Violence slams Iraq today. National Iraqi News Agency reports a Kirkuk roadside bombing left Commander Dawood Hazem Ahmed al-Jubouri wounded, a Mosul car bombing claimed the lives of 2 Iraqi soldiers and left six people injured, a Khalis sticky bombing left one person injured, a bombing to the west of Kirkuk left one Iraqi soldier injured, and, quoting a police source, "The armed men, on foot, opened fire on the mayor (Mukhtar) of Hermat area west of Mosul, while he was heading to his home, killing him on the spot." Reuters adds that Col Gazi Ali Al Jubouri was killed today by a suicide bomber in an explosive vest -- two of his bodyguards.
Through Saturday, Iraq Body Count counts 384 violent deaths so far this month.
Meanwhile Focus Information Agency reports, "Fighter of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) keep on withdrawing from Turkey and the 50th group which left the region of Diyarbakir have arrived in the organization's camps in Northern Iraq, Dogu Haber Ajansi (DHA) reported."
While the PKK continues their exit of Turkey, Citigroup prepares to enter Iraq. Stefania Bianchi (Bloomberg News) reports the banking giant plans to open three offices in Iraq including one in Baghdad (the other two in Erbil -- KRG -- and in Basra) according to Citigroup's Dennis Flannery. Who? Bianchi explains:
Flannery was the financial attache at the U.S. embassy in
Baghdad for a year before joining New York-based Citigroup in
March 2011. He has worked at the Inter-American Development
Bank, the U.S. Treasury and the World Bank.
How nice, isn't it, that Flannery fronts the US invasion -- from State -- and then leaves to make a buck. How nice that the US paid for him to make business contacts that he could later utilize to enrich himself.
AP notes that while Flannery states the bank will be outside the Green Zone, Flannery delivered his news . . . from the Green Zone.
The news has not raised Citigroup's market share yet -- in fact, Citigroup's been dropping this morning (though that could change).
It really was about greed, the Iraq War, and 'opening markets.'
Ramsey Clark's on this week's Law and Disorder Radio. I'm rushing this morning (while the hot spot's working and also because I'm feeling sick this morning).
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