3 hours ago by Iraqi Mojo

Today I read about American-based Human Rights Watch's call on Iraq to end executions: "Iraqi authorities executed at least 65 people in the first 40 days of 2012 for various offenses, including 14 on a single day, Human Rights Watch said Thursday." Today I also saw this on facebook: I used to think ...

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5 hours ago by Iraqi Mojo

Joel Wing posted an interesting interview with Jerry Burke, an American who was head of the New England Institute of Law Enforcement Management in 2003. Mr. Burke was asked to assess the Iraqi police force in 2003 and he found them to be in "disarray". He also described the CPA as a "disaster": "The ...

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5 hours ago by Iraqi Mojo

"Iraq will lose the capacity to export 1.7 million barrels of crude a day if Iran blocks the Strait of Hormuz, the transit point for about two thirds of its production, an Oil Ministry spokesman said."

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8 hours ago by Cubadebate

Con la caída del campo socialista en el este de Europa y la desintegración de la URSS, se inauguró una etapa en las relaciones internacionales que posibilitó el inicio del cambio de paradigma político, militar y geo estratégico de los vencederos. Estados Unidos recurrió a invasiones militares contra ...

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8 hours ago by Arati Sharma

By early 2003, the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom claimed that Iraq was in possession of weapons of mass destruction. This posed a threat to international security and gave rise to the possibility of Iraq employing these weapons against other countries. To prevent this, the ...

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8 hours ago by Antony Loewenstein

A positive move for a nation that deserves true independence: Iraq deeply mistrusts private security companies and wants to limit their operations here, officials say, while the contractors themselves have faced bureaucratic delays and detentions. This mistrust stems from perceived arrogant behaviou ...

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9 hours ago by BristleKRS

David Simon and the Generation Kill gang have a little meta chuckle by having a marine read Noam Chomsky’s ‘ What Uncle Sam Really Wants‘ whilst, you know, invading Iraq. Filed under: Framed Documents, Iraq War, Propah Books Tagged: 1st Recon Marines, Baghdad, Evan Wright, Generation Kill, HBO, Iraq ...

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10 hours ago by By THE NEW YORK TIMES

Photographs from Syria, Iraq, the Philippines and Washington.

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11 hours ago by RajM

New Pentagon rules could put women closer to combat is a post from: Indian4Ever New Pentagon rules could put women closer to combat is a post from: Indian4Ever By David Alexander WASHINGTON | Thu Feb 9, 2012 1:12pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon is preparing to open thousands of military jo ...

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11 hours ago by The Vast Minority

THOUSANDS of Iraqis have been celebrating the victory oftheir resistance movement over the USA. Thursday's triumphal event in Baghdad'sSadr City marked the pull-out of Americantroops. And even mainstream US media were this week reporting"declining American influence in the country" as more cracks ap ...

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