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Tag: iraq
Iraq’s Post-ISIS Campaign of Revenge | New Yorker
Fantastic piece by Ben Taub.
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Algeria and Iraq shut down internet to prevent exam cheating
Absurd, stupid, neanderthal.
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Who gets to tell Iraq’s history?
Avi Asher-Shapiro on the NYT ISIS document affair.
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Newspaper Pledges to Return ISIS Documents to Iraq
@ursulind in @AlFanarMedia on the resolution (seemingly) of the NYTimes’ removal of ISIS files from Iraq
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ISIS Claims Responsibility for Baghdad Bombings
First since fall of Mosul
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Camp Speicher massacre: Retracing the steps of Isis’s worst-ever atrocity | The Independent
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How Iran is winning game of chess in Kirkuk
Long term operatives on the ground, that’s how.
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Iraq: The Road to Chaos
Ned Parker, in the New York Review of Books, reminds us of the growing violence, corruption and authoritarianism that is unraveling Iraq. The damage that the US invasion of that country — based on fraud and arrogance — has done, to them and to us (strategically, morally, financially, and of course in terms of a damaged and blighted generation of Iraqis) can still stagger sometimes.
Now, as Iraq prepares for its first national election in four years on April 30, it is hard to imagine democracy activists rallying weekly in Iraqi streets. For months, suicide bombers have been dynamiting themselves in crowded Shiite markets, coffee shops, and funeral tents, while Shiite militias and government security forces have terrorized Sunni communities. The Iraqi state is breaking apart again: from the west in Anbar province, where after weeks of anarchic violence more than 380,000 people have fled their homes; to the east in Diyala province, where tit-for-tat sectarian killings are rampant; to the north in Mosul, where al-Qaeda-linked militants control large swathes of territory; to the south in Basra, home to Iraq’s oil riches, where Shiite militias are once more ascendant; to Iraq’s Kurds, who warn that the country is disintegrating and contemplate full independence from Baghdad.
Motivational speech to Iraqi police recruits
Hmmm perhaps that’s precisely the point.