IRAQ - Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 6-Y - The Syria-Iran
Factor.
Iraq will not be a major oil exporter and will not be able to focus
on the non-oil economy as long as its security remains affected by the
Syria-Iran factor. This is despite the fact that Iraq is . . .
IRAQ - Iran Seeks GCC Support.(Gulf Co-operation Council
)
Visiting Abu Dhabi, the head of Iran's Supreme National
Security Council (SNSC), Ali Larijani, who is also Iran's chief
nuclear negotiator, on May 2 said he was confident that the six Arab
Gulf . . .
IRAQ - The Oil Ministry.
When Iraq's national unity government is announced, the post
of oil minister will be a key indicator of whether new PM Maliki has the
will and the ability to fight the country's paralysing . . .
IRAQ - Sunnis Demand Control Of Iraqi Constitutional
Panel.
Iraq's main Sunni Arab political bloc on May 2 demanded that
it head a parliamentary panel to amend the constitution. Iraq's
Parliament on May 3 began a normal session to discuss forming . . .
IRAQ - Again Bush Optimism.(George W. Bush)
Three years after a landmark speech beneath a banner hailing
"Mission Accomplished" in Iraq, President Bush on May 1
declared that the war-torn country had finally turned a corner . . .
IRAQ - Kurdistan To Have One Govt.(Brief article)
The Kurdish parliament in Irbil on May 7 approved plans for the
eastern and western part of Kurdistan to have a single government and
for the PUK and KPP to be merged. An official announcement to . . .
IRAQ - Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 6-W -
Turkey.
As they try to secure their hold on a semi-independent north of
Iraq and rebuild its economy, Kurdish leaders have turned in a
surprising direction towards Turkey. The Los Angeles Times and . . .
U.S. - Negative Polls.(public opinion of war in Iraq)
Now that Hurricane Katrina has caused so much damage to the south
of the US, Americans are worried about the toll the war in Iraq is
taking on them, both in the mounting casualties and the drain . . .
IRAQ - Salafi War On Shiites & US U-Turn.
A suicide bomber on Sept. 16 blew himself up outside the al-Rasoul
al-Atham mosque in Tuz Khormato, a city 200 km north of Baghdad, killing
13 Shiite worshippers, mostly followers of Sadr, with 28 . . .
U.S. - Syria Is Warned.(actions in Lebanon)
The Bush administration on Sept. 13 stepped up its rhetoric against
Syria, accusing Damascus of aiding terrorist attacks in Iraq and warning
that it faced the dangers of becoming "more isolated" if . . .
IRAQ - The Federal Virus.
The two Kurdish leaders, acting on the advice of their foreign
policy experts including Hoshyar Zebari, a key KDP man who is
Iraq's foreign minister, had steered the complex bargaining game
with . . .
IRAQ - Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 6-O - The Arab
Question.
The question whether or not Iraq was an Arab country was one of the
most divisive issues in the process of drafting a permanent
constitution. Since it was the Kurds who caused this issue, the . . .
IRAQ - The Economy.
Recent foreign aid and trade accords, however, provide hope that
Iraq's economy, plagued by years of sanctions and violence, is on
the road to recovery. GDP growth was estimated at 54% in 2004. . . .
IRAQ - Low Quality Of Iraqi Police Recruits.(Brief
Article)
The vetting of recruits to Iraq's police force is so poor that
many who join up have criminal records, are barely literate, or are
members of the insurgency, a new US government report . . .
IRAQ - Kurdistan Issue.
Kurds in the constitutional panel, fearing they might be sidelined
during inter-Arab haggling over federalism, have raised the stakes in
their talks with Shiite and Sunni Arab representatives about . . .
IRAQ - The Salafi Bet.(insurgency)
The Sunni Arabs, about 20% of Iraq's population, make up the
core of the insurgency. But the most deadly fighters are suicide bombers
belonging Salafi groups, who are mostly non-Iraqi volunteers . . .
IRAQ - Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 6-N - Towards Civil
War.
Six months after Iraq's historic Jan. 30 election, the country
is on the verge of another political breakthrough, the successful
writing of a new constitution. Yet there are growing worries that . . .
IRAQ - The Iraqi Economy - Source Of Friction With USA.
Iraq's financial problems and American concerns over
corruption and uncontrolled spending on reconstruction are adding to
tensions between the two governments. While the economy is seen as . . .
IRAQ - Consensus On Federal Control Of Oil Funds.
National Assembly members in Baghdad, meanwhile, are moving closer
to agreement on basic principles to manage the country's oil
wealth. Hussain Al-Shahristani, the assembly's deputy speaker, . . .
IRAQ - New Bush Context For The Iraq War.(George W. Bush)
In his June 28 speech, President Bush set out to reshape
perceptions of what was happening in Iraq after months in which a
persistent Sunni insurgency has undermined US public support for the
war. . . .
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