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Iraqi Elections Likely To Fuel Ethnic Tensions, Further Delay Access To Kirkuk’s Reserves

Iraqi Elections Likely To Fuel Ethnic Tensions, Further Delay Access To Kirkuk's Reserves

The elections in Iraq on March 7, 2010, are likely to serve as an important indicator of the prospects for a resolution of the long-running dispute over the administration of the ethnically mixed and resource-rich province of Kirkuk in the north of the (...)

8 Mar. 2010 | | Staffjam

Goodbye to ’Churchillism’: from Munich and Suez to the Iraq war

Goodbye to 'Churchillism': from Munich and Suez to the Iraq war

Gordon Brown’s role in the Iraq war will come under focus today when he gives evidence to the Chilcot inquiry. By Gerry Hassan. The Iraq war is the point where Tony Blair lost his political touch, and became ‘Bliar’ in the eyes of many (...)

5 Mar. 2010 | | openDemocracy

Iraq Awards Drilling Contract as it Reaches for Ambitious Oil Production Target

Iraq Awards Drilling Contract as it Reaches for Ambitious Oil Production Target

Iraq announced a $318 million contract with a unit of Turkish Petroleum to drill 45 wells in the supergiant Rumaila oilfield as the country strives to regain and even surpass pre-war production levels. With the third-largest proven oil reserves in the (...)

3 Mar. 2010 | 1 comment | Staffjam

Tide Turns As Kurds Push For Oil Law Amid South’s Sudden Bright Future

Tide Turns As Kurds Push For Oil Law Amid South's Sudden Bright Future

For a long time, the northern Kurdistan region was seen as the most attractive oil market in the country but the latest bid rounds in December and subsequent contract signings in the south have made it suddenly “less clear that Baghdad actually (...)

25 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | Staffjam

U.S. – Iran Power Struggle over Iraq

U.S. – Iran Power Struggle over Iraq

A secure, stable and democratic Iraq will have first to wait for an end to the raging power struggle over Iraq between the United States and Iran inside and outside the occupied Arab country. By Nicola Nasser* U.S. Ambassador Christopher Hill’s (...)

18 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | nicola

‘Chemical Ali’ hanged in Iraq

‘Chemical Ali' hanged in Iraq

Saddam Hussein henchman Ali Hassan al-Majeed, aka Chemical Ali, was executed today for crimes against humanity, says Iraq government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh. He’d received four death sentences “leading up to Monday’s hanging for crimes (...)

26 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Jon Newton

Iraq Oil Output to Rival Saudi Arabia, if…

Iraq Oil Output to Rival Saudi Arabia, if…

After decades of dictatorship, war and international sanctions, Iraq’s massive oil reserves are set to be tapped proper. If the seven oil projects awarded to foreign oil companies this weekend, and the three from an auction earlier this year, (...)

29 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Staffjam

U.S. Creates Its Antithesis in Iraq

U.S. Creates Its Antithesis in Iraq

By Nicola Nasser* Nowhere it is more obvious than in Iraq that the existence of an election law, elections themselves and the constitution they are based on are not indicators of democracy or legitimacy, because these mechanisms are merely symbols of the (...)

16 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | nicola

Unswayed by Political Risks, Oil Companies Eye Iraq’s Multibillion-Barrel Prize

As multinational military forces have left Iraq, international petroleum companies have eagerly descended — seduced by the long-term potential of vast oil reserves off-limits to foreigners for decades. Yet lingering violence, legal questions and (...)

9 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Staffjam

KSM, New York City and My Growing Isolationism

KSM, New York City and My Growing Isolationism

680 miles. That’s how far I drove on Friday between our house outside of Philadelphia and our future hometown of Charleston, South Carolina. That’s also the distance between Karachi, Pakistan and Kabul, Afghanistan. And, interestingly enough, (...)

16 nov. 2009 | | Jeff Schreiber

Two Vietnam’s for Obama : Bush’s gifts to Obama just keep on coming !

Two Vietnam's for Obama : Bush's gifts to Obama just keep on coming !

Iraqi’s Mourn After Worst Bombings in 2 Years. 14 Americans killed in chopper crashes. In Iraq and Afghanistan it is Horrific and Horrific and don’t forget Pakistan ! As you know, three helicopters just crashed in Afghanistan killing 14 (...)

29 oct. 2009 | | James Joiner

Security, Reconciliation in Iraq Are Irreconcilable

Security, Reconciliation in Iraq Are Irreconcilable

In the end, negotiating the U.S. exit strategy with al-Baath and the Iraqi resistance, the real enemy, could prove the only viable way out of Iraq for the United States. By Nicola Nasser* Insecurity in Iraq is in - built in the U.S. - conceived (...)

16 Oct. 2009 | | nicola

Dispatches From The Wars : Iraq Lost. Iran Won. So Where’s That Leave U.S. ?

Dispatches From The Wars : Iraq Lost. Iran Won. So Where's That Leave U.S. ?

Long story short, things are looking downright sucky in the two wars that President Obama inherited. Beyond the firestorm over the discovery of a nuclear fuel-processing plant and the threat of sanctions against the slimy Tehran regime is a back story (...)

5 oct. 2009 | | Shaun Mullen

Who died?

Who died?

Erik Prince runs an outfit (Blackwater, aka Xe) that I wish didn’t exist. His style of politically connected war profiteering is a danger to democratic values and to military success. The evidence seems to show that the operating procedures of (...)

6 Aug. 2009 | | Mark Kleiman

Blackwater Founder and Murder ? Erik Prince in Trouble

Do read this article...damn amazing..and yet really not so shocking...( I am waiting to see if Blackwater Thugs and Criminals were hired by Cheney,that is what I am waiting for) ...but Jeremy Scahill did an amazing job with this article...and he was on (...)

5 Aug. 2009 | | Enigma4ever

Kurdistan’s ’Change’ Claims Advance in Sulaimaniya ; US Withdrawal From Iraq Could be Affected by Kurdish-Arab Conflict

Kurdistan's 'Change' Claims Advance in Sulaimaniya ; US Withdrawal From Iraq Could be Affected by Kurdish-Arab Conflict

On Sunday, the Change List in the Kurdistan Regional Government elections made the startling claim that it had won in Sulaimaniya, a long time stronghold of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan of aging Iraqi president Jalal Talabani. Noshirvan Mustafa, the (...)

27 jui. 2009 | | Juan Cole

Al-Maliki’s Goals on his American Visit

Al-Maliki's Goals on his American Visit

What did Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki want from his visit to New York City and Washington, DC ? Al-Zaman [The Times of Baghdad] makes some suggestions in this regard. First, he wants the United Nations Security Council to remove Iraq altogether from (...)

23 jui. 2009 | | Juan Cole

The Future of Iraq, Part IV

The Future of Iraq, Part IV

Getting an accurate reading of Iraqi public opinion is hard. It might be impossible. I’ve seen Iraqis cheer American soldiers, and I’ve seen some Iraqis hug American soldiers in Fallujah, Ramadi, and Baghdad. A few weeks ago, though, hundreds (...)

23 Jul. 2009 | | Michael J. Totten

The Future of Iraq, Part III

The Future of Iraq, Part III

On my last trip to Iraq, I asked a number of Americans and Iraqis what they think about the future in that country. Around half were optimistic and half were pessimistic. This is the third installment in a four-part series. Optimists were quoted at length (...)

10 Jul. 2009 | | Michael J. Totten

Remembering McNamara’s Catharsis: A Mortal Man Cast Into A Giant’s Role

Remembering McNamara's Catharsis: A Mortal Man Cast Into A Giant's Role

Is it revisionism or an old man who speaks with the wisdom of age and hindsight? — JEN ROSENBERG With the death yesterday of Robert S. McNamara, the JFK-LBJ era defense secretary and Vietnam War architect, my thoughts segue quickly to another (...)

7 Jul. 2009 | | Shaun Mullen

Iraqis Project Hopes, Fears onto Biden ; Biden Firm that US will Engage Iran ; If Israel wants an Attack, must carry it out Itself

Iraqis Project Hopes, Fears onto Biden ; Biden Firm that US will Engage Iran ; If Israel wants an Attack, must carry it out Itself

The top myths in the press this weekend about Vice President Joe Biden are that he was rebuffed in Iraq when he offered his good offices with regard to effecting Arab-Kurdish reconciliation, and that he gave Israel a green light to attack Iran. Neither (...)

6 jui. 2009 | 1 comment | Juan Cole

Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan, Sobering personal thoughts!

Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan, Sobering personal thoughts!

I see more and more as our leaving the cities got closer what I saw as a fact the day the idiot ignored all good advice against attacking Iraq and that is an all out war Sunni against Shiite and don’t forget the Kurd’s and other sects then (...)

2 Jul. 2009 | | James Joiner

Cheney Worries about Wasting the Sacrifices made in Iraq on behalf of Big Oil

Cheney Worries about Wasting the Sacrifices made in Iraq on behalf of Big Oil

Dick Cheney reacted to the cessation of unilateral US patrols of major cities in Iraq, saying that he had concerns that the "insurgents" might launch more attacks and that “I would not want to see the U.S. waste all the tremendous (...)

2 jui. 2009 | | Juan Cole

The American End Game In Iraq Begins: Praying For A Whimper, Fearing A Bang

The American End Game In Iraq Begins: Praying For A Whimper, Fearing A Bang

The first thing that I’m going to note about the pullout this week of U.S. troops from major cities in Iraq is that I don’t know exactly what will happen next, but none of it is likely to be good. I do know that this important first step in (...)

1 Jul. 2009 | | Shaun Mullen

With a Whimper, not a Bang ; A Milestone on the Way to the End of American Iraq

With a Whimper, not a Bang ; A Milestone on the Way to the End of American Iraq

T.S. Eliot wrote at the end of "Hollow Men" in 1926, "This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper." He may as well have been talking about the war George W. Bush launched in Iraq in 2003. The end of routine, (...)

30 jui. 2009 | | Juan Cole

Iraq Ahead of US in Stem Cell Research and Treatment

While America continues to waste put its money into Embryonic Stem Cell research, a doctor in Iraq is actually treating patients with their own Adult Stem Cells. Dr. Abdul Majeed Alwan Hammadi is treating patients for free- and has so far treated 34 (...)

16 jui. 2009 | | Don Margolis

Book Review: ’The Gamble’: How One Man Saved The American Mission In Iraq

Book Review: 'The Gamble': How One Man Saved The American Mission In Iraq

"The Stampede," Frederick Remington’s iconic Wild West painting, is an apt metaphor for the Surge, the dramatically successful shift in strategy and tactics implemented in Iraq in 2007 under the direction of Army General David Petraeus. (...)

9 Jun. 2009 | 4 comments | Shaun Mullen

US Soldier Killed ; Abu Ghraib Photos show Rape

US Soldier Killed ; Abu Ghraib Photos show Rape

Iraqi guerrillas deployed a roadside bomb to kill a US soldier in Baghdad on Wednesday. Guerrillas have killed at least 20 US troops in May, compared to only 9 last March. The Daily Telegraph reveals that the unreleased photographs of prisoner abuse at (...)

28 mai. 2009 | | Juan Cole

The Future of Iraq, Part II

The Future of Iraq, Part II

The first time I visited Baghdad, I only stayed for a week. The place stressed me out. The surge was only just then beginning, and though I never was shot at personally, I often heard the sound of gunfire in the background. One night, shadowy militiamen (...)

27 mai. 2009 | | Michael J. Totten

The Future of Iraq, Part I

The Future of Iraq, Part I

During my last trip to Baghdad I tried to figure out if the worst in Iraq is over or if the dramatic reduction in violence is just a long lull. Half the Iraqis and half the Americans I spoke to were optimistic. The other half think Iraq is probably (...)

12 May. 2009 | | Michael J. Totten

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