Wikileaks' New Release: The Kissinger Cables and Bradley Manning
Source: Truthdig
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-10 15:15:10 -0700 | political-news
Apr 10, 2013 WikiLeaks has released a new trove of documents, more than 1.7 million U.S. State Department cables dating from 1973-1976, which they have dubbed The Kissinger Cables, after Henry Kissinger, who in those years served as secretary of state and...
CBI Former Governor refused granting money to PM
Source: Zawya Political
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-10 09:32:57 -0700 | political-news
The Parliamentary Committee of Integrity announced that the governor of Iraq's central bank, Sinan al-Shabibi was dismissed because he refusedto grant money to the government's head. Jawad Al-Shaheli, a member in the Parliamentary Committee of Integrity said at a news...
SAS hero Nightingale faces losing home to fund justice campaign
Source: The Sun UK
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-10 06:19:25 -0700 | political-news
44 minutes ago SAS hero Sgt Danny Nightingale faces losing his home to fund his campaign for justice, The Sun today reveals. The elite 'Who Dares Wins' sergeant faces a crippling legal bill of over £150,000 to clear his name....
Report: China, U.S. in top 5 for executions worldwide
Source: CNN
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-10 07:21:30 -0700 | political-news
There were at least 682 confirmed executions worldwide last year, two more than in 2011, according to the group. China is believed to have executed several thousand people last year, Amnesty said, but government secrecy makes it impossible to confirm...
Kansas Lt. Gov. lauded for medical work
Source: Kansas City Star
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-09 23:26:25 -0700 | political-news
April 10 The Kansas City Star Overland Park Regional Medical Center on Tuesday recognized Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer for his medical work in war-stricken regions. More News The medical center gave Colyer, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, the Frist Humanitarian...
Death penalty use falls, report says
Source: BBC
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-09 17:58:33 -0700 | political-news
Death penalty 'becoming thing of the past', says Amnesty World Affairs Correspondent, BBC News The report highlights an "alarming" rise of executions in Iraq, where numbers almost doubled last year compared to 2011 The trend toward abolishing the death penalty...
Margaret Thatcher: Crawling out of the woodwork, the old Lefties spewing bile about Lady Thatcher
Source: Mail Online UK
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-09 23:41:33 -0700 | political-news
9 April 2013 In the short time since Lady Thatcher's death, critics, enemies and former opponents have poured out a relentless stream of vitriol about her. The Guardian cartoonist showed Mrs Thatcher in a burning tomb saying: 'Why is this...
‘Saddam's fall has given Iran, Syria more power to withstand campaign against them'
Source: Russia Today
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-09 17:02:16 -0700 | political-news
Iran and Syria were among the primary beneficiaries of Saddam Hussein's ousting, Middle East expert Ali Rizk told RT...Ali Rizk: Yes, that was his opinion in an editorial that the country is better off. I think in some perspectives it...
Death penalty 2012: Despite setbacks, a death penalty-free world came closer
Source: Sudan Tribune
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-09 22:04:54 -0700 | political-news
India, Japan, Pakistan and Gambia, as well as an alarming escalation in executions in Iraq. But the use of the death penalty continues to be restricted to an isolated group of countries, and progress towards its abolition was seen in...
ITF president meets Hong Kong dockers in solidarity mission
Source: Scoop
Hīt :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-09 16:38:06 -0700 | political-news
ITF president meets with Hong Kong dockers during solidarity mission ITF president and chair of the ITF dockers' section Paddy Crumlin attended a solidarity meeting with striking dockworkers at the Port of Hong Kong this afternoon. Mr Crumlin said that...
Seeking Justice 10 years after U.S. Attack on the Palestine Hotel
Source: The Progressive
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-09 10:08:49 -0700 | political-news
Protyuk, of Reuters, and Couso, of Telecinco, were among the scores of unembedded journalists who were covering the American occupation of Baghdad live on that deadly April 8 morning when, in the space of three hours, the U.S. military attacked...
Charges for hindering Iraqi Parliament, MP
Source: Zawya Political
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-09 07:18:28 -0700 | political-news
National Assembly member charged Parliament Presidency, number of Iraqiya bloc MPs and the Kurds of hindering the work of the Parliament. MP Kareem Elaiwi, in a statement, copy received by Aswat al-Iraq today, added that the Presidency of the Parliament...
Veteran sentenced for tax evasion relating to consulting work in Iraq
Source: Kansas City Star
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-09 07:05:10 -0700 | political-news
April 9 An Iraq war veteran from Louisburg, Kan., was sentenced to house arrest for tax evasion relating to income he made when he returned overseas as a consultant...Light, 43, who served as a lieutenant colonel in the Kansas Army...
Post conflict women: Iraq – Hope and violence
Source: DAWN
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-09 00:37:20 -0700 | political-news
Iraq Hope and violence Shatha Al-Abosi. -Photo by author I asked ten of my staff which of them beat their wives...These were the words of Canon Andrew White, otherwise known as The Vicar of Baghdad when explaining the scale of...
Baghdad saves IQD180bn
Source: Zawya Political
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-04-08 23:08:27 -0700 | political-news
Baghdad's provincial Legal Committee revealed that it has stopped a financial waste estimated at 180 billion dinars in a project regards the setting of 18 security checkpoints in the capital. Sabar al-Saadi, Chairman of the Committee told "Shafaq News", that...
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