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  • Iraq urged to cut public spending

    The International Monetary Fund has urged Iraq to build up its weak fiscal buffers, as the oil producer's economy remains highly vulnerable to the oil market, AFP has reported. Iraq has maintained macroeconomic stability "in a difficult security and political environment," the IMF executive board said. "Risks to the macroeconomic outlook remain high," the board said, ...

  • Brothel shootout in Baghdad leaves 12 dead

    Unknown gunmen stormed a brothel in Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 12 people, security and medical officials told AFP.At least seven women and five men were shot in the suburb of Zayouna, which is renowned for its redlight district.There is no further information on the identity of the ...

  • Iraqi PM orders army shuffle to combat violence

    By-standers look at the wreck of a bomb used in a sectarian suicide attack in Baghdad. AFP Photo Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki has called for serious change in the senior ranks of Iraq's armed ...

  • Iraqi Police Gunmen Kill at Least 12 in Baghdad Brothel

    Civilians gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in Kamaliyah neighborhood, a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, ...

  • Iraqi government still using bomb detectors it knows are faulty

    In 2008 or so, magical ADE651 "bomb detectors" began turning up at Iraqi-managed checkpoints. Almost immediately, people I knew who seemed to know something about explosives were laughing about them. Even people like me who knew nothing about explosives were laughing about them, since they looked like old television antennas sticking out of the spout of a trigger-handled garden hose - ...

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The Killer Inside Me

The Killer Inside Me

Of all the films based on the novels of postwar hard-boiled novelist Jim Thompson, whose body of work Meredith Brody described in Film Comment as the most disturbing and the most darkly sadistic of the tough-guy writers, Michael Winterbottoms The Killer Inside Me ...

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  • The Tyrant of ash-Sham and the Iranian Regime and its Hizb in Lebanon Repeat Hulagus Destruction of Baghdad in Qusair

    Approximately seven centuries ago in the year 656 AH, Hulagu Khan destroyed Baghdad after a severe siege. People were massacred in large numbers, houses and mosques were demolished, books and libraries were burned, and crops and livestock were destroyed. The Tigris River, penetrating Baghdad, was witness to this destruction as its water was diluted with human blood and the ink from books. Today ...

  • BP to invest $2.85bn in Iraqs largest oilfield

    Oil major BP has allocated $2.85 billion to develop Iraq's Rumaila oilfield in 2013, up from $2.2 billion last year, the head of the joint management committee for the field told Reuters On ...

  • Iraq gets final helicopter delivery

    The U.S. Army reports its Project Office for Armed Scout Helicopters has completed deliveries of 407 Bell Helicopters to Iraq. The final delivery consisted of three aircraft, bringing the number of armed 407s handed over to Iraq by the Army's Redstone Arsenal to 24. "First, our Army is providing an armed scout capability to our allies in the country of Iraq," said Lt. Col. Chris ...

  • Iraq may meet about 50 increase in world oil exports through 2030 Nahyan

    WAM Abu Dhabi, 22nd May 2013 (WAM) - Given Iraq's huge oil and gas reserves and rapid development of upstream and downstream sectors, the UAE Minister of Culture, Youth and Social Development, Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, expected Iraq to meet about 50% increase in oil exports in the world from today through 2030. Delivering the keynote address to Abu Dhabi to a key conference ...

  • 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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