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...politicians). The full list of banned politicians has yet to be published - the commission says that more names will soon be added - but leaks to the press have led to speculation that many firm fixtures in Iraqi politics, like the country's well-regarded Defense Minister Abdul-Kader Jassem al-Obeidi, will now be banned...
Surprisingly, the letter seems to leave the worshippers largely unaffected. Some are even mildly relieved. "Oh, this is like egging a car," says Kader Alcodray, 38, a businessman. "Whoever did this is obviously a coward, so I don't feel threatened," agrees Qureshi. "I'd be worried if he came in here with...
...Italy's sports pages duly took note of other Muslim players who observe Ramadan with varying degrees of strictness, including Siena's Abdel Kader Ghezzal, an Algerian who scored a goal against AC Milan on Saturday. Though a practicing Muslim, Ghezzal says he does not fast on training and game days during Ramadan. Inter's Muntari is more observant, though he reportedly ate pasta at lunch on Sunday, while refusing water before the match. Most imams say there are just a few groups of people exempted from the daytime fast, including pregnant women, the sick and the elderly. Though...
...Abdel Kader's resentment and fear of the private security contractors hired by the U.S. is widespread in Iraq. The hired guns, who protect diplomats, dignitaries and businesspeople, tear through the streets of the capital in convoys of armored SUVs - modern-day cowboys armed to the teeth as they ride roughshod over civilian traffic...
...weeks, though, Abdel Kader and others may feel differently. Under the terms of the recently approved bilateral U.S-Iraqi security pact (which takes effect on Jan. 1) the 30,000 or so private security contractors operating in Iraq will be stripped of legal immunity and become subject to Iraqi jurisdiction. The retraction of that get-out-of-jail-free card may prompt a change in the way these firms operate. "I think private security companies are toning it down now," said Lawrence Peter, director of the Private Security Company Association of Iraq. "The number of incidents of shooting that have occurred...