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	Umm Qasr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Umm Qasr (Arabic: أم قصر), is a port city in Iraq, on the western bank of the Khawr Abd Allah estuary which leads to the Persian Gulf.
		Umm Qasr was long a small fishing town of no great importance until a naval base was established here after the Iraqi Revolution of 1958.
		Meanwhile much commerce was shifted to Umm Qasr away from Basra by deliberate Iraqi government policy to punish Basra for its role in the rebellions against the rule of Saddam Hussain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Umm_Qasr (381 words)

	Why War? Keywords: Umm Qasr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Umm Qasr, also known as Khawr Umm Qasr, is a port city in Iraq, on the western side of the Faw Peninsula on the shores of the Shatt al-Arab waterway which leads to the Persian Gulf.
		Meanwhile much commerce was shifted to Umm Qasr away from Basra by deliberate Iraqi policy to punish Basra for its role in the rebellions against the reign of Saddam Hussain.
		The city of Umm Qasr was one of the first Iraq cities conquered in the United States' 2003 invasion of Iraq, on March 29, 2003.
	www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/places/Umm_Qasr (641 words)

	Umm Qasr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Umm Qasr (أم قصر), also known as Khawr Umm Qasr, is a portcity in Iraq, on the western side of the al-Faw peninsula on the shores of the Shattal-Arab waterway which leads to the Persian Gulf.
		Umm Qasr was long a small fishing town of no great importance until a naval base was established here after the IraqiRevolution of 1958.
		The city of Umm Qasr was one of the first Iraq cities conquered in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, on March 29, 2003.
	www.therfcc.org /umm-qasr-155479.html (318 words)

	Victor Mallet, Ominous Signs for Coalition in Battle for Umm Qasr
		Umm Qasr, the port at the head of the Gulf through which the coalition has announced it will bring urgent humanitarian aid to the people of Iraq, is home to just 4,000 people and lies within sight of the Kuwaiti border.
		The failure to bring calm to Umm Qasr is particularly galling because the US-led coalition wants to bring in humanitarian aid through the port as quickly as possible to demonstrate its good intentions to the Iraqis and to world opinion, which remains overwhelmingly hostile to the war.
		The street-fighting in Umm Qasr, meanwhile, underlines why armies, particularly those wary of taking casualties or of killing civilians by accident, are reluctant to take on defenders in densely populated towns and cities.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/27c/299.html (917 words)

	Marine Corps News -> Frozen funds ignite Umm Qasr economy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		UMM QASR, Iraq (April 23, 2003) -- In a landmark day for the Iraqi people, citizens in Umm Qasr, Iraq, received their first "paycheck" from the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assitrance, Southern Region, April 23.
		Umm Qasr's receipt of the money is one of the first steps in this decision.
		Umm Qasr town council leader, Najim Abdul-Mahdi, points to allocations made in the distribution list for $130,000 given to the town by the U.S. government.
	www.usmc.mil /marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/lookupstoryref/2003423155858 (598 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Umm Qasr aid effort 'a shambles'
		Patrick Nicholson of the UK charity Cafod has just returned from Umm Qasr, where he found the humanitarian effort in the British occupied area to be a "shambles".
		From the TV pictures of Umm Qasr, I had been led to believe it was a town under control, where the needs of the people were being met.
		Umm Qasr was taken 10 days ago and it was deemed safe for aid agencies to enter on Monday, and yet it is still a shambles.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/2915091.stm (565 words)

	Umm Qasr
		Umm Qasr, a key Iraqi port that US officials said they hoped to use for military or humanitarian supplies, was declared to be under US and British control on 21 March 2003.
		The Sailors from NCW delivered the supplies to one of the schools in Umm Qasr and interacted with many of the town's children, who were naturally interested in the convoy.
		Camp Bucca, the coalition's facility for enemy prisoners of war is near Umm Qasr in southern Iraq, and was at one point operated by the 800th Military Police Brigade.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/umm-qasr.htm (2178 words)

	Umm Qasr is not under control. It's like the Wild West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Many, like Umm Sami, are still collecting the majority of their water from the wells, throwing tin cans tied to lengths of string down the 15-metre holes and drawing out dirty water.
		It is hard to assess whether enough water is entering Umm Qasr but even if sufficient amounts are coming in to meet the needs of the town's 40,000 population many more people are coming in from neighbouring areas, including Basra.
		He told me he thought she had only days to live and that Umm Qasr was his last chance to save her.
	www.ccmep.org /2003_articles/Iraq/040503_umm_qasr_is_not_under_control.htm (722 words)

	Umm Qasr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Umm Qasr, also known as Khawr Umm Qasr, is a port city in Iraq, on the western side of the Fao Peninsula on the shores of the Shatt al-Arab waterway which leads to the Persian Gulf.
		It is separated from the border of Kuwait by a small inlet; prior to the Gulf War trafic between Kuwait and Iraq flowed over a bridge here.
		Meanwhile much commerce was shifted to Umm Qasr away from Basra by deliberate Iraqi policy to punish the later city for its role in the rebellions against the reign of Saddam Hussain.
	www.theezine.net /u/umm-qasr.html (187 words)

	Bechtel's port of entry / SF construction giant must clear up Umm Qasr harbor before rebuilding Iraq
		"Umm Qasr is a miserable little godforsaken place, but it has a wonderful outlet to the sea," said Michael Izady, an adjunct history professor at Pace University who has visited the port.
		Umm Qasr has become one of the first priorities of Bechtel, hired by the U. government to manage Iraq's reconstruction.
		Umm Qasr became one of the first targets of the American-led invasion in March, and Saddam Hussein's forces defended it fiercely.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/a/2003/05/15/BU199731.DTL&type=printable (1002 words)

	U.S., British forces seize port city of Umm Qasr - baltimoresun.com
		KUWAIT CITY - The southern Iraq port city of Umm Qasr was under the control of U.S. and British troops yesterday, military officials said, opening a key route for humanitarian aid that could begin arriving in about two days.
		"Umm Qasr is a microcosm of things to come in all of the [cities]," said Charles Pena, director of Defense Policy Studies at the Cato Institute in Washington.
		Charles Heyman, editor of Jane's World Armies, said he thought the battle for Umm Qasr went as well as it could given the makeup of the military force, but he said that urban battles should be fought with more infantrymen than was available to the coalition forces.
	www.baltimoresun.com /news/nationworld/iraq/bal-te.qasr26mar26,0,7148346.story (1224 words)

	CorpWatch : Umm Qasr -- From National Pride to War Booty
		A new deepwater port was built on the Persian Gulf, Umm Qasr, which became a lynchpin in that plan.
		Despite its dilapidated state, Umm Qasr is still a highly developed facility, with 23 berths for ships, four modern container cranes, and a grain and cement dock.
		On the Umm Qasr docks and in factories and refineries throughout the country, unions were effectively banned.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=9408 (2895 words)

	USATODAY.com - Brits turn over Umm Qasr to civilian rule (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Umm Qasr, a town of about 50,000 people, was one of the first military objectives for coalition troops who wanted to secure Iraq's only deep-water port.
		The humanitarian situation in Umm Qasr was stabilized within a couple weeks.
		Several other town councils have been set up throughout Iraq, but Umm Qasr will be the first one to take over complete control of a town from U.S. or British troops.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2003-05-15-ummqasr-rule_x.htm (345 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Battle for hearts and minds at Umm Qasr
		Securing Umm Qasr's port is vital to the US-led forces attacking Iraq, and not only because it will allow them to land humanitarian aid.
		Umm Qasr is literally a stone's throw from the Kuwaiti border.
		"Umm Qasr is a city similar to Southampton," UK defence minister Geoff Hoon said this week.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/2887545.stm (1026 words)

	CAFOD: Focus on Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Umm Qasr is just over the border from Kuwait in Iraq.
		The sky is filled with fl columns of smoke rising from the burning oil wells, The town was taken early on during the conflict by Coalition forces, which secured the port for humanitarian aid shipments.
		He thinks the hospital in Umm Qasr is his last chance but says he has got no help here.
	www.cafod.org.uk /iraq/emergencyteam_kuwait0304c.shtml (796 words)

	Iraqis dispute British victory claims in Fao, Umm Qasr. 22/3/2003. ABC News Online
		But Iraqi Defence Minister Sultan Hashem Ahmad, while conceding that coalition forces had landed at Umm Qasr port, denied that the city had fallen into their hands and said fighting was continuing.
		Umm Qasr remains under the control of the 45th Iraqi Brigade, he has told reporters.
		The port of Umm Qasr was now in US and British military hands and will become a main route for humanitarian aid, Boyce said.
	pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/33312/20030327/www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s813442.htm (347 words)

	Umm Qasr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Umm Qasr (), también conocido como Khawr Umm Qasr, es una ciudad portuaria en Iraq, en el lado occidental de la península del al-Faw-Faw en las orillas del canal del al-A'rabe de Shatt (Arvand) que conduce al golfo persa.
		Umm Qasr era largo una ciudad pequeña de la pesca de ninguna gran importancia hasta que una base naval fue establecida aquí después de la revolución iraquí de 1958.
		La ciudad de Umm Qasr era una de las primeras ciudades de Iraq conquistadas en la invasión 2003 de Iraq, de marcha la 29 de 2003.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/um/Umm%20Qasr.htm (389 words)

	Online NewsHour Update: Coalition Forces Secure Umm Qasr, Opening its Ports to Aid for Iraqis -- March 25, 2003
		However, Dutton said "Umm Qasr is now safe and open and we are beginning to deliver aid, or we will be shortly.
		Residents of Umm Qasr told Reuters the town had been left without water supplies or electricity and that stocks of food were running low and the market was empty.
		"Now that the city of Umm Qasr has been liberated, there is a lot of work to be done to get the port back operating so that commerce can begin and relief aid can be brought in," he said.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/updates/umm_qasr_03-25-03.html (517 words)

	theage.com.au - The Age
		The port town of Umm Qasr was where the American flag was first raised at the end of March by excited US marines scenting the coalition victory that would soon spread across Iraq.
		In the early days, after the first battle of the war was won and the sporadic resistance subdued, many of Umm Qasr's residents came out of their mud-brick houses to welcome the invaders.
		Control of Umm Qasr has been handed to the Spanish, whose soldiers rarely venture far beyond their heavily guarded headquarters inside the port.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/05/04/1051987604147.html (812 words)

	The Truth Seeker - American forces acknowledge stiff resistance in Umm Qasr
		Al-Sahhaf said that everything that has been said about Umm Qasr and other cities is not true, and he declared that the Iraqi forces in positions on al-Faw peninsula, and in Umm Qasr, al-Nasiriyya, Umm al-Shaykh, al-Bateha, and Qa`idat al-Imam `Ali are still strongly resisting.
		American Marines confirm that they are still meeting with Iraqi resistance in the Port of Umm Qasr in the south of the country.
		The commander of one of the Marine units said that the American and British forces had captured between 400 and 450 Iraqis in the fighting around the Port of Umm Qasr and the nearby al-Faw Peninsula that commands the entrance to the Gulf.
	www.thetruthseeker.co.uk /article.asp?ID=599 (843 words)

	In Captured Umm Qasr, Saddam Still Inspires Fear
		UMM QASR, Iraq (Reuters) - Sipping tea under a large portrait of President Saddam Hussein in a quiet back room in Umm Qasr, Khalid says the Iraqi leader still inspires fear in the only town so far captured by U.S.-led forces.
		British forces based at an abandoned Iraqi military compound in the town center say they are making contacts with local political figures, but say it is too soon to establish a new administration until they have built more trust.
		British troops with the help of Arabic translators are re-recruiting workers for the port, Iraq's only deep water harbor which will play a key role in the major humanitarian effort expected to accompany the war.
	www.wadinet.de /news/iraq/nw1424_inspiresfear.htm (513 words)

	Marines raise flag over Umm Qasr 032103a (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		UMM QASR, Iraq - U.S. Marines lowered the Iraqi flag over the new port area of Umm Qasr in southern Iraq on Friday and hoisted the Stars and Stripes in its place, Reuters correspondent Adrian Croft reported.
		British marines are co-ordinating the assault on Umm Qasr and British military spokesman Colonel Chris Vernon told CNN that the city was not yet entirely under the control of the invading force.
		As they entered Umm Qasar the soldiers passed two blazing cars and the bodies of two men in civilian clothes lying on the road.
	www.drumbeat.mlaterz.net /March%202003/Marines%20raise%20flag%20over%20Umm%20Qasr%20032103a.htm (326 words)

	mcall.com - A tiny victory as water runs to Umm Qasr
		UMM QASR, Iraq - The wheelbarrow would not quite roll straight, but that did not stop the young man from filling it yesterday and pushing it away.
		And even in Umm Qasr, authorities were still battling bandits who were stealing the water so they could sell it at fl-market prices.
		Umm Qasr was supposed to fall soon after the first bombs on Baghdad did, and water rushed in soon after that.
	www.mcall.com /features/bal-te.water01apr01,0,2129377.story (1112 words)

	USATODAY.com - British supply ship docks at Umm Qasr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		UMM QASR, Iraq (AP) — Flanked by patrol boats and assault helicopters, the British supply ship Sir Galahad docked at the hard-won port of Umm Qasr on Friday, loaded with the first military shipment of relief aid for Iraqi citizens.
		Working intensively for the past week, the teams have cleared a 200 yard-wide channel along the 40 mile-route from the Persian Gulf into the port of Umm Qasr, which allied forces are hoping to make the center for humanitarian relief distribution.
		Iraq's only deep water port, Umm Qasr was heavily used in prewar days as the main entry point for supplies bought through the U.N.-administered Oil-for-Food Program.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2003-03-28-british-supply-ship-docks_x.htm (951 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| world news Umm Qasr handed back to Iraq
		The British army on Thursday handed civil authority over the border town of Umm Qasr to Iraqis on a municipal council, an AFP reporter said.
		"The handover from 23 Pioneer Regiment to the Umm Qasr town council is symbolic as it is the first town to be handed over in the British area of military responsibility," Jones said.
		Umm Qasr, which provided labour for the local port, had like so many others in the south been a "forgotten town" before the war, he said.
	iafrica.com /news/worldnews/236930.htm (363 words)

	Al Faw, Umm Qasr Resistance May Be Thorn in Coalition's Side
		In neighboring Umm Qasr, they shoot at the British garrison and are reportedly prepared for suicide attacks.
		Iraqi leaders refer to both the Al Faw Peninsula and Umm Qasr as an Iraqi Brest Fortress, a reference to a Russian fortress that held fast against superior German forces in the summer of 1941.
		A major oil reserve at a port facility in Umm Qasr was destroyed April 1, possibly by an Iraqi HY-2 Seersucker ground-launched anti-ship missile, Kuwaiti daily Al-Qabas reported.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/888609/posts (1408 words)

	Coalition-controlled Umm Qasr gets water, but distribution chaotic
		Before the start of the war March 20, Umm Qasr received water from Basra to the north, which has been besieged for a week by coalition troops.
		The trucks head to different districts across Umm Qasr, but they are often forcibly stopped by residents who want their water first.
		Umm Qasr, where in Ansari's estimate some 10,000 displaced Iraqis are living, is at least better off than some other towns in southern Iraq.
	www.spacewar.com /2003-a/030401140436.clld1e5x.html (450 words)

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