IraqPundit (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
According to the NYT , Iraq is a dismal place. To mark the religious holiday, the newspaper ran a story about the misery of some residents of Baghdad and how proud they are because their dead were mujadeheen. Get it? The fight isn't over; Iraqis are still killing each other and will continue to do so because that's what they do best. To the NYT , there is nothing good about Iraq. Nobody was happy during...
Top Stories from Newser (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Iraq’s government has launched an official YouTube channel designed, according to Nouri al-Maliki, to combat the “lies and misleading information in the news” media. The move comes a day after Google honcho Eric Schmidt visited the country promising to put images of Iraq’s national treasures online. The US embassy says...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
DAMASCUS: Relations between Baghdad and Damascus have fallen to a new low after fresh allegations claiming Syrian complicity in bombings were aired on Iraqi state-run television. The damage to ties between the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al Maliki, and his Syrian counterpart, the president, Bashar al Assad, is now “permanent”, Syrian and Iraqi politicians and analysts have warned. “If...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
The Iraqi government Wednesday launched an official channel on the popular video-sharing website YouTube. The channel on the Google-owned site was opened when Google chief executive Eric Schmidt was paying a visit to Baghdad. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki unveiled the new channel, saying the YouTube channel would allow his government to showcase its achievements to the world. "The world...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Tony Blair called for the Baghdad government to uphold press freedoms "we fought for" in Iraq today following a wave of complaints that independent media were being harassed. The former prime minister, whose role in the Iraq war is the subject of an official public inquiry, spoke out over press freedom after a Baghdad court fined a Guardian journalist, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, for defamation after...
The Air Force Pundit (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Iraqi Government on YouTube Governments, heads of state, and leaders from around the world are on YouTube, including the Pope, the Royal Family, and Queen Rania, and presidents from the United States to France, South Korea to Estonia. Today we're especially pleased to announce that the Iraqi Government has launched a dedicated YouTube channel, at youtube.com/iraqigov. Learn more from Iraq's Prime Minister...
Gorillas Guides (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The Iraqi National Media Center has launched a YouTube Channel to quote their blurb: The Iraqi Government YouTube Channel, established by Iraqi National Media Center, is an official channel aims at publicizing the most important activities of the Iraqi Government through videoed reports and meetings. Unsurpisingly their first video is of Nouri al-Maliki announcing the establishment of [...]
NewTeeVee (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Iraq has joined the growing list of nations whose governments have made the move into online video, with the launch of the Iraqi Government channel on YouTube. In his first address on the new video channel, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said the Iraqi government will use its YouTube presence to connect to various international communities [...]
New York Times (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
A day after Google's executive chairman announced a virtual library of Iraq's National Museum, the government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki inaugurated its own YouTube channel.
Baghdad Bureau (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
A day after Google's executive chairman announced a virtual library of Iraq's National Museum, the government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki inaugurated its own YouTube channel.
Personal Democracy Forum (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
We've been covering in some detail the U.S. State Department's efforts to foster new conversations and smooth some of life's more difficult transactions using technology, from promoting digital violence tracking in Mexico to encouraging social networking in Pakistan to setting up mobile banking in Afghanistan. Some of these efforts seem simple, but eliminating some of life's fear and confusion --...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
by Ryan Mauro Click here for my latest Pajamas Media article. This is an update on the Iraq-Syria crisis. The Al-Maliki government continues to accuse Syria of helping Al-Qaeda and other terrorists and insurgents carrying out attacks in Iraq. Their push for a U.N. tribunal to prosecute those in Syria assisting them has caused a steep drop in violence in Iraq, proving how critical outside support is...
BLACKFIVE (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Since we are hearing that surrender is on the table, we better take a look at what it would take to win. The Foreign Policy Initiative has a document exploding many of the myths about Gen. McChrystal's request for a fully-resourced Counterinsurgency strategy. During the time that President Obama has been mulling the way forward in Afghanistan, a number of politicians, advisors, and analysts have put...
News: Iraq -- KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
BAGHDAD | A stepped-up campaign by Iraq’s prime minister against Saddam Hussein loyalists is alienating Sunni Muslims and stoking tensions between them and the majority Shiites ahead of key national elections. In its latest anti-Baathist attack, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Shiite-dominated government put three men on state television Sunday to confess their alleged role in...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
BAGHDAD | A stepped-up campaign by Iraq’s prime minister against Saddam Hussein loyalists is alienating Sunni Muslims and stoking tensions between them and the majority Shiites ahead of key national elections. In its latest anti-Baathist attack, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Shiite-dominated government put three men on state television Sunday to confess their alleged role in...
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