APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map articles from March 2006

APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map archives from March 2006

IRAQ - Resurgence In The Shi'ite World - Part 8 - Towards A New Govt.(United Iraqi Alliance)(Brief Article)
March 13, 2006... Iraqi leaders on March 10 overcame the most recent obstacle to forming the first permanent post-invasion government, a seemingly minor but nonetheless bitter disagreement over when the Council of Representatives (parliament) should meet....

IRAQ - The Kirkuk Issue.
March 13, 2006... Saddam's Ba'thist dictatorship enacted a policy of "Arabisation" which drove Kurds and other non-Arabs from Kirkuk and replaced them with settlers, mainly from the Shi'ite south, and made border adjustments to cut the Kurdish population of...

IRAQ - Pandora's Box.
March 13, 2006... When Khalilzad recently said the US had "opened...Pandora's box" by invading Iraq, he was making what the FT on March 11 said "almost the only realistic statement any senior US official has made about the Iraqi situation for a very long time"....

IRAQ - US Report On The Situation.
March 13, 2006... The US State Department on March 8 released a damning report on the state of human rights and the security situation in Iraq, describing a weak and corrupt government with little control over its own murderous security forces in the face of a...

IRAQ - Rumsfeld Says Iraqis Will Handle Any Civil War.(Donald Rumsfeld)(Brief Article)
March 13, 2006... Rumsfeld on March 9 said Iraqi security forces would be responsible for dealing with violence in the country if full-scale civil war broke out. He told the Senate appropriations committee he did not believe Iraq had descended into civil war....