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Cockburn: A Dysfunctional State
Znet Article, October, 27 2009
Patrick Cockburn
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Bombs Will Go Off in Baghdad, Whether the US is There or Not
Cockburn: The Truth About The Afghan Election
Znet Article, August, 23 2009
Patrick Cockburn
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In Iraq and Afghanistan American and British forces became participants in civil wars which their own presence has exacerbated and prolonged. The US and UK governments persistently ignore the extent to which foreign military occupation has destabi...
Cockburn: Elections Shake Kurdistan
Znet Article, July, 27 2009
Patrick Cockburn
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The surprisingly strong showing by a reformist party in Kurdistan elections is shaking the power structure in what has long been the most stable part of Iraq.
Cockburn: Who Killed 120 Civilians? The US Says It's Not a Story
Znet Article, May, 10 2009
Patrick Cockburn
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Herat is cut off from the rest of the planet. This was once one of the great cities of the world, an imperial capital drawing its wealth from trade along the Silk Road with Iran, the rest of Afghanistan and central Asia. Above the 800-year-old mos...
Cockburn: The Present State of Iraq
Znet Article, February, 11 2009
Patrick Cockburn
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An assessment of the election and other recent developments in Iraq
Cockburn: Fatah fears Gaza conflict has put Hamas in the ascendancy
Znet Article, January, 27 2009
Patrick Cockburn
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Palestinian party created by Yasser Arafat suffers sharp decline in support...
Cockburn: Keep Out... A Message for Foreign Leaders
Znet Article, December, 17 2008
Patrick Cockburn
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Official press conferences of any kind seldom produce real news, but the worst are usually those given by foreign leaders on trips abroad in which they and their local ally suggest that they are in control of events and all is going according to p...
Cockburn: It's All Spelled Out in Unpublicized Agreement
Znet Article, December, 12 2008
Patrick Cockburn
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On November 27 the Iraqi parliament voted by a large majority in favor of a security agreement with the US under which the 150,000 American troops in Iraq will withdraw from cities, towns and villages by June 30, 2009 and from all of Iraq by Decem...
Cockburn: Iraq – Violence is down – but not because of America’s ‘surge’
Znet Article, October, 25 2008
Patrick Cockburn
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Ongoing violence is down, but Iraq is still the most dangerous country in the world.
Cockburn: Iraq's Nationalist Surge
Znet Article, August, 08 2008
Patrick Cockburn
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Barack Obama was lucky in the timing of his visit to Iraq. He arrived just after the Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki had rejected a new Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) institutionalizing the US occupation. The Iraqi government is vague a...
Cockburn: Big Oil Returns to Iraq
Znet Article, June, 22 2008
Patrick Cockburn
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Nearly four decades after the four biggest Western oil companies were expelled from Iraq by Saddam Hussein, they are negotiating their return. By the end of the month, Royal Dutch Shell, BP, Exxon Mobil and Total will sign agreements with the Bagh...
Cockburn: US issues threat to Iraq's $50bn foreign reserves in military deal
Znet Article, June, 10 2008
Patrick Cockburn
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The US is holding hostage some $50bn (#25bn) of Iraq's money in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to pressure the Iraqi government into signing an agreement seen by many Iraqis as prolonging the US occupation indefinitely, according to informat...
Cockburn: Secret Plan To Keep Iraq
Znet Article, June, 05 2008
Patrick Cockburn
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A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election in November.
Cockburn: Will Sadr declare open war?
Video, April, 24 2008
Patrick Cockburn
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Assessment of al Sadr...
Cockburn: Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq
Book, April, 11 2008
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Cockburn: Riding the Tiger
Znet Article, April, 08 2008
Patrick Cockburn
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Muqtada al-Sadr is the most important and surprising figure to emerge in Iraq since the U.S. invasion. He is the Messianic leader of the religious and political movement of the impoverished Shia underclass whose lives were ruined by a quarter of a...
Cockburn: Iraq implodes as Shia fights Shia
Znet Article, March, 27 2008
Patrick Cockburn
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A new civil war is threatening to explode in Iraq as American-backed Iraqi government forces fight Shia militiamen for control of Basra and parts of Baghdad.
Cockburn: How to Destroy a Country in Five Years
Znet Article, March, 17 2008
Patrick Cockburn
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"It reminds me of Iraq under Saddam," said a militant opponent of Saddam Hussein angrily to me last week as he watched red-capped Iraqi soldiers close down part of central Baghdad so the convoy of Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki might briefly...
Cockburn: Is the US really bringing stability to Baghdad?
Znet Article, February, 16 2008
Patrick Cockburn
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To judge from the talk in Washington, the 'surge' that put 30,000 more US troops on the ground in Iraq has succeeded in bringing stability to a nation still riven by ethnic, religious and tribal conflict. Life, the Pentagon boasts, is returning to...
Cockburn: Opium Fields Spread Across Iraq as Farmers Try to Make Ends Meet
Znet Article, January, 23 2008
Patrick Cockburn
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The cultivation of opium poppies whose product is turned into heroin is spreading rapidly across Iraq as farmers find they can no longer make a living through growing traditional crops.
