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Tigris and Euphrates destruction

Posted December 15th, 2011 at 03:42 PM by Iraq Bruin
Updated December 15th, 2011 at 03:47 PM by Iraq Bruin

History in the making: watching 2 rivers slowly disappear through calculated human action.

Tigris-Euphrates River Dispute (American University)

Turkey’s Dams Are Violating Human Rights, UN Report Says | Green Prophet

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The UN report notes with alarm that the Turkish government has conducted no assessment of the environmental and social impacts of these dams, perhaps because they mostly affect already marginalized groups:

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Although the vast majority of the affected

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History is complicated

Posted November 4th, 2011 at 12:10 PM by Iraq Bruin

Tags islamist, libya, serbia, syria

Yet, it can be very simple.
SYRIA:
Contradictions have been always the name of the game in politics, allies of yesterday become the enemies of today.
Syria for example, since the good event of Saddam removal in April 2003, that government cooperated with Islamists to destabilize Iraq to the maximum possible degree. [see: Blog Entry]

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Suicide belts by Saddam

Posted January 8th, 2011 at 03:09 PM by Iraq Bruin

Tags iraq, islamist

How the US let al-Qaida get its hands on an Iraqi weapons factory | World news | The Guardian
Going with the fact that Saddam and his deputy Izzat el dury funded the salafi and wahabi Islamists since 1991 in the "Faith" campaign, and despite the Guardian's title, their article has something interesting:

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We told him that we had lost 40,000 tonnes," Ali recalls. "The gunpowder, anything that burned energetically, could be used as an explosive, so you could

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Wikileaks

Posted December 6th, 2010 at 02:06 PM by Iraq Bruin

Tags arab, iraq, wikileaks

Those are the cables (some) from wikileaks

http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics...9&nav_id=71203
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/arti...htrisaari-plan
Alleged links between the
Russian

Russia
government and
organised crime

Organised_crime
.[24] Russia was labelled as a Mafia-state.[129]
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev often acts under the influence of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and "plays Robin to Putin's

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International hypocrisy: Saudi Arabia accepted for U.N. Women board

Posted November 28th, 2010 at 10:50 AM by Iraq Bruin

Tags arab

Iran blocked, but Saudi Arabia accepted for U.N. Women board

So now Saudi Arabia can teach them:

1-Executing/stoning a rape victim.
2-Marrying off your 12 year old daughter to whomever you choose, her opinion does not matter.
3-Not allowing them to drive
4-Treat them like a property.
5-Surf the Internet with a male companion.

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