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unionist
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posted 20 January 2007 07:54 PM      Profile for unionist     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The insurgent people of Iraq are not waiting to be rescued by a Democratic Congress. They are reducing U.S. troop levels on their own ahead of Bush's announced escalation:

U.S. suffers heavy losses in Iraq

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US forces in Iraq have suffered some of their heaviest casualties in recent months, with 18 personnel killed.

In the worst incident, a US military helicopter crashed north-east of Baghdad killing all 13 people on board.

A website linked to the former ruling Baath party said an Islamic group shot down the aircraft, but there is no independent verification.

In a separate incident, the US military said five of its soldiers were killed in a clash with militants in Karbala.

The clash occurred at the provincial government headquarters in the Shia holy city, 110 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad.



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remind
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posted 20 January 2007 09:07 PM      Profile for remind     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
That is ineteresting seeing as how yesterday a draft was finalized giving contol of the oil governence to central authority and not regional. It was touted to be a the basis for unity.

quote:
Iraq produces draft law governing oil industry
..The draft comes down firmly on the side of central oversight, a decision that advocates for Iraq's unity are likely to trumpet as a triumph. Because control of the oil industry touches so directly on the interests of all Iraq's warring sectarian groups, and therefore the future of the country, the proposed law has been described as the most critical piece of pending legislation.

"This will give us the basis of the unity of this country," said Ali Baban, the Iraqi planning minister and a member of the Sunni-dominated Iraqi Islamic Party who serves on the negotiating committee. "We pushed for the center in Baghdad, but we didn't neglect the Kurds and other regions," Mr. Baban said.


http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/20/news/web.0120oil.php


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Frustrated Mess
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posted 20 January 2007 10:25 PM      Profile for Frustrated Mess   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
If this is the same law I have been reading about, I don't think Iraqis care if the looting of their natural treasures are overseen by a national or regional body.
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remind
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posted 20 January 2007 11:11 PM      Profile for remind     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Frustrated Mess:
If this is the same law I have been reading about, I don't think Iraqis care if the looting of their natural treasures are overseen by a national or regional body.

The Kurds do, and they are the ones that wanted control of oil in their region. The article I linked to mentions this a bit.


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posted 06 February 2007 10:08 PM      Profile for remind     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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U.S. military: Iraqi lawmaker is U.S. Embassy bomber
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A man sentenced to death in Kuwait for the 1983 bombings of the U.S. and French embassies now sits in Iraq's parliament as a member of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's ruling coalition, according to U.S. military intelligence.

Jamal Jafaar Mohammed's seat in parliament gives him immunity from prosecution. Washington says he supports Shiite insurgents and acts as an Iranian agent in Iraq.

U.S. military intelligence in Iraq has approached al-Maliki's government with the allegations against Jamal Jafaar Mohammed, whom it says assists Iranian special forces in Iraq as "a conduit for weapons and political influence."

A Kuwaiti court sentenced Jamal Jafaar Mohammed to death in 1984 in the car bombings of the U.S. and French embassies the previous December. Five people died in the attacks and 86 were wounded.

He had fled the country before the trial.

Western intelligence agencies also accuse Jamal Jafaar Mohammed of involvement in the hijacking of a Kuwaiti airliner in 1984 and the attempted assassination of a Kuwaiti prince.

Jamal Jafaar Mohammed won a seat in Iraq's Council of Representatives in the U.S.-backed elections of December 2005.


http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/05/iraq.lawmaker/index.html

Now this is weird, they have tied him to Iran, too. Is this their smoking gun for Iran; "oh look it was Iran who bombed our embassy" etc etc????

And they just found this out now? Oh ya!


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