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		<title>It is land and not just history that binds us</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/?p=1736</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Few Iraqis recognize the organic connection between the mountains of Kurdistan and southern Iraq.  Many say that Iraq is an artificial state created by the british.  I submit to you that geology supersedes humanity.  Before the last Ice Age ended some 11 to 13 thousand years ago, the sea water level was some 450 feet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11355551&amp;post=1736&amp;subd=britishiraqiforum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do women make you uncomfortable?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All right, I am new to this blog and new to Britain in general. However, I am not new to writing about Iraq. I wrote my master thesis on the recent amendment to the Iraqi Personal Status Law and before that I was writing about the issue of female genital mutilation in Iraq. The women’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11355551&amp;post=1726&amp;subd=britishiraqiforum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Living in a topsy-turvy world</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ali Al-Saffar</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/?p=1712</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It really is a sign of just how skewed our priorities are when a couple of Twitter postings about the Prophet (PBUH) cause more of a stir than the killing of innocent people. Or, as a friend of mine Tweeted &#8220;killing an innocent in the name of my religion is 1000 times more offensive than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11355551&amp;post=1712&amp;subd=britishiraqiforum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Institutionalising identities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mousa Baraka</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/?p=1706</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many are understandably frustrated with the lack of progress in Iraqi politics over the last few weeks. From principled stands and high rhetoric to endless discussions about the possibility and agenda of a national conference. Some might ask, ‘how can Iraqis accept this from their politicians?’ Well in Iraq there is a massively lacklustre attitude [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11355551&amp;post=1706&amp;subd=britishiraqiforum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Iraqis, institutions are stupid</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ali Latif</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/?p=1696</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ali Al-Saffar touched on a fundamental weakness of the Iraqi state at the moment, the lack of robust and independent institutions. Until they become a reality, the state will limp along vulnerable to political swings and sectarian agendas that have become a familiar fixture. Ali was doing so well until he added the throw away [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11355551&amp;post=1696&amp;subd=britishiraqiforum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the institutions, stupid.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ali Al-Saffar</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/?p=1691</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most enduring images of the Arab uprisings so far has been that of Muammar al-Qadhafi being assaulted, and eventually murdered, after his capture. The fact that this was done at the hands of people who were portrayed as being pro-democracy activists captured a lot of the debate surrounding the &#8221;Arab Spring&#8221;—were the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11355551&amp;post=1691&amp;subd=britishiraqiforum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NGO blues</title>
		<link>http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/ngo-blues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ali Latif</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/?p=1683</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So we hear that prominent NGO-funders have fallen foul of the Egyptian authorities recently. Staff of the usual suspects in the forms of NDI, IRI have taken refuge at the US embassy in Cairo prior to an eventual exit. Needless to say a confusing political landscape there hasn&#8217;t helped,  but it has provoked a thought about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11355551&amp;post=1683&amp;subd=britishiraqiforum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Identity and the Iraqi Budget</title>
		<link>http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/identity-and-the-iraqi-budget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mousa Baraka</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/?p=1670</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So now that Iraqiah is back in parliament, focus has turned to the more important issue of the budget. Most of the discussions seem to be focussing on when it will be passed, but very few are talking about what is actually being passed. I saw a copy of a draft budget that went through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11355551&amp;post=1670&amp;subd=britishiraqiforum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Haditha verdict hurts so much</title>
		<link>http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/why-the-haditha-verdict-hurts-so-much/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ali Latif</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/?p=1653</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even by Iraq&#8217;s post-war bloody standards, the Haditha massacre shocked a nation and the world. The cold-blooded killing of 24 civilians by a US army unit epitomised the callous disregard for life that many Iraqis experienced during the years of occupation. This has obviously not registered with either the US justice system nor some cretinous commentators. So for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11355551&amp;post=1653&amp;subd=britishiraqiforum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There is no panacea for Iraq&#8217;s problems</title>
		<link>http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/there-is-no-panacea-for-iraqs-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ali Al-Saffar</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com/?p=1640</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank God for Leslie Gelb, who after an entire three hours back in 2006 found the panacea that would solve Iraq&#8217;s problems; federalism. In an article by Gelb published a couple of weeks ago, he suggests that because &#8220;Shiites, Sunni and Kurds have been at  each other&#8217;s throats for centuries&#8221;, federalism that &#8220;provides ethno-religious groups [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=britishiraqiforum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11355551&amp;post=1640&amp;subd=britishiraqiforum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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