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When Baghdad's notorious Adhamiya district exploded in vicious gun battles last week, few were really surprised. The area, rich with former army, intelligence and secret police officers from Saddam's regime, had been trumpeted by the U.S. military as a former insurgent hot spot brought under control - a success story in the effort to hand over more of the responsibilities for keeping order to the Iraqis. Yet most on the ground knew that beneath the suburb's surface, trouble still brewed. U.S. military intelligence believed the town was still being used by the Ba'ath insurgents as a command...
...titled “What about Iraq’s Women?” Barwari, a graduate of the Kennedy School of Government and a fellow at the Institute of Politics, spoke of her extensive involvement in the reconstruction underway since the US-led invasion toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein. “Women are the first victims of lack of services,” Barwari said, lamenting the difficulties caused by the destruction of infrastructure and utilities in Iraq. Yet, at the same time, the high percentage of female government workers allowed women to be a central...
Safah is part of a seldom-discussed aspect of the epidemic of kidnappings in Iraq: sex trafficking. No one knows how many young women have been kidnapped and sold since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. The Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq, based in Baghdad, estimates from anecdotal evidence that more than 2,000 Iraqi women have gone missing in that period. A Western official in Baghdad who monitors the status of women in Iraq thinks that figure may be inflated but admits that sex trafficking, virtually nonexistent under Saddam, has become a serious issue. The collapse...
...doesn't TIME try to show some of the many positive things resulting from the war in Iraq? In various parts of the nation, life now is vastly improved over what it was like under Saddam Hussein. You go out of your way to publish negative photographs and editorials. Your articles are so slanted, it's ridiculous. David Prothero Irwin, Pennsylvania...
...Turkish firms are producing oil for local consumption, and one is drilling three new wells. Last September Canada's Heritage Oil signed an exploration deal. "There were always plans to produce oil in Kurdistan, but there were always objections" from Baghdad, says George Yacu, a Kurd who served in Saddam's Ministry of Oil for 30 years until 1999 and is now oil-and-gas adviser to Kurdistan's regional government. Kurdish officials estimate their unexplored oil reserves at about 45 billion bbl. If that's accurate, Kurdistan's power could soar within Iraq, which depends almost completely...