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Iraq Ministry announces US$33.5m housing project in Babil

6/27/07 Iraq Minister of Construction and Housing Bayan Diza Yee has announced work has begun on a residential compound in Babil province.
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The Iraqi 'Nation'

6/27/2007

By ROBERT MCFARLANE
June 27, 2007; Page A12
Baghdad
One reason put forward for why we ought not continue the fight in Iraq is that the Iraqis themselves aren't doing their part to unite their country against the insurgency. It's wrong.
Two weeks ago, I participated in a remarkable three-day gathering of more than 70 Iraqi clerics. It was held in Baghdad, was organized by Canon Andrew White, an Anglican priest in Iraq, and had one aim: Give Iraqi religious leaders a forum to listen to and engage one another. It was a phenomenal success.

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Iraqi group threatens lawmakers who back oil law

6/26/2007 Reuters - Tuesday, June 26 09:49 pm DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iraqi militant group has threatened to target lawmakers who approve a bill intended to regulate Iraq's oil and gas industry.
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Iraq: Warrant issued for Sunni minister

6/26/2007 By SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Writer 26 minutes ago BAGHDAD - An arrest warrant was issued against Iraq's Sunni culture minister, and police raided his home on Tuesday after he was accused of ordering a 2005 assassination attempt against a secular Sunni politician that killed his two sons, officials said.
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US notes progress for Iraqi forces

6/26/2007

Security handover seen as years away
By Pauline Jelinek, Associated Press | June 26, 2007
WASHINGTON -- More than a third of Iraq's national police battalion commanders are now Sunni after a purge of Shi'ites who had a sectarian bias, a US general said yesterday.
Despite improvements, he predicted it will still be years before Iraqi forces are capable of securing the country by themselves.

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Iraq Issues Tender To Sell 3M Barrels Kirkuk Crude

6/25/2007 AMMAN -(Dow Jones)- Iraq issued Monday a tender to sell 3 million barrels of Kirkuk crude pumped through a northern pipeline to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, a senior official with the state oil marketer SOMO said.
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Iraq Government To OK Draft Law On Sharing Oil Revenues

6/25/2007 By Hassan Hafidh, Of Dow Jones Newswires Iraq's central government is expected to approve shortly a draft law on the distribution of oil revenues after it had reached agreement with officials from the Kurdistan Regional Government last week, a senior government official said Monday,
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Where Is Iraq Heading? Lessons from Basra

6/25/2007

Where Is Iraq Heading? Lessons from Basra,* the latest report from the International Crisis Group, examines the city's descent into chaos under British occupation, offering important lessons for Baghdad and the nation as a whole. Coalition forces there already implemented a security plan in many ways similar to the current "surge" in the capital and its environs. As in Baghdad, one of the putative goals was to pave the way for a takeover by Iraqi forces. Today, however, Basra is controlled by militias which are even more powerful than before.

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Brutal New Tactics In Iraq

6/25/2007 Suicide bombers in Iraq have staged a deadly surge of their own, striking three targets on Monday — including the highly fortified Mansour Hotel in central Baghdad. Early reports put the combined death toll at 50, and climbing. But how are militant groups sneaking their bombs and bombers past the giant security dragnet around Baghdad?
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Iraq lawmakers agree to lengthen session

6/24/2007 Julian E. Barnes and Raheem Salman, Los Angeles Times Sunday, June 24, 2007 (06-24) 04:00 PDT Baghdad -- Iraq's parliament agreed Saturday to cut its summer holiday in half, and some observers said a deal had been reached on a law to share the country's oil wealth.
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The Next Flashpoint in Iraq

6/24/2007

The American troops found the body hanging from an electrical pole a short distance from the office of the new Iraqi security forces commander for the city, Gen. Adnon Thabit. Foot soldiers from the Iraqi national police sent to Samarra in recent weeks had killed the man that morning during a firefight with insurgents, roped him to the back of one of their blue and white trucks by the feet and then dragged him through the city for all to see before stringing him up.

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