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Gun confiscation in Iraq.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
As U.S. troops in Baghdad began to enforce a new "no-smoking" policy at hospitals, Army spokesman Capt. John Margolis explained to the press that the smoking ban was an example of freedom at work: "This is freedom and freedom can mean different things, and in this case freedom means we are going to have to enforce our values on them."
Banning public smoking is hardly the only example of Iraqis being forced to be "free" at the point of U.S. bayonets. As previously reported in these pages, coalition military forces have conducted numerous weapons collection and "buy-back" operations. While Saddam Hussein was a corrupt thug capable of inflicting creative tortures on those who provoked his malevolent attention, he permitted his subjects to own weapons, including fully automatic rifles and grenades. This is changing, now that Iraq is "free."
General Thamer Saadoun, commander of the greater Baghdad police force, assembled 650 officers after ...
- Baghdad's Wissam al-Majd team player Thamer al-Majd waits for...
- Picture from: Getty Images AHMAD AL-RUBAYE July 30, 2009 700+ words
...Getty Images 07-30-2009 Baghdad's Wissam al-Majd team player Thamer al-Majd waits for... Full Size JPG (2725 KB) Baghdad's Wissam al-Majd team player Thamer al-Majd waits for a team mate prior to their match at the Shaab indoor...
- New lupus study findings recently were published by M. Thamer and...
- Newspaper article from: Biotech Week April 22, 2009 700+ words
...estimated higher hazard ratios at all dose levels," wrote M. Thamer and colleagues (see also Lupus). The researchers concluded...2009;36:560-4; doi: 10.3899/jrheum.080828)'." Thamer and colleagues published their study in the Journal of Rheumatology...
- Iraq - Thamer Al-Ghadhban.
- Newspaper article from: APS Review Downstream Trends May 25, 2009 700+ words
A former oil minister and now senior adviser to PM Nuri al-Maleki, Thamer al-Ghadhban is a secular Shi'ite technocrat having worked at the Ministry of Oil (MoO) for many years before the US-led...
- IRAQ - Thamer Al-Ghadhban.
- Newspaper article from: APS Review Downstream Trends May 21, 2007 700+ words
A former oil minister and now senior adviser to PM Nouri al-Maliki, Thamer al-Ghadhban is a secular Shi'ite technocrat having worked at the Oil Ministry for many years before the US-led invasion...
- Iraqi Oil CEO Seeks Interim Production Targets.(Thamer al-Ghadban)
- Newspaper article from: The Oil Daily Husari, Ruba May 6, 2003 700+ words
BAGHDAD -- The new chief executive of the Iraqi oil sector, Thamer al-Ghadban, issued instructions to his staff Sunday to draw up an accelerated plan setting oil production targets for an interim...
- On the record with Iraq's top oil official, Thamer al-Ghadban.
- Newspaper article from: Petroleum Intelligence Weekly June 9, 2003 700+ words
Who Thamer al-Ghadban is: I'm not the prime minister of Iraq. I'm not the minister of oil. I'm the chief executive, heading an...
- Iraqi sees more openness.(Top Briefs)(Thamer al-Ghadban)(Brief article)
- Newspaper article from: The Oil Daily November 9, 2005 700+ words
Former Iraqi oil minister Thamer al-Ghadban said Tuesday he is confident that the new Iraqi government which will be elected in December would be ready and willing...
- IRAQ - Nov 8 - Two Defence Lawyers In Saddam Trial Shot.(Adil Al Zubeidi,...
- Newspaper article from: APS Diplomat Recorder November 12, 2005 700+ words
...Adil Al Zubeidi was killed when the two lawyers' car came under fire in the western Baghdad district of Hay al-Adil, while Thamer Hamoud al-Khuzaie was wounded. Both men were on a team defending Saddam's brother Barzan Al Tikriti and former VP Taha...
