Iraq 2004 Montage - Chopper Footage
A collection of footage I gathered in Iraq 2004. Its been ten years since this footage was shot and I never reviewed it until now. I hope you enjoy it, and happy ten year anniversary fellow...
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BAGHDAD, May 19 (UPI) --The Independent High Electoral Commission announced on Monday the preliminary results for Iraq's April 30 parliamentary elections.
Both U.S. Embassy Baghdad and United Nations Iraq welcomed the announcement, with the embassy hailing the preliminary results "a testament to the courage and resilience of the Iraqi people, and another milestone in the democratic development of Iraq."
62 percent of Iraq's 22 million eligible voters cast their ballots on April 30.
IHEC's preliminary results show that Prime Minister Nouri Kamal al-Maliki's State of Law party captured 92 of the 328 seats in the Council of Representatives. Although Maliki's State of Law won the most parliamentary seats, SOL failed to capture a majority in the election, which could affect Maliki's bid to continue as prime minister.
SOL rival Shia groups Muwatin and Ahrar won a total of 57 seats.
The Sunni Mutahidoun bloc, headed by Parliamentary Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi, obtained 23 seats, while former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's Wataniya list got 21 seats, and Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq's Arabiya List claimed 10 seats.
The April 30 parliamentary elections were the first such elections since the U.S. military withdrew in 2011.
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Iraq electoral commission releases preliminary results of parliamentary election
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN and SAMEER N. YACOUB Associated Press
BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki moved closer to winning a third term Monday as his Shiite-dominated political bloc emerged firmly in first place in the country's first parliamentary elections since the U.S. military withdrawal in 2011. The challenge now for al-Maliki is to build a ruling coalition as violence rages and instability grows.
Rival Shiite blocs were the next two top vote-getters, with Sunni blocs trailing as the country grows increasingly polarized along sectarian and ethnic lines.
The showing increased the likelihood that Iraq's next government could rely on an even narrower Shiite base than the current one, which Sunnis see as biased against their sect and Kurds deem as hostile to their efforts to carve out greater autonomy in the north.
Al-Maliki's State of Law bloc was never expected to secure a majority of 165 seats in the 328-member parliament. He will still need to approach other parties to piece together a broader majority coalition to get the first crack at forming a government as violence rages and instability grows.
Still, the 92 seats his bloc walked away with increase the 63-year-old premier's chances of holding onto the post he first ascended to in 2006 from relative obscurity.
The parliamentary election was the third since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that removed dictator Saddam Hussein's Sunni-led regime and brought the long-oppressed Shiite majority to power. It came at a perilous moment for Iraq, with the country sinking back into a brutal cycle of bloodshed that claimed more than 8,800 lives last year alone.
The resurgence of sectarian violence, which nearly tore Iraq apart in 2006 and 2007, is being fueled both by deep-seated divisions within Iraq and the 3-year-old civil war in neighboring Syria.
Iraq's Sunni minority feels increasingly marginalized by al-Maliki's government since he cracked down on a protest movement demanding reforms last year.
Islamic militants, meanwhile, have seized control of the city of Fallujah and other pockets of the Sunni-dominated Anbar province west of Baghdad, and carry out frequent and carefully orchestrated mass-casualty attacks in the capital.
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Iraq: PM's group is biggest election winner - NBC40.net
By Khalid Al-Ansary and Nayla Razzouk
Bloomberg News
Published: May 19, 2014
BAGHDAD, Iraq Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Shiite Muslim coalition won a majority in national elections and will form the next government in OPEC's No. 2 oil producer, according to a lawmaker from the alliance.
The National Alliance, including Maliki's State of Law parliamentary bloc, won more than 170 of parliament's 328 seats in the April 30 balloting, lawmaker Khalid al-Asadi said in a telephone interview. State of Law has chosen Maliki to remain as prime minister in the new government, he said. Final results are to be announced later Monday by the Independent High Electoral Commission.
"The National Alliance has definitely won a majority, more than 170 seats out of parliament's 328 seats, and that allows us to form the next government," al-Asadi said. "We have no intention to change or replace Nouri al-Maliki."
The military reinforced its presence across Baghdad ahead of the announcement, and state-sponsored Iraqiya television reported that motorcycles and carts were banned from the capital's streets as a precautionary measure. Violence has surged in Iraq, and troops from Maliki's Shiite-dominated government are battling fighters from al-Qaida and allied Sunni Muslim forces in the west of the country.
Maliki, 63, is seeking a third term in office in the nation of 33 million people, which he has governed since 2006. The new parliament will choose a president to replace Jalal Talabani, who has been receiving medical treatment in Germany since suffering a stroke in December 2012.
The sectarian violence his government curbed in 2008 has flared again, aggravated by the civil war in neighboring Syria. A total of 3,015 civilians were killed in the first three months of this year, according to the unofficial Iraq Body Count website, more than triple from a year earlier.
Political tussling has also deepened, as Maliki's relations with the Sunnis and the country's ethnic Kurds in the north have become more strained. A dispute with the central government prompted authorities in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region in the north to suspend oil exports through the national pipeline in December 2012.
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Iraq PM Maliki wins majority to form new government, lawmaker says