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Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqis pleads guilty

Fox News - Jan 23, 2012
Wuterich's plea Monday interrupted his trial at Camp Pendleton before a jury of all combat Marines who served in Iraq. Wuterich faces a maximum of three months confinement, two-thirds forfeiture of pay and a rank demotion to private when he's sentenced ...

Iraq December Crude Exports, Revenue Rise to 4-Month High

BusinessWeek - Jan 23, 2012
23 (Bloomberg) -- Iraq, which is seeking to boost crude exports to rebuild its economy, said oil shipments climbed 3.7 percent in December to 66.5 million barrels, generating the highest revenue in four months, $7.06 billion.

Human Rights Watch: Iraq getting worse

CNN - Jan 23, 2012
The human rights situation in Iraq is worse now than it was a year ago, the campaign group Human Rights Watch argues in a new report out Sunday, warning that people are being tortured with impunity in secret prisons. The group says it uncovered a ...

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Lonely Planet Middle East

by: Anthony Ham, Rafael Wlodarski, Jenny Walker, Cesar Soriano, James Bainbridge, Amelia Thomas
Nobody knows the Middle East like Lonely Planet. From Egyptian oases, hidden gorges in 'the other Iraq' and hamams in Istanbul, to the old city of Jerusalem and the labyrinth of Aleppo's souq, we've got the whole region covered.

Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip.

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Sweet Tea with Cardamom: A Journey Through Iraqi Kurdistan

by: Teresa Thornhill
After the month-long Gulf War of 1991, Iraq's Kurdish minority began to rise against Saddam Hussein's regime, which had in previous years engaged in genocidal campaigns, including assaults with chemical weapons, that killed as many as 180,000 people. United Nations peacekeeping forces helped established a "safe haven" in Iraqi Kurdistan (a section of northern Iraq that runs along the borders of Turkey and Iran) and elections were soon held. Teresa Thornhill, an English barrister who became concerned with the plight of the Kurds through an ex-partner's personal connection to Iraq, took two trips to the region in 1993 to see for herself how the efforts at democracy were progressing.
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The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq

by: Rory Stewart
In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat who had recently completed an epic walk from Turkey to Bangladesh, he was soon appointed deputy governor of Amarah and then Nasiriyah, provinces in the remote, impoverished marsh regions of southern Iraq. He spent the next eleven months negotiating hostage releases, holding elections, and splicing together some semblance of an infrastructure for a population of millions teetering on the brink of civil war.
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Accent on Iraq

by: Accent on Languages
This is an essential tool for the military and civilians working in Iraq. It helps you to survive and thrive with Accent on Iraq! You can learn useful phrases and vocabulary, Iraqi culture - history, geography, people, food, religion, and customs - plus "Do's and Don'ts" for interactions with Iraqis! It includes: Illustrated Flash Cards - the words you need, with both the Arabic script and pronunciations, plus simple pictures of everyday occurrences; An audio CD of the Vocabulary recorded with a native speaker of Iraqi Arabic; Cultural Notes Booklet - Get an overview of Iraq, especially of important customs and crucial etiquette; Quick Reference Guide - The laminated fold-out card covers over 350 essentials words and phrases in Arabic and English.
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Rick Perry Says He Would Send Troops Back To Iraq

Rick Perry says if he were president, he'd send troops back to Iraq. ABC NEWS / WMUR debate, January 7, 2012.

 

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Inside Story - Iraq: Back to chaos?

Deadly attacks have raised fears of a deepening sectarian divide in a country sliding into political chaos. Guests joining the discussion: Gala Riani; Fanar Haddad; and Saad Almutalabi.

 

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Inside Story - Iraq: Back to chaos?

Deadly attacks have raised fears of a deepening sectarian divide in a country sliding into political chaos.

 

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Fake Withdrawal? 'US won't leave Iraq oil to Iran'

Despite the US's declared withdrawal of its military personnel and contractors out of Iraq, Washington has prepared to control the country's rich oil reserves in any case, shared Ranjit Singh Kalha, former India's ambassador to Iraq in the 1990s. Having spent $3 trillion in Iraq, a country with harsh weather conditions (+50 C most of the time) and absolutely nothing valuable but oil reserves, the Americans simply cannot give up the plentiful and very high quality oil they went there for. "It takes $1.50 to take out this oil that's just below the surface. Anybody who has access to this oil can be a game changer -- as far as the politics of oil is concerned," Ranjit Singh Kalha concluded. The problem Americans encountered in Iraq is that once given "some symbols" of democracy, the Iraqi voted for a Shia-led government. The headache is that the Shia traditionally have close links with Iran, the core territory of this affiliation. "That is the present dilemma. If you withdraw from Iraq completely, you leave this vast oil wealth of Iraq in the hands of Shia (Iran-oriented) government. And therefore it upsets the political balance in the Middle East," Ranjit Singh Kalha explained. He said that to counter such adverse developments the US will have almost 20000-strong embassy in Baghdad (the largest US embassy in the world) and consulates in Basra, Kerkuk and in northern Kurd-inhabited territory, each consulate 1000-strong. "Americans cannot afford to be completely absent from ...

 

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Total Ignorance: Where's Libya, Iraq or Iran? NYC doesn't care!

The men and women hoping to become the next President of the US appear to spend as much time demonstrating their ignorance of the world, as they do their political credentials. But as RT's Anastasia Churkina found out, that could just be a reflection of society. RT on Twitter twitter.com RT on Facebook www.facebook.com