Iraq Reconstruction News 23 February 2007

Iraq Reconstruction News
23 February 2007


1. GRD Iraq Reconstruction Weekly Update 02/14/07 https://www.rebuilding-iraq.net/pls/portal/url/ITEM/07251F2EFBCA801DE040A8C00B0741F5

2. Iraq Weekly Status Report 21 February 2007 http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/81040.pdf

3. Proposed Iraq Oil Law (translation to English) http://www.freefilehosting.org/public/37070/Iraqi%20Oil%20Law.pdf

4. Iraqi Oil Law (and the Constitution). Here are the comments of an Iraqi oil & gas expert in London to a group of Iraqi technocrats who met in Amman on Saturday to discuss the draft oil law. http://iraqimojo.blogspot.com/2007/02/iraqi-oil-law.html

5. Draft Law on Oil Money Moves to Iraqi Cabinet -- KARABILA, Iraq -- A draft version of the long-awaited law that would govern the development of Iraqi oil fields and the distribution of oil revenues has been submitted to Iraq's cabinet, the first step toward approving the legislation, two members of a senior negotiating committee said this weekend. http://www.aina.org/news/20070219085708.htm

6. Iraq oil law goes to cabinet for approval [JURIST] Iraqi legislators delivered a draft law [JURIST report] to Iraq's cabinet over the weekend which outlines the development and distribution of oil in the country, according to two members of a negotiating committee tasked with developing the resolution.
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2007/02/iraq-oil-law-goes-to-cabinet-for.php

7. Oil, Anbar and the Insurgency. An interview with Colonel John A. Koenig on the prospects of petrolium development in Anbar. http://billroggio.com/archives/2007/02/oil_anbar_and_the_in.php

8. Pentagon to Fill Iraq Reconstruction Jobs Temporarily -- WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 — The Pentagon and State Department have worked out a deal to send a small number of military personnel and Defense Department civilians to Iraq for several months until Foreign Service officers and State Department contract workers with specialized skills can fill those jobs, senior officials said Monday. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/20/world/middleeast/20military.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

9. Kurdistan: The Other Iraq. (CBS) Try to imagine a peaceful and stable Iraq where business is booming and Americans are beloved. Now open your eyes because 60 Minutes is going to take you to a part of Iraq which fits that description: it's called Kurdistan. Technically, it's inside Iraq but the Kurds who live there behave as if they already live in a separate state. As correspondent Bob Simon reports, they have their own prime minister, their own army, their own border patrol—even their own flag. And the overwhelming majority of Kurds will tell you they want nothing to do with Baghdad and the rest of Iraq.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/16/60minutes/main2486679.shtml

10. $50 million hospital for Hilla http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\2007-02-15\kurd1.htm

11. One-third of Iraqis live in poverty. A U.N. report cites the nation's damaged infrastructure and U.S. free-market policies. -- AMMAN, JORDAN — A third of Iraqis live in poverty, according to a study released under United Nations auspices Sunday, dire findings for a nation that enjoyed widespread prosperity less than three decades ago. The report, produced by a division of the Iraqi government and the United Nations Development Program, examined access to, and the quality of, a wide range of basic needs. It found that by 2004, Iraqi living standards had deteriorated considerably compared with that of the 1970s and '80s, particularly in the areas of water, electricity, sanitation, jobs, income and assets. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-poverty19feb19,1,1789343.story?coll=la-headlines-world

12. Full exemption on Arab goods in Free Zones http://www.iraqdirectory.com/DisplayNews.aspx?id=3185

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