According to an estimate by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ), 40 % of all Brazilian arms transfers from 1985 to 1989 went to Iraq.

According to Popular Mechanics, " The common sponge was used in ancient Greece as a gas mask ..." An early type of rudimentary gas mask was invented in the 9th century by the Banu Musa brothers in Baghdad, Iraq.

According to CIA operational cables, only then did he tell his " fabricated " story about Al Qaeda members being dispatched to Iraq.

According to the British, who had been awarded a League of Nations mandate over Iraq in 1920 and therefore represented Iraq in its foreign affairs, Mosul belonged to Iraq ; on the other hand, the new Turkish republic claimed the province as part of its historic heartland.

According to former CIA Near East Division Chief James Chritchfield, after al-Bakr and Saddam seized power in 1968, " America slowly developed, not a hostility, but enormous reservations about the ability of the Ba ' ath to constructively bring Iraq along.

** Iraq disarmament crisis: According to UNSCOM, the unity of the UN Security Council begins to fray, as a few countries, particularly France and Russia, become more interested in making financial deals with Iraq than in disarming the country.

According to intelligence officials, the view of government historians that the report should become public was rebuffed by policymakers concerned that comparisons might be made to intelligence used to justify the Iraq War ( Operation Iraqi Freedom ) that commenced in 2003.

Its administration in Southern Iraq has been criticized as corrupt and as " theocracy mixed with thuggery " According to a 2005 report by journalist Doug Ireland, the Badr Organization has been involved in many incidents of attacking and killing gays in Iraq.

According to Zonaras, Eutropius, and Festus, Carus won a major victory against the Persians, taking Seleucia and the Sassanid capital of Ctesiphon ( near modern Al-Mada ' in, Iraq ), cities on opposite banks of the Tigris.

According to author Michael Klare, application of the Nixon Doctrine " opened the floodgates " of U. S. military aid to allies in the Persian Gulf, and helped set the stage for the Carter Doctrine and for the subsequent direct U. S. military involvement of the Gulf War and the Iraq War.

According to a Harvard graduate student from Iraq who helped translate some of the radio broadcasts into Arabic, the program was poorly run.

According to Britain, a majority of the UN Security Council members supported its proposed 18th resolution which gave Iraq a deadline to comply with previous resolutions, until France announced that they would veto any new resolution that gave Iraq a deadline.

According to John Kampfner, " Emboldened by their experience in Afghanistan, they saw the opportunity to root out hostile regimes in the Middle East and to implant very American interpretations of democracy and free markets, from Iraq to Iran and Saudi Arabia.

" According to an unnamed Pentagon source quoted by Hersh, the OSP " was created in order to find evidence of what Wolfowitz and his boss, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, believed to be true — that Saddam Hussein had close ties to Al Qaeda, and that Iraq had an enormous arsenal of chemical, biological, and possibly even nuclear weapons that threatened the region and, potentially, the United States.

* According to UNSCOM, the unity of the UN Security Council begins to fray, as a few countries, particularly France and Russia, are starting to become increasingly interested in the financial opportunities of a post-sanctions Iraq.

* According to UNSCOM, Iraq ends cooperation with UNSCOM inspectors, alternately intimidating and withholding information from them.

* According to U. S. Intelligence, China, with help from France and Syria, has secretly sold to Iraq the prohibited chemical Hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene, or HTPB, which is used in making solid fuel for long-range missiles.

* According to U. S. Intelligence, France has secretly sold prohibited spare parts to Iraq for its fighter jets and military helicopters.

* According to Arab media, Saddam Hussein has opened training camps in Iraq for Arab volunteers willing to carry out suicide bombings against U. S. forces, if an attack on Iraq takes place.

According to Catholic theology, the host, after the Rite of Consecration, is no longer bread, but the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ, who is transubstantiated in it.

According to this tradition, the accidents of the bread and wine do not change, but their substances change from bread and wine to the Body and Blood of Christ.

According to Chrysler Corporations " MOPAR Direct Connection A Body Performance Manual ", 1909 versions in 1969 were produced with this option.

According to the Church of Body Modification there are two main types of subdermal implants.

According to church leaders, they chose the name " collegiate " to emphasize " the priesthood of all believers " and that " every member of the Body of Christ is a minister.

According to Costello et al, a relatively new modality of cryotherapy, called Whole Body Cryotherapy ( WBC ), is currently being offered by clinicians as an alternative to cold water immersion or ice packs.

According to the Advisory Body Evaluation, the inclusion in the List was a " measure ... so clearly desirable that the proposal of the Federal Republic of Germany does not require lengthy justification ...

According to A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge, version 2. 0, section 6. 1. 5. 2, the MoSCoW categories are as follows:

According to Christian law prior to the 1780s: " the Juryman who finds any other person guilty, is liable to the Vengeance of God upon his Family and Trade, Body and Soul, in this world and that to come.

According to Max Heindel's Rosicrucian writings, the etheric body, composed of four ethers, is called the " Vital Body " since the ether is the way of ingress for vital force from the Sun and the field of agencies in nature which promote such vital activities as assimilation, growth, and propagation.

According to the Catechism, Baptism makes one a member of Christ's Body and prepares one for the reception of the other sacraments.

According to old German literature, dragoons were invented by Count Ernst von Mansfeld, one of the greatest German military commanders, in the early 1620s.

According to a very common legend, Count Andrássy had a long lasting romance with Queen Elisabeth ( Sissy ), wife of Emperor and King Franz-Josef of Austria-Hungary, and fathered their only son, Archduke Rudolf.

* 3114 BC – According to the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started.

According to the Count, sprezzatura is amongst one of the most important, if not the most important, rhetorical device the courtier needs.

According to the mediæval chronicler Berthold of Reichenau, the nobleman Burkhard I, Count of Zollern ( de Zolorin ) was born before 1025 and died in 1061.

According to the Count of Hezecques, " few beauties were cruel to him.

According to the much later Chronicles of Savoy, Amadeus married Joan, daughter of " Girard, Count of Burgundy ", who scholars have surmised to have been Count Gerold II of Geneva.

According to Luc Sante, " The Count of Monte Cristo has become a fixture of Western civilization's literature, as inescapable and immediately identifiable as Mickey Mouse, Noah's flood, and the story of Little Red Riding Hood.

According to Judy Garland in an interview, although she first sang " You Made Me Love You " for Clark Gable, she was disappointed because she really had wanted to sing it for her idol Donat, to whom she wrote a fan letter after seeing The Count of Monte Cristo ( 1934 ).

According to legend, the first European ever to be cured from malaria fever was the countess of Chinchón, the wife of the Spanish Luis Jerónimo de Cabrera, 4th Count of Chinchón-the Viceroy of Peru.

According to the correlation between the Long Count and Western calendars accepted by the great majority of Maya researchers ( known as the Goodman-Martinez-Thompson, or GMT, correlation ), this starting-point is equivalent to August 11, 3114 BCE in the proleptic Gregorian calendar or 6 September in the Julian calendar (− 3113 astronomical ).

According to the plan of the German general Karl Ludwig von Phull, the Russian troops under the command of Count Michael Barclay de Tolly had to face the Grande Armée at Vilnius region, the remaining troops under general Pyotr Bagration would launch an attack to the French's southern flank and rear.

According to legend, Baldwin Iron Arm, Count of Flanders, kidnapped Judith, the daughter of Charles the Bold in 862 in Senlis and brought her to a fortress that used to be where the present Rumbeke Castle stands.

According to Ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥakam writing around 860, Ṭāriq, commander of the Arab-Berber garrison of Tangiers, crossed the straits of Gibraltar with ships from a certain Count Julian ( Arabic Ilyan ), lord of Ceuta and " Alchadra " ( Algeciras ), and landed near Cartagena, which he took and made his headquarters.

* 3114 BC — According to the most widely accepted correlations between the Western calendar and the calendar systems of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, the mythical starting point of the current Mesoamerican Long Count calendar cycle occurs in this year.

According to David Hunter, the Count contributed some of the songs to L ' incostanza delusa, an opera performed at the Haymarket Theatre in London on all but one of the Saturdays from the 9th of February to the 20th of April 1745.

According to BBC News, during an interview with the More or Less team's Tim Harford, the Count said his favorite number is 34, 969.

According to his theme song, " The Song of the Count ": " When I'm alone, I count myself.

According to Witness Lee, the Lord's recovery can be traced back to many including Martin Luther and the reformers, Madame Guyon, Count Zinzendorf, the Moravian Brethren, John Nelson Darby, the Plymouth Brethren, Watchman Nee, and himself.

According to the last will of Frederick III, he named his illegitimate son, William of Aragon, Count of Malta as heir presumptive in this case of the extinction of his daughter's line and although William died in c. 1380, he had a daughter, Joan of Aragon, wife of a Sicilain noble man, Pietro di Gioeni, but she must not have contested the claim of her aunt's husband since Martin continued to rule until his death.

According to character Obi-Wan Kenobi, these powers increase as the Clone Wars extend into a search for General Grievous, who replaces Count Dooku as Separatist leader.

According to legend, Bertoldo is the son of Azzo II, a real person who was Count of Este ( Orlando Furioso III: 29-30 ).

According to Ardo, Benedict's biographer, the saint was the son of a Visigoth, Aigulf, Count of Maguelonne ( Magalonensis comes ) in 752.