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	<title>Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel &#187; Iraq Constitution</title>
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		<title>Amidst Political Wrangling, the Existing Guiding Light in Iraq, the Constitution, is sidelined.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hopes for a swift ratification of the provincial election law, after parliament&#8217;s summer recess, have been dashed with the negotiations assuming the same protracted path. Further attempts at reaching a compromise agreement have only culminated in heightened emotions in rival camps. Earlier this week Kurdish lawmakers rejected amendments to the elections law regarding Kirkuk, a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Fuzzy Democracy is a Prelude to National Disaster</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As attempts to defuse the current crisis over Khanaqin intensify, it alludes to a more extensive web of tension and animosity between the Kurdistan Regional Government and the Baghdad Ministry. It appears that enmity between both parties, undoubtedly fuelled by certain elements in Baghdad and abroad, is not isolated but threatens to rip Iraq apart. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Battle for Kirkuk Continues</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Iraqi Mindset is, as long as there is no democracy in Kirkuk, there is no chance of a Kurdish cictory After years of foot-dragging by Baghdad over the status of Kirkuk, Kurds have decided to dig their heels in. The heated-battle for Kirkuk continues apace with decisive concord out of sight. Iraqi leaders, after [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Did the UN Really Stop the Clock?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In December 2007, as the deadline for the implementation of article 140 of the Iraqi constitution unsurprisingly passed, UN special envoy to Iraq Staffan de Mistura claimed: &#8220;&#8230;the question of Kikruk was a ticking time bomb. The United Nations has stopped the clock&#8221;. In reality however, the UN never stopped the clock, they only added [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Just who is &#8216;Illegal&#8217; in the Fuzzy Politics of Post-liberated Iraq?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) signed 5 new petroleum contracts and announced ongoing negotiations with foreign firms over 24 new oil blocks, the rather customary rhetoric by Iraqi Oil Minister, Hussein Shahristani, took a new twist by warning international companies that they would blacklisted by Iraq and even prevented from exporting oil. Ironically, in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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