatized note; a student who exhibits such behavior is a positive one, influence on others, even if he does not speak, apostle for good with showed by his behavior, manner and actions. # # Be an apostle in your neighborhood, in the village, in your job, in your look, in treating others, earn every day with your invitation if you cannot move the thorns away from your brothers, and if you couldn’t, soften animosities of your opponents. # # Many of us waste time with people or in sessions or meetings which are useless, because we do not think of being influential and positive in the place where we are, we can mitigate the evil and wrong, and if we couldn’t have been able to win others, either to spend times and sit with people of universe who are the ones that affect, or you wait and put it off from one day to another till you will find, after that, faith is weakening and that you may be affected by what some said and you be overlooked by some of wills, and may tend to a lot of easy matters and may be confused of the ways and lose the straight path; and this is a normal result of negativity. # # Of the book: be positive # Author Professor: Zaid Ali Hamid al-Shamihttp://www.eyeiraq.com/NewsDetails_eng.aspx?newsId=19948Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:00:00 AM GMTWater, secret life, and based on continuity and field current and future conflicts among nations in many parts of the world and of the Middle East, people became obsessed with levels of Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq, after hitting to very low levels that cannot be compared with the levels used to be; and the reason for that is the dams projects in Turkey and Syria on this common rivers as well as the lack of rain, so what is the solution? # Today, when I crossed over the Euphrates River, I saw the high level of water which is the scene sufficient to transmit a sense of relief and at the same time feeling sorry for these quantities of precious water expensive going to the Arab golf where water is mingled; it will not come back and we are not able to take advantage of this fact which reminds us of Turkey as our experts sat with their experts demanding our share of water according to international law and international conventions.# Why do not we set up dams on the rivers of Tigris and Euphrates what makes us able to store considerable quantities of water until needed, or to move it to Samawah plateau and Western Desert and other areas where it can be used in agriculture and other economic activities.# Our neighbor, Saudi Arabia, has stopped investment of huge agricultural, making self-grains due to the risk of losing limited inventories underground water, why they don’t come to Iraq, we have the earth, men and water which is lost in the sea and they have the money and the need and so we get integrating; Why they go to Philippines and Vietnam and we are the closest neighbors?# Why do not we plan to invest the many blessings given to us by the Lord and to draw others in the implementation, so the Iraqi Finance Ministry is not working hard to fund some useful projects, is it just to provide salaries for a quarter of the Iraqi people in various ministries of oil sold and be like (i.e. the Ministry of Finance) a Treasurer seller; a hand that sells and the other that feeds. We did not think what if we run out of oil, a wealth which is depleted, or if we sacked by the Western world for some of this oil in the state of development of renewable energies.# Whenever I looked at the flowing water and is speeding to the sea, I felt like a lump and to this responsibility and God Almighty will ask us about this wasted blessing; what will we respond? # # Majid Abo kelel / Dher Centre for Development http://www.eyeiraq.com/NewsDetails_eng.aspx?newsId=19619Sun, 01 Aug 2010 12:00:00 AM GMTNibras Ma’amoori # # I was surprised when I read on a website that a number of Syrian artists, including the artist Duraid Al-Leham, participating in the cleaning campaign of the streets of their country .. They meandered in and handing out trash bags and motivate the citizens not to throw dirt in the streets and one of the artists participating in this campaign explained this initiative that they ..# "they devote the sense of membership to Syria, because our country is the pioneer of civilization and must be civilized in all its manifestations, and to maintain hygiene not by increasing the number of cleaners and mechanisms, but by the attention of citizens and a sense of awareness"# (Our country's the pioneer of civilization) so phrase is repeated by the Syrian and Gulf and Algerian and other Arab artists adding to them the Iraqi artist; when I say the Iraqi artist I mean that genuine artist who will not hesitate to provide the best and respect his profession fully. So they embrace the stage forward and anxious to read the story of a country groan bitterness over the years, mills, and artists, when he says that my country is the pioneer of civilizations, he is right because the history explained it .. But, uh, uh what has remained of the pioneer of civilizations but the ruin ..# I read news and think in my mind two spectacles .. the first is how the artist Syrian involved in this campaign of cleanliness where there is a technical environment and reasonable security and tranquility, support him by growing the feeling as a citizen and he is responsible for all what everybody must be to reward his country; this shows his gratitude on top of the list that forms the cultural landscape.# The second scene is that our senior artists who were oppressed often, to tell you the truth, I say it bitterly and recall our artists magnificent roles, Jewad Al-shukrgi in the series of “Hedoo’ Nesbi” which tops the list of the brightest Arab stars .. artist Bahjat Jubouri, who runs through the gates of the Egyptian cinema and our actress Fatima al-Rubaie and Auatif Al-Selaman and others, they stand tall on the stages of alienation and nostalgia theaters .. Why they get oppressed? Why they did not feel as what the Syrians felt? # # many reasons with different aspects ... and citizenship became a wish to everyone of us, a big dream.. And sometimes even when we dream, we find C- wires that prevent us from that dream!!# They said the former cyclonic dictatorial regime, damn it, because it tore the Iraqis and made them into slaves of the masters of today and what they say? Do they say democracy revived the artist and intellectualist? Do they say that the National Theatre, sparkling by rhythms and hymns of playlists’ creators? What kind of theater, cinema or even an incubator that they gave .. all come and go, holding conferences and due to the sweat and fever of the high temperature, they wouldn’t agree to rebuild the National Theatre ..# Cleanliness campaign, which were made by the Syrians artists to the streets of their country, we need a campaign like this one but with a big difference in a very important place, we need to replace streets with the petrified brains of their heads and their blind eyes to be aware of the value of art and the artist Iraqi.# # Campaign's slogan will be (for the attention of government and a sense of awareness-raising")!!! # “We are for God, and to Him we shall return”http://www.eyeiraq.com/NewsDetails_eng.aspx?newsId=19370Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:00:00 AM GMTBy: Alaa Al-Salami # # one may ask, what are the advantages of festivals and cultural conferences held here and there from time to time. Does it have the effects of certain little communities, particularly of Iraqi society who have suffered the degradations in the previous years of the special circumstances known to all, The answer is that any festival or a cultural conference adopted in its direct impact to people on several factors, are the most important topics, goals and objectives, and the presentation of research and the possibility of delivery and dissemination of their usefulness to a large segment of society (as some of the topics, important though, address special people due to it cannot be reached the receiver) as well as organizational matters, which of the things also important, if there are some of these factors, organizers of a conference will gain interests, or the festival off quickly and will prolong the age of later years, especially if it is to continue, it does not end with the first or second rounds to no end; the Spring Festival Certificate of world culture in its sixth edition proved this (through Attendance of distinctive, literary and cultural personalities who come from far away to participate in this cultural fair which picked its fruits by the organizers through the expansion of Husseinya culture derived from the epic, timeless lessons privileged one, by Imam Hussein who was the one that started it through ages ago) proved (through its various and cultural affection conferences, research and exhibitions of books and theatrical performances), "the talk to receivers without decrease or increase," it is one of the successful festivals by all standards by which to measure the size of the success of festivals and conferences through organizing; and the research proposed and its methods of delivery, personalities who have been selected very carefully in order to increase its usefulness, desired members of the community which is in need of each culture and authentic restore the glory and history of the nation as pure and true which tried to be distorted by the former regime; but for the will of God and the determination of good things to re-light to this good land which was still a source of scientists and thinkers who still remembered by history, charting their characters of light, so the future is with the development of festivals to expand and increase support them, especially as we live through a devastating war with the sale of the tremendously destructive cultures of the Islamic character who struggled through imam Hussein himself and his sons, peace be upon him, to maintain it .. http://www.eyeiraq.com/NewsDetails_eng.aspx?newsId=19209Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:00:00 AM GMTEye – Basrah# # A large number of Basrah province citizens demanded inactivate work in the governmental departments due to the very high temperatures and humidity that occur in the province since more than 4 days.# # In a survey conducted by Eye news agency, a number of the citizens of Basrah showed their wish to disable in government departments because of soaring temperatures and high humidity as well that Basrah has been witnessing.# # Where Khudair said to the citizens: I lost control of my temper with varying humidity (eastern wind) keep me awake as bouts of hysteria and neuropsychiatric due to the heat and electricity shortage continuously.# # The citizen Resmia Abbas: The lack of electricity in the home as well as its lack in the departments, making it difficult to work in this difficult environment, which causes confusion in the performance of the business and its impact on revisers. Others decried such demands and the attention of the province officials and considered it serving their personal interests in addition to the majority of them still have the emergency power lines, despite the claim to maintain lifting these lines off of the officials houses.# # Majid Ibrahim whose a rational merchant said that the atmosphere of Basrah, warm and high grades to above the 55 ° C, caused a lot of problems in the market and among citizens in particular.# # He said Basrah alone in this eastern wind situation, where the wind conducts (South East), coming from the direction of the nearby sea water in Basrah and the lack of electricity continues, which makes it impossible to stay inside the house.http://www.eyeiraq.com/NewsDetails_eng.aspx?newsId=19075Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:00:00 AM GMTBy: Ali Khalil Ibrahim# # It is very interesting to see an animal that has the ability of prediction, an animal that no one can guess that he has this kind of sense; it is an octopus, the so called “Octopus oracle”.# # Who would imagine on this plant that some creature, a sea animal, can predict happenings in some world occasion lovely to human kind that is world cup championship? It happened that this octopus predicted winners in the world cup finals 2010 in South Africa; it precisely predicted who to win in matches, especially the German-sided ones.# # Living in a glass aquarium octopus in some restaurant in Germany was totally right in forecasting which match the German national team would win; Germany, that is a team in group D of world cup championship held in south Africa , played 3 matches, all have been predicted truly by this fabulous cephalopod creature which foresaw in the first match of Germany a win and that was over Australia, the thing that happened really; it could be a coincidence but what about the second and the third matches when this odd animal foreshadowed the Deutch to lose against Serbia in the second match and to win against Ghana in the third one.# # It became more interested and curious for media channels and agencies to see what kind of creature is this that is so certain in foreseeing such unpredictable games of this championship in its 19th edition in Africa.# # Basically the manner of this unique creature in forecasting is by putting two flag poster boxes into the octopus’s aquarium, each box contains food, then dunk them into the water to see which one the octopus prefers to go to and stick his body to the box seizing it and then opening it and start eating the food inside. It is strange that he goes to the box that appears later it is the team that wins the next match.# # The cephalopod animal predicted in England and Argentina matches against Germany on behalf of Germany, but he went to Spain flag box, when Germany was about to play against Spain in the quarter final of the current tournament and what happened next? Germany lost!# # Now the sea creature predicted Germany to win over Uruguay in the third-place world cup game, and it happened truly, what a 6th sense creature is this! He foresaw a couple of days ago Spain to win over Netherlands in the final match of this championship, worthy to say that Germany is no more involved in this game, but how come this one of a kind cephalopod predominates Spain over Holland?# # Every single man concerned about this event, including media, will see if he will make it or not in his next prediction assignment, then this strange creature could be used for other purposes other than sport and could worth very much for some concerned persons to own him for any price maybe asked by his owner.# # Regarding to mention, attempts were present to kill this octopus due to the unlikely predictions to some men.http://www.eyeiraq.com/NewsDetails_eng.aspx?newsId=18860Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:00:00 AM GMTEdit – Hana Al-Husseini# # the national strategy to fight corruption included many ways that would enhance and support the issue of the effective application of it, the most important means is the "awareness and education" and "rehabilitation and training" and "measurement of indicators of integrity and transparency", and if we list all the means in some detail, we will find more clarity to the role of promoting the application of the strategy.# # Education and awareness of the risks of corruption and highlighting the negative effects are the most important means adopted by States in the face of corruption plague that is destroying society and the state together and hit by the society seriously, and here, it becomes apparent that the face of this plague dire the citizens and the state of all its institutions, both addressed and for achieving this goal, there must be drawing to the plans and programs to promote the issue of awareness and education risks of corruption and the statement of its devastating impact and the reasons that led to it, and how prevention and treatment, has been on the short and medium term the adoption of a national program of awareness and education began work in early 2010 and will continue for a year and a half and other programs will be followed in a long term condition.# # Regarding the rehabilitation and training, this task was assigned with a committee comprised of representatives from the Office of Financial Supervision, the Integrity Agency and the Office of Coordinator of the Prime Minister for regulatory affairs who work of this Committee to pursue the rehabilitation plan and accredited training in the national program for training.# # As for a measurement of indicators of integrity and transparency, the central count system of the Ministry of planning and questionnaire has been mandated by the to measure indicators of integrity, transparency and good governance for government officials and citizens, and in coordination with the offices of inspectors general and others are identified as needed and publish the results of questionnaires in the media, and that there are efforts to implement the Iraq's obligations under the Convention, which provides for the Integrity Commission to conduct a comprehensive survey of legislation concerning the implementation of the UN Convention against Corruption, in addition to the efforts of the Integrity Commission in the preparation of the draft anti-corruption law and draft laws, regulatory bodies of the three (the law of the Integrity Commission Act, inspectors general, and the Law Office of Financial Supervision) and the draft Law on the Protection of witnesses and informants, victims, experts and the group of the expanded work and efforts in-depth self-assessment tool and acts of sub-committees on the recommendations and the national strategy to fight corruption. # # Hana Al-Husseini / Ministry of Industry and Mineralshttp://www.eyeiraq.com/NewsDetails_eng.aspx?newsId=18812Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:00:00 AM GMTDistances far away from Baghdad and along the way to a peaceful village, a village located north Baghdad right in Diyala province, exactly in a place called Hibhib, where no one would doubt the existence of the most important and dangerous terrorist in the region, residing here while the people around treat him with their usual hospitality, doing their commitment toward guests as they always been famous about .# # People comments# Since the military operation completion ,none of the suburban residents confirmed that the destroyed house belongs to Al_Zarkawi ,but unlikely they said this modest house was resided by an elder man (an old Sheik :as referred in Arabic) who had two children ,and as he claimed hes been displaced from Al_Sadr city since the sectarian civil war last couple years ,and eventually settled in a small orchid around.# The path that never been stepped on# the area indicated is rich with bushes and multiple types of trees and nearby Al_Zarkawi house there were tank tracks and left over concrete bricks covering the crash site ,disregarding the many empty water bottles that can be found on the ground and left by the coalition forces, as well as couple palm trees taken off the soil due to the massive power of the rockets deployed on the house ,mentioning that exactly on the top of the crash site ,some people found peace of cloth identified belonging to a child ,and also a single child hand was found at the water tank nearby the house.# # The airforce bomb deployment# right after the explosion of the house the people of the suburban orchids ran into the place and found the man with beard ( they never knew that he was Al_Zarkawi himself) and also a physically heavy built person ,and right after while the policemen of Hibhib arrived and placed the injured individual on stretcher (regarding that he was still breathing ), then right after couple minutes the American soldiers arrived the# place and hand cuffed the policemen and took them aside ,and after a while the cuffed men heard couple fire shots ,and the american forces left the house right after triggering the booby traps they planted to destroy what left of it ,and at the same time witnesses assured the death of five years old girl were hiding inside the house .# # Diala publication# Diala as province and as part of Iraq ,was a place with an ethnic diversity publication ,even though after the last invasion of 2003 and the 1991 us attack on Iraq ,and even after that the situation kept calm with no sectarian violence, but after the bombings that targeted the two wholly Imams on Samura ,things went in different path ,and even people mentality ,as well as the grow of awareness between both sects, and due to the assassinations targeted policemen and both sects (sunni & shiite ), regarding the fake checkpoints with Iraqi army uniforms ,that killed many innocent individuals on multiple main and sub routes,which led to the final spark to start sectarian civil war between the formation of peaceful Diala.# # Mysterious Contradiction# Many home appliances were seen in the crash site at the destroyed house ,and within the stuff located ,there were an Iranian made air cooler that belongs to the house, regarding that Al_Zarkawi himself had issued religious legitimate Fatwa to kill whoever buys the Iranian products ,disregarding any excuse.# # Note : all story events and descriptions had been taken from direct witnesses within the same indicated place where Al_Zarkawi found .# Many thanks for the people who risked and devoted their lives to reveal this realistic evidents .# Story Source and Founded by : Nabeel Wadi , Email Address : nabeelwadai@yahoo.com# Story Translation : Waleed Abid Ali Altaai , Email Address : waleedaltaai@yahoo.com# http://www.eyeiraq.com/NewsDetails_eng.aspx?newsId=18639Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:00:00 AM GMTThe first spark broke out of Basra where thousands of citizens on Saturday, 19 June, demonstrating to the provincial council, because of lack of municipal services in general and electricity in particular. Temperatures exceeded fifty-five centigrade degrees, they held up banners inscribed with slogans calling for officials with electricity, the price of ice bar is 12 thousand dinars, they escorted a coffin wrapped in black cloth that read Electricity. Despite the fact that this demonstration was peaceful, but police have shot participants and a martyr fell and several wounded. Police forces supposed to protect the demonstrators not to kill them, for whatever reason right of demonstration provided in the new Iraqi constitution, where is democracy? Is it ink on paper only? In not enough to rape the people's livelihood and steeling their rights? That the governor has to submit his resignation immediately, and must to form a commission of inquiry in order to hold accountable those responsible for the shooting, and charge them with severest penalties, to be a lesson to those who take in the future.# The Iraqi people will not tolerate injustice, and all the provinces must be in solidarity with the citizens of Basra, for the issue is common, injustice is one, cause is one too. Topic concerning with the theft of people's money by billions, Sayyid Ammar al-Hakim has said that the disbursements of the budget for electricity is about 17 billion U.S. dollars. The amount is fantastic as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has achieved establishing electricity generators with the amount of eight billion U.S. dollars only and started to export electricity.# The conscious Iraqi people will not let his brothers in Basra, that strong demonstrations took place in Karrada district of Baghdad, police forcibly dispersed, and the people of Nasiriyah decided to carry out demonstrations to demand electricity and other demands such as fighting the deadly unemployment. As the problem of electricity is one of the myriad chronic problems, electricity is the lifeline without which no progress would be made whether in agriculture, industry or medicine. Demonstrations have come out without any scruples or political motive, was not organized by any party. The attempt to tarnish the noble purposes sought by the organizers of the demonstration, is no stranger to those who failed to convince the masses that elected them. All work not agree to their whims call it the names of al Qaeda and the Baath Party, but the Iraqi people more aware and discerning no fools by such lies. # http://www.eyeiraq.com/NewsDetails_eng.aspx?newsId=18303Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:00:00 AM GMTBy Saleem al-Hasani, Basim al-Shara # # UN report found that 100,000 Iraqis have fled their homes since 2005 due to water shortages.# # Iraqis are calling on their incoming government to devote more energy to resolving the country’s chronic water problems, with some experts stating that water will be more important than oil in the long-term development of the county.# # Even as recent rains have brought some relief to drought-stricken Iraq, the historic problem of water scarcity has forced tens of thousands of rural Iraqis from their homes. The government estimates that nearly two million people face severe drinking water shortages and extremely limited electricity due to hydropower shortage.# # Meanwhile, diplomatic tensions are running high as promises from upriver counties such as Turkey, Syria and Iran to allow more water into Iraq appear not to have been met. This week, Foreign Minister Hoshiar Zebari denounced a plan by Syria to divert water from the Tigris river to irrigate some 200,000 acres of land as detrimental to Iraq’s future water supply.# # Iraq’s minister of electricity Kareem Waheed called Syria’s move a “shock” that would “embarrass” his ministry and undermine its commitments to hydropower. Both ministers decried Syria’s plan as a breach of international conventions on down-river water rights.# # “The next government will be challenged on the water issue and there is no option but to deal with it. I understand that Iraq faces more than one problem, but this one can’t be ignored. No matter what the government is focusing on, this problem will impose itself,” said Dr Awn Thiab al-Ajeli, the head of Iraq’s National Centre for Water Resource Management within the ministry of water resources.# # "The first step that should be made is to reach a deal with Turkey as well as Iran and Syria in order to have good, stable amounts of water enter to Iraq each day. The current situation is that the amount is good one day, and bad the next. To make this step, a deal must be made between governments, not just between two water ministries. It depends on the diplomatic relations between the two states," Ajeli said.# # Officials have said in the past security concerns have overshadowed the development of a forward-thinking water policy. With Iraq’s recent and relative stability, experts are now calling for a plan to tackle the water problems that have afflicted the country – from rising salinity in the southern marshland to the imminent demise of traditional irrigation systems, known as karez, in the north.# # A UNESCO report found that 100,000 Iraqis have fled their native communities since 2005 due to water shortages.# # Another United Nations report claims the water levels in the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, Iraq’s primary sources of water, have fallen by more than two-thirds. The report cautioned that the vital lifelines could completely dry up by 2040.# # “At the current rates, Iraq’s water supply will fall an estimated 43 billion cubic metres by 2015, far short of the 77 cubic metres that the country will need to avert a widespread humanitarian disaster,” the UN report read.# # According to UN research, “Inefficient irrigation, lack of government coordination and weak capacity to manage the resource has compounded the current shortage of water… After years of neglect during the previous regime, Iraq’s water managers still lack sufficient technical capability and knowledge to address its growing water crisis. Budget constraints have handicapped the government’s ability to implement a long-term water management plan.”# # Social problems connected with water scarcity are common in Iraq: fishermen in the southern complain of a declining catches; in agricultural areas, water shortages have caused wheat production to fall by half. According to the UN, Iraq now imports 80 per cent of its food and 90 per cent of Iraq’s land is either desert or “suffering from severe desertification”.# # “Water is more important than oil for Iraq because we have agricultural lands which, without water, are useless. Agriculture is the future and the new government need to see that,” Ajeji said.# # The political impact of water relations with upriver countries is not lost on the UN. “We believe that the problem has political dimensions between Iraq and [its neighbours], which are trying to put pressure on the Iraqi government to advance some economic and political interests. The maneuvering has already begun in determining how much water Iraq should really have,” its report said.# # Dr Mohammed al-Zubaidi, political science professor at Baghdad University, said water is already the defining factor in Iraq’s foreign relations.# # “Listen, don’t be naïve. Upriver countries dominate down river countries because they control water revenue. This gives them advantages in other fields as well,” Zubaidi said.# “Let’s talk about Turkey and Syria. We have concerns that one day they will ask in return for water, one barrel of water for one barrel of oil. That day will come soon if Iraq maintains its ignorant strategies of wasteful water management.”# # The Baghdad government claims it is doing its part in seeking adequate water for Iraq and applying diplomatic pressure to upriver neighbours.# # “We have formed delegations to visit Turkey, Iran and Syria to speak with them about sharing water because we face a serious problem in this regard. We have sent letters demanding the need to give us more water,” Jamal al-Battiq, head of parliament’s agricultural committee, said.# # Neighbouring nations have been reluctant to address Iraq’s water woes, but Mustafa Kibargolu, a professor at Bilkent University’s international relations department, cautioned that water could be the source of conflict in years to come.# # “[There hasn’t been any] confrontation or high tension stemming from the unsatisfied demands of parties over the use of water. [But] this should not mislead observers into thinking this is unlikely,” Kibargolu said.# # “Unless some old water policies are purged and new ones introduced. It is a real possibility that this region will become a time bomb in terms of water rights.”# Saleem al-Hasani and Basim al-Sharra are IWPR-trained reporters in Baghdad.http://www.eyeiraq.com/NewsDetails_eng.aspx?newsId=18003Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:00:00 AM GMTBy Ali Abu Iraq # # They lament demise of their once-thriving livelihood, hit hard by combination of ecological and industrial problems. # # Lifelong fisherman Mohammad Mishlat was born in a reed house on the bank of the Karma river just before it splits from the Shatt al-Arab and bends its course through the ancient city of Basra.# # Now 70 years old, Mishlat can’t recall a single sunrise he hasn’t watched from his boat as he sets out for the day’s catch on the maze of rivers, streams, canals and marshes that make up Iraq’s most famous, and now endangered, waterways.# # “I was born [close to] the river. The waters here are like my family, and for almost seven decades we have never been apart,” he said as he waved away a halo of flies buzzing his head in the mid-day heat.# # Mishalat is one of the tens of thousands of Basra province fisherman, who along with the boat builders, net weavers, fishmongers and others now find their traditional livelihoods under fire from a raft of problems, including upriver dams, drought, pollution, the chase for oil and over-fishing.# # The waters around Basra, specifically the Shatt al-Arab which is formed by the merger of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers as they pour into the Persian Gulf, have become victims of Iraq’s wide-ranging water problems, and a tragic example of their social consequences.# # “We get our whole lives from the rivers. We don’t know any other profession. We used to catch fish in abundance, but now, every year, every season, there are less fish. Many people have moved away and others have taken new jobs. For the people here, working in a shop or a factory is an unnatural thing,’ Mishlat said.# # The most commonly cited reason for the decline of fishing in the Basra area is increasing salinity brought on by an encroaching sea. In 2009, the government of neighbouring Iran ordered the diversion of the Karun river, one of the main tributaries of the Tigris. The river was channeled back into Iranian territory from its natural confluence with the Tigris just north of Basra, depriving the Shatt al-Arab of some 13 billion cubic metres of freshwater each year that served to flush out the vital ecosystem.# # Dams on the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates in Turkey and Syria have also wreaked havoc on the Shatt al-Arab. Efforts to mitigate a disastrous Saddam Hussein-era programme to drain the wetlands – which was intended to punish rebellious locals – have been hampered by rapacious oil-drilling and exploration activity.# # Local officials claim at least 30,000 fisherman and farmers have been forced to leave their homes in search of other work; other estimates are as high as 100,000.# # Alaa al-Badran, head of the Agricultural Engineers of Basra and a member of the Committee for the Revitalisation of the Marshes, described the condition of the local waterways, once known as the Venice of the Middle East, as a “catastrophe”.# # “There has been a significant drop in fish stocks and I predict even more decline, not just due to the level of salt water. There are new factors such as a growing level of pollution as well as over-fishing and the use of poison for fishing in addition to the drying of entire areas for oil extraction,” Badran said.# # “Many of the sub-rivers and streams that surround Basra are filled with sewage now because the waters are stagnant. Locals come to me all the time and tell me the environment is ruined.”# # Abdullah Iyadia, an authority on Basra folklore and a longtime columnist for Basra’s now-defunct al-Manara newspaper, believes the decline of the fishing industry has deeply affected the collective psyche of local residents.# # “When Arabs first came to Basra in 14 Hijri (636 AD), The first thing they did was build a mosque and have a feast. The first dish served was the fresh fish found abundantly in the local rivers. It has been on the table for Basra residents ever since. Fish is probably the most important thing to the people here, and it is one of the main characteristics of Basra, along with palm trees and rivers,” Iyadia said.# # Iyadia draws parallels between the decline in the seasonal fish known locally as saburra and the loss of time-honored traditions. The saburra migrates from the sea into the Shatt al-Arab in February and remains there to spawn and lay eggs until October. For generations, fisherman like Mishlat have taken advantage of the lengthy fishing season and ordered their lives around the availability of the fish.# # “For the last few years, the number of fish has been in constant decline. The fishermen spend long days on the water and still don’t get enough food to put on the table. Many seasonal festivals have been cancelled and the price for the fish that are caught is now too expensive for the people who catch them,” Iyadia said.# # At the city’s oldest fish market, the Basra bazaar built in 1946, prices have skyrocketed and non-local fish are taking the biggest market share. Badran estimates that almost 80 per cent of the fish sold in the area are now imported.# # This has done little to dampen the enthusiasm of Mohammad Fadhil, 50, a fish vendor at the Basra bazaar like his father and grandfather. Together with his four brothers, he works from 5am to midnight everyday and claims he “would never switch to any other job”.# # “You see, the people of Basra can’t live without fish. Now that there is less local fish and the prices go higher and higher, they are buying fish from Iran and East Asia,” Fadhil said.# # Fishermen have sought to adjust to the new situation, but with little success. Mishlat and his family have tried fishing in city of Faw, the southernmost tip of Iraq’s Persian Gulf peninsula. He claims that violent run-ins with rival fishermen from Iran and Kuwait in the contested waters drove him back to Basra where he's back to fishing familiar, if fallow, waters.# # “Here, look for yourself,” he said as he produced a reed basket bearing three meagre looking carp. “We have fished since before sunrise, and this is all I can take home.”# # Ali Abu Iraq is an IWPR-trained journalist in Basra.http://www.eyeiraq.com/NewsDetails_eng.aspx?newsId=17920Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:00:00 AM GMTBy Saad al-Mosuli # # Extortion racket feeds insurgency in volatile northern Iraqi city. # The street emptied at the sound of gunfire, the men scattering in separate directions. A corpse was left behind, the lone victim of the shooting. After a few hours, someone covered its face with a sheet of paper - a gesture of respect for the dead.# # This is Mosul, my home. Since 2003, I have worked as a reporter here, mainly for local newspapers. Stories of murder and abduction are part of my routine.# Al-Qaeda still thrives in my city, long after it was driven underground in other parts of the country. Once a pillar of the local insurgency, the group - also known as the Islamic State of Iraq - now operates as a mafia, funding itself through extortion and blackmail.# # Though deeply unpopular, its reputation for ruthlessness has also made it very powerful. Unlike other insurgent groups, al-Qaeda never restricted itself to fighting the Americans. Right from the start, it showed it was ready to kill Iraqis too.# # At the height of the conflict in 2005, the group frequently abducted large groups of men. Hours later, their decapitated bodies would be dumped in the street. The severed head would be balanced on top of the corpse, often alongside a DVD containing footage of the beheading.# # Al-Qaeda may no longer be as brazen in Mosul, but it is still viewed with dread. The group's strategy for survival in the city is, in part, the product of pressures it has faced elsewhere.# # Over the last few years, the United States military and Iraqi government forces have largely succeeded in cutting off al-Qaeda's access to funds and fighters from abroad.# As a result, the group's members in Mosul are now mostly locals - natives of the city, or Arabs displaced from the nearby town of Tal Afar.# # The shortage of foreign funds forced al-Qaeda to look within Mosul for its income. It found a source in the many businesses that still operate here, helped by the city's position along trade routes linking Turkey, Syria, Iran and the rest of Iraq.# # Merchants in every conceivable sector give a levy to al-Qaeda. Payments to the group enable the local economy to function, keeping markets stocked with essential goods and guaranteeing the passage of construction materials and farm produce across the nearby borders.# # Though no businessman would speak about the subject to a journalist, their casual conversations are filled with stories of extortion.# # Suspicion and fear have destroyed a close-knit community of merchants, who once shared in each other's successes. Established enterprises have been hit hardest, some of them targeted by newcomers seemingly linked to al-Qaeda.# # An acquaintance told me he was offered 100,000 US dollars to sell his shop to a businessman newly arrived in Mosul. After making inquiries, he was tipped off that his son would be kidnapped as soon as he made the deal. His payment for the sale would be demanded as ransom.# # Another friend who operates a currency exchange said all his neighbouring businesses gave a tax to al-Qaeda. The group's agents would visit every month, threatening to kill or kidnap those who failed to pay up.# # A friend who owns an electricity generator initially refused to pay the levy. He relented after being warned his generator would be bombed if he held out.# # A shop-keeper told me he had received a phone call demanding payment from an unknown group, just after he had paid his monthly tax to al-Qaeda. He informed the original gang of the phone call, and was not bothered by any further demands from the other group.# The wealthy are not the only victims. A street vendor who takes home no more than 15,000 Iraqi dinars (about 13 US dollars) a day also said he was paying 30 per cent of his profits as tax to al-Qaeda.# # Mosul's chronic insecurity and political feuds have created the perfect environment for al-Qaeda to operate. The city has a mixed population of Arabs and Kurds. More than a year since elections to the provincial council, leaders of both communities have been unable to reach agreement on government.# # Religious minorities, such as the Christians, complain of being trapped between the competing interests of the larger groups.# Though Mosul's streets are choked with checkpoints and men in uniform, their presence does not seem to affect the insurgents. The officers rarely speak to journalists, insisting they are not authorised. Their spokesmen are usually unavailable.# # The security forces seem to inhabit another world to the civilians. It feels as if we live in separate valleys, with mountains between us.# A friend told me the security forces were technically correct to claim they were cracking down on al-Qaeda's supporters when they raided certain local businesses.# # But, the friend said, the authorities' statement was only half the truth. Most merchants disagreed with al-Qaeda's ideology and had been coerced into offering them financial support.# # The government has pledged to rid local institutions of corruption and the influence of the insurgents.# # However, the people of Mosul wonder how easy this will be. Many of us believe the militants have deep contacts within the state, especially as they seem to know all about the latest contracts and tenders issued by the government.# Al-Qaeda also appears to have thoroughly infiltrated the security forces.# # A friend of a friend who works in the police force recently took a vacation out of town, accompanied by three colleagues. All the officers were in plainclothes, travelling with civilians on a minibus.# # An insurgent boarded the vehicle and called out the names of three of the policemen, asking them to step forward. One of the officers protested, saying he had long stopped working for the force.# # The insurgent responded by showing him a copy of the police payroll. "Is that not your signature, confirming receipt of your salary two days ago?" he asked.# # The three men were led off the bus. The man who tells the story says he never heard from them again.# # Saad al-Mosuli is the pseudonym of an IWPR-trained journalist in Mosul.http://www.eyeiraq.com/NewsDetails_eng.aspx?newsId=17876Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:00:00 AM GMTBy: Abdul Razzaq al-Sultani # # The national political map of Iraq stems from the imperatives based on creating a fertile ground for understanding among the Iraqi factions, to build solid bridges for forward-looking projects and guide the common denominators, and adopts sober constants that resulting in understandings emerge from the cocoon of bids and empty logos to apply on fact ground. Identify those issues is the reduction of tensions between the parties to find a bigger space for participants. The individuality, the symbolism, and central leadership, was gone for good, and the collective governance, is one of the advanced features of Iraq's mentality. The unacceptable stampede by some politicians for positions of responsibility is one of the manifestations of the irrational, while the Iraqi people looking forward to municipal services and eliminate the scourge of unemployment and other plaguing problems. The national scene is one that will determine the sovereign sites, and must adopt a sophisticated mechanism for the distribution of powers, to prevent autocracy, in order not to fall into traps of one-party and symbolism.# To talk more frankly, the lights began to fade to some, it can not be reduced Iraq to particular individuals, as in Iraq men can not be exceeded their steps of promising democratic construction, in their movement of tireless efforts in building political process, clarity of attitudes, principle consistency and a clear identification of defects in the reconstruction. We believe that it is the features the man of settlement to try in all efforts to unite visions of national attitudes. It must showdown to inform the Iraqis what is going on and clearly in the political arena of cases of bypass, some still dealing with it in mentality of the opposition and not a mental statesman. The troubled statements that are not stale responsibly in addressing the national resolution, is the result of the narrow horizon that will collapse against the will of our people, desperate for a change, after fed up with the sole icon that and other broad empty headings.# http://www.eyeiraq.com/NewsDetails_eng.aspx?newsId=17713Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:00:00 AM GMTBy: Jassim Mohamed Ja'afer# # Nations have symbols and geniuses who remain in its memory and affect its people's lives, and if Iraqi football is being mentioned, so that means Amoo Baba is being mentioned. He is the very patriotic who, until he died (God bless his soul), served and worked hard for his country, this man did not stop serving the country till his last breaths, when he was in Dehok, he was thinking of how to develop the Iraqi football, the central union, mechanism of election, his academy and supporting it, quoting from Mister Esam Al-Deewan when he met him before Amoo's death.# # He is the one who was struggling with life, he opposed the previous Olympic committee and its policy led by Udai who said in one of his statements "If Baba was Muslim, we would charge him with the charge of Hizboldawa and execute him", therefore he stayed in pain due to disrespecting him and not consider him as senior coach who spent his life serving his country. So, he refused all offers submitted to him to travel abroad and left money and fame temptations, who anybody would absolutely do not waste, all for the country, what was recorded down on his favor.# # So, on his first funeral anniversary, we hail it considering him as symbol of all Iraq and as a heritage not less than other heritages, he is compared with geniuses of the modern age due to his significance in the Iraqi history, this is a responsibility of the Iraqi government to bring him to be one of the most famous characters who contributed to his country greatly. A statue, monuments, spreading his bio in the linked fields, mentioning him in management and technical studies shall be done to honor this man and his sacrifice to his homeland.# # This man is the home due to his patriotism, Iraq comparing by symbolism, his genius is Mesopotamia and he is heritage due to his giving, talent and life.http://www.eyeiraq.com/NewsDetails_eng.aspx?newsId=17230Sun, 30 May 2010 12:00:00 AM GMTKarrar Aldbiani # # Iraqi theater, the honored cultural heritage, began to return to its level which it had been accustomed to, like, innovation in the presenting of theater shows, after having been marginalized over the past decade, but despite this marginalization, and attempts to demolish this edifice, Iraqi theatre had steadfast attitude which won a tribute of everyone from professionals and recipients and its texts innovated at the local, Arab, generally.# # Concerning the last period, theatre had its presence which amazed everyone when its evening theatrical shows backed and renewed in texts, and the longing audience to the released theatre, literally, optimistic and hopeful.# # And we have seen an important motivation to make Iraqi citizens happy in the last days, especially in the days of Eid, which – theatre – could deservedly to attract such large numbers of recipients and draw on their lips the paint safety and security for Iraq free of conflicts; not only this, but private theaters opened its doors and curtains to recipients again, was an important factor in creating a new foundation for the theater within the Iraqi scene. The theater, after the recent launch, was different from what we have known before; political bounds do not restrict it and had not been used for personal purposes as before by the exterminated government men.# # Audience found more space in the presented texts what made theatre an important factor in publishing awareness which one of its roles in people's hearts and discarding racialism and exotic sectarianism on the reality of Iraq to raise the country nationally and full its people's hearts with love and harmony.# # Concerning the role of the Iraqi actors, it was very important in the transfer of spreading the spirit of harmony within the hearts of Iraqis, as the renaissance, which makes everyone smiling in the return of the Iraqi theater, made an additional important role which is the development of the artists potential of artists and the creation of new talent and open doors for them, work is also in the establishment of walk more sophisticated than earlier work them, but with the controls and standards of the above criteria.# # We wish the Iraqi theater to advance more and more and step wider in order to rise that likes life without killing and explosions, Iraq which accepts diversity and peaceful solidarity but neglects sectarianism, and back to rise culture of all the Iraqis, and return the culture of Iraq out of the argument for "Vanillin" "Give me bread and scene, I give you educated people."............http://www.eyeiraq.com/NewsDetails_eng.aspx?newsId=17000Tue, 25 May 2010 12:00:00 AM GMTJassim Mohammed Jaafar * # # When you access the solution of a particular case, we need to think objectively and realistically, and go balanced according to a method and a clear and careful planning, since bearing the responsibility of the Iraqi sports, this journey is a sacred cause are living in constant motion between the conditions of our consciences and Thereat of our minds so as not to live in dry thought, succumb to the naivete of emotion. It was our view that always starts priorities and most important of which establish a philosophy and a clear and comprehensive sports Iraqi involving foundations and key components of the process of sports education, sports community and the dissemination of constructive ideas, civilization, focusing on legislation and laws that protect the athletes, their rights to ensure a decent living to pay attention to the infrastructure of facilities and supplies and equipment, The bulk of the running in mind that establish important rules benefit our country strategically to prepare a starting point towards a bright future to install the columns and pillars of building our new community, quoting the verse, "As for butter goes staleness As for what the good of mankind remains on earth as well as hitting God Proverbs" (Thunder - 17 )# # Some people might think that our ambitions in the process of construction and development of the sport of Iraq stands at this point and we say (no) This is not the limits of ambition, there are many plans on the table for analysis on the way to implementation. We have given priority to infrastructure and the establishment of sports facilities as the need for urgent calls with the reality of sport in Iraq, and this trend has been construction of more than (400) establishments of youth and sports. Today, our aims move towards the advancement levels of functional sports and all the games and the use of foreign experts by attracting qualified foreign coaches and developing of competence of the trainer of Iraq through onto training courses and sent to advanced countries in sport's studies and to attract international experts to establish training courses.# # But there are a range of important issues that the researcher must verify deeply. As everyone knows that the process of developing the technical aspects and the dissemination of the type of game and development is the work of the core duties of the Consortium on the game, but not too bad and within our ambitions to provide all the support, to do that by considering the Ministry of Youth and Sports the sectoral ministry first official responsible of Iraqi sport.# # It is our duty also to scrutinize the efficiency and integrity of the Consortium and its ability to take advantage of these steps, as the efforts and the disbursement of funds are not so much opening the door to luxury and drop the hypothesis, but we really are keen on it. It may be appropriate to mention an example of the Football Association and current situation of fragmentation and blurring the scene in his administration between those who stand outside the country and those inside and implications of other nearby and we do not want to support bad experiences undergone by the EU and everyone knows we are at the peak of attention and interest of future receivables of the national team , but reiterate that public money allocated to the sport of Iraq is not the money for the scattering and waste, but to achieve national goals in the development of Iraqi sports and we are keen to achieve this requirement to bid farewell hands faithful that know how to use it to achieve the goals which are set for.# # # * Minister of Youth and Sportshttp://www.eyeiraq.com/NewsDetails_eng.aspx?newsId=16210Wed, 05 May 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT Murad Salim# Within the Iraqi government endeavor to establish stability, and protect the souls of citizen from terror attacks, it purchased a birth place British explosive detector device with great sums and distributed them on military check- points in the main streets of Baghdad and other provinces, but today these devices greatly criticized by public where it was depicted as a detectors solely for cosmetics stuffs, chemical weapons, and perfumes.# Mohammed Ali is a Iraqi fellow citizen who portrayed them as " bad and cheep". # Ali Wael is another guy has confirmed that the work of these devices is for just detecting behind detergents, perfumes, other stuffs like cosmetics and spare parts of vehicles, indicating check- points have been set to create more traffic jam which causes more danger to people, because suicidal bombers used to choose like this opportunity to kill more innocent people before reaching the check- points. # The deteriorating of the security status and security violations lately happened are due to the corruptive of security leaders and some individuals in check-points are busy with their cell phones during the time of work leaving vehicles pass through without checking them with the "Sonar" detector device. Media man Kamal al- Iarqi stated.# He added" persons with IDs belonged to the government left without checking even if they got heavy weapons at their vehicles". # The Experts of explosives like Director- General in Ministry of Interior MOI Maj. Gen. Jihad al- Haidary has confirmed that the defect falls within the misuse of devices by some Military elements that are not well trained existed in some check- points.# He said" these devices are sophisticated ones rely on modern American physical theories, they adopt the analysis of Nitrate's vapors emit from the explosives because every ration of 96.63 for explosives contains Nitrogen, its nucleus is not stable one sends frequencies of the quadruple nuclear resonance, so it is impossible to any explosives to pass easily through, where these devices gave good results and discovered great numbers of car bombs, IEDs, and weapons, adding " al-Qaeda organization used rumors regarding the failure of these devices, unfortunately it# Received by public, we noticed that tones of explosives entered easily before 2007, but later it became impossible with these devices". # Al- Haidary said "the reasons behind the failure are some users who work on them are insufficient ones". He explained more "we have got 1497 check- points just in Baghdad, we need for 4500 trained persons to do this job, so orders came from the Commander- in- chief and the Minister of Interior to train both policemen and military guy on this mission, then we did and formed a committee to follow up the course of work on these devices, but unfortunately, we found a lot of individuals are in streets have no qualification to do that". # For Tuesday explosions in Baghdad, Maj. General Jihad said in press conference held in MOI building" the fourth vehicles exploded in Baghdad were booby- trapped in the same places where they went off, underscoring " the tools used blast were C-4 highly explosives". He went on to say" the preparing of this material and booby- trap the vehicle, it requires a long time, it could reach a month because booby- trapping vehicles is accurate job and needs the above time to be done". # Between the hammer of the untrained guys and the anvil of the security violations # the lives of innocent Iraqis stay a hostage for a false sign from the detector device what so – called the "sonar". # # # http://www.eyeiraq.com/NewsDetails_eng.aspx?newsId=10773Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:00:00 AM GMTMorad Darweesh# # Media plays a prominent and important role in modern times to promote the facts that the recipient is looking for everywhere, and the role of the media is visible on the two sides, one is the truth and the other is irreversible, and since that the truth face is the closest to the recipient, then those responsible for the mass media must be careful to transfer it to the people. # Reliability in transferring the news from the main source represents the most important condition of the profession conditions, so the mass media must be keen as much as possible to transfer the truth and diagnose the damage or the benefit and specify that accurately without making things take the broader impress, as if something happens in one of the institutions or companies then media should investigate it and adopt accuracy in transferring the news from those of the direct relationship to the event, and not to take things as they are random and non-versa. # A satellite channel have recently launched news of that a fire occurred in the Baghdad International Airport and that the fire continued for several hours and gutted parts of the airport and so on.... Words are far from the truth. # In order to clarify and transfer the true image that took place on July/26/2007, and what happened is that a small fire occurred inside a U.S. army camp nearby the Baghdad airport, and the fire occurred in the warehouse of the (Rally) Company and caused damages to electrical materials of value not more than (45,000) thousand dollars and not millions of dollars as the channel depicted to the recipients, and the rescue teams were able to control the fire after 8 hours of the incident. # Depicting things for others of that an earthquake had occurred here or there is something estranged of the facts on the ground, and the media must be objective in dealing with these issues, as if a fire broke out here or there in the elements of a facility or an institution or an airport does not mean that it has wiped out the entire department or facility... and everybody know that accidents occur every day and all the facilities of life are liable for such things. # http://www.eyeiraq.com/NewsDetails_eng.aspx?newsId=4277Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:00:00 AM GMTBy: Iftekhar Al-Dabbagh# # In the elections of the Asian Football Confederation, which was won by the Qatari Bin Hammam, the most excited and motivated one for this win was the head of our football union, Hussein Said, who panted features of happiness more than the others. # Although that twenty-two confederation heads out of forty-six one, representing the continent of Asia, have voted for this man, whereas his Bahraini competitor have received Twenty-one votes, while he won twenty-three with his voice, in time that two did not vote for the candidates and rather putted an empty cards, so if Hussein Said, for example, was voted for the second candidate Sheikh Salman, then the candidates would draw in votes, and the two would underwent a second round of voting, yet Said was more enthusiastic in educating others to vote for Bin Hammam, until this happened and he became really happy and the fact that the overwhelming joy showed up on him, spotlights of the press and the media directed on him to ask why Bin Hammam, and not Sheikh Salman? And what surprised the Iraqi street is the statement of Hussein Said when he said that we have to give Iraq's vote to Bin Hammam for what he and the state of Qatar offered for the Iraqi football!!! Here, I wonder what did this man offer the Iraqi football? Isn't he the one who deprived our National Leagues, both the Olympic Team or the National Junior or the First National of the nomination for the finals of Asia and the world championships? Or isn't he the one who deprived our players, Younis Mahmoud and Nashat Akram of the award for best player in Asia and gave it to the Saudi Yasser Al-Qahtani unjustly? Isn't his state the one which deal with our professional players as mercenaries? All these questions putted on the table of Mr. Hussein Said to answer them frankly and courageously and to tell the truth, isn't Bin Hammam the one who stood by me in my plight today and is the support in regard to my cross-border leading for the Federation? Isn't Bin Hammam the one who will stand with me when the Iraqi National Olympic Committee says its severance word and expels me fromthe Union if I did not come back to Iraq? Then the common interests between them are continuous at the expense of the public interest and this is the truth that must be known before by everyone, but in the result no true, but true.# http://www.eyeiraq.com/NewsDetails_eng.aspx?newsId=1639Tue, 12 May 2009 12:00:00 AM GMTBy Hayder Mohamed# # The Iraqi government is still moving forward in achieving the national reconciliation, as well as the application of what was agreed upon with the U.S. side, as a new batch of prisoners at the U.S. jails have been released, so that they would able to participate in the reconstruction and building campaign which is being cited by Iraq, whereas the people of Iraq are the real founders of its heritage and present and future. # The modern democratic experience have excluded nobody and comprised all segments of the society under the tent of the national reconciliation, so that the whole world to see that Iraq have no place for the dictatorship or the individualism, as Iraq is being ruled by all of its sons on the diversity of their factions, and the multiplicity of ideas and orientations, until the government to embrace each one defended and stood against the evil, where as the Sons of Iraq (Sahwa), have stood alongside with their brothers from the security forces members and made a great effort to expel the clutches of terrorism and Al-Qaeda. # And that made by those good was not scattered in vain, as the Iraqi government had met the promises made to them by involving them among the security forces ranks and giving them fair salaries, as well as the inclusion of some of them to the civil and governmental services and institutions in order to complement and success the achievement of the national reconciliation, through which the government is seeking to build a free and democratic Iraq.# http://www.eyeiraq.com/NewsDetails_eng.aspx?newsId=868Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:00:00 AM GMTHayder Mohamed# # The common definition for the term logic is a set of laws and regulations that preserve thought from the wrong, then it is a concept that could be a way for all the sciences to arrive to a certain facts, according to the execution of "Aristotle" and number of the philosophers, otherwise reality diverge from this call in some places, hence we see it fit in somewhere, and unfit somewhere else, as measurement is a tool of logic, yet cannot be adopted by the imamate doctrine in the philology section for example, because the martial laws belong to the wise the connoisseur, and each one has its own statue, while some Islamic schools find it permissible, and so does the Arabic language, as it has innate assets controlled by the Arabic taste, and its provisions to the rules of logic and philosophy, gets it out in some cases than the spread between the Arab tongues which do not know the stated by the linguists and Logicians who tried to make rules for the Arabic language that departs it from the reality of language often.# # Haydar Mohamed # Haider2005_88@yahoo.com# http://www.eyeiraq.com/NewsDetails_eng.aspx?newsId=682Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:00:00 AM GMTHaydar Mohamed # # In the spot light of the freedom and democracy ambiences that are still sought by the sons of the Iraqi people, in accordance with the principles on which they should be, opening of the satellite channels come successively from time to time, as well as other mass media, as these are multi-directions satellite channels and trends in terms of their concept, where they are a democratic and healthy phenomenon that reflects the diversity which is lived by Iraq, and has been lacking by a lot of people, otherwise its positive results depend on the basics and agendas that are sometimes stand as a barrier in the way of the interest of Iraqis themselves, whereas each channel is unleashed to promote for those it wants and raise whatever it likes with the auspices of the one behind them without any control or system or conditions. # And the last word to be said, that so many satellite channels may leave a mood of competition dependent on the control and the system, through which the Iraqi media meets which the various arts in support of the Iraqi culture.# http://www.eyeiraq.com/NewsDetails_eng.aspx?newsId=659Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:00:00 AM GMTEye/Kurdistan region# # # # The Minister of health at the region of Kurdistan, Dr. Zarian Othman has held a press conference subsequent to the end of the opening ceremony of the (Sioux) Center for women mental diseases treatment at Taslocha district to the south of Sulaimaniyah City.# # Othman have illustrated during the conference that this centre is respective for the social rehabilitation of women through the psychological treatment, besides opening courses in music, drawing, and sewing, indicating to that the total cost of the project has amounted 3.5 billion dinars and with an area of 5000 sq.m.# # The opening ceremony have been attended by each of the governor of Sulaimaniyah, Dana Ahmed Majid and Ms. Hero Ibrahim Ahmed, in addition to number of officials. # http://www.eyeiraq.com/NewsDetails_eng.aspx?newsId=64Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:00:00 AM GMT