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[Turkish Forum » English] INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP - NEW REPORT Oil for Soil: A Grand ...: . Stymied in their quest to incorporate these territories into the Kurdistan region by constitutional means, due mainly to the suspicions of Iraq’s Arab majority that their real goal is independence, Kurdish leaders have signalled their intent to hold politics in Baghdad hostage. At the same time, the Iraqi government’s growing military assertiveness is challenging the Kurds’ de facto control over the territories.

[Iraq Updates - Politics] International Crisis Group: is it a fair and objective ...: However, it is not helpful for the ICG to show the Kurds as being unworthy of having other minorities within Kurdistan. Nor is it acceptable for the Kurds to give up their rights because some of the Arabs and Turkmans in Kurdistan do not want to be a part of Kurdistan as the ICG recommends whilst simultaneously encouraging the Kurds to live under the Arabs and Turkish tutelage and not seek independence.

[AntiWar.com] The Iraq Study Group: None Dare Call It Treason - by Mark Rothschild: The political problem that the Iraq Study Group sought to resolve was the disunity within the US political establishment, not the political disunity within Iraq – for which the report does not even pretend to present a likely solution.

[The Communication Initiative Network - Global, Computing and Internet] The Drum Beat 451 - Youth Engagement in Peace Processes | The ...: One of the initiatives undertaken by this socio-cultural, independent, non-political, non-profit NGO involved IRSH's youth department working with high school students in Albania to organise a street theatre event. The performance featured 5-minute pieces designed to illustrate negative phenomena such as corruption, trafficking, and violence against women.

[Docudharma - Recommended Diaries] Docudharma:: The Morning News: UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Preparations for a November 16 parliamentary election are on track in the West African state of Guinea-Bissau, where narcotics trade and organized crime are at crisis levels, a U.N. official said on Tuesday.

[James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy of Rice University] The Iraq Study Group Report: by the Kurds and many Shia (particularly supporters of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim), but it is. anathema to Sunnis.

[Electric Politics] Electric Politics | Human Rights Watch in Service to the War Party: Also of interest is the fact that in this same Wall Street Journal commentary, Roth describes in detail Saddam Hussein's crimes against the Kurds, which he repeatedly calls "genocide," whereas the number of Iraqis killed by Western sanctions were between five and ten times the number of Kurds killed by Baghdad forces, but don't get mentioned, let alone described as victims of "genocide." [14] Roth asserts that bringing Saddam to justice for his treatment of the Kurds ran into difficulties because France and Russia each had "extensive business interests" in Iraq, and China was worried about comparisons with their treatment of Tibetans. Nowhere does Roth mention the U.S. business dealings with Saddam, loans to his regime, supplying it with helicopters, intelligence and chemical weapons, and the Reagan administration's protection of Saddam from Security Council actions.

[Alan Colmes' Liberaland] Alan Colmes’ Liberaland » Blog Archive » Barack Obama: No Experience?: Senator Obama also joined with Senator Hagel (R-NE) to introduce a broad bill that seeks to prevent nuclear terrorism, reduce global nuclear arsenals, and stop the spread of nuclear weapons and related technology. One provision, which was signed into law as part of the FY08 omnibus appropriations bill, requires the President to submit to Congress a comprehensive plan for ensuring that all nuclear weapons and weapons-usable material at vulnerable sites around the world are secure by 2012 to keep them out of the hands of terrorists.

[Screenshots] Screenshots: Saddam Hussein: If President Saddam Hussein is guilty of war crimes, then the world must find Bush, Blair and Howard equally guilty and the International Criminal Court cannot but prosecute these war criminals. The inaction thus far by the International Criminal Court against Bush, Blair and Howard exposes the double standard of the said Court, when it does not hesitate to prosecute war crimes committed in Dalfur, Rwanda and Kosovo.

[Fool's Mountain: Blogging for China] On Human Rights, Intervention and the International Order | Fool's ...: But if you talked to Kurds or Shiite Iraqis, you might get a different answer. I’m sure they didn’t consider Saddam’s Iraq a functioning nation, but only functioning for the benefit of the Sunni faction.

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