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Iraq’s Al Maliki continues to insist bogus device detects IEDs
Special to WorldTribune.com BAGHDAD -- Iraq, in wake of a British court ruling, still insists that the thousands of British-origin fake bomb detectors remain effective. The government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki continues to claim that the ADE-651 hand-held device can actually detect bombs. The claims have come from Al Maliki as well as senior ministers in his Cabinet amid the ...
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What Will Arrested Development Be Without the Iraq War
Within its many layers of jokes, meta-jokes, cultural references and series-long gags that made "Arrested Development" the beloved and recently resuscitated show it is today, the Iraq War provided a great deal of material for the ...
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Attack in Baghdad Brothel Kills 12 Three More Killed in Mosul
Baghdad, May 22 (Prensa Latina) The epicenter of violence in Iraq today is located in the most unexpected place, a brothel, where unknown men shot and killed seven women and five men today, the Interior Ministry reported. The attackers arrived at the brothel at noon, and without saying a word opened fire using light-duty rifles and then left in an unknown direction, noted the report, which said ...
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Iraqs demand for Hello Kitty keeps one Aleppo factory open as others close doors
Aleppo was once the economic heart of Syria, with factories ringing the city. But war destruction and a lack of electricity and materials has caused most of them to shut ...
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BP Chevron Total and other major oil firms seek new terms in Iraq
Iraq are negotiating to revise their contracts with the government, as new production targets undermine the profitability of their operations. Iraq's government earlier this year revised down its national oil output targets to 9.5 million barrels per day (bpd) by 2020, up from about 3 million bpd today, as part of a new blueprint for the development of its energy sector. The new strategy ...
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Iraq - Iraqi journalist threatened for reporting on corruption
Iraqi authorities must launch an investigation into a May 14 episode in which a group of armed men raided the home of a journalist and briefly abducted his brother. The journalist, Azhar Shallal, had recently written about alleged corruption.The assailants, discovering Shallal was not home, kidnapped his brother and interrogated him for a few hours, news ...
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