Iran Reviews > March 03, 2010
Palestinian Pundit: Blair Warned in 2000 Iraq War was Illegal
[Palestinian Pundit] March 02, 2010 "The Independent" -- An invasion of Iraq was discussed within the Government more than two years before military action was taken - with Foreign Office mandarins warning that an invasion would be illegal, that it would claim "considerable casualties" and could lead to the breakdown of Iraq, The Independent can reveal.
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March 03, 2010
Rumour: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished", Ready For Release ...
[Kotaku Australia] Six Days In Fallujah, a game based on the Iraq War that Konami thought was too 'hot' to publish, has according to IGN been completed, and is ready to .
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Posted at 03:33 PM
March 01, 2010
US Media Replays Iraq Fiasco on Iran -- Signs of the Times News
[Signs of the Times] Those poll results were either ignored by the U.S. news media or discounted as the result of fearful Iranians simply saying what their government wanted to hear. However, similar polls have been conducted in countries around the world, including during the U.S. military occupation of Iraq, and have been regarded as useful measures of public opinion.
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Posted at 03:36 PM
January 27, 2010
Consortiumblog: Shiite Power Play Threatens Iraq Quiet
[Consortiumblog] and a rising Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. So far, Iraq has been quiet enough that many in the media and public have redirected their attention to the wars du jour of Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia.
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Posted at 03:35 PM
January 22, 2010
Iraq's President Orders Probe of Candidate Ban
[GlobalSecurity.org] Sectarian, ethnic and other issues have already pushed the election beyond the deadline called for in Iraq's constitution. The United States is eager to have it go forward, as it is tying its withdrawal of troops from the country in part to a successful vote.
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Posted at 04:02 PM
January 15, 2010
MAPPING THE FUTURE OF IRAQ: AUTONOMOUS REGIONS ALLOWED UNDER THE ...
[Goals for Americans] The Constitutional writers recognized that the warring factions in Iraq might never reconcile their ethnic, religious and tribal grievances and blood feuds. They provided FEDERALISM as a mechanism to separate these factions to some degree while still maintaining a unified country - the FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF IRAQ.
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January 04, 2010
Pushed to the Left and Loving It: The War in Iraq Has Made ...
[Pushed to the Left and Loving It] Six years later, after successive waves of violence and intimidation largely unchecked by either Iraqi government action or U.S. intercession, more than 500,000 Christians have fled the country. It is a crisis that inspired Christian leaders to assemble in Baghdad in December for a conference piteously titled: “Do Christians Have a Future in Iraq?”
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Posted at 03:33 PM
December 30, 2009
US military deaths in Iraq war at 4370 Tuesday, according to ...
[Nation] Since the start of U.S. military operations in Iraq, 31,613 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according to the Defense Department's weekly tally.
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Posted at 03:33 PM
December 23, 2009
LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH: Women in Iraq: Don't Get Pregnant or Else!
[LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH] Major General Anthony Cucolo, head of Army forces in northern Iraq, issued an order in November forbidding pregnancy among military personnel under his command. In a recent telephone interview, the general said, "The message to my female soldiers is that I need you for the duration.”
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Posted at 03:33 PM
t r u t h o u t | Women Soldiers in Iraq Who Become Pregnant Face ...
[Truthout - All Articles] Under a controversial new Army policy, female soldiers serving in northern Iraq may face a court-martial and possible jail time if they become pregnant and male soldiers and civilians employed by the Army who impregnate the women may also be charged with crimes.
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Posted at 03:32 PM
December 11, 2009
Iraq women call for larger representation in elections | Iraq News ...
[Alsumaria TV Iraq, Iraq news | Iraq News | RSS feed] Activist women in Diwaniya stressed the necessity to ensure a larger representation for women in Iraq’s parliamentary elections in line with their role in society.
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Posted at 04:02 PM
November 20, 2009
Adviser to Iraq Constitution Will Reap Oil Profits (Andymatic.com)
[Andymatic] Now Mr. Galbraith, 58, son of the renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith, stands to earn perhaps a hundred million or more dollars as a result of his closeness to the Kurds, his relations with a Norwegian oil company and constitutional provisions he helped the Kurds extract.
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Posted at 04:03 PM
November 09, 2009
Iraq election head proposes national vote on Jan. 21 after ...
[World] Kurds consider Kirkuk a Kurdish city and want it part of their self-ruled region in northern Iraq. Under the regime of former dictator Saddam Hussein, tens of thousands of Kurds were displaced under a forced plan by Saddam to make Kirkuk predominantly Arab, though many of these have since returned.
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Posted at 03:35 PM
November 06, 2009
myMADRE: Radio in Iraq: Empowering Women Through the Airwaves
[myMADRE] Last week, MADRE's partner organization, the Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), launched a new radio broadcast: the Al Mousawat Radio. For two hours each week, women will have control of a new corner of airspace not run by religious or ethnic groups and not influenced by the state.
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Posted at 04:03 PM
October 26, 2009
In Najaf, Iraq's Shiite clerics push for direct elections | McClatchy
[mcclatchydc.com: Homepage] NAJAF, Iraq -- If there's one place in Iraq outside the parliament itself that will set the tone for the country's politics, it's Najaf, a dusty city of about 900,000 that was neglected under Saddam Hussein's Sunni Muslim dictatorship and now bustles with religious tourists visiting the shrine of Imam Ali, a son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad; a new airport;
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Posted at 03:33 PM
October 09, 2009
Iraq - Interim Constitution | HolyEbooks
[HolyEbooks] These people, affirming today their respect for international law, especially having been amongst the founders of the United Nations, working to reclaim their legitimate place among nations, have endeavored at the same time to preserve the unity of their homeland in a spirit of fraternity and solidarity in order to draw the features of the future new Iraq, and to establish the mechanisms aiming, amongst other aims, to erase the effects of racist and sectarian policies and practices.
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Posted at 04:04 PM
October 07, 2009
Concrete walls put up to protect Samarra's famed golden dome ...
[San Francisco Examiner Site Feed] "It is very hard for us, and we have suffered with this wall," said Abdullah Farr, 23, who runs a kitchen appliance store that sits a few block from the Askariya shrine, one of the main pilgrim sites for Shiites from both Iraq and Iran. "The government wants to protect the mosque.
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Posted at 03:34 PM
September 30, 2009
US military deaths in Iraq war at 4346 Tuesday, according to ...
[Washington Examiner Site Feed] As of Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009, at least 4,346 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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Posted at 03:33 PM
September 14, 2009
ecochildsplay: Iraq Province Bans War Toys for Children: Should ...
[ecochildsplay] La’Onf’s campaign has now resulted in legislation banning the sale of war toys in the province of Muthanna. La’Onf activists hope to see national legislation passed in the near future.
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Posted at 03:34 PM
September 09, 2009
Roadside bomb in northern Iraqi Shiite town kills police chief, 4 ...
[Breaking News] Bombs in Mosul, Baghdad kill at least 41BAGHDAD ”” A suicide bomber on Thursday killed at least 34 people and injured 70 near a judge's house in northern Iraq, and two roadside bombs in Baghdad killed seven people, authorities said. The attacks came one day after car bombs in two Shiite villages near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul killed 16 civilians and injured more than two dozen, signaling the challenges that face Iraq despite big improvements in security in the past two years.
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Posted at 03:33 PM
August 10, 2009
Iraq Today: War News for Mosul, August 10, 2009
[Iraq Today] He made this transparently clear by adding a signing statement to the defense appropriation bill, indicating that he would not be bound by the law’s prohibition against expending funds: “(1) To establish any military installation or base for the purpose of providing for the permanent stationing of United States Armed Forces in Iraq,” or “(2) To exercise United States control of the oil resources of Iraq.”
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Posted at 03:34 PM
August 05, 2009
Iraq says extremist Shiite group accused in deaths of 5 US troops ...
[Breaking News] BBC: 2 of 3 UK hostages in Iraq likely deadLONDON ”” The families of five British hostages captured in a bold raid in Baghdad in 2007 agonized Wednesday over a report that two of those detained have died in captivity, begging the kidnappers to free the men. The fresh appeal came after Britain's Foreign Office officials told relatives of Alan McMenemy and Alec MacLachlan that the two security guards were "very likely" to be dead, the BBC reported.
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