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| | Background and History on Iraq |
 | | Iraq denies this and claims that the U.S. is attempting to subvert its national sovereignty and cripple the country through continued economic sanctions. | | | The south of Iraq is populated mainly by Shia Muslims, and the center, west and north of Iraq are mainly Sunni. | | | The U.S. and the UN claim that Iraq is not living up to the terms of the disarmament agreement and is continuing to develop weapons of mass destruction. |
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http://www.workablepeace.org/main-now-IraqHistory.html
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| | Iraq War History |
| | Their view was that Iraq had violated the terms of the cease-fire by breaching two key conditions and thus made the invasion of Iraq a legal continuation of the earlier war. | | | Shortly after the sudden collapse of the defense of Baghdad, rumors were circulating in Iraq and elsewhere that there had been a deal struck (a "safqua") wherein the US had bribed key members of the Iraqi military elite and/or the Baath party itself to stand down. | | | Popular opposition to war on Iraq led to global protests, and the war was criticized by Belgium, Russia, France, the People's Republic of China, Germany, and the Arab League. |
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http://www.iraq-war.ws/history
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| | Iraq Timeline |
| | Iraq and other Arab countries launch an unsuccessful war against Israel, which had declared statehood that year. | | | Iraq becomes a charter member of the Arab League. | | | A no-fly zone is established in Northern Iraq to protect the Kurds from Saddam Hussein (April 10). |
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http://www.infoplease.com/spot/iraqtimeline1.html
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| | history of Iraq |
| | The working-class history of the Republic of Iraq | | | The economic history of the Republic of Iraq | | | The culture history of the Republic of Iraq |
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http://www.findthelinks.com/countries/history/history_of_iraq.htm
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| | History of IRAQ |
| | Historically the Christians of Iraq were primarily Syriac-speaking and the majority was referred to in Church history as the Nestorians. | | | We rarely hear nowadays that Iraq is predominately an Arab country with ethnic and religious minorities, which is the case in most countries in the world in that there tends to be a majority ethnic group and a minority of other diverse communities. | | | Abdus~Salam Aref, president of Iraq after the assassination of Qassim, died in 1966 in an airplane crash believed to be orchestrated on purpose. |
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http://historyofiraq.blogspot.com
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| | History of Iraq |
| | Iraq’s former leader Saddam Hussein (who is a sunni), was born on 28th April 1937, into a poor peasant family in the village of al-Auja, near Tikrit. | | | This increased with the rise of the Israeli State that was reborn in 1948. | | | Fearing Iran, America saw Iraq as their ally and gave resources to them, including money and weapons. |
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http://www.byfaith.co.uk/pauliraq.htm
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| | history of iraq |
| | Iraq was accused of violating disarmament resolutions, but neither Iraq nor the US had been able to prove compliance or non-compliance. | | | The CIA and the British intelligence agencies have stated that an attack on Iraq is inadvisable at this time. | | | In 2002 George W.Bush denounced Iraq, Iran and N.Korea as an "axis of evil". |
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http://crucial-systems.com/1162/history_of_iraq
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| | History News Network |
| | Saddam Hussein maintains, as a means of establishing the legitimacy of Iraq, that the country has a 5,000 year history. | | | In this interview on NPR, Charles Tripp -- author of a history of Iraq --points out Iraq was actually the creation of the British. | | | He argues that the unforseen consequences in this war would probably be large and reviews cases in the past in which policymakers were confounded by the consequences of their actions. |
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http://hnn.us/articles/1032.html
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| | BBC - History - British Relations with Iraq |
| | Apart from its natural geographical differences, the new Iraq was a complex mix of ethnic and religious groups. | | | The Arabs claimed this was a veiled colonialism, because there was only an indefinite promise of independence. | | | These borders also meant that Iraq had only limited access to the waters of the Gulf. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/iraq/britain_iraq_03.shtml
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| | Iraq: History |
| | July 15: A new government is proclaimed, and the Arab Union with Jordan is declared dissolved, and Iraq is to work for close relations with the United Arab Republic, which was established by Egypt and Syria earlier this year. | | | — April: Iraq suppresses rebellions in the south by Shi'is, and in the north by Kurds. | | | The city is destroyed, citizens are massacred, and the Caliph executed: The Caliphate is over, and the economy of Iraq is destroyed for centuries. |
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http://i-cias.com/e.o/iraq_5.htm
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| | Iraq: History |
| | Opposition within Iraq grew among the Shiites, who were the majority of the population yet were excluded from political power. | | | The British mandate was terminated in 1932, and Iraq was admitted to the League of Nations. | | | In external affairs, Iraq continued adamant opposition to Israel and pledged loyalty to the Arab League. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A0858896.html
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| | A History of Iraq. |
| | Confronted with a roiling domestic cauldron, as well as formidable external challenges, the ruling oligarchy in Iraq - from the monarchy, to the Ba'th party, to Saddam Hussein - has been condemned to a constant rearguard action for political legitimacy and personal survival. | | | The political history of the Iraqi state is a continuing one. | | | Islam's millenarian legacy, the precarious and uncertain nature of Arab nationalism, and the abundance of conflicting loyalties, disputed boundaries, religious, and ethnic and tribal schisms, have all left an indelible mark on ruled and rulers alike. |
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http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/karshE.html
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| | Revision Thing (Harpers.org) |
| | There is a lot of revisionist history now going on, but one thing is certain--he is no longer a threat to the free world, and the people of Iraq are free. | | | The oil fields belonged to the people of Iraq, the government of Iraq, all of Iraq. | | | It was entirely possible that in Iraq you had the most pro-American population that could be found anywhere in the Arab world. |
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http://www.harpers.org/online/revision_thing?pg=1
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| | A History of Iraq (Charles Tripp) - book review |
| | There has been a spate of books on Iraq recently, but Tripp is a long-time Iraq specialist, not a newcomer to the subject. | | | The limited scope of Tripp's history is occasionally frustrating, but it does provide excellent background for anyone interested in political systems or current Iraqi politics. | | | Then came the British Mandate, the Hashemite monarchy (1932 to 1958), and the Republic (1958 to 1968), before the rise of the Ba'ath and Saddam Hussein. |
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http://dannyreviews.com/h/Iraq.html
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| | Never Fight a Land War in Asia: Waiting for Saddam |
| | In the entire history of Iraq, no nation has ever demonstrated an interest in — or even an awareness of — the misery of the Iraqi people that was anything other than an excuse to secure proximity to the oil resources of the Iraqi people. | | | Democracy in Iraq will only be supported by the Anglo-American petrocracy if it enhances their access to that oil. | | | Second, there's never been a blueprint for what Iraq itself is supposed to be, much less what a free Iraq is supposed to be. |
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http://www.secular-sacrilege.info/timeline/index.jsp
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| | Hannah's Blog: Short history of Iraq |
| | I heard that the Guardsmen in Iraq were denied emergency two-week leave to help or find their families. | | | I heard that the White House had deleted the chapter on Iraq from the annual Economic Report of the President, on the grounds that it did not conform with an otherwise cheerful tone. | | | I heard they were told by their commanders that there were too few US troops in Iraq to spare them. |
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http://hannah.smith-family.com/archive/000998.html
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| | History of Iraq |
| | US policy toward Iraq has been determined by three main strategic goals: ensuring the free flow of oil from the Persian Gulf, preventing any regional power from dominating the gulf, and defending Israel. | | | King Faisal managed to lead the country to independence in 1932 but Iraq did not really shake off British domination until 1958 when a violent coup overthrew the monarchy. | | | His rule has been ruthless in the extreme, his politics totalitarian, and his relations with neighboring countries notorious. |
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http://www.isps.edu.tt/quicklinks/US-IRAQ/historyiraq.htm
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| | NPR : Repeating History in Iraq? |
| | June 12, 1921: We can't continue direct British control though the country would be better governed by it, but it's rather a comic position to be telling people over and over again that whether they like it or not they must have Arab not British Government
. | | | Among the British nationals who helped establish Iraq was Gertrude Bell. | | | New countries emerged, including Iraq, forged by arbitrary political boundaries. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1896780
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| | WHKMLA : History of Iraq, ToC |
| | The History of Iraq, from World History Archives | | | CIA World Factbook : Iraq; BBC Country Profile : Iraq; World Reference Desk : Iraq | | | 409 (on events of 1947) [G] Article Iraq, from Britannica Book of the Year 1949, pp. |
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http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/arabworld/xiraq.html
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| | Daniel Estulin: Destroying History in Iraq |
| | I start with these mementoes because I am about to talk about what was to become a short while later, a fictional and a metaphorical death, and I want to give physical death its due-a mark of piety towards what is actually irreplaceable, untransferable in those artifactual lives now gone. | | | To be sure, market and political forces are also at work here, but the fact remains that without the sanctions, this destruction would not have happened. | | | Bush's Iraq Plan is Right on Course: Saddam 2.0 |
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http://www.counterpunch.com/estulin01102004.html
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| | BBC - History - British Relations with Iraq |
| | The present capital of Iraq, Baghdad, lies near the site of Babylon and was founded by the Arab Abbasid dynasty in the eighth century AD. | | | BBC - History - British Relations with Iraq | | | The present state of Iraq was founded by Great Britain in 1920, on land of great historical antiquity, then known as Mesopotamia. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/iraq/britain_iraq_01.shtml
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| | History of Iraq's railways |
| | The Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 mentions railways in (what is now) Iraq and its neighbours. | | | Andrew's page > Railways in Iraq > History | | | Andrew's page > Railways in Iraq > History (Top) |
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http://www.ajg41.clara.co.uk/iraq/history.html
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| | Ignoring History In Iraq (washingtonpost.com) |
| | I believe in letting them work out their own salvation, even though they wallow in anarchy for a while." | | | Democracy, loosely -- very loosely -- defined as government responsive to gusts of public passions, might fail. | | | Preemptive war was waged, in part, to notify enemies of the United States that U.S. sovereignty could not be paralyzed by world opinion or the noncooperation of international institutions. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9781-2004Aug17.html
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| | DenverPost.com - HOME |
| | DISPATCHES FROM IRAQ: Embedded Post staff report on the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Iraq. | | | HOT IQS ROADTRIP: A Denver band rocks Austin's SXSW Music Festival | | | May 1 rally on schedule at many jobs |
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http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~73~1132351,00.html
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| | For your comments and suggestions send email to: | | | Most of present-day Iraq lies in what is often termed the "Cradle of Civilization," home to the legendary civilizations of | | | The region has produced many cultural, intellectual and technological achievements in the past 10,000 years, as well as a steady stream of wars and rulers. |
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http://members.lycos.co.uk/trivalnet/10006_iraq/00historyiraq.htm
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