 RFE/RL Iraq Report 10/27/2010 7:58:32 PM A review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about Iraq |
 Iraqi Bloc 'Ready To Compromise' In Talks Former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's Al-Iraqiyah bloc, which won the most seats in the March parliamentary elections, says it is prepared to compromise for the sake of ending the deadlock and forming a new government. More  Transparency Int'l Lists Most Corrupt Somalia has been judged the world's most corrupt country byTransparency International (TI), while Iraq and Afghanistan rank among the world's most corrupt nations. More  How WikiLeaks Makes Confrontation With Iran More Likely WikiLeaks will indeed "change" opinions. But they should not alter them in the pacifistic way Assange desires. More  Iraqi Death Sentence For Tariq Aziz Tariq Aziz, Saddam Hussein's former right-hand man, has been sentenced to death, along with two other top Hussein aides, for persecuting members of religious parties in the 1980s. More  Iraqi Officials Vow To Probe Abuse Cases Detailed In WikiLeaks Files Iraqi officials have vowed to investigate all cases where its police and soldiers are believed to have committed abuses in the country's sectarian war. The pledge came after the release of nearly 400,000 classified U.S. files by the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks. More  Sadrists Dismiss U.S. Fear Over Rise A top U.S. commander says Washington has an obvious interest in seeing a representative government formed in Iraq soon without external interference. More  Iraqi Official Blames Allawi's Bloc An Iraqi government official says factions within former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's Al-Iraqiyah bloc are to blame for the failure to form a new coalition government the past seven months. More  Iraq Official Opposes Ethnicity Question An Iraqi official says there is a "general inclination" to not ask people about their ethnicity in the national census scheduled for December 5. More  Iraq's Kurds Emerge As Kingmakers As Iran Tries To Flex Its Muscle Iraq's Kurds have invited the leaders of the country's other main political blocs to a roundtable discussion aimed at breaking an impasse that has seen the fragile country without a government for seven months. More  U.S. Hails Improved Kirkuk Security A U.S. commander in Iraq says security in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk has recently improved with cooperation between the Iraqi Army and police and U.S. forces, setting the stage for a successful census to be taken in the multiethnic region. More |
