* National Iraqi Alliance

** Iraqi National Accord-led by Iyad Allawi

* Iraqi National Accord

Several leading Republicans who would occupy high positions in the George W. Bush administration publicly urged President Clinton in February 1998 to recognize the Iraqi National Congress ( INC ) as the provisional government of Iraq.

* Iraqi National Congress

Iraqi National Guard troops with a PK machine gun mounted on a Ford Ranger

The Iraqi Republican Guard and Fedayeen emulated tactics of the Somali National Alliance with limited success, but were outmatched by Coalition armour and aviation.

* the umbrella group Iraqi National Congress

* the Iraqi National Accord

As a result of the growing difficulties within INC, the United States began seeking out other opponents who could threaten the Iraqi regime, such as the Iraqi National Accord ( INA ), headed by Iyad Allawi.

" ( Borger, et al., 2003 ) Eventually a governing council, including Chalabi was set up, but when it came time to choose an interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, head of rival Iraqi National Accord, was chosen.

In May 2004, the United States military raided the residences of Iraqi National Congress members now living in Iraq.

In preparation for the December 2005 Iraqi election, INC broke with the United Iraqi Alliance and formed its own multi-ethnic coalition, the National Congress Coalition.

* Ahmed Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress timeline posted at the Center for Cooperative Research's website

* Iraqi National Congress timeline at the Stakeholder website ( operated by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee )

* Iraqi National Congress official INC website

* Iraqi National news agency

The PUK contested the 1992 elections for the Kurdistan National Assembly, and the party list acquired 423, 682 votes of the total of 957, 469 valid votes cast-giving the PUK commanding majority in three of Iraqi Kurdistan four governorates.

The Iraqi National Accord ( Arabic: الوفاق الوطني العراقي Al-Wifaq Al-Watani Al -' Iraqi ) known inside Iraq as Wifaq is an Iraqi political party founded by Iyad Allawi and Salah Omar Al-Ali in 1991.

In Clinton's 1998 State of the Union Address, he warned Congress of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's possible pursuit of nuclear weapons:

The Central Intelligence Agency supported a variety of covert actions designed to depose Saddam Hussein, while Congress approved the Iraq Liberation Act in 1998 aimed at providing Iraqi opposition groups with increased financial assistance.

On 29 September 1998, the United States Congress passed the Iraq Liberation Act supporting the efforts of Iraqi opposition groups to remove Saddam Hussein from office.

In 1998, however, the US Congress authorized $ 97 million in U. S. military aid for Iraqi opposition via the Iraq Liberation Act, intended primarily for INC. ( Katzman, 1998 ).

Ahmad was a highly influential Leftist intellectual, who by 1951 had succeeded in rallying most of the Iraqi Kurdish leftist-nationalists to the new Iraqi KDP, which in turn, took the opportunity to convene a second Party Congress and duly elect Ahmad as secretary-general ( effectively acting Chairman ).

Because of the perceived connections between INA members and security forces protecting Saddam Hussein, the INA drew American interest as an alternative ally to the Iraqi National Congress.

With the rift between the United States and the Iraqi National Congress, the INA's role was further enhanced and Allawi was declared Prime Minister of Iraq on 28 May 2004.

For this reason, it has been likened to the American-backed Iraqi National Congress.

The Iraqi National Congress was founded independently by Dr. Chalabi, and Mr. Rendon provided consulting services during that period .”

He subsequently became the chief assistant in Washington to Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress.

This caused the Iraqi Ba ' ath Party to convene the Ba ' ath Extraordinary Congress of July 1986.

During this Congress the Ba ' ath Party decided on a new strategy to overhaul the Iraqi military and utilize Iraq's manpower capability.

Americans experienced this in Vietnam and during the US invasion of Iraqi and occupation, where shortages of Arabic speaking interpreters and translators hindered both civil and military operations.

Most geographers, including those of the Iraqi government, discuss the country's geography in terms of four main zones or regions: the desert in the west and southwest ; the rolling upland between the upper Tigris and Euphrates rivers ( in Arabic the Dijlis and Furat, respectively ); the highlands in the north and northeast ; and the alluvial plain through which the Tigris and Euphrates flow.

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.

Tammuz is the month of July in Iraqi Arabic and Levantine Arabic ( see Arabic names of calendar months ), and references to Tammuz appear in Arabic literature from the 9th to 11th centuries AD.

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK ) ( Kurdish: یەکێتیی نیشتمانیی کوردستان / Yeketî Niştîmanî Kurdistan, Arabic: الاتحاد الوطني کوردستان Al-Ittihad Al-Watani Kurdistan ) is a Kurdish political party in Iraqi Kurdistan.

* http :// www. wifaq. com / Iraqi National Accord official website ( Arabic )

His choice of name relates especially to the rebirth element of the myth of Adonis ( also called " Tammuz " in Arabic ), which was an important theme in mid-20th century Arabic poetry, chiefly amongst followers of the " Free Verse " ( الشعر الحر ) movement founded by Iraqi poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab.

The first direct Arabic translation from the original tablets was made in the 1960s by the Iraqi archeologist Taha Baqir.

* Iraqi Arabic, the colloquial form of Arabic spoken in Iraq.

The Mandaeans were originally native speakers of Mandaic, a Semitic language that evolved from Eastern Middle Aramaic, before switching to colloquial Iraqi Arabic and Modern Persian.

* Nawa TV, an Iraqi TV station broadcasting in Arabic and Kurdish

The music of Iraq or Iraqi music, ( Arabic, موسيقى عراقية, also known as the Music of Mesopotamia ) encompasses the music of a number of ethnic groups and musical genres.

Edzard Lutz describes it as " the traditional Arabic political term for Israel ", stating it is used in Arabic ( particularly Iraqi ) international documents, Describing its use in Jordan, Joseph Nevo includes it as part of " Arab rhetoric and its traditional reluctance to use the term ' Israel '".