Iraq

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Kurdistan The other Iraq

Iraq 2006 Ain Qawa With the Chaldeans young women of a family coming from Bagdad fleeing the terror of the capital

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Francesca before Iraq War

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US SOLDIER IN MOSUL IRAQ

US soldier from 3rd squadron 3rd armored cavalry 3 3ACR chats with a little Iraqi boy during a joint patrol with Iraqi soldiers of the 2nd division in the northern al Sukkar neighborhood of Mosul some 380 kms north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad

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Kurdistan The other Iraq

Iraq 2006 Ain Qawa With the Chaldeans after the mass of Holy communion young christian women in the garden of the church

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Patrolling in Baghdad

U S Army Soldiers assigned to weapons squad 1st Platoon C Company 1st Battalion 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment pose for a photo before patrolling Rusafa Baghdad Iraq

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Exhausted soldiers try to get rest while on patrol in Iraq May 2007

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At present there are 7 100 British troops stationed in southern Iraq mostly in Basra the country s second largest city and the plan is to reduce the numbers in Iraq from 7 100 to 5 500 Tony

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U S Army Specialist Eric Alfredsen from Long Island New York with 1st Platoon Alpha Company I 327th Infantry 1st Brigade Combat Team 101st Airborne Division Air Assault plays soccer with a boy in Bayji baiji approximately 250km 180 miles from Baghdad November 25 2007 REUTERS Stefano Rellandini IRAQ

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A picture from one of Michael s recent posts Major Mark Bieger found this little girl after the car bomb attacked our guys while kids were crowding around Michael Yon writes compelling dispatches about what is happening in Iraq The picture that emerges from this carnage is savage but reassuring Iraqis are slowly but surely building a

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Iraq flag

Iraq flag

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Iraq Political 1999 323K and pdf format 199K

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Al Mawsil Mosul Arbil Region Northern Iraq tactical pilotage chart original scale 1 500 000 Portion of Defense Mapping Agency TPC G 4B 1989 927K Not for navigational use

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The True Story of Oil Iraq

This is a scholarly urgently important article about the inner workings of the oil industry present amp past governments in the U S amp abroad amp the secret manipulations of markets that are always touted as free by the very thieves whose hands are picking our pockets amp whose propaganda is ruining our minds And it s a tale about the greed of the oil men the Bush family among them amp their handy dandy immensely amp cleverly profitable war in Iraq Urgent amp brilliant reading Text below from <a href= http www truthout org docs 2006 061406J shtml >www truthout org docs 2006 061406J shtml< a> Keeping Iraq s Oil in the Ground By Greg Palast AlterNet Wednesday 14 June 2006 World oil production today stands at more than twice the 15 billion a year maximum projected by Shell Oil in 1956 and reserves are climbing at a faster clip yet That leaves the question Why this war Did Dick Cheney send us in to seize the last dwindling supplies Unlikely Our world s petroleum reserves have doubled in just twenty five years and it is in Shell s and the rest of the industry s interest that this doubling doesn t happen again The neo cons were hell bent on raising Iraq s oil production Big Oil s interest was in suppressing production that is keeping Iraq to its OPEC quota or less This raises the question did the petroleum industry which had a direct if hidden hand in promoting invasion cheerlead for a takeover of Iraq to prevent overproduction It wouldn t be the first time If oil is what we re looking for there are indeed extra helpings in Iraq On paper Iraq at 112 billion proven barrels has the second largest reserves in OPEC after Saudi Arabia That does not make Saudi Arabia happy Even more important is that Iraq has fewer than three thousand operating wells compared to one million in Texas That makes the Saudis even unhappier It would take a decade or more but start drilling

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U S forces focus on Baghdad leaving western Iraq in limbo BAGHDAD Iraq For months soldiers from the 172nd Stryker Brigade fought in riverside towns of western Iraq trying to clamp off the flow of foreign fighters and suicide bombers that

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Easter in Iraq 2006

Like all wars commands come from quot on high quot obeyed by armies below believers trained to follow It s just so damn sad

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