| Iraq, as Ancient Mesopotamia,
gave birth to Abraham, somewhere between 2000 BCE and 1700 BCE |
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late 2002, while the White House still was deliberating over attacking the camp, Mr.
Zarqawi was known to have been behind the October 2002 assassination of a senior American
diplomat in Amman, Jordan. But the raid on Mr. Zarqawi didn't take place. Months passed
with no approval of the plan from the White House, until word came down just weeks before
the March 19, 2003, start of the Iraq war that Mr. Bush had rejected any strike on the
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- Spider's Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed
Iraq
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Iraqi family gives up its fight for asylum
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Cities |
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- Baghdad (9,500,000)
- Mosul (3,000,096)
- Basra (2,300,125)
- Arbil (1,800,636)
- Sulamaniyah (1,800,371)
- Kirkuk (1,200,000)
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- Fallujah (850,992)
- Karbala (800,347)
- Najaf (800,137)
- Ramadi (700,373)
- Dahuk (600,899)
- Zubayr (600,000)
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invasion of Baghdad by the Mongols which destroyed the institution of the Caliphate. |
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| Demographics |
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- Population: 26,783,383
- Life Expectancy: 69.01 years
- Literacy:40.4%
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- Median Age: 19.7 years
- Suffrage: age 18 - universal
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thestandpoint of water, which is the most important resource in the region, perhaps
more important then oil, that triangle: southeastTurkey, northern Syria and northern
Iraq,is the most strategic point in the Middle East," he said. "The Kurds are
sitting on the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the most important source of
water in the region," he went on to say. "TheTurks know this and have said
so. If anything happens in Iraq, they want to maintain control of that region." |
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| Geographics |
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- Land size: slightly more than twice the size of Idaho
- Total: 437,072 sq km
- Water: 4,910 sq km
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| History |
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- Golden Square coup April, 1941
- Kuwait declared independence from Iraq (June 19, 1961)
- Iraq opposed Kuwaiti independence, threatening to invade
- British military agreed to defend Kuwait, and Iraq backed down
- Iraq completes the Great Project known as the "Three Rivers
Project" in late August 1992
- Iraq "not opposed" to UN assistance for Kurds September 1992
- Turkey acting like takeover of northern Iraq October 10, 1992
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| Language |
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- Arabic
- Kurdish (official in Kurdish regions)
- Assyrian
- Armenian
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