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		<title>Update and Perspectives on the Status Of Forces Agreement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plus: *SOFA negotiations rocky but developing *Iraq Oil Report offers first look at text submitted to Parliament *Kurdistan-Baghdad relations rocky *KRG signs U.N. electricity help *Iraq Oil Ministry wants helicopters *Alive in Baghdad: Sahwa, What Next After Al-Qaeda? *Iraq Press Roundup The Status Of Forces Agreement, or SOFA, is nearing a late-November deadline when Iraq’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BREAKING: Text of Status Of Forces Agreement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A trusted source passed along what is believed to be the version of the SOFA approved Sunday by Iraq's Cabinet and signed Monday by U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari. It must still be approved by Iraq's Parliament, no easy task. Iraq Oil Report will have more on this Wednesday. Also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No moves on Iraq oil law in KRG-Baghdad talks</title>
		<link>http://www.iraqoilreport.com/oil/no-moves-on-iraq-oil-law-in-krg-baghdad-talks-433/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=no-moves-on-iraq-oil-law-in-krg-baghdad-talks</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plus: *Iraq Oil Report update delays *Get your copy of the Shell-Iraq gas Heads of Agreement *PetroVietnam renegotiating Saddam-era oil deal *Iraq Human Rights Commission awaits Presidency Council OK *Iraq Oil Report Exclusive: Text of Human Rights Commission law *What is the "Green Zone"? *The Iraq Press Roundup Apologies to readers: over the past week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KRG’s Hawrami pans Iraq oil law movement</title>
		<link>http://www.iraqoilreport.com/oil/krg%e2%80%99s-hawrami-pans-iraq-oil-law-movement-427/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=krg%25e2%2580%2599s-hawrami-pans-iraq-oil-law-movement</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plus: *Another Iraq critic of the Shell gas deal *Kirkuk oil flows to Turkey again *Obama’s Iraq *Alive in Baghdad: Iraqi Professors Demand Rights *Much more News of the Iraq oil law being sent to Parliament may be a little too optimistic. "Two weeks ago (Kurdistan Regional Government President) Massoud Barzani was in Baghdad for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: Iraq Ambassador to U.N. Hamid al-Bayati</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day after Barack Obama was elected to be the next U.S. president, Iraq's Ambassador to the United Nations Hamid al-Bayati called it inspiring. But on the ground in Iraq, Obama really wouldn't be too different from President Bush, he said. In an interview with United Press International’s Ben Lando on the sidelines of an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq, Shell: gas deal not a monopoly, as documents and top lawmaker contend</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plus: *Iraq oil law expected next week in Parliament *Northern Iraq oil exports stopped on Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline blast *Six state oil firms added to bidding list *Iraq Press Roundup *Much more Officials at Royal Dutch Shell and the Iraqi Oil Ministry refute claims that a proposed gas joint venture would have exclusive access to Basra [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shell-Iraq gas company would be Basra natural gas monopoly</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[*Proposed joint venture could expand beyond Basra *Includes all gas, associated and non-associated, documents show Plus: *Oil Ministry presses Parliament on oil law action *Alive in Baghdad: Who would Iraqis vote for – McCain or Obama? *Violence in Context *Iraq Press Roundup *USIP: Iraq’s Cultural Heritage: Preserving the Past for the Sake of the Future [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq to join oil revenue transparency pact</title>
		<link>http://www.iraqoilreport.com/business/iraq-to-join-oil-revenue-transparency-pact-410/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=iraq-to-join-oil-revenue-transparency-pact</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plus: *Oil Minister Shahristani joins PM Maliki’s coalition list *The Green Zone Sit-in *VIDEO: Two-part series on the Surge &#038; Sadr *Operation Hotel California: entering Iraq in 2002 *Iraqi women face increasing threats *All Iraqis in danger with bad water It's an exhausting and complicated process, but Iraq is taking steps to open up its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq oil revenue audit to be handed over to all-Iraqi team</title>
		<link>http://www.iraqoilreport.com/oil/iraq-oil-revenue-audit-to-be-handed-over-to-all-iraqi-team-405/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=iraq-oil-revenue-audit-to-be-handed-over-to-all-iraqi-team</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plus: *Oil law back in Parliament *New wells and other work to boost oil production *However, questions remain *Status Of Forces Agreement update *The Turkey-U.S.-Iraq-Iraqi Kurd dance *Iraq Press Roundup *Much more The U.N.-mandated auditor of Iraq's oil revenue says, despite accounting troubles, it is ready to hand off its work to an all-Iraqi team [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq Oil Report must read: Q&amp;A with Iraq oil revenue auditor Joe Christoff</title>
		<link>http://www.iraqoilreport.com/politics/iraq-oil-report-must-read-qa-with-iraq-oil-revenue-auditor-joe-christoff-400/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=iraq-oil-report-must-read-qa-with-iraq-oil-revenue-auditor-joe-christoff</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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