This is not only a compliment to Mijbil, of whom there are a fine series of photographs and drawings in the book, but to the author who has catalogued the saga of a frightened otter cub's journey by plane from Iraq to London, then by train ( where he lay curled in the wash basin playing with the water tap ) to Camusfearna, with affectionate detail.

However, since Anatolia is now often considered to be synonymous with Asian Turkey, its eastern and southeastern borders are widely taken to be the Turkish borders with the neighboring countries, which are Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Iraq and Syria, in clockwise direction.

* 1990 – Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq.

* The Arabic – Indic or Eastern Arabic numerals, used with the Arabic script, developed primarily in what is now Iraq.

* 2003 – Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.

There is ongoing discussion among academics over the nature of the Nimrud lens, a piece of quartz unearthed by Austen Henry Layard in 1850, in the Nimrud palace complex in northern Iraq.

Each plate is rated to stop a range of ammunition including 3 hits from a 7. 62 × 51 NATO AP round at a range of, though accounts in Iraq and Afghanistan tell of soldiers shot as many as seven times in the chest without penetration.

Brahui ( Urdu: براہوی ) or Brahvi ( براوی ) is a Dravidian language spoken by Brahui people of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran, and expatriate communities in Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and Iraq.

The ancient Ur of Sumer, in present day Tell el-Mukayyar in Iraq is one of the world's earliest сities.

The oldest known canals were irrigation canals, built in Mesopotamia circa 4000 BC, in what is now modern day Iraq and Syria.

Iraq, after the fall of Saddam Hussein following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, is currently experiencing the transition from a command economy under Hussein to a free market economy.

* 2008 – President George W. Bush makes his fourth and final ( planned ) trip to Iraq as president and is almost struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a news conference in Baghdad.

Relations have steadily improved in recent years, and Egypt is now one of Iraq ’ s main trade partners ( formerly under the Oil-for-Food Programme ).

His tomb at Al-ʻUzair on the banks of the Tigris near Basra, Iraq, is a pilgrimage site for the local Marsh Arabs.

The tomb of Ezekiel is a structure located in modern day south Iraq near Kefil, believed to be the final resting place of Ezekiel.

The first two regular battalions of the Fiji Infantry Regiment are traditionally stationed overseas on peacekeeping duties ; the 1st Battalion has been posted to Lebanon, Iraq, and East Timor under the command of the UN, while the 2nd Battalion is stationed in Sinai with the MFO.

The Ja ' fari school ( Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Bahrain, India and Saudi Arabia ) is associated with Imam Jafar-as-Sadiq.

* 1963 – The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abdul-Karim Qassem is overthrown by the Ba ' ath Party.

It is known to exist in northern Saudi Arabia, southern Jordan, northern Iraq ( Kurdistan ), and Nicholas Birch of the The Christian Science Monitor claims there is circumstantial evidence for its existence in Syria, western Iran, and southern Turkey.

The Boomerang anti-sniper system is also being fielded by some HMMWVs in Iraq to immediately give troops the location of insurgents firing on them.

It is the earliest known civilization in the world, making Iraq one of the Cradles of Civilization.

Assyria was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom in what is now Northern Iraq, extant as a nation state from the late 25th or early – 24th century BC to 608 BC.

** 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.

The US felt that Resolution 1441 called for the immediate, total unilateral disarmament of Iraq and continued to show frustration at the fact that months after the resolution was passed Iraq was still not, in its view, disarming.

Iraq also destroys a launcher and five engines in a rush to prove it is disarming before a crucial U. N. report on March 7.

* British prime minister Tony Blair proposes an amendment to the possible 18th resolution which would call for Iraq to meet certain benchmarks to prove that it was disarming.

Specific uses of the phrase in the context of disarming Iraq began appearing in mid-2001.

Let us be clear what this should be about: it is about disarming rogue states with weapons of mass destruction and preventing a future scenario — not a past one — where terrorist networks get hold of weapons of mass destruction, such as anthrax and VX nerve gas, from a rogue states such as Iraq, and deploy them in another country such as Britain.

Gun rights organizations also argue that disarming the citizens while allowing the government to maintain their arms leaves the civilians defenseless against non-representative governments, such as in Nazi Occupied Europe, Iraq, Rwanda, and Sudan.

" Iraq is not disarming ," Ritter said on August 27, 1998, and in a second statement, " Iraq retains the capability to launch a chemical strike.

Returning to Iraq following the 2003 coalition invasion the group changed its name from brigade to organization in response to the attempted voluntary disarming of Iraqi militias by the Coalition Provisional Authority.

With the popular dream of unity still a popular force that politicians often thought they had to give lip service to, Egypt, Syria and Iraq entered into an abortive agreement in 1963 to form a new " United Arab Republic ," which was to be entirely federal in structure, leaving each member state its identity and institutions.

Filmmaker Oliver Stone, however, has accused the film of promoting " the worship of World War II as the good war ," and has lumped it alongside films such as Gladiator and Black Hawk Down that he believes were well-made, but may have inadvertently contributed to Americans ' readiness for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Saddam established and controlled the " National Campaign for the Eradication of Illiteracy " and the campaign for " Compulsory Free Education in Iraq ," and largely under his auspices, the government established universal free schooling up to the highest education levels ; hundreds of thousands learned to read in the years following the initiation of the program.

** The command council of Iraq orders its army to " deliver its fatal blow on Iranian military targets ," initiating the Iran – Iraq War.

" In September 2007 during a speech on the Iraq war, Obama introduced Brzezinski as " one of our most outstanding thinkers ," but some pro-Israel commentators questioned his criticism of the Israel lobby in the United States.

Chalabi wanted to " declare a provisional government when the war starts ," a plan that " alienated some of Mr. Chalabi's most enthusiastic backers in the Pentagon and in Congress, who fear the announcement of a provisional government made up of exiles would split anti-Saddam sentiment inside Iraq.

" Who in Iraq is going to think it's funny to poke fun at Saddam's mustache ," the student notes, " when the vast majority of Iraqi men themselves have mustaches?

The album contained an anti-Iraq war song titled " America First ," in which he laments the nation's economy and faltering infrastructure, applauds its soldiers, and sings, " Let's get out of Iraq, and get back on track.

In January 2003, President George W. Bush formally announced " the creation of a White House ' Office of Global Communications ' to broadcast the United States ' message worldwide ahead of possible war on Iraq ," ; the office had been effectively operating for several months prior.

Blix said he found it " a bit odd " that Iraq, with " one of the best-organized regimes in the Arab world ," would claim to have no records of the destruction of these illegal substances.

* France-On 20 January 2003, Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said, " We think that military intervention would be the worst possible solution ," although France believed that Iraq may have had an ongoing chemical and nuclear weapons program.

Bush launched attacks on Iraq, Sudan, and Afghanistan to distract the population from his domestic political problems and claims that despite victorious claims after the first Gulf War that Saddam Hussein had been " defanged ," he was again the target of Western attacks until his execution in 2006.

calling for war in Iraq ," and " wrote in 2003 about the Iraqis ' welcoming their liberators.

" with Wolfowitz adding that Iraq was a " brittle, oppressive regime that might break easily — it was doable ," and, according to John Kampfner, " from that moment on, he and Wolfowitz used every available opportunity to press the case.

Blix said he found it " a bit odd " that Iraq, with " one of the best-organized regimes in the Arab world ," would claim to have no records of the destruction of these illegal substances.

CPA Order 39, entitled " Foreign Investment ", provided that " A foreign investor shall be entitled to make foreign investments in Iraq on terms no less favorable than those applicable to an Iraqi investor ," and that " he amount of foreign participation in newly formed or existing business entities in Iraq shall not be limited ...." Additionally, the foreign investor " shall be authorized to ... transfer abroad without delay all funds associated with its foreign investment, including shares or profits and dividends ...."

CPA Order 17 granted all foreign contractors operating in Iraq immunity from " Iraqi legal process ," effectively granting immunity from any kind of suit, civil or criminal, for actions the contractors engaged in within Iraq.

To emphasise the point, people often quote two or more lines from " Dane Geld " by Rudyard Kipling as did Tony Parsons in The Daily Mirror, when criticising the Rome daily La Repubblica for writing " Ransom was paid and that is nothing to be ashamed of ," in response to the announcement that the Italian government paid $ 1 million for the release of two hostages in Iraq in October 2004.

* In the April 3, 2003, piece " Rescue in Iraq and a ‘ Big Stir ' in West Virginia ," Blair claimed to have covered the Jessica Lynch story from her home town of Palestine, West Virginia.

During an appearance on Larry King Live, he was asked by a telephone caller " Suppose we go to war and go into Iraq and there are no weapons of mass destruction ," Woodward responded " I think the chance of that happening is about zero.