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	Yom Kippur War
		War fought between Israel on one side, and Egypt and Syria on the other, backed by Iraq and Jordan and supported economically by Saudi Arabia.
		The war lasted for 3 weeks, and started on October 6, 1973 and ended on October 22 on the Syrian front and on October 26 on the Egyptian front.
		The goal of the war was to win back lost Arab territory from preceding wars, first in 1947-49, then 1956 and especially in the last, the Six-Day War of 1967.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/uyomkipwr.htm (611 words)

	Ramadan
		The last ten days of Ramadan are a time of special spiritual focuse, as the night on which the Qur'an was revealed to the Prophet, known as the Night of Power (Lailat ul-Qadr), is generally taken to be the 27th night of the month.
		Ramadan for the year 1425/ 2004 begins on 16 October 2004 for all of the United States, and the last day of Ramadan is 14 November 2004.
		Fighting continued through nine Ramadans during the Yemeni Civil War from 1962 to 1970.The Yom Kippur War is also known as the 6th of October war of 1973 and the 10th of Ramadan War.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/ramadan.htm (1036 words)

	Arab-Israeli War of 1973 - MSN Encarta
		Introduction; Causes of the War; Course of the War; Cease-fire and Disengagement; Consequences of the War
		Arab-Israeli War of 1973, armed conflict between Israel and the Arab countries of Egypt and Syria, fought during the month of October 1973.
		In the Six-Day War of 1967, Israel gained control of the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip, previously controlled by Egypt; the Golan Heights, formerly belonging to Syria; and the West Bank and East Jerusalem, formerly administered by Jordan.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564886/Arab-Israeli_War_of_1973.html (1512 words)

	SantaSearch - Ramadan
		Ramadan is derived from the Arabic word ar-ramad, meaning "parched thirst," and is also the name of the ninth month of the lunar calendar.
		Ramadan is a month of heightened devotion, a time that the doors of heaven are kept open, and the doors of hell are closed, and Satan is kept in chains.
		It is true that Ramadan is the holiest time in the Islamic calendar, a time in which nations and civilizations have been known to clear up their animosities for the sake of honoring Allah.
	www.santasearch.org /editorial.asp?PID=4 (821 words)

	October 1973 War & Lessons for the Arabs
		Gulf War 1991 was more of a Coalition war - where one of the biggest coalition was hooked up in a very short time - and an effort was made by the Allies to crush Iraq with air attacks and massive armour outflanking moves.
		In the October War and in spite of the unfavourable part of it, Sadat seemed to have stuck to his aim and eventually achieved a political solution to the conflict.
		This short presentation brings out some of the more important facets of the October war especially in relation to the Egyptian armed forces as they bore the brunt of the war, and it was because of their planning that the war was conducted and fought successfully.
	www.defencejournal.com /nov98/warlessonsarabs.htm (2890 words)

	USATODAY.com - Raids during Ramadan could offend Muslims (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		Ramadan, despite its austere requirement that every able person fast from dawn to sunset, is an essentially joyous holiday.
		Islam forbids initiating a war during the holy month, but self-defense is always permitted, says Capt. Dawud Agbere, one of seven Islamic chaplains in the U.S. Army.
		Observing the Ramadan fast is the third of the Five Pillars — the essential religious requirements — of Islam.
	www.usatoday.com /life/2001-10-15-ramadan.htm (762 words)

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		Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, is a period in which pious Muslims desist from eating, drinking, and smoking between sunrise and sunset.
		According to the Qur'an, "Ramadan is the month in which the Qur'an was revealed, a guidance for mankind, and clear proofs of the guidance, and the Criterion [of right and wrong]." (Surah ii:185) As such, Ramadan is the most important period for the Muslim.
		War is prohibited during the first, seventh, eleventh, and twelfth month (known as the Sacred months), but not in the ninth.
	www.washingtoninstitute.org /templateC05.php?CID=1459 (1260 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Special \| Ramadan under siege (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		Nearly 800 kilometres to the west of Baghdad, the holy month of Ramadan, usually considered a festive season of heightened spirituality and good will is this year marked by the spectre of poverty and unemployment in Palestine.
		Although few Ramadan lanterns festoon the streets of Beirut's southern suburbs this year -- even the street lighting is patchy -- Samaya Faqir, hurrying home for Iftar laden with bags of fruit, said people were celebrating Ramadan just the same.
		Prices of vegetables and meat always rise during Ramadan, for the first week or so anyway, but many say this year's increases are worse and are coupled with post-war rises in public transport fares and other basics.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2006/816/sc12.htm (2054 words)

	-- Beliefnet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		In terms of the ethics of war in general, I am aware of nothing in the world's moral or legal traditions related to war that would indicate a religious holiday should interrupt military activities.
		The primary moral issue related to war is whether it should be fought at all.
		War, to put it bluntly, is simply not a nice enough phenomenon to allow pauses for various holy days, feasts, and fasts.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/93/story_9399_1.html (379 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| Ramadan: Tensions raised in holy month
		Ramadan, one of the most significant events on the Muslim calendar, marks the month when the Islamic faithful believe God revealed the holy book - the Koran - to the Prophet Mohammed.
		Ramadan starts when a witness testifies to the authorities that the new moon has been sighted, expected this year on or around 17 November.
		In 1973, Syria and Egypt attacked Israel in the "Ramadan War", saying they were acting on behalf of persecuted Muslims in the Palestinian territories.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/1638857.stm (593 words)

	USATODAY.com - Muslim allies plead for Ramadan fighting 'pause' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		A Western-led Ramadan assault in Afghanistan would be an affront at a time when the United States needs to cultivate and not alienate skeptical Muslims, said Osama el-Baz, a top adviser to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
		Ramadan has never stopped the Muslim rivals for Afghanistan's control from opening fire on one another, and the Northern Alliance rebels have no intention of limiting their attacks on the Taliban during Ramadan this year, the alliance's Washington envoy, Haron Amin, said Wednesday.
		Egypt and Syria launched the 1973 Arab-Israeli War during Ramadan — one of its Arab sobriquets is "The Ramadan War" — and on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur.
	www.usatoday.com /news/sept11/2001/10/31/ramadan-pause.htm (781 words)

	DefenseLINK News: Ramadan and War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar.
		Ramadan is a month of fasting for Muslims.
		Muslims during Ramadan are encouraged to do good deeds, refrain from habitual and reprehensible deeds.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/Nov2001/n11052001_200111051.html (496 words)

	6 October 1973 War
		Fourth armed conflict between Israel and Arab countries, in the Arab World it is also called the Ramadan War (because it started in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan), in the west and Israel it’s best known as the Yom Kippur War (it started on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur).
		The war was followed on the Syrian front with an attrition war Syria launched against the Israelis.
		Although the October war did not achieve a complete military victory, the Arabs, by the impressive performance of their army, managed to turn the war into a psychological victory.
	www.syrialive.net /government/history/octoberwar.htm (326 words)

	Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . NEWS FEATURE: Ramadan and War . November 9, 2001 \| PBS
		As Ramadan approaches, the American military faces a difficult challenge: how to win the war against terrorism without losing the hearts and minds of Muslims during their most holy month.
		DAVIS: As the war in Afghanistan continues, pressure is growing throughout the Muslim world for the U.S. to suspend its military operations during Ramadan, the holiest time of the year for Muslims.
		Ramadan should not be a vehicle for criminals to attain a degree of reprieve.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/religionandethics/week510/newsfeature.html (930 words)

	TIME.com: Wars Of Choice, Wars Of Necessity -- Nov. 5, 2001 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		A war of necessity is a life-or-death struggle in which the safety and security of the homeland are at stake.
		The language we have mobilized to wage this war of necessity is the language of wars of choice, heavily freighted with moral anguish, obsessively concerned with proving how delicate and discriminating, how tolerant and sensitive we Americans are.
		Before the Gulf War, Iraq was given to understand that any use of biological or chemical weapons against American forces would be met with weapons that would wipe Iraq off the face of the earth.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101011105-181599,00.html (954 words)

	"War Names - Forward.com"
		World War I, for instance, was widely known until 1939 as the Great War, a name that had to be discarded when an even greater war broke out.
		Similarly, the term American Civil War, although coming straight out of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether [this] nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure”), did not gain much currency until the early 20th century.
		When the North-South war broke out in 1861, it was commonly referred to in the North as the Rebellion and in the South as the War of Southern Independence, and the most common name for it in the late 19th century was the War Between the States.
	www.forward.com /articles/war-names (545 words)

	CNN.com - Ramadan looms large in Afghan strikes - October 22, 2001
		According to Islamic tradition it was during Ramadan, the ninth month of the lunar calendar, that the Archangel Gabriel revealed the 144 chapters or surahs of the Koran to the Prophet Mohammed.
		Although battles have been waged during Ramadan through the ages, the United States will be aware that any fighting on Muslim soil during this period could strain relations with the Islamic countries who have given at least tacit backing to the strikes against Afghanistan's ruling Taliban.
		The importance of the fasting month of Ramadan on the psyche of the Muslim cannot be underestimated.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /2001/fyi/news/10/22/ramadan/index.html (793 words)

	09508 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		During Ramadan in the year 624, the Muslim Prophet Mohammed was victorious in the Battle of Badr.
		A case in point is the 1973 war that Egypt and Syria launched against Israel on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur.
		Because that war was also waged in the month of Ramadan, it is called the Ramadan War in Arab countries.
	www.ibb.gov /editorials/09508.htm (394 words)

	Message Forum: Ramadan
		Ramadan, this year, starts today or tomorrow depending where you are in the world.
		Fasting and similar religious observance during Ramadan are restricted to able-bodied adults of sound mind who are not travelling.
		Some Muslims believe Ramadan is, in fact, the best month in which to wage war.
	rinkworks.com /rinkforum/view.cgi?post=45258 (407 words)

	CNN.com - John Esposito: War during Ramadan? - October 29, 2001
		JOHN ESPOSITO: Ramadan is one of the five pillars or essential practices of Islam.
		The 1973 Egyptian-Israeli war is popularly referred to as the Ramadan War.
		But it's also important to remember that Ramadan is a very special and holy month for many Muslims, and that for many Muslims, when they see Afghanistan continuing to be bombed, their concern is not with the Taliban, but with the people of Afghanistan.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/COMMUNITY/10/29/esposito/index.html (1362 words)

	Yom Kippur War- Milchement Yom Kippur - Zionism and Israel -Encyclopedia / Dictionary/Lexicon of Zionism/Israel/
		Several accounts of the war have been censored heavily or were not allowed to appear at all by Israeli authorities.
		The date of October 6, 1973 was chosen to begin the war, supposedly because on that evening the moon would shine from sunset to midnight, thereafter giving total darkness to allow the Egyptians to hid their canal-crossing bridges, and because October 6 promised a minimal difference between high and low tide, facilitating the bridge building.
		During and immediately after the war, 63,000 tons of supplies were brought to Egypt and Syria by sea and 15,000 tons were flown by air.
	www.zionism-israel.com /dic/YomKippurWar.htm (6879 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Ramadan Terror by Chris Weinkopf
		FOR AMERICA’S ENEMIES in the War on Terror, the Muslim holy month of Ramadan is a time for fasting, for prayer—and for mass murder.
		The warnings that continuing the war during Ramadan would energize the whole of the Muslim world against the U.S. proved spectacularly wrong, as did the earlier prediction that an invasion of Afghanistan—a long, and protracted "quagmire"—would similarly compromise America’s position.
		They’ll protest the war for as long as it’s convenient, that is, if they think their protests might actually accomplish something.
	frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=4914 (888 words)

	Egypt Israel Syria War 1973
		The October 1973 War (known in Israel as the Yom Kippur War and in the Arab world as the Ramadan War) developed rapidly, and the coordinated Egyptian-Syrian offensive caught Israel by surprise.
		In the early days of the war, the IDF suffered heavy losses as Egyptian forces crossed the Suez Canal and overran Israeli strongholds, while Syrians marched deep into the Golan Heights.
		The commission's report, completed in January 1975, was highly critical of the performance of the IDF on several levels, including intelligence gathering, discipline within the ranks, and the mobilization of reserves.
	www.onwar.com /aced/data/yankee/yomkippur1973.htm (633 words)

	ZAWAJ.COM: Ramadan Articles and Resources
		I learned that Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, the month Mohammed was supposed to have first received divine revelations from the Archangel Gabriel that became the Holy Qur'an.
		While attention focuses on food and drink, the faithful are also supposed to refrain from foul language, gossip, evil thoughts and even war during Ramadan.
		The central ritual of Ramadan, the fast itself, prevents the Muslim holy season from drifting too far from its spiritual roots.
	www.zawaj.com /events/ramadhan/ramadan_novice.html (510 words)

	A Time for Reflection Or for Destruction?; Scholars, Analysts Split on Ramadan
		It was 1187 and both sides were joined in a holy war that spanned centuries; this time the sultan Saladin wiped out the Frankish army and went on to reclaim Jerusalem for Islam.
		Ramadan has brimmed with blood throughout history -- starting in the time of the Prophet Muhammad, who led his forces in Arabia to victory over idolaters in the Battle of Badr in 624.
		War is an extension of politics, and back home, people in the mainstream began to ask whether the Vietnam War was worth it.
	www.globalsecurity.org /org/news/2003/031118-ramadan-threats01.htm (1688 words)

	The History Guy: Arab-Israeli Wars
		Although Israel and most Arab nations are technically in a continuous state of war, unless otherwise noted, specific outbreaks of fighting are considered to be separate wars.
		Israeli War of Independence/ "al-Nakba" (The Disaster) (1948-1949)--Upon independence, Israel was invaded by the armies of six Arab nations: Egypt, Syria, Transjordan (later Jordan), Lebanon, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
		The War of Attrition (1968-1970)--The War of Attrition was a limited border war fought between Egypt and Israel in the aftermath of the Six-Day War.
	www.historyguy.com /arab_israeli_wars.html (1660 words)

	Ramadan-November 2001
		This year as the muslims prepare for Ramadan, America and Afghanistan prepare for war.
		Ramadan should be a time of peace not of war.
		Ramadan is the 9th month of the year in the Muslim calendar.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/holidays_at_home/51900 (472 words)

	War in Ramadan
		The administration wishes to convey in the clearest of terms that this is a war against terrorism and not against Islam.
		War in Ramadan will undermine US attempts to win the battle for Muslim public opinion.
		If the Bush administration loses the propaganda war and further alienates the Muslim population, it will be the end of the so-called global alliance against terror.
	www.glocaleye.org /ramadan.htm (955 words)

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