The IMF highlights several areas of concern, chief among them the parlous state of Iraq's budget.
One was about the state of Iraq's security forces, which was commissioned by the Ministry of Defence.
The impoverished state of Iraq's medical infrastructure is unlikely to improve anytime soon.
He outlined how al Qaeda in Iraq, officially called the Islamic State of Iraq, had cells in Syria that were reinforced with fighters from Iraq who helped draw "plans and policies" for the Syrian branch.
Al-Qaeda's second-in-command, whose whereabouts are unknown, ended the interview by calling on the "noble tribes of Iraq, those that defend Islam, to stand up to this scum" and unite with the Islamic State of Iraq.
He said the US had been pouring "oceans of bribes" at the tribes and might have infiltrated the Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella group that includes al-Qaeda, with agents who were committing crimes that were alienating ordinary Iraqis.
The Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella group that includes a number of Sunni extremist organizations and has ties to al Qaeda in Iraq, claimed responsibility for July 31 attacks that targeted the Emergency Police Headquarters and the Major Crimes Directorate.
The city went on high alert after the Islamic State of Iraq -- the insurgent umbrella group that includes al Qaeda in Iraq -- distributed leaflets to police in Samarra on Saturday, warning them that they have three days to "repent" or be killed.
"While al Qaeda's various affiliates are enmeshed in their own local conflicts, hatred of the United States remains a common thread, " it added, citing the emergence of groups such as Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Al Shabaab and Boko Haram.
The blasts were meant to target the security plan "of the government of fools inside the Green Zone, in preparation of the meeting of Arab tyrants in Baghdad, " said a statement from the Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella group that includes al Qaeda in Iraq.
The Central Bank of Iraq recently broadened the range of tactics it uses to mop up excess liquidity in the system and maintain the dinar's de facto peg to the dollar, which, given the primitive state of Iraq's financial system, is the best mechanism the bank has to keep prices stable.
"The operation was in response to the repression of the Shiite criminal government and its policies against the Sunnis in Baghdad's neighborhoods of raids and arrests, displacement, killing, humiliation and violation of our women and livelihoods, seizing the land and the wealth of the Sunnis, " the Islamic State of Iraq said in a statement, which surfaced on militant websites.
Michael O'Hanlon is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who has been tracking the state of the Iraq War since it began.
We have several reports this morning on the state of affairs in Iraq, beginning with NPR's Dina Temple-Raston in Baghdad.
David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in the country -- both of whom will brief the U.S. Congress this week on the state of progress in Iraq.
Insurgents thought to be linked to al-Qaeda attacked the Baghdad headquarters of the state-owned Trade Bank of Iraq , killing at least 26 people.
Disapproval of the Iraq war and the state of the economy are just too high.
Earlier this month, the Pentagon sent a retired general, Gary Luck, to assess the state of military operations in Iraq.
Central to the implementation of that decision was the removal of Iraq from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, despite Baghdad's continued, vigorous support to international terrorist organizations.
To their credit, President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have already rejected the advice of the Iraq Surrender Group and its former member, newly installed Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, to begin negotiating with the Iranian mullahs.
There is also a spat between the Defence Department and the State Department over the running of Iraq.
The major state supporters of terrorism Iraq, Syria and Iran offer incentives to encourage such bombings, host terrorist headquarters and supply the arms and explosives.
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This state of affairs is also the name of the game in Iraq, where Iran and Syria support both Muqtada al-Sadr's Shi'ite Mehdi army and al-Qaida's Sunni death squads.
Such an abuse occurred most recently when Commerce tried to keep the Defense Department and others from blocking the sale to Iraq of state-of-the-art furnaces useful for manufacturing ballistic missile components.
Iraq's leader, Saddam Hussein, has also been helping though this depends on the shifting state of play between Turkey, Iraq and the feuding Iraqi Kurdish chiefs (whom America is, once again, trying to unite against the Baghdad regime).
The army's chief concern is that Iraq's Kurds would exploit the turmoil that could follow an Iraqi defeat by setting up their own independent state in the chunk of northern Iraq that has remained under their control since the end of the Gulf war, thereby encouraging separation among Turkish Kurds.
It should have taken no great literacy in the theories and the history of "state-building" to foresee the favorable endowments of Iraq and the built-in disadvantages of Afghanistan.
The co-chairmen of the Iraq Study Group are former Secretary of State James Baker III, a Republican, and former Indiana Rep. Lee Hamilton, a Democrat.
Fewer than half the Arab League's 22 heads of state turned up for the summit, reflecting their suspicion of Iraq's government and its close ties to non-Arab Iran.
But it is also clear that a strong school of thought in the United States considers Iraq to be the main state promoter of terrorism.
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