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• Letter from Kurdistan

  
  Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead — Authority: 517
  Over twenty one years ago, the Saddam regime attacked the town of Halabja with chemical weapons, instantly poisoning to death 5000 men, women and children, mostly civilian. Some survivors were taken to Iranian hospitals just on the other side of the border, one such survivor, only four months old at the time was ...
  2 days ago

• Election law, more confusing information

  
  Roads to Iraq — Authority: 473
  We stay with the election, but away from the election law crisis (as they call it), there one important development day: As expected, the political Bloc “Iraq Unity” chose Bolani as the Chairman of the Bloc, former Parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani as the General Secretary , Abdul-Ghafoor Samarrai, Ahmad ...
  2 days ago

• FRIDAY UPDATES: TURKISH LOBBY, ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, KURDS

  
  Rast — Authority: 104
  "No national security considerations can be an excuse for the annihilation of a population by means of forced displacement and massacres." ~ DTP parliamentarian Selahattin Demirtaş on the Armenian Genocide. A few updates: First, Sibel Edmonds, Peter B. Collins, and I have a chat together over at Sibels place . ...
  3 days ago

• Les pétrodollars du lobby kurde, par Gilles Munier

  
  EUROPE TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS — Authority: 435
   paru dans Afrique-Asie et France-Irak actualité http://www.france-irak-actualite.com/article-lobby-kurde-40540654.html   Les pétrodollars du lobby kurde par Gilles Munier (Afrique Asie – décembre 2009) Rien ne va plus pour Peter Galbraith, ancien ambassadeur américain en Croatie et ...
  4 days ago

• OPPRESSION: CONTINUED . . .

  
  Rast — Authority: 104
  "A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man." ~ Tacitus. Having mentioned the murder of Kurds in Iran by the mullahs yesterday , its rather coincidental that the following was in my inbox today: I am a twenty-seven year Kurdish woman who has been sentenced to death by the Iranian Judiciary ...
  6 days ago

• Blackwater’s Secret War in Pakistan

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 578
  By JEREMY SCAHILLAt a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, ...
  1 week ago

• HYPOCRISY AND MURDER

  
  Rast — Authority: 104
  "I have never been afraid of death, even now that I feel it closest to me. I can sense it and Im familiar with it, for it is an old acquaintance of this land and this people." ~ Ehsan Fattahian. Awww . . . Boo-Hooo-Hooooo! The mullahtocracy has seized Shirin Ebadis Nobel prize medal : Iran has confiscated the ...
  1 week ago

• Resting at Habur Gate

  
  America's North Shore Journal — Authority: 130
  As convoys escort trucks across the border between Turkey and Iraq, Soldiers take advantage of one of Iraqs most accommodating cities to rest between missions.Service members and local nationals at Habur Gate operate a former hotel building, converted into a place where Soldiers eat, sleep, relax and recover while ...
  1 week ago

• kurdish FILMMAKER EXCECUTED IN IRAN BREAKING NEWS ! FILM NAME: Ciao Bella Partisan

  
  iBlognDax - World News and Current Events — Authority: 138
  The kurdish man who made film for the Italian revolutionary song (Bella Ciao) Executed in Iran , - Ehsan fattahian, 28 years old young Kurdish film maker & partisan executed by Iranian regime on 11/11/2009. He completed his film called (Ciao Bella partisan ) & (çaw bella in kurdish) on beginning of year 2008 ...
  1 week ago

• Thursday: 9 Iraqis Killed, 43 Wounded

  
  Antiwar.com Original — Authority: 143
  On the eve of Eid al-Adha, at least nine Iraqis were killed and 43 more wounded. The holiday, which commemorates Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son, is set to begin Friday for Sunnis and Saturday for Shi’ites.
  1 week ago

• BirdCouple does Kurdistan!!!!

  
  The Birdcouple — Authority: 117
  They made this one for us, darling. Happy Thanksgiving. Wish you were here. Or I was there. (This picture was taken -- where else? -- at a checkpoint).
  1 week ago

• Tuesday: 6 Iraqis Killed, 11 Wounded

  
  Antiwar.com Original — Authority: 143
  Updated at 8:55 p.m. EST, Nov. 24, 2009The Independent High Electoral Commission warned that it would not set a new election date until the debate over the elections law is over. At least six Iraqis were killed and 11 more were wounded in light violence.
  1 week ago

• Editorial: Turkey and the Kurds

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  Turkey’s plan to grant long-denied rights to its Kurdish minority, despite opposition from nationalist politicians, is a show of courage and good sense.
  2 weeks ago

• Eni to buy Heritage Oils Ugandan interests for 1.5bn

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  Italian energy giant Eni has agreed to buy Heritage Oils Ugandan interests for up to 1.5bn £903m after the UK group walked away from a merger with Turkeys Genel.
  2 weeks ago

• Cutting out a role for China

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  By Dr Shabir ChoudhryLondon: Statement of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq regarding a role of China in Kashmir dispute has surprised many. We people of Jammu and Kashmir are in limbo mainly because we are occupied by three countries, although it was only two who were considered party to the Kashmir dispute.With exception of ...
  2 weeks ago

• CREW Calls On State Dept. To Probe Galbraith Over Kurdish Oil Dealings

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 617
  Talking Points Memo reports : A good government group is calling on the State Department to investigate the role of former ambassador Peter Galbraith in drafting Iraq’s constitution in 2005 while he held a lucrative stake in a Kurdish oil field. The letter from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington ...
  2 weeks ago

• Iraq Election Law Vetoed by Sunni Vice President

  
  Kishkushim ?????? ???????? — Authority: 112
  BY AMOS Last week , the Iraqi parliament passed an elections law that was to have resolved some of the contentious issues surrounding voter eligibility. But today, one of Iraqs two vice presidents, Tariq al-Hashimi , vetoed the bill. Hashimi belongs to the Iraqi Islamic Party, a Sunni Islamist coalition. He ...
  2 weeks ago

• What if the Kurds boycott the election?

  
  Roads to Iraq — Authority: 473
  Just when everybody started to celebrate (especially the Americans) the approval of the election law, the Kurds opposed the law once again to take the discussion back to the start point. Barazani threatened to boycott the election if the Kurds demands are not met, which are: - corrects number of the population of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Blair, Panetta Clash Over Who Controls Pakistan Drones

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Marc Ambinder has a seriously detailed curtain-raiser on a turf war that’s roiled the intelligence community for months. Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, and Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, have clashed over who controls the top U.S. intelligence officer in various foreign countries. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tuesday: 8 Iraqis Killed, 17 Wounded

  
  Antiwar.com Original — Authority: 143
  At least eight Iraqis were killed and 17 more were wounded in new attacks. Perhaps in hopes of further reducing violence, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered security forces to allow citizens to keep one piece of light arms in their homes.
  2 weeks ago

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