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• New Election Law in Iraq

  
  Kishkushim ?????? ???????? — Authority: 110
  BY AMOS The Iraqi parliament passed a crucial elections law yesterday, which is said to end a political stalemate that had prevented any progress on the road to holding new elections. The electoral law specifically addresses the thorny issue of voter lists in Kirkuk , the oil-rich city in northern Iraq, home to a ...
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• The election law today

  
  Roads to Iraq — Authority: 475
  - The only reason not reported in the Times “Iraq Government bans alcohol sale” is reported here few weeks ago “The opposition’s strategy to crash Maliki’s government“.- What is going on right now on the election law is following:US ambassador in Iraq Christopher R. Hill came with a plan which is rejected ...
  1 week ago

• Kirkuk deadlock continues

  
  Roads to Iraq — Authority: 475
  Despite the special treatment in visit to Washington, it seems that the Americans insist to make Maliki’s life more miserable than it already is. Influential Kurdish MP Mahmoud Uthman said today the following:Kurds have received a green light from the U.S. embassy to include Kirkuk to the Kurdistan region if the ...
  1 week ago

• Last chapter of the occupation?

  
  Needlenose — Authority: 121
  Juan Cole discusses some of the fall-out from the latest blast in Mess-o-potamia .  Given that the blast wounded some members of the Iraqi parliament, Hadi al-Ameri, a member of parliament rightly asks: “We’ve heard a lot of brouhaha about successes on the security front,” he said. “Where are these ...
  2 weeks ago

• Last chapter on the occupation?

  
  Needlenose — Authority: 121
  Juan Cole discusses some of the fall-out from the latest blast in Mess-o-potamia .  Given that the blast wounded some members of the Iraqi parliament, Hadi al-Ameri, a member of parliament rightly asks: “We’ve heard a lot of brouhaha about successes on the security front,” he said. “Where are these ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bombs made inside the Green Zone

  
  Roads to Iraq — Authority: 475
  First – There are excellent reports, studies and analysis about this wave of explosions, I will published them all in the coming days.Second – You should read this report from Aki: “Deadly car bombs ‘made inside’ Green Zone” (h/t uruknet) – Maybe the people at Inside Iraq can some answers – (Maliki ...
  2 weeks ago

• Foreign Affairs Roundup - Friday, October 23, 2009

  
  Simple Intelligence — Authority: 103
  The Past Two Week’s Top Stories in International Affairs:The Real Deal with IranThe 5+1 (UN Permanent Security Council Members plus Germany) were able to reach a draft agreement with Iran, wherein the majority of its enriched uranium will be exported to Russia to be converted into nuclear fuel (thus rendering ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kirkuk discussion

  
  Roads to Iraq — Authority: 475
  First – The ISCI liked the Sadrists’ pre-election nomination idea and started their own pre-election to choose candidates to compete for the coming election.What is going on in the Parliament for days (and I think this will take at least a week) is that the Presidency of the Parliament hold meetings with the heads ...
  3 weeks ago

• Six policemen killed in Iraq attacks

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Baghdad, Oct 18 (DPA) Six Iraqi policemen were killed and 12 injured Saturday in separate attacks near the Iraqi cities of Falluja and Kirkuk.In Falluja, four policemen were killed and 10 wounded when a bomb targeted their truck, security sources told DPA.In the northern city of Kirkuk, two policemen were killed and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Joint U.S.-Iraq-Kurdish Patrols In Disputed Areas Remains A Political Football

  
  The Ground Truth in Iraq — Authority: 126
  In mid-August 2009, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq General Ray Odierno proposed joint U.S.-Iraqi-Kurdish patrols in Ninewa . The Americans made the proposal after a series of mass casualty bombings rocked the province . The offer was later extended to all of the disputed territories in northern Iraq. The idea ...
  5 weeks ago

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