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	<title>Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel &#187; al-Maliki</title>
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		<title>Kurdistan to Maliki &#8211; your last (last) chance?</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2013/06/kurdistan-to-maliki-your-last-last-chance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki landed in Erbil to chair a rare but symbolic meeting of the Iraqi cabinet in the Kurdish capital and discuss a number of issues with the Kurdish leadership, expectations appeared high. However, Maliki has shown political shrewdness when backed against a corner in the past, making concessions, striking agreements, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunni protests in Iraq reopen sectarian wounds and historic fault lines</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The elusive quest of enticing the disenfranchised Sunni population after the fall of Saddam Hussein plagued the Iraqi transition to democracy. The brutal civil war that peaked between 2006-2007 centred on the failure to reconcile with Sunnis and bring them into the political fold after Shiite supremacy replaced decades of Sunni rule almost overnight. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>As Kurd-Arab relations hit rock bottom, tensions reach dangerous heights</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2012/11/as-kurd-arab-relations-hit-rock-bottom-tensions-reach-dangerous-heights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a language of confrontation, the writing for conflict is always on the wall. With tension over the Dijla (Tigris) Operations Command already at boiling point, the writing for open confrontation was always on the wall. Violent skirmishes between Peshmerga forces and Dijla forces in Tuz Kkurmatu, resulting in two casualties and many wounded, could [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cleaning polluted political waters in Iraq when streams are rising</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2012/10/cleaning-polluted-political-waters-in-iraq-when-streams-are-rising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bashdar.co.uk/?p=425</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Kurds prepare to send yet another delegation to Baghdad but can the same formula produce a different answer? The political forces in the Kurdistan Region are preparing to send a delegation ahead of Eid Ad&#8217;ha to Baghdad, hailed as a “final attempt” to solving the crisis. The delegation, which was intended to represent a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>New Iraqi arms deals stoke natural Kurdish anxiety</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2012/10/new-iraqi-arms-deals-stoke-natural-kurdish-anxiety/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2012/10/new-iraqi-arms-deals-stoke-natural-kurdish-anxiety/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a dark memories of an Arab Iraqi military might firmly on their mind, Kurds fear an extended Baghdad military arm, especially with Maliki at the helm, sectarian divisions that run rife and growing disputes between Erbil and Baghdad. On the back of a recent multi-billion deal with the U.S. to supply 36 F16 fighter [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Continue to nurse a sick Iraq at the expense of Kurdish nationalism?</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2012/04/continue-to-nurse-a-sick-iraq-at-the-expense-of-kurdish-nationalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not so long ago, the Kurds would have been overjoyed to see the Kurdistan flag hoisted on a building in Iraq, let alone see it proudly flap in the wind as it overhangs the prestigious Ritz Carlton hotel in Washington, D.C., to commemorate the visit of the head of a state. The point is simple. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Kurds caught in the middle as tensions in Iraq are stoked by regional jockeying</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2012/01/kurds-caught-in-the-middle-as-tensions-in-iraq-are-stoked-by-regional-jockeying/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2012/01/kurds-caught-in-the-middle-as-tensions-in-iraq-are-stoked-by-regional-jockeying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the political crisis in Iraq already at a critical juncture, domestic and regional events this week served to intensify tensions. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki formally suspended a number of ministers from the predominantly Sunni-based al-Iraqiya list after weeks of boycotts. As internal parties continued frantic jockeying to soothe friction and find a way [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Once bitten, twice shy</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2010/11/once-bitten-twice-shy/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2010/11/once-bitten-twice-shy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 00:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bashdar.co.uk/?p=157</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While Kurds bring warring Arabs together, Kurdistan must ensure that the principles of co-existence are not sidelined For a disparate country fuelled by common mistrust and a diverse ethno-social mosaic, finding a formula to satisfy all sides is never going to be plain sailing. How the Iraqi &#8216;cake&#8217; is essentially shared and the mechanisms for [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>As weeks quickly pass, Iraqi politicians inch towards government formation</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2010/10/as-weeks-quickly-pass-iraqi-politicians-inch-towards-government-formation/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2010/10/as-weeks-quickly-pass-iraqi-politicians-inch-towards-government-formation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As months have quickly accumulated since the national elections were held in Iraq, in contrast politicians only inch towards the much elusive milestone of forming a new government. Whilst it is possible to provide a detailed overview of the current situation in Iraq and the key socio-political characteristics that have hampered a sense of nationalism [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The evident limits to the application of democracy in Iraq</title>
		<link>https://bashdar.co.uk/2009/09/the-evident-limits-to-the-application-of-democracy-in-iraq/</link>
		<comments>https://bashdar.co.uk/2009/09/the-evident-limits-to-the-application-of-democracy-in-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no region in the world more difficult to apply &#8220;off the shelf&#8221; Western notions than in the Middle East. The Middle East, the undoubted cradle of civilisation, has had its lands soiled with much blood. Nowhere are rivalries as bitter or animosities as historically entrenched and deep rooted. With the rich heritage and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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