APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula articles from September 2006

APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula archives from September 2006

KURDISTAN - Pax Americana In Iraq Is Changing - Part 3.
September 11, 2006... On Sept. 1 Kurdistan's President Mas'oud Barzani declared that "regions in Iraq's Kurdistan which have been hoisting the Ba'thist flag should lower it and hoist only the Kurdistan flag". His statement was primarily targeted at the eastern part...

KURDISTAN - Shi'ite-Sunni Quarrel On Federalism.
September 11, 2006... Shi'ite MPs are pushing ahead with legislation to provide a mechanism to carve Iraq into largely autonomous regions, angering Sunni Arabs who say Shi'ites should first follow through on a promise to allow federalism to be renegotiated. Allowing...

KURDISTAN - MNF Hand Over Command Of Iraqi Forces.
September 11, 2006... The US-led multinational forces command on Sept. 7 handed over control of Iraq's armed forces to the Baghdad government, a move US officials have hailed as a crucial milestone on the country's difficult road to independence. At a ceremony to...

Shi'ite Splits.(Ayatullah Mahmoud Hassani )
September 11, 2006... Sadr, a popular and young mullah who will cause trouble for the US unless he is killed or sidelined by others, is facing serious rivalry from someone who calls himself Ayatullah and is based in the holy Shi'ite city of Karbala'. This is...

Qaeda Man Captured.
September 11, 2006... National Security Adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubai'e on Sept. 3 summoned reporters to a hastily arranged news conference to announce that al-Qaeda leader Hamed Jum'a Fares Jouri al-Sa'idi had been seized on June 19. Hitherto little heard of, and known...

Emergency Law Extended.
September 11, 2006... The House of Representatives (parliament) on Sept. 5 voted to extend by a month a state of emergency across Iraq which allows the government broad powers to combat the raging insurgency, including declaring curfews, detaining suspects and...