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	<title>Iraq Oil Report &#187; Baghdad</title>
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		<title>U.S. planning to slash Embassy staff</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Less than two months after American troops left, the State Department is preparing to slash by as much as half the enormous diplomatic presence it had planned for Iraq, a sharp sign of declining American influence in the country. Officials in Baghdad and Washington said that Ambassador James F. Jeffrey and other senior State Department [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq to ask US for Iran sanctions waiver</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[American sanctions on Iran pose difficulties for Iraq because of its close economic ties with the Islamic republic, so Baghdad plans to seek a waiver from the US, the government spokesman told AFP. "We have a huge relation financially between the private sectors" of "Iraq and Iran, as Iran is the main supplier for many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq detains 16 vice presidential guards</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Al Hashemi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Warrant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Iraqi security forces have detained 16 of Tareq al-Hashemi's bodyguards, the interior ministry said, in a move the fugitive vice president said Tuesday was the latest in a string of false accusations. Hashemi is hiding in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq after the Baghdad authorities issued a warrant for his arrest in mid-December [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crude awakening: Iraq and oil policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brain Trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crude Awakening]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Meeting Rooms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil Sector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outdoor Gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Symposium]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Dec. 17, two days after the U.S. military cased its colors and formally ended its mission in Iraq, the brain trust of the Iraqi oil sector gathered for a symposium at Baghdad's Alwiyah Club, a fortified concrete complex of meeting rooms and outdoor gardens. They were officially meeting to discuss "Challenges Facing the Development [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Iraqi film hero in America</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America One]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Directors]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brilliant Film]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Invasion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Led]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manhattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Museum Of Modern Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rasheed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of Iraq’s only working filmmakers, Oday Rasheed – whose brilliant film 2005 Underexposure followed a group of characters in Baghdad after the United States-led invasion in 2003, and whose new film Qarantina is now premiering – is in Manhattan. The glamorous settings in which he is now showing Qarantina – a screening at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talabani back in Baghdad</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jalal Talabani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kurdistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Masum]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[President Jalal Talabani]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Jalal Talabani landed in Baghdad on Saturday evening having undergone surgery in Germany. Jalal Talabani returns to IraqA senior member of Talabani's party the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Fuad Masum told AKnews earlier that the President would return directly to Baghdad because the long heralded but slow to arrive national conference is depending on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baghdad bomber kills 31</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-filled taxi near a Shi'ite funeral procession in Baghdad on Friday, killing 31 people and bringing the death toll from violence since an Iraqi political crisis erupted in December to more than 400. The bomber exploded his vehicle near the group of mourners passing by a small market street in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq to take action after Haditha verdict</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iraq will take legal action to ensure justice for the families of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians killed in a U.S. raid in Haditha seven years ago, a government spokesman said Thursday, after the lone U.S. Marine convicted in the killings reached a deal to escape jail time. Residents in Haditha, a former Sunni insurgent stronghold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shiite leader urges reconciliation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Al Hakim]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A top Iraqi Shiite official said Thursday that the political crisis pitting Shiite officials against his country's largest Sunni-backed bloc must end. But Ammar al-Hakim, a powerful cleric and leader of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, did not offer any change in the legal challenge that started the standoff: An arrest warrant that Iraq's Shiite-led [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bombing kills 10</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anonymity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bombs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazen Attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Four Women]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nearby Hospital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[police officer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insurgents bombed a house belonging to two policemen and their families in central Iraq early on Thursday, killing 10 people inside in the latest brazen attack since the U.S. troop withdrawal, officials said. The house where the two policemen brothers lived was located in the Hamia area, about 31 miles (50 kilometers) south of Baghdad, [...]]]></description>
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