Green Zone Falling

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Happy May Day!


Anti-corruption protesters storm Baghdad’s Green Zone, enter parliament (https://www.rt.com/news/341466-iraq-protesters-baghdad-corruption/)
US-Created System In Iraq Is Collapsing: Protesters Storm Parliament, State of Emergency Declared - Live Webcast (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-30/us-created-system-iraq-collapsing-protesters-storm-parliament-state-emergency-declar)

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I am watching the live feed here (http://rudaw.net/english/onair/tv/live). It's on commercial break.


Baghdad update: Protestors reach cabinet of ministers, special forces guarding banks

(http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/3004201611)


There is a shit pot load of commercials. Mahmood Rice (http://mahmood-rice.com/) look enticing.

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bankster caught

http://news.trust.org/item/20160414132726-lz9jc

ERBIL, Iraq, April 14 (Reuters) - An Iraqi central bank manager in the autonomous Kurdistan region was arrested as part of a probe into an alleged illegal bond trading scheme that may have cost the cash-strapped government more than one billion dollars.

Adham Karim, the head of the Iraqi central bank in the Kurdish regional capital Erbil, was taken into custody on Wednesday along with his deputy, a police spokesman said.

The two men are being investigated in relation to the alleged illicit trade of government-issued financial instruments, according to the head of the Kurdistan region's integrity commission Ahmed Anwar.

"This is a very big case in the Kurdistan region," Anwar told Reuters in an interview on Thursday. "It is a case involving the trading of bonds that the government had given to contractors. The investigation will reveal the details".

Anwar said the arrest of the central bank manager Karim did not necessarily mean he would be charged with a crime. Reuters could not immediately reach Karim or his office for comment. The office of the central bank governor was unable to immediately comment on the matter when contacted.

The arrests are the first high-profile action since the region's President Masoud Barzani vowed last month to fight corruption with the same determination its peshmerga forces have battled Islamic State militants.

An economic crisis induced by low oil prices has put renewed focus on corruption in Kurdistan, which enjoyed an oil-fuelled boom in the decade following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Deeply in debt, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has been implementing austerity measures and seeking financial aid abroad, but at home, people are questioning how a decade of oil riches were spent.

Ezzat Sabir, the head of the finance, economy and investment committee in the Kurdistan regional parliament estimated the government had incurred losses of more than one billion dollars from the embezzlement case about which Karim is being investigated. (Reporting by Stephen Kalin and Isabel Coles; Editing by Toby Chopra)

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biden sent there for something...april 28

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/latest-biden-iraqi-prime-minister-150617032.html#

Vice President Joe Biden has left Iraq after roughly eight hours in the country.

Biden departed on a U.S. military transport plane from Irbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region. He met there with the Kurdish president.

The vice president spent most of his unannounced visit in Baghdad, where he met with Iraq's prime minister and parliament speaker. He also spent time in Baghdad with U.S. diplomats and troops.

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after isis mercs destroyed the place....the banksters arrive to give them forever debt

just like economic hitman says..

april 3

http://english.aawsat.com/2016/04/article55349232/iraq-anbar-a-now-flattened-governorate

Baghdad- The Iraqi Parliament officially opened, yesterday, all doors for international relief to help rehabilitate and reconstruct infrastructure of cities liberated from ISIS’s upper-hand. The cabinet voted, and granted access to aid organizations to help rebuild the Anbar governorate which is –now officially- an overwhelmingly crushed area.

The cabinet voted a few days before U.N. Secretary General Ban Kimoon, President of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim and President of the Islamic Development Bank Ahmed Mohammed Ali had paid a visit to Iraq. The bank leaders announced granting 250 million dollars in financial aid for reinstating stability in freed zones.

MP Liqa al-Wardi said that the Anbar governorate has experienced massive destruction which left over an 80 percent of its infrastructure in ruins. Many bridges were broken, countless citizens’ homes reduced to rubble. Universities, civil services offices and a large number of governmental buildings were destroyed, “reconstruction would cost over 20 billion dollars,” Wardi added.