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	Sandstorms delay U.S. invasion of Baghdad - World
		Baghdad residents, hunkered down for an eventual battle, woke to howling winds and the distant crash of artillery.
		Bad weather caused the military to call back combat missions from two aircraft carriers, and two Army divisions were stalled in a vicious sandstorm that reduced visibility to a few feet.
		However, it is the the road to Baghdad which will be most crucial and challenging to U.S. and British soldiers.
	media.www.thecowl.com /media/storage/paper493/news/2003/03/27/World/Sandstorms.Delay.U.s.Invasion.Of.Baghdad-401754.shtml (451 words)

	Baghdad International Airport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baghdad International Airport (formerly Saddam International Airport) is Iraq's largest airport, located in a suburb about 10 miles west of Baghdad.
		Most of Baghdad's civil operations stopped in 1991, when the United Nations imposed restrictions on Iraq after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait during the Persian Gulf War.
		The main road from the airport to downtown Baghdad, nicknamed "Route Irish," is infamous as one of the most dangerous routes in the world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baghdad_International_Airport (772 words)

	2003 invasion of Baghdad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In early April 2003, as part of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, U.S. forces led by American soldiers and Marines in M1 Abrams tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles invaded Baghdad.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2003_invasion_of_Baghdad (583 words)

	National Museum of Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The museum experienced extensive looting and damage during the 2003 invasion of Baghdad, with the loss of an unknown proportion of its 170,000 ancient artifacts.
		In the months preceding the invasion, starting in December and January, various antiquities experts, including representatives from the asked The Pentagon and the U.K. government to ensure the museum's safety from both combat and looting.
		On April 18, 2003, the Baghdad Museum Project was formed in the United States with a proposal to assure the National Museum of Iraq every possibility of the eventual safe return of its collection, even if that is to take hundreds of years.
	eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/National_Museum_of_Iraq (1003 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Invasion robs Baghdad of its beauty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Baghdad, whose name means the Garden of God, has fallen from grace.
		Once dubbed the City of Peace, Baghdad was founded in the 8th century by Caliph Abu Jafar al-Mansur as the capital for his rising Muslim Abbasid empire.
		Since then, Baghdad has survived the 13th century mayhem inflicted on it by the Mongols, the 16th-century marginalisation by the Ottomans and two decades of war and sanctions under ousted ruler Saddam Hussein.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/71466A7F-C7C6-42E8-93FC-0D1955D6FD4A.htm (792 words)

	AllRefer.com - Iran - The Iran-Iraq War \| Iranian Information Resource
		Baghdad believed that the postrevolutionary turmoil in Iran would permit a relatively quick victory and lead to a new regime in Tehran more willing to accommodate the interests of Iran's Arab neighbors.
		Baghdad wanted Tehran's consent to the revision of a 1975 treaty that had defined their common riparian border as the middle channel of the Shatt al Arab (which Iranians call the Arvand Rud).
		Baghdad's proclaimed reason for invading Iran, in fact, had been to rectify the border; Iraq claimed that the international border should be along the low water of the Iranian shore, as it had been prior to 1975.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/iran/iran147.html (1077 words)

	Fayetteville Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq handed over its long-awaited arms declaration to the United Nations on Saturday, denying it has doomsday weapons, and President Saddam Hussein grudgingly apologized to Kuwait for his 1990 invasion.
		It was a dramatic double bid by the Baghdad leadership to end a nightmare decade for their nation.
		The fast-paced events of a Saturday evening in Baghdad were a watershed moment in a chain of war and sanctions set off by the Iraqi army's invasion and seven-month occupation of Kuwait, which ended only when a huge, U.S.-led force drove it out in February 1991.
	www.fayettevillenc.com /printer.php?Story=5331441 (814 words)

	Baghdad blasted - Invasion advances quickly 032103c (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Acting on intelligence, the United States attacked a residence compound in a Baghdad suburb, where Saddam and his two sons Uday and Qusay, were believed to have been, dropping precision-guided 2,000-pound bombs and nearly 40 Tomahawk missiles fired from warships in the Red Sea.
		Huge plumes of smoke rose from Baghdad as bombs and missiles slammed into one of Saddam's palaces and rained down on other targets.
		Saddam has concentrated his best forces, including the Republican Guard, in Baghdad, where he may be planning to force invaders into dangerous street fighting in hopes of inflicting heavy casualties.
	www.drumbeat.mlaterz.net /March%202003/Baghdad%20blasted%20-%20Invasion%20advances%20quickly%20032103c.htm (1052 words)

	portland imc - 2003.03.06 - Ahead of a US invasion, the people of Baghdad are preparing to stand and fight.
		Ahead of a US invasion, the people of Baghdad are preparing to stand and fight.
		Baghdad professor Wamidh Nadhmi runs through a list of his fears: "We worry about the loss of electricity, about water, about how smart smart bombs are, about Iraqi tanks ploughing into our neighbourhood and turning us into military targets, and about mass-hysteria."
		Few find reassurance in the message that Baghdad will be the place where the Baath plan to make their last stand.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2003/03/47512.shtml (651 words)

	CBC News:Powell marks invasion anniversary in Baghdad
		BAGHDAD - U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell made a surprise visit to Iraq on Friday, marking the first anniversary of the American invasion that eventually toppled Saddam Hussein.
		Speaking at one of Saddam's former palaces in Baghdad, Powell told an audience of American troops that the U.S. remains committed to establishing democracy in Iraq.
		According to the statement from the army, the marines were on patrol west of Baghdad Wednesday when their patrol was attacked.
	www.buzztracker.org /2004/03/19/cache/114549.html (271 words)

	Mamluk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Abbasids recruited them from enslaved non-Muslim families captured in areas including modern Turkey, Eastern Europe, the steppes around modern Stalingrad, and the Caucasus.
		Berke Khan was apalled by Hulagu's destruction of Baghdad.
		In the Ottoman Empire, Mamluks of Baghdad proclaimed their independence in the 18th century and remained autonomous until the Ottoman reconquest in 1832.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mamluk (2275 words)

	USATODAY.com - In Baghdad, women weaving new image for Iraqi carpets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		BAGHDAD — While Iraqi political leaders were debating the constitution and women's rights this week, Mary Hamza was busy running a state-owned company with more than 800 workers, most of them women.
		After the U.S.-led invasion, the company was spared much of the looting that swept through the country, thanks to vigilant guards who kept watch over the property.
		The Baghdad factory gets hot during the summer and has only fans to cool the building, but Sana Ali, 35, says the work is satisfying.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-08-11-iraqi-carpets_x.htm (586 words)

	2003 invasion of Baghdad: Dictionary definition
		Iraq, which has no free press, initially issued a statement contradicting Western reporters' accounts of the invasion.
		Iraqis are heroes." [5] (http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNewsandstoryID=2518342) 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.
		On April 14, Iraq's National Library and National Archives were burned down, thus losing ten thousands of manuscript from an Iraqi civilization dating back at least 7,000 years.
	www.encyclopedian.com /in/Invasion-of-Baghdad.html (497 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| The mood changes as the marine invasion gains momentum
		They went through Baghdad and were heading south to where their families were when they were captured.
		The road to Baghdad was thick with smoke, some from fires the Iraqis started to try to confuse US sensors, many from burned out military vehicles, mostly trucks and artillery pieces, struck from the air.
		Any overlap of the invasion of Iraq and America's proclaimed war on terror would be a disturbing development, whether it was real or in the minds of the invaders.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,930315,00.html (1126 words)

	Sandstorms delay U.S. invasion of Baghdad - the Cowl - World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Baghdad residents, hunkered down for an eventual battle, woke to howling winds and the distant crash of artillery.
		He said the allies launched air attacks on targets in the northern oil centers of Mosul and Kirkuk, as well as Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, and that troops were making advances in eastern Iraq to help defend two main bridges over the Euphrates.
		However, it is the the road to Baghdad which will be most crucial and challenging to U.S. and British soldiers.
	www.thecowl.com /news/2003/03/27/World/Sandstorms.Delay.U.Invasion.Of.Baghdad-401754.shtml (385 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)

	2003 invasion of Baghdad -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The invasion of the city commenced three days after Allied forces had secured the (Click link for more info and facts about Baghdad airport) Baghdad airport.
		Iraq, which had no (A press not restricted or controlled by government censorship regarding politics or ideology) free press, initially issued a statement contradicting Western reporters' accounts of the invasion.
		Iraqis are heroes." 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 (Iraqi leader who waged war against Iran; his invasion of Kuwait led to the Gulf War (born in 1937)) Saddam's presidential palaces.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/2/20/2003_invasion_of_Baghdad.htm (505 words)

	The Fall of Baghdad: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Anderson was not embedded but on the ground in Baghdad and recounts the increasing anxiety and dread of Iraqi citizens as they try to prepare as best they can for a seemingly inevitable invasion.
		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.
	www.miami-hotel-reservation.info /us-reviewed/1594200343.html (3558 words)

	MSN India - UN inspectors leave Baghdad :: News Section
		Baghdad residents prepared for the worst, flooding markets to stock up on food, lining up for gas and bread, and taping their windows for fear of flying glass from U.S. bomb explosions.
		CNN has also sent a reporter out of Baghdad, but is keeping two other correspondents, Nic Robertson and Rym Brahimi, in the city.
		Arnett’s reporting from Baghdad during the 1991 Gulf War was among the most dramatic and controversial of that conflict.
	autofeed.msn.co.in /pandoraV15/output/EA3E61E4-D900-463D-A89C-0C6A9AF96C19.asp (1361 words)

	ABC News: Soldiers Who Captured Baghdad Back in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Nearly two years after they first entered Baghdad, the Fort Stewart, Ga.-based 3rd Infantry is back in Iraq, taking charge of the Baghdad metropolitan area.
		While some of the soldiers are here for the first time, most were part of the invasion and capture of Baghdad in April 2003.
		BAGHDAD, Iraq Mar 5, 2005 — Their enemy has changed, from Iraqi soldiers in uniform to insurgents in civilian clothes.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=553224 (500 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| special reports \| iraq \| post-invasion Baghdad mosque attack claims 17
		Seventeen people were killed and 23 wounded in a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque in southern Baghdad on Friday as Iraq's Shiite community began a religious mourning period, police said.
		Shiites are marking Tasua, the first of two days of mourning for the revered Imam Hussein which will culminate on Saturday with the religious festival of Ashura.
		Last March, 170 people were killed during Ashura in simultaneous attacks on pilgrims in Karbala and Baghdad.
	iafrica.com /news/specialreport/iraq/post_conflict/415295.htm (325 words)

	Right Web \| Analysis \| Barry - One Year After the Invasion: Baghdad and Beyond
		One of the reasons that CLI was so successful in creating a bipartisan base of support for the Iraq invasion was its insistence that the invasion would be more than a military operation and would demonstrate Washington's commitment to democratization and human rights.
		Like most front groups, the CLI was a transitory political project that faded as soon as the invasion was launched--despite its professed mission of working beyond the “liberation” to ensure the reconstruction, democratization, and institution of the rule of law in Iraq.
		Even before the invasion plans were finalized, several neocons associated with the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq created a new “war party” calling for the U.S. government to support regime change in Iran.
	rightweb.irc-online.org /analysis/2004/0403anniv.php (2930 words)

	25-10-01-afp-irq-blasts-tky-invasion
		Baghdad blasts Turkish "invasion" of Kurdish northern enclave
		BAGHDAD, Oct 25 (AFP) - 12h33 - Baghdad has complained to the UN about an incursion by
		Baghdad "reserves the right to self-defense," he warned.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /kurdistanobserve/25-10-01-afp-irq-blasts-tky-invasion.html (205 words)

	2003 invasion of Baghdad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		[1] (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=articleandcontentId=A33016-2003Apr5andnotFound=true) The invasion of the city commenced three days after Allied forces had secured the Baghdad airport.
		Major General said the intention was to indicate to the Iraqi leader that Coalition forces could move in and out of Baghdad whenever they wished.
		On April 14, Iraq's National Library and National Archives were burned down, destroying thousands of manuscripts from civilizations dating back as far as 7,000 years.
	eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/2003_invasion_of_Baghdad (640 words)

	Report-33: Under bombardment and invasion of Baghdad
		Baghdad is an extremely large city with 100 km from north to south and almost the same distance from east to west.
		They have no choice but to work with the material that is available since these equipments must be imported and imports are prohibited.
		More news, a warehouse, in Basrah containing 75,000 tons of food that the authorities distributed in daily ration to the population, was bombed by the Americans.
	www.nowar-paix.ca /documents/peaceTeam/reports-33_April1to6.htm (1173 words)

	US military rethinks invasion of Baghdad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The most disastrous example was in Mogadishu, Somalia, when in 1993, US Army Rangers in Somalia got tied down in a bloody fight in the streets of Mogadishu.
		For this reason, there is legitimate apprehension among many American military commanders that an invasion of Iraq, and its requisite ground action in Baghdad, will likely result in heavy casualties and an uncertain outcome.
		One recent and especially alarming study showed that if the "bad guys in Baghdad" have access to shoulder-fired missiles, as the Iraqis do, many American helicopters could be shot down.
	www.howardsmusings.com /stories/2002/10/23/usMilitaryRethinksInvasionOfBaghdad.html (565 words)

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