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[STRANGE TIMES] Iraq and oil - the good oil: The winners of the contracts will upgrade existing infrastructure of the six oil fields which are owned by the Iraqi National Oil Company (ie, in the absence of a new national oil law, Iraq’s oil remains nationalized) as ”˜contractors’ doing a job for a fee (though this is still being negotiated and some reports say the companies want a product share rather than a fee). I think the Iraqis should - indeed, must - opt for the product-share arrangement, as this links the contracts to actual production, productive output, rather than being based on a set consultancy fee unrelated to output.
[Regaining the Center] Want to Buy a Rug?: is that the US has constructed the 31st province of Iran. Admittedly the Kurds and the Sunnis won’t be so willing to do Iran’s calling but the bulk of the Iraq geography and its oil are under the Iran-Shiite influence already. Calling Dick Cheney and his gang “naive” does not seem correct. But if it is not correct, then you are left with only the word “incompetent”. The mess of Iraq should never have taken place and having taken place, a wiser US Administration would have taken steps to have (1) befriended Iran first, and (2) influenced the building of an Iraq Constitution that clearly shared power in a manner that no ethnic group could control the others (or at least for not more than say 4 years before their positions were a switched). The prize represented by controlling oil is simply too alluring to trust democracy or human nature.
[World | AP | Huffington Post Wires] Kurdish regional leader stands by oil deals: The Shiite-led government in Baghdad considers any deals the Kurds have signed illegal since the country has not yet completed a new national oil law. Kurdish officials claim these contracts are in line with the Iraqi constitution.
[EUROPE TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS] ITF Europe Representative’s interventions at Kerkuk Conference at ...: He further said that Kurds tend to consider the entire north of Iraq as ”˜Kurdistan’ and that they want to divide Iraq in two regions: Kurds and Arabs, thereby denying the right of the Turkmens to be recognized as the third main community in Iraq by considering them as a ”˜minority’.
[Shariah Finance Watch] Women in Iraq are under more pressure to conform to Islamic ...: The Kurdistan Regional Government’s Interior Ministry has given officials the authority to ensure that cases of violence against women are processed. But the male-dominant culture remains in Iraq, even in the semiautonomous .
[Iran Reviews] VP, Kirkuk officials discuss Article 140 (Voices of Iraq): UN proposal provokes Iraqi anger: Kurds say the proposal goes against article 140 of the constitution, under which the status of disputed areas in Iraq should be decided by referendum; Turkomans complain it is biased .
[THE LIBERAL PERSPECTIVE/Joe Sheridan's Radio Weblog] AMERICAN VOTERS HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON IN IRAQ ...: Equally confounding to the Shiite radicals, the Sunni and Kurdish citizens of this recently conquered Iraq who had waited long-sufferingly for decades to be freed from the vicious dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, was the very real fact that under this new so-called “democratic” regime their lives were ten times worse than they were under the iron fist of Hussein and his unscrupulous and ruthless subordinates.
[Dans Blog] Iraq's national security services get Test with return of Al Anbar ...: In a regional context, unless the USA and Iran can come to some back room understanding where each nation is acknowledged for its concerns in the region, I see the Al An bar region ultimately breaking away, if not in legal terms, then in practical terms, where the AWAKENING which comprises 80,000 neighborhood watch members, essentially parallel the Peshmerga which is the basis for security in Iraqi Kurdistan. If the central Iraqi government doesn’t fairly distribute resources, watch the AWAKENING and Al Anbar region continue to get funding from either the USA and/or Saudi Arabia who are the extention to the Sunni’s from a tribal and ethnic connection.
[Jsrravilavinia's Weblog] How Commandment the Turkish Battling Be moved? (ARI): Through 2 October 2006 Erdogan gave at modest overtone restitution in consideration of this demarche, position paper it wonderless that ”˜if the goon organisation keeps its creed, enfranchisement purpose relentlessness be found agreed[via the Turkish soldiery] free of reason’. Nonjudgmental Ilker Basbug, brigadier general in relation with the Turkish Commonweal Army, denied Erdogan and the PKK, asserting that the offer resistance the PKK would ”˜run on until officialdom are blasted at the root’ inflooding Oie and south Iraq, where they is based.
[Nicolas Henin, a reporter's blog] What an uncomfortable SOFA: The terms of the impending deal, details of which have been leaked to The Independent, are likely to have an explosive political effect in Iraq. Iraqi officials fear that the accord, under which US troops would occupy permanent bases, conduct military operations, arrest Iraqis and enjoy immunity from Iraqi law, will destabilise Iraq’s position in the Middle East and lay the basis for unending conflict in their country.
[Patrick J. Buchanan - Official Website - Latest activity in forum “Open Discussion”] New topic: “On Turkish Politics, Or, Are Headscarves A ...: The Party also had great electoral success in Turkey’s local elections of 2004, and they today control the entire country’s local political landscape””except for a region of Kurdish influence near the Iraqi and Iranian borders to the southwest, a few spots near Georgia and Armenia to the northeast, a region of the central interior, and, ironically, the regions of Turkey that were the first areas of Greek colonization so long ago, where the CHP still holds sway.
[Opinio Juris] Legal Change and Iraq: You have Arabic speaking judges (even among the Kurds, they have to know Arabic to read the Civil Code), whose English, I know this personally, is often quite uneven, Arabic speaking ministry officials expected to pass implementing legislation and Arabic speaking lawyers trying cases, how is it possible for the English version to be authoritative? Who’s going to show what the English word means?
[No More Incumbents Blog] Article XXI: Impeachment of George W Bush: In April 2006, Hersh reported in the New Yorker Magazine that U.S. combat troops had entered and were operating in Iran, where they were working with minority groups including the Azeris, Baluchis, and Kurds.
[Dans Blog] Victor Davis Hanson "Iraq in Review": But should we win, should a constitutional government stabilize, should al-Qaeda keep unraveling, and should the hiatus of terrorist attacks against Americans at home and abroad continue, then historians will rank Bush in Trumanesque terms: a similarly orphaned presidency that ended disliked — even as it crafted a strategy to defeat global Islamic terror by taking the fight to the heart of the Middle East, while establishing proof of America’s good intentions by fostering constitutional government that offered Iraqis an alternative other than the usual Middle East non-choice of theocracy or autocracy.
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