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The Economist: Iraq's troubles

Iraqi oil:
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:49:37 -0000
Iraq's oil is flowing a bit more freelyIRAQ'S oil production averaged over 2.4m barrels a day in the second quarter, the highest level since America invaded in 2003. This should boost the country's oil revenues to around $80 billon this year and production should keep on rising as security improves. Iraqi oil is cheap to extract and there are probably new fields to be found. But political uncertainty is hampering the investment needed to overhaul exitisng infrastructure and oilfields that might dramatically boost output in near future. ...
Iraq:
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:49:44 -0000
The country is awash with oil money but still lacks a proper planIN THE second quarter of the year, an American military auditor recently reported, Iraq’s oil production averaged over 2.4m barrels a day, the highest level since America invaded Iraq in 2003, and a marked improvement on last year’s average of around 2m b/d (see chart). Rising output, along with the high (if now falling) price of oil, should pump up Iraq’s oil revenues to almost $80 billion this year. That, in turn, has allowed the country’s parliament to boost this year’s budget from $48 billion to $70 billion in a supplementary spending bill approved earlier this month. As security improves, the government has a lot more cash to spend than it did a year ago. Will it make the best of it?For one thing, revenue from oil should go up more sharply still. Iraq produced 3m b/d as recently as October 2001, despite the crippling UN-enforced sanctions at the time. Iraq’s oil minister, Hussein al-Shahristani, has spoken of raising output to 6m b/d. In theory, that is possible. Iraq’s proven reserves, of 115 billion barrels, are the world’s third-largest after Saudi Arabia and Iran. Yet Iraq ranks just 13th in terms of production, suggesting there is plenty of scope to pump more. Russia, for example, produced almost 10m b/d last year from reserves of 80 billion barrels. Only 27 of the 80 or so fields that have been discovered in Iraq have ever been tapped. ...
Iraq:
Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:37:33 -0000
The death toll in Iraq continues to dropTHE death toll of civilians and American soldiers in Iraq has been falling steadily. The “surge” of American troops last year, the growth of the Iraqi army and the Sunni awakening (in which many Sunnis who previously supported insurgents have turned against them) all help to explain why. Last month 13 American soldiers died in Iraq, the lowest level since the invasion in March 2003. The civilian death toll is harder to estimate: it hit 5,000 just over a year ago but dropped to 387 in July, according to the Iraqi authorities (other estimates are a bit higher, at around 500). Although Iraqi security forces are now in command of ten of the country's 18 provinces, an agreement on a timetable for American troop withdrawal and a full military handover to Iraq's own government will take some time yet. ...
The Beijing Olympics:
Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:10:21 -0000
News from the Forbidden Citius, Altius, FortiusBEIJING’S grey skies began to clear briefly on July 27th, though the capital’s wretched air quality continues to be a top concern of organisers as the opening of the Olympic games draws near. Chinese officials insist that cooler, drier weather and clearer skies will descend on the capital for the two weeks of the games, August 8th-24th. The last batch of Olympic tickets went on sale, prompting a near riot. Tens of thousands queued up, pushed and shoved. The police waded in to restore order and roughed up journalists covering the incident. One reporter from Hong Kong was detained for hours, prompting an unusual official acknowledgment that the police might have overdone it. With more than 20,000 foreign journalists expected to cover the games, and 100,000 security personnel (plus a similar number of “security volunteers”) on hand, there is every chance such problems will arise again. ...
Iraq:
Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:10:21 -0000
The politicians are still failing to take advantage of the lull in the violenceTHE mood in Baghdad and most parts of Iraq is an odd mixture of hope, frustration and nervousness. Despite the occasional mass-murderous suicide bomb, such as the four that killed at least 50 people in Baghdad and the disputed city of Kirkuk on July 28th, the death toll is continuing mercifully to slide downwards (see chart); the month of July will probably have witnessed the fewest American military combat deaths—eight, as The Economist went to press—since the war began five years ago. The month’s Iraqi civilian toll, though harder to count and still wretchedly high, will also be one of the lowest since the insurgency got going in 2004; some 500-odd violent civilian deaths were reported in July, compared with a tally of 3,700 at the height of sectarian mayhem two years ago. Irrespective of the different plans of the two American presidential candidates, a reduction of American troop numbers is also happening steadily, from 171,000 in October to 145,000 at last blush. At the same time, the size of the Iraqi forces is creeping up, from 115,000 two years ago to 229,000 today. This week the province of Kadisiya, south of Baghdad, became the tenth out of 18 to come under Iraqi, rather than American, operational command. ...
America and the Middle East:
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:04:30 -0000
American policy in the Middle East is changing, and could usefully change some moreBARACK OBAMA’S presidential-style progress through the Middle East and Europe this week stole many headlines (see article). But that should not be allowed to divert attention from some surprising policy shifts by the man who, last time we checked, was still the actual president of the United States. George Bush has just made at least one-and-a-half U-turns in the Middle East. They have serious merit. If he now makes another turn and a half, he may bequeath whoever succeeds him something unexpected: the beginnings of a decent American policy for this troubled region.Mr Bush’s first U-turn was on Iran. For several years now the world has applied economic sanctions, part of a policy of carrots and sticks designed to make Iran come clean about a nuclear programme which it claims is peaceful but which many governments believe to be a quest for the bomb. Until last week, however, America had left it to Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China to dangle the carrots. America itself was all stick. America’s partners have held countless meetings with Iran to offer technical and economic rewards if the Iranians only stop enriching uranium. Mr Bush, having consigned the mullahs to an “axis of evil” in his first term, refused to let Americans attend. That has helped the Iranians to claim that whatever the other countries were offering was never enough; what use the blandishments of lesser powers if the superpower was determined on hostility and regime change? ...

csmonitor.com | Notebook: Iraq


NPR Topics: Iraq

Lebanon Prime Minister Heads To Iraq
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:00:00 -0400
Fuad Siniora is expected to arrive in Baghdad Wednesday. Relations are improving between Iraq's Shiite-dominated government and the Arab world's Sunni leaders.
Tensions Rise In Diyala Province
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:00:00 -0400
Ethnic tensions are on the rise in the province in northeast Iraq. Recent government raids on Sunni officials have resulted in violence and angry proclamations from Sunni politicians against the Shiite-led government.
Burned Soldier Continues Long Road To Recovery
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:32:00 -0400
Army Staff Sgt. Robert Henline is trying to reclaim his life. Burned badly in Iraq, he's back home in Texas. He's finding that his injuries are difficult to treat, his recovery is long and unpredictable, and his family life is completely changed.
After 5 Years Of War, Trains Return To Baghdad
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:12:00 -0400
There's an almost forgotten sound in the air of Baghdad these days. It's not bomb blasts, police sirens or the whir of helicopters. It's a train whistle — a signal of some normalcy returning to the Iraqi capital.
'All My Children' Seeks Iraq War Vet
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:32:00 -0400
It's a move that might be inspired by the Oscar-winning movie The Best Years of Our Lives. The popular daytime soap opera All My Children is looking for an Iraq war veteran to play the role of a, well, Iraq war veteran.
Iraq Seeks U.S. Apology For Last Fall's Raid
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:32:00 -0400
Last fall, U.S. troops raided the Iraqi village of Jaisani, south of Baghdad; 26 people were killed. The U.S. called them "criminals." Now, the Iraqi government says those killed are "martyrs" and has asked the U.S. military command to apologize.

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Iraq upgrades security forces capacities
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:04:00 -0000
Upgrading military capacities of national armed forces is the major challenge before Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki’s government which is delving into negotiations with Washington over US-Iraqi strategic agreement in preparation for Iraqi Forces to take over the mission of defending Iraq’s ...
UN marks 5th anniversary of Iraq bombing
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:25:00 -0000
At the fifth anniversary of the United Nations office bombing, challenges are major before the International Organization to help find solutions to multiple crises in the country, mainly Kirkuk issue that threatens the whole political process. The bombing targeting a United Nations office in ...
Petraeus warns of Qaeda threat in Iraq
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:23:00 -0000
US Top Commander in Iraq General David Petraeus warned that Al Qaeda in Iraq still enjoys high threatening capacities stressing that time of announcing victory in Iraq has not come yet. In an interview with the Fox News, Petraeus noted that what has been achieved so far in Iraq is a major ...
Government prepares to receive ambassadors to Iraq
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:32:00 -0000
Iraq’s Government is preparing to receive the ambassadors of countries willing to re-establish diplomatic relations with Iraq after security has improved in Iraq. More than 60 embassies are expected to open in Iraq by early next year. A special directorate will provide the embassies’ ...
Peshmerga Forces start withdrawing from Diyala Province
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:08:00 -0000
Peshmerga Forces started withdrawing from Diyala Province from Qara Tapa, Jalula and Qhanaqin regions according to an agreement between the central government and Kurdistan Government as they will be replaced by Iraqi Army forces. On the other hand, a number of politicians stressed the necessity ...
Iraqi forces raid Diyala governor’s office
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:44:00 -0000
An Iraqi security forces unit raided the office of the governor of Diyala province Raad Rasheed Mulla Jawad early on Tuesday, killing his secretary Abbas Ali and arresting a member of the provincial council Hussein Al Zubaidi. In Al Ramadi, security sources announced that four policemen were killed ...

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