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Iraq: l’affluenza al voto ha raggiunto un solido 62%
Published: 09/03/201009/03/2010
Original Version: Turnout for Iraq election solid at 62 percent
L’alta affluenza alle urne, del tutto inaspettata alla vigilia, testimonia la volontà degli iracheni di uscire da anni di guerra e di tragedie; il panorama politico post-elettorale si prospetta tuttavia estremamente…
Gli iracheni ignorano le violenze e vanno a votare. Ma il difficile arriva adesso
Published: 09/03/201009/03/2010
Original Version: Iraqis Ignore Violence and Vote. Now the Hard Part
Rispetto alle elezioni appena concluse, il periodo postelettorale iracheno sarà ancora più denso di incertezze; qualunque direzione prenderà l’Iraq, sia che vada verso una maggiore centralizzazione sia che vada verso…
La politica sciita e le elezioni in Iraq: prepararsi alla vittoria ed alla battaglia successiva
Published: 06/03/201006/03/2010
Original Version: Shi’i Politics: Preparing for Victory and for the Next Battle
L’ultimo anno prima delle elezioni del 7 marzo in Iraq ha visto la nascita di nuove coalizioni all’interno del fronte sciita iracheno; alla luce dei complessi nuovi equilibri che…
Iraq’s election, the future of Iraq, and the Kurdish stand
Published: 06/03/2010All the indicators clearly show that post-Saddam Iraq is anything but a democratic state.
Former Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani stated that the forthcoming parliamentary elections, scheduled to be held on March 7, are very important for Iraq…
Elezioni in Iraq: il punto di vista iraniano
Published: 05/03/201005/03/2010
Original version: The Iranian dimension
La priorità iraniana in Iraq e in Medio Oriente è sostenere l’antiamericanismo, non lo sciismo – scrive l’accademico iraniano Sadegh Zibakalam
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E’ opinione comune tra molti esperti e osservatori dell’Iran che i leader islamici iraniani desiderino assistere…
Early voting begins in Iraq (video)
Published: 05/03/201005/03/2010 – Early voting has begun in Iraq’s parliamentary elections.
Security personnel, detainees and hospital patients were among those allowed to vote ahead of Sunday’s election, when most Iraqis will cast their ballots.
Security is tight after Wednesday’s suicide bomb attack in the city of Baquba, which killed at least 32 people (al-Jazeera English)
Suspicions swell as Iraq elections near
Published: 05/03/2010DAMASCUS – The Iraqi government is printing 26 million ballots for the March 7 elections, nearly 35% more than are needed for all eligible voters. Several contesting parties are crying foul play, claiming that the extra 7 million ballots will…
Elections in Iraq overshadowed by the US-Iran Confrontation
Published: 03/03/2010
The first half of 2009 was relatively quiet in Iraq. The main events were the January provincial elections, the withdrawal of US troops from Iraqi cities at the end of June, and a substantial drop in violence throughout the country.
The…
Elezioni irachene all’ombra dello scontro USA-Iran
Published: 03/03/2010
La prima metà del 2009 era stata relativamente tranquilla per l’Iraq. Episodi salienti erano stati le elezioni provinciali di gennaio, il ritiro delle truppe americane dalle città irachene alla fine di giugno, ed una sensibile diminuzione della violenza nel paese.
Le…
Scontro USA-Iran in Iraq
Published: 03/03/201025/02/2010
Original Version: US vs Iran in Iraq
Il 18 febbraio, l’ambasciatore americano Christopher Hill ha fatto presente che potrebbero volerci mesi affinché si formi un nuovo governo a Baghdad dopo le elezioni previste per il 7 marzo in Iraq, e che…
Un regime settario nichilista precipiterà l’Iraq nell’abisso più profondo
Published: 03/03/201018/02/2010
Original Version: نظام طائفي عدمي… سيغرق العراق في هاوية أعمق
La politica irachena non aveva fatto in tempo ad uscire dalla crisi della legge elettorale che è stata coinvolta in una crisi più profonda e più grave, dopo che i governanti…
Elezioni irachene: soldi stranieri gestiscono la campagna elettorale
Published: 03/03/201025/02/2010
Original Version: انتخابات العراق: أموال خارجية تدير الحملات الانتخابية
Come potranno essere indipendenti le tue decisioni, se prendi denaro da qualcuno per finanziare la tua campagna elettorale? Questo interrogativo viene posto da cittadini e politici iracheni, ma anche da coloro che…
La democrazia irachena: non così sanguinosa come ai tempi della guerra, ma ancora caotica
Published: 03/03/201023/02/2010
Original Version: Not as bloody as war but still messy: Iraqi democracy
L’Iraq viene sempre più spesso definito “il conflitto dimenticato” a causa del fatto che l’attenzione e le risorse degli Stati Uniti si sono spostate verso altri teatri, compreso l’Afghanistan.…
L’Unione Patriottica del Kurdistan: rinascita o sopravvivenza?
Published: 03/03/201024/02/2010
Original Version: Patriotic Union of Kurdistan: Revival or Mere Survival?
Mentre tutte le fazioni politiche irachene sono in competizione in vista delle elezioni parlamentari del 7 marzo, nel Kurdistan iracheno la concorrenza interna è particolarmente intensa. Soprattutto per l’Unione Patriottica del…
Iraqi elections – more foreign than domestic interest
Published: 03/03/2010There are many claims and complaints that external elements are trying to manipulate the coming elections in Iraq. Some of these are substantiated while others are made for propaganda purposes. That there are strong external influences is beyond doubt. Some…
Head to head in Iraq
Published: 03/03/2010Parliamentary elections in any country tend to be influenced by local issues and concerns and sometimes by personalities. While politics is more complicated than that, voters still tend to give their votes to the candidates they trust and will serve…
The main issues facing Iraq’s next government
Published: 03/03/2010Iraqis vote in an election on March 7 seen as a test of Iraq’s young and tenuous democracy, its ability to provide security, and the prospects for reconciliation between warring factions after years of violence.
The next government faces a raft…
Iraq’s Refugee Crisis
Published: 03/03/2010Psychological distress among Iraqis is on the rise. Though normalcy has returned to a large extent and the country is picking up gradually, the issue of displaced persons is yet to be resolved. According to estimates, millions of Iraqis are…
145 candidates ineligible because of alleged Baathist ties, Iraq says
Published: 14/02/2010BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials announced Saturday that 145 candidates will be barred from participating in parliamentary elections next month after an appellate court ruled that their alleged ties to Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party make them ineligible.
The court reinstated 26 candidates…
Blair’s arrogant intransigence on Iraq is reminiscent of the colonial and imperial era
Published: 06/02/2010If it proved anything, the testimony of former British prime minister Tony Blair before the Chilcot Iraq Inquiry last week reveals that we are reliving the mediaeval age of discovery and colonial conquest. Blair’s account of the developments leading to…
Bombs Rock Baghdad As “Chemical Ali” Hanged (video)
Published: 26/01/201026/01/2010 – Suicide blasts outside hotels popular with Westerners killed dozens of people in Baghdad Monday, according to Iraqi officials. The explosions hit just before the announcement came that Saddam Hussein’s cousin was hanged (AP)
‘Chemical Ali’ executed in Iraq after Halabja ruling
Published: 25/01/2010Ali Hassan al-Majid, a former Iraqi official known as “Chemical Ali”, has been executed by hanging, a government spokesman has announced.
Majid, an enforcer in Saddam Hussein’s regime and his cousin, had earlier been sentenced to death four times for genocide…
Iraq – il ritorno del “saddamismo”
Published: 25/01/201025/01/2010
Original Version: The Return of “Saddamism”
La messa al bando di centinaia di candidati alle prossime elezioni del 7 marzo, in massima parte sunniti, nel corso della cosiddetta campagna di debaathificazione in atto nel paese, spinge il giornalista Houssam Itani a…
Il pericolo dei mercenari in Iraq e in Afghanistan
Published: 16/01/201016/01/2010
Original Version: The danger of hired guns
Si prevede che i contractor della sicurezza privata andranno a costituire circa metà della presenza militare americana in Afghanistan, ma gli Stati Uniti sono ancora in grado di controllarli?
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Diciassette civili iracheni vennero uccisi a…
Il caso per la messa al bando del DTP
Published: 23/12/200907/12/2009
Original Version: DTP closure case
Il 20 novembre 2007, presso la Corte Costituzionale è cominciato un dibattimento sulla messa al bando del Partito della società democratica (Demokratik Toplum Partisi– DTP). L’8 dicembre 2009, la Corte Costituzionale si riunirà per emettere il…
Iraq – Surprises aplenty in selloff
Published: 18/12/2009The distinguishing feature of Iraq’s auction of oil rights this weekend is the relative absence of American companies, in contrast to five weeks ago, when US firm ExxonMobil and Anglo-Dutch Shell signed an agreement to develop the West Qurna Phase…
Siccità: la catastrofe ambientale dell’Iraq
Published: 17/12/200917/12/2009
Original Version: Drought hits Iraq
La siccità e le dissennate politiche idriche dei paesi confinanti con l’Iraq stanno riducendo alla sete questo paese, determinando una situazione ambientale ed umanitaria gravissima – riferisce il corrispondente Salah Hemeid
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Per secoli, gli iracheni hanno solo…
Le compagnie USA restano indietro nella corsa al petrolio iracheno
Published: 14/12/200914/12/2009
Original Version: U.S. firms lag in bids for Iraqi oil
Nell’asta che in questo fine settimana ha aggiudicato i più importanti contratti petroliferi degli ultimi anni in Iraq le compagnie americane hanno avuto un ruolo inaspettatamente marginale – riferisce il corrispondente…
Iraq war – Plank by plank, Blair’s case collapses
Published: 14/12/2009A whitewash, a cover-up, “an establishment stitch-up”, as David Cameron puts it: never has any investigation been so damned in advance as the Chilcot inquiry. And its composition did not suggest any lively zeal to expose the iniquity of the…
U.S. firms lag in bids for Iraqi oil
Published: 13/12/2009BAGHDAD — Chinese, Russian and European companies won the right this weekend to develop major oil fields in Iraq, while U.S. firms made a paltry showing at auctions that represent the first major incursion of foreign oil companies into Iraq…
Drought hits Iraq
Published: 12/12/2009For centuries, Iraqis only needed to dig small channels and use simple pumps to irrigate the green fields of Iraq that span tens of thousands of acres of fertile land. The ancient Greeks and Romans called the region now occupied…
Clear losers and winners in Baghdad
Published: 12/12/2009DAMASCUS – In the mid-1970s, Syrian playwright Mohammad al-Maghout authored a beautiful scene about accountability in the Arab world. In it, the mayor promises his people serious reform and change, sacking the director of real estate from his post and…
Iraq – One step forward
Published: 12/12/2009Iraq’s parliament on Sunday approved plans to hold national elections early next year that are seen as an essential step towards political reconciliation and as paving the way for the country’s full sovereignty after the withdrawal of US troops by…
Iraq: elections at an impasse?
Published: 03/12/2009For weeks, feuding Iraqi sectarian and ethnic groups have been wrangling over a new election law that would clear the way for Iraq’s second parliamentary elections since the downfall of the Saddam Hussein regime in the US-led invasion of 2003.…
Il compromesso iracheno permette le elezioni, ma le tensioni curde rimangono
Published: 11/11/200911/11/2009
Original Version: Iraq Compromise Allows Elections, but Kurdish Tensions Remain
A seguito delle pressioni americane, il parlamento iracheno ha approvato una nuova legge elettorale che permetterà lo svolgimento delle elezioni il prossimo gennaio, ma il nodo di Kirkuk, la città ricca…
Iraq Compromise Allows Elections, But Kurdish Tensions Remain
Published: 10/11/2009Behind-the-scenes U.S. pressure has finally forced Iraq’s leaders to accept a political compromise, with Sunday’s vote in the Iraqi parliament to adopt an electoral law setting rules for a national election in January — and potentially clearing the path to…
Iraq passes election law (video)
Published: 09/11/200909/11/2009 – The Iraqi parliament has passed a long-delayed law that will clear the way for national elections in January.
The bill had stalled over how voting would be handled in Kirkuk, an oil rich city in the country’s north claimed by Iraq’s Kurds and Arabs (al-Jazeera English)
Iraqi parliament passes election law after reaching deal on Kirkuk
Published: 09/11/2009BAGHDAD — Iraqi lawmakers passed an election law Sunday night, overcoming a weeks-long impasse and averting a constitutional crisis that threatened to delay the U.S. troop drawdown.
The vote was held during a rare evening session preceded by intense lobbying efforts…
Iraq bombers seek to reverse progress
Published: 27/10/2009US and Iraqi investigators in Baghdad are focusing their attention on two possible culprits for Sunday’s bombings, which left more than 155 people dead.
They believe the attacks bear the hallmarks of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and Baathists who were loyal to…
Too early for U.S. to withdraw from Iraq? (video)
Published: 27/10/200927/10/2009 – This week’s explosions in Baghdad were just the latest in an attempt to derail upcoming January elections and plunge the country back into sectarian violence. Analyst Raed Jarrar says that the bombings are a clear indication that it is too early for the U.S. to withdraw from Iraq (Russia Today)
Il suicidio del processo politico in Iraq è solo questione di tempo
Published: 27/10/200927/10/2009
Original Version: نتحار العملية السياسية في العراق مسألة وقت لا اكثر
I terribili attentati che hanno colpito la “protettissima” zona verde a Baghdad (il cuore stesso del potere politico in Iraq), ed il clima generale che si respira nel paese,…
Sunnis present a new face in Iraq
Published: 24/10/2009DAMASCUS – The Iraqi Accordance Front (IAF), the largest Sunni coalition in Iraq, is promising its constituency a major breakthrough in the parliamentary elections set for January.
Last weekend, the Front announced the formation of an all-Sunni coalition that plans to…
Turchi e curdi: rompere i vecchi tabù
Published: 21/10/200901/10/2009
Original Version: Breaking old taboos
Gli sforzi del partito turco al governo, il partito “Giustizia e Sviluppo” (AKP), per rompere i vecchi tabù e risolvere la questione curda in Turchia sono di portata storica, e senza precedenti. Nelle democrazie moderne –…
I ladri di Baghdad
Published: 19/10/200919/10/2009
Original Version: The thieves of Baghdad
All’ombra di un governo debole e corrotto, potenti gruppi mafiosi prosperano nel “nuovo” Iraq – scrive l’analista britannico James Denselow
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Nell’ultimo mese, numerosi incidenti di elevato impatto hanno evidenziato quello che il General Maggiore Qassim al-Moussawi,…
The thieves of Baghdad
Published: 15/10/2009In the past month several high-profile incidents have highlighted what Major General Qassim al-Moussawi, the chief Iraqi military spokesman in Baghdad, described as the outbreak of “a frenzy of violent crime” in Iraq. Writing in the Times, Richard Kerbaj explained…
Kurdish lessons leave Iraqi Arabs cold
Published: 04/10/2009BAGHDAD – Baghdad teenager Amir Muayyad returned from a holiday in northern Iraq with a couple of words of Kurdish to share with his friends. “I was passing through an area and heard its name by chance – Swara Tukah,”…
Le prossime elezioni irachene e la fragilità curda
Published: 01/10/200901/10/2009
Original Version: Iraqi general election and Kurdish fragility
In vista delle elezioni parlamentari irachene del prossimo gennaio, si sta infiammando il dibattito politico all’interno della regione autonoma del Kurdistan iracheno; al centro della discussione è la questione dell’unità politica dei curdi.…
Iraqi general election and Kurdish fragility
Published: 23/09/2009There is going to be a general parliamentary election in Iraq in January 2010.
This election is as crucial as the first-ever free election in Iraq in 2005 following the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime by U.S. occupation of Iraq in…
“Perchè ho lanciato quella scarpa” – parla il giornalista iracheno che prese di mira Bush
Published: 21/09/200921/09/2009
Original Version: Why I threw the shoe
Muntazer al-Zaidi è stato liberato la scorsa settimana dopo aver trascorso nove mesi in carcere per aver lanciato le sue scarpe contro l’ex presidente americano George Bush durante una conferenza stampa. Nel seguente articolo…
Why I threw the shoe
Published: 20/09/2009am free. But my country is still a prisoner of war. There has been a lot of talk about the action and about the person who took it, and about the hero and the heroic act, and the symbol and…
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