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This 10 page paper discusses some of the threats against security, the Iraqi Security Forces; civic institutions and economics in northern Iraq. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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the handover of responsibility from the U.S. to the Iraqis. Discussion The situation in Iraq, not to put too fine a point on it, is a mess. The U.S. invasion,
whatever its real motivation, has destabilized the entire region, contributed to anti-American sentiment, and brought Iraq to the brink of civil war. Of all the threats to Iraq extant, perhaps
it is the distrust of the U.S. throughout the Middle East that poses the greatest problems. According to a 2003 survey, only "4 percent of respondents in Saudi Arabia, 6
percent in Jordan and Morocco, 10 percent in the United Arab Emirates, and 13 percent in Egypt expressed a favorable view of the United States" (Telhami, 2003). Its reasonable to
suppose that the numbers are even lower now. The U.S. presence has had a negative effect on security in Northern Iraq, reopening "simmering internal sectarian fissures that had for the
most part lain dormant during the 1990s" (Russell, 2007). The Shiites and Kurds have been politically empowered and this will have "lasting implications in the region by reigniting political aspirations
within both groups across national borders" (Russell, 2007). Already the Kurds in Turkey and Iran are coming into alignment with what seems to be an emerging Kurdish state in northern
Iraq (Russell, 2007). In addition, the "armed Peshmerga today police the borders of the new Kurdistan, and the Kurds now have access to a portion of oil revenues coming out
of the fields near Kirkuk and Mosul (Russell, 2007). Northern Iraq is estimated to have oil reserves of approximately 48 billion barrels, with "another 100 trillion cubic feet of
natural gas" (Russell, 2007). Norwegian and Turkish companies have already signed agreements with the "Kurdish Regional Government" or KRG that will allow them to share in production and actively look
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