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Iraqi President to Get Care in Germany - New York Times Thu, 20 Dec 2012 02:27:54 GMT

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Iraqi President to Get Care in Germany
New York Times
BAGHDAD — Jalal Talabani, the president of Iraq, will be flown to Germany for medical treatment for a stroke suffered this week, officials said on Wednesday. The president, 79, was said to be in “stable” condition, and the decision was announced after ...
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Iraq, Kurds, Turks and oil - The Economist Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:37:18 GMT

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Iraq, Kurds, Turks and oil
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SNAKING their way from Kirkuk, a city 240 kilometres (150 miles) north of Baghdad, through Kurdistan and across Turkey's eastern region of Anatolia to the Mediterranean are pipes that once carried 1.6m barrels a day (b/d) of Iraqi oil to the global ...
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Iraq war vet overcame stumbles to thrive at TCC - The Virginian-Pilot Thu, 20 Dec 2012 03:55:46 GMT

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Iraq war vet overcame stumbles to thrive at TCC
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At 28 years old, he's a former Marine, an Iraq war veteran, and now a student at Old Dominion University with dreams of becoming a school counselor. "I think he'll be a fantastic counselor because he's been there," said Donna Gill, in-school suspension ...

Iraq's President Talabani to be transferred to Germany after stroke - Reuters Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:37:22 GMT

Iraq's President Talabani to be transferred to Germany after stroke
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BAGHDAD Dec 19 (Reuters) - Iraq's President Jalal Talabani is in stable condition and will be transferred to Germany within a day for treatment after suffering a stroke, one of his medical team said on Wednesday. "Most likely he will be transferred ...

Iraq in Retrospect: Kevin Powers' Novel 'The Yellow Birds' - PRI's The World Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:22:04 GMT

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Iraq in Retrospect: Kevin Powers' Novel 'The Yellow Birds'
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Kevin Powers' debut novel is a gripping tale of war and the damage it inflicts The slim work of fiction, “The Yellow Birds” by author Kevin Powers is showing up on lots of “Best of 2012″ book lists. Like the narrator of his story, Powers was a soldier ...

Medical teams in Iraq to help treat Talabani - Yahoo! News (blog) Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:52:39 GMT

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Medical teams in Iraq to help treat Talabani
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Associated Press/Hadi Mizban, File - FILE - In this Aug 17, 2007 file photo, Iraq's President Jalal Talabani talks to reporters in Baghdad, Iraq. The office of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said Tuesday he …more has been admitted to the hospital for ...

CIA “Interrogations” in Iraq: Torture and Rape of Detained Women - Center for Research on Globalization Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:50:13 GMT

CIA “Interrogations” in Iraq: Torture and Rape of Detained Women
Center for Research on Globalization
Kitabat reports on 18 December. The chairman of the Iraqi List, Hamid al-Mutlaq, said in a press conference in Baghdad on 18 December: ” Iraqi prosecutors have submitted today a report to the Chairman of the Iraqi judiciary Medhat al-Mahmoud that ...

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Ex-defence minister and Iraq War opponent dies - The Local.de Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:20:12 GMT

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Ex-defence minister and Iraq War opponent dies
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But he was equally adamant, along with Schröder, in opposing any German involvement in the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, warning that the war was unjustified and risked destabilising the entire region. Struck was the powerful head of the SPD's ...
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Iraq's Ailing President To Be Moved To Germany For Treatment - RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:39:19 GMT

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Iraq's Ailing President To Be Moved To Germany For Treatment
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Talabani founded one of the main Kurdish political parties, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, and became Iraq's first non-Arab president in 2005. Kamran al-Karadaghi, a former aide to Talabani and now an independent writer and commentator in London ...

Iraq President Talabani stable after stroke - Aljazeera.com Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:05:53 GMT

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Iraq President Talabani stable after stroke
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Talabani survived wars, exile and in-fighting in northern Iraq to become the country's first ever Kurdish president a few years after the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. The Iraqi presidency is a largely ceremonial post, though it does ...