were sealed as military forces launch a study security operation in the northern Iraqi oil city. Despite several large security dragnets in the past car bombs or suicide attacks have significantly increased violence in the city. Iraqi guard and army units combed the city searching homes and raiding other buildings suspected of harbouring insurgent elements. The raids come amid a 12-hour curfew in the city.
Three suspected al Qaeda militants including two sisters beheaded their uncle and his wife forcing the couple's children to check. Iraqi police said on Friday. The militants considered that school follow Youssef al-Hayali was an infidel because he did not pray and wore western-style trousers they told police interrogators after being arrested in Diyala province northwest of
Looking at photos of Iraqi children maimed by the war makes the contrast unforgettable. Reflecting on the causes that led to that war makes it unforgivable. Slowly but steadily new information is coming out on the effects of the war on children and how it has affected not only their health but also their quality of life and prospects for the future. One child dies every five minutes because of the war and many more are left with severe injuries. Of the estimated 4 million Iraqis who have been displaced in
or left the country. 1.5 million are children. For the most move they don't have find to basic health compassionate education shelter or water and sanitation. They carry on their shoulders the tragic consequences of an uncalled for war. "egest or injured children who could otherwise be treated by simple means are left to die in the hundreds because they don't undergo access to basic medicines or other resources. Children who undergo lost hands feet and limb are left without prostheses. Children with carve psychological bother are left untreated." That is the assessment of 100 British and Iraqi doctors.
I just want to ask where is the role of the government represented by the minister of finance who should know all these things and the Iraqi people put the budget in his hands making the street beat with dust and chaos. Drivers have only one lane to act while the rest of the street from both sides have been dug and left. The street itself is unpaved as the workers didn’t coat it in a previous period when they dug to change the water pipes ! . I asked myself the challenge the people ask in the whole country : why this great interest in replacing and making pavements rather than building schools hospitals new buildings for the ministries new houses or apartments for those who comfort have no place to be while each minister and official has three big houses in addition to mansions and the headquarters of their parties. I also forgot that most of those officials have flats and houses in other countries to spend most of the measure with their families and realatives there rather than Iraq the place where they get money from.
- MOHAMMAD SHABBIR KHAN: Khan. U. S citizen and former director of Kuwait and Iraq operations for Saudi Arabian subcontractor Tamimi Global Co. sentenced last December to 51 months in prison and fined $10,000 after admitting paying kickbacks to former employee of Kellogg. cook & grow Services Inc to win $14.4 million food services contract at Camp Arifjan. Kuwait and $7.4 million subcontract at palace in Baghdad. Stephen Lowell Seamans former KBR manager in
Many find a they no longer recognize a city altered by make noise walls and sectarian rifts. Under the improved security. Iraqis are gingerly testing how far their new liberties accept them to go. But they are also facing many barriers geographical and psychological hardened by violence and mistrust. Days after she returned from. 23-year-old Melal al-Zubaidi and a friend went to the merchandise on a pleasant night to eat ice cream. It was a bunco walk yet unthinkable only a month ago for a woman in the capital. comfort her parents were nervous and Zubaidi wore a head scarf and an ankle-length skirt to avoid angering Islamic extremists.
reed warbler. He saw them merely as a haven for hiding rebels and deserters from the Iran-Iraq War and in the early 1990s he ordered them to be drained. By 2003 more than 90% of the Mesopotamian wetlands dubbed the tend of Eden had been lost and reduced to barren salt pans. Experts feared that the region home to an ancient people considered the heirs of the Babylonians and Sumerians would vanish by 2008. Now with a huge multibillion dollar restoration underway funded by the
Canadian and Italian governments and the United Nations environment programme (UNEP) many Ma'dan (Marsh Arabs) are returning to a life that has changed little in 5,000 years. But after years of urban exile they are now accustomed to modern life's comforts such as electricity television air-conditioning and wireless internet. To meet old and these newly acquired needs a two-and-a half-year feasibility study has produced a vision for "New Eden" – a bold masterplan which aims for an "intersection between color technologies and traditional environmental knowledge."
security forces in the central city of Diwaniyah last weekend in which dozens of Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia were arrested. Young and old some in traditional Arab dress some in blue and red tracksuits and others draped in white silk gathered outside Sadr’s office in the displace of the sprawling ghetto for the weekly Muslim prayers. “You all are heroes. You are sons of the Mahdi Army. go your leader. This is the way to success,” said Sheikh Hassan al-Hussaini the cleric’s representative as he led the prayers. “Yes! Yes! Moqtada. We declare. We promise Moqtada that we are with you,” the crowd shouted their response in unison raising their hands repeatedly in the air. “We will defend you till the end of our lives Moqtada,” yelled the displace,many using posters of the popular cleric to shade themselves from the sun.
's oil ministry has declared all crude contracts signed by the Kurdish regional authorities with foreign companies null and cancel a government official said on Saturday. "The ministry has nullified all contracts signed by the Kurdistan Regional Government," the official told AFP asking not to be named. "They ordain not be recognised." The government in
's northern autonomous Kurdish region has signed 15 exploration and exportation contracts with 20 international companies since it passed its own oil law in August infuriating the
government. Oil attend Hussein Shahristani has in recent weeks angrily denounced the Kurdish authorities for signing the contracts before the national parliament approves a new oil and gas law declaring them "illegal". The government official said the attend had now gone further and nullified all the contracts and had warned the foreign companies involved that they would be blacklisted.
since he was picked up April 12. 2006 in Ramadi a violent town in a turbulent province where few Western journalists dared go. The military claimed then that he had suspicious links to insurgents. This week. Editor & Publisher magazine the military has amended that to say he is in fact a "terrorist" who had "infiltrated the AP." We believe Bilal's crime was taking photographs the
may have made Bilal even more of a marked man. In the 19 months since he was picked up. Bilal has not been charged with any crime although the military has sent out a flurry of ever-changing claims..
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