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	Khanaqin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Khanaqin (Arabic خانقين Chanaqīn, Kurdish خانه قين Xaneqîn, also transliterated as Khanakin, Xanaqin) is a Kurdish city outside the Kurdish Autonomous Region in north-eastern Iraq.
		Khanaqin is the second largest oil-city in Kurdistan, there are oilfields, there is a oil refinery (12,000 b/d) and there is a pipeline to the Al Daura refinery in Baghdad.
		Khanaqin is divided into two parts by the Alwan River, this river has played a significant role in land cultivation and in establishment of a strong rural society in the area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khanaqin (262 words)

	Khanaqin
		Khanaqin (khän´äkn) [Khaniqin / Khanqin / Khanaqeen City / Alsadia / Saadia-Khanaqueen] is a town in NE Iraq, near the Iranian border on a tributary of the Diyala.
		Khanaqin is situated in the south part of Kurdistan.
		Although the practice of forced relocation and deportation by the government of Iraq to decrease the presence of the Kurdish and Turkoman population living in that area and to strengthen their hold on the important economic and strategic governate of Kirkuk is not new, the scale of these activities increased in 1997.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/khanaqin.htm (749 words)

	Khanaqin HomePage
		However, it should be added that people of Khanaqin have always participated in the major Kurdish movements such as the movement of Shaikh Mahmood in Sulaimaniya, the movement of Aylol, and the new uprising in Kurdistan after the defeat of the Iraqi army in the Gulf war.
		It is said that Numan bin Almunther, the ruler of the Almanathira dynasty, was jailed in Khanaqin, which was situated on the west border of the Sassanian dynasty protecting it against the Byzantine Empire.
		He was burried in the cemetery of Alamdar on the outskirts of Khanaqin.
	www.khanaqin.com /name.html (763 words)

	Bombings Expose Khanaqin Tensions (KurdishMedia.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Khanaqin is located 55 kilometres northeast of Baghdad near the Iranian border.
		It is true that Khanaqin is part of Kurdistan." He also said that their living conditions improved, "Now people are free.
		He and others pushing for Khanaqin to become part of Iraqi Kurdistan have taken their case to the now-dissolved Iraqi Governing Council and political leaders including Iraq president Jalal Talabani, leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.
	www.kurdmedia.com /articles.asp?id=10657 (1090 words)

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		The headman of Melekshah, on the outskirts of the northeastern Iraqi town of Khanaqin, he is responsible for measuring out 200 metre sq parcels of land and handing them over to newly arrived internally displaced families to build on.
		The decision to found a new settlement in Melekshah was taken this summer by the municipal authorities of Khanaqin, a majority Kurdish town extensively arabised by the former Iraqi regime.
		In practice, Khanaqin is under the authority of the Arab governor in Baquba, with the newly formed Iraqi Property Claims Commission (IPCC) invested with the final word on land donation projects.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=44575&SelectRegion=Iraq_Crisis&SelectCountry=IRAQ (819 words)

	newsobserver.com \| Nation & World
		The mosque bombings in the largely Kurdish community of Khanaqin were the deadliest attacks by insurgents since Sept. 29, when a series of blasts killed 95 people in Balad, another city northeast of Baghdad.
		In Khanaqin, Sirwan Ismael, 25, said that he was doing his ablutions in preparation for prayer at the venerable Khanaqin Grand mosque when a suicide bomber walked into the prayer hall and set off his explosives.
		Khanaqin is a mountainous, predominately Kurdish town 90 miles east of Baghdad with a population of about 50,000 in a largely Sunni province.
	www.newsobserver.com /110/story/369076.html (1003 words)

	Chattanooga Times Free Press \| Following the 278th (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		KHANAQIN, Iraq -- After 24 years in exile, Ahmed Noor Mohammed brought his family of 11 back home to Iraq from Iran and into a tent about 12 feet long and 6 feet wide.
		Many of the people living in Milakshah claim to have deep family roots in Khanaqin, but the former regime leaders ousted them from the land during attempts to push out the Kurds and populate northeastern Iraq with more Arabs.
		Rumors are spreading that this is private land, and that the owners soon will return to kick the squatters out of their homeland again.
	www.timesfreepress.com /iwwl/pitts042905.html (1223 words)

	Chattanooga Times Free Press \| Following the 278th (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The Iraqi man joined the army in order to help his country win its freedom, but he died in a suicide bombing less than 24 hours before he was to vote in the nation's first democratic elections in 50 years.
		He said Khanaqin, population 70,000, is one of the safer cities in the 278th's sector in northeastern Iraq near the Iranian border.
		Khanaqin had been a quiet town after the regime fell, but Lt. Col.
	www.timesfreepress.com /iwwl/pitts013105.html (1251 words)

	Kurdawary.tk :: Xanaqin ::
		Khanaqin districts occupied 3915 km2 between latitude 33,56° and 35,6° north.
		The Khanaqin region lies between the Helebje District in the north, the Hamreen mountain range make the border in some place in the south with Mendelidistrict, the Sirwan (Diyala) river in the west, and the Iraq- Iran border thought to be the est border of the Khanaqin region [1]
		In addition, the river is considered by the people of Khanaqin as a symbol for their unity and Kurdish identity.
	www.geocities.com /kurdawarypictures/xanaqin.htm (348 words)

	In liberated Iraqi towns, former ruling party nervous \| csmonitor.com
		In one neighborhood of Khanaqin, residents say that the local headman has fled because he is a Baathist.
		The atmosphere in Khanaqin and its surrounding villages - "liberated" yesterday by Kurdish troops and some US Special Forces who filled the vacuum left by fleeing Iraqi soldiers and officials - was a mixture of celebration and lawlessness.
		A half-hour outside Khanaqin, in a village called Jabara, which the Iraqi authorities ceded on Wednesday morning, an elderly couple sit outside the mudpack walls of their compound and ponder the new realities.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0411/p07s01-woiq.htm (958 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Car bomb kills 13 in Iraq market (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		A security officer in Khanaqin, who asked not to be identified because of the nature of his job, said four people were arrested after the blasts - three who came from outside the town and the other a would-be bomber who was found near the scene.
		Khanaqin police had received information from the authorities in nearby Baqouba about a possible suicide bomber in the town, but it came minutes before the attacks, he added.
		The latest attacks in Khanaqin and Baghdad have brought to at least 1617 the number of Iraqis killed since the Shia-led government took power on 28 April, according to an Associated Press count.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/E6C9E508-9677-4A18-B154-AA527E2A6FAA.htm (467 words)

	village voice > news > Guilt by Association by Kareem Fahim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Khanaqin, Iraq—The Kurdish families drove hastily packed trucks over the hills to the eastern Iraqi village of Baba Mahmood five weeks ago, coming home almost 30 years after they were forcibly relocated to western Iraq from this rural, verdant patch, and replaced with Arab families, mostly from southern Iraq.
		Many Iraqi Arabs who fled Baba Mahmood and other formerly Kurdish villages around the city of Khanaqin say they did indeed expect that the original residents would one day come back, and that they understood the Kurds were unjustly evicted from their villages by the central government.
		Khanaqin was a focal point of the so-called policy of Arabization, and a large part of that policy meant replacing Kurds with Arabs, especially in and around oil-rich cities like Khanaqin and Kirkuk, in an effort to alter the demographic balance.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0321/fahim.php (1859 words)

	Suicide bombers kill 41 in Iraq mosque attacks - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The series of three blasts -- one targeting the Sheikh Murad mosque, another a smaller mosque near the market and the third the bank -- went off as worshippers were performing Friday prayers, and left the mosques completely destroyed, they said.
		Khanaqin is a mixed Shi'ite and Kurdish town directly northeast of Baghdad.
		Police said the bombers entered the small mosques in Khanaqin with explosive belts strapped to their waists and detonated themselves when the buildings were at their most busy -- during prayers on the Muslim holy day.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/11/18/suicide_bombers_target_shiite_mosques_in_east_iraq (386 words)

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		But a dilapidated network of pipes meant that by the time it got to the tap at his office and most houses in Khanaqin, it had been affected by seepage of contaminated water and even sewage.
		The water treatment plant in Khanaqin is currently running at 50 percent of its capacity.
		However, in Khanaqin recently, people went without water for three days before some women individually went to the water department to see what could be done for them.
	irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=38649&SelectRegion=Iraq_Crisis&... (951 words)

	Uprooted Arabs call prison home / Banished townsfolk hold no grudge as Kurds reclaim homeland
		They know that the Kurds who came to reclaim their homes in Khanaqin had been evicted from their land during Hussein's genocidal Arabization policy of the 1970s and '80s, which killed an estimated 180,000 Kurds and displaced at least 400,000 more.
		Yet, this is not the freedom the Arabs of Khanaqin had in mind when the U.S. -led war to liberate Iraqis from Hussein began.
		But the memory of armed peshmerga riding through Khanaqin is still fresh, and the families of al Rabiya don't have much faith in the Americans' ability to restrain ethnic strife in the north.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/05/27/MN26107.DTL&type=printable (1093 words)

	Youth Center opens [KHANAQIN, Iraq] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		KHANAQIN, Iraq – During the re-opening of a renovated youth center, in which his unit lived for four months, Capt. Robert Walker unveiled a microcosm of the Coalition’s goals in Iraq.
		The soldiers never intended to stay in the center permanently, but always planned to repair and return the center to the city of Khanaqin, and the children, Walker said, echoing the U.S.-led Coalition’s plans for the country as a whole.
		Once inside, the people were greeted with new athletic supplies the soldiers bought and donated to the center including jerseys, soccer balls, basketballs, volleyballs, shoes and other items.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/1006566/posts (696 words)

	Suicide Bombings kill at least 60 in Iraq - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The attack in Khanaqin was ominous because it took place in a largely peaceful area about six miles from Iran.
		Kamran Ahmed, director of the Khanaqin General Hospital, said 74 people were killed and at least 100 were wounded at the mosques, which are more than a half-mile apart in the largely Kurdish town about 90 miles northeast of Baghdad.
		The latest attacks in Khanaqin and Baghdad have brought to at least 1,617 the number of Iraqis killed in suicide attacks since the Shiite-led government took power April 28, according to an Associated Press count.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/11/18/two_car_bomb_blasts_in_baghdad_kill_six (1190 words)

	ABC News: Attacks on Iraq Mosques, Hotel Kill 82 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Suicide attackers targeted the Sheik Murad mosque and the Khanaqin Grand Mosque _ both sacred to Shiite Muslims _ in Khanaqin, 90 miles northeast of Baghdad, as dozens of people were attending Friday prayers, police said.
		A security officer in Khanaqin who asked not to be identified said four people were arrested in the mosque attacks, including a would-be third suicide bomber noticed near the scene.
		Khanaqin police had received information from the authorities in nearby Baqouba about a suspected suicide bomber in the town, but it came just minutes before the attacks, he added.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1328430&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (520 words)

	First World War.com - Battles - Battle of Khanaqin, 1916
		The sole engagement fought by the Russian Army on the Mesopotamian Front, the Battle of Khanaqin saw a division under the command of Russian General Baratov cross the Mesopotamian border from western Persia to attack Turkish forces stationed at the border town of Khanaqin.
		Baghdad commander Khalil Pasha's response was to despatch Ishan's XIII Corps to meet and drive the Russian force back from Khanaqin preparatory to a proposed Turkish sweep through Persia en route to attacking British rear positions.
		A "Communication Trench" was a narrow trench constructed at an angle to a defensive trench to permit concealed access to the defensive trench.
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/khanaqin.htm (339 words)

	Long Island Press: Long Island Newspaper, News, Entertainment, Real Estate, Classifieds, Automotive, Weddings, Business ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Kamaran Ahmed, the director of Khanaqin hospital, said 77 people had been confirmed killed and 80 were wounded.
		Police said the bombers entered the small Sheikh Murad and Khanaqin Grand mosques with explosive belts strapped to their waists and detonated themselves when the buildings were at their busiest -- during prayers on the Muslim holy day.
		Kurdish peshmerga militia forces sealed off Khanaqin shortly after the blasts, and U.S. forces also came to help, ferrying the wounded to hospitals in the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya.
	www.longislandpress.com /?cp=53&show=article&a_id=6547 (649 words)

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		The suicide attackers targeted the Sheik Murad mosque and the Khanaqin Grand Mosque in Khanaqin, 90 miles northeast of Baghdad, as dozens of people were attending Friday prayers, police said.
		Hafez Abdul-Aziz, an official with the Iraqi Islamic Party in Diyala, condemned "the cowardly terrorists' act" and said that his party members, most of whom are Sunni, are ready to donate blood for the victims in Khanaqin.
		Including Friday's attacks in Khanaqin and Baghdad, suicide bombings in Iraq have killed at least 1,617 Iraqis and wounded at least 3,429 since April 28, 2005, when the country's first elected government took power, according to an Associated Press count.
	www.firstcoastnews.com /news/news-article.aspx?storyid=47661 (1339 words)

	Attacks on Iraqi mosques kill 90 - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		More than 74 people were killed and 75 wounded when two bombs exploded outside two Shia mosques in the town of Khanaqin in north-eastern Iraq, near the Iranian border.
		Hafez Abdul-Aziz, an official with the Iraqi Islamic Party in Diyala, denounced "the cowardly terrorists' act" and said that his party members, most of whom are Sunni, are ready to donate blood for the Shia victims in Khanaqin.
		Khanaqin is a mixed Kurdish and Shia town near the Iranian border that was severely affected by the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s.
	www.aljazeera.com /cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=10163 (1107 words)

	KHANAQIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The people of the region are of Iranian origin and speak mainly Feyli, a Persid language.
		The name Khanaqin is an Arabicized form of the older Persian name of the city i.e.
		It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
	www.yotor.org /wiki/en/kh/Khanaqin.htm (50 words)

	Khanaqin in N. Iraq falls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		"Khanaqin is finished," said Jutiar Nuri, an official at the Sulaimaniya-Democratic Organisation Bureau, a branch of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan which has controlled the areas north of Khanaqin, just next to the Iranian border.
		Khanaqin is around 120 km (75 miles) northeast of Baghdad.
		Its fall coincides with regular bombing from the air of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and Kurdish "peshmerga" fighters progressing towards the city of Mosul further to the northwest.
	www.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=20430 (247 words)

	CNN.com - Suicide bombers kill scores in 2 Iraqi cities - Nov 18, 2005
		The Khanaqin town mayor said many children were among the dead because fathers had brought their sons to the prayer service.
		The suicide attacks in Khanaqin took place around midday when the mosques likely were full of worshippers for afternoon prayers.
		Khanaqin is a Shiite-Kurdish town about 60 miles (100 kilometers) northeast of Baquba.
	www.cnn.com /rssclick/2005/WORLD/meast/11/18/iraq.main?section=cnn_topstories (681 words)

	Khanaqin HomePage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The Arabization of Khanaqin Districts: Various Iraqi regimes have been attempt to change the ethnic and demographic composition of the Khanaqin region and other kurish region like Kirkuk.
		The names of Kurdish neighbourhoods were changed and Arabic names were given to schools, streets, and markets in Khanaqin and the new owners of commercial establishments were forced to adopt Arabic names for their businesses.
		The Arabization of Bajalan Clans in north of Khanaqin
	web.comhem.se /~u32600030/arabization.html (310 words)

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