Archive | 29th October 2012

Football Star Eyes Iraq Broadband Business

By John Lee. The broadband company belonging to former Irish international soccer player and Sunderland boss Niall Quinn (pictured) is reported to be considering entering the Iraq market. The Irish Independent reports that his company, QSat, has formed a partnership with another Irish company, Altobridge, that could take it into Iraq, where Altobridge already provides […]

US Army Can’t Show Delivery of $1bn Fuel to Iraq

By John Lee. The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) has reported that U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) did not establish effective internal controls to document that goods and services paid for using DFI funds were received in Iraq. SIGIR sampled 12 DFI-funded payments, totaling about $1.1 billion, made to USACE and found that […]

Iraq and the US Elections: Who Actually Cares?

By Mustafa Habib. This article was originally published by Niqash. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Over the past two decades the outcome of the US presidential elections has been hotly debated by Iraqis. However this year, the approaching American cliff-hanger hardly […]

Bad Weather Halts Basra Oil Exports Again

By John Lee. Bad weather on Sunday forced Iraq to cut exports from its southern oilfields from 2.35 million barrels to just 792,000 barrels. Port officials have said that things should start to pick up again on Monday, according to the report from Agenzia Giornalistica Italia. The same thing happened last week when adverse weather […]