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September 5th, 2009

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WASHINGTON (AFP) -- The commander of US forces in Iraq on Tuesday predicted it would take "a couple of months" for leaders to form a post-election government but downplayed fears of instability.
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Iraq's March 7 parliamentary elections were a success "organized entirely by the Iraqis and the Iraq security forces," says Brett McGurk, a CFR international affairs fellow who served in Iraq for the National Security Council.
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(VOA) -- Iraq's election commission has postponed announcing initial results from Sunday's parliamentary election because it says it has not finished counting enough votes.
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An Assyrian pastor the Iranian government accused of "converting Muslims" is being tortured in prison and threatened with execution, sources close to the case said.
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Attorney General Eric Holder and others in the Obama administration have advocated trying Khalid Sheik Muhammed, and acquiring intelligence from Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, in the criminal-justice system.
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Published Al-Qaeda Reeling.
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While many are disappointed American turncoat Adam Gadahn was not the al-Qaeda operative arrested in Pakistan, as erroneously reported on Monday, there is still good cause to celebrate: Al Qaeda is on the run.
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Frontpage Interview's guest today is Dave Gaubatz, the first U.S. civilian (1811) Federal Agent deployed to Iraq in 2003. He is the owner of DG Counter-terrorism Publishing.
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Kurdish parties announced majorities for Kurds in Kirkuk and other disputed areas. Several hours after the polling stations closed in Kirkuk city, Kurdish people went on the street to celebrate the victory.
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Another stunning rebuke to Barack Obama: Armenian American groups have for decades sought Congressional recognition as genocide of the murder of just under two million Armenian Christians by the Islamic Ottoman Empire.
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Washington -- International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that the Nigerian military refused to intervene when clearly warned that Muslims were planning to slaughter Christians in the village Dogo Nahawa.
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American Muslims are banned from helping U.S. soldiers deployed in Afghanistan, Iraq and other "Muslim lands," according to a shocking fatwa, or religious decree, recently issued by American-based Islamic jurists.

March 9th

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12:21am via The Assyrian
Chaldean Syriac Assyrian popular council - 10,061

ZOWAA (Assyrian Democratic Party) - 9,189

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My flight had been delayed, so I arrived late to a 2004 academic conference, a law school gab-fest exploring legal issues in the War on Terror. The professor giving the keynote address was well into his remarks when I sheepishly entered the rear of the...

March 8th

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10:51am via The Assyrian
- Al Rafidain (ZOWAA Assyrian Democratic Movement) takes the lead in Dohuk

- Chaldean, Syriac, Assyrian  Popular Council in the lead in Nineveh...
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The first American to be charged with treason since World War II was back in the news Sunday, both for a new videotape he released and for reports of his capture that turned out to be false.
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Plzen, West Bohemia, March 5 (CTK) - An expedition of Czech archaeologists has found remains of an about 150,000-year-old prehistoric settlement in Arbil, north Iraq, which has been the so far oldest uncovered in this part of northern Mesopotamia, team...
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Glenview, ILL -- Iraqis in the Chicago area are eager to vote in their country's parliamentary elections, but they claim election shenanigans prevented many eligible Iraqi citizens from getting to the polls.
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Washington -- International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that yesterday, Nigerian Muslims murdered 500 Christians in village of Dogo Nahawa, near the city of Jos.
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Before the rise of Islam, the Middle East had a wide range of religions and cultures. So much so that it is difficult to imagine the world today without the ideas and beliefs that emerged from there.
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(RFE/RL) -- Iraqis are resting and enjoying a warm and sunny holiday today in much of the country as they await official results of the March 7 parliamentary ballot -- Iraq's second national elections since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime seven...
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It takes a cynical mind not to share in the achievement of Iraq's national elections. Bombs and missiles, al Qaeda threats and war fatigue failed to deter millions of Iraqis of all sects and regions from exercising a right that is rare in the Arab world.
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WASHINGTON (AFP) -- The top US general in Iraq said Monday it could be years before the United States can gauge whether its long military campaign there had achieved any measure of success.
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(CNN) -- Israel may have to retire its title as the only democracy in the Middle East. With Sunday's free and fair national election, Iraq joins the honor roll as one of the very few Islamic democracies.
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Iran's Foreign Ministry on Monday congratulated the Iraqi nation for the high turnout in the parliamentary vote on Sunday, despite threats and "enemy plots.
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Iraq took another major stride Sunday in the elections it held. But the potential benefits to the U.S. from progress there is being squandered by the Obama administration, which remains wedded to a policy of forced estrangement.
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FALLUJA, Iraq -- In this town, nicknamed the City of Mosques, the scratchy loudspeakers of muezzins that once preached resistance to the American occupation implored Sunni Arabs to defy bombs and vote Sunday.
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(Reuters) -- Turnout in Iraq's parliamentary election was 62 percent, higher than in last year's provincial ballot, despite attempts by Sunni Islamist insurgents to disrupt the vote with attacks that killed 39, officials said on Monday.
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At 9 p.m., some four hours after polls closed in Kirkuk on March 7, the sky outside my window starts to echo with fireworks and celebratory gunfire. I am staying in a mixed neighborhood in the center of town, and here both Kurds and some Turkomans have...
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Beirut (AsiaNews) -- On February 20 last, the University of Italian Switzerland, located in Lugano, organized an international meeting on the situation of Muslim women.
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(AINA) -- Fear has gripped the inhabitants of the upper Egyptian village of Sheikh Telada in Samalout, 250 kilometers south of Cairo, as they anticipate collective punishment against them by the village Muslims, in the wake of two sectarian incidents w...

March 7th

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Hundreds of Assyrians have been turned away from voting in Northern Iraq, with the majority of cases reported in Ankawa. 
Its believed that Assyrian communities were turned away from voting  because of the absence of names on the election ...
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We are so proud to have a passport from the most powerful nation in the world,
The United States of America. Sadly, this passport was not considered good enough when Iraqi christians attempted to vote.
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(AFP) -- Top Iraqi opposition leader Iyad Allawi called for a probe into organisers of Sunday's parliamentary election, accusing them of lax procedures and demanding an accurate vote count.
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When millions of Iraqis head to the polls today, they will be standing at a crossroads. The decisions they make at the ballot box will determine whether Iraq is to remain in the grip of an extremist, religious culture of political zealotry, or be led b...
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BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraqis defied insurgents who lobbed hand grenades at voters and bombed a polling station Sunday in an attempt to intimidate those taking part in elections that will determine whether their country can overcome deep sectarian divides as U.
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As Obama administration officials tried in recent weeks to anticipate what could go wrong in Sunday's elections in Iraq, they realized with some relief that they are largely powerless to control what happens.

March 6th

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6:01pm via The Assyrian
There are unconfirmed reports, that Assyrians across the United States will mobilise mass protests across major cities in wake of Assyrian voters being blocked from the Iraqi elections worldwide, mainly in Australia and the US.
More news to ...
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An Iraqi media crew was stopped after Iraqi election officials called in ...
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The Sydney Assyrian community is in uproar over yesterdays attempted blocking of Assyrian votes in Fairfield from the Iraqi elections. Many Assyrians were turned away at polling booths by Iraqi officials because of documentations.  But Assyrians sa...
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