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[Project Syndicate] Iraq's Critical Election - Project Syndicate: Some of Iraq’s Sunni leaders might thus conclude that permanent armed opposition is their only viable strategy. True, they might not be able to topple the new regime, but they will be able to de-stabilize Iraq over the long term, in the hope of forcing a negotiated settlement of their grievances.

[Iraq and Gulf Analysis] A Weak Attempt at Rebuttal: Galbraith (2009) Is Contradicted by ...: These proposals - which included the key distinction between existing and future oil fields that would later enable stronger regional influence over new oilfields in the 2005 constitution and which forms the basis for the current dispute between Baghdad and the Kurds over oil - were “accepted” by the Kurdish leadership, and then forwarded to the CPA, “as a submission by the Kurdistan National Assembly”! According to Galbraith, his own proposals became the Kurdish proposal in all its details save for one extremely minor “amendment”: “Kosrat Rasul”¦wanted to clarify that deployment of the Iraqi Kurdistan National Guard should not only be approved by the Kurdistan National Assembly, but should only occur a the request of the federal government in Baghdad”.

[Project Syndicate] The Promise of Iraq's Constitution - Project Syndicate: A second important feature of the drafting process was the extent to which the National Assembly complied with the requirements of Iraq’s interim constitution, the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL). At the time of the transfer of authority in June of 2004, many pundits predicted that an elected National Assembly would ignore an interim constitution drafted by an unelected Governing Council and promulgated by an occupying authority.

[News from The University of Texas at Austin] Symposium Explores Dilemmas Facing Framers of Modern Constitutions ...: Other participants at the symposium include legal scholar and former ambassador Feisal Amin Rasoul al-Istrabadi, one of the principal drafters of the Iraqi Constitution and Iraq's ambassador and deputy permanent representative to the United Nations from 2004 to 2007; Harvard Law professor and civil rights scholar Lani Guinier;

[Latest on Indian Muslims] Reservation will not help Muslims, will only open Pandora's box ...: Rajgopalachari did vehemently support the charter of providing political safeguards to the minorities according to articles 292 and 294 of the 1949 draft constitution, but five leaders out of seven, namely Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Maulana Hifzur Rehman, Begum Aizaz Rasul, Hussainbhoy Laljee and Tajammul Hussain opposed it.

[SyriaComment.com] SyriaComment.com: Asad's Visit to the UN: Why the US Needs to ...: The president is in a situation not be envied, he has to lobby groups that don’t think too highly of his government but ironically enough they hold more power in converting the highly damaged mainstream American view of Syria than any Syrian individual or organization can. And your comment “why not support the Sunni majority to take out Bashar's regime!?” can only come from a person who is so enriched with sectarian prejudice that has to always divide a country on religious grounds (But your Lebanese so your excused).

[Pakistan Politics] Zardari Accused Saudis For Benazir's Assassination? « Pakistan ...: some leaders like wali khan used to say it is american war no body was listening.now afganis hate pakis as they think that we have destroyed AFGH.Saudis are pupets ,helped pak to build traing camps in shape of madrasas but how many hospital or schools they have built for us.they suported sadam to fight agains iran new revoltion , iran didnt have any choice except to buy weapons from israel.saudis responsible for kiling shias in pak.responsible for taliban.As far zardari can i ask you one question when he was in jail for 10 yrs why he was not proved quilty , why the money was not taken from him , our justice system is same corupt as zardai.what about chaudry , faisal hayat, sherpao.why there is no major issue in india because of groomed politician and secularism.religiuos people are killing in mosques.taliban says it is right to slaughter people because they r quoting weak hadit

[Truck and Barter] Truck and Barter: Dinar Discussion December 2008: " The statement added that the Central Bank "expressed great satisfaction to cancel the external debt burden of more than 100 billion dollars, in the light of the success of the country's economic policies adopted by the monetary, financial and the general economic policy over the past three years." The Paris Club to reduce the rate of 60% of Iraq's foreign debts on Iraq according to the first support (SPA), which ended in December 2007, and was scheduled to expire at the end of the second December in December 2008, and Iraq required a tight monetary policies to reduce another 20% External indebtedness, to be 80% of the total debt written off. The Finance Minister Bayan Jabr said in October last October that the director general of the International Monetary Fund told him that the Fund will hand over a report the Paris Club the end of the year for the deletion of Iraq's foreign debt and the remainder representing 20% (30 billion dollars) reduction rate of 80% .

[Hikmatun] Kenali pasukan Dajjal dan simbol-simbol mereka « Hikmatun: Abu Bakar Kaakyama Mayanja, and Rajat Neogy editor of the magazine _Transition_, were arrested in November 1968 and charged with having “brought into hatred or contempt the President, Dr Obote” by repeating a “rumor that the appointment of Africans to the Uganda judiciary had been held up, mostly for tribal reasons.” In a letter in _Transition_, Abu Mayanja had at least gone through the motions of dismissing the rumor of such a sidelining of the recommendations of the Judicial Service Committee for appointments, but he had assailed Obote’s government as “happy to retain colonial laws to suppress freedom of association and expression.” His own fate certainly bore that out: his January 1969 trial found him not guilty, but he was only rearrested under the new emergency regulations and _Transition_ ceased to appear [[Colin Legum and John Drysdale, _Africa Contemporary Record: Annual Survey and Documents 1969-1970_ (Exeter: Africa Research Limited 1970) pp. 216-217]].

[Che Det] SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 - Che Det: Sept.11 2001 WTC collapsed occurs about 9 year ago and I cannot recalled what had been aired on TV vividly.But then,I used to view lot of documentaries pertaining to these incidences.After you narrated the way and pattern these 2 blocks collapsed,it brings logic that this is indeed a conspiracy by the Jews of America.As I can flimsy recalled,on the day the mishap occured,it was reported that all Jews on both blocks were not presence at their workplace.Either they went on medical,annual leave or they came late to their offices.If it were coincidences,it could only happened to a handful of these Jews of the World Trade Center.But what was reported in one of the documentaries I viewed is that all of the Jews were safe from these catastrophes.Anyway Tun,since you have the access to verify my statements,please do so and please don't believe it gullibly.Thank you Sir and have a nice day.

[United Against Islamic Supremacism] AfPak Notes - Week 3 - 2009 « United Against Islamic Supremacism: A week later, on June 6, 2008, the Taliban announced their 12 point demands for FATA’s Darra Adam Khel’s submission. Dawn reported the Taliban demands included: “withdrawal of security forces from Darra Adam Khel, payment of compensation for damage caused to houses of militants, release of their men, health and education facilities, special quota for Darra tribesmen in engineering and medical colleges, payment of royalty for the Kohat Tunnel, exemption from toll tax, reduction in CNIC and passport fees, establishment of a medical college in Darra Adam Khel, construction of small dams, afforestation of the area and unhindered supply of electricity.”

[Pakistan Politics] Visitors News & Views - Week 2, May 2008 « Pakistan Politics: (2) All orders made, proceedings taken, appointments made, including secondments and deputations, and acts done by any authority, or by any person, which were made, taken or done, or purported to have been made, taken or done, between the twelfth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine, and the date on which this Article comes into force (both days inclusive), in exercise of the powers derived from any Proclamation, President’s Orders, Ordinances, Chief Executive’s Orders, enactments, including amendments in the Constitution, notifications, rules, orders, bye-laws or in execution of or in compliance with any orders made or sentences passed by any authority in the exercise or purported exercise of powers as aforesaid, shall, notwithstanding any judgment of any court, be deemed to be and always to have been validly made, taken or done and shall not be called in question in any court or forum on any ground whatsoever.

[Truck and Barter] Truck and Barter: Iraqi Dinar Discussion: July 13, 2006 ...: that should make you have a very intense pucker factor..If you have a different view of how the Iraqi politicians are going to react...considering it is the shiites being attacked by Israel and the Iraqi politicians power is build solely within a shiite political base both in population and positions of strength within the Iraqi government...please feel free to give it here....if you were an Iraqi politician what would you do...when the shiite population and your shiite cabinet members started putting pressure on you .

[1 MUSLIM NATION] How Ataturk Destroyed Islam in Turkey « 1 MUSLIM NATION: Caliphate bougth the home to England in 1920s..Caliphate declared all the Turks who fight with enemies as ateist..And after the independence the public killed the men who helped enemies like caliphate..So the last sultan of Ottoman got afraid and he escaped to Maltha…here %99 muslims and when he removed caliphae nobody rebelled..Åžeyh Said was a traitor kurd who helped for England to occupy Musul..If he didnt rebel,we would get Musul…but he became difficulty for Turkish Army to help english soldiers…And according to kemalist secularism noone can interfere on the other ones..for example i donr drink but i cant say anythıng my friend who drink..noone can cut head of people for Allah..and the women didnt have to wear çarÅŸaf..in any case ın Quaran there isnt carÅŸaf..Ataturk removed carÅŸaf..it made women ..Ataturk gave women the rights of marriage,divorce,working,inheritance…his clothes ıs not about not only language and clothes..ın ottoman %1 knew writing-reading..and only they could read Quaran..arabic letters was very hard for turkish society!today %89 know writing-reading..and they can read Quaran!and ıt ıs forbidden to use Islam ın politics…politicans must ınterest our economic,cultural,social,humanistic,educational,militarily problems..we have a master of religional subjects..Ali BardakoÄŸlu…he is duty on religional subjects..our president mustn get vote by using people’religional emotions..they mustn make ostentation..and this geography nationalism is an obligation..i said ”i am a Turk”among my european friends but among my arabic friends i say ”i am a muslim”..meanly Turkish nationalism protects us from imperialism..we are very very happy here..ın Turkey Islam ıs holy.because ıt ıs special..i learned my prophet’s life ın Ataturk’s schools..i learned Islamic history ın his schools…i learned also the events before ıslam and after ıslam ın turkish history..thanks to ataturk..i am proud of being muslim and i think i am luckier to live ın democratic,free,secular the Republic of Turkey..

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