[Dean's World] Dave Schuler: The Carnival of the Liberated

[notify at powerblogs.com]

Posted by Dave Schuler:
The Carnival of the Liberated
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1196178205.shtml


   Welcome to the Carnival of the Liberated, a sampler of some of the
   best posts of the week from Iraqi and Afghan bloggers. The Afghan and
   Iraqi blogospheres continue to be very, very quiet. Here are a few
   things I thought you might be interested in. One observation: the
   ex-pat Iraqi bloggers who are most reliably the voice of the Ba'ath
   are complaining about the Iraqi Sunnis cooperating with the Americans.
   There may be something to this "Sunni Awakening" stuff after all.

   [1]A Citizen of Mosul, a medical doctor, considers the health
   statistics in the Nineveh governate. I think he might want to consider
   why the birth/death ratio was so high before the curfews and power
   outages.

   [2]Alive in Baghdad has a video report, essentially a lengthy
   complaint by Sadr loyalists, on Iraqi sovereignty.

   [3]Roads to Iraq takes note of a Turkish newspapers solution to the
   problem of a Kurdish homeland: incorporate all of the Kurdish areas
   (including parts of Syria, Armenia, Iraq, and Iran) into Turkey. They
   also apparently want parts of Greece and Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Crete.

   [4]Great Baghdad has a post on where the Iraqi refugees are going.

   You might be interested in [5]Last-of-Iraqis accounts of the
   "awakening" movements that may signal the end of Al Qaeda in Iraq.

   [6]neurotic iraqi wife points out that Iraqi ex-pats returning isn't
   necessarily cause for hope.

   [7]Thoughts from Baghdad has her own take on the reduction in violence
   there.

   Dave Schuler posts regularly to his own weblog, [8]The Glittering Eye.
   The Carnival was originally conceived by Ryan Boots.

References

   1. http://moslawi.blogspot.com/2007/11/health-statistic-of-mosul.html
   2. http://aliveinbaghdad.org/2007/11/19/sadr-loyalists-reflect-on-iraq-sovereignty/
   3. http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2007/11/22/the-new-turkish-republic/
   4. http://greatbaghdad.blogspot.com/2007/11/iraqi-refugees.html
   5. http://last-of-iraqis.blogspot.com/2007/11/awakening.html
   6. http://neurotic-iraqi-wife.blogspot.com/2007/11/small-tiny-seeds-of-hope.html
   7. http://thoughtsfrombaghdad.blogspot.com/2007/11/it-is-too-quiet.html
   8. http://www.theglitteringeye.com/