War Every Day (eIraq Blog) Baghdadophobia--and how to know you've got it
Jeff Severns Guntzel, Electronic Iraq (Nov 5, 2008)
"Here's an interesting new disorder for medical science to
investigate," writes an Iraqi employee of the BBC, "Baghdadophobia - an
Iraqi's fear of his own capital city."
News & Analysis Iraqi refugee women and girls in Jordan: “Rape is a death sentence”
Report, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children (Nov 4, 2008)
The Iraqi doctor looked us
straight into the eyes and said "I would rather be dead than tell
anyone I have been raped." If this woman—a highly educated, successful
doctor working for the UN— wouldn't speak out, who would?
Aid & Development Warnings against a large-scale refugee return in Iraq
Report, IRIN (Nov 3, 2008)
The Iraqi government should review its policy of encouraging Iraqi
refugees to return home by offering them free plane or bus tickets,
until it is able to ensure security, local and international NGOs said. "For the time being, the government should take care of the refugees
and meet their daily needs in their host countries until it can secure
suitable life conditions to allow them to go back to their homes," said
Basil al-Azawi, head of the Baghdad-based Commission for Civil Society
Enterprises, an umbrella group of over 1,000 NGOs operating inside and
outside Iraq.
War Every Day (eIraq Blog) A snapshot of Fallujah: Still wrecked, still angry
Jeff Severns Guntzel, Electronic Iraq (Nov 3, 2008)
Not surprisingly, there are still hard feelings towards the United States in Fallujah. Jay Deshmukh, a reporter for AFP, visited the town and writes of a shop owner named Abdullah.
News & Analysis The Map of Electoral Coalitions South of Baghdad Is Taking Shape
Reidar Visser, Historiae (Oct 31, 2008)
After a long series of extensions, it now seems as if the final
deadline for forming coalitions for the next local elections in Iraq
will be on November 2, 2008. The first announcement of coalitions among
the Shiite Islamist parties is one of the indicators that suggest the
coalition-forming process could be coming to an end.
