16.08.10 Iraq Focus August issue: Table of contents

General Bubaker Zebari: SECURITY FORCES NOT READY FOR US DEPARTURE

LEADERSHIP AND POLICY
> Upsurge in violence as US troop withdrawal looms: Al-Qa'ida's return feared among Sunni elements

POLITICS AND SECURITY
> US intervenes in hope of breaking deadlock: Obama administration pushing for representative government of both State of Law Alliance and Iraqiya; Al-Maliki boosted; Whither the Iraqi National Alliance? UN extends mandate
> New hard line group in Naseriya proving hard to contain

KRG
> Census provokes ethnic tensions in Kirkuk as both Arab and Turkmen communities grow increasingly anxious about results and the future of the troubled region
> North Oil Company displaces villagers causing antagonism between Arabs and Kurds

ENERGY INDUSTRY
> Sweetening the terms: Iraq postpones licensing round in order to give companies more time to study the contracts
> Karbala fields to be included in next oil round says mayor of Ain Al-Tamr, Mahfouz Al-Tamimi
> Egyptian company to join Eni in Iraq to work together on Eni's upstream activities
> Occidental and Pertamina may partner Sonangol in developing Qaiyarah and Najmah fields

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
> Central banks to join forces to create a uniform monetary system, according to Kurdistan Regional Government: Losing the zeros
> Iraq Development Fund to stay within US treasury to protect itself from debtors
> Damac housing project cancelled due to work delays prompting withdrawal of Damac's licence