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	<title>Iraq Oil Report &#187; Reuters</title>
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		<title>Iraq Shi&#039;ite militia to lay down weapons</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attacks On Foreigners]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The leader of a Shi'ite militia which carried out some of the most prominent attacks on foreigners during the Iraq war, said the group will lay down its weapons and is prepared to join the political process. "This stage of the military conflict between the Iraqi armed resistance and the occupation forces is over, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq in $396m power deals with Hyundai</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[5 Million]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contract Engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contracts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electricity Supplies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hyundai]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iraq has signed contracts worth $396 million with South Korea's Hyundai Engineering to build two power plants as it tries to increase electricity supplies, a senior official said on Tuesday. The plants will have a total capacity of 1,752 megawatts, Laith al-Mamury, head of investments and contracts at the electricity ministry, said. "The ministry signed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As troops leave, U.S. seeks custody of key Iraq detainee</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baghdad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hezbollah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq Detainee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraqi Officials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Personnel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mussa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phil Stewart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Profile]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phil Stewart and Suadad al-Salhy report for Reuters: With less than 60 days before the complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, the United States is quietly seeking to keep custody of its highest profile detainee there, U.S. and Iraqi officials say. But it is unclear if Baghdad will agree -- something it appears highly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attackers strike Iraq Sunni militia in Baquba, six killed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attackers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baquba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bombs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Car Bomb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dozens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Few Minutes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters reports: Two bombs exploded as members of a government-backed Sunni militia gathered to collect their pay in the Iraqi city of Baquba on Thursday, killing six people and wounding dozens, security and health officials said. A suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest among members of the Sahwa militia near the gates of a military [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq desert dispute could reignite sectarian feud</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ambush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anbar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kerbala]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pilgrims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reuters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sectarian Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vast Expanse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Desert]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suadad al-Salhy reports for Reuters: An administrative spat between Iraq's Shi'ite-majority Kerbala province and Sunni-dominated Anbar over a disputed tract of western desert could refuel sectarian conflict as Iraq emerges from years of war. A deadly ambush of Shi'ite pilgrims as they headed through the desert in September re-ignited a long-simmering feud between Kerbala and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq oil exports 2.088m bpd in October</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bpd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Falah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hub]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters reports: Iraq’s oil exports were 2.088 million barrels per day in October versus 2.101 million bpd in September, the head of the State Oil Marketing Organization said. Exports were 1.628 million bpd from the southern oil hub of Basra and 460,000 bpd from the northern fields around Kirkuk, which included 8,000 bpd sent overland [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq economic growth to rise to 9 percent in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bank Official]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Billions Of Dollars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deputy Governor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Driven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Growth]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[oil reserves]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aseel Kami reports for Reuters: Iraq’s gross domestic product growth should rise to 9 percent in 2012 from around 6 percent currently, mainly driven by an expected increase in oil production and exports, a senior central bank official said on Sunday. Iraq has some of the world’s largest oil reserves and is currently producing about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq can&#039;t defend itself fully before 2020, says general</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Defense Chief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[External Threats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Invasion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Loney]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Loney reports for Reuters: Iraq's defense chief has said his military will not be fully ready to defend Iraq from external threats until 2020 to 2024, according to a U.S. inspector's report released on Sunday. Lieutenant General Babakir Zebari has repeatedly warned that Iraq's security forces, rebuilt after the 2003 invasion that ousted strongman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thousands of Iraqis protest Baathist arrest campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anbar Province]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baath Party]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fadhel al-Badrani reports for Reuters: Thousands of Iraqis blocked a highway in western Anbar province Friday to protest against a campaign to arrest former military officers and members of Saddam Hussein's banned Baath Party. In neighboring Salahuddin province, demonstrators took to the streets to support a symbolic move by the provincial council to declare the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maliki hints at troop contingent</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Soldiers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blocs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immunity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nato]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuri al-Maliki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parliament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prime Minister]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said U.S. troops might still be able to stay in Iraq as trainers beyond a 2011 withdrawal date, even though the country's political blocs have rejected giving immunity to any American soldiers, Suadad al-Salhy reports for Reuters. U.S. troops could be attached to the existing U.S. embassy training mission, or [...]]]></description>
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