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		<title>U.S. to Iraq: don&#039;t &quot;blow this opportunity&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States has warned Iraq not to "blow this opportunity" to become a prosperous, unified nation, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday, saying it must start to act like a democracy and embrace compromise. Iraq has suffered its worst political crisis in a year with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's move [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PUK confirms KDP to get KRG PM post</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barham Salih]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KDP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senior Kurdish officials close to Prime Minister Barham Salih say he will relinquish power to the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) while his Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party scrambles to fill the vice-president’s post. Arez Abdullah, a PUK leader, Abdullah said the PUK will hand over the premiership to the KDP soon and will try [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq extends MEK Ashraf deadline</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ban Ki-Moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Camp Ashraf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Closure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deadline Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nouri al-Maliki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prime Minister]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iraqoilreport.com/?post_type=daily-brief&#038;p=6996</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Iraq's prime minister says he has granted a six-month extension on a deadline to close a camp that has housed Iranian exiles for decades in Iraq. Nouri al-Maliki said on Wednesday that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked him to delay the Dec. 31 closure date of Camp Ashraf.]]></description>
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		<title>Maliki tells Kurds to hand over Hashimi</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Troops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arrest Warrant]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brink]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iraq's Shiite prime minister told Kurdish authorities Wednesday to hand over the Sunni vice president, who fled to the semiautonomous region to escape an arrest warrant on charges he ran hit squads targeting government officials. The charges, leveled a day after the last American troops left Iraq, have opened up a new round of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Pres. Obama and PM Maliki</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuri al-Maliki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama hosted Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki at the White House. In addition to private consultations, they held a joint news conference. There are three weeks to go before the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq.]]></description>
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		<title>Tariq Aziz execution in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adviser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CNN]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iraqoilreport.com/?post_type=daily-brief&#038;p=6867</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tariq Aziz, who served as Iraq's top diplomat under Saddam Hussein, will be executed next year, after U.S. forces have pulled out of the country, an adviser to Iraq's prime minister told CNN on Monday. "It will definitely take place, and it will take place after the Americans leave Iraq," said the adviser, Saad Yousif [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maliki wants to help in Syria</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bashar Al Assad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bashar Assad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bloodshed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clash]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iraq is ready to mediate between the Syrian government and opponents of President Bashar al-Assad to help end months of violence in the neighboring country, an adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Saturday. Ali al-Moussawi, Maliki's media adviser, said Iraq was ready to receive the Syrian opposition to try to reach a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kurdistan in border revenue scandal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activists]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allegations that revenue from Ibrahim Khalil, the lucrative border crossing between Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey, was funneled to a Kurdish leader instead of the government has set off a firestorm in the region. In an interview with the Kurdish satellite channel Naliya last month, Sayid Akram, former director of the Ibrahim Khalil security department from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salih meets Biden at White House</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barham Salih]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the debate about the U.S. troop presence in Iraq seemingly out of the way, the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq Barham Salih urged the Vice President of the United States Joseph P. Biden to deploy the broad array of diplomatic and economic tools necessary to ensure that the stability and prosperity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq PM calls for Baath party &#039;repentance&#039;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baath Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innocence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iraq's prime minister on Wednesday called on members of Saddam Hussein's now-dissolved Baath party to declare their rejection of the party in writing, and threatened prosecution if they do not. Nuri al-Maliki called on Baath members to "announce their repentance and innocence" and to sign a document to that effect "in front of the relevant [...]]]></description>
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