Plus: *A needed debrief of the Shell gas project *Iraq oil exports drop *U.S. loses $13 billion in Iraq reconstruction funds *KRG inks power deal, puts wind and hydro to tender *Night lights in Baghdad neighborhood *Parliament Elections: Sunni tribal elders, Moqtada Sadr to run *Iraq Press Roundup *Much more Hits and Misses of Shell-Iraq [...]

Influential former Pentagon official Richard Perle has been exploring going into the oil business in Iraq and Kazakhstan, write Susan Schmidt and Glenn R. Simpson for The Wall Street Journal. Perle, one of a group of security experts who began pushing the case for toppling Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein about a decade ago, has been [...]