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  • Gunmen loot 3,500-old Sumerian site
    17 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Attacks like these have increased recently amid reports that contraband trade in Iraqi antiquities scratched by illegal diggers from ancient sites was booming.
    Azzaman, November 13, 2007
    Tall Asmar, the famous ancient Sumerian settlement, has been stripped of its contents and digging implements, the Antiquities Department said in a statement.
    The site in the restive and violent Diyala Province is Iraq’s most important and significant Sumerian settlement in central Mesopotamia.
    Known (…)

  • OPEC leaders may discuss creation of currency basket to price crude
    17 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    OPEC leaders may discuss creation of currency basket to price crude
    The Associated Press Friday, November 16, 2007 RIYADH, Saudi Arabia: Leaders of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries meeting this weekend in the Saudi capital are likely to discuss the possibility of creating a currency basket to price their crude, Venezuela’s oil minister said Friday.
    Rafael Ramirez, the minister, said the issue will come up at a closed session in the two-day OPEC summit, Dow Jones (…)

  • Iraq asks Britain to return hundreds of missing artifacts
    17 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The government has asked British authorities to hand over to the Iraq Museum 654 priceless archaeological pieces that went missing shortly after U.S. invasion troops landed in Baghdad in 2003.
    Azzaman, November 8, 2007
    A statement by the Ministry of Archaeology and Tourism said the pieces were among the thousands of artifacts that were looted from the Museum and the British authorities were under obligation to return them.
    The statement faxed to the newspaper said the artifacts were (…)

  • IRAQ : "BEYOND THE GREEN ZONE," a new book by DAHR JAMAIL
    15 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Outrage in a Time of Apathy
    by Aaron Glantz
    SAN FRANCISCO - Unlike most U.S. journalists who went to Iraq to cover a war, Dahr Jamail went to try to stop it.In his new book, ‘Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq‘, Jamail writes of volunteering as a rescue ranger at a Denali National Park in the U.S. state of Alaska while news of the invasion and occupation of Iraq played on the radio.
    He had to get out of Anchorage, and in November 2003, (…)

  • Iranian Kurdistan: A simmering cauldron
    15 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Simmering discontent among Iran’s ethnic Kurdish minority - aided by the government’s conflict with a Turkish PKK offshoot - could spell major trouble for the Iranian government. The US government is fully aware of these tensions, and, according to published reports, is preparing several contingency plans to capitalize on mass discontent in these areas.
    12 November 2007
    By Kamal Nazer Yasin in Tehran for ISN Security Watch (12/11/07)
    The Iranian government is taking aim at a shadowy (…)

  • Iraqis Represent 17% to 21% of the World’s Refugees, and the People Responsible are Oblivious
    15 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “The Iraqi Red Crescent voiced ‘deep sorry’ for statements recently made by Iraqi officials on the situation of displaced people in Iraq, underlining that has nothing to do with the real situation of those displaced.
    “The Iraqi body voiced in a statement received by the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) that it is ‘deeply sorry’ for the statement made by some officials regarding the real situation of displaced people inside Iraq, mainly downplaying the sufferings and harsh (…)

  • IRAQ IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA
    14 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    It is the kind of news that everybody had been dreading. An outbreak of cholera in Iraq, which started in two northern provinces, has already reached Baghdad and has become Iraq’s biggest cholera outbreak in recent memory. This "frightening and dangerous situation," as stated by Bahktiyar Ahmed, a Unicef emergency health facilitator, serves to underscore the unrelenting threat to people already affected by a devastated healthcare system;
    Statistics from the World Health Organisation (…)

  • GEOINGENIERY : Ocean ‘Fertilization’ is dangerous
    14 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    NO AFP on BELLACIAO please, they don’t want... Bellaciao
    Commondreams From AFP, November 13, 2007 World Body Warns Over Ocean ‘Fertilization’ To Fix Climate Change http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/13/5193/print/

  • More Lost Weapons in Iraq
    12 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By all accounts, the businessman, Kassim al-Saffar, a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, did well at distributing the Pentagon-supplied weapons from the Baghdad Police Academy armory he managed for a military contractor. But, co-workers say, he also turned the armory into his own private arms bazaar with the seeming approval of some American officials and executives, selling AK-47 assault rifles, Glock pistols and heavy machine guns to anyone with cash in hand — Iraqi militias, South African (…)

  • While Pakistan Burns
    11 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    While Pakistan Burns
    If you think Musharraf’s wrong to free jailed Taliban members while he busts dissidents, wait until you hear who’s back on the loose.
    By Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau | Newsweek Web Exclusive Nov 9, 2007 | Updated: 11:27 p.m. ET Nov 9, 2007 Pakistani lawyers, human-rights activists and opposition-party members can scarcely ignore the irony of their situation: while thousands of them are being beaten and locked up under President Pervez Musharraf’s newly declared (…)