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  1. Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq by Patrick Cockburn, 2008-04-08
  2. Iraq: its people, its society, its culture (Survey of world cultures) by George Lawrence Harris, 1958
  3. World Cultures and Geography Lands in transition Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and the Central Asian Republics Teacher's Edition by Inc. Publicom, 2002
  4. Inshallah: the war in Iraq might leave us a new word to match a new sense of our own limitations.(Tuning Up)(inshallah, an Arabic phrase which means "if God wishes"): An article from: American Scholar by Cullen Murphy, 2007-09-22
  5. Discovering World Cultures: The Middle East (Volume 2, Iran, Iraq, Israel) (Middle School Reference) by Other Contributor-Creative Media Applications, 2004
  6. In Iraq, the truth is out there: camcorders subvert the 'official' war story.(Culture): An article from: Sojourners by Danny Duncan Collum, 2004-08-01
  7. Discovering World Cultures: The Middle East (Volume 2, Iran, Iraq, Israel) (Middle School Reference)
  8. War of the worlds: popular culture has long prepared Americans for an `alien' aggressor. (on the eve of war).(Iraq war. ): An article from: Arena Magazine by Jeremy Salt, 2003-02-01
  9. Culture Clash/Media Demons (Defeating Terrorism Developing Dreams : Beyond 9/11 and the Iraq War)
  10. Kurds (Threatened Cultures) by John King, 1993-07-31
  11. A Culture of Deference: Congress, The President, and the Course of the U.S.-Led Invasion and Occupation of Iraq by F. Ugboaja Ohaegbulam, 2007-05-30
  12. Crabtree Books.(Nations Of The Eastern Great Lakes)(Life Of The Powhatan)(Life Of The California Coast Nations)(Life In Ancient Egypt)(Life In Ancient ... An article from: Children's Bookwatch
  13. Response to challenges: An outline of Iraq's stand towards Arab and international issues by M. Sadeq Ali, 1980
  14. Iran's Hostility to Iraq: Follow-Up of Statements By Khomeini and His Aides by Iraqi Republic. Ministry Of Culture & Information, 1983

41. Art And Culture Of Iran, Iraq
Art and culture of Iran and iraq A Web Directory, iraq National Museum of Art.News from around the world. Google. See also . Art Periods, Art Movements, .
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42. Iraq - Art And Culture
Art and culture of iraq A Web Directory, iraq National Museum of Art New fromaround the world. . European American . Art Periods, Art Movements, .
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43. MSNBC - Culture Of Impunity?
Their tales hint at a culture of impunity that encouraged some Coalition soldiersto abuse and Khalid was flown to a different prison in southern iraq.
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MSN Home My MSN Hotmail Shopping ... Money document.write('') Web Search: placeAd(1,'newsweek.world/world') logoImg("http://sc.msn.com"); MSNBC News Alerts Newsletters Help ... MSNBC Shopping Search MSNBC: Advanced Search Culture of Impunity? Amid the mounting scandal over conditions at Abu Ghraib, Iraqi detainees are telling of other abuses at American-run centers Marwan Naamani / AFP-Getty Images The mother of an Iraqi arrested by American soldiers waits among the crowd for information about relatives at Abu Ghurayb prison on Tuesday WEB EXCLUSIVE By Melinda Liu Newsweek Updated: 3:31 p.m. ET May 05, 2004 May 4 - The efforts at damage control are picking up steam. Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, the man sent to clean up Iraq's U.S. Army-run prisons, today announced that the number of detainees held at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison will be reduced by more than half. And in a bid to counter the growing scandal, he's already banned the use of hoods to cover the heads of detainees during transport; instead "pressure bandages" or goggles will be used to cover prisoners' eyes. advertisement
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44. Electronic Iraq: Art, Music & Culture
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  • The Media: IFJ Condemns US "Shocking Neglect" And Failure to Protect Journalists After New Media Killings in Iraq ( 1 June 2004)
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  • 45. Art, Music & Culture: The Escape Painting: New Novel Set In Iraq Available For D
    Art, Music culture Michael Moore s documentary wins Palme d Or (23 May 2004).Art, Music culture The Escape Painting New novel set in iraq available for
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  • The Media: IFJ Condemns US "Shocking Neglect" And Failure to Protect Journalists After New Media Killings in Iraq ( 1 June 2004)
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    View of farm fields in Iraq ( Photo: Brian Jones
    A return trip to Iraq in the summer of 2003, after years living in exile, finds professor Omar Aboudi the unwilling target of a cunning plot by American intelligence agents spying on him to learn if he can be manipulated to influence Iraqi public opinion.  For three weeks, his every move while in Iraq is followed by the NSA, Iraqi patriots out to protect him, and journalists obsessed with his seductive story - a boy from the marshlands who made good in America and is standing up to American aggression toward his people.
  • 46. Iraq
    Saleh s Page Comprehensive information on iraq. Includes maps, images, a historyfrom Noah to present times, languages of iraq, culture, recipes and more.
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    47. CNN.com - Journalist: Pentagon Culture Led To Prison Abuse - May 9, 2004
    WORLD. Journalist Pentagon culture led to prison abuse. New article has photo ofdogs, naked iraqi prisoner. YOUR EMAIL ALERTS. iraq. Abu Ghraib. Donald Rumsfeld.
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    Unidentified U.S. soldiers surround an Iraqi detainee in this photo obtained by The New Yorker. VIDEO A new image of prisoner abuse surfaces as investigations continue into what went wrong.
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    48. Intervention Magazine War, Politics, Culture
    War, Politics, culture. are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon andevil as Hell.” Edward Abbey Who is Responsible for the Abuse in iraq?
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    49. U.S. Troops Trapped In Iraq :: Intervention Magazine :: War, Politics, Culture
    War, Politics, culture. Immortal Words Who is Responsible for the Abusein iraq? By Mick Youther. “Those involved will be identified.
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    50. Mercy Corps - Classroom
    All. culture in iraq Agriculture and Food (209 KB PDF) iraq has a long agriculturalhistory and is home to a wide variety of foods.
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    51. The 2003 Iraq War & Archaeology
    them, said John Russell, who was on the trip and who is the occupation authority sdeputy senior adviser for culture. Only a tiny fraction of iraq s sites have
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    (very approximate numbers based on all available info, my evaluation of the quality of same info, and lots of extrapolation and common sense; also taking into account that the comparison with the inventory is not yet finished; updated whenever new info changes the picture) 501,000 artifacts in total , of which 3% (15,502) missing and 5% (24,068) damaged Search this site powered by FreeFind If you're American, appeal to your US Representative/Senator HR 2009, the "Iraq Cultural Heritage Protection Act," will not be further pursued. A new proposal of legislation, S 671/HR 1047, contains less strong provisions for the protection of Iraq's cultural heritage but still deserves our support. Find out more at the Archaeological Institute of America web site My online articles, etc. If you wish to get up to speed quickly Melee at the Museum. International Whodunit Lingers over Looting of Iraq's National Museum in Baghdad

    52. The Sacking Of Iraq's Museums: US Wages War Against Culture And History
    Much more fundamental, however, is the political value for the American rulingelite of allowing such repositories of iraq’s history and culture to be
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    By Patrick Martin 16 April 2003 Use this version to print Send this link by email Email the author US government officials were warned repeatedly about possible damage to irreplaceable artifacts, either from American bombs and missiles or from post-war instability after the removal of the Iraqi government, but they did nothing to prevent it. Their inaction constitutes a gross violation of the 1954 Hague Convention on the protection of artistic treasures in wartime, adopted in response to the Nazi looting of occupied Europe during World War II. At least 80 percent of the 170,000 separate items stored at the National Museum of Antiquities in Baghdad were stolen or destroyed during the looting rampage that followed the US military occupation of Baghdad. The museum was the greatest single storehouse of materials from the civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia, including Sumeria, Akkadia, Babylonia, Assyria and Chaldea. It also held artifacts from Persia, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire and various Arab dynasties. Ironically, the only hope for the survival of some archaeological treasures is that they might have been removed from the museum before the war, to be displayed in one or another of the private residences of Saddam Hussein and his family. A large selection of artifacts made of gold was stored for safekeeping at the Iraqi Central Bank, but that facility was looted and burned as well.

    53. Nations Online :: Iraq - Al Iraq
    Official web sites of the state, the capital of iraq, art, culture, history,cities, airlines, embassies, tourist boards and newspapers.
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    Flag of Iraq Background:
    Formerly part of the Ottoman Empire, Iraq became an independent kingdom in 1932. A "republic" was proclaimed in 1958, but in actuality a series of military strongmen have ruled the country since then, the latest being SADDAM Husayn. Territorial disputes with Iran led to an inconclusive and costly eight-year war (1980-1988). In August 1990 Iraq seized Kuwait, but was expelled by US-led, UN coalition forces during January-February 1991. The victors did not occupy Iraq, however, thus allowing the regime to stay in control. Following Kuwait's liberation, the UN Security Council (UNSC) required Iraq to scrap all weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles and to allow UN verification inspections. UN trade sanctions remain in effect due to incomplete Iraqi compliance with relevant UNSC resolutions.

    54. PreHistoric Hassuna Culture In Iraq
    Hassuna culture (6000 BC 5250 BC). The relationship of Hassuna pottery to thatof Jericho suggests that village culture was becoming widespread ..
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    ... Ad Infinitum Hassuna Culture (6000 BC - 5250 BC) By around 6000 BC people had moved into the foothills (piedmont) of northernmost Mesopotamia where there was enough rainfall to allow for "dry" agriculture in some places. These were the first farmers in northernmost Mesopotamia ( Assyria ). They made Hassuna style pottery (cream slip with reddish paint in linear designs). Hassuna people lived in small villages or hamlets ranging from 2 to 8 acres. Even the largest Hassuna sites were smaller than PPNA Jericho had been 1000 years before and much smaller than Çatal Hüyük , which was still occupied in Anatolia . Probably few if any Hassuna villages exceeded 500 people ...... Read the Hassuna Outline Here Reproduced With Permission of Dr. Bruce Owen at Sonoma State University and his Class Anthropology 341 At Tell Hassuna, south of Mosul , adobe dwellings built around open central courts with fine painted pottery replace earlier levels with crude pottery. Hand axes, sickles, grinding stones, bins, baking ovens and numerous bones of domesticated animals reflect settled agricultural life. Female figurines have been related to worship and jar burials within which food was placed related to belief in afterlife. The relationship of Hassuna pottery to that of Jericho suggests that village culture was becoming widespread ......

    55. Pre-Historic Samarran Culture In Iraq
    PreHistoric Samarran culture (5500 - 4800 BC). Samarra is historicculture .. The Samarran culture dated back to 5500 - 4800 BC.
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    ... Ad Infinitum Pre-Historic Samarran Culture (5500 - 4800 BC) Samarra is an Islamic town of the second half of the first millennium AD on the Tigris River just north of Baghdad as well as the name of a pre-historic culture ..... The Samarran Culture dated back to 5500 - 4800 BC. The finding of the first significant irrigation at Samarra suggests that there was more investment in the land as far as farming for crops. The setting up of irrigation also showed that the city was a very permanent settlement and that the settlement prospered as a result of the advances that they made ..... Traces were found of pre-historic artifacts: fine painted pottery decorated in dark colored backgrounds with figures of animals - birds - people and complicated looking geometric designs. This type of pottery was first recognized at Samarra but at first was thought to be a southern variant of the Hassunan Culture ; it is now associated mainly with the site of Tell Sawwan It now seems that the Samarran is partly contemporary with the Hassunan but started a bit later and continued somewhat longer with a more southerly focus. It is this Samarran colonization of the

    56. Scotsman.com News - Top Stories - Lazy Guide To Net Culture: Iraqi Image Issues
    Let s get those guys in the cells, you know the ones from a culture that regards campaignto win the hearts and minds of the liberated people of iraq had taken
    http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=512122004

    57. Register At NYTimes.com
    Bad Subjects 63 iraq War cultureHOME PAGE. Cover! Bad Subjects 63 iraq War culture. Previous Issue,April 2003, Next Issue. Joe Lockard, issue editor iraq War culture.
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    58. Iraq War Culture
    iraq War culture. Joe Lockard Bad Subjects, Issue 63, April 2003. iraq War cultureis a culture that promotes the objectivity of a consensus of power.
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    Iraq War Culture Joe Lockard Bad Subjects , Issue # 63, April 2003
    Cutbacks and Repression
    The US political landscape of the Iraq War is characterized by massive cutbacks in social expenditures, together with tax structures that underwrite capital accumulation by a narrow alliance of social allies. Corporate, military and government leadership have become an integrated, interlocking circle, one that promotes an ideological culture of the nation-state as the fundamental source of progress and power to consume. Yet this is a crisis-bound society in need of affirmations of its superiority. Since the inauguration of the Bush administration, the US economy has lost 2.1 million jobs. The US educational system is in the middle of financial crises generated by astonishing military expenditures, corporate welfare, and tax giveaways to the rich.
    Necrophilic Speech
    The war occasions more than the war; it is a beginning of progressive regimentalization. It supplies rationales of repression, demands for the subordination of counter-argument, delimitations between permissible speech and silence that knows its place. War culture is speech in its own right, one that functions in rhetoric of demand and conquest. Yet the geist of attempted homogenization of opinion is unworkable home-front psy-ops, one that will fail because mass political opinion is chaotic in nature and hysterias are transitory phenomena. War culture, in all its efforts to heroicize and memorialize the dead, embraces state violence as the apogee of citizenship. Public speech responds to the demands of citizen-sacrifice.

    59. Small Arms Are Continuing Threat In Iraq
    The gun culture is pervasive in iraq. There is even an iraqi saying, Giveeverything to your friend, except your car, your wife, and your gun. .
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    Small Arms are Continuing Threat in Iraq March 24, 2003 View Standard Version As bombs fall on Iraq, the threat of a chemical, biological or nuclear attack remains a real threat to U.S. and coalition forces. But, with the hope that there is no attack using weapons of mass destruction, the majority of U.S. casualties in this war will be from small arms and light weapons. Moreover, the real threat to the rebuilding of Iraq may be these weapons as well. According to media reports, Iraq is one of the most heavily armed countries in the world. It is believed that there are enough guns in Iraq for at last every person in Iraq to possess one, a level similar to gun ownership in clans in Yemen and Somalia, as well as in the United States. With a population of approximately 24 million, that means there could be millions of small arms in the hands of civilians. The gun culture is pervasive in Iraq. There is even an Iraqi saying, "Give everything to your friend, except your car, your wife, and your gun."
    Small arms and light weapons are widely available in Iraq, both on the legal and black markets. These weapons are not necessarily new, but they are still deadly. In some arms bazaars throughout Iraq, weapons leftover from the end of Ottoman Empire in 1918 and World War II are also still available. More modern weapons are also available, especially in the illicit arms markets, with weapons for sale from the United States, Turkey Iran, and other supporters of the Kurds. Beyond simply guns, Iraqis civilians also have access to other light weapons, such as rocket-propelled grenades, mortars, and bombs through the black market, arms bazaars, and from government sources.

    60. Time For Bush To See The Realities Of Iraq (washingtonpost.com)
    The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it fromitself. Here we reach the real issue about iraq, as distinct from unpleasant
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    Tuesday, May 4, 2004; Page A25 Oh? Who? Appearing Friday in the Rose Garden with Canada's prime minister, President Bush was answering a reporter's question about Canada's role in Iraq when suddenly he swerved into this extraneous thought: "There's a lot of people in the world who don't believe that people whose skin color may not be the same as ours can be free and self-govern. I reject that. I reject that strongly. I believe that people who practice the Muslim faith can self-govern. I believe that people whose skins aren't necessarily are a different color than white can self-govern." What does such careless talk say about the mind of this administration? Note that the clearly implied antecedent of the pronoun "ours" is "Americans." So the president seemed to be saying that white is, and brown is not, the color of Americans' skin. He does not mean that. But that is the sort of swamp one wanders into when trying to deflect doubts about policy by caricaturing and discrediting the doubters. Scott McClellan, the president's press secretary, later said the president meant only that "there are some in the world that think that some people can't be free" or "can't live in freedom." The president meant that "some Middle Eastern countries that the people in those Middle Eastern countries cannot be free."

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