Ali Allawi: This raises huge questions over our independence
In 1930 the Anglo-Iraqi treaty was signed as a prelude to Iraq gaining full independence. Britain had occupied Iraq after defeating the Turks in the First World War, and was granted a mandate over the country. The treaty gave Britain military and economic privileges in exchange for Britain's promise to end its mandate. The treaty was ratified by a...
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Baghdad Jews Have Become a Fearful Few
BAGHDAD — “I have no future here to stay.”
Written in broken English but with perfect clarity, the message is a
stark and plaintive assessment from one of the last Jews of Babylon.
The community of Jews in Baghdad is now all but vanished in a land where their heritage recedes back to Abraham of Ur, to Jonah’s prophesying to Nineveh, and...
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Ordinary life in a broken country
Oliver Poole, one of the few Western journalists who stuck it out in Baghdad for most of the five years since the US-led invasion, leaving only in November 2006, reflects on the impact of the war on Iraqi families.
The first time I reached Baghdad it was in the back of an American armoured vehicle, part of the invading force that had crossed the...
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U.S. Begins Erecting Wall in Sadr City
BAGHDAD — Trying to stem the infiltration of militia fighters, American forces have begun to build a massive concrete wall that will partition Sadr City, the densely populated Shiite neighborhood in the Iraqi capital.
The construction, which began Tuesday night, is intended to turn the southern quarter of Sadr City near the international Green...
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A harrowing account from a man the CIA handed over to Jordan
'We'll make you see death'
A harrowing account from a man the CIA handed over to Jordan
smuggled from prison on tiny paper exposes U.S. complicity in torture
Apr. 10, 2008 | On a recent trip to Amman, Jordan,
during a visit to the home of someone who had been
detained by the Jordanian intelligence service in
2002, I was given two very thin...
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