Iraq not bound by quota; struggling to reverse decline Plus: *Walid Khadduri on the return of Big Oil to Iraq *Iraq presidency council gives oil smuggling law OK *SOFA Update: English text and analysis *Labor Minister target of suicide bomb *Iraqis suffer for lack of basic services *The Mahdi Army bides its time *Much more [...]
KRG’s Hawrami pans Iraq oil law movement
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 [...]
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Interview: Iraq Ambassador to U.N. Hamid al-Bayati
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 [...]
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- U.S. Congress calls on Bush to block or cancel Iraq oil deals
Basra amidst violence may see major push by previously ineffective Iraqi troops…
Plus: *Doubts linger in Big Oil's mind over signing time for new deals *Top energy adviser to Maliki assures the terms are good enough *Iraq cuts Basra crude price to European buyers *KBR finishes Persian Gulf platform work *Much more... Basra is the key to Iraq -- a major city and source of oil, plus [...]
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- The Real Energy Security Factor
Iraq to join oil revenue transparency pact
Plus: *Oil Minister Shahristani joins PM Maliki’s coalition list *The Green Zone Sit-in *VIDEO: Two-part series on the Surge & 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 [...]
Interview: Iraq Ambassador to U.N. Hamid al-Bayati
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 [...]
