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	Arbil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The petty kingdom of Adiabene (Greek form of Aramaic Hadyab) had its center at Arbil, and the town and kingdom are known in Jewish Middle Eastern history for the conversion of the royal family to Judaism, although the general population may have remained eclectic but with a strong eastern Christian presence.
		Arbil is also the birth place of the famous Islamic Kurdish historian and writer of 13th century, Ibn Khallikan.
		The parliament of the Kurdish Autonomous Region was established in Arbil in 1970 after negotiations between the Iraqi government and the Kurdish militants, but was effectively controlled by Saddam Hussein until the Kurdish uprising at the end of the 1991 Gulf War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arbil,_Iraq (979 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Arbil,
		ARBIL, IRAQ -- An Arbil, Iraqi man flashes the victory sign during celebrations Wednesday, April 9, 2003, in Arbil, Iraq.
		ARBIL, IRAQ -- Young men flash the victory sign as another one kisses the American flag during demonstrations Wednesday, April 9, 2003, in Arbil, Iraq.
		ARBIL, IRAQ -- An Iraqi boy pushes a crate filled with water jugs in a market in Arbil, Iraq, on Monday, May 26, 2003.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Arbil, (273 words)

	Osmanlı Tarihi Kültürü Medeniyeti Edebiyatı Sanatı
		Arbil (or Erbil, Irbil; known as Arbela in Syriac and Hewler in Kurdish) is one of Iraq's larger cities, located at 36.12N 44.01E about eighty kilometres (fifty miles) east of Mosul.
		Arbil was a part of the Persian Empire for many centuries.
		Arbil was fairly quiet during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
	www.osmanlimedeniyeti.com /wiki/Arbil,_Iraq_.html (435 words)

	Arbil News
		Iraq cancels peace talks after scores more die Indefinite delay is blow to credibility of government Militia kills 46 Sunnis after 17 Shia found beheaded Michael Howard in Irbil and agencies in Baghdad Monday...
		Convinced oil revenue is the long-term key to economic independence for a unified Iraq, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appealed Friday for cooperation from the autonomous and oil rich Kurdish north.
		Relief workers in Irbil and other areas of northern Iraq said their services are stretched as thousands of refugees from around the region seek haven.
	www.topix.net /iq/arbil (698 words)

	Middle East Online
		ARBIL, Iraq - Forty-six people were killed and 94 injured Wednesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a group of police recruits in the Kurdish city of Arbil in northern Iraq.
		The Arbil bombing, one of the deadliest since the January 30 election, came a day after the new government of Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari was sworn in.
		Arbil, 350 kilometres (210 miles) north of Baghdad, is the fiefdom of Massoud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), one of the two main Kurdish factions in Iraq.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english/?id=13397 (726 words)

	News & Analysis: Bloodbath Beyond the Green Zone: The Unreported Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		ARBIL, IRAQ - The gap between Iraq of the Green Zone and Iraq as it really is grows ever wider.
		Iraq is at the crossroads of the Middle East, sharing common frontiers with Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and Turkey.
		But it is a measure of the violence in Iraq that the attack on the Kandil and other parts of the frontier passed almost unnoticed inside and outside the country.
	electroniciraq.net /news/2373.shtml (3289 words)

	Arbil: Car bomb kills at least 20 Iraqi police recruits
		ARBIL, Iraq, June 20 (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle among a crowd of Iraqi traffic police trainees in the northern Kurdish city of Arbil on Monday, killing at least 12 and wounding more than 100, local officials said.
		A spokesman for Arbil's city council said the death toll could rise as many of the wounded were in serious condition.
		Arbil, one of the main cities in the northern Kurdish region of Iraq and home to the Kurdish parliament and its newly installed president, has been relatively peaceful over the past two years apart from occasional, spectacular suicide attacks.
	www.ekurd.net /mismas/articles/misc2005/6/islamterror56.htm (1451 words)

	'Kurdish Sept. 11' Boosts Resolve
		ARBIL, IRAQ - Kurdistan's two main political parties, rivals who had fought long and bloody civil wars for local dominance in the 1990s, were on the cusp of setting old animosities aside when terror returned to Arbil.
		The attack puts Iraq's Kurdish problem back in the news as the US, the United Nations, and Iraqi leaders enter delicate negotiations over the shape of a transitional government that the Bush administration wants to install by the end of June.
		Arbil, a city of 600,000 that's home to about a fifth of Kurdistan's people, is a city in shock.
	www.iraqfoundation.org /archives/news/2004/bfeb/5_kurdish.html (1112 words)

	South Koreans chase profits in northern Iraq - Iraq Business News
		ARBIL, Iraq: South Korean businessman Kim Jeong-Hee experiences close Kurd-Korean cooperation daily: everywhere he goes he is accompanied by a Kurdish peshmerga soldier armed with a Kalashnikov rifle.
		He said he was trying to persuade his Korean partners to establish a factory in Arbil to make textiles from the large amounts of raw fabric produced in the Kurdish area.
		Sitting outside Arbil’s unfinished airport terminal with his Kurdish mobile phone glued to his ear, Jeong-Hee agreed that the Kurdish zone could be ripe for foreign investment — provided the investment laws provided guarantees for foreign firms.
	www.iraqdirectory.com /files/articles/article093.htm (758 words)

	Middle East Online
		ARBIL, Iraq - The US-led coalition was still reeling Wednesday from double suicide bombings in northern Iraq, the deadliest post-war attacks, as US FBI agents probed what officials said could be the work of Al-Qaeda-linked extremists.
		Leaders of the two Kurdish political groups targeted by the blasts in Arbil, 350 kilometres (220 miles) north of Baghdad, have also said the attacks could be the work of the extremist Ansar al-Islam.
		In southern Iraq, a British convoy was targeted by an explosive device at 9:15 am (0615 GMT) Wednesday on a road leading to the airport of the city of Basra, one of three main British army bases, a coalition spokesman said.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english/iraq/?id=8759 (804 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > In Iraq -- Hope and anger motivate oppressed Iraqi Kurds
		ARBIL, Iraq – Four-year-old refugee Mohammed has been waiting all his life to go home – a victim of Saddam Hussein's bid to wipe out the Kurds of northern Iraq.
		Under the protection of the 1991 no-fly zone over the Kurdish north of Iraq which lasted until the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, the Kurds developed a functioning economy with Arbil at its core and even held their own elections.
		Arbil is a bustling city of 1 million people with no sign of being on a war footing and no evidence of the mayhem that has erupted in the south and center of the country since March.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/iraq/20031223-0500-iraq-kurds.html (840 words)

	Muslim American Society
		ARBIL, Iraq, Feb 2 (MASNET and News Agencies) - Iraq's northern Kurdish region declared an official three-day mourning period, a day after twin bombings in the city of Arbil left 67 dead and around 200 wounded during major Muslim religious celebrations.
		Akram Mantik, governor of Arbil province and his deputy Mehdi Khoshnau also died, as did the chief of the KDP headquarters.
		The Eid bombings marked the first known use in Iraq of human bombing tactics favored by Palestinian militia groups in their attacks on Israelis, as well as by Al-Qaeda, marking the first time a major assault involved attackers on foot rather than driving vehicles.
	www.masnet.org /aroundworld.asp?id=898 (780 words)

	News
		ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - The Kurdish parliament in northern Iraq said on Sunday it elected veteran leader Masoud Barzani as president of the region, giving the group greater autonomy after decades of oppression under Saddam Hussein.
		The Kurds have been pushing for a fully federal Iraq, something the Arab majority is less keen on.
		Arbil also suffered heavy losses last year when twin suicide bombings hit the offices of the two main Kurdish parties, killing 117 people.
	www.iraqfoundation.org /news/2005/june/13_barzani.htm (446 words)

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		KOY SANJAK, Iraq, Oct 16 (Reuter) - Kurd militiamen opposed to Baghdad on Wednesday pushed north towards the city of Arbil, northern Iraq's administrative centre and symbol of Kurdish dreams of autonomy.
		Arbil was the seat of a Kurdish regional government that collapsed last year in inter-faction squabblinq.
		U.S., British and French planes have been patrolling the skies of northern Iraq since the end of the Gulf War in 1991 to shield Iraq's Kurds from Baghdad.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /kurdistanobserve/Newso16a.htm (783 words)

	City Of Arbil (Irbil), Iraq, Schema-Root news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ismaili also advanced to the round of 16 after beating Arbil of Iraq 4-2 in Aleppo, Syria.
		ARBIL, Iraq, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Following hints US troops may remain in Iraq for years, the United States is reportedly building a...
		A delegate of Mississippi university visiting Arbil province has announced that cancer causalities in Halabcha city have a direct links with effects of...
	schema-root.org /region/middle_east/iraq/cities/arbil (1131 words)

	Suicide bomber kills 46 in Iraq -DAWN - Top Stories; May 5, 2005
		ARBIL (Iraq), May 4: A suicide bomber struck the offices of a Kurdish party in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 46 people only a week after a new government promising stability was formed.
		Iraq’s Kurdish north has been relatively free of the suicide bombings and shootings gripping other parts of the country.
		Arbil, home to the Kurdish regional government, also suffered heavy losses last year when twin suicide bombings hit the offices of the two main Kurdish parties, killing 117 people.
	www.dawn.com /2005/05/05/top5.htm (687 words)

	Pacifica.org
		Iraq – US soldiers, backed by tanks and helicopters, launched a fresh attack today against fighters loyal to the firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in the Iraqi city of Kerbala.
		Baghdad, Iraq -- A team of local volunteers in surgical masks lift the rotting corpse of a middle aged woman from its shallow grave in the front yard of a single family home.
		Arbil, Iraq -- Looking at the faces of the troops behind the razor wire-fenced four-floor military compound in the center of the Northern Iraqi city of Arbil, at least one fact becomes immediately apparent: its not just George Bush and his "coalition of the willing" that are occupying Iraq.
	pacifica.org /programs/reportfromiraq (2468 words)

	4th Rebuilding Iraq Expo, Arbil, Iraq
		Iraq, Formerly part of the Ottoman Empire, Iraq was occupied by Britain during the course of World War I; in 1920, it was declared a League of Nations mandate under UK administration.
		In August 1990, Iraq seized Kuwait, but was expelled by US-led, UN coalition forces during the Gulf War of January-February 1991.
		As the heart of Iraqi Kurdistan, Arbil is one of the most vibrant cities in Iraq.
	www.new-fields.com /iraq4b/index.htm (1437 words)

	CNN.com - Report: Four dead in Iraq bombing - Dec. 24, 2003
		U.S.-led occupation forces in Iraq have tightened security in Baghdad and other hotspots in anticipation of attacks by insurgents to coincide with the holiday season.
		The mainly Kurdish north has seen less violence than the rest of Iraq since U.S.-led forces deposed Saddam Hussein in April, but several car bombs have targeted U.S. troops and Iraqis working with them in the region.
		Arbil was the seat of an autonomous Kurdish government after the 1991 Gulf War when U.S.-backed Kurds rebelled against Saddam's government in Baghdad.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/12/24/sprj.irq.arbil.reut/index.html (224 words)

	Arbil Governorate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The governorate of Arbil covers an area of 14,428 km² (5,570 miles²) in the north of Iraq, with an estimated population (in 2001) of 1,134,300 people.
		From 1974 onwards, the province of Arbil formed part of the Kurdish Autonomous Region of northern Iraq.
		The region's economy is largely agricultural with some oil production and was badly affected by the conflict between Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi Kurds, although smuggling in defiance of the United Nations sanctions regime enabled many locals to keep afloat and even to prosper in some cases.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arbil_Governorate (254 words)

	Opening of New Internet Center at Salahaddin University in Arbil
		Salahaddin University in the city of Arbil in the Iraqi Kurdistan region opened its first internet center and classroom on May 25.
		The president of Salahaddin, Dr. Mohammad Sadik Khoshnau, and the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in northern Iraq, Regional Coordinator Dr. Liane Saunders, attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the College of Education.
		Saunders noted that the internet was just one more way for the students of Iraq as a whole and this region in particular to reconnect with the rest of the world after years of war and dictatorship.
	www.iraqcoalition.org /pressreleases/20040530_arbil_internet.html (294 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Iran Shells Kurd Positions in Iraq, Kurd Official Report
		ARBIL, Iraq - Iranian forces shelled Iranian Kurdish rebel positions inside mountainous northern Iraq on Friday to repel an attack, an Iraqi Kurdish official said.
		News of the incident could fuel tensions in Iraq, where Sunni Arab leaders accuse Shi'ite Iran of meddling in the country's internal affairs.
		Turkey's Daily Aksam said on Friday 50,000 troops were massed at the borders with Iran and Iraq and that the army planned to extend its fight against the PKK beyond Turkey's borders.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/6-4-21/40677.html (527 words)

	Kirkuk, a mirror of Iraq's schisms \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		ARBIL, IRAQ – Since 1998, when Iraqi officials put Inam Ismail on the back of a truck and sent her away from Kirkuk, she has been a refugee in her own country, living with six family members in two dingy concrete rooms off a muddy pathway in the Kurdish-controlled city of Arbil.
		Ismail sees a war against Iraq as an opportunity to reclaim her father's home in Kirkuk, with the garden of lemon and orange trees she remembers from childhood.
		Turkmens in northern Iraq are divided over whether Turkey should insert itself into Kirkuk; Ismail and other Turkmens credit Kurdish authorities for protecting their cultural and linguistic rights during the 12 years they have administered parts of northern Iraq.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0304/p06s01-woiq.html (1388 words)

	Iraq: Soldiers Describe Mistreatment by Commanders (Human Rights Watch, 4-4-2003)
		(Arbil, Iraq, April 4, 2003) -- Iraqi soldiers deserting their units and fleeing into Kurdish-controlled areas are escaping not just U.S. bombing raids but also ill-treatment by their own commanders, Human Rights Watch said today.
		Many stated that they were surprised at how welcoming the Pesh Merga were, especially as they had been told by their officers that Kurdish forces would kill them if they surrendered.
		The camp detainees are fearful of what has happened to their families in Iraq since they surrendered.
	www.hrw.org /press/2003/04/iraq040403.htm (2091 words)

	Kurdish deputy security chief wounded, three killed in ambush (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		ARBIL, Iraq, Dec 28 (AFP) - 13h51 - The deputy security chief of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the former rebel faction ruling Arbil, was wounded and his three bodyguards killed in an ambush Sunday outside his home, police said.
		The KDP number two security official Jawamir Attiyah Kaki was rushed to hospital, said Arbil’s police chief Nariman Abdel Hamid.
		The provinces of Dohak and Arbil, run by KDP chief Massoud Barzani, and Sulaimaniyah, ruled by Jalal al-Talabani’s rival Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, have enjoyed virtual autonomy since the end of the 1991 Gulf War.
	www.kurdmedia.com /news.asp?id=4564 (251 words)

	ACL: Rebuilding Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While the justification for invading Iraq was based on communist rhetoric-propaganda about spreading democracy and freedom, the anti-war movement will never address the core issue with the War on Terror objectives, which is the absurdity of U.S. leaders working with the global communists to rebuild the Arab world under Israeli-communitarian democratic principles.
		Statement on the International Monetary Fund's Staff Macroeconomic Assessment of Iraq, Delivered by Lorenzo Perez, IMF Mission Chief for Iraq to the International Donors' Conference for the Reconstruction of Iraq Madrid, October 23, 2003.
		Iraq's only hope for liberty may be to push for creating a true republican nation...
	nord.twu.net /acl/iraq.html (4139 words)

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