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  Amarah Gabriel - Dovecote Gallery
Amarah became interested in children's need for expression creativity while in art school and taught children's art classes while implementing many new educational ideas.
Amarah's partnership with Timothy Raven Hume of Artangels led them to do the Can Buoy Mural for the Salt Spring Harbour Authority.
I love my life." Amarah Gabriel is a master colourist whose work is sold worldwide.Painting for 30 years, her signature style is distinct.
www.dovecotegallery.com /amarah_gabriel.htm   (482 words)

  
  Amarah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Amarah (sometimes written al-'Amarah or Amara), is a city in southeastern Iraq, located next to the Tigris River waterway south of Baghdad, at 32°10′ N 46°03′ E.
In 1915 Amarah was captured by the British.
Before and during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the city was noted as a center of resistance to Saddam Hussein.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al-Amarah   (117 words)

  
 Amarah
Amarah [Amara] is the administrative center of Maysan [Misan] Governate [and should not be confused with the Al 'Amarah Marsh].
The occupation of southern Iraq (the Basrah vilayet) was completed with the capture of Amarah and Nasiriyah in the summer of 1915.
In Amarah province, access to food allegedly is used to reward regime supporters and silence opponents.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/amarah.htm   (492 words)

  
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Amarah (sometimes written al-'Amarah), is a city in southeastern Iraq, located next to the Tigris River waterway south of Baghdad, at 32°10'N 46°03'E. Predominately Shiite, it had a population of about 340,000 as of 2002.
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 Search: Amarah - FOX News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Amarah and Nasiriyah in the summer of 1915...
Amarah is the administrative centre of Maysan governorate with about 750,000 inhabitants.
Amarah (sometimes written al-'Amarah), is a city in southeastern Iraq, located next to the Tigris River waterway...
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 Telegraph | News | Wild West town a haven for exiles and smugglers
A short distance from the Iranian frontier, Amarah is little more than a sprawling collection of concrete buildings and drab mud huts along the Tigris river with a population of 340,000 people.
The reasons for the outbreak of violence near Amarah yesterday are not clear, though British defence sources suggested that it may have been related to attempts by the Royal Military Police to disarm local tribesmen.
The local police force had voted at the start of the war to end its support for Saddam's regime, a gesture that enabled a transition of power to a civilian administration that was smooth by the standards of post-war Iraq.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/25/wirq225.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/06/25/ixnewstop.html   (568 words)

  
 Sailor Senshi's Cosmic Moon Page: Profiles: Tenoh Haruka AKA Amarah
Amarah has the ability to excel in just about anything, from running to dirt biking.
At first Amarah refused to except it, but she finally gave in and took Michelle (Sailor Neptune) as a VERY close friend and partner.
Amarah tries best to be her normal self.
www.angelfire.com /yt/2108/profiles/amarah.html   (314 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / Police chief killed in Amarah, Iraq   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The coalition-backed police chief of this major southern Iraqi city was shot to death as he left a mosque after prayers, officials said Saturday.
AMARAH, Iraq -- The coalition-backed police chief of this major southern Iraqi city was shot to death as he left a mosque after prayers, officials said Saturday.
However, Amarah is populated primarily by Shiite Muslims, who have been generally more accepting of the occupation because of their suffering under the former regime of Saddam Hussein, a Sunni.
www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2003/10/25/police_chief_killed_in_amarah_iraq   (251 words)

  
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Amarah pushed her back gently up on the fire-warmed pelt of a slain blood fenris and rained a series of tender kisses upon her lips, pausing to nip playfully at her chin and making the kitsune giggle a bit, before continueing downwards towards her throat.
Amarah dipped her tongue into SnowFox's grooves, delighting in the shocking sensation of hot wetness against hot wetness and felt the little fox-woman move beneath her as she licked up and down the walls of her womanhood.
SnowFox grasped Amarah's head by the hair and pushed her further into herself, not really realizing that she was doing so, silently begging, by her actions, for Amarah not to cease in her ministrations.
adultfan.nexcess.net /aff/story.php?no=8354   (2032 words)

  
 British try to impose order amid culture of defiance - 11/22/04   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Amarah resists leadership, fueling fears that Iraq could unravel into factions.
Amarah's residents, still blinking in the unaccustomed light of freedom, suddenly found a new occupier taking up positions.
There is cautiously hopeful talk about developing an export industry for the bricks turned out by the rows of Dickensian factories outside Amarah, whose chimneys rise like flened fingers along a skyline hazed in clouds of acrid soot.
www.detnews.com /2004/nation/0411/23/A04-12513.htm   (1072 words)

  
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There are increasing calls for quicker flooding and rehabilitation of Iraq’s southern marshlands in Amarah, due to rising unemployment and delays in the return of the marsh Arabs.
According to official sources in Amarah, there has been a decrease in the number of students attending school, due to insecurity, poor infrastructure, compounded by a lack of qualified teachers.
A report issued by the Animal Production Department (APD) of Amarah, on June 2005, said the number of buffalos before the draining was about 26,500 and in 2000 were there were 16,850 — a decrease of 38 percent.
www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=48679&SelectRegion=Middle_East&SelectCountry=IRAQ   (1511 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Middle East | Q&A: Amarah protests
For example, a threat that the Governor of Amarah should resign by the end of the day or demonstrators will sack his offices because his people are accused of being responsible for the shootings of some of these demonstrators.
Amarah is a microcosm of this country's troubles.
Trouble at the weekend was fuelled by allegations that new jobs were being distributed by nepotism and favouritism.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3391147.stm   (428 words)

  
 Demonstrations Resume in Iraq, Day After Deadly Clash   (Site not responding. Last check: )
AMARAH, Iraq (AP) -- Impatience with Iraq's occupying forces boiled over Sunday as unemployed Iraqis pelted British troops with stones and a top Shiite Muslim cleric demanded the country's next parliament be elected -- not chosen by local caucuses, as foreseen by the Americans.
In the southern city of Amarah, waves of protesters -- some armed with sticks and shovels -- rushed British troops guarding the city hall, a day after clashes here killed six protesters and wounded at least 11.
Tensions in Amarah, 200 miles, southeast of Baghdad, erupted Saturday after hundreds of Iraqis gathered to protest that authorities had not kept a promise to give them jobs.
www.dangerouscitizen.com /Articles/1020.aspx   (981 words)

  
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And here is how a later AP report itself described the incident: ' In Amarah, seven British soldiers were wounded after being fired on with handguns and rocket-propelled grenades during a three-hour firefight in southern Iraq, coalition officials said.
Likewise, the road between Amarah and Basra was cut, and guns were fired, killing two, a man and a woman.
An American military spokesman said that a single bullet was fired at the British and that the crowd confronted them after the arrest of a suspect.
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 Al Amarah   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Al Amarah is the main trade centre on the Tigris waterway south of Baghdad.
The city is the trade and administrative centre for its agricultural region, producing livestock, wool and hides.
Prior to the revolution of 1958, Al Amarah was well known for its feudalistic system, in which shaykhs owned large estates and maintained large private armies.
i-cias.com /e.o/amarah.htm   (165 words)

  
 Leprosy treatment in the south very poor - officials   (Site not responding. Last check: )
AMARAH, 29 Jun 2005 (IRIN) - Leprosy patients in the south of the country have been suffering from a lack of medical assistance and poor living conditions according to health officials.
Dr Abdullah al-Hakeem, a medical lecturer at Basra University, said that infected patients posed a real health risk and were capable of infecting many others, particularly those with leprosy at large in the wider community.
With the Amarah clinic now being so poorly resourced this problem is now growing, he said.
www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=47874   (643 words)

  
 CNN.com - Marines find missile in soccer stadium - Apr. 10, 2003
Citizens of in the town of Amarah, southeast of Baghdad, led U.S. Marines to a soccer stadium Thursday where the Iraqi regime had hidden an al-Samoud missile, CNN's Bob Franken reported.
Marines from Task Force Tarawa have control of Amarah, a town of about 330,000 predominantly Shia Iraqis, reported Franken, who is embedded with the Marines.
Amarah is northeast of Nasiriya, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) from the Iranian border.
www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/04/10/sprj.irq.hidden.missile   (259 words)

  
 Distrust of government even in Shiite provinces bodes ill for Iraq's future - 11/20/04
Civilian reconstruction officials and the British army are desperate to find projects that will lance tensions in the province by putting some of the thousands of unemployed -- and armed -- young men to work.
And after waging months of battles to retain their foothold in a compound on the main street of Amarah, the British tired of fighting their way out every time they needed to be resupplied and withdrew from the city to a base near the airport.
Instead, they patrol along the soft clay ridges of the city outskirts, peering at the town through night-vision equipment that is good for spotting potential attackers but offers no insight into the subterranean world of shifting political alliances.
www.detnews.com /2004/nation/0411/20/nation-11013.htm   (1378 words)

  
 British Troops Kill 28 - Military Images Photos Pictures Forums
Ambulance driver Mohammed Rahim said British authorities contacted Amarah General Hospital on Saturday night and asked officials to send ambulances to their base near Amarah to receive bodies of those Iraqis killed in the clashes.
AMARAH, Iraq - At least 28 Iraqis died in recent fighting between British troops and gunmen loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, hospital officials said Sunday.
British troops killed as many as 16 Iraqi insurgents Friday after a patrol was ambushed between the southern cities of Amarah and Basra, and two British soldiers were wounded, the Ministry of Defense said in London.
www.militaryimages.net /forums/showthread.php?t=663   (1002 words)

  
 Al Amarah, Iraq, Pictures
During the 1980s the government built new docks at Al 'Amarah, and the city is home to a Japanese-built hospital.
Al 'Amarah was founded in the 1860s as a military outpost of the Ottoman Empire (based in modern-day Turkey).
Al 'Amarah became the administrative capital of the Ottoman province of Al 'Amarah (later Maysan).
www.greatestcities.com /Middle_East/Iraq/Al_Amarah_Amara_city.html   (245 words)

  
 War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity
British troops rolled into Amarah several days after Hussein was toppled last year.
Civilian reconstruction officials and the British army are desperate to find projects that will lance tensions in the province by putting some of the thousands of unemployed — and armed — young men to work.
A monitoring team arrived in Amarah this month to check on repairs supposedly underway on 39 schools.
www.christusrex.org /www1/news/lat-11-18-04b.html   (1217 words)

  
 Anti-Saddam hero goes on the run after police killing   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A famous Iraqi guerrilla leader known as the "Lord of the Marshes", who fought Saddam Hussein, is on the run, accused of murdering a police chief after he tried to pacify villagers enraged by losing 34 dead in a shoot-out with British troops.
The sheikh is influential in Majar al-Kabir and the great marshes where the Tigris and Euphrates meet, south of the impoverished city of Amarah.
The area around Amarah on the edge of the old marshes and close to the border with Iran is violent and anarchic.
psychoanalystsopposewar.org /resources_files/Anti-Saddam_hero_goes_on_the_run_after_police_killing.html   (666 words)

  
 GN Online: Bruce Wallace: British forces tread lightly in Amarah
British troops rolled into Amarah, the centre of Maysan province to get a handle on who's in charge.
The province remains in the grip of private, political and tribal militias, who fight one another for influence as well as the British when they get in the way.
Civilian reconstruction officials and the British army are desperate to find projects that will lance tensions in the province by putting some of the thousands of unemployed and armed young men to work.
www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=140655   (1119 words)

  
 CNN.com - Bob Franken: Smooth sailing in eastern Iraq - Apr. 9, 2003
CNN correspondent Bob Franken talked with anchor Bill Hemmer from Amarah, a predominantly Shiite city of 340,000 in eastern Iraq, where U.S. Marines secured an Iraqi missile site and worked with Iraqis opposed to Saddam Hussein.
Amarah is a very large town of about 340,000 people.
We do know that there was some fighting in Amarah last night before we were permitted to go in.
cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/04/09/otsc.irq.franken   (550 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
The information came in a series of meetings that the general who is in charge of the Marines, General Rich Natonski (ph), had with townspeople, including some of the sheiks, some of the leaders of the tribes that had been putting up a resistance to Saddam Hussein.
Al Amarah is a town of about 340,000, a very large town.
We do know that there was some fighting in Al Amarah last night before we were permitted to go in.
edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0304/09/lad.01.html   (897 words)

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