According to the Hague and Geneva Conventions, the US, as an occupying power, was responsible for the human rights and security of Iraqi civilians.

According to researcher May Oueida's thesis on the speech, he adopted a theme of successfully bridging the different sounds of Egyptian, Syrian, and Iraqi Arabic, and rose to a classical Arabic without losing or boring his audience.

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.

According to the CIA, some Iraqi sarin had a shelf life of only a few weeks, owing mostly to impure precursors.

According to Iraqi academic Majid Khadduri, Al-Shafi ' i held the view that religiously binding consensus had to include all of the Muslim community in every part of the world, both the religiously learned and the layman ; thus, if even one individual out of millions held a differing view, then consensus had not been reached.

According to Richie, he was told that Iraqi civilians were playing " All Night Long " the night U. S. tanks invaded Baghdad.

* According to Iraqi government reports, there were two civilians killed and 207 wounded, mostly women and children.

According to some sources, the Iraqi militia forces were attacking the local Basra civilians, attempting to stop the revolt, with artillery and mortars.

* According to UNSCOM, Iraqi nuclear scientists are ordered to hide nuclear weapons from UN inspectors, collect and hide computer data, and formulate a " legal " justification for the existence of Iraqi nuclear labs.

According to the 1957 census, Kirkuk was 40 % Iraqi Turkmen, 35 % Kurdish with Arabs less than 25 % of its population.

According to Human Rights Watch, from the 1991 Gulf War until 2003, the former Iraqi government systematically expelled an estimated 500. 000, Kurds and some Assyrians from Kirkuk and other towns and villages in this oil-rich region.

According to gayaameen from the Darraji tribe of samarra, a few hours prior to the first bombing that occurred, ICDC troops ( Iraqi Civil Defence Corps ) accompanied by coalition troops, temporarily relieved the gayaameen of their duty.

According to Jonathan Steele, writing in The Guardian, IBC " is widely considered as the most reliable database of Iraqi civilian deaths ". But some researchers regard it at best as a floor, or baseline for mortality, and that it underestimates actual mortality by potentially several factors.

According to Charles Duelfer, after the bombing the Iraqi ambassador to the UN told him, " If we had known that was all you would do, we would have ended the inspections long ago.

According to the one of Iran analyst's of International Crisis Group ( a NGO founded in 1995 by World Bank Vice-President and former US diplomats ), " Kurds, who live in the some of the least developed parts of Iran, pose the most serious internal problem for Iran to resolve, and given what they see next door — the newfound confidence of Iraqi Kurds — there's concern Iranian Kurds will agitate for greater autonomy.

According to regional Kurdish rebel commanders, Iraqi aircraft conducted up to 14 bombings in sorties of seven to eight planes each ; helicopters coordinating the operation were also seen.

According to his analysis of thousands of captured Iraqi secret police documents and declassified U. S. government documents, as well as interviews with scores of Kurdish survivors, senior Iraqi defectors and retired U. S. intelligence officers, it is clear that Iraq carried out the attack on Halabja, and that the United States, fully aware of this, accused Iran, Iraq's enemy in a fierce war, of being partly responsible for the attack.

According to USAID, as of October 2003, peak electrical generation had reached pre-war levels of 4, 500 MW, and they were then collaborating with Bechtel as well as the Iraqi Interior Ministry and others on some 2, 000 MW of projected capacity.

According to Con Coughlin, the author of Saddam: His Rise and Fall, one of the Ba ' ath Party's main goal was the elimination of both the Iraqi upper and middle class.

According to the Pentagon, 250, 000 tons ( of 650, 000 tons total ) of Iraqi ordnance were looted, providing a large supply of ammunition for the insurgents.

According to The New York Times, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction ( SIGIR ) found that “ DynCorp seemed to act almost independently of its reporting officers at the Department of State, billing the United States for millions of dollars of work that were not authorized and beginning other jobs without a go-ahead .” The report states that the findings of DynCorp ’ s misconduct on a $ 188 million job to buy weapons and build quarters for the Iraqi police were serious enough to warrant a fraud inquiry.

According to U. S. and Iraqi officials, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was responsible for Hakim's assassination.

According to Jewish and Christian traditions, authorship is assigned to the Prophet Jeremiah, who was ministering the Word of God during the conquest of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, during which the First Temple was destroyed and King Zedekiah was taken prisoner ( cf.

According to the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, a political prisoner is ‘ someone who is in prison because they have opposed or criticized the government of their own country ’.

According to the authorities, more than 100 Spaniards were killed and many others taken prisoner.

According to some sources, he is even taken prisoner for several years by the Parthian king, Arsaces I.

According to another story, he was taken prisoner in a war between the Spartans and Cnossians, and put to death by his captors, because he refused to prophesy favourably for them.

According to some sources, he was even taken prisoner for several years by the Parthian king.

According to experts, an accused but not convicted prisoner would be tied using methods which allowed the prisoner to be securely restrained but which contained no knots to save the prisoner the shame of being publicly bound.

According to many versions of this legend, the prisoner wore the mask at all times.

According to Walid Khalidi, an ' undisclosed number of villagers were taken prisoner and some were killed ' and others were killed during their dispersal in Galilee when it was discovered that they had come from al-Kabri.

According to Frankl, the book intends to answer the question " How was everyday life in a concentration camp reflected in the mind of the average prisoner?

According to Roth, " This amendment will formally recognize that character of military service which arises under the most hostile and difficult of circumstances -- that of being held prisoner by the enemy.

Pueblo was attacked .” According to Sen. Alan Cranston, who drafted the Senate version of the 1989 amendment to 10 USC § 1128, “ The Department of Defense has interpreted that provision Law 99-145, which is codified at section 1128 of title 10, as not permitting the award of POW Medal to individuals who were taken and held as prisoner in situations other than the classical prisoner-of-war situation during armed conflict.

According to the British personnel, one prisoner allegedly started shouting to alert those in a hotel, and was shot dead.

According to British Intelligence, a German prisoner of war was quoted saying that since the beginning of 1944, “… regular air travel between Germany and Japan established for the transport of high officials ,” took place with the Messerschmitt Me 264.

According to Minhahu-S Siraj, Amir Suri was captured by Mahmud of Ghazni, made prisoner along with his son and taken to Ghazni, where Amir Suri died.

According to a contemporary account by Francis Hare, Chaplain-General of Marlborough's army, the Queen's secured a French-constructed " barrier " to prevent it being used as a route of escape, taking hundreds prisoner in its vicinity.

According to tradition, Richard had promised Isaac not to put him into irons, so he kept him prisoner in chains of silver.

According to Beresford, of the 1, 258 men lost by Colborne's first three regiments, 319 were killed, 460 were wounded and 479 were taken prisoner.

According to another account of questionable reliability, White was supposedly sent to a Mississippi prisoner of war camp.

According to the chronicle of Ernoul, Stephanie sent messengers to Saladin, reminding him of the friendship they shared when he had been a prisoner in Kerak many years before ; this is likely a fiction or some mis-remembered event, as Saladin is not otherwise known to have ever been held hostage at Kerak.

According to Minhaj us Siraj, Amir Suri was captured by Mahmud of Ghazni, taken prisoner along with his son, and taken to Ghazni, where Amir Suri died.

According to Polybius, the Syrians suffered a little under 10, 000 foot dead, about 300 horse and 5 elephants, 4, 000 men were taken prisoner.