Posts Tagged ‘ occupation ’

We have a saying in Irak which translates into English as follows: “Away goes the white dog and now comes the black dog”. It means, as you might suspect, that the differences between two people are so small and insignifcant that it is foolish to expect any difference between them either in their opinions or in...
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توقعت مصادر مطلعة أن تظهر الأسبوع المقبل نتائج التحقيقات التي تجريها وزارة النفط بشان إتهامات في قضية رشاوى تلقاها مسؤولون عراقيون للاستمرار في شراء وقود سام له آثار ضارة على البيئة وصحة الأطفال. وكانت صحيفة "الغارديان" البريطانية كشفت مطلع تموز الحالي أن شركة "أوكتيل" البريطانية قدمت رشاوى لمسؤولين عراقيين كي تتمكن...
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لندن : يواجه الرئيس التنفيذي السابق لشركة كيمياوية بريطانية امكانية تسليمه الى السلطات الاميركية بعدما اعترفت شركته بدفع رشاوى إلى مسؤولين عراقيين لبيع مركبات كيمياوية سامة الى العراق. وقالت صحيفة الغارديان في تقرير لها اليوم الخميس ان بول جيننغز الذي كان حتى العام الماضي رئيس شركة اوكتل للصناعات الكيمياوية في ليفربول وسلفه دنيس كَريسون صدرا...
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The former chief executive of a British chemical company faces the prospect of extradition to the US after the firm admitted million-dollar bribes to officials to sell toxic fuel additives to Iraq. Paul Jennings, until last year chief executive of the Octel chemical works near Ellesmere Port, Merseyside, and his predecessor, Dennis Kerrison, exported tonnes...
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U.S. administration officials have negotiated with a major Iraqi resistance group but the talks failed due to mounting differences, an Iraqi resistance leader says. In an online interview with Azzaman, Abdulla Al-Hafidh, spokesman for the United Islamic Front, said the U.S. put pre-condition for the resistance groups to lay down their weapons before the...
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Seven years after the US and Britain invaded Iraq, the country remains highly unstable and fragmented. So divided are parties and communities that no government has emerged from the general election three months ago, which was intended to be a crucial staging post in Iraq’s return to normality. Political leaders have not even started...
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  BAGHDAD, Iraq — Millions of Iraqi voters defied bombings and intimidation to cast ballots in the country’s March 7 parliamentary election, which was billed as historic because it was the first since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003 to be organized, carried out and secured by Iraqis. The excitement of Election Day wore off quickly, however,...
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I have selected Nizar Latif’s article "Alliance could keep al Maliki in power" in "The National" because it covers very well the situation that the other blocs find themselves in with regard to the Sadrists. In that context I should mention this posting (العراقية تستعد لإرسال وفد رفيع إلى إيران لمقابلة السيد مقتدى الصدر...
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On the 28th of April 2003 American soldiers from the 82nd Airborne opened fire on civilian protesters outside a local school on Fallujah. The Americans had taken over the school and residents wanted to know when their children would get their school back. Seventeen people were slaughtered by the American invaders and many many more...
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Half the refugees fleeing Iraq are Christian, dramatically reducing a presence that pre-dates Islam. Edward Stourton reports. Fr Rayan Paulos Atto showed me an elaborately decorated bronze and glass case mounted on the wall near the altar of his airy modern church in Erbil. It was a reliquary, a showcase for displaying a relic of...
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