Gorillas Guides (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Baghdad (dpa) An Iraqi Christian member of parliament on Tuesday asked the speaker to request an international inquiry into the killing and intimidation of Christians in Iraq. Yonadam Kanna, an Assyrian Christian from northern Iraq, petitioned Sunni Muslim parliamentary speaker Iyad al-Samarrai to formally request the inquiry, al-Samarrai’s Iraqi Accord Front (al-Tawafaq) reported...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Baghdad - An Iraqi Christian member of parliament on Tuesday asked the speaker to request an international inquiry into the killing and intimidation of Christians in Iraq. Yonadam Kanna, an Assyrian Christian from northern Iraq, petitioned Sunni Musl...
From The Wilderness (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
By Mamoon Alabbasi 11-03-09 The Palestine Chronicle As people across the world breathed a sigh of relief to see the back of former US president George W. Bush, top American intellectual Noam Chomsky warned against assuming or expecting significant changes in the basis of Washington’s foreign policy under President Barack Obama. During two lectures organized by the School [...]
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The Norwegian press has been doing great work in investigating the Norwegian oil firm DNO's somewhat questionable dealings in Iraqi Kurdistan, during the course of which they identified former ambassador Peter Galbraith as a claimant to a share of the Tawke oil field. The other claimant is Shahir 'Abd-al-Haq, a Yemeni businessman, who had handled DNO's business in Yemen and, at some point, also...
