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[Breaking News] Kurdish policeman's family killed in Iraq's north as Kurdish-Arab ...: A look at travel in Iraq's Kurdish regionTravelers are increasingly visiting Iraq's Kurdish provinces. A look at the area and some of the issues:THE REGION: The self-ruled Kurdish area of Iraq makes up the northern part of the country and has borders with Iran, Syria and Turkey.

[SWJ Blog] 14 September SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): Metz concludes that the United States has a long-standing, continuing problem “developing sound assumptions when the opponent operates within a different psychological and cultural framework.” He sees a pattern of misjudgments about Saddam and Iraq based on Western cultural and historical bias and a pervasive faith in the superiority of America’s worldview and institutions. This myopia contributed to America being caught off guard by Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, then underestimating his longevity, and finally miscalculating the likelihood of a stable and democratic Iraq after he was toppled.

[IslamOnline.net > News] Nineveh Boils over Arab-Kurd Tensions - IslamOnline.net - News: NINEVAH — Ethnic infighting is rearing its ugly head again in Iraq, this time in Nineveh, where tension is building up between Sunni Arabs and Kurds for control over the oil-rich northern province.

[Dhimmi Watch] Fitzgerald: Our love affair with the Shi'a - Jihad Watch: But removing the Americans from either side of the equation would allow natural fissures to deepen and widen -- the fissures that divide non-Arab from Arab Muslim (the Kurds's resentment of Arab supremacist ideology within Islam could find an echo in the bosoms of Berbers, and Iranians, and even Afghanis and Indonesians), and the Sunni-Shi'a split, which is some 1300 years old, now acted out within Iraq, is likely to have repercussions for Sunni-Shi'a relations in Saudi Arabia (al-Hasa, where the oil is), in Pakistan (where Shi'a are already subject to intermittent attack), in Yemen (where Sunnis and Shi'a are almost evenly divided), in Bahrain (where the latest anti-Israel fatwas by both Sunni and Shi'a clerics was a clear response to worries about such sectarian splits, being papered over with anti-Israel denunciations), and even in Lebanon, where one devoutly hopes at least some of Hezbollah's black-balaclavad fighters will go bravely off to defend fellow Shi'a in Iraq, and not return -- an outcome that Maronites, Greek Orthodox, Druse, and even Sunni Muslims in Lebanon would relish.

[IslamOnline.net > News] Iraq Sunnis Regain Ninevah From Kurds - IslamOnline.net - News: "Such accusations are a way to give excuses for our great victory in Ninevah, leaving Kurds behind that were looking to control the region and if it had happened than they would expect lack of stability which isn't going to happen with us in power."

[Neno Gang ( DinarTrade )] Iraqi Cabinet Passes Oil Law, but Problems Loom: However, the initial approval may be the easy part in the process. The draft is only an outline and pressure is building to negotiate details.

[Baghdad Bureau] Iraqi Christians Face New Violence - At War Blog - NYTimes.com: The New York Times’s award-winning team of correspondents, photographers, videographers and local interpreters provide insight ”” and try to answer your questions ”” about the combatants shaping events along political, military and religious faultlines, and the civilians caught in the middle.

[Informed Comment] Informed Comment: Whodunnit in Baghdad: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is headed by Hoshyar Zebari, a Kurd from the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and anyone who has dealt with Iraqi diplomats cannot escape the impression that Kurds have special employment opportunities in that ministry. The Ministry of Education is headed by Khudayr al-Khuzai, a former parliamentarian from the Islamic Mission Party (Da'wa) - Iraq Organization, a branch of the same Shiite fundamentalist party to which al-Maliki belongs.

[SWJ Blog] 14 August SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): Linda Robinson conducted extensive interviews with Petraeus and his subordinate commanders and spent weeks with key US and Iraqi divisions. The result is the only book that ties together military operations in Iraq and the internecine political drama that is at the heart of the civil war.

[Middle East Progress] Middle East Progress » Blog Archive » Guide to Iraqi Provincial ...: The Sunni Arab boycott of the 2005 elections helped Kurdish groups to gain power in the northern Nineveh and Diyala provinces. The alliance seeks to incorporate regions they see as historically Kurdish, including Kirkuk, under their control .

[Small Wars Council] 2 September SWJ Roundup - Small Wars Council: Metz concludes that the United States has a long-standing, continuing problem “developing sound assumptions when the opponent operates within a different psychological and cultural framework.” He sees a pattern of misjudgments about Saddam and Iraq based on Western cultural and historical bias and a pervasive faith in the superiority of America’s worldview and institutions. This myopia contributed to America being caught off guard by Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, then underestimating his longevity, and finally miscalculating the likelihood of a stable and democratic Iraq after he was toppled.

[SWJ Blog] 17 August SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): . An Interior Ministry official said the dismissals were being carried out at all Mexican border facilities, and that the customs agents were being replaced. Customs agents were sacked after some were found to be linked to contraband operations, according to sources at the ministry. Agents in Nuevo Laredo, on the border with the southern US state of Texas, were called in Saturday to be told they were fired, and to hand in their badges and weapons. A total of 1,100 agents were sacked, Mexican media said. Army troops took over customs border posts temporarily on Sunday. Mexico and the United States share a border that stretches across some 2,000 miles (3,220 kilometers) and are partners with Canada in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Mexico is in the midst of a raging war on organized crime, and has expressed serious concern about US weapons crossing into the country.

[Small Wars Council] 17 August SWJ Roundup - Small Wars Council: Ali Baban said Sunday the government is technically capable of carrying out the census, but fears it could inflame tensions in northern areas disputed by Arabs and Kurds. He said local political parties in Kirkuk and Nineveh have expressed reservations about the census.

!!! Philippines Breaking News !!!: north-western part of the country is during this period visited by the monsoon that south-east Asia is well-known for, while the climate on the south-eastern islands is practically the same during the entire year. In the Visayas region (mid-Philippines) where Malapascua is located, the wet season is mild, with one or two hours of rainfall each day.

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