US Vice President Joe Biden talks with soldiers at Camp Victory on the outskirts of Baghdad, July 4, 2009. (photo by REUTERS/Khalid Mohammed) By: Mushreq Abbas for Al-Monitor Iraq Pulse. Posted on April 5. إقرأ باللغة العربية An Iraqi parliamentary committee, in a recent visit to Washington, has reiterated its demands to divide Iraq into … Continue reading »
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Is Kurdistan the Taiwan of the Middle East?
By Kevin Sullivan Finding silver linings in the cloudy modern Middle East can at times prove difficult. War in Syria, sectarian standoffs in Iraq and a regional cold war between Iran and Western-aligned Arab regimes make for a pretty ugly map of the region. Ditching the maps could prove helpful. While several Mideast nations struggle … Continue reading »
Kurds, a nation once again.
Kurds gain from regional tectonic shift in northeast Syria following the Assad regime’s retreat back to Damascus. By Jonathan Spyer, GLORIA In Syria, the Assad regime’s retreat back to Damascus and the Alawi heartlands in the west of the country has made possible the emergence of a Kurdish autonomous area in the country’s northeast. This … Continue reading »
The Redacted Iraqi Jews
After reversing this injustice, it now needs to be activated and implemented at all levels. The recent Conference of Religions and Sects in Sulaymaniyah, organized under the supervision of Iraq’s president, Jalal Talabani, was an important milestone: The first such conference to take place in Iraq that seriously covered the defense of religions and sects … Continue reading »
A Kurdish state is being established, and Baghdad may accept it
By David Hirst The Daily Star/ I was surprised last week to read an article in the Baghdad newspaper Al-Sabah, by its editor Abd al-Jabbar Shabbout, suggesting it was time to settle the “age-old problem” between Iraq’s Arabs and Kurds by establishing a “Kurdish state.” For never before had I heard so heretical a view … Continue reading »
Iraq: Thousands of Christians flee country in wake of jihad attacks
And the world yawns. But leave bacon in a park where Muslims are gathering, and brace yourself for the outcry! “Mosul Iraq‘s ‘Most Dangerous City’ For Christians,” from Worthy News, August 20 (thanks to Lachlan): MOSUL, IRAQ(Worthy News)– Mosul is now one of the most violent cities in Iraq with Christians and other minorities singled … Continue reading »
Iran Rope-A-Dopes the West Again
Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, announced on Tuesday that Iran would agree “quite soon” to allow IAEA inspectors to search for any evidence that Iran’s nuclear enrichment program has been directed towards military applications. The IAEA has been particularly interested in the Parchin military complex, where it is suspected the Iranians … Continue reading »
5 Nuclear Sites That Could Launch War With Iran
This week, the U.S. and its allies will sit down with some of their arch-nemeses: the Iranians. The meeting in Baghdad is the definition of high stakes, as 2012 has been characterized by frequent speculation that Israel would bomb Teheran to prevent it from going nuclear, launching a war that would inevitably draw the U.S. … Continue reading »
Iran vows never to renounce nuclear ‘rights’
By AFP Tehran Iran rejects Western pressures over its nuclear activities and will never give up its rights, Tehran’s chief nuclear negotiator said Thursday ahead of crunch talks with world powers in Baghdad next week. “If we participate in the negotiations… it is because of our resistance (to Western powers). Thanks to our resistance, we … Continue reading »
Iraq Releases American-Murdering Hezbollah Terrorist
An Iraqi court recently ruledthat Ali Musa Daqduq, a Lebanese Hezbollah terrorist accused of helping to coordinate the 2007 abduction and murder of five American soldiers in Karbala, Iraq, should be released due to “lack of evidence.” The decision comes only months after the Office of Military Commissions started filing charges of murder, terrorism and … Continue reading »
Al-Arabiya: Emo killings in Iraq update
Following are excerpts from a report on the killing in Iraq of young people who are adherents of the “emo” movement.[1] The report aired on Al-Arabiya TV on March 23, 2012. Reporter: “‘Emo‘ is derived from the word ‘emotional.’ This phenomenon reached Iraq over a year ago, and has spread among the youth, who have … Continue reading »
Iranians rush Ahmadinejad to complain about poverty
In an extraordinary act of civil dissent, captured in a clip uploaded on YouTube, Iranian citizens in the southern city of Bandar-Abbas rushed into the path of the car carrying Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on a visit to the city, and directly confronted him to complain about their economic plight. In the footage, an elderly … Continue reading »
Iraq fails it’s people with EMO and GAY killings
2 updates from Jihad watch on the deplorable reports of teen killings in Iraq. Disgusting behavior from the animals roaming the desert.. Iraq: Militia comes to school, asks students to report “suspicious behavior”: not terrorists, but “emo” kids Priorities, in an update on this story. No one seems to grasp that looking the other way … Continue reading »
The Dirt on the EMO killings
BAGHDAD (AP) — Young people who identify themselves as so-called Emos are being brutally killed at an alarming rate in Iraq, where militias have distributed hit lists of victims and security forces say they are unable to stop crimes against the subculture that is widely perceived in Iraq as being gay. Officials and human rights … Continue reading »
More on the Iraqi EMO murder spree 90+ DEAD
Brought this up yesterday… Only the Koran could cause such idiocy an needless death…At least the MSM is slowly figuring out this is news worthy to print… More than 90 Iraqi students have been stoned to death for their Emo haircuts by religious extremists in Baghdad in the past month after Iraq‘s interior ministry dubbed … Continue reading »
The Iraq Government’s Jihad against… Emo’s?
Another Iraqi minority Barrack Obama left swinging in the wind,lol Iraqi activists sounded the bell over the killing of dozens of teenagers by religious police for having “emo” haircuts. Activists told the Cairo-based al-Akhbar daily that at least 90 Iraqi teenagers with “emo” appearances have been stoned to death by the Moral Police in the … Continue reading »
