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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.

 [Axle Of Elvis] 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 towards the Kurds; and Turkomans and Arabs warn it ...

[Iraq War News] In Today’s News - Sunday, June 29, 2008: Aegis Security teams are goodwill ambassadors (Kirkuk) Iraqi forces detain AQI member, prevent attacks Leadership discusses reconciliation in Tikrit US Army engineers teach IA soldiers vital skills (Tikrit) .

[Iraq Oil Report] Americans named participant in Iraq oil contracts with Big Oil: The contracts have not been published, but Ashti Hawrami, Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government natural resources minister, insists everything needed to know about what’s in the dozens of contracts signed between the KRG and international oil companies is in the public domain.

 [Babylonian Society] Article 140 and the Future of Iraq: This provision in Iraq’s constitution calls for normalization with compensation to move settlers back to their original areas and to return rightful inhabitants to their homes. A census and referendum would follow this process.

 [Sterling Energy PLC Discussion] Re: Oil talks: PNA-Hulir - Abdulhamid Zebari: Mosques said Prime Minister Barzani of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq that he had reached an agreement with the Iraqi government to form a committee comprising a group of Iraqi politicians to resolve the issue of oil and gas law in Iraq. Mosques Barzani said at a press conference held today, Saturday, in Arbil reviewed the results of his recent visit to Baghdad: Question of the law of oil and gas we believe it is a matter of political and constitutional We in the Kurdistan Regional Government believe that we must try to discuss this issue at the political and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki The same opinion and decided to form a political committee

 [Informed Comment] Sadrists Plan Attacks on US Troops; Security Guards will Not have ...: Whether Kirkuk Province will be including in the voting, even though it has not yet held the referendum mandated in the constitution on whether it will join the Kurdistan Regional Government, a provincial confederacy that has already absorbed 3 of Iraq's 18 provinces.

 [Ladyallardilj's Weblog] KPFA, Atman’m wrathful!: (”Alter web complement a girly show at the gates up to Stripe’s Occident office”) and doorstop thereby Antonia Juhasz who explained the purposeful Iraqi suet constitution, “The drag into court changes Iraq less an honeyed phrases entity unneighborly en route to US candlenut oil companies into an adipose tissue quiet drag which. American expedite companies counting Shoulder patch could go along with and unextremeness at homely couplet-thirds apropos of Iraq’s sycophancy seeing as how a life purpure additionally.”

[Gavin's Blog] American Realism for a New World: The answer was no, and it was thus avowedly U.S. policy from the outset to try to support the Iraqis in building a democratic Iraq. It is important to remember that we did not overthrow Adolf Hitler to bring democracy to Germany either.

 [Morriscorbin's Weblog] Nip Facing, Not Baez: Iraqis weren’t the ones delineation this John Law- not indeed the legislative assembly which is tasked to charcoal Iraq’s laws. Raed Jarrar lowest insight that, access February, in which time the taboo was conceding toward, the Iraqi .

 [Electronical Blog] What the Papers say 2003: "Indeed if you wanted a reality check last week, you needed to watch a blistering Panorama: The Price of Victory", in which the foot soldiers in the ranks of the US peacekeeping force in Iraq despaired of their out of touch superiors, while the Iraqi people merely despaired. "Soldiers are bad Policemen", the UN Envoy Sergio Viera de Mello, told Panorama in his final interview , 48 hours before he was killed, thereby writing his own epitaph.

 [JURIST - Forum] A Modest Proposal on Kirkuk: Now it appears that the most hardline Sunni party in the National Assembly, the Iraqi National Dialogue Front, aware that a vote by the end of the year is all but impossible at this point, has indicated that there can be no delay, and that once the New Year arrives, in the words of the Front's spokesman Haider Al-Mulla, "no power on earth can under the constitution join Kirkuk to Kurdistan." At the same time, Fu'ad Ma'sum, the deputy chairman of the Iraq Constitutional Review Committee, has indicated that significant differences remain among the various factions seeking to amend the Constitution concerning four issues, among them Article 140 and the status of Kirkuk, and that more work, and more direction from the political leaders of each faction, is needed to bridge the differences. As a result, his committee also seeks an extension of the time from the National Assembly for the time allotted to it to finish its proposed constitutional amendments.

 [Avraham's One Village - JEWISH & benei Noach's ONE VILLAGE ***Barukh haba***] [MERIA] Panel Discussion, "Iraq's Future: The War and Beyond ...: I'm a little bit worried that we've been counting on the Kurdish north being the most stable, prosperous, predictable part of Iraq, and I just want to put a question mark there. We've managed to delay a battle on the Kirkuk referendum, but I don't think we're out of the woods yet on what the Kurdish politicians are going to demand.

 [http://timjblair.spaces.live.com Military - Veterans News blog: Seattle, King County, Washington US] cna: According to L'Osservatore Romano, Bishop Hollis recently visited the Iraqi towns of Erbil, Kirkuk and Sulemanyiah.  His visit came just days after the kidnapping and killing of the Archbishop of Mosul, Paulos Faraj Rahho.

[Iraq War News] TERROR AND JUSTICE: Four Iraqi soldiers were injured when an explosive device went soured on the highway southwest of Kirkuk, 250km northerly Baghdad, while an authorised in Kirkuk personnel department survived an endeavor on his life in south of the city, .

 [from the desk of Tim Blair NEWS & blog: Seattle, King County, Washington US.] cna: Archbishop Burke on Friday issued a statement about Florek's reconciliation,  saying, "He expressed his deep sorrow and regret over the harm which his schismatic activity, as a member of the Board of Directors, has caused, and promised to do everything possible in the future to promote the communion of the Church through obedience to her legitimate authority.

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