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QUOTE: Iraq’s New Parliament to Convene and Start Choosing Key Leaders
July 1, 2014
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: “A lot is riding on tomorrow,” said Zaid al Ali, a constitutional expert and author of the recently published book “The Struggle for Iraq’s Future.” “If they can’t come up with a speaker tomorrow, that means they will have alre …
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REVIEW: The misgovernment of Iraq
July 1, 2014
THE ARABIST: In April, Iraqi lawyer Zaid Al-Ali wrote a remarkably prophetic article arguing that Nouri al-Maliki, who had convinced many Iraqi voters in the just-concluded elections that he was a strong man, was actually presiding over a rapidly weake …
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VIDEO: Iraq army launches offensive in Tikrit
June 28, 2014
AL JAZEERA INTERNATIONAL: The Iraqi army says it has launched a major offensive to retake Tikrit from Sunni rebels, amid conflicting claims over who controls the city’s university. The main ground operation, which began on Saturday, followed heavy figh …
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ARTICLE: Iraq is too broken for Obama’s advisers
June 27, 2014
THE GUARDIAN: It used to take two hours to drive from Tikrit to Baghdad. Since the extremists of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) rumbled from Mosul to Tikrit and south toward the outskirts of the capital, however, entire neighborhoods i …
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ARTICLE: Maliki has only himself to blame for Iraq’s crisis
June 26, 2014
THE WASHINGTON POST: Shortly after Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia were deposed at the start of 2011, large numbers of young Iraqis called for their own demonstrations against Iraq’s corrupt political class. Nouri al-Malik …
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Redrawn Lines Seen as No Cure in Iraq Conflict
June 26, 2014
THE NEW YORK TIMES: “At least a third of the country is beyond Baghdad’s control, not counting Kurdistan,” said Zaid al Ali, an Iraqi analyst and the author of “The Struggle for Iraq’s Future.” “But any effort to make that official would likely lead to …
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Q&A: What do Iraqi Sunnis want?
June 25, 2014
AL JAZEERA INTERNATIONAL: As the Iraq crisis worsens, the legacy of the recent past looms large. Years of occupation and political oppression, combined with a corrupt elite, and foreign designs, planted the seeds of chaos that being reaped in Iraq toda …
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Angry At Shiite-Led Government, Sunnis Are Loath To Help Calm Iraq
June 25, 2014
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: Zaid al-Ali, who recently published a book on Iraq’s government, has been speaking with people in Saddam Hussein’s hometown, Tikrit. “It’s important for people to realize how bad the partitioning has already become. Some people a …
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AUDIO: Iraq: “The influence of the West is very limited now”
June 25, 2014
Islamists fighting under the banner of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) say they have fully captured the country’s main oil refinery at Baiji, north of Baghdad. It comes as US Secretary of State John Kerry met Kurdish leaders in the nort …
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VIDEO: Iraq on the Brink
June 25, 2014
Iraq is on the brink following the takeover of Mosul and other cities by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). Leaders from across the region and internationally are now faced with the challenge of how to halt the advancement of ISIS and ste …
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