Recently added articles from APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East:
Why US Business Prospects In Iraq Are Not So Promising.
Nov 23, 2009 ... The Baghdad Trade Fair ended on Nov. 10, six years after the US invasion which toppled Saddam's Sunni/Ba'thist dictatorship, and the US was conspicuously absent. That was the power which spent a trillion dollars on the invasion, occupation, and training and equipping Iraqi security forces, ...
Sunni Veto Jeopardises Vote Timeline.(Chronology)
Nov 23, 2009 ... Sunni VP Tareq al-Hashemi on Nov. 18 vetoed a new election law to organise parliamentary polls set for January 2010, throwing it back to a fractious Council of Representatives (parliament) which had spent months haggling over it and threatening to delay further a vote the US military had ...
The Challenges Of Terrorism - Iraq, Part 50- The Next Prime Minister.
Oct 05, 2009 ... The PM-Designate of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Dr Barham Saleh, on Oct. 2 told the Saudi-owned pan-Arab TV al-'Arabiya the next national legislative elections, due to be held on Jan. 1, 2010, were crucial for the unity of Iraq. Now based in Erbil, the capital of Kurdistan, Dr ...
The GME Perspective For Islamic Insurgency.
Oct 05, 2009 ... The challenges of insurgency, which China and Russia call terrorism, are identical to those being faced by the other G-20 powers, including Brazil, Germany, Indonesia, India, Korea (south), Saudi Arabia and Turkey. The challenges of Islamic insurgency are becoming as serious as the dangers ...
Maleki Forms Broad Coalition - A New Challenge To Syria/Iran & Focus On WuF.
Oct 05, 2009 ... Iraq's Shi'ite PM Nuri al-Maleki on Oct. 1 announced on a new broad coalition called State of the Law (SoL) which will run against former Shi'ite allies in the Jan. 16 elections, raising the prospect of intra-sectarian strife. In a speech in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, Maleki left the ...