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	<title>Iraq Oil Report &#187; Northern Iraq</title>
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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>
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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>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>
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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>Two killed by Kirkuk motorcycle bomb</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bomb]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Explosion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Iraqi civilians have been killed and three others were injured on Thursday morning, by a booby-trapped motorbike explosion in northern Iraq’s oil-rich city of Kirkuk, according to a statement by its Police Director. “A booby-trapped motorbike has blown off close to a telephone exchange in northern Kirkuk’s Tisin district on Thursday, killing 2 civilians [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turk banks scolded for opening in Erbil, not Baghdad</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anonymity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkish lenders operating in northern Iraq have been urged by the Central Bank of Iraq to start up main branches in country’s capital city Baghdad, according to the officials of the Turkish banks’ branches in Arbil. The Central Bank of Iraq has sent written notification stating that Turkish banks were operating through branches on Gulan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient language gets extended life in Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ancient Language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arabic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aramaic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hebrew]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northern Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Places In The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shaqlawa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is commonly known as the language of Jesus and is the root of both Arabic and Hebrew. But what's less widely known is that Aramaic is still spoken, and is in fact thriving in some parts of Iraq. "We're very proud of our language," says Sister Jermine Daoud, a nun originally from Baghdad who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rumors pump KRG contracts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Citing Sources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contracts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Early Monday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ExxonMobil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Independent On Sunday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keystone]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[oil field]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Petroleum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Record Highs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Takeover Bid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gulf Keystone Petroleum, the UK-listed explorer developing a large oil field in northern Iraq, saw its shares surge to record highs early Monday following a report that ExxonMobil is considering a bid for the company. Without citing sources, the UK's Independent on Sunday reported over the weekend that ExxonMobil is considering a GBP7 billion ($10.9 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran&#039;s Sunir gets $72M power deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gas Units]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iraq signed a $72 million electricity deal with Iranian power development firm Sunir to expand a plant in northern Iraq by 320 megawatts to help feed the power-starved nation, an electricity ministry official said on Monday. The Iranian company will install two gas units, each with a production capacity of 160 megawatts, at Dibis power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kirkuk in the wake of the US withdrawal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arabs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Temblors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ethnic fault line that bisects northern Iraq, imperfectly dividing Arabs and Kurds, might as well have been geological: the temblors it occasionally produces are as destructive as anything measured on the Richter scale. Yet, since 2003 at least, things have been surprisingly quiet along this line, even if the local population is frequently roused [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Genel Energy&#039;s Tony Hayward and Mehmet Sepil</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Production & Exports]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div><img width="300" height="169" src="http://www.iraqoilreport.com/wp-content/uploads/GettyImages_123983633_resizedforweb-300x169.jpg" class="attachment-lead-headline-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Tony Hayward, co-founder of Vallares Plc, third right, and Mehmet Sepil, then chief executive officer of Genel Energy International Ltd., second right, during the merger discussions in London, on Sept. 7, 2011. The company officially merged on Nov. 21. (ANDREW PARSONS/Parsons Media/Bloomberg/Getty Images)" title="Hayward" /></div>The leaders of the new Genel Energy talk to reporters about prospects in KRG and beyond, life with Exxon, and sanctity of their deals.]]></description>
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		<title>Turkomen did not celebrate Eid due to fear of attacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abduction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chairman of the Iraqi Turkomen Front and Member of al-Iraqiya Coalition, Arshad al-Salehy, has said on Thursday that Iraq's Turkomen, especially in northern Iraq's oil-rich city of Kirkuk, have not celebrated Eid al-Adha Holidays, due to the deteriorated security situation and the continuation of aggressive attacks against them. "We are cornered by silence by [...]]]></description>
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