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	2003 invasion of Baghdad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		US officials said that their forces fought skirmishes there with Iraq's Special Republican Guard, with two task forces going up to the Tigris river from the southern outskirts of the city before moving west towards the airport.
		Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, head of the Information Ministry, told a press conference on April 7 that there were no U.S. troops in Baghdad, saying: "Their infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad.
		Iraqis are heroes." [5] Western news media reported the denial as straight news, while continuing to report Allied military activity within Baghdad, such as the capture of two of Saddam's presidential palaces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2003_invasion_of_Baghdad (583 words)

	NPR : Beyond the War with Iraq : Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In Baghdad, Iraqi policemen volunteer to participate in joint patrols with U.S. soldiers to control the looting and lawlessness that has followed the fall of Saddam's regime.
		Follow NPR's coverage of the fall of Baghdad, April 9, 2003.
		Southeast of Baghdad, U.S. Marines hammer a division of the Iraqi Republican Guard and cross the Tigris River.
	www.npr.org /news/specials/iraq2003/war_timeline.html (3285 words)

	Special Report - No. 14 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The reactions to the fall of Baghdad in the London-based Arabic-language press reflect the political and ideological orientation of the various newspapers.
		I say with confidence that the fall of Saddam Hussein and his regime was not an event important in itself, because they were bound to fall sooner or later, whether by American and British missiles or by the swords of the Iraqis.
		Baghdad is not a pile of iron and cement, or a factory for munitions and WMD; it is the civilized and deep-rooted scent of a glorious history."
	www.memri.org /bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sr&ID=SR01403 (3369 words)

	Baghdad
		Baghdad has several museums, numerous archaeological sites, and three universities, the largest of which is the Univ. of Baghdad (1958).
		Baghdad was repeatedly contested by Persians and Turks until 1638, when it became part of the Ottoman Empire.
		Baghdad was captured by the British in 1917, and in 1920 it became the capital of the newly constituted kingdom of Iraq.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0805736.html (573 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Baghdad is today rapidly disintegrating into a lawless city with hordes of looters taking to the streets.
		The mood of wild euphoria among the five million-strong population of Baghdad was mixed with menace.
		At the same time the remains of the Republican Guard near Baghdad were being hit by heavy artillery.
	www.thisislondon.com /til/jsp/modules/Article/print.jsp?itemId=4263150 (679 words)

	2003 Invasion of Iraq - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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 Ba'ath party itself to stand down.
		Peter Arnett, who had won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1966 for his coverage of the war in Vietnam was fired by MSNBC and National Geographic after he had declared in an interview with the Iraqi information ministry that he believed the U.S. strategy of "shock and awe" had failed.
		The interview was given 10 days before the fall of Baghdad, more than 500 US soldiers have since been killed, in addition to over 18,000 medical evacuations for 11,700 patients [53].
	open-encyclopedia.com /2003_Invasion_of_Iraq (8109 words)

	Three Months After Fall, Baghdad Still Suffers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		July 9 marks the three-month anniversary of the fall of Baghdad.But security and essential services, such as electricity and water, still have not been restored to pre-war levels.
		The humanitarian agency CARE is asking Coalition authorities to focus on ensuring the safety and health of the Iraqi people, particularly in Baghdad, which remains unstable.
		In one Baghdad health care center where CARE works, staff asked CARE not to supply high-protein biscuits for malnourished children for fear that these supplies would attract looters.
	www.careusa.org /newsroom/pressreleases/2003/jul/07082003_iraq.asp (481 words)

	CBS News \| General’s Desk: How Baghdad Will Fall \| March 30, 2003 10:33:52
		Some fall as a direct result of a rising of resistance fighters -- Warsaw in 1945 is illustrative.
		For instance, as our soldiers move in on Baghdad and encounter armed resistance, it will not be prudent or necessary, in most cases, to continue the attack from the ground.
		The fall of Baghdad will not end the war, but it will be a huge psychological defeat for the enemy and should accelerate the demise of the regime of Saddam.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/03/29/iraq/main546769.shtml (859 words)

	Asia Times
		An affable and subtle man, he was a political prisoner of Saddam's regime from 1995 to 2002 in a Baghdad jail.
		It's an open secret in Baghdad that these weapons were later duly discovered by the Marines as they took control of the capital.
		The deliberate communications and power fl out of Baghdad fit into the pattern: the Pentagon and the Republican Guard had to be dancing together in the dark.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/ED25Ak04.html (1884 words)

	Mixed Reaction In Arab World Over Fall of Baghdad -- 04/11/2003
		"In Baghdad, the Arabs stand at a crossroads: Either they consider the defeat a final situation to which they will submit, or a new spirit of resistance will be born in them, in order to replant, in the generations to come, the desire to win...
		Baghdad is the capital of the president, and its people are his men.' Therefore, yesterday morning's images shocked the Arabs more than anyone else...They demonstrated continuously, believing that they were defending the Iraqi people, while in fact they were defending Saddam," Al-Rashid continued.
		But the editor of the London-daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Abd Al-Bari Atwan, who had assured his readers of fierce resistance in Baghdad, said he did not believe the stay of American forces in Baghdad would be "enjoyable and without danger." He estimated that the challenges ahead for coalition forces would be immense.
	www.cnsnews.com /ViewPrint.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200304\FOR20030411d.html (1283 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Jon Lee Anderson
		When, for instance, things began to go wrong in Iraq for the Americans immediately after the fall of Baghdad, I realized that much of what was occurring--the rise of an armed Iraqi resistance--had long been anticipated by many of the Iraqis I knew, and yet still came as a surprise to the American war planners.
		During the American bombing of Baghdad, which lasted three weeks until U.S. troops finally entered and took the city; it felt as though I was living on a great horizontal bulls- eye inhabited by five million people.
		Baghdad is no longer a capital city so much as it is an armed camp where little is certain except more violence.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/anderson_jon_lee.html (2624 words)

	[A-List] Disappointed Palestinians mourn the fall of Baghdad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Disappointed Palestinians mourn the fall of Baghdad Dalia Hatuqa Initial Iraqi jubilation contrasted starkly with the stunned silence and disappointment in Palestine.
		They were supposed to represent the pride and suffering of their fellow Arabs in the face of a US led invasion.
		The Iraqis are probably planning to surprise the US troops and ambush them just as they gather in Baghdad." While he speaks, two women walk past the Manara Square in tears and young men gather to ask whether the rumours can really be true.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2003-April/025264.html (683 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "The Fall of Baghdad" by Jon Lee Anderson
		The New Yorker correspondent witnessed the fall of Saddam and the beginning of the uprising.
		And I was not alone: One of my embedded reporter friends was nearly on the verge of tears when he left in May 2003 after two months of sand, heat and shooting.
		Baghdad is ugly and polluted and the situation continues to deteriorate.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2004/10/19/baghdad (352 words)

	Encyclopedia: 2003 Iraq war
		After the fall of Baghdad, U.S. officials claimed that Iraqi officials were being harbored in Syria, and several high-ranking Iraqis have since been detained after being expelled from Syria.
		Al-Janabi said that he had learnt that Iraqi officials had visited Afghanistan and Sudan to strengthen ties with Al-Qaeda and he also claimed he knew of a facility near Baghdad where foreign fighters were trained and instructed by members of the Republican Guard and Mukhabarat.
		On April 9, 2003, Baghdad was formally secured by US forces and the power of Saddam Hussein was declared to have ended.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/2003-Iraq-war (4522 words)

	Baghdad Did Not Fall - It Was Handed Over
		Arabic media are using the word "safqa" to explain the sudden collapse of Baghdad and the Iraqi regime.
		American tanks rolled into Baghdad with very little resistance while Basra, nowhere near as heavily fortified as Baghdad, sustained almost three weeks of fierce resistance.
		The fall of Baghdad was so sudden that it left many of the Arab and Muslim volunteers who went to Iraq to fight the coalition forces in total disarray.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article2946.htm (888 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Opinion \| Politics & imagination: after the fall of Baghdad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The new crusades were upon us, culminating in the fall of Baghdad and George W Bush the son's subsequent visit to Auschwitz.
		By guarding the Ministry of Petroleum in Baghdad and allowing the museums and libraries (not to mention the hospitals) to be looted, burned and, in some cases, utterly destroyed, a very clear message was being sent: only the West is capable of preserving this heritage, whatever of it happens to survive.
		The profound lessons that can be learned from writing emerging out of such circumstances -- about the function and ethics of writing and literacy, the place writing can have as testimony, and the relationship between a writer and his or her potential or actual audience -- can only be learned by those searching in earnest.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/645/op14.htm (1767 words)

	Pacific News Service > News > Baghdad Did Not Fall - It Was Handed Over
		Also the troop movement prior to the fall of Baghdad pointed to a dogged defence of the capital.
		Nealy 150 men/women died from the coalition side and of this many died in the last few days before Baghdad fell...hard to believe they would have been sacrificed however callous their superiors may be or may appear to be if a deal was worked out.
		With Baghdad surrounded after the Iraqi forces having taken a horrific pounding, there was little such hope that a battle would change the course of the war.
	news.pacificnews.org /news/view_article.html?article_id=5ae05a118069ebe6d68ef5995a2ebb7d (4164 words)

	World and I: The fall of Baghdad.(world newspaper coverage, April 9-10, 2003)(Reprint)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		UNITED STATES--The murderous reign of Saddam Hussein effectively ended [April 9] as downtown Baghdad slipped from the grip of the Iraqi regime and citizens streamed into the streets to celebrate the sudden disintegration of Mr.
		The scene in central Baghdad, where jubilant Iraqis and American marines collaborated in toppling a huge statue of Mr.
		Hussein, signaled that a complete American military victory in Iraq may be achieved within a matter of days, not months.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:105463778&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (213 words)

	Worldandnation: Iraqi official defiant as bombs fall on Baghdad
		Iraq's defense minister said Thursday that the real battle for Baghdad will be on its streets, making his remarks just before the most powerful blasts in days rattled the capital and destroyed communications and command facilities.
		At a news conference in a Baghdad hotel, Ahmed warned that U.S.-led forces would have to fight for the city street by street.
		Hours earlier, loud explosions were heard in and around Baghdad, with witnesses saying an unknown number of people were killed and injured in an attack on a housing complex for employees of a weapons-producing facility.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/03/28/Worldandnation/Iraqi_official_defian.shtml (859 words)

	SuperHeroBooks :: The Fall of Baghdad
		Such is not the case in The Fall of Baghdad, journalist Jon Lee Anderson's harrowing account of the Americans' capture of the Iraqi capital.
		Not only were the Iraqis fearing for their lives, dwelling as they did in what they knew to be the largest target city in the nation, they also lived in fear of Saddam Hussein while he was still in power and so projected a facade of desperate optimism and unfailing loyalty.
		Anderson keeps the scope of his book limited to the situation within Baghdad, omitting any mention of the larger political issues related to the war, which means that the book is not only non-partisan and highly focused but also incredibly claustrophobic, capturing the feeling of being trapped in a city about to be devastated.
	superherobooks.com /index.php?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=1594200343 (1362 words)

	The Alleged Role of Khawajah Nasir al-Din al-Tusi in the Fall of Baghdad \|\| Imam Reza (A.S.) Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Such was the background that resulted in the allegations regarding the Shi'i role in the fall of Baghdad, which was in fact the fall of the `Abbasid caliphate, and led some prejudiced thinkers to accuse the Shi`is of instigating the Mongols to overthrow the caliphate.
		An examination of the original sources concerning the fall of Baghdad revealed that despite the anti shi`i bias of some and the general hostility towards the Mongols, none of the historians mentions anything about the Khwajah's role.
		Among the most important tasks he took up were those which pertained to libraries, revival of Islamic sciences, and training of scholars, in which he accomplished his purpose to an extent unexpected by the side of the destruction brought about by the Mongols and amazing for the period of their supremacy.
	www.imamreza.net /eng/imamreza.php?id=639 (8000 words)

	GN Online: MMA expresses grief at fall of Baghdad
		Leaders of Pakistan's influential six-party Muttahida Majlis Amal (MMA) Islamic alliance yesterday voiced their sadness at the fall of Baghdad but urged Iraqis to continue resisting foreign occupation of their homeland.
		Pakistanis in general received the news of the news of the swift collapse of President Saddam Hussain's military in Baghdad with a mixture of disbelief, surprise and anguish.
		Ahmad, a leader of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI) and a prominent figure in MMA, also regreted the fall of Baghdad to the coalition forces in a fight which he said was "highly unequal battle".
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=83894 (530 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Al-Qaida website bemoans fall of Baghdad
		Yes, we cannot deny that we were surprised at the ease of their entrance into Baghdad, and [also] that there was no resistance whatsoever by the city.
		Although we don't know the reasons, we are convinced that if the resistance in Baghdad had been waged by regular forces, it would have collapsed, and fairly quickly.
		God said, "Let them heed their property and their weapons, the infidels would like that you neglect your weapons and property and then fall on you in one swoop." It is known that fighting should be in the service of Islamic banners.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32024 (2056 words)

	Fall of Baghdad (The), by Jon Lee Anderson - Military Ink (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Whatever else is written about the Iraqi people and the fall of Saddam, Jon Lee Anderson's The Fall of Baghdad is worthy of mention in this company.
		No subject has become more hotly politicized than the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime, and so a thick fog of propaganda, both from boosters of the war and its opponents, has obscured the reality of what the Iraqi people have endured and are enduring, under Saddam Hussein and now.
		For that reason alone, The Fall of Baghdad is a great and necessary book.
	www.militaryink.com /books/2004/september/1594200343.htm (210 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Europe reacts to fall of Baghdad
		In a short statement issued by the president, Jacques Chirac said he was satisfied like all democracies with the outcome in Baghdad and he added that he hoped there would be a rapid and effective end to the fighting.
		Russian media and Russian politicians for that matter had somehow managed to persuade themselves that this was going to be a long protracted war and a fiercely fought one on the part of the Iraqis, especially in the street battles.
		There is praise for American and British military tactics but journalists still question the reasons for going to war in the first place and newspaper editorials remind their readers that evidence of weapons of weapons of mass destruction still remains to be found in Iraq.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/2935059.stm (630 words)

	Fall of Baghdad declared Iraq holiday - The Washington Times: World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		BAGHDAD — Iraqis yesterday inaugurated a broadly representative governing council, which promptly declared April 9 — the day Baghdad fell to U.S. forces — a national holiday.
		As the new members were introduced to the world at the Baghdad Convention Center, Mr.
		Images of the inauguration were broadcast live by Western and Arab satellite television, received in about 40 percent of homes in Baghdad.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20030713-114141-7894r.htm (793 words)

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