Recently added articles from APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula:
Larijani's Visit Opposed; Turkey Opens Consulates In Erbil & Basra.
Nov 09, 2009 ... The sudden Nov. 4 arrival in Baghdad of Iran's parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has been strongly resisted by many Iraqi MPs, notably including secular Shi'ites joining their Sunni counterparts in denouncing Tehran's interference in Iraqi affairs. In a high-profile news conference, these ...
Tareq Al-Hashemi.(Brief article)
Nov 09, 2009 ... The Vice President of Iraq since May 2006, Hashemi comes from a wealthy Sunni Arab family. He began his career as a military officer and graduated from the British academy of Sandhurst. Later he joined the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). In the early 1980s he became close to Adnan Khairallah, a ...
'Adnan Al-Dulaimi.(Brief article)
Nov 09, 2009 ... The head of the IAF, the largest Sunni Arab bloc with 44 seats in the current parliament, Dulaimi is one of the founders of the MB. He was arrested in the 1950s, when he worked as a teacher in Arabic. In the mid-1970s he received a doctorate in Arabic from a university in Cairo. Later he ...
Salam Al-Zowba'i.(Brief article)
Nov 09, 2009 ... A Sunni Deputy PM in charge of security since May 2006, Zowba'i is a key member of Dulaimi's IAF. Previously he was a university professor in agriculture, having a doctorate in this field from the Agricultural College of Baghdad ....
Move Against Iran Weapons Smuggling.
Nov 09, 2009 ... Hundreds of km south-east of Baghdad, US and Iraqi Army troops are making a major push to fight arms smuggling and infiltration from Iran in the run-up to the elections. They concentrate on Iran-Iraq border in Mayssan Province which is straddled by almost 200 km of desert and marsh-land ...