Recently added articles from APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East:
Why US Business Prospects In Iraq Are Not So Promising.
Nov 23, 2009; ... The Baghdad Trade Fair ended on Nov. 10, six years after the US invasion which toppled Saddam's Sunni/Ba'thist dictatorship, and the US was conspicuously absent. That was the power which spent a trillion dollars on the invasion, occupation, and training and equipping Iraqi security forces, ...
Sunni Veto Jeopardises Vote Timeline.(Chronology)
Nov 23, 2009; ... Sunni VP Tareq al-Hashemi on Nov. 18 vetoed a new election law to organise parliamentary polls set for January 2010, throwing it back to a fractious Council of Representatives (parliament) which had spent months haggling over it and threatening to delay further a vote the US military had ...
