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 [The Seminal :: Independent Media and Politics] Iraq: Provincial Election Troubles, Violence”¦Last Battles?: It is a struggle between party officials who spent the Saddam years in exile, mostly in Iran, and tribal leaders who endured his rule at home ”” and, on another level, a contest between urbanized Shiites, who lean more toward the religious parties and Sadr’s movement, and agrarian Iraqis, whose loyalties lie more in tribal society. Significantly, it is also a rivalry between Shiites who favor a government based on religious parties and those who have a more secular vision.

 [SWJ Blog] 3 August SWJ News, Op-Ed, and Events Roundup: It is a struggle between party officials who spent the Saddam years in exile, mostly in Iran, and tribal leaders who endured his rule at home - and, on another level, a contest between urbanized Shiites, who lean more toward the religious parties and Sadr’s movement, and agrarian Iraqis, whose loyalties lie more in tribal society. Significantly, it is also a rivalry between Shiites who favor a government based on religious parties and those who have a more secular vision.

 [Diary of ASHOK DASGUPTA] POLITICS ON THE NUCLEAR POWER SECTOR: Abolition of Jelep-la trade route, border problems with China, partition of India, break down of Pakistan to form Bangladesh with majority of population being Bengali-speaking Muslims east to the West Bengal state of India, lack of land connection of Bangladesh and rest Pakistan with the Tibetan Autonomous Territory under China, formation of tea gardens on these ancient trade routes falling on India’s side and disconnecting Bangladesh with China and Myanmar, introduction of Nepali speaking population and Adivasi communities into these tea gardens, replacement of trade by agriculture and agro-based industry, demographic change, remembrance of historicity, ethnic sentiments and ideology of Pan-Gorkhaization throughout the Himalayas are behind the political problem like Gorkhaland movement where the hill peoples (local or migrated) forcefully or whole heartedly supporting the Gorkha ideology (despite of all clashes between trade and agriculture). The Movement is said to be originated from plantocracy that was a politicized status movement of the Nepali-speaking low graded Matowali sub-castes in-migrated as the tea garden laborers in Darjeeling hills where other ethnic elements were either least or totally absent.

 [SWJ Blog] 3 August Top Reads: Because the Islamic Army is the core of the coalition of 'nationalist-jihadist' insurgency factions which have expressed interest in joining the political process (the Reform and Jihad Front, the Political Council of the Iraqi Resistance) and is one of the key factions believed to have joined up with the Awakenings Councils / Sons of Iraq in force. Its public break with the Islamic State of Iraq (AQI) in April 2007 was probably the most important turning point in the transformation of the Sunni insurgency.

 [Wilhed's Weblog] My old blog - davidivus.blogspot.com - archived here: Infrastructure requires huge investment, as much of the generally poorer Shiite parts of the province are in need of government buildings, schools, and basic necessities like electricity and running water. How best to spend limited .

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