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• American Adviser to Kurds Stands to Reap Oil Profits

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Peter W. Galbraith.
  8 hours ago

• Iran executes Kurdish activist

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Ehsan Fattahian, charged with being an enemy of God, had admitted membership of a banned opposition group Iran has reportedly executed a Kurdish political activist charged with being an "enemy of God", ignoring pleas from international human rights groups for his death sentence to be revoked. Ehsan Fattahian, 27, ...
  19 hours ago

• The Iraqi Elections: Same Names, Different Teams

  
  At War — Authority: 132
  Iraq is getting ready for new elections, but will that bring any real change to the country?
  19 hours ago

• Iran Executes Kurdish Activist

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Iran hung a Kurdish activist, Ehsan Fattahian, on Wednesday, who had been accused of “armed struggle against the regime.”
  19 hours ago

• Iran: Ehsan Fattahian hanged early this morning

  
  Death Penalty News — Authority: 480
  According to reliable sources in Iran, the Kurdish political prisoner Ehsan Fattahian was hanged in Sanandaj today [Nov. 11, 2009]. The numerous campaigns by the local and international human rights groups to stop his execution did not give any result. He was executed in the prison of Sanandaj this morning. Mahmood ...
  1 day ago

• Ehsan Fattahian was Hanged this Morning in Iran

  
  Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead — Authority: 519
  According to several reports from Iran, Ehsan Fattahian was executed early this morning in Sanandaj Central Prison. The mobilization of people to this effort has been amazing. Within a couple of days, over 10,000 people signed an online petition calling to stop the execution. Amnesty International, Human ...
  1 day ago

• Did you know that the Israeli command and operation center for target assassinations is based in Kirkuk and do the Iraqis know why the Israeli rush for property acquisitions in Kirkuk?

  
  EUROPE TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS — Authority: 482
  English translation of Wajdi Anwar Mardan’s article  by Layla Anwar posted on http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/2009/11/pivotal-kirkuk-israeli-presence.html Pivotal Kirkuk & Israeli Presence. This is a rushed translation of an important article on Kirkuk written by Wajdi Anwar Mardan. Title : ...
  1 day ago

• Kurds Are Threat to Minority Groups, Rights Group Says

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Actions by Kurdish authorities are threatening minority groups in northern Iraq with “another full-blown human rights catastrophe,” according to a human rights group.
  1 day ago

• Iraq: Besieged minorities must be protected

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 488
  Human Rights Watch press release - Iraqs central government and the Kurdistan Regional Government should protect besieged minorities in the disputed territories of Nineveh province, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Human Rights Watch documented attacks by Sunni Arab extremist groups targeting ...
  2 days ago

• Editorial: Counting Forward

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  The approval of an election law by Iraq’s Parliament is good news, but neither Baghdad nor Washington should be complacent about power-sharing issues.
  2 days ago

• Iran set to Execute Kurdish Political Prisoner Ehsan Fattahian on November 11

  
  Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead — Authority: 519
  Ehsan Fattahian’s lawyer, Nassrollah Nasri, was notified on November 6 that his client will be executed on Wednesday morning, November 11, 2009, Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI) reported today. Ehsan, 27, was arrested in July 2008 and first sentenced to 10 years in exile by Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court ...
  2 days ago

• Iraqi Election Law Passes

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 513
  Reuters reports that a compromise election law was passed in the Iraqi parliament on Sunday.  The pivotal issue of voting procedures in Kirkuk, where the Kurds wanted to use an updated voter registry that reflected an increased Kurdish population and to keep Kirkuk as one voter constituency, has been ...
  2 days ago

• Should US Troops in Iraq Be Held Hostage to the Next Election?

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 483
  So why does the US still have 120,000 troops in Iraq? They arent for the most part doing patrols anymore. They are just being kept in place so that they can swing into action as soon as the election... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  5 days ago

• Iraqs Provincial Budget Expenditures - 2009

  
  The Ground Truth in Iraq — Authority: 126
  One of the major problems with the Iraqi government is its inability to spend its budget effectively. The country’s eighteen provinces do much worse than the central government in Baghdad. The new Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction’s quarterly report to Congress has the latest numbers on how ...
  6 days ago

• UPDATES FROM DIYARBAKIRS IHD OFFICE

  
  Rast — Authority: 410
  "Todays human rights violations are the causes of tomorrows conflicts." ~ Mary Robinson. Here are a couple of statements from the Diyarbakır IHD office. The first is an update on the human rights situation in the Kurdish region of Turkey: PRESS STATEMENT 27 October 2009 (Give the Republic’s biggest ...
  6 days ago

• Iraq Election Law Stalls

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 513
  The Huffington Post is reporting that the Iraqi Council of Representatives ended their session today without approving a new election law. According to the article, “the head of Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission, Faraj al-Haidari , earlier this week warned lawmakers that if they did not have an ...
  6 days ago

• Destabilizing Baluchistan, Fracturing Pakistan

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 554
  A strong, stable, and powerful Pakistan, especially one that would be independent, is not looked at in good terms by the Pentagon and NATO for many reasons. Within an Orwellian framework, Pakistan and NATO-garrisoned Afghanistan are deliberately being destabilized while there is talk about stabilizing them. Many ...
  1 week ago

• History Will Teach Us Nothing!

  
  robpetrini.com — Authority: 98
  " I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes " (Sir Winston Churchill).  History is truly a subject that people just dont seem to want to take to heart! If not, you would think that the idiotica of the past would not be ...
  1 week ago

• Abdullah Ocalan: The Kurdish People Want An Honourable Peace.

  
  Hevallo. Turkey and The Kurdish Question. — Authority: 416
  ABDULLAH OCALAN 28.10.2009 PEACE NEEDS SERIOUSNESS This is not a game, it needs a serious approach. It needs respect. Everything has been understood. The arrival of the peace groups and the Kurdish peoples’ reception and honourable stance has uncovered the government’s real face and intentions. The ...
  1 week ago

• War is hell

  
  kansas reflections — Authority: 118
  From The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army .  The book chronicles the careers of four different generals (GEN John Abizaid, GEN George Casey Jr, GEN Peter Chiarelli, and GEN David Petraeus).: A few weeks before he was scheduled to depart, Abizaid was ...
  1 week ago

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