Word: iraqi
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Until then, most Iraqis had never heard of him, and didn't know what to expect from this phlegmatic figure in ill-fitting suits. Maliki didn't help matters by constantly shifting his position on key issues. One moment he supported the radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr; the next, he was ordering Iraqi forces to smash Sadr's militia. One minute he was being described by President Bush as "my man"; the next, he was fulminating against U.S. interference in Iraqi politics. "It's like every six months there's a new Maliki," says a Western official...
...opposed the idea. Officials close to Maliki say he was impressed with Obama when they met last summer. But the Prime Minister is no fan of the new U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. Two years ago she expressed concerns about Maliki's sectarian sensibilities and called on the Iraqi parliament to replace him with a "less divisive and more unifying figure." Furious, Maliki said that Democrats such as Clinton were treating Iraq as "their property," and told them to lay off. But now that Clinton is Secretary of State, it would be just like Maliki to forget old animosities...
...measure, Israel is a rogue state. It ignores U.N. resolutions, murders innocent civilians, attacks its neighbors and sponsors its own sort of terrorist group, Mossad, which has agents around the world who in the past have been involved in targeted assassinations. If Iraqi tanks entering Kuwait resulted in a quick U.S. intervention, why is it so far-fetched to chastise Israel similarly? This rogue nation even possesses nuclear weapons. Why is the world doing nothing about this? Apart from the U.S., global public opinion is firmly behind strict censure of Israel. Hopefully the new regime in Washington can march more...
...officers in Diyala have spent weeks mediating between Kurdish Peshmerga forces and the Iraqi military over security arrangements for next week's provincial elections. The national army had planned to set up security checkpoints in northern Diyala, just as they will do all over the country on polling day. But the Kurds were furious. While ethnically mixed Diyala is under the jurisdiction of Baghdad, the province's northern section is predominantly Kurdish and falls along the fuzzy but increasingly agitated fault line that separates the Kurdish north from the rest of Iraq. The Kurds complained that the Iraqi army might...
...balloting in southern Iraq on Jan. 31 will probably reveal how much life remains in the Sadrist movement. If candidates tied to the movement fail to make a decent showing in cities such as Basra, Amarah, Najaf and Karbala, the Sadrists' only official political power will be in the Iraqi parliament, where they hold 28 of 275 seats...