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Iraq
IS danger recently increased in some Iraqi Provinces
2019-06-11
Baghdad (IraqiNews) An Arab newspaper reported, on Sunday, that the danger of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 has recently started to increase in the vicinity of some Iraqi provinces. It also affirmed the need to boost the intelligence efforts.

The newspaper quoted an official source as saying that the danger of the Islamic State
 organization has begun to increase recently in the vicinity and within some cities in Baghdad, Nineveh, Kirkuk and Salahuddin.

He also added that this danger requires a quick review of the plans made for the areas that witness security deterioration, especially Baghdad, south and west of Nineveh and south of Kirkuk.

Furthermore, the source affirmed the need to boost the Iraqi intelligence efforts, in addition to conducting wide-scale military operations, in order to destroy the hideouts of the IS Death Eaters.

Rapid action has been taken to prevent the expansion of the terrorist organization in the liberated areas again, he explained.

It is noteworthy that Leader of the National Coalition, Iyad Allawi
... Iraqi politician, interim Prime Minister prior to Iraq's 2005 legislative elections. A former Ba'athist, Allawi helped found the Iraqi National Accord, which today is an active political party. He survived assassination attempts in 1978, in 2004, and on April 20, 2005. One of these days he won't...
 called, on Friday, to find real solutions and strategies to confront what he called the "third generation of terrorism."
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Iraq
Iranian ballistic missile platforms in Basra city directed towards the Gulf, Exxon evacuating, German mil. trainers evacuating
2019-05-15
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ExxonMobil evacuating staff from Basra oil fields in southern Iraq
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German army halts Iraq military training amid Iran tensions

[IsraelTimes] Berlin says ’no concrete threat’ against its forces in the region, but decision comes after State Department orders non-emergency US embassy staff to leave Baghdad and Erbil.
All tied in with Iranian missiles stationed in Basra.
Things are getting interesting over there, so I’ve stacked the articles in one post for ease of perusal. See also the U.S. State Department is sending home non-essential personnel here.

Netherlands suspends mission in Iraq over security threats
Update at 2:15 p.m. EDT.
Baghdad (IraqiNews) The authorities of Netherlands announced, on Wednesday, suspending its mission in Iraq over security threats.

Dutch news agency ANP reported, today, that the Dutch government has suspended a mission in Iraq that provides assistance to local authorities due to a security threat. It added that the threats are directed toward the Dutch personnel who train Iraqi forces in Erbil, the capital of Kurdistan region, along with other foreign troops, including Germany.

Meanwhile, a number of news outlets reported that the German government earlier announced halting its mission in Iraq amid heightening tensions in the region. However, Defense Ministry Media Director Major General Tahseen al-Khafaji said in a brief statement that Germany has not suspended training and is continuing to work with the Ministry of Defense.

According to the Dutch Ministry of Defense website, the Netherlands is contributing to the international fight against the Islamic State group by providing military as well as political and humanitarian support. Dutch military personnel support Iraqi forces on the ground with military training and advice.

Dutch military instructors have already trained a total of over 100,000 members of the Iraqi armed forces and Kurdish armed forces (Peshmerga). Since these forces have achieved the basic level required, the anti-ISIS coalition is now providing a higher level of training.
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Iraq
Iraqi cleric "Tater" Sadr wins election vote recount
2018-08-11
[IsraelTimes] Former Shiite militia leader gets the go-ahead to form a government after a manual recount, three months after the elections

Nationalist Shiite holy man Moqtada Tater al-Sadr
... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah...
’s alliance won Iraq’s legislative election in May according to a manual recount, the electoral commission said Friday, paving the way for a government to be formed nearly three months after the polls.

Allegations of fraud prompted the supreme court to order a partial manual recount, but Sadr’s joint list with communists will retain all 54 seats it won to become the biggest bloc in Iraq’s 329-seat parliament.

The only change resulting from the recount will be an extra seat for the Conquest Alliance of pro-Iranian former paramilitary fighters at the expense of a local Baghdad list.

Conquest Alliance remains in second place but will have 48 seats instead of 47, Iraq’s nine-member electoral commission said.

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s bloc remains in third with just 42 seats.

After the supreme court officially announces the final results, the outgoing president has 15 days to convene the parliament, which must then elect a new head of state and begin the process for forming a coalition government.

Sadr has already signed a coalition agreement with Shiite Ammar al-Hakim’s al-Hikma list, which will stay on 19 seats after the recount, and the secular outgoing vice-president Iyad Allawi
... Iraqi politician, interim Prime Minister prior to Iraq's 2005 legislative elections. A former Ba'athist, Allawi helped found the Iraqi National Accord, which today is an active political party. He survived assassination attempts in 1978, in 2004, and on April 20, 2005. One of these days he won't...
, whose list was comprised largely of Sunnis and secured 21 seats.

The May 12 election saw a record low turnout of 44.5 percent, with long-time political figures pushed out by voters seeking change in a country mired in conflict and corruption.

The recount results come after deadly protests broke out earlier in the summer, with demonstrators angry at water shortages, unemployment and the dire state of public services.

Regular power cuts mean there has been little respite from sweltering summer temperatures and with the national grid providing just a few hours of electricity per day, many Iraqis are forced to pay to use generators through the private sector.

Graft is also seen as a huge problem in a country where citizens argue they fail to benefit from the country’s oil wealth.

Officially $40 billion (34 billion euros) has been allocated to the power sector over the past 15 years, but a substantial slice has been siphoned off by corrupt politicians and businessmen who have fronted fake contracts.

In an attempt to quell public anger after more than a month of protests, Abadi sacked four directors in the electricity ministry on Tuesday and moved a number of others.

The decision followed the dismissal last month of electricity minister Qassem al-Fahdawi "because of the deterioration in the electricity sector," the premier’s office said at the time.

Kurdistani parties keep all seats after Iraq's largely unchanged recount results
More details, for those looking more closely.
[Rudaw] The independent electoral body for Iraq revealed on Thursday that it found no differences in the number of seats for the top lists in the May 12th parliamentary election, including for all Kurdistani parties.

In Kirkuk, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) secured 6 seats, the Arab Alliance 3, and the Turkmen lists 3, thus no changes from the commission's preliminary figures released in May.

Similarily in Erbil, the Kurdistan Democratic Party won 8 seats, PUK 2, New Generation 2, and 1 each for the Coalition for Democracy and Justice, the Change Movement (Gorran), and the Kurdistan Islamic League (Komal).

The Christian quota seat in Duhok went to Al Rafidain; other parties remain unchanged: KDP won 10 seats and the Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) 1.

Sulaimani was also unchanged. The PUK secured 8 seats, Gorran 4, New Generation 2, KIU 1, KDP 1, CDJ 1, and Komal 1.

In Nineveh, the KDP kept its 6 seats. In Saladin and Diyala, the PUK also kept its 1 seat in each respective province.

Muqtada al-Sadr's winning Sayirun Alliance kept its 54 seats. Other top politicians kept their seat totals. Hadi al-Amiri secured 47 on Fatih; Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi won 42 on Nasr, while former PM Nouri al-Maliki took 26 seats as head of the State of Law Coalition.

As the manual recount has been completed, a round of political party appeals will follow. The final and official results will pend a ruling from Iraq’s federal court.

Iraq held a parliamentary on May 12. Many parties disputed the results and the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) began a manual recount of ballots.
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Iraq
Baghdad kabooms and a mystery
2015-10-09
8 people wounded in bomb blast in central Baghdad

[IraqiNews] A source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on Thursday, that eight people were maimed in the kaboom of an IED placed inside a bus in central Baghdad.

The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "A bomb that was emplaced inside a Kia bus went kaboom!, this afternoon, near al-Nahda garage in the the center of Baghdad, resulting in the injury of eight passengers and causing material damage to the bus."

The source, who asked anonymity, added: "the security force rushed to the scene and transported the maimed to a nearby hospital for treatment, while opened an investigation to determine the circumstances of the incident and the party that stands behind it.

8 people killed and wounded in bomb blast southwest of Baghdad

[IraqiNews] A source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on Thursday, that eight people had been either killed or maimed in a kaboom southwest of Baghdad.

The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, "a bomb went kaboom!, today, near the shops in Sweep area southwest of Baghdad, resulting in the death of two people and wounding six others."

The source, who asked anonymity, added: "the security force rushed to the scene and transported the maimed to a nearby hospital for treatment and the bodies of the dead to the forensic medicine departments."
And the mystery:
Allawi announces “disappearance” of 76 armored vehicles sent by Gulf states to Iraq

[IraqiNews] The chairman of the national coalition, Iyad Allawi
... Iraqi politician, interim Prime Minister prior to Iraq's 2005 legislative elections. A former Ba'athist, Allawi helped found the Iraqi National Accord, which today is an active political party. He survived assassination attempts in 1978, in 2004, and on April 20, 2005. One of these days he won't...
, announced on Wednesday the "disappearance" of 76 armored vehicles sent by Gulf countries to Iraq at his request.

Allawi said during his speech for the TV program "unexpected," aired on Alsumaria TV: "I asked one of the Gulf states to supply Iraq with weapons to confront ISIS," noting that "This county sent 76 armored vehicles via aircraft and not the sea. "

Allawi added that "after a period of the arrival of the armored vehicles, the defence minister Khaled al-Obeidi told me that his ministry had not received them," noting that "when asked the government, it told me that the armored vehicles were useless."
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Europe
Suspected 'Islamist' shot dead after knife attack on German policewoman identified: Prosecutors
2015-09-18
More on this story from yesterday.
[AlAhram] German police on Thursday rubbed out an Iraqi man who maimed a policewoman with a knife in Berlin, with prosecutors saying he was a "suspected Islamist".

The 41-year-old man had previously been sentenced in 2008 to a jail term for planning an attack against former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi
... Iraqi politician, interim Prime Minister prior to Iraq's 2005 legislative elections. A former Ba'athist, Allawi helped found the Iraqi National Accord, which today is an active political party. He survived assassination attempts in 1978, in 2004, and on April 20, 2005. One of these days he won't...
, a prosecution front man told AFP.

Prosecution service front man Martin Steltner identified the man as "Rafik Y.", saying he was sentenced in 2008 to an eight year prison term for his role in a plot against Allawi.

In the 2008 court case, Rafik Mohamad Yusef was one of three Iraqi men sentenced to jail terms.

The three were convicted of belonging to a foreign terrorist organization -- Iraqi Death Eater group Ansar al-Islam -- and attempted conspiracy to commit murder.

The court found that their plot to assassinate Allawi had been hatched only days before his brief trip to Berlin in December 2004.

Authorities insist they foiled the planned attack but conceded before the start of the trial in June 2006 that they knew too little of the plan to charge the defendants with attempted murder.
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Iraq
Allawi endorses PM, says will help win over Sunnis
2014-09-15
[ARABNEWS] Iraq's Vice President Iyad Allawi
... Iraqi politician, interim Prime Minister prior to Iraq's 2005 legislative elections. A former Ba'athist, Allawi helped found the Iraqi National Accord, which today is an active political party. He survived assassination attempts in 1978, in 2004, and on April 20, 2005. One of these days he won't...
 endorsed Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi on Sunday, a move that will be seen as a step toward reconciliation in a political system that desperately needs to rebuild to allow Baghdad to fight Islamic State.

For years Allawi, a secular Shiite, has been an outspoken critic of former Premier Nuri Al-Maliki whom he has accused of acting like Saddam Hussein in trying to silence his opponents.

His endorsement will lend political capital to Abadi, who comes from the same Dawa political party as Maliki but has been regarded as more inclusive.

"I frankly believe very strongly that (Abadi) understands the problems and he means well. We hope to help him," Allawi said in a Rooters interview at his home in Baghdad.

Allawi, a former prime minister, is also a key figure in reaching out to disaffected Iraqi Sunnis who Abadi hopes he can bring back to the government side to battle Islamic State.

Maliki's use of force against protesters deepened Sunni hatred of Baghdad, militarized their communities, sparked an armed revolt and allowed Islamic State to exploit grievances.

Until now, many Sunni tribal fighters and members of armed factions have sided with Islamic State, convinced the government is the greater of two evils. The extent of Allawi's influence on Sunnis was shown by the 2010 election in which his coalition, which included leading Sunnis, won every province where Islamic State is now fighting.

Abadi has promised to offer amnesties and to stop the bombardment of cities, a move Allawi said convinced him of Abadi's resolve.

"I told (Abadi) we will be with him all the way if he moves along the right road to recovery," Allawi said. "What we need to do is create a new political landscape where we don't discriminate against the people, we don't disenfranchise the people based on their sect, religion or beliefs," he said.
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Iraq
Allawi warns risk of Iraq's dismemberment unless Maliki goes
2014-07-07
[Al Ahram] Former Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi
... Iraqi politician, interim Prime Minister prior to Iraq's 2005 legislative elections. A former Ba'athist, Allawi helped found the Iraqi National Accord, which today is an active political party. He survived assassination attempts in 1978, in 2004, and on April 20, 2005. One of these days he won't...
 called on incumbent Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday to give up his bid for a third term in power or risk the dismemberment of Iraq.

Maliki on Friday rejected a chorus of such calls since gunnies of a group now calling itself the Islamic State rampaged through swathes of Iraq and declared a mediaeval-style caliphate in land they control in Iraq and neighbouring Syria.

"I think it is time for Mr Maliki to leave the scene," Allawi told Rooters in an interview in Istanbul.

"If he stays on, I think there will be significant problems in the country and a lot of troubles. I believe that Iraq would go the route of dismemberment, ultimately, if this happens.

"Definitely there will be more violence, the security situation will deteriorate," added Allawi, a secular Shi'ite who took 21 seats in April's national election with his secular bloc. During his political career Allawi has drawn support heavily from disaffected Sunnis, who have felt excluded from power during Maliki's rule.

Maliki's statement on Friday will complicate efforts to form a new government to unite the ethnically and religiously divided country, something parliament failed to achieve this week. It extends a political deadlock made all the more dangerous by the pressing threat to Iraq's territorial integrity.

Allawi said Iraq needed a road map that prioritised reconciliation and the building of institutions, and that this was more important than the issue of who will be the next prime minister.

"It is not a matter of changing faces. It is a matter of agreeing on a road map, to get Iraq from where it is now to a brighter future. I think this road map should incorporate two important areas.

"One is the issue of reconciliation. The second is starting to lay down the ground to build the institutions of the state," he added.
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Iraq
Allawi warns risk of Iraq's dismemberment unless Maliki goes
2014-07-06
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi called on incumbent Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday to give up his bid for a third term in power or risk the dismemberment of Iraq.

“I think it is time for Mr Maliki to leave the scene,” Allawi told Reuters in an interview in Istanbul. “If he stays on, I think there will be significant problems in the country and a lot of troubles. I believe that Iraq would go the route of dismemberment, ultimately, if this happens.

“Definitely there will be more violence, the security situation will deteriorate,” added Allawi, a secular Shiite who took 21 seats in April’s national election with his secular bloc. During his political career Allawi has drawn support heavily from disaffected Sunnis, who have felt excluded from power during Maliki's rule.

Allawi said Iraq needed a road map that prioritized reconciliation and the building of institutions, and that this was more important than the issue of who will be the next prime minister.

“It is not a matter of changing faces. It is a matter of agreeing on a road map, to get Iraq from where it is now to a brighter future. I think this road map should incorporate two important areas.

“One is the issue of reconciliation. The second is starting to lay down the ground to build the institutions of the state,” he added.

The leaders of the various political factions needed to create a government of national unity committed to such a road map, he said.

Allawi, who met Turkish officials during his visit, also called for a meeting of Iraq’s neighbors with the aim of preserving its unity and preventing the conflict spreading to other places. He also criticized the government’s response to the insurgency, saying more stress should be put on intelligence work and political engagement with Iraq’s other communities, and that military activity should focused on “surgical attacks” by special forces.

“The element of using army and aircraft to hit at provinces cannot distinguish between civilian groups and military or terrorist groups; this can be very dangerous and backfire on the political situation,” he said.

Allawi said he believed there was “still hope” for Iraq to survive as a unified state.

“It’s not too late,” he said. “I believe we should reverse the situation, otherwise the country will drift into being dismembered, one way or another.”

For years Allawi has been an outspoken critic of Maliki, whom he has accused of acting like Saddam Hussein in trying to silence opposition.
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Iraq
Chalabi's Chance?
2014-06-22
[NYSun] Well, well, well. Guess who has gone calling on Ahmad Chalabi. Why, if it's not Brett McGurk, the senior aide of the State Department in respect of Iraq. He's just fetched up at the home in Storied Baghdad of the founder of the Iraqi National Congress. Mr. Chalabi is the visionary who won the Iraq Liberation Act of 1995. He's the man whom the Left likes to blame for allegedly making up intelligence to trick America to going to war for Democracy in his country. The State Department hated him above all others.

Now it's come a-calling. This news was brought in by Eli Lake, former diplomatic leg of the Sun, in a dispatchnull that the Daily Beast runs under the headline "U.S. Taps Old Allies for New Iraq War." Mr. Lake is not reporting that the visit with Mr. Chalabi is going to lead to the return of American GIs to Iraq. He is following up on the dispatch Thursday in the Times that named Mr. Chalabi as among the challengers emerging to replace Prime Minister al-Maliki.

Indeed, it was our government that was behind the purge of Mr. Chalabi from the interim Iraqi government that was established in 2004 and led by Iyad Allawi
... Iraqi politician, interim Prime Minister prior to Iraq's 2005 legislative elections. A former Ba'athist, Allawi helped found the Iraqi National Accord, which today is an active political party. He survived assassination attempts in 1978, in 2004, and on April 20, 2005. One of these days he won't...
. Relations were decidedly cool as Mr. Chalabi plotted his comeback. The Times reports that he's now willing to bring the Baathists back into public life, meaning ending the anti-Baathist legislation he long supported. Mr. Chalabi, a Shia, seems to be acceptable to the Kurds. So we will see what happens.

Our own favorite Chalabi moment came when he was asked by an interviewer in Britannia whether Iraq needed another strongman, a la Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
 of Afghanistan. No, he retorted, what Iraq needed was another Ludwig Erhard. This was a reference to the Free German economics minister who set the stage for a Western victory in the Cold war by establishing sound money in West Germany. This brought the economy to life, setting the contrast between West Germany and the communist East.
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Iraq
Al-Iraqiyah Party calls for resignation of Iraqi PM
2013-01-06
Good luck with that...
Head of the Iraqi Party Al-Iraqiyah, Iyad Allawi calls for resignation of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, "Al Jazeera" TV channel reported on Saturday. According to the TV channel, Allawi also said that the country needs to hold new parliamentary elections.

"Maliki government can not take the country out of economic and political crisis," Allawi said.

Demonstrations against Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki are underway in different cities of Iraq for several weeks. Protesters demand release of political prisoners and provision of the freedoms and rights to the Sunni population of the country. It is reported that the demonstrations are held in major provinces of the country, particularly in Anbar and Samara. The demonstrators gathered on central squares after Friday prayers.

The Sunnis and Shiites held common Friday prayers yesterday, where influential Sunni and Shiite leaders participated, in order to protest against Maliki's policy.
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Iraq
Iraqi lawmakers threaten vote of no confidence against govt
2012-05-06
BAGHDAD: Four of the most senior political leaders in Iraq's fragile coalition have threatened to bring a vote of no confidence in the government unless "autocratic decision-making" stops, a letter published in a state newspaper yesterday said.

Iraq's Shiite, Sunni and Kurd coalition began to creak in December, after US troops left, when the government tried to remove Sunni Deputy Prime Minister Saleh Al-Mutlaq and issued an arrest warrant for Sunni Vice President Tareq Al-Hashemi. Those incidents intensified long-running tensions between the Sunni and Shiite blocs that have hampered the government's ability to pass key legislation.

The Baghdad government and the autonomous Kurdish region are also engaged in a simmering row over oil exports.

The four senior lawmakers — Osama Al-Nujaifi, Masoud Barzani, Iyad Allawi and Moqtada Al-Sadr — sent the letter to Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki's bloc on Thursday, political sources told Reuters. Some of Maliki's opponents, including Barzani and Sadr, have accused him of becoming a dictator and several of his critics say he deliberately sidelines Sunnis and Kurds.

The letter outlines eight demands to be met by May 13 to ensure the four leaders' support for Maliki's administration.

"In case of a refusal to comply with the principles and frameworks of this agreement, practical steps will be taken, within a period of time not exceeding 15 days, to act upon a vote of no confidence against the government," the letter says.

The letter is dated April 28, the last day of a three-day mini-summit held by the leaders during which they said they tried to find a solution to the political impasse.

Maliki did not attend the meeting, which was held in the Kurdish capital Arbil.

The letter called on the government to stop interfering with the security forces and with the work of Parliament and contained a paragraph criticizing autocratic decision-making.

"Putting an end to any kind of one-man decision-making in the government pyramid and a tendency towards autocracy," the sixth demand reads.

The letter also demanded that a two-term limit for the post of prime minister be retroactively introduced. Maliki is serving his second four-year term as prime minister.

"(This is necessary) in order to ensure a peaceful transfer of power and to establish the foundations and principles of democracy and in order not to allow a climate of dictatorship," it said.

The sole Shiite signatory of the letter, Sadr, has a history of acrimonious relations with Maliki.

Maliki's bloc met on Thursday and pledged to hold a meeting of all of the coalition's political blocs within a week to hammer out a solution to the crisis, Ibrahim Al-Jaafari, chairman of the coalition, said in a statement on his website.
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Iraq
Iraq poll officials held over suspected corruption
2012-04-14
AFP - The head of Iraq's electoral commission and another of its members have been jugged on suspicion of misusing state funds, a statement released on Friday by the country's Higher Judicial Council said.

"The decision to detain Faraj al-Haidari and Karim al-Tamimi was based on (them paying) real estate registration employees to register pieces of land for them, from the budget of the electoral commission," Abdelsattar Bayraqdar, the front man for the Higher Judicial Council, said in the statement.

Haidari heads the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC), of which Tamimi is a member.

The charge of using state funds for personal benefit carries a prison term of up to seven years, the statement said, adding that the two were placed in long-term storage so the investigation could be completed.

Judge Qassem Abboudi, also a member of the IHEC, had earlier told AFP that Haidari and Tamimi were placed in long-term storage on Thursday for paying a bonus of 150,000 dinars ($130) to an employee.

Karima al-Assadi, a spokeswoman for IHEC, said that "an investigation of the integrity commission (Iraq's anti-corruption watchdog) is under way within the electoral commission."

Asked about the matter, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's front man Ali Mussawi said only that "it is a judicial issue related to the integrity commission and the judiciary."

There is bad blood between Haidari, a 64-year-old Shiite Kurd, and Maliki's State of Law list over the former's refusal to carry out a national recount after 2010 parliamentary polls, in which the premier's list came second to rival Iyad Allawi
... Iraqi politician, interim Prime Minister prior to Iraq's 2005 legislative elections. A former Ba'athist, Allawi helped found the Iraqi National Accord, which today is an active political party. He survived liquidation attempts in 1978, in 2004, and on April 20, 2005. One of these days he won't...
's Iraqiya list.

Haidari recounted the votes only in Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
 province.

The State of Law list sought a no-confidence vote on Haidari for alleged corruption, but failed because other parties opposed the move.
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