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… market. While tensions have risen over the past two years, the triggers for recent eruptions are clear. Prime Minister Noun al-Maliki, a Shiite, had the HOUSE OVERSIGHT 028742 bodyguards of Finance Minister Rafie al-Issawi, who is Sunni, arrested for alleged terrorist activities...

…h Israel's refusal to negotiate with a Palestinian government that includes Hamas — unless that terrorist group first renounces violence, accepts Israel and supports prior agreements. The current position of the Israeli government is to invite the Palestinian authority to begin n...

bodyguards of Finance Minister Rafie al-Issawi, who is Sunni, arrested for alleged terrorist activities on Dec. 20 — almost exactly one year after he ordered the arrest of Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi’s security detail. Hashimi fled to Turkey and is unlikely to return s...

bodyguards of Finance Minister Rafie al-Issawi, who is Sunni, arrested for alleged terrorist activities on Dec. 20 — almost exactly one year after he ordered the arrest of Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi’s security detail. Hashimi fled to Turkey and is unlikely to return s...

Article 4. Asia Times Show goes on in Iraq's political circus Sami Moubayed May 28, 2011 -- DAMASCUS - Iraq has been absent from the world's radar since upheaval rocked the Arab world in January, toppling the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt and sending shockwaves through Bahrain...

…units to protect him and the council from terrorist operations. Because of so much deliberate delay, Allawi recently announced that he was no longer interested in the offer, and that he too would back out on his agreement with Maliki and call for early elections. If that happen...

…ni political leaders, including Issawi, parliamentary speaker Osama al-Nujaifiand Anbari tribal leader Ahmed abu Rishaannounced their intention to form their own coalition. In short, Iraqi politics was re-fragmenting along sectarian and ethnic lines even before the protests began...

Al-Qaeda in Iraq has already taken advantage of this situation through its front group, the Islamic State of Iraq, which deployed combat teams in Fallujah last month that targeted Iraqi army positions and killed several soldiers. The jihadists’ black flags have appeared at Sunni...

and the noun “intelligence” is misleading; to counter that

Maliki has sought to deescalate the conflict and to mollify

Maliki accused his rival of sectarianism and

who rightly saw Maliki's move as sectarian and an assault on

…f AI for society. First, the expectations for so-called artificial intelligence, she says, are often overrated, and the noun “intelligence” is misleading; to counter that, she uses the term “artificial stupidity.” Second, she points out that programmers are now making invisible s...

…nd keep open the channels of knowledge, the flow of information and the right to change my mind. To me, truth is not a noun; it is an active verb, as in “truthing” (or knowing, learning or experiencing). 85 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017172

…ic method, one of his charms is his willingness to be wrong. Of a recent piece entitled “What Is Information?” he has announced, “I stand by it, but it’s under revision. I’m already moving beyond it and realizing there’s a better way of tackling some of these issues.” He will mos...