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 an Iraqi prisoner of war and former mid-level intelligence officer, the population in southern Iraq considered the coalition radio broadcasts more truthful than state-owned media.

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 federal guidelines, only approved religious symbols — of which there are 38 — can be placed on government headstones or memorial plaques.

According to the SEC, Aon ’ s subsidiaries made improper payments of over $ 3. 6 million to government officials and third party facilitators in Costa Rica, Egypt, Vietnam, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Myanmar and Bangladesh, between 1983 and 2007, in order to obtain and retain insurance contracts.

According to Robert Longley, " Clinton and Gore were responsible for pressing almost all federal agencies, the U. S. court system and the U. S. military onto the Internet, thus opening up America's government to more of America's citizens than ever before.

According to this pact, the Liberals would support the government in crucial votes in exchange for some influence over policy.

According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are :- “ To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them ....” Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27 ( 9 ) of the Companies Act 1976, because, “ it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders .” The Bank of England is also protected by its Royal Charter status, and the Official Secrets Act.

According to the CIA World Factbook, during the early 1990s, Chile's " reputation as a role model for economic reform " was strengthened when the democratic government of Patricio Aylwin, who took over from the military in 1990, deepened the economic reform initiated by the military government.

According to the Constitution of the Czech Republic, the President is the head of state while the Prime Minister is the head of government, exercising supreme executive power.

According to a tweet by Industry Minister Tony Clement, unless the CRTC reverses this decision, the government will use its override power to reverse the decision.

According to some sources, Mohéli did return to government control in 1998.

According to Anthony Quinton, classical liberals believe that " an unfettered market " is the most efficient mechanism to satisfy human needs and channel resources to their most productive uses: they " are more suspicious than conservatives of all but the most minimal government.

According to political scientist Arthur Stinchcombe, citizenship is based on the extent that a person can control one's own destiny within the group in the sense of being able to influence the government of the group.

According to Party rules, the Central Committee directed all Party and government activities between each Party Congress.

According to Dedham's Charter, the " administration of all the fiscal, prudential, and municipal affairs of the town, with the government thereof, shall be vested in a legislative branch, to consist of a representative town meeting.

According to Rummel, these were not cases of genocide because those who were killed were not selected on the basis of their race, but were killed in large numbers as a result of government policies.

According to his autobiography, Abdur Rahman had three goals: subjugating the tribes, extending government control through a strong, visible army, and reinforcing the power of the ruler and the royal family.

According to US President John Adams, Ponet's work contained " all the essential principles of liberty, which were afterward dilated on by Sidney and Locke ", including the idea of a three-branched government.

According to the Eritrean government, artisanal mining in 1998 collected 573. 4 kilograms of gold.

According to the International Monetary Fund, commercial banks in Eritrea — all government owned and operated — appear to be in compliance with prudent regulations.

According to the Board of Governors, the Federal Reserve is independent within government in that " its monetary policy decisions do not have to be approved by the President or anyone else in the executive or legislative branches of government.

According to Klein and Ralston, the merging of companies into giant corporations or the privatization of government-run industry and national assets often result in monopolies ( or oligopolies ) requiring government intervention to force competition and reasonable prices.

According to the British government, the fence was erected 1 metre inside British territory.

According to CNN, " Hezbollah did everything that a government should do, from collecting the garbage to running hospitals and repairing schools.

According to the Italian government, there were 4, 570, 317 foreign residents in Italy as of January 2011.