A judicial panel,cheap moncler jackets which Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's rivals said was under his sway, ordered the arrest of Mr. Hashemi, a day after the last convoy of U.S. soldiers left Iraq.
The development boded the possible end to the unwieldy government coalition of Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish factions that was assembled with U.S. help a year ago after a long and acrimonious process that followed the deadlocked March 2010 elections.
The arrest warrant puts Mr. Maliki on a possible collision course with the Kurds, who run their own semiautonomous region in the north and participate in the central government but have longstanding disputes with Baghdad over oil and land; and with Sunni Arabs in provinces like Anbar, Diyala, Nineveh and Salahuddin who have pressed in recent weeks for more autonomy from Baghdad with the backing of the Kurds.
"Unfortunately the situation is heading toward a deep crisis and the government partnership is under threat," said Masoud al-Barzani, president of the Kurdistan regional government and one of Washington's staunchest allies in Iraq. Mr. Barzani played a pivotal role in brokering last year's government coalition, with prodding from Vice President Joe Biden.
The deal came after he received written guarantees from Mr. Maliki that he would implement a government partnership and work toward resolving the issues including the disputed internal boundaries and oil-revenue sharing between the central and Kurdish regional governments.
"We call for an urgent national conference to prevent the collapse of the political process and the country's exposure to what could be worse," he said, criticizing the government for "politicizing security matters."
Mr. Maliki's spokesman, Ali al-Mussawi, said Mr. Barzani's call for a conference was inappropriate and an insult to those who lost loved ones in acts ordered by Mr. Hashemi.
Maysoun al-Damalouji, a spokeswoman for Mr. Hashemi's Iraqiya political bloc, on TV said the bloc will prove Mr. Hashemi's innocence. She described Mr. Maliki's move as a "political game" aimed at taking over all reins of power in Iraq.
"Is everyone who opposes Maliki a terrorist?" asked Ms. Damalouji.
In a move bound to widen the split with Mr. Barzani, Mr. Maliki met on Monday with a delegation from Nineveh province's government, which complained about the recent award by the Kurdistan region of six oil exploration blocks including in disputed areas of Nineveh to Exxon Mobil Corp.
The head of the Nineveh provincial council, Dildar Zebari, who comes from a family with an old feud with Mr. Barzani's clan, said Mr. Maliki said he has warned Exxon that it could be "responsible for a war in the area."
The warrant against Mr. Hashemi, which was issued by a special five-member judicial panel, came one day after he flew to the Kurdistan region for meetings with President Jalal Talabani.
Mr. Maliki's spokesman said three of Mr. Hashemi's assistants were arrested on Sunday night in connection with the case while they were trying to board a flight to Kurdistan with Mr. Hashemi and other officials. Mr. Hashemi's whereabouts were unknown and repeated calls to his assistants were unanswered.
A further seven members of Mr. Hashemi's staff were army jackets for women
arrested Monday and his office in Baghdad's Green Zone area, home to top government officials and the U.S. Embassy, has been cordoned off by troops and military vehicles, said Mr. Maliki's spokesman, Mr. Mussawi.
"The arrest warrant has been issued against the vice president of the republic Tariq al-Hashemi in accordance to Article Four Terror and this warrant is signed by five honorable judges," said Brig. Gen. Adel Daham, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, in a news conference in Baghdad on Monday night, referring to a controversial and loosely defined antiterrorism law from 2005. Officials played prerecorded confessions by the three members of Mr. Hashemi's personal security detail, who Mr. Maliki's opponents say were arrested by the government and forced to confess.
"I want to expose this criminal Tariq al-Hashemi in front of the whole nation and in front of all Iraqis who were fooled and misled by him and some who are still fooled by him," said Ahmed Shawqi, a major in the Iraqi army and member of Mr. Hashemi's security team, on a grainy video.
For about 30 minutes, Mr. Shawqi described how he received orders from Mr. Hashemi personally and through senior members of his office, including Ahmed Qahtan, the vice president's personal secretary and son-in-law, to carry out attacks against several public figures.
Mr. Shawqi said Mr. Hashemi's office supplied him and other members of his group with silencer-equipped pistols and improvised explosive devices that were kept in one of Mr. Hashemi's homes in the Yarmouk district on Baghdad's western side. Those attacks allegedly resulted in at least 10 deaths plus others injured.
Mr. Shawqi said he personally received an envelope stuffed with $3,000 in cash from Mr. Hashemi for the first hit that he allegedly carried out in 2009, which he said involved planting an improvised explosive device in the path of the head of the heath directorate of Baghdad's Rusafa district, who was killed.
The State Department in Washington said it was "closely monitoring these reports" and "urging all political sides in Iraq to work out their differences peaceably, politically, through dialogue."
Mr. Hashemi's political bloc Iraqiya, which is headed by Mr. Maliki's main rival Ayad Allawi, held an urgent meeting in Baghdad to consider its moves. Participants said Iraqiya was considering pulling out from Mr. Maliki's government coalition after suspending its participation cheap moncler promotion in Parliament over the weekend.
2011年12月19日星期一
2011年12月14日星期三
Campaigning later that day in Ames
Perry made "states' rights" moncler jackets one of the mantras of his 2010 re-election as governor, arguing repeatedly that states could come up with their own solutions to problems the federal government is trying to solve. But Perry, who is talking increasingly about religion these days, told Fox News Sunday that he would push for a constitutional amendment that would "allow" prayer in school. It's unclear exactly what form that would take, but his is undoubtedly a federal approach to an issue that many governors might like to handle themselves, just as Texas lawmakers did in 2003 by passing a law that called for a moment of silence at the start of the school day.
Campaigning later that day in Ames, Iowa, Perry talked about Solyndra, the now-bankrupt energy company that got a $535 million loan guarantee from the Obama administration. Perry-watchers were quick to notice that Perry referred to Solyndra as a country. But Christy Hoppe of The Dallas Morning News was there and caught something more important, which is that Perry said, "We got to get the government out of deciding everything — picking winners and losers." As Hoppe noted, hundreds of millions of Texas taxpayer dollars have flowed to companies through Perry's economic-development funds. Many have called this picking winners and losers.
Then, on Tuesday, Perry released a new ad saying that members of Congress should not become lobbyists.
Perry says in the ad: "Washington is the capital of political correctness, where doublespeak reigns and the truth is frowned upon. You can't say that congressmen becoming lobbyists is a form of legal corruption. ... You and I know it's true — but not politically correct."
If lawmakers becoming lobbyists is a form of legal corruption, Texas is an awfully corrupt place. Legislators regularly become lobbyists, sometimes even quitting in the middle of their terms to do so.
Perry has not moved to stop this in his 11 years as governor. The Center for Public Integrity found in a 2006 report that Texas had more legislators-turned-lobbyists than any other state,cheap moncler jackets although the percentage of lobbyists who had been legislators was higher in some states than in Texas.
More to the point is Perry's willingness to use lobbyists on his own staff.
According to a forthcoming report from the left-leaning watchdog group Texans for Public Justice, 43 people who worked on Perry's gubernatorial staff between December 2000 and August 2011 also worked as lobbyists at other points during Perry's gubernatorial tenure. Their average income from lobbying work ranged from $1.2 million to $2.3 million. The list includes some of his highest-ranking aides, including former chiefs of staff Mike Toomey and Ray Sullivan.
Asked about the Texas/Washington discrepancy, Perry spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said the system cannot be gamed in Texas the way it is at the federal level. "Unlike Congress, Texas lawmakers are part-time, we don't have earmarks and we must have a balanced budget, so we can only spend what we take in," Frazier said.
On the other hand, I've heard more than one part-time legislator in Texas talk about needing to take a high-paying lobby job because serving in the Legislature had hurt them financially.
Either way, we'll soon see if Perry's message is working. Some polls indicate that he is creeping back up in Iowa, where he began a 42-town bus tour Wednesday, while Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney show signs of slipping.
Of course, Romney and Gingrich have aimed their fire at each other, taking most of the media attention with them. Perry doesn't appear to be anyone's primary target giubbotti moncler.
Campaigning later that day in Ames, Iowa, Perry talked about Solyndra, the now-bankrupt energy company that got a $535 million loan guarantee from the Obama administration. Perry-watchers were quick to notice that Perry referred to Solyndra as a country. But Christy Hoppe of The Dallas Morning News was there and caught something more important, which is that Perry said, "We got to get the government out of deciding everything — picking winners and losers." As Hoppe noted, hundreds of millions of Texas taxpayer dollars have flowed to companies through Perry's economic-development funds. Many have called this picking winners and losers.
Then, on Tuesday, Perry released a new ad saying that members of Congress should not become lobbyists.
Perry says in the ad: "Washington is the capital of political correctness, where doublespeak reigns and the truth is frowned upon. You can't say that congressmen becoming lobbyists is a form of legal corruption. ... You and I know it's true — but not politically correct."
If lawmakers becoming lobbyists is a form of legal corruption, Texas is an awfully corrupt place. Legislators regularly become lobbyists, sometimes even quitting in the middle of their terms to do so.
Perry has not moved to stop this in his 11 years as governor. The Center for Public Integrity found in a 2006 report that Texas had more legislators-turned-lobbyists than any other state,cheap moncler jackets although the percentage of lobbyists who had been legislators was higher in some states than in Texas.
More to the point is Perry's willingness to use lobbyists on his own staff.
According to a forthcoming report from the left-leaning watchdog group Texans for Public Justice, 43 people who worked on Perry's gubernatorial staff between December 2000 and August 2011 also worked as lobbyists at other points during Perry's gubernatorial tenure. Their average income from lobbying work ranged from $1.2 million to $2.3 million. The list includes some of his highest-ranking aides, including former chiefs of staff Mike Toomey and Ray Sullivan.
Asked about the Texas/Washington discrepancy, Perry spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said the system cannot be gamed in Texas the way it is at the federal level. "Unlike Congress, Texas lawmakers are part-time, we don't have earmarks and we must have a balanced budget, so we can only spend what we take in," Frazier said.
On the other hand, I've heard more than one part-time legislator in Texas talk about needing to take a high-paying lobby job because serving in the Legislature had hurt them financially.
Either way, we'll soon see if Perry's message is working. Some polls indicate that he is creeping back up in Iowa, where he began a 42-town bus tour Wednesday, while Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney show signs of slipping.
Of course, Romney and Gingrich have aimed their fire at each other, taking most of the media attention with them. Perry doesn't appear to be anyone's primary target giubbotti moncler.
2011年12月12日星期一
The Arab League announced it will hold emergency meetings this week in Cairo
The same day that Pillay spoke, the cheap moncler jackets for Human Rights and a resident of Homs -- an opposition hotbed and frequent site of violence in recent months -- reported that a gas pipeline exploded near the city, following by gunfire and circulating military airplanes.
The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency, or SANA, played up local elections Monday as an expression of "democracy and free will." Yet the Homs resident said there was no evidence of voting in that city. Instead, this witness reported nonstop shooting and bombardments.
Such violence is nothing new in Syria, with Pillay reporting more than 200 people have died in the last 10 days and "the Syrian population continues to live in fear of further violent repression."
The Syrian government, meanwhile, has consistently blamed the violence on "armed terrorist" gang members and denied any efforts to target peaceful civilians.
CNN cannot independently confirm events because the Syrian government restricts access of international media to the country.
Pillay said Monday that "the nature and scale of abuses" indicate that Syrian forces likely committed "crimes against humanity." Citing reliable sources, she said more than 300 of the dead have been children "killed by state forces."
Several defectors from military and security forces said they got orders "to shoot unarmed protesters without warning," according to Pillay.
"Independent, credible and corroborated accounts demonstrate that these abuses have taken place as part of a widespread and systematic attack on civilians," she said.
Homs has been a regular flash point. As nightfall arrived Monday, many city residents went to bed afraid the steady waves of violence could soon give way to a historic siege.
Opposition figures said the Syrian government had warned people in Homs to stop anti-government protests, hand in weapons and surrender defecting military members by Monday night -- or face attack by government forces.
Syrian forces gave a 72-hour warning, said Lt. Col. Mohamed Hamdo of the Free Syrian Army, an opposition group of defected Syrian military personnel. Activists on the ground said the ultimatum was issued Friday for Homs.
The government has not acknowledged any deadline for Homs in state-run media.
Hamdo said there are concerns about a repeat of what happened in 1982, when Syria's military -- acting under orders from then-President Hafez al-Assad, father of current Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad -- launched an assault on the city of Hama, killing thousands.
"People are very afraid," said Wissam Tarif, a human rights activist in Beirut, Lebanon, with the organization Avaaz, who is in touch with people in Syria.
There are enough troops around Homs "to take over the city," he said, and casualties have been increasing "in very big numbers" over the past couple of days. Hamdo said the military has dug trenches around Homs and largely cut it off.
"There is no electricity, moncler jackets, and the communication lines are much worse. The food supply is also decreasing, mainly because little food is going in," he said.
The Syrian government denied reports of water and electricity being out in the city, according to a SANA report.
In fact, besides a story about seven "army, security and police martyrs" being buried Monday, state-run media did not report much on such dire conditions or violence.
Rather, state TV painted a picture of normalcy, with reports of local elections under way across the country.
SANA noted that more than 3,000 candidates are vying for seats in the Homs region alone. It billed the elections as part of the "process of building institutions, promoting democracy and achieving the comprehensive reform process led by President Bashar al-Assad."
Activist groups, though, offered a different story.
The Local Coordination Committees of Syria, a network of opposition activists in the country, said Monday the Syrian army and security forces killed 21 people, including four women and three children. Thirteen of the deaths were in Homs, three were in Hama, three in Damascus suburbs and two in Idlib.
And fierce clashes broke out between security forces and defectors in the cities of Daraa and Idlib, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which collects information from people in different parts of the country.
Hamdo, from the Free Syrian Army said, "We conducted an operation late last night against the Syrian forces in Idlib and killed eight of them and injured 22. Two of our men are critically injured."
He also said Syrian forces were conducting mass arrests of shop owners who shut their stores Sunday as part of a nationwide anti-government strike.
The Syrian government, via SANA, on Sunday quoted people saying there was no strike and no sign of a strike.
The last nine months has seen a steady stream of clashes, amid reported government push-back against activists demanding democratic elections and the end of al-Assad's regime. Al-Assad has been in power since 2000; his father ruled Syria for three decades.
World leaders and diplomats have widely condemned Syria's crackdown and called on it to halt violence against the opposition.
The Arab League announced it will hold emergency meetings this week in Cairo. In a statement on Egypt's state-run MENA news agency, an Arab League official said leaders will "discuss the Arab response to a message from Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem to approve the signing of an agreement on an Arab League observing mission to Syria with conditions."
Pillay's report especially drew strong responses from representative countries' ambassadors to the United Nations.
Britain's ambassador, Mark Lyall Grant, called it "the most horrifying briefing that we've had in the Security Council over the last two years," citing the thousands of deaths and "tens of thousands of detentions,
giubbotti moncler outlet, torture (and) violations of abuses right across the system by the Syrian regime.
The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency, or SANA, played up local elections Monday as an expression of "democracy and free will." Yet the Homs resident said there was no evidence of voting in that city. Instead, this witness reported nonstop shooting and bombardments.
Such violence is nothing new in Syria, with Pillay reporting more than 200 people have died in the last 10 days and "the Syrian population continues to live in fear of further violent repression."
The Syrian government, meanwhile, has consistently blamed the violence on "armed terrorist" gang members and denied any efforts to target peaceful civilians.
CNN cannot independently confirm events because the Syrian government restricts access of international media to the country.
Pillay said Monday that "the nature and scale of abuses" indicate that Syrian forces likely committed "crimes against humanity." Citing reliable sources, she said more than 300 of the dead have been children "killed by state forces."
Several defectors from military and security forces said they got orders "to shoot unarmed protesters without warning," according to Pillay.
"Independent, credible and corroborated accounts demonstrate that these abuses have taken place as part of a widespread and systematic attack on civilians," she said.
Homs has been a regular flash point. As nightfall arrived Monday, many city residents went to bed afraid the steady waves of violence could soon give way to a historic siege.
Opposition figures said the Syrian government had warned people in Homs to stop anti-government protests, hand in weapons and surrender defecting military members by Monday night -- or face attack by government forces.
Syrian forces gave a 72-hour warning, said Lt. Col. Mohamed Hamdo of the Free Syrian Army, an opposition group of defected Syrian military personnel. Activists on the ground said the ultimatum was issued Friday for Homs.
The government has not acknowledged any deadline for Homs in state-run media.
Hamdo said there are concerns about a repeat of what happened in 1982, when Syria's military -- acting under orders from then-President Hafez al-Assad, father of current Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad -- launched an assault on the city of Hama, killing thousands.
"People are very afraid," said Wissam Tarif, a human rights activist in Beirut, Lebanon, with the organization Avaaz, who is in touch with people in Syria.
There are enough troops around Homs "to take over the city," he said, and casualties have been increasing "in very big numbers" over the past couple of days. Hamdo said the military has dug trenches around Homs and largely cut it off.
"There is no electricity, moncler jackets, and the communication lines are much worse. The food supply is also decreasing, mainly because little food is going in," he said.
The Syrian government denied reports of water and electricity being out in the city, according to a SANA report.
In fact, besides a story about seven "army, security and police martyrs" being buried Monday, state-run media did not report much on such dire conditions or violence.
Rather, state TV painted a picture of normalcy, with reports of local elections under way across the country.
SANA noted that more than 3,000 candidates are vying for seats in the Homs region alone. It billed the elections as part of the "process of building institutions, promoting democracy and achieving the comprehensive reform process led by President Bashar al-Assad."
Activist groups, though, offered a different story.
The Local Coordination Committees of Syria, a network of opposition activists in the country, said Monday the Syrian army and security forces killed 21 people, including four women and three children. Thirteen of the deaths were in Homs, three were in Hama, three in Damascus suburbs and two in Idlib.
And fierce clashes broke out between security forces and defectors in the cities of Daraa and Idlib, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which collects information from people in different parts of the country.
Hamdo, from the Free Syrian Army said, "We conducted an operation late last night against the Syrian forces in Idlib and killed eight of them and injured 22. Two of our men are critically injured."
He also said Syrian forces were conducting mass arrests of shop owners who shut their stores Sunday as part of a nationwide anti-government strike.
The Syrian government, via SANA, on Sunday quoted people saying there was no strike and no sign of a strike.
The last nine months has seen a steady stream of clashes, amid reported government push-back against activists demanding democratic elections and the end of al-Assad's regime. Al-Assad has been in power since 2000; his father ruled Syria for three decades.
World leaders and diplomats have widely condemned Syria's crackdown and called on it to halt violence against the opposition.
The Arab League announced it will hold emergency meetings this week in Cairo. In a statement on Egypt's state-run MENA news agency, an Arab League official said leaders will "discuss the Arab response to a message from Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem to approve the signing of an agreement on an Arab League observing mission to Syria with conditions."
Pillay's report especially drew strong responses from representative countries' ambassadors to the United Nations.
Britain's ambassador, Mark Lyall Grant, called it "the most horrifying briefing that we've had in the Security Council over the last two years," citing the thousands of deaths and "tens of thousands of detentions,
giubbotti moncler outlet, torture (and) violations of abuses right across the system by the Syrian regime.
2011年12月11日星期日
The high-scoring Warriors, under new coach Mark Jackson
Clippers cheap moncler jackets finder general manager Neil Olshey has said that retaining Jordan -- who is close friends with superstar forward Blake Griffin -- is a priority for the organization.
Earlier Sunday a league source told ESPN The Magazine's Ric Bucher that the team planned to match the Warriors offer.
"We're committed to the core group we have," Olshey told ESPNLosAngeles.com last week. "We've been building slowly and we're in a great position to capitalize on that now with our cap flexibility. But we know that our existing players are a priority."
Olshey executed one of his top priorities this offseason when he signed free agent small forward Caron Butler to a three-year, $24 million contract on Friday.
Retaining Jordan and coming to an agreement on a four-year extension for fourth-year guard Eric Gordon are the other priorities.
"I'm confident," Griffin said earlier this week when asked if he thought Jordan would return. "I think that's somewhat of a main thing for us, as Neil has said. But as a friend of DJ's, I think he needs to do what's best for him. I think he thinks this might be, and I think we feel the same way."
Matching Jordan's offer sheet could practically force starting center Chris Kaman to seek a trade elsewhere, a second source told Bucher.
Jordan's playing time and role are sure to expand to justify his eight-figure salary and that means a reduced role for Kaman, who will be a free agent next summer.
His chances of landing another contract close in value to the five-year, $52.5 million deal set to expire will depend on proving he's still a starting center with All-Star potential and he's not likely to get that chance in Los Angeles if Jordan is retained.
Injuries limited Kaman to 32 games last season,Giubbotti moncler - moncler uomo, moncler donna, piumini moncler outlet 2012. but in 2009-10 he stayed healthy and averaged 18.5 points, 9.2 rebounds and 1.2 blocked shots in 76 games, earning him his first All-Star selection.
Teams who already have expressed an interest in Kaman, according to a league source, include the Dallas Mavericks, San Antonio Spurs and Utah Jazz.
The source also told Bucher that New Orleans Hornets point guard Chris Paul's interest in potentially being traded to the Clippers stems, in part, from the prospect of playing with Jordan, who is a younger, stronger version of Tyson Chandler, with whom Paul played for three seasons in New Orleans before Chandler was dealt in 2009 to the Charlotte Bobcats.
The high-scoring Warriors, under new coach Mark Jackson, are making a push to become a more defensive-oriented team to compliment the undersized guard combo of Stephen Curry and Monta Ellis. While the franchise's front-office reconstruction under new owners Joe Lacob and Peter Guber made splashes this summer, notably hiring executive Jerry West, the roster has remained almost a mirror image of the one that finished 36-46 last season and got coach Keith Smart fired.
The Warriors put themselves in position to sign Jordan by waiving guard Charlie Bell earlier Sunday under the new amnesty provision, which allows teams a once-a-year-option to wipe a player's remaining contract from the salary cap and avoid any luxury tax penalties.
They also rescinded a qualifying offer to forward Reggie Williams, waived popular guard Jeremy Lin and have yet to sign rookies Klay Thompson and Jeremy Tyler. Both rookies have been observing practice but can't participate until they're under contract.
Bell showed up intoxicated at a Thursday court date for a drunken driving arrest in Michigan,moncler jackets authorities said, and he never reported to training camp.
Earlier Sunday a league source told ESPN The Magazine's Ric Bucher that the team planned to match the Warriors offer.
"We're committed to the core group we have," Olshey told ESPNLosAngeles.com last week. "We've been building slowly and we're in a great position to capitalize on that now with our cap flexibility. But we know that our existing players are a priority."
Olshey executed one of his top priorities this offseason when he signed free agent small forward Caron Butler to a three-year, $24 million contract on Friday.
Retaining Jordan and coming to an agreement on a four-year extension for fourth-year guard Eric Gordon are the other priorities.
"I'm confident," Griffin said earlier this week when asked if he thought Jordan would return. "I think that's somewhat of a main thing for us, as Neil has said. But as a friend of DJ's, I think he needs to do what's best for him. I think he thinks this might be, and I think we feel the same way."
Matching Jordan's offer sheet could practically force starting center Chris Kaman to seek a trade elsewhere, a second source told Bucher.
Jordan's playing time and role are sure to expand to justify his eight-figure salary and that means a reduced role for Kaman, who will be a free agent next summer.
His chances of landing another contract close in value to the five-year, $52.5 million deal set to expire will depend on proving he's still a starting center with All-Star potential and he's not likely to get that chance in Los Angeles if Jordan is retained.
Injuries limited Kaman to 32 games last season,Giubbotti moncler - moncler uomo, moncler donna, piumini moncler outlet 2012. but in 2009-10 he stayed healthy and averaged 18.5 points, 9.2 rebounds and 1.2 blocked shots in 76 games, earning him his first All-Star selection.
Teams who already have expressed an interest in Kaman, according to a league source, include the Dallas Mavericks, San Antonio Spurs and Utah Jazz.
The source also told Bucher that New Orleans Hornets point guard Chris Paul's interest in potentially being traded to the Clippers stems, in part, from the prospect of playing with Jordan, who is a younger, stronger version of Tyson Chandler, with whom Paul played for three seasons in New Orleans before Chandler was dealt in 2009 to the Charlotte Bobcats.
The high-scoring Warriors, under new coach Mark Jackson, are making a push to become a more defensive-oriented team to compliment the undersized guard combo of Stephen Curry and Monta Ellis. While the franchise's front-office reconstruction under new owners Joe Lacob and Peter Guber made splashes this summer, notably hiring executive Jerry West, the roster has remained almost a mirror image of the one that finished 36-46 last season and got coach Keith Smart fired.
The Warriors put themselves in position to sign Jordan by waiving guard Charlie Bell earlier Sunday under the new amnesty provision, which allows teams a once-a-year-option to wipe a player's remaining contract from the salary cap and avoid any luxury tax penalties.
They also rescinded a qualifying offer to forward Reggie Williams, waived popular guard Jeremy Lin and have yet to sign rookies Klay Thompson and Jeremy Tyler. Both rookies have been observing practice but can't participate until they're under contract.
Bell showed up intoxicated at a Thursday court date for a drunken driving arrest in Michigan,moncler jackets authorities said, and he never reported to training camp.
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