Iraq, reconstruction or destruction?

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<http://www.cafebabel.com/en/dossier.asp?id=177>Iraq, reconstruction or
destruction?
One year has passed since sovereignty was handed back to Iraqis and the
country is far from being stable. How can Europe contribute to the
development of peace and democracy at a time when Iraq finds itself torn
between chaos and consolidation?


Stella Willborn - Ilmenau

<http://www.cafebabel.com/en/article.asp?T=T&Id=3961>What the Iraqis want
from Europe
<http://www.cafebabel.com/en/article.asp?T=T&Id=3961>A year ago, the EU
committed itself to Iraq's reconstruction. What has happened since?


Charlotte Tubbax - Paris

<http://www.cafebabel.com/en/article.asp?T=T&Id=3957>"Europeans have missed
an opportunity"
<http://www.cafebabel.com/en/article.asp?T=T&Id=3957>Iraqi film director
Saad Salman underlines the importance of the American presence in his
country of origin and regrets that France, his home for thirty years, did
not help in the downfall of Saddam Hussein.


Ulrich Schwerin - Paris

<http://www.cafebabel.com/en/article.asp?T=T&Id=3970>Is Iraq on route to
becoming a theocratic state?
<http://www.cafebabel.com/en/article.asp?T=T&Id=3970>Iraq's Shiite leader
is demanding that the country base its new constitution on the principles
of Islam. Members of Iraq's minority Sunni community fear that the Shiites
want to see the country turned into an Iranian-style Islamic theocracy.


Eleonora Palermo - Paris

<http://www.cafebabel.com/en/article.asp?T=T&Id=3959>"War does not defeat
terrorism. It feeds it
<http://www.cafebabel.com/en/article.asp?T=T&Id=3959>In a quick fire round
of questions and answers, Mercedes Bresso, former member of the European
Parliament and current president of the Italian region of Piedmont, gives
her views on Europe and Iraq.


Christian Goodman -

<http://www.cafebabel.com/en/article.asp?T=A&Id=1267>European troops must stay
<http://www.cafebabel.com/en/article.asp?T=A&Id=1267>When the US invaded
Iraq on 20 March 2003 they asked for the support of Europe. Some countries
sent forces while others didn't, but it is important that those that are
there now do not leave. Indeed, what is needed are more troops.


Isabel Aspe - Vitoria-Gasteiz

<http://www.cafebabel.com/en/article.asp?T=T&Id=3960>Media matrix in Iraq
<http://www.cafebabel.com/en/article.asp?T=T&Id=3960>Information reaching
us from Iraq is giving us a distorted image of reality. Through
manipulation and attacks on journalists, governments and armies are doing
what they can to ensure that we do not know what is really happening.



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