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Iraq's Political Turmoil Could Lead to Civil War

Firas Al-Atraqchi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shia, Civil War, Kurds, Kurdish Regional Government, Ammar Hakim, Shiite, Barack Obama, Iraq Sectarian Violence, Ibrahim Al-Jaafari, Iyad Allawi, De-Baathification Law, Iraq War, Apartheid, Baathists, Truth and Reconciliation, Baghdad, Iraq, Mosul, Sunni, Obama Iraq, Nouri Al Maliki, Hadbaa, Shiite-Sunni, World News
Firas Al-Atraqchi

This is a crisis that cannot be understated. The post-election period reveals that no election result is safe from court intervention and constitutional brigandry in the new Iraq.

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Mysterious 'Saddam Channel' Hits Iraq TV

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq TV, Sunni Arabs, Saddam Hussein, Mohammed Jarboua, Baathists, Nilesat, Saddam Channel, Saddam Hussein Execution, Saddam Channel Iraq TV, Iraq, Nouri Al Maliki, Al-Lafeta, Noorsat, Eutelsat, World News

BAGHDAD — Turning on their TVs during the long holiday weekend, Iraqis were greeted by a familiar if unexpected face from their brutal past: Sad...

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Iraqi Baath Revivalists Freed

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Iraqi authorities released without charge the nearly two dozen security officials who had been accused this week of conspiring to revi...

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Iraq: Baath Party Plot Security Officials Freed From Custody

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Iraqi authorities released without charge the nearly two dozen security officials who had been accused this week of conspiring to revi...

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The Folly of de-Clintonification

Jared Levy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: De-Baathification Law, Clinton, Obama's Cabinet, Paul Bremer, Obama, Obama Transition, Baathists, Iraq, Politics News
Jared Levy

As Barack Obama goes about forming a cabinet, cries have gone up that Obama is committing some kind of sin by appointing a number of people who worked in the Clinton Administration.

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The U.S. Attack on Syria: Implications for the Next Administration

Stephen Zunes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Syria, Iraq, President-Elect Obama, Bush Administration, Middle East, Foreign Policy, Obama War in Iraq, Al-Qaeda, Obama Syria, Obama Administration, Nicholas Sarkozy, Salafi Sunni, War in Iraq, Obama Foreign Policy, Iraqi Borders, Jalal Talabani, Guerrila Infilitration Iraq, U.S. Military, Counter-Terrorism, Abu Ghadiya, Aqi, Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Mullahs, Baathists, Bush Foreign Policy, General Petraeus, World News
Stephen Zunes

Obama's refusal to criticize the U.S. attack on Syria raises the prospect that rather than pursue the diplomatic route, he will instead "pick up where the Bush Administration has now ended."

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Iraqi Bloggers Consider McCain

Amira Al Hussaini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senator McCain, Al Qaeda, Mccain, Bloggers, Iraqi Bloggers, Baathists, John McCain, Iraq Baathists, Home News
Amira Al Hussaini

"Americans will vote for McCain. If they don't, it will amount to the same thing. They love a show of muscles. We will show you muscles. McCain will use al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda will eagerly oblige."

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Iraq's New Law on Ex-Baathists Could Bring Another Purge

Washington Post | Amit R. Paley and Joshua Partlow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: De-Baathification Law, Warwire, Iraq War, Baathists Purge, War in Iraq, Baathists, Iraq, Iraq Government, Politics News

Maj. Gen. Hussein al-Awadi, a former official in Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, became the commander of the Iraqi National Police despite a 2003 law ba...

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Former Baathists Fear New Reconciliation Law Is Plot Against Them

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 05.25.2011

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Former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party were skeptical Sunday of a new law enabling them to reclaim government jobs, saying they feared it migh...

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Iraq Parliament Reinstates Baathists

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 05.25.2011

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Iraq's parliament passed a benchmark law Saturday allowing lower-ranking former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to reclaim government jobs, th...

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