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Adviser Sees No Conflict In Kurdish Oil Deals
Dno :: Russia | 22 days ago
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Peter Galbraith, a former U.S. diplomat and longtime adviser to ethnic Kurdish leaders in Iraq, is defending himself against accusations of a conflict of interest over a business deal he made with a Norwegian oil firm. Iraqi officials have criticized...
Tags: Peter Galbraith, Iraqi, Russia, Dno, Peter W. Galbraith, Kurdish people, Iraq, Kingdom of Kurdistan, Business Finance, Fertile Crescent, Iraqi Kurdistan, Kurdistan, Politics, Geography of Iraq, John Kenneth Galbraith, Politics of Iraq
U.S. adviser to Kurds criticized
Oslo :: Norway | 24 days ago
Credibility A former Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations expressed shock that a U.S. consultant to the Kurds may earn more than $100 million from an Iraqi oil deal. Peter Galbraith, a former U.S. ambassador to Croatia, who advocated on behalf of Kurds in northern...
Tags: Iraqi Kurdistan, Peter Galbraith, U.S, Norway, Oslo, John Kenneth Galbraith, Kurdish people, Iraq, Kurdistan, DNO International, Politics, Fertile Crescent, Peter W. Galbraith, Business Finance, Geography of Iraq, Politics of Iraq
US Taxpayers funded fraudulent Afghan election to tune of several hundred million dollars.
It costs a lot to buy an election in an occupied country and the product may turn out not even to be saleable to the US public. Afghan politicians naturally enough are as much or more interested in advancing their own agendas...
Tags: Afghan elections, US payments for Afghan elections, Peter Galbraith
UN highlights Afghan poll fraud
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Kai Eide acknowledged that "widespread fraud" affected the presidential vote. Responding to accusations that he covered up the extent of malpractice, he said fraud was "significant" but any effect on the result remained unclear. Allegations made by his...
Tags: Afghanistan, U.N., presidential elections, Kai Eide, widespread fraud, Confidential United Nations, Peter Galbraith, Kabul, Hamid Karzai
U.N. envoy rebuffs bias in Afghan election
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility A top U.N. envoy decried accusations of favoritism in the Afghan presidential election, saying he was committed to ensuring a credible outcome is determined. "My silence is now being exploited, to a point where these allegations are impeding the ongoing...
Tags: Peter Galbraith, U.N., Afghanistan, Kai Eide, Hamid Karzai
Church hut collapse kills 23 in Nepal
Kathmandu :: Nepal | 2 months ago
Credibility At least 23 people, including women and children, were killed in their sleep in Nepal when a three-storey bamboo hut used for a church function collapsed, police said on Wednesday. The accident injured 62 people, Rajendra Man Shrestha, a police superintendent,...
Tags: Afghanistan, Peter Galbraith, U.N., Mr Galbraith, United Nations, special representative, United News of India, Indo-Nepal Economic Cooperation Programme, Nepal, Kathmandu
Mullen wants more troops for Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 2 months ago
Credibility The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, says he does not know if the commander in Afghanistan is going to ask for more troops or how many. But he says it is clear to him that more forces may be needed. "A properly resourced counter-insurgency...
Tags: Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai Has Stolen, U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission, Mike Mullen, Michael Mullen, Peter Galbraith, Kabul
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