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Case unfolds against Iraqi spy suspect

Informants who pointed out Latchin for American investigators say he was put in a program that spread sleeper agents for Saddam Hussein. He was told to become a U.S. citizen, to spend years hiding in Chicago until summoned to begin spying.In the meantime, he spent. Then he went bankrupt.He has …

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Political future of postwar Iraq

Devolution into federated states (letter, January 13) is an apparently attractive answer, the more so since Iraq is an artificial country, cobbled together from three Turkish provinces containing three substantial ethnic/religious groups each of which detests and distrusts both the others. The catch is that it wouldn’t stop there. The …

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Released archbishop calls for Iraq poll delay

“I don’t think this is the right moment,” he said. “The very first thing we need is security and reconciliation.”The Tablet reports that Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa, 66, was kidnapped from in front of a church in the city and bundled into a car. He was released on Tuesday. The …

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Iraq: Fixing The Middle East (2) – by Orlando Marville

Saddam Hussein is usually portrayed as the villain of the piece. It would be near impossible to defend the man. It would, however, be more than useful to understand what helped him attain the position that he so brutally controlled until the most recent United States and British invasion. During …

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World?s Assyrians savour Swedish soccer saga

  So when it played for a spot in Sweden?s premier division, Ninos Gawrieh and some 30 friends huddled around a television in a house in the Syrian town of Kamishly, cheering it on. Thousands of other people around the world were also watching the game, hoping that the team …

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Violence Continues to Drive Out Christians from Iraq as Election Nears

At a time when the presence of Iraq?s Christian minority could be significant in helping democracy take hold of the war-torn nation, Iraq?s beleaguered Christians continue to flee their country because of attacks and threats, news agencies and persecution watchdogs say. Since the recent wave of church bombings began last …

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