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89 articles tagged "Iraq"
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DEBKAfile
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April 21, 2007, 11:25 AM (GMT+02:00)
A comprehensive, updated study of Iraq's reserves shows Iraq's reserves to be double the volume thought. The potential presence of a further 100 bn barrels in the Western Desert could raise Iraq from the third largest source of oil, with known reserves of 116 bn barrels, to second place, behind ...
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April 17, 2007, 4:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
One died in an EFP roadside bombing in the south; a second in the southwest, when his patrol was hit with small arms fire. Two soldiers were wounded.
Also Monday, gunmen killed 13 Iraqi soldiers, injured 4, in an ambush of their military checkpoint outside the northern city of Mosul. Earlier, ...
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March 9, 2007, 12:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
Nadim al-Jabiri, leader of the party which is influential in oil-rich Basra, urges the dismantling of sectarian blocs as the first step for saving Iraq. Former prime minister Iyad Allawi is negotiating with Fadhila and other parties to join a new secular coalition alongside the main Sunni bloc to offset ...
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January 19, 2007, 5:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
The SCIRI leader's comment to the BBC referred to two recent raids. In one, US troops last year attacked Hakim's residential compound in Baghdad and detained two Iranian officials. They were later released. Last week, five more were taken into custody in the Iranian liaison office in the northern town ...
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January 9, 2007, 4:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki said the hanging was an internal, Iraqi affair, as hundreds of protesters marched in Amman, Sudan, Rabat, Khartoum, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Libya will build a statue of the late Iraqi dictator. In Iraq, the Muslim Scholars Association, the main Sunni clerical group, denigrated the execution ...
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April 3, 2006, 2:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and UK foreign and UK foreign secretary Jack Straw embarked on an intense two-day effort to help put an Iraqi unity government in place. Before leaving Baghdad Monday, April 3, Rice said: "It is not our job to choose Iraq's prime minister. He can ...
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March 20, 2006, 11:45 AM (GMT+02:00)
Without mentioning the fact that US and the next largest force, the British, have already begun withdrawing from 75 percent of Iraqi territory, US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld maintains that the "rationale for a free and democratic Iraq is as compelling today as it was three years ago," and "the ...
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December 27, 2005, 3:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
The decision by the Iraqi Supreme Court to disqualify 90 delegates who were elected to parliament on December 15, most of them Sunni Muslims, because they were once members of the Baath Party, echoes the decision reached in the middle of 2003 by Paul Bremer, the first US administrator for ...
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November 9, 2005, 5:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
According to intelligence data reaching the American command, the Jordanian terrorist chief, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, commander of al Qaeda Iraq, has left the Sunni-dominated Anbar province bordering on Syria after two years. In mid-October he is described as driving into Baghdad in mid-October in a convoy of six Iraqi ...
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October 11, 2005, 2:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
Ibrahim Jaafari's government in Baghdad has issued arrest warrants for 27 senior officials, members of the preceding interim government headed by Iyad Allawi.
They are suspected of embezzling $ 1.3bn dollars of military procurement funds. The Iraqi Board of Supreme Audit in a report reviewed by Knight Ridder accuses these officials ...
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March 7, 2005, 8:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
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Iraq's newly-elected National Assembly holds its first session in Baghdad in nine days time, to embark on the road to democratic institutins - a new president, deputy presidents, prime minister, government and constitution. However, Iraq's Kurds and their Turkomen neighbors have been moving forward ... 
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February 26, 2005, 5:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Baghdad government's burgeoning optimism over the prospects of very soon collaring Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, al Qaeda's man in Iraq, is fed from interim prime minister Iyad Allawi office. debkafile's counter-terror sources reveal he is telling his inner circle that the special anti-terror units under his direct command ...
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February 13, 2005, 5:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani's United Iraqi (Shiite) Alliance of 16 parties pulled ahead of the pack in Iraq's first democratic election, earning 48% and a block of 132 seats in the new national assembly - but not an absolute majority. In an earlier report published on February 4, debka
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February 4, 2005, 7:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
By Thursday night, February 3, 15% of the 8 million ballots (representing a 57% turnout according to official figures) cast in Iraq's January 30 general election for 275 national assembly seats had been counted.
Although it is early days for extrapolation, debkafile's Iraq specialists list interesting preliminary results: ... 
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January 31, 2005, 1:15 AM (GMT+02:00)
Iraq's epic general election for a 275-member national assembly Sunday, January 30, was a success by the very fact of its taking place. Despite the violence leading up to the event and promised bloodbath, a surprising number of Iraqis were not intimidated and turned out in larger or smaller numbers ...
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January 27, 2005, 11:44 AM (GMT+02:00)
Despite the Iraqi Sunni boycott, Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi's imprecations against the general election, and the unprecedented level of bloodletting, an certain number of the 40,000 polling stations across the country will almost certainly open on time Sunday, January 30. That was one of the starting points on which Gregory Hooker, ...
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August 7, 2004, 3:27 PM (GMT+02:00)
Many thousands of copies of a professionally produced CD-rom are being circulated in Iraq and Kuwait on behalf of al Qaeda's man in Iraq, the Jordanian terror master Abu Musab Zarqawi. Iraqi interim prime minister Iyad Allawi is singled out as prime target. The 45-minute disk appears to be aimed ...
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August 2, 2004, 12:21 AM (GMT+02:00)
The coordinated car bombing attacks in Baghdad and the northern town of Mosul, quickly condemned by the Vatican, precisely targeted five of the mainstream Christian minorities' places of worship - Armenian, Catholic and Chaldean. At least 15 were killed and many more injured in explosions that rocked the two Iraqi ...
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June 26, 2004, 9:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
The last days of June bring closer than ever before the danger of Iraqi Baathist guerrillas and al Qaeda letting loose with chemical and biological weapons which most authoritative sources believe they secretly possess. The menace is not limited to Iraq's borders. A spate of terrorist strikes in Ankara, Antalya, ...
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June 9, 2004, 4:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
The UN Security Council resolution that stamped Iraq's provisional government with international approval threatens to confront that government with its first crisis. The Kurds are threatening to walk out, dismayed by the omission from the text of any reference to the interim constitution which enshrined Kurdish autonomous rule in three ...
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