Iraqi Government Audio & Video

Quil Lawrence - PRI's The World: Invisible Nation
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Wed, 14 May 2008

Quil Lawrence - PRI's The World: Invisible Nation

[description] At an informal WGBH lunch, Quil Lawrence discusses the Iraq War's seldom-told success story, the rise of the Kurds of northern Iraq. Quil has recently released a new book Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East, based on his experiences as a reporter in Iraq. Visit us at www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our entire collection of lectures.

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[2:37]..." of central and southern Iraq. As we move up to the last Iraqi Government says is Saddam's time checkpoint. And we go through and we came up -- the first Kurdish. Informal -- check for my"...

[43:14]..." bank of knowledge it's great actually because all the people around the Iraqi Government used to be. Willing to meet you anywhere to talk about there faction an error plan to get rid of Saddam. Cincinnati"...

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My WBZ Afternoon Headlines 5/14/2008
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Wed, 14 May 2008

My WBZ Afternoon Headlines 5/14/2008

[description] Spygate is not quite over yet, if a U.S. Senator has his way tops our news this Wednesday afternoon.

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[5:21]..." an Iraqi captain and wounded four soldiers. A sign today that the Iraqi Government is slowly stepping up to the plate. Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki has personally taken charge of a military operation in Mosul."...

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NPR Hourly Newscast
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Tue, 13 May 2008

NPR Hourly Newscast

[description] A brief update of the top news of the hour

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[1:14]..." ceasefire between Shiite militants loyal to cleric Muqtada Al slaughter and the Iraqi Government in eastern Baghdad. NPR's Ivan Watson reports from Baghdad."...

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NPR Hourly Newscast
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Mon, 12 May 2008

NPR Hourly Newscast

[description] A brief update of the top news of the hour

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[3:17]..." US military officials contend most of the Shiite extremists have been battling Iraqi Government US forces there have splintered away from -- solders Mahdi Army. It's not clear how much influence Klerk has over those factions"...

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NPR Hourly Newscast
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Sat, 10 May 2008

NPR Hourly Newscast

[description] A brief update of the top news of the hour

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[1:19]..." So -- have agreed to lay down arms and allow the Iraqi Government to make key arrests more than 1000 Iraqis have died in the recent fighting. Nongovernmental organizations in the area have been warning"...

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Jim and Margery May 9 2008 Newsweek Interview
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Fri, 9 May 2008

Jim and Margery May 9 2008 Newsweek Interview

[description] Jim and Margery Interview Newsweek Writer Mark Hastings about his new book

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[3:53]..." history but what we saw from the video. With that the new Iraqi Government recently bunch of thugs and -- jackets and and face mask in Saddam this horrible person war criminal. Look better than they"...

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Here and Now for Thursday, May 8, 2008
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Thu, 8 May 2008

Here and Now for Thursday, May 8, 2008

[description] Iraqi soldiers are warning residents to leave the embattled Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, ahead of what might be a larger offensive by US and Iraqi forces against Shiite militiamen. We speak with Tina Susman, Baghdad bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times. Slavery did not end with the end of the Civil War. In fact it went on in a different form until World War II. Free blacks were arrested on trumped up charges all across the south and were leased to landowners and industries. They were often forced to work in coal mines or lumber mills under horrific conditions. Douglas Blackmon uncovers this history in in his new book "Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II." The farm bill, funding for the war in Iraq and more. We speak with Gail Chaddock, Capitol Hill correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. Almost half of all women who leave the workforce to have children never return. But they would if they could f

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[1:08]..." did not exactly you know bring an end the fighting like the Iraqi Government and its sister network adding bang for the last few weeks to kind of in not an escalation of the violence and"...

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Democratic Radio Address 5-3-08
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Sat, 3 May 2008

Democratic Radio Address 5-3-08

[description] Congressman Andre Carson, of Indiana talks about the devastating effect the Iraq War is having on the economy and the American people.

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[0:23]..." war has continued to cost American taxpayers billions of dollars. And the Iraqi Government has failed time and time again to meet benchmarks for success. The president was wrong. The mission was not accomplished in and has still not been accomplished for five years later. The last five years Iraqi Government has failed to stand up and take responsibility for its own country. Political progress remains virtually nonexistent. All the while hundreds of"...

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NPR Hourly Newscast
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Sun, 20 Apr 2008

NPR Hourly Newscast

[description] A brief update of the top news of the hour

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[0:07]..." Baghdad today for a brief unannounced visit during which he praised the Iraqi government's crackdown on radical malicious. Right spoke to reporters after meeting with Iraqi president Jalal Talabani who told her that Iraq is in"...

[0:40]..." lift to cease fire in wage an all out war against the Iraqi government . Rice dismissed that warning saying she knows that sauter is sitting in Iran. And adding that in her words I guess it's"...

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Patrick Cockburn: The New War in Iraq
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Fri, 18 Apr 2008

Patrick Cockburn: The New War in Iraq

[description] Patrick Cockburn's account of the Iraqi Army's flight from battle is that the US is trying to foment a civil war among the Shia majority that the Baghdad government cannot win.

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[2:41]..." but he never pass. That's one big difference between him and the Iraqi government from the president's. Prime minister of Iraq -- Israeli only bad because -- Thomas support supported him. In 2002 point six --"...

[6:24]..." the world outside Iraq that somehow the Iranians are against the present Iraqi government they -- they supported just likely US does. It -- opponents on the Sony states like Saudi Arabia and Jordan and the"...

[7:01]..." to maximize the influence at the expense of the US. So the Iraqi government has been trying continually. To get the US and -- tool but not ever not very successfully so far. Why -- Washington. Isn't -- genius -- President Bush. Well because they think they can still win a victory in Iraq. And they don't want to be in a position of sharing power in Iraq with the wrong I think it's unavoidable. I think the Iraqi -- know the Iraqi government thinks it's unavoidable. The the Iraqi Foreign Minister cautious about -- is you know for a moment. This continually trying to bring"...

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