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Kirkuk lawmaker wary of city's status
Published: May 13, 2008 at 6:46 PM
BAGHDAD, May 13 (UPI) -- A Kurdish lawmaker Tuesday said Baghdad is so divided over a constitutional provision concerning the legal status of Kirkuk that it won't address the issue. -
Iraqi NGO calls for international funds
Published: May 13, 2008 at 6:44 PM
BAGHDAD, May 13 (UPI) -- The head of a consortium of Iraqi aid groups appealed to international donors to help displaced Iraqis and called on Baghdad to do better in helping its own. -
Iraqi girls' school gets upgrade
Published: May 13, 2008 at 6:36 PM
BAGHDAD, May 13 (UPI) -- Iraqi citizens, local leaders and a representative from the Ministry of Education attended a ceremony marking the completion of a girls' school in Mahmudiyah.
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Outside View: Open letter to candidates
Published: May 13, 2008 at 5:58 PM
By NEIL WOLLMAN and ABIGAIL FULLER
UPI Outside View Commentators
Thus far, your debate on the war in Iraq -- like the public and media debate -- has focused mainly on the questions of progress in security and political reconciliation, with some limited discussion on the war's effects on the U.S. economy and on our military preparedness elsewhere. -
Iraq Press Roundup
Published: May 13, 2008 at 12:29 PM
By HIBA DAWOOD
UPI Correspondent
The daily Al Sabah newspaper said in its editorial Tuesday that Hezbollah's taking over part of Beirut reminds us of similarities with the situation in Iraq. -
Feature: Notes on Iraq
Published: May 13, 2008 at 12:14 PM
By RICHARD TOMKINS
FOB NORMANDY, Iraq, May 13 (UPI) -- FOBs and COPs may sound like a new board game or Xbox distraction, but they're acronyms that actually define the lives of U.S. troops here. -
Analysis: Cybercrooks get credit card data
Published: May 13, 2008 at 12:00 PM
By SHAUN WATERMAN
UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
WASHINGTON, May 13 (UPI) -- Three men who hacked into the Dave and Busters restaurant chain and stole its customers' credit card data face federal fraud and conspiracy charges. -
Feature: Divisions, al-Qaida leave legacy
Published: May 13, 2008 at 10:01 AM
By RICHARD TOMKINS
MUQDADIYA, Iraq, May 12 (UPI) -- Hassan Abbas Mahmoud is an optimist, a desperate man or both. -
Atlantic Eye: Of kings and kingmakers
Published: May 12, 2008 at 3:05 PM
By MARC S. ELLENBOGEN
UPI International Columnist
BLOIS, France, May 12 (UPI) -- Lord Holme of Cheltenham was the former chairman of the British Liberal Party -- a classic European free-market oriented, centrist party. He was chair of the English College Foundation in Prague, where we became friends. To his enemies, he spent 30 years as the phantom behind the scenes, the kingmaker. A member of Global Panel America's Advisory Board, he lost his fight to brain cancer last week.
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The Association of Muslim Scholars' Al Basaer newspaper said Tuesday in its editorial that after Iraq was destroyed and hard to fix, officials at the White House called upon Arab countries to send their representatives to Iraq using Iran as a threat.
The editorial with the title "After the destruction" said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates asked Arab countries to open offices in Iraq though Iraqi officials themselves are based inside the highly fortified Green Zone.
"These calls try to convince countries of the danger coming from Iran's infiltration in Iraq, yet Arab ministers and representatives would be incapable, while inside the Green Zone, of stopping the deep Iranian penetration. ... Also there is nothing on Earth that can prevent the kidnapping and killing of those diplomats," it said.
The Saudi-based Sunni newspaper said it is unclear what diplomats can do when Iraq's religious and political parties have announced Iraq is not acknowledged as an Arab country. It added Iraqi politicians addressed in the new constitution that Arabs in Iraq are "part of the Arab world," which the paper said was a way of omitting Iraq's Arab identity.
"The reality is that the night President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spent in Iraq under the protection of the U.S. forces, shows the fact there is a hidden agreement between Iran and the United States," it said.
The paper said U.S. and Iranian officials met several times to discuss the "security of Iraq," which reflects the fact both Washington and Tehran "occupy" Iraq.
It also said the U.S. occupation of Iraq and Iran's interference in Iraq and Arab countries can't change this fact.
"The United States didn't hide their project that aims to divide Iraq, and Iran has announced its support to the U.S.-made political process," it said.
It concluded Iran and the United States cooperated in demolishing Iraq and erasing its identity.
"The United States has realized they are defeated by the Iraqi resistance that has been causing increased losses, forcing the U.S. to ask the support of a country like Iran," Al Basaer newspaper said.
UPI Correspondent
The Association of Muslim Scholars' Al Basaer newspaper said Tuesday in its editorial that after Iraq was destroyed and hard to fix, officials at the White House called upon Arab countries to send their representatives to Iraq using Iran as a threat.
The editorial with the title "After the destruction" said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates asked Arab countries to open offices in Iraq though Iraqi officials themselves are based inside the highly fortified Green Zone.
"These calls try to convince countries of the danger coming from Iran's infiltration in Iraq, yet Arab ministers and representatives would be incapable, while inside the Green Zone, of stopping the deep Iranian penetration. ... Also there is nothing on Earth that can prevent the kidnapping and killing of those diplomats," it said.
The Saudi-based Sunni newspaper said it is unclear what diplomats can do when Iraq's religious and political parties have announced Iraq is not acknowledged as an Arab country. It added Iraqi politicians addressed in the new constitution that Arabs in Iraq are "part of the Arab world," which the paper said was a way of omitting Iraq's Arab identity.
"The reality is that the night President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spent in Iraq under the protection of the U.S. forces, shows the fact there is a hidden agreement between Iran and the United States," it said.
The paper said U.S. and Iranian officials met several times to discuss the "security of Iraq," which reflects the fact both Washington and Tehran "occupy" Iraq.
It also said the U.S. occupation of Iraq and Iran's interference in Iraq and Arab countries can't change this fact.
"The United States didn't hide their project that aims to divide Iraq, and Iran has announced its support to the U.S.-made political process," it said.
It concluded Iran and the United States cooperated in demolishing Iraq and erasing its identity.
"The United States has realized they are defeated by the Iraqi resistance that has been causing increased losses, forcing the U.S. to ask the support of a country like Iran," Al Basaer newspaper said.
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