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[HoodaThunk?] Chrenkoff reports: Good News from Iraq, Part 29: In spite of a constant threat from the various insurgencies over the past year, Iraqi government agencies, political parties, and civil society organizations have gradually expanded their capabilities and activities. They will tell you how much more they could have done had they not been constrained by security threats or - almost as important - the lack of reliable infrastructure, but what they have accomplished already is admirable, as is their unflagging determination in the face of these threats and constraints.
[Liberating Iraq] Good News from Chrenkoff: A government statement said Hamadi was an Islamic extremist who runs a group called the Lewa al-Numan--the Numan Regiment--in the town of Ramadi. The group is said to be responsible for attacks on civilians and the security forces, and Hamadi himself accused of killings and of a series of kidnappings of officials and businessmen, with the aim of collecting ransom money to fund his own group and also to provide other insurgent organisations with funds and weapons."
[Winds of Change.NET] Good news from Iraq, 13 June 2005: Meanwhile, the Iraqi authorities in Basra are working on a range of water infrastructure projects: "Water Department staff in Al-Basra province continues carrying out new water projects in the province to increase the quantity of potable water pumped daily to citizens of the province in a $40.000.000 cost. Engineer Abed Sitar Akef, director of water department, said 'personals of the department undertook changing 10 projects installed in city center, the ability of one of them reach to a quarter million gallon daily, with 1 million gallon projects to become the quantity of supplied water from these projects 10 million gallons daily.
[THE WAR IN CONTEXT:: Iraq, the War on Terrorism, and the Middle East Conflict - in Critical Perspective] Noteworthy articles from the last seven plus day...: Bush that they are entitled to legal counsel and due process, but Amnesty noted that the detainees have not been provided with lawyers in secret administrative reviews to determine if they are "enemy combatants." And the more than 50,000 detainees being held in 25 prisons in Afghanistan and 17 prisons in Iraq are "routinely denied access to lawyers and families." An unknown number of people have disappeared into secret prisons -- having been "rendered" to U.S. allies like Uzbekistan, where torture is routine. The Amnesty report called this shrouded network "the gulag of our time," and concluded that the administration's methods are counterproductive: "The 'war on terror' appeared more effective in eroding international human rights principles than in countering international 'terrorism.'" [complete article]
[Chrenkoff.blogspot.com] Chrenkoff: The problem, though, is not and has never been a few extremists with their ten euros contributions, but the mainstream of the European politics - left-wing but not exclusively - which has tried since the beginning to sabotage the project of the liberation of Iraq. That has proven so far to be lot more dangerous than anything that the far-left "pass the hat" could buy.
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[Jihadwatch.org] Jihad Watch: and Basra, which the India Office insisted be included, because it was seen as a .Islamic Jihad leaders running scared: "God has ordered us to take care .
[Uga.edu] Muslims, Islam, and Iraq: Then, in 1986, the Islamic Movement of Iraqi Kurdistan (IMIK) --Bizutnewey Islami le Kurdistani Iraq (Kurdish) and al-Haraka al-Islamiyya fi Kurdistan al-'Iraq (Arabic) -- was founded by a group of Sunni religious leaders (mullahs) who had been affiliated with a non-political organization called the "Union of Religious Scholars" (Yaketi Mamostayani Ayni Islami -- in Kurdish-- and Ittihad 'Ulama ' al-Din --in Arabic). Among these mullahs was Shaykh 'Uthman 'Abd al-'Aziz, whom IMIK appointed as their mufti (one who is empowered to make fatwas, which are religiously binding decrees) (UK, "Country Assessment") and who was considered to be the "main spiritual guide" of the movement (Shourush, "Islamic Fundamentalist Movements").
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