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		<title>Reconciliation official escapes assassination in Samarra</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iraqi government’s National Reconciliation Official in Samaraa city, Salahaddin Province, survived an assassination attempt last night as unidentified gunmen attacked his house killing one and inuring the official. A security source told AKnews that “the gunmen raided the house of Alaa Saih in Samaraa’s al-Howaish area last night. The attack resulted in the death of [...]]]></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>Iraq visa restrictions on US govt.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government Employees]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems U.S. government employees traveling to Iraq are being advised that they’re going to need “valid Iraqi visas” to enter the country. “With the termination of the security agreement between” the Iraqi government and the U.S. military, the department announced Monday, “passports and valid Iraqi visas are required for all government personnel and contractors,” including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkish envoy to Baghdad summoned</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atmosphere]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkey seems to have hit a snag with the Iraqi government led by Nouri al-Maliki's Shiite bloc, as the deputy foreign minister on Monday summoned the Turkish envoy to express the government's irritation with Turkey's warnings to Iraq of a possible crisis. The summons came a few days after Maliki slammed Turkey for allegedly interfering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq crack down on, red tape for PSDs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authorizations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iraqi authorities have detained a few hundred foreign contractors in recent weeks, industry officials say, including many Americans who work for the United States Embassy, in one of the first major signs of the Iraqi government’s asserting its sovereignty after the American troop withdrawal last month. The detentions have occurred largely at the airport in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No free press in Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iraqoilreport.com/?post_type=daily-brief&#038;p=7092</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Iraq has been one of the deadliest countries in the world for journalists since 2003. While scores of newspapers and media outlets blossomed across Baghdad following the removal of Saddam Hussein’s regime in the spring of 2003, the media renaissance was also met with attacks on both local and international journalists across the country – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As Iraq ignites, Sadr seeks gains as peacemaker</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the end of the U.S. military's mission in Iraq last month, one of its fiercest longtime opponents is repositioning himself as a national leader. Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who waged a bloody insurgency against Americans here over a period of more than eight years, now presides over one of the country's most organized and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq war draws to a quiet close</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American War]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American war in Iraq came to an unspectacular end Thursday at a simple ceremony held on the edge of Baghdad’s international airport, not far from the highway along which U.S. troops first fought their way into the capital more than eight years ago. No senior Iraqi government officials showed up for the event, though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Icon of US military now in Iraqi hands</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inside palace walls built by Saddam Hussein, U.S. generals plotted the war's course, tracked the mounting death toll and swore in new American citizens under gaudy glass chandeliers. ...It was an intersection in the war where U.S. troops, hot and dusty after traveling across Iraq's deadly roads and highways, could relax with a latte or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lufthansa wins Iraq airport consulting job</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Airports]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lufthansa Consulting, a leading aviation and management consulting company, has won a contract from the Iraqi government to evaluate the ground handling requirements at the country's major airports. Announcing this on Tuesday, Iraqi Minister of Transport Hadi Al-Amiri said as per the deal, Lufthansa Consulting will optimise ground handling services at Baghdad, the capital’s main [...]]]></description>
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