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Al Ahram Weekly (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Egypt's new ambassador is expected in Baghdad, reports Doaa El-Bey

Loach goes to war, BFI wants sex and 1 Day in Birmingham | Trailer Trash

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

> > Loach and Menges go to war Ken Loach is making his first film about the Iraq war. Teaming up again with revered cameraman Chris Menges – for the first time on a feature since Kes , in 1969 – Loach is drawing to a close on his shoot of Route Irish in both Liverpool and Jordan. The film is about two security contractors in Iraq in love with the same girl back home. When one of...

Egypt's first envoy to Iraq since 2005 arrives

France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday

Egypt's new ambassador to Iraq has arrived in Baghdad, a diplomatic source said on Saturday of Cairo's first diplomatic representative in the country since its charge d'affaires was killed in 2005. Sharif Kamal Shahin, a diplomat with 27 years' experience and a former ambassador to Zambia, arrived in Iraq on Friday, the source said. Egypt's foreign ministry spokesman has described the move as an "important...

Legal Adviser in Iraq Named Judge in Mass.

Law.com - Inside Opinions: Legal Bl (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

A lawyer and U.S. Army colonel who has spent much of the last two years in Baghdad on a special assignment to improve the legal rights of women was named this week to a judgeship in Massachusetts. Gov. Deval L. Patrick nominated Col. George F. Phelan to be a judge of the Probate and Family Court on the island of Nantucket. Phelan is on special assignment to the U.S. State Department as Rule of Law...

The trail of human suffering goes on - how many more illegal acts will it take?

Labourlist (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

By Jeremy Corbyn MP At one of the border points between Syria and Iraq, reached after a four hour drive across the stony desert from Damascus, the road is barred to all vehicles and travellers by a checkpoint. Those allowed through drive on. This is the road to Baghdad, where armies have marched, peace-makers have travelled and refugees have fled. Beside it, where the huge lorries lumber up to speed,...

War News for Friday, November 06, 2009

Iraq Today (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

The British Mod is reporting the death of a British ISAF soldier in an explosion near Sangin,Helmand province, Afghanistan on Thursday, November 5th. The Washington Post is reporting the deaths of two American ISAF service members in a roadside bombing in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, November 5th. Reviews Raise Doubt on Training of Afghan Forces: Taliban successfully...

Iraqi School Books Criticised for Sectarian Bias

Institute for War & Peace Reporting (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Minorities say new religious curriculum places unfair emphasis on Shia Islam. By Abeer Mohammed in Baghdad

Multiculturalists diminish 'rough beast' ravaging Islam

Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

By RORY LEISHMAN Among post-modern multiculturalists, it's commonplace to suppose that all cultures are of equal moral worth. Salim Mansur, professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario, emphatically disagrees. In an illuminating collection of essays entitled Islam's Predicament: Perspectives of a Dissident Muslim, he maintains Islam is afflicted with "a terrible malady,"...

Exxon-Shell consortium inks deal to develop major Iraqi oil field

Washington Post (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

BAGHDAD -- Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell signed a deal with the Iraqi Oil Ministry on Thursday to develop a major field, marking the first foray by a U.S.-led consortium into Iraq's promising but uncertain oil industry.

Here’s something the Liberal media won’t show you: Foreign tourists are visiting Iraq again

Bare Naked Islam (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

They are still trying to convince themselves (and us) that we lost the war in Iraq. The last group of Westerners to arrive in Baghdad rode tanks and carried guns. Six years ago, US-led forces invaded Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein, an event which sparked years of inter-ethnic hatred. Now though, officially-sanctioned package tourists are back. “I think [...]

Exxon Mobil, Shell win Iraqi oil contract

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

Baghdad - A consortium of oil companies led by Exxon Mobil on Thursday signed a contract to develop one of Iraq's largest oil fields, a spokesman for the Oil Ministry said. The consortium, which also includes Royal Dutch Shell, agreed to boost produc...

Lawmaker: Iraqi elections will likely be delayed

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

Baghdad - Iraqi parliamentary elections now scheduled for January 16 will likely be delayed, an Iraqi lawmaker said on Thursday, as wrangling over the disputed region of Kirkuk continued. The case of Kirkuk is still the biggest obstacle on the elect...

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Lots of success for Iraqi stamp auction

France24 (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

Reckoned to be Iraq's top expert on cement, Anis Amjad does the rounds of factories during the week but nothing can stop him conducting the stamp auction in old Baghdad every Saturday. On that day the 56-year-old chemical engineer takes off his white coat and raises his auctioneer's gavel. The lots are knocked down in an old Ottoman building dating from 1908 which, nine years later, became the first...

• Iraqi stamp auction posts record prices - The Telegraph

Shopping for Gold

Baghdad Bureau (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

A couple shops for gold in Baghdad.

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barbersze54 | 11/04/2009

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Regional issues on the agenda at EU Troika meeting with Iraq

patrickguillard | 09/29/2009

The EU Troika meeting with Iraq was held on 26 September at the Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations in New York. Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt opened the meeting by offering his condolences to the Iraqi Government for the bombing that killed some 70 people in Baghdad in September. The Troika meetings that are held in connection with the opening of the UN General Assembly in...