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	Iraq
		Following Iraq's occupation of Kuwait in 1990, and the subsequent expulsion by international troops, Iraq was internationally isolated until the spring of 2003, when the United States and the United Kingdom controversially invaded and removed the Ba'ath Party from leadership, and who are currently attempting to restore order and stability to the country.
		Large parts of Iraq consist of desert, but the area between the two major rivers Euphrates and Tigris is fertile, with the rivers carrying about 70 million cubic meters of silt annually to the delta.
		Iraq's seizure of Kuwait in August 1990, subsequent international economic sanctions, and damage from military action by an international coalition beginning in January 1991 drastically reduced economic activity.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ir/Iraq___Temp.html (987 words)

	Iraq Demographics and Geography - Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online
		Iraq is bordered on the S by Kuwait, the Persian Gulf, and Saudi Arabia; on the W by Jordan and Syria; on the N by Turkey; and on the E by Iran.
		Iraq is approximately coextensive with ancient Mesopotamia and occupies the structural depression between the plateaus of Iran and Saudi Arabia, extending from a short c.55-mi/89-km-long frontage at head of the Persian Gulf c.600 mi/966 km NW (maximum width c.400 mi/644 km) to the highlands of Kurdistan, where it borders on Turkey.
		The Treaty of Sèvres (1920) established Iraq as a mandate of the League of Nations under British administration, and in 1921 the country was made a kingdom headed by Faisal I. The British mandate was terminated in 1932, and Iraq was admitted to the League of Nations.
	www.columbiagazetteer.org /public/Iraq.html (1839 words)

	Wikinfo \| Iraq
		The Republic of Iraq is a nation in the Middle East in the southwest of Asia.
		Following Iraq's occupation of Kuwait in 1990, and the subsequent expulsion by international troops, Iraq was internationally isolated until the spring of 2003, when the United States and the United Kingdom invaded and removed the Ba'ath Party from leadership and continue to occupy the country.
		Iraq was briefly under a US-led occupation following the ousting of the Ba'ath Party in April 2003.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Iraq (1102 words)

	U.S.-Iraq War - MSN Encarta
		The Iraq Ministry of Health also disputed the study, saying that its estimate of Iraqi deaths since the U.S. invasion began was 150,000, but this estimate was believed to be of deaths caused by Sunni insurgents rather than an overall count of violent deaths.
		Iraq denied inspectors access to some sites within the country, and much of the information Iraq provided about its weapons programs was viewed as incomplete, inaccurate, or misleading.
		It advocated a war against Iraq as a way of undermining Syria and of moderating the Shia Hezbollah of southern Lebanon, arguing that these actions would pave the way for peace and stability in a notoriously unstable part of the world.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_701610462/U_S_-Iraq_War.html (1945 words)

	Iraq Business Directory : About Iraq
		The Republic of Iraq sits on land that is historically known as Mesopotamia (Al-Rafidayn in Arabic and Beth Nahrain in Aramaic), which means 'land between the rivers' in Greek, also largely comprising the eastern and bigger arm of the Fertile Crescent.
		Iraq was invaded and occupied in March 2003 by the United States and allies, who established a Coalition Provisional Authority to govern Iraq.
		Iraq is known primarily for an instrument called the oud (similar to a lute) and a rebab (similar to a fiddle); its stars include Ahmed Mukhtar and the Assyrian Munir Bashir.
	www.iraqdir.com /about_iraq.php (2362 words)

	Iraq - Article
		Iraq is in southwestern Asia encompassing most of Mesopotamia as well as the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range and the eastern part of the Syrian Desert.
		Iraq was granted independence in 1932, though the British retained military bases and transit rights for their forces in the country.
		Iraq's total external debt was around $120 billion at the time of the 2003 invasion, and had grown by $5 billion by 2004.
	goldbamboo.com /topic-t8780-a1-6Iraq_.html (3521 words)

	ipedia.com: Iraq Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Republic of Iraq is a Middle Eastern country in southwestern Asia encompassing the ancient region of Mesopotamia.
		The fertile area of Mesopotamia, between the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers, was the birth place of several of the world's oldest civilisations, such as the Sumerians, Akkadians, Aramean Babylonians and Aramean Assyrians.
		Almost 75% of Iraq's population consists of Arabic speakers (mainly Iraqi but some Hejazi); the other major ethnic group are the Kurds (20%), who live in the north and north-east of the country.
	www.ipedia.com /iraq.html (1499 words)

	The Children of Iraq: On the Brink of Disaster
		Further, the number of livestock in Iraq is decreasing due to lack of food, vaccines, medicines and veterinary equipment.
		Iraq's hospitals are overwhelmed with children under five who are severely ill from cholera, typhoid, infectious hepatitis, dysentery, and other diarrheal diseases.
		Since the inception of this crisis, UN agencies have had to beg for funds and have come up seriously short of what is needed even for the highest priority projects which contribute directly to the mitigation of the most serious threats to the lives of children.
	www.phrusa.org /research/health_effects/humiraq.html (1427 words)

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		The Republic of Iraq is a nation in the Middle East 7 region and in 9 the southwest of 1 Asia.
		Iraq's 0 seizure of Kuwait 2 in August 1990, 0 subsequent international economic sanctions, 4 and damage from military 4 action by an international 8 coalition beginning in 9 January 1991 drastically 5 reduced economic activity.
		Following 1 the 2003 invasion 4 of Iraq the 4 economy has to 2 a great extent shut 6 down and attempts are 4 underway to revive 5 it from the damages 1 of the war 1 and rampant crime.
	www.cleog.com /iraq_.htm (1360 words)

	Demographics of Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Iraq was known in ancient times as Mesopotamia.
		Almost 75% of Iraq's population lives in the flat, alluvial plain stretching southeast from Baghdad to Basra and the Persian Gulf.
		Iraq's two largest ethnic groups are Arabs and Kurds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Demographics_of_Iraq (408 words)

	PRESS BRIEFING ON IRAQ DEMOGRAPHICS
		Given the dearth of demographic information about Iraq’s population over the past several decades, the receipt of the national report of Iraq’s 1997 Population and Housing Census by the United Nations Statistics Division was an important development, correspondents were told at a Headquarters press briefing today.
		Stressing the importance of public review and discussion of Iraq’s 1997 census, Mary Chamie, the Chief of the Demographic and Social Statistics Branch, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, said it was an important moment for the Iraqi population to participate in the review of the data provided in the census.
		The overall quality of the 1997 census appeared to be good, she said. There were some notable distinctions, however, and greater review of the data was required. Public dissemination of the data should encourage the assessment needed to evaluate the results of the census.
	www.un.org /News/briefings/docs/2003/iraqdemobrf.doc.htm (272 words)

	Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Republic of Iraq is a Middle Eastern country in southwestern Asia encompassing the ancient region of Mesopotamia at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and also including the southern Kurdistan.
		Modern Iraq became a British mandate (the British League of Nations Trust Territory of Iraq) at the end of World War I (the, and was granted independence from British control in 1932.
		Almost 72% of Iraq's population consists of Arabic speakers (mainly Iraqi but some Hejazi); the Other major ethnic group are the Kurds (25%), who live in the north and north-east of the country.
	iraq.mindbit.com (2237 words)

	Iraq
		The Republic of Iraq is a Middle Eastern country in southwestern Asia encompassing the ancient region of Mesopotamia at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
		Modern Iraq, or the cliff, became a British mandate at the end of World War I, and was granted independence from British control in 1932.
		On January 30, 2005, Iraq held its first free elections in over 50 years, bringing a new situation to Iraq, which had been mostly dominated by its Sunni minority from its founding.
	webpages.charter.net /wisconsinlegion-7thdistrict/Iraq_History.htm (1767 words)

	Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Iraq was granted independence in 1932 by the urging of King Faisal, though the British retained military bases and transit rights for their forces in the country.
		Iraq was invaded by the United Kingdom in 1941, for fears that the government of Rashid Ali might cut oil supplies to Western nations and because of his strong leanings to Nazi Germany.
		Iraq was invaded in March 2003 by a United States-organized coalition with the stated reasons that Iraq had not abandoned its nuclear and chemical weapons development program according to United Nations resolutions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iraq (4468 words)

	Top20Iraq.com - Your Top20 Guide to Iraq!
		Iraq was under Ba'ath Party rule from 1968 to 2003, in 1979 Saddam Hussein took leadership and became president until 2003.
		Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the economy to a great extent shut down; attempts are underway to revive it from the damages of war and rampant crime.
		The Jubilee Iraq campaign argued that these debts were odious (or illegitimate) given that they came from loans to a dictator fighting a war which caused the Iraqi people a great deal of harm, and should therefore be written off unconditionally.
	www.top20iraq.com (2771 words)

	Muslims, Islam, and Iraq
		The Shi'is and the Future of Iraq is a report (March 3, 2003) prepared by Evan Langenhahn on the basis of an address (on February 21, 2003) by Yitzhak Nakash at the Washington Institute's Special Policy Forum.
		Muslims Urge Iraq Co-operation The countries of Turkey, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Egypt urged 'Iraq to co-operate with the UN weapons' inspectors; from the newspaper, Herald Sun (Australia), January 24, 2003.
		Episcopalians Respond to Beginning of War with Iraq (link fixed 24 December 2005) An article on the official website of US branch of the Episcopal Church asserting that the war should be seen as a defeat for humanity; and that it is not a war of Christianty against Islam.
	www.uga.edu /islam/iraq.html (8486 words)

	Iraq plan governing oil assets embraced \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraq's Cabinet approved draft legislation yesterday that would enable the government to manage the country's vast oil resources and distribute revenue throughout the country, a step toward meeting a U.S. demand that the nation's parliament pass such a law.
		Abdul-Mahdi, one of Iraq's most influential Shiite politicians, was walking toward the podium at an awards ceremony at the Public Works Ministry when explosives detonated beneath the seats, striking him with shrapnel but causing only minor wounds, said Zuhair Hamadi, an adviser to the vice president.
		There is intense disagreement over demographics in Iraq – many Sunni Arabs insist they are the majority of Iraqis, even though Sunni Arabs are generally estimated to be 20 percent of the population, Kurds 20 percent and Shiite Arabs 60 percent.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20070227/news_1n27iraq.html (897 words)

	iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Palestine and Iraq, the latter having been seized in 1915.
		Following Iraq's occupation of Kuwait in 1990, and the subsequent expulsion by international troops, Iraq was internationally isolated until the spring of 2003 when, after a relation worstening with
		Almost 75% of Iraq's population consists of Arabs; the other major ethnic group are the Kurds (20%), who live in the north and north-east of the country.
	www.findthelinks.com /history/iraq.htm (1407 words)

	Iraq General information \| AME Info Country Guide
		Iraq’s future, despite the hope that elections in early 2005 gave to some, remains highly uncertain.
		Iraq shares borders with Turkey, Iran, the Gulf of Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the Syrian Arab Republic.
		The country’s main topographical features are the two rivers, the Euphrates and the Tigris, which flow from the Turkish and Syrian Arab Republic borders in the north to the Gulf in the south.
	www.ameinfo.com /iraq_demographics (800 words)

	Middle East Information - MEIC Issues and analysis of the Middle East: Conflicts, News, History, Religions and ...
		If deaths in Iraq were spread evenly across the United States, 53 soldiers from counties of fewer than 50,000 would have died.
		The best evidence before Iraq comes from the University of Chicago's General Social Survey which, in surveys conducted from the 1970s through the mid-'90s, found no difference in the military enlistment rates of those from small towns or farms and those from cities with more than 250,000 people.
		The toll of rural dead in Iraq appears to be a new phenomenon.
	middleeastinfo.org /article3673.html (608 words)

	Middle East Institute: Policy Brief
		Analysts never seriously hoped that Iraq would serve as a linchpin for a democratic transformation of the Middle East, although Pillar did stress that the eventual emergence of a stable, functional, Shia-dominated state could serve as counterpoint to the vilayat-e-faqih (State of the Jurist) regime in Iran.
		Pillar also said that pre-war assessments did not indicate that the Iraq War would be a deterrent to WMD production in other countries in the region, but that the example of the invasion of Iraq under such pretexts would only increase the speed with which such programs were developed.
		In his final comments, Pillar stressed that the future of Iraq is in the hands of the Iraqi statesmen who are working to suppress sectarian tensions and craft Iraq’s first truly representative government, as well as the US and its citizens whose domestic policies will ultimately effect Iraq in numerous ways.
	www.mideasti.org /articles/doc504.html (718 words)

	The Capital Awaits a Masterstroke on Iraq - New York Times
		SOMEONE in Vice President Dick Cheney’s office has gotten everybody on this city’s holiday party circuit talking, simply by floating an unlikely Iraq proposal that is worthy of a certain mid-19th century British naturalist with a fascination for natural selection.
		He said that for the past three years, Sunni insurgent groups, and many Sunni politicians, have refused to recognize that the demographics of Iraq are not in their favor.
		Sunni insurgents can share the responsibility with Shiite death squads for the violence in Iraq, but the Sunnis have the most to lose in an all-out civil war, since they are outnumbered three to one.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/12/17/weekinreview/17cooper.html?ex=1324011600&en=a0615351a24340fc&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (1467 words)

	War and Piece:
		Hundreds of Saudi fighters who joined the insurgency in Iraq showed few signs of militancy before the U.S.-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein, according to a detailed study based on Saudi intelligence reports.
		"Analysts and government officials in the U.S. and Iraq have overstated the size of the foreign element in the Iraqi insurgency, especially that of the Saudi contingent," it said.
		The take-away: 90% of Iraq's insurgents are Iraqi, which differs significantly from what I was told by a senior Republican Hill staffer the other day, that the insurgents are mostly foreign fighters.
	www.warandpiece.com /blogdirs/002629.html (214 words)

	Disturbing Trends: Iraq Demographics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The maps in this article show the population distributions and pretty much the two different countries that occupy the land that has been called Iraq in a shame of nationhood only held together by death squads and the iron fists of Saddam Hussein.
		The KEY to the Iraq country is America protects United Iraq-Kurdistan North from the Sadr-Iraq of the Shi'ite South.
		They simply ask Iran to be the protectorate over the Shi'ite part of Iraq and that means that Iran now only has desert to traverse to invade Sunni heartland, Saudi Arabia.
	dtrends.org /2006/11/iraq-demographics.html (490 words)

	ALIC - War in Iraq
		Iraq: The cradle of civilation at risk: Cultural heritage and historical monuments
		The Iraq Action Coalition is an online media and activists' resource center for groups and activists who are working to end the war against the people of Iraq.
		The National Network to End the War Against Iraq is a nation-wide coalition of over 140 peace and justice, student and faith-based organizations united to work for a common cause: ending the war being waged against the people of Iraq.
	www.archives.gov /research/alic/reference/military/war-in-iraq.html?template=print (626 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Iraq Body Count: War dead figures
		The number of civilians reported to have been killed during the Iraq war and subsequent military presence is being recorded by the campaign group Iraq Body Count.
		Iraq Body Count uses a survey of online news reports to produce its running tally, including a "minimum" and "maximum" figure where reports differ, or it is unclear whether a person killed was a civilian.
		Nevertheless, Iraq Body Count's methods and its ability to compile accurate statistics have been questioned by critics, with some arguing that it has greatly underestimated the number of casualties.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/4525412.stm (448 words)

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