Iraq: A Decade of Lost Opportunities

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. “Failed States Index 2012,” Fund for Peace, http://www.fundforpeace.org/global/?q = fsi2012. 2. Currency conversion according to the exchange website www.xe.com. 3. George Packer, The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006). 4. Anthony Shadid, “Iraq's Last Patriot, ”New York Times, February 4, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/magazine/06ALLAWI-t.html?pagewanted = all&_r = 0. 5. Translation provided by the author. Another translation can be viewed at: “Iraqi Constitution,” World Intellectual Property Organisation, October 15, 2005, http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/text.jsp?file_id = 230000. 6. Human Rights Watch “Judging Dujail: The First Trial Before the Iraqi High Tribunal,” Human Rights Watch, November 20, 2006, http://www.hrw.org/reports/2006/11/19/judging-dujail. 7. Abbas Kadhim, “Iraq's quest for Democracy Amid Massive Corruption,” Carnegie Endowment For International Peace, March 3, 2010, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/sada/2010/03/03/iraq-s-quest-for-democracy-amid-massive-corruption/6bjj. 8. Exact figures on civilian casualties on Iraq do not exist, however Iraq Body Count is considered the most reliable source. It estimates that over 54,300 Iraqis were killed over the two years. “Iraqi deaths from violence 2003–2011,” Iraq Body Count, January 2, 2012, http://www.iraqbodycount.org/analysis/numbers/2011/. 9. George Packer, The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006). 10. Vali Nasr, The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future, (New York: Norton, 2007). 11. Charless Tripp, A History of Iraq, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). 12. Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, (London: Clays Ltd, 2006). 13. The White House, “Promise Kept,” www.whitehouse.gov/Iraq. 14. Nigel Baggar, “The Invasion of Iraq: what are the morals of the story?” International Affairs 87 :1, (2011). 15. Julian Linden, “Iraq ride wave of support to lift Asian Cup,” Reuters, July 29, 2007, http://uk.reuters.com/article/2007/07/29/uk-soccer-asia-idUKSP26426720070729. 16. Patrice Hill, “Iraq's Flood of ‘Cheap Oil’ could rock world markets,” Washington Times, February 3, 2013, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/feb/3/iraqs-flood-of-cheap-oil-could-rock-world-markets-/?page = all. 17. “The Corruption Perceptions Index 2012,” Transparency International, 2012, http://www.transparency.org/cpi2012/results. 18. “Iraq election turnout 62 percent, officials say,” BBC, March 9, 2010, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8556065.stm. 19. Nemir Kirdar, Saving Iraq: Rebuilding a Broken Nation, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009). Additional informationNotes on contributorsMina al-OraibiMina al-Oraibi is Assistant Editor-in-Chief of Asharq Alawsat Newspaper, a daily pan-Arab newspaper