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'Mother of Believers' - Recruiter Of Female Suicide Bombers Arrested
Feb 4 2009, Incognito

When I think of a “mother”, the images that come to mind are those of a nurturing, protective, loving soul. But one woman, 50-year-old Samira Ahmed Jassim nicknamed ‘Umm al-Mumineen,’ (’the mother of believers’) is the antithesis of that. ...

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Iraq faced worst violence since US pullback
Chad, Tempe
Bombs killed nearly 60 people in Iraq on Thursday in the worst violence since U.S. combat troops withdrew from urban areas last week, and American forces released five...
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A Ban on Saddam's Grave
Wa'd, Amman
News headlines reported a new law in Iraq banning all organised visits to the grave of the former Iraqi president, Saddam Hussain. The new set ban was released after a...
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made popular Jul 9 2009
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The Smell of Burning Flesh in the Morning
Abdul, Baghdad
I just read this fascinating story by Matt LaPlante in the Salt Lake Tribune. It’s about how one of the largest bases in Iraq burns all of its garbage and waste,...
Burning garbage, Iraq, garbage
made popular Jul 7 2009
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Fortress America
Marco Villa, Connecticut
President Barack Obama claimed that America will not be retaining any permanent bases in Iraq. This was meant to be a sign to Iraqis and the broader Arab world that the...
US forces in Iraq, Withdrawing US forces from Iraq, Barack Obama
made popular Jul 1 2009
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Baghdad parties as US withdraws forces
Danny, Baghdad
Lurid artificial flowers and tinsel decorated the police cars and balloons and streamers adorned the concrete security checkpoints of South Baghdad yesterday as...
US forces in Iraq, Withdrawing US forces, Baghdad
made popular Jun 30 2009
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Sadr City Handed to Iraqis
Wa'd, Amman
Almost 10 days before the scheduled American pullout from Iraq’s urban centres, US forces on Saturday handed their base in the Baghdad neighbourhood of Sadr city to...
Sadr, Army, war
made popular Jun 26 2009
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Iraq 'paid price for Afghanistan war'
Steven, Liverpool
Britain allowed southern Iraq to deteriorate after the 2003 invasion because it switched attention to the conflict in Afghanistan, the head of the army said...
Iraq War, Afghanistan war, War on terror
made popular Jun 24 2009
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Iraq: The final countdown
John, New York
On 30 June the last US troops will pull out of the Iraqi cities. America’s great adventure in Iraq is ending. Already there are few US military patrols in...
iraq war, US troops, Troop withdrawal
made popular Jun 23 2009
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Suicide attack on Shia mosque leaves 73 dead in Iraq
Alex, Portland
Iraq’s deadliest bomb this year ripped through a Shia mosque in the north of the country yesterday, killing at least 73 people and injuring around 200. A suicide...
Suicide attack, Shia mosque, Tazas
made popular Jun 22 2009
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Iraqi Immigrants: Refugees in a Land of No Opportunity
Chad, Tempe
At night, Aysar Jaber listens to her 11-year-old son scream in his sleep in the family’s Phoenix, Ariz., apartment, plagued by nightmares about violence in his...
Iraqi Immigrants, Iraq war, Iraqi Displacement
made popular Jun 20 2009
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As Iraq runs dry, a plague of snakes is unleashed
Arthur, Baghdad
Swarms of snakes are attacking people and cattle in southern Iraq as the Euphrates and Tigris rivers dry up and the reptiles lose their natural habitat among the reed...
Draught in Iraq, snakes, reptiles.natural habitat
made popular Jun 15 2009
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How to make a drama out of the Iraq crisis
Shane, Kansas City
Waving a political banner – it’s wonderfully rousing in a revolution, but fatally tedious in a drama. Overt political posturing is the enemy of art. Drama turns...
Iraq war, Drama, Drama on Iraq war
made popular Jun 12 2009
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What Not to Wear, Baghdad Style Fashion Rules Begin to Change
Mustafa, Baghdad
The young women of Baghdad acknowledge that there are more serious concerns in Iraq these days than hair, clothes and makeup. But they also say that there might be...
Iraq Fashion, Fashion Rules, Iraq Lifestyle
made popular Jun 6 2009
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Final British mission in Iraq in disarray without training pact
Craig, Miami
Britain’s final military mission in Iraq is in disarray after a failure to seal an agreement with the Baghdad Government by the end of last month forced two British...
War in Iraq, War on terror, coalition of willing
made popular Jun 3 2009
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Guns, women and misappropriated funds: Iraqi Trade Minister charged
Beshoy, Cairo
Guns, women and fistfuls of allegedly misappropriated dollars: the trail leading to the arrest of the former Iraqi Trade Minister has the perfect ingredients for a...
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Lovelorn Iraqi Men Call on a Wartime Skill
Kevin, Columbia
It goes like this: Boy meets girl. They exchange glances and text messages, the limit of respectable courting here. Then boy asks girl’s father for her hand. Dad...
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Iraq faces the mother of all corruption scandals
Khaled, Damascus
Iraq plans to arrest 1,000 officials for corruption after a scandal which has forced the resignation of the Trade Minister and is threatening the food supply of...
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10 More Years
Wa'd, Amman
Around the beginning of May, and after resurgence of violence in Iraq, reports from Iraqi government came to reassure the American withdrawal from urban areas by the...
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made popular May 28 2009
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Iraqi Army: almost onequarter lacks minimum qualifications
EnJames, Baghdad
Baghdad – In a legacy of the US rush to build up Iraqi security forces, almost one-quarter of the Iraqi Army currently fails to meet its own minimum qualifications...
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US Soldiers Guilty of Theft
Wa'd, Amman
An American army member (Elbert W. George III) pleaded guilty for stealing and selling military equipment in Iraq, worth hundreds of thousands of Dollars, to be the...
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'After Abu Ghraib' an interrogator's memoir
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World Audience, Inc. A Literary Press, announces the publication of “After Abu Ghraib” by Dianna Skowera. After the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal, the US Army...
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Savage Baath and 'Shoes Culture': The Message to the Western World
Nassim, Damascus
The insult, aimed at the United States in the press conference of President Bush and Prime Minister al-Maiki, reveals some basic facts. First of all, weather some...
Muntader al-Zaidi, Hurling shoes, Bush in Iraq
made popular Dec 16 2008
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Middle East Regimes' Crimes against Humanity and Accountability
Nassim, Damascus
The Middle East region, especially in the Arab countries, as everybody in the region and the world knows, has a long history of political crimes and the crimes against...
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Iraq Victory: The International and Regional Strategic Nature
Nassim, Damascus
The situation in Iraq in terms of achieving victory there, in the strategic meaning, is something like the situation in Europe after the world war ΙΙ. What was done...
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Iraq Victory: Middle East Need and International Necessity
Nassim, Damascus
The U.S. will not abandon Iraq according to President Bush. To me, it means that the U.S. will not abandon the Middle East. Abandoning Iraq means abandoning the new...
Operation Iraqi Freedom, War in Iraq, Iraq troop withdrawal
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US's Iraq war swindle and bargain game
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When we think of a war torn country, one distracted image comes to our mind. Of course, it’s of Iraq. Where people are at the mercy of occupying or terrorists...
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