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	<title>Iraq Oil Report &#187; Saddam Hussein</title>
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		<title>Gas fuels Kurdistan&#039;s power politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div><img width="300" height="169" src="http://www.iraqoilreport.com/wp-content/uploads/DSC_0017-300x169.jpg" class="attachment-lead-headline-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="DSC_0017" title="DSC_0017" /></div>Iraq's Kurdish region is meeting nearly all its power needs by investing in natural gas fields – and, in a strategic calculation, it's willing to share.]]></description>
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		<title>Detentions don&#039;t deter Czekh-Iraq relations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baghdad Airport]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent detention of two Czech police officers at the Baghdad airport will neither harm nor burden relations between Iraq and the Czech Republic, Iraqi Deputy PM Hussain Shahristani said at a lunch with his Czech counterpart Karel Schwarzenberg yesterday, the latter's spokesman told CTK. Shahristani said he remembers Prague's positions at the time when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq bans visits to Saddam Hussein&#039;s grave</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iraqi Cabinet]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iraqoilreport.com/?post_type=daily-brief&#038;p=7205</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Iraqi authorities banned Sunday visits to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's grave in Salahudin province. "The Iraqi cabinet directed authorities of Salahudin province to take all necessary measures to prevent any visit to Saddam Hussein's grave," a source from the provincial operations command told Xinhua. The provincial authorities sent a police force early in the morning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investing in Iraq requires patience, drinking tea</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bread Basket]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dictator Saddam Hussein]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foreign investors seeking a foothold in Iraq take heed: you'll need a healthy dose of patience, a flexible schedule, and a love of tea. Nearly nine years since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein, Iraq remains a state-centric economy and, beyond oil, private businesses have yet to play a significant role in the [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Al Jazeera]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Countries In The World]]></category>
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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>Baghdad demands Hashimi from Kurds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Al Hashemi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iraq's Shiite-led government on Sunday demanded that authorities in the semiautonomous Kurdish region hand over the country's top Sunni official to face terrorism charges, turning up the heat in a political crisis that is stoking sectarian tensions. Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi traveled to the Kurdish north in December just as the last American troops were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond the Headlines: Dec. 26-Jan. 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div><img width="300" height="169" src="http://www.iraqoilreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Ahdab-survey-China-worker-300x169.jpg" class="attachment-lead-headline-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Chinese workers conduct seismic surveys at the Ahdab oil field in Wasit province on March 11, 2009. (THAIER AL-SUDANI/Reuters)" title="IRAQ/OIL" /></div><ul><li>Officials question Ahdab threats</li>
<li>City complains of Garraf field limits</li>
<li>Local Iraqiya block officials quit</li>
<li>UN opens Basra office</li></ul>]]></description>
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		<title>Iraqi civilian deaths climb in 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bombings]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of civilians killed in violence in Iraq rose slightly in 2011 from the previous year, as daily bombings and attacks continued to claim victims almost nine years after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, a study showed on Monday. A total of 4,059 civilians were killed in violent incidents in Iraq in 2011, compared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq&#039;s Maliki summons parties, Sunnis rebuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki summoned all Iraq's parties to talks in the coming days but was promptly rebuffed on Wednesday by the main Sunni bloc, as a sectarian crisis in his power-sharing coalition deepened. Days after the final withdrawal of the U.S. forces which overthrew Saddam Hussein, Maliki's Shi'ite Muslim allies have sought to arrest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stolen royal plates returned to Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Attorney's office has announced the return of 19 pieces of stolen plates and china once belonging to Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi Kingdom's King Faisal II and the Royal Family to the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Iraq to the United Nations. According to New York authorities, the dishware was illegally imported [...]]]></description>
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