Guiding Principles and Strategy for the Rapid Response to Internally Displaced Iraqis Affected by Camp Closures and Consolidation Iraq Humanitarian Country Team, November 2020
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On 8 October 2020, the Government of Iraq announced that it would close all camps and informal sites hosting people internally displaced since 2014 by the end of the year. This re-started similar efforts made in previous years to consolidate and close camps. In early October 2020, approximately 250,000 of the remaining 1.3 million internally displaced people (IDPs) in Iraq lived in 39 formal IDP camps, plus a number of smaller informal sites. By the start of December, at least 16 camps and sites had been closed, according to MoMD statements. This caused approximately 34,000 people to rapidly return to their home districts or secondarily displace without advance notice, preparation for alternative arrangements, or attention to basic principles on internal displacement and durable solutions. Only three c
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U.S. Officials Claim That Iraqi Kurds Helped To Kill Qassam Soleimani
Yahoo has prominently posted a long piece about the early 2020 murder of the Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and the Iraqi resistance leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
This article, based on interviews with 15 current and former U.S. officials, reveals new details about the Soleimani strike and the Trump administration’s long-running deliberations about killing the Iranian general and other top Iranian officials and proxies. It depicts an operation that was more sophisticated, and with a broader list of people potentially targeted for killing, than was previously known. And it describes previously unreported threats to U.S. officials in the aftermath of the strike.
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Ding, ding, ding, round # 3; back to the land of milk and honey. Mesopotamia (land between the Tigris and Euphrates.) Working for KBR one more time (fingers crossed.) ;0) Calling Al Asad Air Base home for the next 365 days. Proud sponsor: 2nd MAW (Marine Air Wing.) Al Asad is a camp/base, per the Marines, better known as Camp Cupcake, although it does lie in restive (as opposed to volatile) Al Anbar Province.
Deployed for a second time with KBR (Halliburton) as a civilian contractor (carpenter) to Al Qa im, Iraq, in Al Anbar Province, situated 10 miles south of the Euphrates river, and 13 miles east of the Syrian border, from April 06-September, 06. Returned stateside prematurely, to assist a good friend in AZ, as he fights the good fight with leukemia.
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The Facilities team manages and operates Army facilities at five locations throughout Fort Bliss, ensuring a standard of readiness in order to optimize services and training assets in support of mobilization and demobilization operations. The team manages and ensures the tactical operations center, motor pool, billeting, administrative, and classroom spaces are readily available for mobilizing, demobili