Contributor ReportsAl Qaeda in Iraq gaining strength
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Baghdad :: Iraq | updated Sun Nov 22 15:56:12 -0800 2009 | political-news
The Awakening movement helped control and even defeat Al Qaeda in Iraq but since US funding for the movement is ceased and they are supposed to be integrating into the Iraqi armed forces things have gone awry. Al Qaeda in...
ReachWatchdog staff did 'very little'
Source: The Courier-Mail
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated Mon Nov 23 05:28:49 -0800 2009 | business-news
AWB oil-for-food scandal, a court has heard. Criminal charges over the affair may still be laid by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, despite the inter-agency taskforce ruling them out, the Supreme Court was told yesterday. February and August 2007...
The Iraq inquiry sideshow | Chris Ames
Source: The Guardian
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated Mon Nov 23 05:12:20 -0800 2009 | political-news
The Iraq inquiry sideshow Leaks are showing up John Chilcot's inquiry, as secrecy prevails – but perhaps he's about to publish a raft of documents ... Andrew Gilligan has returned to haunt the government on Iraq. His revelations in the...
Fifa must reconsider Iraq's ban
Source: Times Online
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated Sun Nov 22 13:36:37 -0800 2009 | sports-news
And yet football survived regime change to become a rare unifying factor. A source of pride too; when the Iraq national team won the Asian Cup in 2007, congratulations flowed in from all parts of the world. Yet behind the...
Fifa shows Iraqi footballers the red card after Sunni-Shia struggle
Source: Times Online
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated Sun Nov 22 13:37:09 -0800 2009 | sports-news
The decision by Fifa, the world football body, comes three months after Iraq hosted its first international competition since the 2003 American invasion and curbs one of the few joys available to Iraqi civilians. The head office of the Iraqi...
Iraqi refugees move to Mich. despite poor economy
Source: Kansas City Star
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated Mon Nov 23 00:14:15 -0800 2009 | political-news
The U.S. government resettled Iraqi refugee Mazen Alsaqa in Massachusetts in February. Within a month, he had moved to Michigan. Alsaqa didn't dislike Massachusetts, but he never thought about staying. The only place he wanted to live was the Detroit...
Gunmen kill Turkmen leader in Iraq
Source: Press TV
Mosul :: Iraq | updated Sun Nov 22 22:14:05 -0800 2009 | political-news
Efendi was a member of the executive committee of the Turkmen Front, Iraq's main Turkmen political party. "His son answered the door and they asked to speak to his father. When he arrived at the door they opened fire," Turkmen...
Iraq parliament passes investment law
Source: Reuters
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated Mon Nov 23 04:51:08 -0800 2009 | political-news
Lawmakers said Iraq's parliament passed an investment law on Monday that would allow foreigners to own land for housing projects, and is designed to streamline regulations and applications for foreign investment. Iraq hoped for a tide of foreign investment as...
Clinton says Iraqi election might be delayed
Source: Arizona Republic
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated Mon Nov 23 09:24:40 -0800 2009 | political-news
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is holding out the possibility that Iraq's national election could be delayed beyond January because of a dispute over the allocation of seats in parliament. Clinton told reporters at the State Department Monday that...
Gulf Keystone finds additional oil in Iraqi well
Source: International Business Times
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated Mon Nov 23 06:18:01 -0800 2009 | business-news
Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd said on Monday it found additional oil in an Iraqi well, sending the oil and gas explorer's shares up 7.8 percent. The new Triassic discovery flowed at 10,000 barrels of oil equivalent (boe) per day and...
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