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Items by Abdul Latif Al-Sadoun
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What’s behind the demand to divide Iraq?
The call to divide Iraq into autonomous regions, and even separate countries, is back on the agenda for discussion. It has been fading and emerging, then fading and emerging once again amid the manoeuvring and bickering among members of the ruling “elite” and is not at all connected or...
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There are dead without graves in Iraq
“They’re going to kill us, aren’t they?” “I don’t think so. They’re trying to scare us.” “Maybe my son has been shot or tortured. Maybe they beat him up so badly that now they’re hanging onto him until he heals enough to release. I don’t care. What’s done is done....
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Maliki is challenging the October Revolution rebels
A source close to former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki has made it known that since he left the top executive role his sights have remained set on returning; he believes strongly that he is the most deserving of being prime minister and he was robbed of the position....
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What’s next after the visit of Iran’s Foreign Minister to Iraq?
Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, is a diplomat who is savvy and accustomed to donning kid gloves to tempt those he deals with. This has been to his advantage, allowing him to achieve or obtain what he wants on most occasions, especially in negotiations and dialogue with friends...
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On the American thirst for oil
America’s thirst for oil is unquenchable. According to King Hussein of Jordan, oil is one of the two things Americans are willing to wage war for. The second is Israel’s security. In the wake of American wars, the curse of oil plagues the countries possessing the world’s largest oil...
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The prince who has lost his shadow
Fathy Ghanem’s great character in the novel The Man Who Lost His Shadow, journalist Youssef Abdel Hamid Al-Suweifi, does not appear to have much in common with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman. There is no similarity between the way that Al-Suweifi climbed to the top after much effort...
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The Baghdad-Jerusalem channel is no longer open
Who planted discord between the Iraqis and Palestinians to the extent that the Baghdad-Jerusalem channel is no longer open today? Who made Iraq’s politicians, writers, intellectuals, poets, students and activists turn a blind eye to the news of their imprisoned brethren’s uprising in the Israeli occupation’s prisons and not...
