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 [A Daily Briefing on Iran] Iraq and the Democratization of the Middle East: . The growth of satellite television channels and the internet has brought the Iraqi experience into almost every Arab living room and tea house. In Cairo, Sana”˜a, and Algiers, ordinary residents can watch the progress of Iraq's political rebirth. Stations like Al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya may seek to color their coverage with their own political biases, but Arabs suffering through dictatorships can nevertheless witness contested elections and a rebirth of political rights. The spread of the internet has also made the vibrant debates on the editorial pages of Iraqi papers like az-Zaman and al-Mutamar accessible to those whose local papers filter news through a myriad of government censors.

[The Naked Truth] Miller Didn’t Start The Fire: to be straight reporting to me and I think it’s something that many of us die-hard anti-Iraq-War...: “Iraq Has Network of Outside Help on Arms, Experts Say”(November 1998) “U.S. Says Iraq Aided Production of Chemical Weapons in Sudan”(August 1998) “Iraq Suspected of Secret Germ War Effort

 [ThinkingBlue] 2000TH DEATH: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ JUST IN FROM CNN: US troop death toll in Iraq hits 2,000

 [FPF - HENK RUYSSENAARS] Thought control and 'professional' journalism - Part 1: It would, for example, be professional suicide for a reporter to continue raising the issue of the Lancet report, or the lure of oil in Iraq, in press conference after press conference, or via news reports in the Guardian, against the flow of the official news agenda. All it needs is for the government, or an editor, to apply the label 'crusading”š and a journalist can become „radioactive''.

[netwmd.com - The War to Mobilize Democracy] Iraq and the Democratization of the Middle East: Iraqi Kurds insist not only that a new constitution enshrine the virtual autonomy they have enjoyed since 1991 in the three governorates of northern Iraq, but also an extension of their federal region to encompass the oil fields of Kirkuk, the farmlands and orchards of Sinjar, and borderlands south of the Hamreen Mountains. Non-Kurdish politicians have balked not only at Kurdish expansionism, but also at Kurdish leader Masud Barzani’s insistence that the Kurdistan region become a no-go area for the Iraqi army, and that Kurdish militia alone man border and customs posts along the region’s borders with Turkey, Syria, and Iran.

 [Stuarthughes.blogspot.com] BEYOND NORTHERN IRAQ: STUHUGHESIRAQ@MAIL.COM: We crossed the ridge at Chamchamal where a few days ago Iraqi troops peeled back towards Kirkuk. Just as we stopped to take some pictures we heard a whistle and a zooming sound and a large artillery shell came down about 50 yards from us, forcing us to dive for cover.

[Cyberjournalist.net] Iraq WarBlog - CyberJournalist.net - Iraq WarBlog:: Later in the day nytimes.com posted a slide show shot by Jaff and exclusive video footage from inside. In this two-minute video, Jaff interviews Sheikh Hazem al-Araji, an aide to Moktada al-Sadr, who says, "If peace is not one of the options, we are ready to fight and ready to protect our city." In the feature, Jaff takes readers behind the lines, into the center of the mosque, to show today's activities, including a funeral procession for two people who were recently killed in the standoff.

[Growabrain.typepad.com] growabrain: War in Iraq Archives: The money, fresh $100 bills shrink-wrapped on pallets, which filled three Blackhawk helicopters, came from oil sales under the UN’s Oil for Food Programme, and had been entrusted by the UN Security Council to the Americans to be spent on behalf of the Iraqi people. The CPA didn’t properly check out the courier before handing over the cash, and, as a result, according to an audit report by the CPA’s inspector general, ”˜there was an increased risk of the loss or theft of the cash.’ Paul Bremer, the American pro-consul in Baghdad until June last year, kept a slush fund of nearly $600 million cash for which there is no paperwork: $200 million of this was kept in a room in one of Saddam’s former palaces, and the US soldier in charge used to keep the key to the room in his backpack, which he left on his desk when he popped out for lunch.

 [Armscontrolwonk.com] ArmsControlWonk | an arms control weblog: iraq: It remains possible that the violent process of attrition now occurring will eventually turn in our favor and that those in Iraq who primarily want personal security and economic opportunity will be able to forge a political system able to establish basic legal order. It is at least as probable, however, and very likely more so that the insurgency generated by United States occupation will prove to be the social equivalent of a lethal infection as violent dissidents infiltrate and abort the efforts to establish viable Iraqi institutions.

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