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| | Baghdad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Baghdad was one of the largest and most cosmopolitan cities in the world, home to Muslims, Christians, Jews and pagans from across the Middle East and Central Asia. | | | Baghdad remained under Ottoman rule until the establishment of the kingdom of Iraq under British control in 1921, followed by formal independence in 1932 and full independence in 1946. | | | On September 23, 2003, a Gallup poll indicated that about two-thirds of Baghdad residents said that the removal of the Iraqi leader was worth the hardships they encountered, and that they expected a better life in five years' time. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Baghdad (Iraq Political Geography) - Encyclopedia |
| | The city was the scene of a coup in 1958 that overthrew the monarchy and established the Iraqi republic. | | | In the early 1950s the majority of Baghdad's large Jewish population, who were present there since the city's founding, left on organized flights to Israel. | | | As a result of the growing Iraqi oil industry, Baghdad experienced rapid economic and population growth. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Saddam, defense lawyer meet for 1st time |
| | BAGHDAD (AP) — Former dictator Saddam Hussein met with a lawyer Thursday for the first time since his capture a year ago, officials said. | | | Saddam's meeting in his cell with a member of his legal team came as the Iraqi government is gearing up to begin the trials of some of Saddam's top deputies next week, ahead of the country's elections in January. | | | In western Baghdad, a roadside bomb exploded near a passing SUV, badly damaging the vehicle, police said. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-12-16-iraq_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA
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| | The Jewish Community of Baghdad |
| | In 1945 there were frequent demonstrations against the Jews and especially against Zionism, and with the proclaimed partition of Palestine in 1947, the Jews were in danger of their lives. | | | The number of Jews in Baghdad decreased from 100,000 to 77,000 and after the mass exodus to Israel (Operation Ezra and Nehemiah) only about 5,000 Jews remained. | | | The Jews of Baghdad had two hospitals in which the poor received free treatment, and several philanthropic services. |
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| | IRAQ THE MODEL |
| | The Sunni political leaders were invited to a meeting with the UIA suggested by president Talabani but they refused to join the meeting saying the government has to condemn attacks on their mosques as well before they consider ending the boycott. | | | The Association is trying to remind Sadr of the their times of solidarity during the battles in Najaf and Fallujah yet they are condemning his message to his followers in which he called for keeping up and escalating the "protests". | | | I believe there are foreign terror groups behind this attack and I don't think local insurgent would do such a thing, simply because this particular shrine had been in Sunni territory for a thousand years and the residents of Samarra had always benefited from the movement of religious tourism and pilgrimage. |
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| | Generals Offer a Sober Outlook on Iraqi War; Exit from Iraq Could Take 'Many Years' |
| | Against this, he said, there has been a lull in insurgents' activity in Baghdad in recent days after months of some of the bloodiest attacks, a trend that suggested that American pressure, including the capture of important bomb makers, had left the insurgents incapable of mounting protracted offensives. | | | The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in the past 80 days. | | | But the officer said that despite Americans' recent successes in disrupting insurgent cells, which have resulted in the arrest of 1,100 suspects in Baghdad alone in the past 80 days, the success of American goals in Iraq was not assured. |
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| | CNN.com - Bomb kills 8 at market in Hilla - Sep 30, 2005 |
| | Thursday's blasts were the most deadly single-day string of bombings since September 14, when more than 100 people were killed in Baghdad in strikes claimed by al Qaeda in Iraq, the group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. | | | BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A bomb in a parked car exploded Friday at a vegetable market in central Hilla, killing eight people and wounding 49, Iraqi police and hospital officials said. | | | The Iraqi Islamic Party, a Sunni Arab political group, Thursday denounced a raid on the Baghdad house of a top Sunni official, Dr. Adnan al-Dulaimi, secretary-general of the People of Iraq Conference. |
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http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/30/iraq.main
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| | Baghdad |
| | The National Theatre was earlier one of the best equipped in the Arab world, but continued its work even under the embargo. | | | 1920: Baghdad becomes capital of the new state of Iraq. | | | The League of Nations grants Britain a mandate to govern Iraq. |
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| | Wiet. Baghdad |
| | With him, "Arab intelligence rises to the level of philosophy." Of the role he played, it is enough to say that he was the creator of a doctrine that was to flourish in Arab philosophy, the idea of conciliation between the positions of Aristotle and Plato. | | | Ibrahim (804) had been the favorite of the caliphs Mahdi, Hadi, and Harun al-Rashid; he was the hero of some rather racy adventures. | | | Abu Hanifa is already known to us because of his material participation in the founding of the city. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/wiet.html
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| | Baghdad |
| | BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb badly damaged the tomb of Saddam Hussein's father at dawn on Tuesday, hours before the ousted leader was due... | | | BAGHDAD - Saddam Hussein has ended a hunger strike he began earlier this month to protest against the conduct of his trial, his chief lawy... | | | The German government's claim that it did nothing substantial to support the Iraq war appeared to be in tatters yesterday, after evidence came to light that its agents su... |
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| | Baghdad Governorate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Baghdad governate is considered one of the more developed parts of Iraq, with a better infrastructure than much of Iraq, though heavily damaged from the invasion in 2003 and continuing violence today. | | | While considered a stronghold of Saddam Hussein's regime prior to the Invasion of Iraq of 2003, the results of the Iraqi Constitutional Referendum held on October 15, 2005 and the Iraqi legislative election held on December 15, 2005 suggest that metropolitan Baghdad has a strong Shi'a majority. | | | Baghdad, even though considered the most heavily guarded area in Iraq, is still the scene of countless daily ambushes and attacks from Iraqi rebels directed towards Coalition troops. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_(province)
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| | Blast at Baghdad hotel kills 7 - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com |
| | March 17: Watch video of the explosion in Baghdad, as you can see the flash appear behind a woman waiting to be interviewed on Arab-language television. | | | One Briton was killed and another was injured, the British government said. | | | However, Governing Council official Rowsch Shawayas said earlier that Iraqi authorities put the toll at “about 20.” |
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| | Radwaniyah Presidential Site - Iraq Leadership Facilities |
| | In the DoD Briefing on Iraqi Denial and Deception of Oct. 8, 2002 the Radwaniyah presidential palace was said to be the extensive complex to the East and North of the Airport. | | | Access to these sites, which Iraq had declared off limits to the United Nations, was granted only after Secretary General Kofi Annan signed an agreement with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein during his visit to Baghdad which allows UN weapons experts, accompanied by a special group of "diplomatic observers," to inspect the compounds. | | | The 9.3-square-mile compound is also known as Al-Qaddissiya, after a 7th-century battle in what is now Iraq. |
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| | Healing Iraq |
| | When the Jadriya prison scandal was uncovered, he proposed that Ba'athist elements that had infiltrated his ministry were behind the torture and extrajudicial executions. | | | The Al-Jihad mosque in Mahmoudiya was taken over, and fliers from Sadr’s office condemning Sunnis, Wahhabis and Saddamist Baathists were distributed in town. | | | Sheikh Ra'ad Al-Najdi, the Imam and preaher of the Ma'ruf mosque in Nasiriya, was found killed yesterday morning. |
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| | CNN.com - Saddam regime loses grip on Baghdad - Apr. 10, 2003 |
| | Journalists in Baghdad reported that senior Iraqi officials didn't show up for work Wednesday, and reporters were free to move about Baghdad without the minders from the Information Ministry who normally shadowed their every move. | | | Soldiers from the U.S. 101st Airborne Division secured the central Iraqi city of Hillah, south of Baghdad, site of the ancient Hanging Gardens of Babylon, reported CNN Correspondent Ryan Chilcote, who is embedded with the unit. | | | Rumsfeld outlined several remaining tasks for the coalition: Capturing or accounting for Saddam and members of his senior leadership; securing oil fields in the north; rooting out terrorists within Iraq; finding U.S. prisoners of war; locating and securing weapons of mass destruction; and defeating all resistance. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/09/sprj.irq.war.main
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| | ABC News Online - Iraq Crisis |
| | Bombs have killed at least 30 people in Baghdad and wrecked the tomb of Saddam Hussein's father as the ousted leader appears in court again. | | | Near simultaneous bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, have killed at least 27 people. | | | The Federal Government says a series of diplomatic cables tabled at the Cole inquiry today do not provide evidence the Government knew about AWB kickbacks being paid to Iraq. |
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| | Baghdad Is Not Mogadishu |
| | IN A FLURRY of recent articles speculating on the nature of a potential U.S. invasion of Iraq, reporters and commentators have raised a "nightmare" scenario: that a battle for Baghdad would turn into a second Mogadishu. | | | Indeed, as the New York Times reported last week, attacks on Baghdad could well come in the initial phase of a larger Iraq campaign. | | | However Saddam came to power and ruled in his early days, he has remained in power by creating overwhelming fear among his subordinates. |
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| | Online NewsHour: The Iraq War Media Coverage of the War PBS |
| | Terence Smith gets two views on how the Arab media are covering the war in Iraq and the impact of their reports on the Arab world. | | | Update: Iraqi authorities expelled Boston Globe reporter David Filipov from Baghdad for filing a story from his hotel room -- a move that violated Iraqi press regulations. | | | Update: Correspondents for the Al Jazeera network continued their work in Iraq after Iraqi officials reversed an order barring two of them from reporting in Baghdad. |
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/iraq/war/media_special.html
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| | U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq |
| | The United States condemns the bombing February 22 of the Golden Mosque in Samarra, Iraq, one of the holiest places for Shi’a Muslims, as a blatant attempt to foment sectarian strife, and promises to contribute to its reconstruction, according to statements from the White House and the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. |
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| | Baghdad Year Zero (Harpers.org) |
| | It was a tough day to be giving an upbeat speech: that morning the first photographs had appeared out of Abu Ghraib, including one of a hooded prisoner with electrical wires attached to his hands. | | | The message was unequivocal: the pragmatists had lost; Iraq would belong to the believers. | | | It was the first such event inside Iraq, and the organizers had branded the trade fair “DBX,” as if it were some sort of Mountain Dew‒sponsored dirt-bike race. |
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| | CNN.com - Coalition grip tightens on Baghdad - Apr. 9, 2003 |
| | Military officials will conduct DNA tests in hope of determining whether the uniforms came from any of the seven Americans known to have been captured since the war in Iraq began March 20. | | | U.S. Marines found bloodstained camouflage uniforms but no American captives at the al Rashid military prison on the southwestern edge of Baghdad, Pentagon officials said. | | | The U.S.-led assault has left Iraq with 19 tanks out of its fleet of 800, another senior U.S. official said. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/08/sprj.irq.war.main
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| | CNN.com - Truck bomb kills chief U.N. envoy to Iraq - Aug. 20, 2003 |
| | Among those killed in the bombing was Canadian Christopher Klein-Beekman, 32, UNICEF program coordinator in Iraq, who had been in the country since May 2002. | | | Some U.S. officials believe Iraq is becoming a major "magnet" for al Qaeda terrorists, who now pose more of a threat than remnants of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, CNN terrorism analyst Peter Bergen said. | | | August 16 -- Oil pipeline sabotaged in northern Iraq |
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| | The Baghdad Democrats |
| | But McDermott compounded his problem by insisting, despite its twelve years of verifiable prevarication, that the Iraqi regime should be given the benefit of the doubt on inspections and disarmament. | | | An American official floating unsubstantiated allegations against an American president during a visit to Baghdad would be troubling enough. | | | The controversy ignited on September 29 when Bonior and McDermott appeared from Baghdad on ABC's "This Week." Host George Stephanopoulos asked McDermott about his recent comment that "the president of the United States will lie to the American people in order to get us into this war." |
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| | Baghdad Burning |
| | Also worrisome is the fact that we are hearing of people being rounded up by security forces (Iraqi) and then being found dead days later- apparently when the new Iraqi government recently decided to reinstate the death penalty, they had something else in mind. | | | We've been watching the protests about the Newsweek article with interest. | | | There have also been several assassinations- bodies being found here and there. |
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| | We Love the Iraqi Information Minister |
| | December 15 - M.S.S. reacts to news of Saddam's capture on al-Jazeera: "The place where Saddam had been caught is an old hideout, known to many Iraqi leadership members. | | | But the court considers facts and evidence only." Because we all know how much M.S.S. believes in the sanctity of facts and evidence. | | | July 11 - M.S.S. makes a sudden appearance in Abu Dhabi, saying he might not return to Iraq. |
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http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com
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| | Baghdad, Iraq |
| | Nevertheless, the city of Baghdad went on as the capital of Iraq up to the present time. | | | Parallel with it is the Caliphs Street, where some historical mosques and churches, together with some new government offices, are to be found. | | | Baghdad, as a name, had been mentioned as |
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| | The Collected Quotations of Baghdad Bob The Iraqi Minister of DisInformation |
| | Disputing His Own Assertions of No Coalition Troops in Baghdad: | | | - no any existence to the American troops or for the troops in Baghdad at all." | | | "Baghdad Bob" disappeared, perhaps forever. On the other hand, perhaps he will return as Minister of Information for France or be awarded a drive time show on the new liberal talk radio network. |
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| | Baghdad |
| | In 1963 the Arab Socialist Resurrection Party, known as the Baath party, seized power. | | | Baghdad Parks Off-Limits To Iraqis By Awadh al-Tae'e | | | Baghdad is the capital of Iraq and the center of air, road, and rail transport in the country. |
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| | G. |
| | If we were in Beirut, grozny or Tehran with the same set of events we just had in Baghdad, We would have half of the politicians around us assassinated by rival factions, at least 10 suicide bombers, half of the American journalists here taken as hostages and sectarian / ethnic fighting’s in the streets. | | | Politics and religion, too, are day occupations, for when the sun begins to set, Baghdad reverts to a war zone, where looters, bandits and hundreds of army patrols own the streets. | | | Instead of that what we see around us, is a city going back to life some times grudgingly but other times with fast speed. |
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| | Scotsman.com News - International - Bloodshed in Baghdad claims another 24 lives |
| | But the 1st Marine Division said the marine was acting in self-defence as troops had been warned that some insurgents were feigning death or injury and then attacking. | | | Carnage in Baghdad as Saddam trial back on after hunger strike | | | Scotsman.com News - International - Bloodshed in Baghdad claims another 24 lives |
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| | CNN.com - Suicide bombing near hotel kills six Iraqis - Oct. 12, 2003 |
| | Krivo said the number of attacks in Baghdad has remained constant in recent weeks but have become more lethal. | | | The attack came shortly after recent speeches by President Bush and other administration officials saying the U.S. reconstruction strategy in Iraq is on target. | | | Six Iraqis died and 32 people, including three U.S. soldiers, were wounded Sunday in a suicide car bombing near the Baghdad Hotel, which houses Americans and members of the Iraqi Governing Council, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. |
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http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/10/12/sprj.irq.main
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| | CBC News:Baghdad burns following air assaults |
| | Michael Enright asks Renald Doirent of the Dept. of Foreign Affairs why 50,000 Canadians are ignoring advice to leave the Middle East. | | | BAGHDAD - Explosions rumbled through Baghdad on Friday night as the U.S. and British forces ratcheted up the intensity of the war against Iraq. | | | Shortly after, the sound of aircraft could be heard over the city for the first time since the war began. |
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| | Baghdad Burning |
| | A billion here for security… Five hundred million there for the infrastructure… Millions for voting… Iraq falling into deeper debt… Engineers without jobs simply because they are not a part of this political party or that religious group… And the country still in shambles. | | | It makes one wonder when Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney and the rest will have their day, as the accused, in court. | | | In 2003, Jaffari was claiming he didn’t want to see Iraqi women losing their rights, etc. He never mentioned equal rights- but he did throw in a word here and there about how Iraqi women had a right to an education and even a job. |
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| | BBC NEWS Middle East Iraq to launch huge Baghdad raids |
| | No-one will be able to penetrate this blockade," Mr Dulaimi said. | | | And in Qadissiya, in southern Baghdad, police said a member of the Shia Muslim Dawa party was found dead with his throat slit. | | | One child was killed as a result of their action," the US military said in a statement, without specifying who killed the child nor how it had died. |
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| | IWPR's Iraqi Press Monitor |
| | IPM is intended to give readers a sense of what Iraqi papers are reporting, and IWPR cannot vouch for the accuracy of the reports. | | | Iraqi Press Monitor is published by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, an independent non-profit organisation supporting regional media and democratic change. | | | Jawad Roomi al-Daini, head of the brigade, said his forces are capable of dealing with the area that runs from Rahidiya to Rustamiya, and vowed to reestablish peace and security in the capital. |
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| | BBC NEWS Middle East Looters ransack Baghdad hospitals |
| | Looters took food, furniture, ornaments, carpets and other items from government offices, shops, homes and Saddam's Hussein's palaces. | | | The ICRC suspended operations in Baghdad on Wednesday after a Canadian member of the humanitarian team was killed in the capital. | | | Baghdad's hospitals have already been under severe strain in recent days as they try to cope with the casualties caused by the coalition's aerial bombardments of the capital, as well as fighting on the ground. |
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| | Iraq (Harpers.org) |
| | It was the tenth anniversary of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait; Alaa Hussein Ali, who led Kuwait's puppet government during the occupation, filed suit against Saddam Hussein for compelling him to collaborate with Iraqi forces. | | | Senator Trent Lott claimed that President Bush does not need congressional approval to invade Iraq since he was given the authority last fall to pursue military action against Al Qaeda. | | | McDermott said he was suspicious of attempts by the White House to tie the Iraqis to Al Qaeda and flatly stated on television, “I think the President would mislead the American people.” Senator Trent Lott replied that McDermott “needs to come home and keep his mouth shut.” » |
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| | Architectural Marvels of Ancient Mesopotamia |
| | The line ended when Persia fell to the Arabs in 641 AD. | | | Baghdad (762 - AD), capital city of Iraq, on the Tigris River. | | | Among the significant events which shaped modern Iraq were the discovery of oil, the establishment of the Hashemlte Monarchy, the overthrow of this same Hashemlte monarchy and the establishment of the Republic in 1958. |
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| | Al-Ahram Weekly Baghdad Supplement (April 2003) |
| | Sinan Antoon interviewed him in Washington, May, 1996. | | | Following the occupation of Palestine in 1948, Palestinian writer Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1920-1994), sought work in Baghdad, a city he fell in love with, one of whose natives he married, and which was to become the backdrop for most of his novels... | | | Born to a Saudi father and an Iraqi mother, novelist Abdel-Rahman Mounif (b.1933) spent his formative years in Amman before travelling to Baghdad to study for his university degree... |
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| | Baghdad |
| | Baghdad was founded on the Tigris River, slightly north of the ancient city of Babylon. | | | Baghdad was a trade hub, as was Babylon in it’s day. | | | The name given to his new city was his own, Seleucia. |
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| | BBC NEWS World Middle East Tanker explodes on Baghdad road |
| | Police said a collision with a bus had set off a bomb in the tanker as it was heading for a local police station. | | | Bombers attacked two police stations in the Baghdad area on Monday, killing nine people. | | | US forces have now arrested nearly 80 suspected militants in Samarra, north of Baghdad, where a convoy was ambushed on Monday. |
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| | 32 Children Die in Baghdad Blast |
| | Both said all of the dead were under the age of 15 except for one 18-year-old. | | | BAGHDAD, 14 July 2005 — Thirty-two children were killed yesterday when a suicide bomber blew up his car near US soldiers as they handed out candies in a Baghdad neighborhood. | | | Baghdad’s Kindi Hospital said it received 25 bodies while Ibn Al-Nafis said it received seven. |
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| | DefenseLINK News: Bomb in Baghdad Kills Two Coalition Soldiers |
| | Another explosion today, this one in central Baghdad, killed four Iraqi citizens and wounded 25 others, Kimmit said, citing the Department of Health as his source for the casualty figures. | | | The soldier who was killed survived the explosion at the scene, but died later at the 31st Combat Support hospital, the release said. | | | An IED later determined to be a 500-pound bomb exploded in southeast Baghdad, killing one coalition soldier at the scene and another who died later, a senior military spokesman said at a Baghdad news conference today. |
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| | A Sealed, Silent City Awaits Voting Day With Hope and Fear (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Portraits of U.S. service members who have died in Iraq since the beginning of the war. | | | Across the divide, in a city reminiscent of wartime Baghdad, many hoped for what they had never had: an ordinary life. | | | There were the promising words that have punctuated life here for the past month as Iraq prepared to vote for a parliament: prosperity, stability, security, an end to the occupation and the beginning of democracy. |
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| | Technorati Tag: baghdad |
| | Tolls of War In Midwest and In Iraq | | | This page shows blog posts, photos, and links that have been tagged baghdad. | | | So bad that AP says: AP: "Civil war looms" in Iraq Headline: Civil War Looms With 68 Killed in Baghdad. |
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| | Three U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq - (United Press International) |
| | Baghdad, Iraq, May. 20 (UPI) -- Three U.S. soldiers and two civilians have died in 24 hours of Iraqi violence -- four by gunmen and one in an accident caused by an explosion. | | | Three U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq - (United Press International) | | | A 1st Corps Support Command soldier was on a walking "combat logistic patrol" north of Taji, Iraq, early Friday when he was killed by a vehicle that swerved to avoid a roadside explosion, CNN reported. |
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| | Baghdad is the center of air, road, and railroad transportation in Iraq. | | | Among the noteworthy historical structures of Baghdad is the ruins of Bab al-Wastani, the last remaining of the famous gates of Baghdad, which has been converted into an arms museum. | | | Educational institutions in the city include the University of Baghdad (1957), al-Mustansiriyah University (1963), and the University of Technology (1974). |
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| | Medieval Sourcebook: Yakut: Baghdad under the Abbasids, c. 1000 CE |
| | The different nationalities in the capital had each a head officer to represent their interests with the government, and to whom the stranger could appeal for counsel or help. | | | Baghdad "the city of the Arabian nights" was founded in 764 CE. | | | and carrying the pleasure-seeking Baghdad citizens from one part of the city to the other. |
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| | CBC News: Dozens die in blasts aimed at Iraqi worshippers |
| | BAGHDAD - At least 36 people were killed and dozens injured Friday in a series of explosions around Baghdad on the eve of Shia Islam's most important holiday. | | | Inside an hour, a suicide bomber exploded near a Shia religious procession in the city's northwest, killing two people and injuring five. | | | Wrapping up the bloody day, a car bomb exploded in the evening outside a Shia mosque in Iskandariyah, 50 kilometres south of the capital, killing seven people and wounding 10. |
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| | When the Mongols invaded Baghdad in the 13th century, the caliph was murdered, many buildings and the irrigation system were destroyed, thus adding dramatically to the city's decline. | | | Circular walls enclosed the city and, although its original name was Madinat as-Salam (City of Peace), it was more popularly known as the Round City. | | | Improvements were made on a modest scale at the beginning of the 20th century, when some schools and hospitals were built. |
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http://www.arab.net/iraq/iq_baghdad.htm
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