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[Peace and Freedom '08] Iraq Awards Oil Contracts: The deal paves the way for global energy giants to return to Iraq 36 years after late dictator Saddam Hussein chased them out, and is seen as a first step to access the earth’s third largest proven crude reserves.
[Expressyoureself's Weblog] Country profile: Iraq: He heads the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), one of the two main Kurdish parties in northern Iraq. The first non-Arab to head an Arab state, he promised to work with all ethnic and religious factions to rebuild Iraq.
[Main and Central] Iraq and Iran sign MoU: An intelligence official said Habib also was the INC official who handled most of the Iraqi defectors, including one code-named "Curveball," who provided much of the fabricated, exaggerated and unconfirmed information about Iraqi weapons programs and links to terrorism that President Bush used in making his case for invading Iraq.
[Untitled] send a book, build democracy: Here is some background: In 2006, the McKinsey consulting group was hired by my friend Barham Salih, the deputy prime minister of Iraq, to produce a business plan for a university along the lines of the existing success stories of the American Universities in Cairo and Beirut. The board of trustees includes Ayad Allawi, Iraq’s former prime minister, Fouad Ajami of Johns Hopkins, Kanan Makiya of Brandeis, and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.
[International Military Forums] War News Is Better, But Obstacles In Iraq Remain: "Now you see blast walls being taken down and Marines and local Iraqis able to run in a 5K run with minimal security," said Eric Davis, the author of Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq.
[Librarians-Crossing] The Guardian Interview with Saad Eskander: This private, non-profit group of rightwing Iraqi scholars earlier this year signed a deal with conservative think tank the Hoover Institution whereby seven million pages of records and other artefacts from Saddam’s tenure as Iraqi president - taken from the Ba’ath party offices and dungeons by Makiya in the aftermath of the US-led invasion in 2003 - will house the collection for the next five years at buildings in Stanford University. Makiya said recently that the documents will ultimately be returned to Iraq.
[Walash's Weblog] The Vast Power of the Saudi Lobby: In March 1974, the oil embargo was lifted without any conditions concerning Palestinian rights. Today, as the Shi’ism scholar Amal Saad-Ghorayeb told Mohamad Bazzi, of Newsday, “the Saudis are being more autonomous, but it’s a very contrived sense of autonomy”
[Dans Blog] Is there a Future For Christianity in Iraq?: In February 2008, a delegation from Pax Christi, the international Catholic organization for peace, traveled to northern Iraq, visiting 26 different communities, mostly in Kurdistan, but also in Karmah, Qaraqosh and Kirkuk. The aim of the trip was to express solidarity between the Christians in Europe and the Christians in Iraq.
[Gordon & Yu-ching Anderson] Traveling in Kurdistan: Although much of Iraq is mired in war and violence, the largely autonomous Kurdish region in the north has enjoyed relative safety and prosperity. In 1991, allied forces that battled Iraq when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait instituted a safety zone in the north, providing some security for the Kurds, who were brutally oppressed by Saddam.
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[Darshanfawn's Weblog] The Undirected Upping As for Lunar waste Cronies: In like manner Jackson formed the”Quorum with the Boosting as to Iraq,” and its legation intelligence former alter was”formed up to lift dialectal Peace of God, autonomous sweep and all-pervading firmness abreast replacing the Saddam .
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