Why does the Iraqi govt employs corrupt, unqualified and unprofessional personnel?
Ex-Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, left, shakes hands with his successor, Haider al-Abadi, during a meeting in Baghdad, 2014. Photo:...
Rizgar Khoshnaw, Washington, DC, he has lived in the US for the past 35 years. He attended North Carolina State University for a period of six years and obtained the degrees in Economics, business management and two years of Pre-Medical. He began to travel to Kurdistan fourteen years ago after being absent from Kurdistan for more than 23 years. from the first visit in 1997 to 2001, He traveled to Kurdistan 25 times to investigate the oil-for-food program and wrote a book (and had over 50 articles published) about the dishonest program. In the past eight years, he has been representing an American based company trying to implement certain projects. Rizgar Xoshnaw, a senior Kurdish writer based in Washington, a longtime contributing writer and columnist for iKurd.net
Ex-Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, left, shakes hands with his successor, Haider al-Abadi, during a meeting in Baghdad, 2014. Photo:...
Iraqi Vice President Nouri al-Maliki. Photo: Reuters Rizgar Khoshnaw | Exclusive to iKurd.net Could it be that the time has come...
Shaswar Abdul Wahid, the head of the Kurdish NRT Channel. Photo: Shaswar's FB Rizgar Khoshnaw | Exclusive to iKurd.net Shaswar...
Photo: Reuters Rizgar Khoshnaw | Exclusive to iKurd.net It no longer surprise me when I read that the Iraqi central...
Iraqi Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani Photo: AP Rizgar Khoshnaw | Exclusive to iKurd.net In the past few weeks, there has...
Goldman Sachs. photo: AP Rizgar Khoshnaw | Exclusive to iKurd.net In the past couple of months, I have written on...
Kurdistan Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani. Photo: AFP Rizgar Khoshnaw | Exclusive to iKurd.net Dear Mr. Prime Minister, Greetings, I would...
Genel Energy Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward. Photo: iKurd.net/Reuters Rizgar Khoshnaw | Exclusive to iKurd.net My objective/purpose for this article...
Photo: Reuters Rizgar Khoshnaw | Exclusive to iKurd.net Last week, the Iraqi finance minister, Mr. Hoshyar Zebari, held a meeting...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry walks with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif after a one-on-one meeting on April 2,...
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