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FP Passport (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
This afternoon, the New America Foundation hosted "The New Forgotten War," a talk about the future of Iraq. It featured Ad Melkert, the special representative for the U.N. secretary-general in Iraq. Melkert, a former Dutch member of parliament, remains cautiously optimistic about Iraq's future, with an emphasis on the cautious part. The good news is that security in Iraq is better than it...
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Iraq Today (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The British MoD is reporting the death of a British ISAF soldier from small arms fire in the Babaji area, Helmand province, Afghanistan on Wednesday, November 18th. The Washington Post is reporting the deaths of two American soldiers in a bombing in Zabul province, Afghanistan on Thursday, November 19th. Other news reports this as a suicide car bombing. Veto of Iraq’s Election Law Could Force...
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Iraqi Mojo (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
'Al Qaeda in Iraq is becoming more Iraqi and less dominated by foreigners as the insurgent group increasingly joins forces with Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath party, the commander of U.S. forces said on Wednesday. Investigations into massive suicide bombings in Baghdad on Oct. 25, in which more than 150 people died, indicated that explosives or fighters were coming across from Syria, U.S. General...
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Chippshots (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Thus reads the headline in today's NY Times , but the actual word used by Obama's press secretary Robert Gibbs is "dismayed." "Dismayed." Oh my goodness! The US must be really angry. Better watch out, Mr. Netanyahu. (Actually, as Haaretz correspondent Akiva Eldar notes today, Netanyahu knows that when it comes to construction in East Jerusalem, he can do just about whatever he wants....
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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
" Iraqi border police turned a Qatari Emir home as he tried to enter the country for a hunting spree. Sheikh Jaber al-Khalifa al-Thani reached Iraq’s border in the southern city of Basra with a motorcade of more than 20 vehicles but was not allowed to enter. The Sheikh had obtained approval from the ministries of interior and foreign affairs but the permission was later overruled by Prime...
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Iraqi Mojo (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
'Before the war, Christians were a learned, professional class that enjoyed civilian jobs and some deference from former dictator Saddam Hussein. But like Kassab himself, many fled during the 1980s to avoid conscription into Saddam’s Ba’ath Party, and the dictator’s treatment of Christians became increasingly erratic and brutal as he became more paranoid and unstable through the 1990s....
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Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Iraq’s political system, the result of a U.S.-supported election process, is increasingly characterized by peaceful competition rather than violence, but sectarianism and ethnic and factional infighting have not been fully resolved. Some believe that Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki, strengthened politically by the January 31, 2009, provincial elections, is increasingly authoritarian, in part to...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Iraqi leaders called on Monday for fundamental changes to be made to a huge public administration riddled with corruption, and for this to be accompanied by broader economic reforms. Now that the "challenges of security and restoring stability have been identified," the new priority was state sector reforms with recruitment based on "professionalism," said Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki....
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Baghdad - An Iraqi lawmaker and former security advisor to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has accused Gulf states of financing Baathist insurgents, in an interview with Baghdad's al-Sabah newspaper Monday. Some officials in Gulf countries provide fun...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
In response to the articles published on 11 November regarding the ruling by an Iraqi court to award damages to the prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, for an article written by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and published in the Guardian in April, the Islamic Dawa party (IDP) wishes to clarify that the prime minister and his office have categorically denied any involvement in the court case and its proceedings....
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
The senior fellow at the Center for New Politics and Policy (USA) and moderate opines : "The Iraqi legislature’s November 8 approval of a new election law and agreement to hold parliamentary elections before January 31, 2010 are bringing all the major problems in Baghdad to a head. Although President Obama praised Iraq’s parliament saying its action will keep U.S. troop withdrawals...
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Cedric's Big Mix (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL-AID TABLE CELEBRITY IN CHIEF BARRY O GIGGLED WHEN CONFRONTED BY THESE REPORTERS ABOUT HIS DEEP AND GROVELING BOW TO JAPANESE EMPEROR AKIHITO AND EMPRESS MICHIKO IN TOKYO AND THE WHITE HOUSE'S ATTEMPTS TO SPIN THAT THEY BOTH BOWED WHEN VIDEO SHOWS THAT ONLY BARRY O BOWED . "IF THAT VIDEO SHOCKS YOU," BARRY O GIGGLED, "JUST WAIT UNTIL...
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Pen and Sword (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Our counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine is a sham. The Army and Marine Corps counterinsurgency field manual says “The primary objective of any COIN operation is to foster development of effective governance by a legitimate government.” A pretty good rule of thumb in political science says that if you have effective governance by a legitimate government, you don’t have an insurgency....
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Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Iraqi MP Maysoon Al-Damluji Maysoon Al-Damluji, Iraqi MP with the faction headed by former prime minister Ayad Allawi, condemned what she termed "the constitutional violations committed by [Iraqi Prime Minister] Nouri Al-Maliki" by exploiting ... November 13, 2009, 11:33 am
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Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
We need to disabuse ourselves of several untruths being told about our war efforts in Afghanistan. One is that we are fighting for democracy. Democracy is fine for Norway and Denmark but it is bad in war-torn places that are undeveloped because it becomes a patronage system for kickbacks being handed out to corrupt insiders. What we want is a competent government that can secure its own boundaries...
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