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	January 2005 Iraqi Elections
		The writer emphasizes that U.S. interference in the elections is likely because, "The United States and the West in general work solely for their own interests, disregarding other peoples' interests." He argues that the Bush administration will push ahead the elections to prove the invasion of Iraq was a success.
		Postponing the elections is out of the question."[70] Muwafiq al-Rubay'i, Iraq's national security advisor said, "We cannot postpone the elections even for one day because this would mean terrorism, the saboteurs, and the enemies of democracy and Iraq have won.
		Shi'a proponents of the elections argued that while it may be marred by violence, the process in the long term could end terrorism in Iraq.
	meria.idc.ac.il /news/2005/05news1.html

	Iraqi legislative election, 2005
		Elections to the Kurdistan National Assembly, the 111-member legislature of the Kurdish Autonomous Region, were held on the same day as the federal legislative elections.
		One challenge to the legitimacy of the election was the low Arab Sunni turnout, which was as low as 2 percent in Anbar province.
		The election was monitored from outside of Iraq by the International Mission for Iraqi Elections[5] made up of members from nine nations and headed by Canada.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Iraqi_National_Assembly_election,_2005.htm

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		Salah Al-Din's deputy governor, governorate-council chairman, as well as a college dean were taken hostage by militants who stopped their convoy south of Baghdad on 8 January as the men were returning from meetings with Shi'ite leaders in Al-Najaf and Karbala on the Iraqi elections.
		The candidates said campaigning was difficult in the governorate, where they have taken out radio and television time, passed out fliers, and hung posters in an effort to make their party lists known.
		Election workers -- numbering in the thousands by one count -- have walked off the job due to death threats by insurgents living in their communities.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2005/01/e9ce715f-584e-4bd9-8c9e-d63f3729e716.html

	Iraq
		The election system for the council effectively ensures that all three of Iraq's major ethnic groups are represented.
		On January 30, 2005, the Iraqi people voted in an election conducted by their transitional government which elected a 275-member Transitional National Assembly.
		On January 30, 2005, Iraq held its first free elections in over 50 years, bringing a new situation to Iraq, which had been mostly dominated by its Sunni minority from its founding.
	webpages.charter.net /wisconsinlegion-7thdistrict/Iraq_History.htm

	Chrenkoff
		Provisional results, too, are available from the vote in local council election conducted concurrently with the nation-wide election; they show that in 12 out of 18 provinces the turnout was 65%.
		In the first week after the elections, the Iraqi Interior Ministry and the Mosul police chief are turning the tables on the insurgency in northern Iraq by using a tactic -- videotaped messages -- that the insurgents have used time and again as they have terrorized the region with kidnappings and executions.
		In preparation for the elections, USAID supported several Iraqi civil society organizations in their efforts to encourage Iraqis of all backgrounds to go to the polls in the upcoming elections.
	chrenkoff.blogspot.com /2005/02/good-news-from-iraq-part-21.html

	dxld5015.txt
		On 10 January 2005 the cabinet-linked Directorate for Communications was reported to be planning to establish a government-run newspaper, radio station and TV station in Iraq, according to Tha'ir al-Naquib, official spokesman for the prime minister and head of the directorate, quoted by independent newspaper Al-Zaman.
		The reconstituted Council will serve, and is serving, as a senior advisory group that assists in developing policy for the government, that evaluates and assesses performance, that charts new directions, and that helps to identify opportunities.
		NHK officials said its draft budget for fiscal 2005 is smaller than the budget for the current fiscal year, making it the first time ever the broadcaster will see its budget shrink from the previous year.
	www.worldofradio.com /dxld5015.txt

	Zinda 8 June 2005
		We are very pleased to inform you that the judicial committees of the IPCC serving in Baghdad and the Governorates have started to return the real properties confiscated by the former regime in accordance with the law.
		If you think that you have a claim under the circumstances described above, contact or visit the IPCC Bureau in the Governorate where you live for further information or to file a claim.
		Their preventing the christians in the north from voting during the last elections and introducing their own christian candidates instead of letting them elect their own were intended to bar our people from having a say in the writing of the Iraqi constitution.
	www.zindamagazine.com /html/archives/2005/6.11.05/index_sat.php

	Articles - Ninawa
		Ninawa is a governorate (province) in Iraq, and the Arabic name for the biblical city of Nineveh in Assyria.
	www.kimia-sains.com /articles/Ninawa

	January 2005 - Iraq Special Weapons News
		Governor Optimistic About Diyala Security AFPS 18 Jan 2005 -- The governor of Iraq's Diyala province is optimistic that security will be strong enough to hold elections here Jan. 30.
		Iraq Elections Process Adheres to Strict Regulations Washington File 18 Jan 2005 -- Following is a fact sheet from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad regarding the regulations governing the formation of candidate lists for the January 30 elections and the allocation of seats in the Transitional National Assembly
		Crackdown Continues on Insurgents AFPS 18 Jan 2005 -- Coalition and Iraqi forces continue their pre- election crackdown on insurgents, with military officials in Baghdad today reporting more suspects taken into custody and more illegal weapons seized.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/iraq/2005/01/01-18_index.htm

	Articles about the elections in Iraq
		Any free and honest election, even under occupation, should be done in safe security conditions at least, under the UN supervision, or any independent body that is not connected to the occupiers and their collaborators.
		The election was the culmination of a constitutional development that began in January, 1966, to which President Johnson gave his personal commitment when he met Premier Ky and General Thieu, the chief of state, in Honolulu in February.
		Despite the fact that election in principal, is one of the important ways to build a modern state, but it can not be held out of its legal and general conditions.
	www.brusselstribunal.org /ArticlesElections.htm

	Ain-Al-Yaqeen - March 4, 2005 - Article 10
		Hilla, a mainly Shiite city, is the capital of Babil Province, situated within the notorious "death triangle", where rebels were among the most active in Iraq.
		In a statement to the Saudi Press Agency, Taif's Governor Fahd Ibn Abdul Aziz Ibn Muammar expressed his thanks to and appreciation of Prince Sultan for this humanitarian generous donation.
		Prince Saud Al-Faisal, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and member of the board of directors of the National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development (NCWCD) praised the Shoura Council decision for NCWCD to complete the registration of conservation areas in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia according to a timetable.
	www.ain-al-yaqeen.com /issues/20050304/feat10en.htm

	Mammoth Task of Counting Votes Begins : SF Bay Area Indymedia
		In Babil province south of Baghdad, an overall figure at least 75 per cent of registered voters participated in the election, although turnout was noticeably lower in mainly Sunni areas.
		But the parties took part in the election are unlikely to want to give up assembly seats to Sunni politicians, or to view their inclusion at this late stage as fair.
		Election worker Bairaq Salam Kadhim knows the task of counting votes will be an exacting job that will require long hours of work.
	www.indybay.org /news/2005/02/1719155.php

	Informed Comment : 04/01/2005 - 04/30/2005
		The writer says that for example, Basra Governorate, where 2.7 million Iraqis live, is represented by a single member in the assembly who was elected because he belongs to a certain political party.
		The new governor of Najaf, Asad Abu Kalal, threatened the Sunni Arabs with reprisals, during the funeral Saturday for victims of an attack on congregatnts at a Shiite mosque in Baghdad on Friday.
		The Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) fired as many as nine Katyusha rockets at a presidential palace in the Al-Karkh district of Baghdad, killing a number of officials, according to Al-Jazirah Satellite Television on 13 May.
	www.juancole.com /2005_04_01_juancole_archive.html

	Lockergnome's Problem Solvers > Iraq
		Jan 5 2005, 10:20 PM This may be true, but you are respected, as you talk and debate what you believe.
		More than 16 percent cited the coming election and 21 percent cited the toppling of Saddam's regime as the main reasons they thought the country was headed in the right direction.
		With elections in Iraq looming on the horizon, more than 100 soldiers from 1st Battalion (Attack), 25th Aviation Regiment, have extended their tour in support of additional security concerns.
	help.lockergnome.com /lofiversion/index.php/t25139-950.html

	Ninawa Article
		Robert H. Grubbs, Richard R. Schrock, and Yves Chauvin are awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on olefin metathesis.
		Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall, and Theodor W. HÃ¤nsch share the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in quantum optics.
		October 6: Fast of Gedalia in Judaism (2005); German-American Day in the United States.
	wiki.free-online-dictionary.org /article/Ninawa

	Iraqi Group Claims Over 37,000 Civilian Toll - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council
		He is a 32-year-old Iraqi engineer who was on his way to the Iraqi Kurdish governorate al-Sulaimania last October to fax me the information to Britain, because telephone services had not been restored in Baghdad." According to al-Ubaidi: "The minibus in which Ahmad was travelling was stopped at a Kurdish checkpoint.
		The interim government says the census will be the last step before the general election scheduled for January 2005.
		The People's Kifah said the process of data gathering stopped after one of the group's workers was arrested by Kurdish militias and handed over to US forces in October 2003.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/iraq/attack/consequences/2004/0731casualties.htm

	Informed Comment
		Al-Furat publishes on page 1 a 100-word report citing Basra Governorate Council Deputy Chariman Nasif al-Ibadi saying that British troops have agreed to reconstruct the police station that was damaged in the recent attack and compensate the victims, adding that the forces have refused to apologize.
		Hilla is in the province of Babil, which has a population of about 1.7 million and is mixed, having Sunni Arabs and Shiites (Hilla city, with about 300,000 inhabitants, is largely Shiite).
		I got a lot of flak for calling the Jan. 30 elections in Iraq a sick joke because there had been no campaigning and the names of the candidates were not known until the last minute, and because the Sunni Arabs wouldn't be represented.
	www.juancole.com

	Iraqi Resistance Report 5/30 2005
		A source in the puppet so-called “Iraqi interior ministry” in Baghdad said that 27 persons were killed and 118 others wounded in the blasts outside the Babil Province governorate building in al-Hillah on Monday morning.
		Two Resistance martyrdom fighters wearing explosive belts blew themselves up amidst crowds of former puppet policemen who were demonstrating to demand their reinstatement after being fired for administrative reasons.
		For his part Kurdish chauvinist leader and American puppet “president of Iraq” Jalal at-Talibani issued a “presidential council” statement earlier on Monday expressing shock and displeasure over 'Abd al-Hamid's arrest and calling for his immediate release.
	www.neravt.com /left/war/resistance0530-05.html

	eMarkets - Home
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		Mambo is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL License.
		I had no idea and got my friend to do it
	www.emarkets.in /Iraqi_National_Assembly_election,_2005

	CARE's work: Emergencies
		Replacement of approximately 192km of potable water distribution networks is ongoing in the governorates of Anbar, Babil and Diyala.
		A further 100 generators are being supplied and installed in the Rummana WTP, Qaiem, Anbar Governorate and in the Aufi Compact Unit, Hilla, Babil Governorates.
		Under this project, training will be conducted in primary healthcare centres in five central and southern governorates (Babil, Wassit, Qadisiya and Thiqar).
	www.careinternational.org.uk /cares_work/emergencies/iraq/prog_updates/prog_updates.htm (3456 words)

	Projects 2004
		It is located in Babil and Kerbala governorates.
		It is located in Anbar governorate, it aims at disposing the Euphrates river waters from pollution by converting the main drain network to the (MOD) instead of the Euphrates river.
		The project aims at contributing in the marshland development in Msahab region in Basrah governorate by dredging the rivers branching from Msahab River which are stretched to the agricultural land.
	www.iraqi-mwr.org /Project2005.htm (3456 words)

	Informed Comment
		Al-Mada publishes on page 6 a 1,000-word report citing tribes in Babil Governorate expressing readiness to secure the area and to reveal terrorist networks.
		On Tuesday, guerrillas attempted to assassinate Member of Parliament Salamah Khafaji, who was on her way from Baghdad to Najaf to consult with young nationalist Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr.
		Al-Mada publishes on page 2 a 120-word report saying that the Al-Najaf Governor As'ad abu Kalal has presided over a meeting for the public service departments to discuss the spread of typhoid in Al-Najaf Governorate due to polluted drinking water, adding that the Council has closed a primary school for the same reason.
	www.juancole.com /2005/05/bombings-and-assassinations-continue.html (1663 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Multinational forces air-raid Mosul, impose curfew in Najaf, Kofah and Hellah
		Commander of the Babil Governorate Police Brigadier Qais Hamza announced that al-Hellah, the governorate's biggest city, will go into a ten-hour curfew from 6:00 PM Thursday to 4:00 AM Friday.
		Curfew restrictions were also announced in the city of Kofah and in the governorate of Najaf.
		BAGHDAD, Nov 11 (KUNA) -- The Multi-national forces in Iraq air-raided þThursday sites believed to be used by insurgents in the city of Mosul, and imposed curfew to control the surging violence in the cities of Najaf, Kofah and Hellah.
	www.reliefweb.int /w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/82e96bbabc634cb449256f4a0013654d?OpenDocument (193 words)

	The Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq
		The first partial results include polling stations in Baghdad, Babil, Basra, Thi Qar, Qadissya, Karbala, Misan, Muthana, Najaf and Wasit.
		Complaints may be delivered at any governorate, regional or national electoral office of IECI or sent by email to complaints@IECIraq.org.
		The partial results are released to provide regular updates, demonstrate the transparency of the electoral process, and clarify the process of counting and tallying the results.
	ieciraq.org /English/news_media_electionDayEnglish.php (193 words)

	ReliefWeb: USAID: Iraq Humanitarian and Reconstruction Assistance Fact Sheet No. 46 (FY) 2003
		LPG plants in Babil governorate have begun to distribute a limited number of propane canisters, although in some local distributions security was called in to control the waiting crowds.
		The bagged rice from the M/V Thor Sky is being distributed within six different governorates (Wasit: 4,530 MT; Al Qadisiyah: 3,000 MT; Al Muthanna: 3,000 MT; An Najaf: 1,500 MT; Karbala: 1,000 MT; Maysan: 1,000 MT for a total of 14,030 MT discharged by truck transport).
		RTI will secure a grant proposal from the owner of the library facility (the Baghdad municipality) for the reconstruction work and will issue a solicitation to Iraqi contractors for the materials; labor will be provided by the Iraqi Ministry of Housing and Construction with engineering supervision provided by U.S. military personnel.
	www.reliefweb.int /w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/caa21a09f689a11149256d3d000bcc29?OpenDocument (193 words)

	Meridian Magazine:: Latter-day Saint Building Democracy in Iraq
		At 4:00 pm I met with the governorate council of Babil and battled with them for two hours until they agreed to amend 14 articles in the bylaws for local councils that would indeed give the lower councils (district and sub district councils) freedom from the control of the governorate council.
		At noon I met with a delegation of council members from Musayyab District, who complained that the governorate council was trying to control them and they want their autonomy and independence from the higher council.
		Mike called Ambassador Bremmer and said this Governor Witwit in Hillah is the best governor in Iraq; he risked his own life to arrest these criminals to protect the Americans.
	www.meridianmagazine.com /exstories/040325building.html (193 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Latest News - The Deck of Cards
		Fadil Mahmud Gharib: Central Ba’ath Party Chairman, Babil Governorates Taken into custody May 15.
		Ghazi Hammud al-Ubaydi: Central Ba’ath Party Regional Command Chairman, Wasit Governorate.
		Qusay Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti (Saddam’s son): Chief, Special Security Organisation, special Republican Guard (SSO, SRG); Commander, Central Region Commander.
	news.scotsman.com /latest.cfm?id=2297725 (193 words)

	OpinionJournal - Extra
		In the governorate of Babil, the Iraqi national guards also arrested 10 Afghan infiltrators at a checkpoint at Al Iskandariyah town, 50 km south of Baghdad, who admitted that they had entered into the country illegally with the help of some smugglers.
		The border police patrols in the Wasit governorate arrested 13 Afghan infiltrators that had entered into the country through the borders in Shihabi region, a police source was quoted as saying.
		Meanwhile, the Diyala governorate will spend $2 billion from the funds allocated by the U.S. and local authorities to implement 320 projects throughout the region.
	www.opinionjournal.com /extra/?id=110005801 (193 words)

	HIC Iraq: Download p-codes
		Governorate names: Babil to Babylon, Karbala to Kerbala, Taamim to Tameem
		Names are UN Cartographic Dept., JHIC for Northern Governorates and NIMA non diacritical where this does not apply.
		When there are two or more locations with same name within same governorate, they are numbered.
	www.agoodplacetostart.org /download_pcodes.php (193 words)

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