Talabani And Jaafari Fight Over Saddam's Palace

[cheryl]

Talabani And Jaafari Fight Over Saddam's Palace

Talabani And Al Ja'fari Have a dispute over a palace in the Green Zone

Nov 7, 2005 Al Sharq Al Awsat

Baghdad, (Iraq) - A source in the Iraqi cabinet disclosed a dispute that erupted between the Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and the Prime Minister Ibrahim Al Ja'fari on a palace in the green zone, which has been designated for the republic president, but the prime minister attempted to seize it.

The source, who is residing in the green zone and spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the cabinet divan and the residents of the green region, who are close to the palace, have been sarcastic about this dispute, which almost ruined the relation between the two figures, which is already tense.

Al Sharq Al Awsat managed to closely see the palace from outside and photographed it. The palace lies on the bank of Tigris River and is built of white stone. It has been built during the reign of the ousted president Saddam Hussein as a hosting palace that was designated for the residence of the late Jordanian king Hussein but reliable information affirm that he (King Hussein) has never resided there.

The reason for the dispute between Talabani and Al Ja'fari was that the presidency divan has designated this palace for President Talabani to use it as an office or place of residence. Nevertheless, Al Ja'fari desired to get it and sent his companions and guards to control the place, which they already did. This made President Talabani angry. Therefore, he sent a number of his guards to retrieve the place. An armed confrontation almost erupted, were it not for the withdrawal of Al Ja'fari's group from the palace, which has gardens, fountains and a water pond that were established during Saddam Hussein's regime.
The American administration has previously designated the palace as a headquarters for the NATO to solve the dispute between Talabani and Al Ja'fari, but Talabani refused that and retrieved that place, which the presidency divan started to furnish.

It is worth mentioning that the palace, the subject of the dispute, lies near the offices and place of residence of Al Ja'fari, who has designated about 22 palaces and homes in the green zone for himself and his companions. The Iraqi prime minister currently resides in a palace that used to be designated for the outset president Saddam Hussein's residence.

The majority of Iraqi officials are residing in palaces and villas in the green zone, which lies in the luxurious region of Karadet Maryam, except for Abdel Aziz Al Hakim, head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic revolution, who resides at the place of residence of Tarek Aziz, former deputy prime minister in the former regime.

As regards Dr. Iyad Allawi, he never resided in the green zone. The former government has designated the palace of King Faisal I for him, but he refused to reside there, which prompted Adel Abdel Mahdi, republic vice-president, to request to occupy the palace. Allawi has sent him the keys of the palace, according to a source in the office of the former Prime Minister, whom none of his companions or members of his movement (The Iraqi National Accord) has resided in the green zone. In addition, Dr. Ahmed Al Jilbi, head of the Iraqi National Conference, has not resided in the green zone. He selected a villa owned by his sister in Al Mansour region as a place for his residence.


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What is all this shit? Fighting over palaces?! I have to reserve my respect for the two doctors mentioned.

[abdur]

Neither of them deserve to live in these palaces, it's a really shamefull thing to fight over this. They can better use these buildings as monuments/musea.

[cheryl]

i suggest they be dismantled, all the salvageable material sold (i.e. melt down all the gold fixtures) and use the money for a housing fund for the people. maybe someone else can come up with another idea for these palaces.

i guess this is why the kerkuk issue has been put off until 2007. . . they needed to sort out who was getting which palace.

after all, priorities are priorities.

i am disgusted.

[Rumtaya]

What fod stupid dumbass but i know that they arent diffrent as all the other politican everyone want his ass to be the biggest and best thats not diffrent by jafari and talabani.

SAY NO TO NON´ASSYRIANS

[Diri]

What fod stupid dumbass but i know that they arent diffrent as all the other politican everyone want his ass to be the biggest and best thats not diffrent by jafari and talabani.

SAY NO TO NON´ASSYRIANS

What is this sick rascist attitude??? The thing is that you don't even know what you are saying anymore...

GET A GRIP! I THOUGHT WE WERE BROTHERS!

[Piling]

SAY NO TO NON´ASSYRIANS

Does it mean SAY NO TO near than 6 milliards of humans ? it makes a lot of ennemies !

[Rumtaya]

What is this sick rascist attitude??? The thing is that you don't even know what you are saying anymore...

GET A GRIP! I THOUGHT WE WERE BROTHERS!

what is man did i say something wrong?

Is it not right if i say that is politican everyone who comes to power want to abuse it for his intrests so happens with jafarai and talabani.

oh i hope you dont think now that SAY no to Non´Assyrians was against kurds or others.

i just said that in the meaning of say no to chaldean,arameans etc. not against you guys lool i am in kurdish site man i cant say that.

sorry if you understood it wrong

[tomjez]

Long live Arameans, long live Chaldeans, long live nestorians, long live maronites, long live diversity!

Fuck stupid assimilationism!!!!!!!!

[Diri]

I see... That's okey...

[Rumtaya]

Long live Arameans, long live Chaldeans, long live nestorians, long live maronites, long live diversity!

Fuck stupid assimilationism!!!!!!!!

Arameans=jacobits(assyrians)
Nestorian=Apostolic(Assyrians) i am one of them
Chaldeans=Cahtolic(Assyrians)

what for assimilationism? who is assimliating?

maronites do you know how that name beacme so?? nooooooo you aint

he was a church member of the (As)syrian Orthodox Church but he left it and creat his own church th ename of the guy was Marun so Marunits are just member of a church but thatas not an ethnic.

[tomjez]

One of my friend is maronite from Lebanon, he never told me he was assyrian, and actually did not know a lot about assyrians! He said he was arab christian, and spoke only arab, not assyrian. I never heard of a maronite calling himself "assyrian"

And by the way your maps are worse everytime. I never saw kurds claiming the half of the black see coast! HATAY province along syria is inhabited by arabs and turks, and a few kurds.

[Rumtaya]

One of my friend is maronite from Lebanon, he never told me he was assyrian, and actually did not know a lot about assyrians! He said he was arab christian, and spoke only arab, not assyrian. I never heard of a maronite calling himself "assyrian"

And by the way your maps are worse everytime. I never saw kurds claiming the half of the black see coast! HATAY province along syria is inhabited by arabs and turks, and a few kurds.

did i count Maronits to assyrians? i just told how that name or the church was devlopet.

and man its just a map just a mapppppppppppppppppppppppppppp

sorry i cant french because then i would say it to you in your motherlanguage.

[tomjez]

No indeed you did not, my bad

Yeah it just a maaapppp but you obviously lose time making these, so try to make them accurate!

[Rumtaya]

No indeed you did not, my bad

Yeah it just a maaapppp but you obviously lose time making these, so try to make them accurate!

No dont worry i was just bored and didnt know what to do.
but i think we are off topic

[Mosul]

dont ever talk about talabani chaldean, talabani is the reason why your people are still breathing in iraq.


and by the way, chaldeans, and syriacs are assyrians you dumass