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...Sadrists appear to be among the big winners of the elections ? and stand to win as many as 40 seats out of the 325 in the national assembly, potentially making their support crucial for any would-be prime minister. Still smarting from Maliki's crackdown against their militia in Basra in 2008, the Sadrists have refused to form a government with him. If they maintain that position, Allawi would be an obvious partner, but it remains to be seen whether Allawi's coalition would maintain its Sunni backing if he allied himself with a faction viewed as having been intimately...
...than in accelerating Kurdish autonomy from the rest of Iraq. And there's been plenty of bad blood between al-Maliki and the fundamentalist Shi'ite parties of the Iraqi National Alliance ever since the Prime Minister sent the army to put down Muqtada al-Sadr's militia in Basra...
...date has some members of parliament and, especially, bureaucrats in the Oil Ministry concerned. That would be July 31, when parliament failed to pass a British-Iraqi security agreement. The British navy, which helped secure Iraq's gulf waters, then left the area. Now the oil-export terminals near Basra may be vulnerable - and the terminals facilitate over 70% of state revenue. The U.S. Navy has said it will pick up the slack, but eventually the Iraq navy must take responsibility. And it is still in training...
...lawmakers as Congress prepared to pass a $106 billion emergency war-spending bill that will fund, among other things, some 70,000 new uniforms for troops in Afghanistan. Evidently the country's muddy, mountainous terrain clashes with the "universal camouflage pattern" designed for dusty desert cities like Basra and Baghdad...
...Read "Rebuilding Basra...