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| Yemeni coast guards have seized a boat they say illegally entered the
country¡¯s territorial waters and arrested five Iranians on board, the
interior ministry said Wednesday. Local media have reported the boat naughty castles captured on Monday was Iranian and suspected of smuggling arms to Shiite rebels battling government troops in Yemen¡¯s northern Saada Province. But the ministry statement only said the boat was intercepted after illegally entering Yemeni territorial waters off the western coast. It was escorted to a naval base on a nearby island and the sailors who were on board - five Iranians and one Indian - were being questioned, the statement said. Yemen has been embroiled in a sporadic freshwater pearl necklace five-year conflict with Saada¡¯s Shiite rebels, who accuse authorities of neglecting their needs and of allying with hard-line Sunni fundamentalists. Fighting has intensified since August, displacing tens of thousands of people and limited their access to humanitarian aid. Some Yemeni officials recently stepped up accusations that Iran and Shiite communities across the Mideast are supporting the Shiite rebels fighting the military in Saada, which borders Saudi Arabia. The rebels belong to the Zaydi branch of Islam¡¯s Shiite sect. Tehran denies supporting the rebels and the Yemeni government has not provided any evidence to support the accusation. The ministry gave no details about when the boat was seized but local media reported Tuesday that an Iranian boat smuggling weapons was twisted pearl necklace captured and its Iranian crew arrested. Government Spokesman Hassan Al Lawzi confirmed the arrests but did not give details or say if weapons were seized. | ||
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| The president of Iraq's Kurdish region demanded Wednesday that oil-rich
Kirkuk be incorporated into his autonomous area, as parliament prepared
for a showdown on the contentious issue of which of the northern city's
residents can vote in upcoming elections. Massoud Barzani's comments ratcheted up the leisure chairs pressure on the eve of a vote on the electoral law that will lay the groundwork for January's key parliamentary ballot. Lawmakers are split over amendments on which voting list will be used in Kirkuk - one favouring Kurds or one favouring Arabs. The city has large populations of Arabs and ethnic Turkmen who resent the Kurds' aggressive efforts to take over the city. The Kurds see Kirkuk as historically theirs and describe it as their "Jerusalem". Next to Sunni-Shiite tensions in Iraq, the issue of Kirkuk and Kurdish-Arab tensions has become a key flashpoint in freshwater pearl necklace this fragile nation. A political deadlock now could delay the elections and open the way for new violence and instability. "We will not accept any [other] solution for Kirkuk," said Barzani, speaking in Erbil Wednesday after a new Kurdish regional government was sworn in. "We want it to be annexed to our region because the majority of its population are Kurds." During the Saddam era, tens of thousands of Kurds were reportedly displaced under a forced plan to make Kirkuk predominantly Arab. Since the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, many of these Kurds have returned. Now other groups claim there are more Kurds than before - which could sway the vote in their favour and bring Kirkuk and its oil fully under Kurdish control. Arabs favour a plan that would use the 2004 voter registry, likely meaning Arab voters would be much more represented than Kurds. The Kurds favour a proposal by the United Nations that would use voter records from 2009, but only for a four-year period till the Kirkuk issue can be further clarified. The 2004 proposal being put forward wholesale pearl jewelry Thursday does contain some concessions to the Kurds, said Omar Al Jibouri, a Sunni Arab lawmaker. It would allow an additional 50,000 Kurdish families - who've been approved by a special committee as being residents of Kirkuk pushed out by Saddam - to vote | ||
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| The parliament must be decisive in its decisions, and... not bow to
pressure," said Jibouri. "We hope tomorrow you see a strong parliament
that can take and make decisions, and be brave in its decisions." Those concessions seemed to hold little swing machines sway with Kurdish politicians, some of whom threatened to not even attend the vote if the 2004 option is on the table. Lawmaker Mahmoud Othman said Kurdish legislators warned the parliament speaker not to put the issue up for a vote. If the proposal based on the 2004 list passes, Othman said Iraqi President Jalal Talabani - who's Kurdish - will veto it, a sign of the heavy pressure Talabani is under to align himself with his Kurdish brethren. At least 138 of Iraq's 275 lawmakers freshwater pearl jewelry must attend in order for the vote to go forward. A simple majority would pass the matter but it can then be vetoed by the president. Lawmakers would need 183 votes to override his veto, something that Othman said could trigger an even bigger fallout. "If the law is passed, then we will boycott the entire elections," Othman said. The Kurds were granted international permission to rule Iraq's three northern provinces independently from Baghdad after the 1991 Gulf war. Since the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, the Kurds have become a key group in the cultured pearl jewelry Baghdad-based central government. It has been during periods of political deadlock like these that Iraq becomes particularly vulnerable to renewed violence. In 2006, months of political wrangling over the country's first permanent post-invasion government allowed Al Qaeda-linked insurgent groups to provoke Shiite militias into a near-civil war that tore the country apart. | ||
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| Yemeni coast guards have seized a boat they say illegally entered the
country¡¯s territorial waters and arrested five Iranians on board, the
interior ministry said Wednesday. Local media have reported the boat captured on Monday was Iranian and suspected of smuggling arms to Shiite rebels battling government troops in Yemen¡¯s northern Saada Province. But the ministry statement only said the leisure chairs boat was intercepted after illegally entering Yemeni territorial waters off the western coast. It was escorted to a naval base on a nearby island and the sailors who were on board - five Iranians and one Indian - were being questioned, the statement said. Yemen has been embroiled in a sporadic five-year conflict with Saada¡¯s Shiite rebels, who accuse authorities of neglecting their needs and of allying with hard-line Sunni fundamentalists. Fighting has intensified since August, displacing tens of thousands of people and limited their access to humanitarian aid. Some Yemeni officials recently stepped up freshwater pearl jewelry accusations that Iran and Shiite communities across the Mideast are supporting the Shiite rebels fighting the military in Saada, which borders Saudi Arabia. The rebels belong to the Zaydi branch of Islam¡¯s Shiite sect. Tehran denies supporting the rebels and the Yemeni government has not provided any evidence to support the accusation. The ministry gave no details about when the boat was seized but local media reported Tuesday that an Iranian boat smuggling weapons was captured and its Iranian crew arrested. Government Spokesman Hassan Al Lawzi pearl strand wholesale confirmed the arrests but did not give details or say if weapons were seized. | ||
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| The president of Iraq's Kurdish region demanded Wednesday that oil-rich
Kirkuk be incorporated into his autonomous area, as parliament prepared
for a showdown on the contentious issue of which of the swing machines northern city's residents can vote in upcoming elections. Massoud Barzani's comments ratcheted up the pressure on the eve of a vote on the electoral law that will lay the groundwork for January's key parliamentary ballot. Lawmakers are split over amendments on which voting list will be used in Kirkuk - one favouring Kurds or one favouring Arabs. The city has large populations of Arabs and ethnic Turkmen who resent the Kurds' aggressive efforts to take over the city. The Kurds see Kirkuk as historically theirs and describe it as their "Jerusalem". Next to Sunni-Shiite tensions in Iraq, the issue of Kirkuk and Kurdish-Arab tensions has become a key flashpoint in this fragile nation. A political deadlock now could delay the elections and open the way for new violence and instability. "We will not accept any [other] solution for Kirkuk," said Barzani, speaking in Erbil Wednesday after a new Kurdish cultured freshwater pearl regional government was sworn in. "We want it to be annexed to our region because the majority of its population are Kurds." During the Saddam era, tens of thousands of Kurds were reportedly displaced under a forced plan to make Kirkuk predominantly Arab. Since the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, many of these Kurds have returned. Now other groups claim there are more Kurds than before - which could sway the vote in their favour and bring Kirkuk and its oil fully under Kurdish control. Arabs favour a plan that would use the 2004 voter registry, likely meaning Arab voters would be much more represented than Kurds. The Kurds favour a proposal by the United Nations that would use voter records from 2009, but only for a four-year period till the Kirkuk issue can be further clarified. The 2004 proposal being put forward Thursday does contain some concessions to the Kurds, said Omar Al Jibouri, a Sunni Arab lawmaker. It would allow an additional 50,000 Kurdish families - who've been approved by pearl jewelry wholesale a special committee as being residents of Kirkuk pushed out by Saddam - to vote. "The parliament must be decisive in its decisions, and... not bow to pressure," said Jibouri. "We hope tomorrow you see a strong parliament that can take and make decisions, and be brave in its decisions." | ||
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