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	Sinjar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sinjar is a small town in northwestern Iraq near the Syrian border, with an estimate population in the 2006 census of about 39,875 residents [1].
		In the Sinjar plain, where Tell Hamoukar is located, civilizations are known to have existed many centuries earlier (Hassuna, Halaf, Ubaid).
		The population of Sinjar is predominantly two groups: Yezidi and Muslim Kurdish.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sinjar (146 words)

	Sinjar
		Sinjar is a small town in northwestern Iraq near the Syrian border, with an estimate population in the 1965 census of about 8,000 residents.
		Roman strongholds like Singara (Sinjar) and Bezabde (Jezireh) in northern Mesopotamia strengthened defenses against Persian incursions, and ensured that the Persian capital remained vulnerable to Roman thrusts down the valleys of the Euphrates or Tigris Rivers.
		The major areas of the Yezidis residence are: Iraq - regions of Sinjar, Shangal and Sheykhan; Turkey - Mubin, Diyarbekir, Mush, Sasun, Bitlis, Van; as well as Iran, Syria, Georgia, Russia, Germany.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/sinjar.htm (1178 words)

	Graham Brew Ph.D. Thesis
		This reflects the shift in tectonics from the Palmyride / Sinjar trough to the Late Cretaceous fault-bounded extension in eastern Syria.
		As with the overlying horizons, the greatest depths are found in the Sinjar trough and the Euphrates Graben, and in isolated basins of western Syria.
		We interpret this Carboniferous trough to be a broad crustal downwarping between anticlinoria identified to the north and south of Syria (Plate 2, frame 3b) (Gvirtzman and Weissbrod, 1984).
	atlas.geo.cornell.edu /people/brew/gbthesis5.html (19254 words)

	American Aid for Children of Nineveh Iraq, Education is Liberation, Donate to help kids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Sinjar was under Roman control in AD 170 and captured by Persians in AD 260.
		Sinjar is 57 km from the Syrian border.
		Yazidi village on the northern slopes of the Sinjar Mountains.
	www.iraqkids.org /cities.html (1074 words)

	Graham Brew Ph.D. Thesis
		Further evidence for Late Permian and Early Mesozoic rifting in the vicinity of the Palmyride / Sinjar rift is found in Israel farther to the southwest (Guiraud and Bosworth, 1997) where syn-sedimentary thickening and volcanics are described.
		The Sinjar region was linked to the major Middle Eastern basin in the northeast that was developing along the northern passive margin of Gondwana (Lovelock, 1984).
		However, the earlier initiation of faulting in the Euphrates graben (Litak et al., 1998), the increasing tectonism away from the collision (Litak et al., 1997), and the relatively large distance of the Euphrates from the collision, tend to invalidate this suggestion.
	atlas.geo.cornell.edu /people/brew/gbthesis3.html (9536 words)

	Iraq bloodshed hits record levels \| \| The Australian
		The unabated violence left at least 27 people dead overnight, including 14 Kurdish farmers from the town of Sinjar near the Syrian border who were found massacred in a field.
		The troops were stationed in Nasiriyah, the provincial seat of Dhi Qar, a relatively peaceful region compared with areas further north where US forces are battling a raging insurgency and the brutal sectarian conflict.
		Sinjar is a key centre of the Yazidi people, an ethnically Kurdish religious minority that Sunni extremists accuse of devil worship.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,20858186-1702,00.html (782 words)

	et - Full Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Another Yezidi man from Sinjar, who asked not to be identified as he works with Coalition Forces, confides, “It’s discouraged, yes, but it is allowable.” He goes on to describe a friend of his who was a Pir and had married a Marid girl.
		The Sinjar Mountains, from which the region derives its name, is the Yezidis’; ancestral homeland and one of their holiest places.
		The Sinjar Mountains roughly divide the desert from the arable land to the north.
	www.egypttoday.com /article.aspx?ArticleID=6160 (5166 words)

	Sahl Sinjar Airbase
		Sahl Sinjar Airbase is located approximately 350 kilometers North of Baghdad, and about 100 kilometers Southwest of Mosul.
		CIB overview of Sahl Sinjar Airbase as of 1995.
		Sahl Sinjar is served by a 9,800 foot runway.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/sahl-sinjar.htm (129 words)

	Devil Worship: Sacred Books and Traditions of the Yezidiz: Chapter V. Their Customs: IV. Locality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Sinjar is about three days' journey from Mosul.
		Among the sacred places of this district are two villages: Assofa, where two ziarahs are found, and distinguished from afar by their white spires, and Aldina, where one ziarah exists.
		In almost every Sinjar village, there is to be found a covered water which they use as a fortress during their fights with the Kurds or with the Turkish army.
	www.sacred-texts.com /asia/sby/sby38.htm (445 words)

	My Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Resting his 46-year-old body against his team's armored Humvee by a helicopter pad on a U.S. Army compound near Sinjar, McCorkle chats with such boyish zeal he may as well be talking about how he's going to spend his first few days after he redeploys to America next spring.
		After noting the still-astonishing proximity of the planet Mars to Earth, then diving into a sermon contrasting his civilian job to his role in the Army Reserve, he finally lands on one topic - a side-project he's been working on while in Northern Iraq.
		As McCorkle leans his body against the Humvee, both Mars and the Moon are staring at him on a fl horizon outside Sinjar.
	home.att.net /~steven.newton4/lostcause.html (1608 words)

	DefendAmerica News - Article
		SINJAR, Iraq, Oct. 27, 2003 — More than 100 parents and sick children waited outside the Sinjar General Hospital Thursday morning, anxiously awaiting the opening of the first children’s clinic north of Mosul to open its doors and receive them.
		A mother holds her underdeveloped infant while waiting for treatment during the opening of the Sinjar General Hospital's childcare center, the first clinic north of Mosul dedicated solely to children.
		A mother comforts her sick child in the children's ward at the Sinjar General Hospital on the same day the hospital held a grand opening for it's child care center, the first clinic north of Mosul responsible solely for children.
	www.defendamerica.mil /articles/oct2003/a102703b.html (433 words)

	Tuneinir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		The majority of the copper coins were minted in Sinjar.
		Two of the silver coins appear to have been Crusader imitations and may have been discarded for that reason.
		Minted for King Kub al din Mohammed in the city of Sinjar.
	users.stlcc.edu /mfuller/Area4coins.html (1268 words)

	Kurdish Voting Shenanigans Cloud Key Iraq Province
		Meanwhile a much more ambitious vote fraud scheme was unfolding in Sinjar, a relatively small district town in the west known to be a predominantly Sunni Arab area.
		Around 12,000 ballots had been sent to Sinjar, but on election day KDP officials in Sinjar requested a number of ballots far in excess of the estimated electorate in the town and surrounding villages, according to Cruz.
		The average number of ballots per ballot box nationwide was 500, and if each of the 236 boxes and bags of votes from Sinjar had that many ballots, those bags would have contained about 115,000 ballots.
	www.aina.org /news/20050928154520.htm (1211 words)

	Snipers Paradise Sniper Mall
		Eric Hernandez compete for "top gun," the best marksman in their class, in a sniper course last week in Sinjar, northern Iraq.
		SINJAR, Iraq — Soldiers aiming for a sniper qualification fired away on the vast plains of northwest Iraq.
		Seventeen of 19 students graduated last weekend from the Sinjar course, an 89.5 percent success rate.
	www.snipersparadise.com /articles/101snipers.htm (538 words)

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		Furthermore, the representatives of the political organizations were expelled from the voting centers in Sinjar, Qaboosiyya, and Tell Banat Mujama'.
		The question here is: How did they use five thousand voting ballots in three hours when the number of voters in Qaboosiyya and the neighboring areas do not exceed one thousand.
		Additionally, the head of Branch 17 of the KDP visited Sinjar hospital and paid each patient 25,000 Dinars to vote for the Kurdish slate.
	www.themesopotamian.org /How_1000_became_5000_votes.doc (543 words)

	Iraq - Sinjar - Ministère des Affaires étrangères
		The south Sinjar project started in 1989 with the survey of Tell Khoshi.
		In 2002, we concentrated ourselves on two areas, A and B. It corresponds to the cleaning of a section which was dug at the time of the construction of a road from Telafar to Sinjar.
		We were able to recognize three buildings levels all belonging to what we can call a grey ware culture ; its presence together with some others elements, increases from the oldest level to the younger ones.
	www.diplomatie.gouv.fr /en/france-priorities_1/archaeology_2200/archaeology-notebooks_2202/ancient-east_2224/iraq-sinjar_2235/index.html (552 words)

	News: Iraq, Iraq civilian deaths mount as sectarian bloodshed rages
		The unabated violence left at least 27 people dead on Friday, including 14 Kurdish farmers from the town of Sinjar near the Syrian border who were found massacred in a field.
		The November casualty figures, released by Iraq's interior and defence ministries, showed civilian deaths up 43 percent on October as the brutal sectarian conflict and the anti-US insurgency showed no signs of letting up.
		On Friday 27 people were killed in Iraq, including 14 Kurdish farmers murdered in a field in Sinjar, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the Syrian border.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/LZEG-6W3MTH?OpenDocument (839 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Iraqi tribe seeks political clout
		KHARSI, Iraq — When the 101st Airborne first reached this remote village in Iraq's northwestern Sinjar Mountains in 2003, elderly Yazidi tribesmen were thrilled: Their ancient religious prophesy had come true.
		Scrawled behind him on the wall, images of U.S. helicopters and soldiers depicted the arrival of the fighters awaited by the Yazidi, an obscure sect of sun worshippers with roots in Zoroastrianism who have inhabited the valleys of the Sinjar range for centuries.
		In downtown Sinjar, behind high dirt barricades constructed after a car bombing, the mayor's office stands a few feet from a huge Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) headquarters heavily guarded by peshmerga in dark-green uniforms.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002707592_iraqtribe28.html (828 words)

	Informed Comment
		In fact, survey research has strongly suggested that the number is actually much higher but that many killings are not recorded by the central ministry of health.
		McClatchy reports several deadly bombings in Baghdad on Friday, a firefight at Haifa St., the discovery of 20 bodies and the killing of 14 Shiite Kurds in Sinjar west of Mosul.
		Reuters reports that fighting continued in the southern Shiite city of Samawa between Mahdi Army militiamen and local security forces dominated by the Badr Corps (also Shiite).
	www.juancole.com /2006/12/dozens-of-bodies-in-sinjar-and-baghdad.html (733 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		One of the most common coins found at Tuneinir is the copper dirhems of Kutb al din Mohammed which were minted in Sinjar.
		This specimen bears the king's image in the style of a Hellenistic ruler with a battle mace resting across his left shoulder.
		This specimen was discovered in locus 638013 of the Area VI market during 1993.
	www.stlcc.cc.mo.us /fv/tuneinir/tttext/sinjar.html (79 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Car Bombs, Shooting Kill 11, Wound 70 in Iraq
		BAGHDAD - Two suicide car bombs exploded outside a joint U.S.-Iraqi military base near the northern town of Sinjar on Saturday, killing five people and wounding at least 45, a hospital official said.
		Witnesses told the official the bombs exploded in quick succession at the entrance to the base, just south of Sinjar in the northwest of Iraq, close to the border with Syria.
		Most of those wounded were laborers at the camp or Iraqi troops, they said.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/5-5-28/29127.html (386 words)

	Stars & Stripes
		SINJAR, Iraq — For U.S. Army Capt. Aaron Dixon, patrolling the streets of this ancient town along the Asian silk route is as much about civics instruction as it is about soldiering.
		Sinjar is a very different place from most of Iraq.
		As a result, Sinjar is enjoying a commercial boom as residents from nearby Tal Afar and other areas hit by insurgent activity travel to Sinjar to do their shopping.
	www.estripes.com /article.asp?section=104&article=35728&archive=true (1160 words)

	Stars & Stripes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		An Iraqi army battalion is set to assume control of security in and around the western border city of Sinjar, where 1st Armored Division troops have been deployed since leaving Germany late last fall.
		Sinjar has experienced little violence lately, enjoying a commercial boom that includes tremendous amounts of construction, new homes and retail buildings.
		The city and surrounding area have a population of roughly 65,000, and Sinjar and is on the verge of managing its own affairs with little U.S. help, officials said last month.
	www.estripes.com /article.asp?article=36898&section=104 (491 words)

	KSBI-TV - Home - Tractor bomb kills 5 at Kurdish political office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		They are targeting polling stations and warning candidates and would-be voters that their lives will be at risk if they cast ballots.
		In Wednesday's bombing in Sinjar, about 62 miles (100 kilometers) southwest of Mosul, 17 others were wounded, including nine Iraqi soldiers, five guards and three civilians.
		The tractor was stolen from a city facility close to the Kurdish office before being packed with explosives, said Kahsro Goran, deputy governor of Nineveh province.
	www.ksbitv.com /home/1371161.html (631 words)

	Anwari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anwari (Auhad-uddin Ali Anwari), Persian poet, was born in Khorasan early in the 12th century.
		He enjoyed the especial favour of the Sultan Sinjar, whom he attended in all his warlike expeditions.
		On one occasion, when the sultan was besieging the fortress of Hazarasp, a fierce poetical conflict was maintained between Anwari and his rival Rashidi, who was within the beleaguered castle, by means of verses fastened to arrows.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anwari (188 words)

	The Sulaimanya IDPs
		In 1999, Baghdad continued its systematic efforts to "Arabize" the predominantly Kurdish districts of Kirkuk, Khanaqin, and Sinjar at the edge of government-controlled Iraq near the Kurdish-controlled zone.
		In 1998, the UN Center for Human Settlements (UN-Habitat) estimated that more than 1 million people (out of a population of 3 million) were internally displaced in the three northern governorates at one time or another.
		At least 100,000 of the displaced in the north are people from the government-controlled regions of Kirkuk, Khanaqin, and Sinjar bordering the north who have been expelled into the north in recent years, including 1999.
	www.khrw.com /sulaimanya/idp.html (1190 words)

	CNN.com - Attacks leave at least 28 dead in Iraq - May 28, 2005
		Seven Iraqis died and 35 others were wounded in two blasts Saturday near a U.S.-Iraqi military base in the northwest town of Sinjar, Iraqi and American officials said.
		Most of the dead and wounded were Iraqi workers employed at the base, police said.
		Sinjar is near the Syrian border, about 70 miles (112 kilometers) west of Mosul in the restive Ninevah province.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/meast/05/28/iraq.main/index.html (773 words)

	THE YAZIDIS - AN EXTREME-SHIA SECT
		The Yazidis are linked to the extreme Shi'a (Ghulat) sects and number worldwide some 300,000 people.
		The main group of 150,000 Yazidis live in the Jebel Sinjar mountain and the Shaikhan district of northwest Iraq.
		Since the Gulf War the Iraqi Government is claiming that the Yazidis are Arabs and their areas should be under its jurisdiction, whilst the Yazidis and Kurdish forces assert that they are Kurds and should be part of their safe haven.
	www.angelfire.com /az/rescon/mgcyazid.html (1790 words)

	Devil Worship: Sacred Books and Traditions of the Yezidiz: Chapter VII. Persecution
		Soon after this Suleiman Paša of Bagdad sent a large army to Sinjar under the command of Lutfee Effendi, who set fire to the Jabal Sinjar and caused all the inhabitants to flee.
		Then Ḥafiz Paša of Diarbeker attempted the subjugation of the Yezidis of Sinjar, on the ground that they were plunderers.
		The Yezidis took refuge in caves, where they were either suffocated by smoke or killed by the discharge of cannon.
	www.sacred-texts.com /asia/sby/sby44.htm (1152 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Five Iraqi soldiers and border guards were killed and another 45 were wounded in a double car bombing just as they starting work at the army base in Sinjar, 420 kilometers north of Baghdad, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).
		Dr Ali Hussein said Sinjar hospital had received five bodies of soldiers and border guards, adding that the wounded had been transferred to other hospitals in the region.
		Another Iraqi soldier was killed when a US-Iraqi patrol was targeted by a car bomber in the oil refinery city of Baiji, north of Baghdad, police lieutenant Hassan Salah said.
	www.islamonline.net /English/News/2005-05/28/article02.shtml (734 words)

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