US Ambassador Ryan Crocker Affirms Significance of Art. 125 for Iraqi Minorities
Posted GMT 2-22-2008 20:46:9
Washington — In late 2007 US Ambassador Ryan Crocker affirmed the significance of Art. 125 for Iraq’s developing system of federalism, when responding to questions from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about minorities and their goal for a federal unit [...]
Archive for February, 2008
The Nineveh Plain: federal region for Iraqi Christians?
Posted in Assyria, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, News on February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kosovo and Iraq
Posted in Articles, Bloggers, Iraq on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Breaking free
By Thomas Wachtel
2/20/2008
One of my early political memories was the NATO action in Kosovo in 1999. That was when I, along with many other politically inclined youths, learned the name Slobodan Milosevic and what “ethnic cleansing” meant. We learned the difference between Serbs and Albanians. We learned that sometimes the world community needs to [...]
Shiites move towards federal region in the South
Posted in Iraq, News, The South on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Iraqi Lawmakers Pass 3 Crucial, Long-Delayed Laws
By ALISSA J. RUBIN
Published: February 14, 2008
BAGHDAD — Using old-fashioned politicking behind the scenes, Iraq’s parliamentary leaders on Wednesday pushed through three divisive laws that had been held up for months by bitter maneuvering between factions and, recently, threats to dissolve the legislative body.
The three laws are the 2008 [...]
Iraq Federal System Legislation Passes
Posted in Iraq on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Military.com | Senator Joe Biden Press Release | January 28, 2008
Washington, DC — The U.S. Senate passed legislation today, sponsored by Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE) and Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS), which calls for the United States to support a political settlement in Iraq based on a [...]
