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	<title>Future Atlas &#187; Iraq</title>
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		<title>Iraq to Limit Internet Freedom?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/06/iraq-to-limit-internet-freedom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/06/iraq-to-limit-internet-freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iraq is planning to clamp down on the Internet, raising concerns that it will revert to a restrictive approach more typical of the region.  Iraq currently has many Internet providers and hundreds of Internet cafes.  
A government official told the Associated Press that &#8220;All Web sites that glorify terrorism and incite violence and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kurdish Faultline Nearly Breaks</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/21/the-kurdish-faultline-nearly-breaks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/21/the-kurdish-faultline-nearly-breaks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week the threat of war in Iraq between Arabs and Kurds was made explicit, with the Washington Post reporting that Kurdish officials are saying that &#8220;Iraq&#8217;s autonomous Kurdish region and the Iraqi government are closer to war than at any time since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.&#8221;
Kurdish and Iraqi army units have engaged in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq: The Kurdish Faultline</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/13/iraq-the-kurdish-faultline/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/13/iraq-the-kurdish-faultline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Self-determination]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Iraq may still destabilize, and one of the potential faultlines became clearer two weeks ago, when the Iraqi Kurdish parliament passed a new constitution for the region, in defiance of the central government and American pressure.
The New York Times writes that the action suggests the level of mistrust between Kurdistan and the central government, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Iraq Isn&#8217;t Over&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/28/iraq-isnt-over/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/28/iraq-isnt-over/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Ricks, author of the acclaimed Fiasco, argued recently in the Washington Post that US involvement in Iraq may be only half over.
&#8220;A smaller but long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq is probably the best we can hope for,&#8221; he writes, because Iraq is more fragile than it now seems. 

Iraqi factions will likely try [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq: still in limbo</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/11/26/iraq-still-in-limbo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/11/26/iraq-still-in-limbo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Nov. 19th New Yorker, John Lee Anderson concludes that &#8220;Iraq’s future, for the moment, is in limbo. The best one can say, perhaps, is that the U.S. has bought or borrowed a little space to work with.&#8221;
This is partly because the cause of the current decline in violence is not at all clear:

The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq: a disastrous discontinuity?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/10/31/iraq-a-disastrous-discontinuity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/10/31/iraq-a-disastrous-discontinuity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post reported yesterday that there is a way for things to suddenly get much worse in Iraq: a giant dam could collapse, releasing a 143-square-mile reservoir on the Tigris River.  This would destroy much of the city of Mosul, which lies downstream, and could drown as many as 500,000 people.
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No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq: &#8220;bottom-up partition&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/30/iraq-bottom-up-partition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/30/iraq-bottom-up-partition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Washington Post earlier this month, Jackson Diehl argued that events in Iraq are pushing the country to a kind of solution:
This is a loose confederation of at least three self-governing regions, each with its own government, courts and security forces; and a weak federal government whose main function will be redistributing oil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq&#8217;s slow self-partition</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/08/31/iraqs-slow-self-partition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/08/31/iraqs-slow-self-partition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Iraqi Red Crescent relief organization and the UN have found that Iraqis continue to become internal refugees on a large scale&#8211;possibly 100,000 a month&#8211;and displacement may have accelerated since the US troop buildup began in February 2007, the International Herald Tribute reports.
For the moment, this vast movement of people is draining ethnically mixed areas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Terrorism: bases and nukes</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/08/21/terrorism-bases-and-nukes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/08/21/terrorism-bases-and-nukes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sudan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foreign Policy magazine and the Center for American Progress polled 108 foreign affairs experts across the political spectrum about terrorism and related issues.
Asked what country is likely to be the next al Qaeda stronghold, the experts said:

Pakistan &#8212; 35%
Iraq &#8212; 22%
Somalia &#8212; 11%
Sudan &#8212; 8%
Afghanistan &#8212; 7%

The experts also put Pakistan at the head of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wargaming Iraq&#8217;s future</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/07/28/wargaming-iraqs-future/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/07/28/wargaming-iraqs-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 22:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post reported last week reported on wargames of Iraq&#8217;s future conducted for the American military.
The games suggested three outcomes:
Majority Shiites would drive Sunnis out of ethnically mixed areas west to Anbar province. Southern Iraq would erupt in civil war between Shiite groups. And the Kurdish north would solidify its borders and invite a [...]]]></description>
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