Iraq determined by the development of the world, even the UN made various efforts to recover Iraq.

Still occur due to violence, abuse of women, and security is not yet stable, the United Nations to determine a variety of positive steps.

The need for action from the UN, became part of a good impression in an effort to provide a form of support for Iraq. Because the Iraq situation is still not improved.

The UN has gathered 35 suggestions, and a list in restoring the situation in Iraq. This is a good support efforts for the country.

After experiencing a long war, Iraq again determine the steps to remedy the situation.

UN support may be going well, because the situation in Iraq was in need of a motivator.

Ex-prisoner named Abbas Abid said at the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, Malaysia, that he was tortured by U.S. soldiers who asked him to name the terrorists in their environment. Torture took place in Baghdad, Iraq during the invasion of U.S. troops to overthrow Saddam Hussein in August 2005.

It is said Abid as reported by Malaysian daily, The Star, Tuesday (08/05/2012), he was taken to the headquarters of Al-Muthanna Brigade. It was there that he was beaten, electrocuted, and even threatened with being shot when he could not mention the requested names of U.S. soldiers.

According to the former chief engineer of Iraq Ministry of Science and Technology, he and seven other prisoners and then transferred to a secret prison Jadiria Al, who was a former underground shelters.

“There, the soldiers I hung on the wall while they put a weight on my penis for hours,” said Abid testify in court as Malaysia’s.

“They pull out my fingernails, forcing me to drink lots of water mixed with a liquid medicine to remove urine (diuretic solution) and then tied my penis with a rubber band to prevent my pee,” said 48-year-old man in a public hearing held in open court in the Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalise War (KLFCW) on Monday, May 7.

Professor Gurdial Singh told the judge who presided at the trial Nijar, Abid said he could no longer have children due to abuse it.

“Earlier we were married, my wife and I intend to have 15 children, but now our dream has been shattered,” said Abid.

This is the beginning of the trial court on cases of alleged war crimes and torture are brought to court Malaysia against U.S. President George W. Bush and his colleagues.Among them, former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Allegedly smuggled Iraqi oil to Israel, The statement was made a member of the Kurdish parliament, Farhad al Atroushi. However, allegations denied by the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq, al-Shahrastani Hussaun and Jordanian Minister of Information and Communications, Rakan al-Majali.

“There are those who want to destroy Iraq and Jordan relationship and do not intend to see the progress of the Arab summit that was held in Baghdad in March,” said Majali told the Iraqi news agency, Aswat al-Iraq al, last Saturday. According to him, Jordan’s relations with Iraq is a historical, cultural, political, and commercial, and it will always be friendly to the relationship.

Kurdish claims denials also came from Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. He criticized the oil smuggling conducted by the federation of Kurdistan in northern Iraq. He pointed out, the semi-autonomous Kurdistan who do smuggling. He proved the existence of smuggling is done by drawing federated Kurdistan Kurdistan oil tankers in the area around the oil wells. It said, trying to stop the smuggling of Iraqi oil, but was surprised to see armed soldiers Kurdistan, Peshmerga, are in the vicinity of oil wells.

On the other hand, members of the Kurdistan coalition parliamentary bloc, Shwan Mohammed Taha, said Maliki should pay attention to the deteriorating security and service to the citizens, not just focusing on the smuggling of oil in Kurdistan. Charges of smuggling of Iraqi oil is becoming increasingly complicated because Iran allegedly also involved.

Iran’s Fars news agency on Tuesday (17/4) revealed the existence of documents proving the smuggling of Iraqi oil to Israel via Kurdistan. Then, the collected revenue from the smuggling of high-ranking Kurdish. Fars reported, there are local resources that have documents that prove the Kurds who smuggle oil to Israel and others by secretly and illegally.

Members of the Iraqi National Alliance, the political bloc that is considered an ally of Iran, accusing the Government Shahrastani Kurdish oil smuggling to Iran. He said that it led to smuggling of Iraq lost six billion dollars (USD 54 trillion) of Iraqi money.

But members of the Kurdish parliament, also accused Shahrastni Atroushi oil smuggling to Iran. Atroushi are collecting signatures to indict the corruption Shahrastani did.

            One week is the United States-led coalition forces bombarded the Iraqi move. On the other hand the military forces and the Iraqi people struggling desperately to defend every inch of their land. There was no sign of the battle will end, here and there in the anti-war demonstrations continue, the weekend is not the time for the holidays but now demonstrating. Many are pessimistic that this war would end soon, the world’s peace activists alleged that the majority of victims of Gulf War II, this volume is that most of the civil society are children and women, although the official number of casualties of this war has not been clearly revealed, but most no indication in that direction is quite large. We can see from the station broadcasts several international and national television that shows the number of civilian casualties.

            The birth of the human costs of war is indeed remarkable, but the threat of death, hunger, infectious diseases, there is a great danger that now threatens the world, the growing passion for hating each other. The opinions expressed Samuel Huntington in the Class of Civilization as a justification of war is raging. World again will be in blocks like the cold war, only the blocks are formed not because of ideological factors but rather on factors that embraced civilization. West on the one hand and Islam on the other hand according to Huntington will be two future world power shaft. Let Huntington’s thesis would have proof through the course of history, which is much more important now is to build a state that can accelerate the end of the war.

            This human tragedy must end soon, if not to be very fatal consequences for humanity, to do an analysis as to what end this war, it is necessary to first explain some of the realities of the prefix. The reality of this prefix will be used to build assumptions prospects for peace.

First, there are interesting things to learn prajurut Bush delivered a captive U.S. soldiers Iraq Iraqi television broadcast. Bush immediately accused Iraq violated the Geneva Conventions of 1950 (Kompas, March 25, 2003), but whether Bush recalled that he also had been violated in committing to a joint session of the UN, which wants the war inevitable. But Bush chose the path unilaterar. On the other hand, Saddam Hussein shouted at the people and soldiers that they would soon win the war (compass, March 25, 2003). This human tragedy signals the world that the international perdamaiaan agencies (UN) loss of function or in other words, the UN is no longer a sacred world body, the UN has been dying. This is the first condition.

Second, the U.S. was invited to parties who can not compromise the complete disarmament of Iraq’s dangerous, what with the United Nations inspections of possible weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was the U.S. are ignored, regardless of whether the U.S. has a special interest in this mission, we can The U.S. did not heed calls to see the world through the United Nations, until shortly before the war began the United States fully supported only three countries, Spain, Australia and the UK. Three countries were indeed legitimate, if we count back then there is still Israel, Kuwait, Turkey, Japan and some other countries that support both directly and discreetly. On the other hand the U.S. opposed to tens or even hundreds of other countries, especially countries that joined the Arab league and non-aligned movement. Then we can say the feeling just because (dumeh) U.S. is so powerful, far-mentangannya kementang covered with the title as the guardian of human rights (human rights), but their aggression into Iraq without a clear cause analysis confirm that the U.S. is the country that arbitrary treatment. This is the reality of the second prefix.

Third, attempts by certain parties in both global and local scale (at the level of the countries), which directs public opinion that this dispute is the conflict between religion (civilization), is a truth that Iraq is a Muslim country and incidentally bependuduk also Iraq in the construction history of Islam has a strong significance, until when Iraq came under fire for no reason than the U.S., the world’s Muslims psychological suffering. This is evident from the many acts of solidarity of Muslims in many countries. But, there’s no reason to declare the Iraq war as a conflict between religions (civilization). This is the reality of the third prefix.

Fourth, there is a real condition but the reality is often considered just a rumor, no other condition is that this war happened over a factor due to the displeasure of George W. Bush against Saddam Hussein. If we want to look at many indicators that indicate this, among other Bush ultimatum to Saddam to leave Iraq with his son and the ultimatum was answered firmly by Saddam that he would not leave Iraq, which eventually became the trigger conditions of the war, then the issue The U.S. has prepared mention transfer of power from the hands of Saddam, the two issues is enough to indicate that Bush and the U.S. generally do not like Saddam ruled Iraq. This reality is the fourth prefix.

Countdown Toward Peace

            Of the three initial reality is we can reflect on what has been done to prevent world war, which in turn can be used as the basis in determining a strategy for peace.

            The first reflection, moving from the reality of the first prefix, where the formal institutions of the world no longer has the urgency in preventing open conflict, it may be too soft due to the United Nations in controlling the condition of a potential conflict with the country’s main actors, tenderness is more so when the United Nations faces a state actor major powers, especially the veto. Because both could be due to less dependency on the United Nations of the world’s nations, especially the financial concerns and the third because it is possible the consolidation of pro-peace forces in the UN did not go well.

            Causality of the above conditions, it is only natural that when the United Nations to lose the urgency of a function in maintaining world peace. Therefore in the short-term perspective needs to be done is to give the UN harsh sanctions against the aggressor state, at least as hard as ever issued by the UN sanctions on Iraq, when Iraq menginfasi Kuwait. These sanctions are intended to lift the image in the eyes of the UN member states are already upset with the United Nations. Furthermore, the UN should strive stimulates problem-solving process regarding Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction back on track where full coordination in the hands of the UN security council.

            Then the long-term perspective, taking into account the history of the United Nations and Security Council functions which have a bias between the functions of maintaining world peace and protect the interests of major powers, especially U.S. and UK. Thus, it is necessary rethinking of the veto power that had been owned by five countries (U.S., China, Russia, Britain and France), and analyze the possibility ditambahnya UNSC non-permanent members. Both the above proposals are fully associated with feelings of equality (equality) in the UNSC.

            The second reflection, moving from the condition that the United States and Iraq involving compromised difficult international suspicions about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, then there are two threads that can be drawn. First, Iraq must honestly and earnestly to give opportunity to the international world to prove that the accusations leveled against them is not true, if it turns out Iraq did not heed this instruction so lawful in Iraq before attacking, if later in Iraq found weapons of mass destruction, Iraq must willing to destroy such weapons. On the other hand, as we know the United States is driving the issue of weapons of mass destruction, then ASpun must be pressed to allow the inspection process carried out systematically and objectively, if it is not honored by the UN should impose sanctions on the U.S. firm.

            Then the problem, the above matters can only be implemented if the UN is powerless powerful as today, the thing to do is consolidate all pro-peace forces around the world, to make a back up UN efforts systematically. A necessity, that the collectivity of nations in the world will produce a meaningful thing for world peace.

              The third reflection, moving from the condition that there are those who direct the war issue is an issue of inter-religious konfli (civilization), it must be a systematic effort by all countries in the world to explain to the people in each country that the war in Iraq is not a war between religion, streamlining measures public opinion is very important, in order to dispel the possibility of wider conflict.

            The fourth reflection, when konlik Iraq is largely due to individual factors (big-man theory) it is necessary to the completion of the individual approaches as well. Bush and Saddam as the main actor is the subject matter, the international community need to be able to use a mediator for Bush and Saddam to negotiate with each other the things that led to Bush (the U.S. generally) do not like Saddam. It is not easy, but again these efforts remain in the United Nations through the pressure of strict sanctions.

            Perdamaiaan future of the Iraqi crisis is largely determined by how one of the UN Security Council to revitalize the functions and roles, as well as how the consolidation of pro-peace forces in the world to strengthen the collectivity to pressure the parties to the conflict now.

            Reality is not always in line with expectations, but certainly not without hope of any improvement, therefore the world in the midst of tremendous turmoil, energy must continue to spread hope, one of the Iraqi crisis is a test of commitment with the countries of the world for humanity. Now let’s count down to peace.

Official language: Arabic

Land area: 32,278 sq mi/83,600 sq km

Population:  5,108,000

Dominant religion: Islam

Capital: Abu Dhabi

Current leader: Sheik Khalifa bin Zayid al-Nahyan

The United Arab Emirates is country on the Arabian Peninsula. It consists of seven self-ruling states – Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Ash Shariqah, Ajman, Umm al Qaywayn, Ras al Khaymah and Al Fujayrah. The country is bordered by Qatar and the Persian Gulf to the north, Oman to the east and Saudi Arabia to the south and west.

 About 80 percent of the people of the U.A.E. are Arabs but only about 35 percent are natural-born citizens of the country. Most of the people in the country are from other Arab countries as well as Bangladesh, India, Iran, Pakistan and the Philippines. Almost all came to work for the U.A.E.’s oil industry. Many others are domestic workers for wealthy families.

 The economy of the United Arab Emirates is mostly dependent on the country’s production and export of petroleum but in recent years the country has increasingly become a global financial and tourist hub, resulting in a major building boom. The world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, is in the city of Dubai, which is now a major financial and economic center.

 With the Persian Gulf region being part of a major trade route, many European countries began setting up trading posts in the region in the 1500’s. The area gradually came under British influence and by the late 1800’s it had become a British protectorate, with the United Kingdom controlling the country’s foreign affairs. It gained independence in 1971. The United Arab Emirates participated in the United States-led coalition that liberated Kuwait from Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War and it also supported the U.S. in the 2003 Gulf War that ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

A few months ago, just after midnight on Jan. 1, the Iraq war finally concluded. For the first time in two decades, Iraq is officially free of U.S. involvement. We arrived in 1991 in a New Year’s Eve-like show of fatal fireworks, and the last American soldier exited in time for Christmas.

When the war started our daughter was in diapers. She finishes college in a few months. However it translates in Arabic, my guess is the Iraqis sighed a collective “good riddance.”

Ironically, the hour that war ended I was in an Air Force C-17 cargo plane, winging my way south from the gorgeous island nation of New Zealand to the inhabitable continent of Antarctica — about a five-hour flight. I went as a chaplain providing spiritual support to the military and scientific community that lives and works on that desperately remote land mass.

As I sat in that cavernous cargo plane, stuffed full of pallets and people and far too noisy for conversation, my travel-fractured brain drifted to the last time I flew in a C-17; it was in 2006 when I was leaving Iraq.

This time my fellow passengers were tired, but not anxious or fearful. In the place of rifles and Kevlar, passengers there had laptops and extreme weather gear. Rather than security briefings, there were routine safety briefings and no need for vomit-inducing corkscrew landings. In both distance and spirit, it was worlds apart from Iraq.

As I sat, my mind flashed to a dozen military faces — the soldier who like clockwork would arrive about two minutes late to my worship service, and in sitcom-like fashion would nosily stumble to his seat, clanging his rifle against the concrete floor and metal chairs. He would then sit and stare at me with penetrating blue eyes, transfixed as I spoke, listening as though my words were the spiritual water that would somehow prop him up for one more week of heat and hell.

I think of the face of a sedated soldier as I held his leg steady while a doctor cleaned and dressed the wound. I remember a legless Marine who wanted to know if his two boys would still love a father with no legs. Then there was the wailing Iraqi boy of 14 with a bandage around his head, a victim of a suicide bomber, who had just moments before received the news that his blindness would be permanent. I wanted to weep for the evil that humans are capable of.

I remember ducking into what I thought was a Baghdad jewelry store, looking for some unique jewelry for my daughter and realizing it was our equivalent of a pawn shop where families had sold their treasured heirlooms to survive. The shopkeeper begged me to buy something, offering a steep discount. I paid full price.

There were funny stories also, but they were mostly the kind where you had to be there.

In some ways Antarctica was similar to Iraq — both are dry deserts and isolated from the comforts of home. But in one outstanding fashion it was different, for the multinational scientific force deployed there is seeking peaceful answers that will help, not harm, humanity.

Today when asked about my thoughts on the Iraqi war, my stock answer is this: Quality historians will need about 50 years to gain adequate perspective to accurately assess it. We are far too close to draw accurate conclusions. But what I do believe is that in the meantime we need to seek to fund the Veterans Administration on a long-term basis because there are boatloads of wounded, mostly young veterans who will need care for many decades to come.

Tragedy turned comic book writer Eric Trautmann’s fledging story about a private military contractor personal in September 2005.

His brother-in-law, David Shephard, was working for Blackwater USA when he died in Iraq while protecting a State Department official on a security detail.

Shephard’s memory lives on in the 144 pages of “Shooters,” a black-and-white graphic novel that Trautmann co-wrote as “his counterfire against unnuanced portrayals of warfare” related to soldiers and contractors.

The story’s main character is based in part on Shephard, a former Lacey resident, as well as other soldiers Trautmann has met. Portions of the story set in 2003-04 take place at Fort Lewis.

The story centers on a former soldier who returns to Iraq as a contractor as he tries to cope with a traumatic experience during his Army deployment. It revolves around themes of duty and redemption while exploring current issues for an Army strained by two ground wars: post-traumatic stress disorder, a soldier’s adjustment into civilian life and problems at home.

Trautmann, 40, began writing the story as a traditional novel before Shephard’s death. It was his effort to reconcile what he considered the media’s portrayal of military contractors as out-of-control guns for hire with his brother-in-law and other contractors he met who were committed to improving Iraq and the lives of its people.

“War shouldn’t be black and white,” he said. “War is gray, and I wanted the book to be gray and maybe make people think a little bit before automatically assuming that’s a good guy, that’s a bad guy, because the world is too sophisticated and complicated.”

But he shelved the story after Shephard’s death.

The son of a Army lieutenant colonel, Shephard attended Timberline High School in Lacey and graduated from The Evergreen State College. He joined the Army Reserve Special Forces in 1986 and moved to National Guard Special Forces eight years later. He married his wife, Cindy, in 1997 and started a construction company when the couple was living in Lacey five years earlier. (Unlike the marriage portrayed in “Shooters,” their union was a happy one.) He worked for contractors in Sierra Leone and Botswana, and deployed with the National Guard to the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua, his wife said.

Shephard, a chief warrant officer, served in Iraq before and shortly after the 2003 invasion and then left for Afghanistan shortly upon his return. He was assigned to a unit of the 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne) based in Buckley.

His wife, a research scientist at the University of Washington, said war changed her husband. He had trouble adjusting to life back home and grew irritated at people complaining about minor inconveniences, she said. He didn’t talk about his experience in an effort to shield her. The drive to return to finish something that wasn’t finished, which Trautmann recalled Shephard expressing on several occasions, emerges as a major theme of “Shooters.”

Trautmann’s wife, Gabrielle Shephard, 37, who owns Olympic Cards and Comics in Lacey, said her brother saw his mission as trying to bring peace to the various sects in Iraq.

“He wanted to make that connection,” she said. “He wanted to build communities.”

Shephard returned to Iraq in summer 2005 as a Blackwater USA employee. On Sept. 19, 2005, according to reports, he was in a vehicle with three other occupants in a security convoy for a U.S. diplomat in Mosul.

A suspicious vehicle headed toward the diplomat’s car, but the vehicle carrying Shephard rammed it instead. The bomb that exploded in the other vehicle killed Shephard, 41, and the three other occupants. The diplomat survived.

“That book had a lot of freight with it as I was writing it,” Trautmann recalled. “Every word I typed was, ‘Is this the one that’s going to offend his widow? Is this the one that’s going to make his father angry?’ ”

Around 2008, the editor at Vertigo, the adult-oriented imprint of DC Comics, approached Trautmann and co-writer Brandon Jerwa about pitching a military-related story. Their ideas flopped until they examined the story idea Trautmann had put in a drawer after Shephard’s death.

Trautmann said his partner provided him the emotional distance to continue the project. He said the work is apolitical — “It’s not about the policies that put them there. It’s about the reality of them being there.” — and what some may deem unflattering scenes of the military are presented without judgment.

Jerwa, 38, of Tukwila, said in an interview he asked Trautmann about a dozen times if he was sure about the project’s direction.

“I certainly didn’t want to be the person who came in from the outside and didn’t get it right,” he said.

The project became personal for Jerwa, as well. His wife broke most of the bones in the right side of her body after a head-on car crash in October 2008. Jerwa found himself writing about the main character’s recuperation from injuries while his wife was recovering from her own 10 feet from him. The emotional toll was so great some days Jerwa was unable to write those scenes.

“It was a really rough time for us because it changed our lives dramatically,” he said, although he added the experience brought a deeper level of realism to those scenes.

Steve Lieber, a well-known comic book artist who lives in Portland, accepted the writers’ invitation to illustrate the story.

Gabrielle Shephard, who deliberately separated herself from the project to avoid influencing her husband, said “Shooters” strikes the right balance.

“I was really pleased with it because all the things that I said would happen happened, which was he respected the military, he respected the family, he respected Dave’s memory but still told a very difficult story,” she said.

The story, she continued, is relevant today as tens of thousands of soldiers try to readjust to civilian life.

She and her husband have befriended many soldiers who come into the shop, and have seen marriages fall apart and soldiers steel themselves for a coming deployment only to try to find themselves after the homecoming.

“It is a sacrifice of a piece of them that they have to give up, if not for nine months or 12 months or 15 months,” she said. “But in some cases that is a piece they have to put away forever because of some decision they’ve had to make.

“I think this book touches on that, and that people leave and come back very different.”

She said some soldiers who have started to read advance copies of “Shooters” have had to put it down because it hits too close to home.

Cindy Shephard, 48, described the project as a “beautiful tribute” to her husband’s memory. But she also wasn’t able to finish it.

“It’s still hurts too much,” she said.

Play a role in The Lucky One, Zac Efron is ‘Lucky’, Because, during the filming, Efron was trained by a U.S. Marine with a very high discipline.

“It was a very strict training regime with a man called Logan Hood who is a member of the U.S. Marines,” said Zac Efron a chance.

The man who is reportedly close to Rihanna says practicing for five full months.

“We are training very hard for five months. And I do not know if I can do it again sometime, because honestly I trained every day before filming,” Efron said. “I have to get up at 3:30 in the morning to exercise and then start filming at 6 am, “Efron continued.

The Lucky One tells the story of a Marine named Logan Thibault (Zac Efron) who survived the three missions in Iraq. He believes the attributes that make it fortunate of these missions is a photograph of a woman (Taylor Schilling) that he had never met. Thibault finally decided to see a woman in the photo when he returned to North Carolina.

Obama: Tap Oil Enough for Iraq, In its decision, the necessary legal sanction he signed in December, Obama said the increase in production by some countries as well as the existence of a strategic reserve to help him to conclude that the sanctions could be executed. “I will continue to monitor this situation to ensure that the market can continue to accommodate the reduction in the purchase of petroleum and petroleum products from Iran,”

Such has been the case many a time in history. America has been possessed by the concept of homeland security, using it as a justification for the Vietnam War, and in more recent times, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Yet how can such an ignorant and flawed concept justify the atrocious acts committed in these wars? How is one life worth more than another? It is the curse of conflict to skew the morals of upstanding humans and to degrade us to a level where killing one another is tolerable.

Fowler becomes caught up in a conflict he had fought to remain neutral in. On one side he has a friend who murders unknowingly for his beliefs have rendered him blind. On the other side is Fowler’s home and safe haven with Phuong. Just like the American response to the fear of terrorism, Fowler responds out of fear for his friend, and the fear that he might lose his security. It is this fear that causes Fowler to murder Pyle. The recurring fear of losing safety and security tends to eventuate into conflict, whether it is a personal conflict or a war.