QASSIM ABDULZAHRA
Islam was, in effect, used as a tool to prop up the actions of Saddam Hussein and his government. During Saddam’s rule, the words “Allahu Akbar” (Allah is the Greatest) was added to the Iraqi flag. During Saddam’s regime, only Sunni Muslims held real power. However, with the ove...
"Under that flag they destroyed our country, our people. So that's why our approach is to change that flag and have a new one," Prime Minister Barzani explains. The new Kurdish flag is literally everywhere; but it's a flag without a country. Like most Kurds, Dr. Ali Saed Mohammed, ...
; the band colors derive from the Arab Liberation flag and represent oppression (black), overcome through bloody struggle (red), to be replaced by a bright future (white); the Council of Representatives approved this flag in 2008 as a compromise replacement for the Ba'thist SADDAM-era flag...
Later the Iraqi forces under Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and some parts of Saudi Arabia Gulf War, this was condemned by countries all over the World, and all the major powers including theUSA,England,France, etc, intervened and Iraq faced a humiliating defeat. ...
Al-Sadr, the son of a prominent Shiite cleric assassinated in a 1999 attack believed to be organised by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, quickly organised Shiite dispossessed under Saddam against the American occupation after the 2003 US-led invasion. ...
Now, it may be that righties really don’t want another Great Depression, any more than I supported Saddam Hussein or wanted Iraq to collapse into a failed state. (Note to wingnuts: I didn’t, and I didn’t.) They just don’t comprehend that we’ll end up there if we don’t get...
National holiday: Revolution Day, 17 July (1968); note - this holiday was celebrated under the SADDAM Husayn regime but the Iraqi Interim Government has yet to declare a new national holiday Constitution: ratified on 15 October 2005 Legal system: based on European civil and Islamic law unde...
The American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was part of a larger project to pacify the Middle East by destroying nationalist regimes, initially that of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, that might pose a threat to American dominance. This imperial project was given
Now, Iraq next door is drooling over this. Their biggest dream is to somehow boot out the entrenched US military and host Russians on their territory instead – not much of a ‘thank you for liberating us from Saddam’ is going around those parts. Incidentally, Afghanistan government and mi...