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...more rural region of Maysan province, where a wide stretch of marshland border creates a difficult environment for Iraqi troops to operate, some officials say drug trafficking is on the rise. "Until now, the border forces do not have the capability to control the border," says police commander General Saad Ali Harbia in Maysan's capital, Amara. "A huge amount of drugs heading for the Gulf countries pass through Amara." He says the smuggling problem has only increased since the start of the war in 2003, "because the American forces don't control the border." Agence France Presse reported last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Iraq and Iran Meet, Uneasily | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

...Thursday and Brigadier General Saad Ali Harbia's phone rings - not his regular mobile, but the new hotline that the Iraqi police force in Amara, 185 miles southeast of Baghdad, has set up to receive tips that could lead to arrests. The tip comes from a man who says he knows about a financier of Mahdi Army commanders in the region. Harbia's assistant takes down the information and says they will follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baghdad's Grasp on Iraq's South | 7/7/2008 | See Source »

Another panelist, Saad al-Barrak, deputy chairman and group CEO of Kuwait-based mobile-phone operator Zain, argued that the greater political challenge may be internal, with Gulf countries making poor progress toward democratic reform. While the region has built key "hardware" such as roads, schools and skyscrapers, al-Barrak said it has yet to develop the "software" required to fulfil its potential - an efficient legal system, regulatory transparency and free elections. "That is what creates sustainability," said al-Barrak. "That anchors the future." He also criticized the Gulf's bloated public sector, joking that Kuwait has so many government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giddy Heights: Boom in the Gulf | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

...stations have pulled the "offending" serials, but Saad Mohseni, director of Tolo TV, has refused, calling the ban illegal and ill-defined. He may eventually have to acquiesce, although he has plenty of other programs to fill the gap. Tolo already airs the terror-themed Hollywood drama 24, while a Korean mini-series and an Afghan-made soap opera have proved popular. So, it's not the ratings effect of dropping Tulsi that worries him, Mohseni says; it's the precedent. "Is this going to cut back on what we enjoy, freedom of expression? The Indian shows go first, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan Unplugs Bollywood's Siren Song | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

Mistaken for an Iraqi insurgent during the filming of “Dreams of Sparrows,” the documentary’s associate producer, Saad Fakher, was killed by American military troops while driving on a highway in Iraq. A scene describing his death marked the climax of the final film screened during “Contemporary Iraqi Film” series, a group of movies from Iraq shown in CGIS-S last Thursday through Saturday. Films included several documentaries, as well as the winning entries from Baghdad’s First International Iraq Short Film Festival...

Author: By Anthony C. Speare, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CGIS Explores Views of Iraq in Film Series | 4/20/2008 | See Source »

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