The controversy started in November 2006 when the AP reported that six Iraqis had been burned alive as they left a mosque and that four mosques had been destroyed, citing Hussein as one of its sources.

He published a chatty and insightful memoir about his life, entitled Desert Warrior, that revealed many secrets about the first Gulf War — such as the fact that Israel alerted its nuclear-armed missile forces after Iraq started firing Scuds at Tel Aviv both to warn the Iraqis not to use chemical warheads and to press Washington to do more to hunt Scuds in western Iraq.

A team of U. N. inspectors, led by Swedish diplomat Hans Blix was admitted, into the country ; their final report stated that Iraqis capability in producing " weapons of mass destruction " was not significantly different from 1992 when the country dismantled the bulk of their remaining arsenals under terms of the ceasefire agreement with U. N. forces, but did not completely rule out the possibility that Saddam still had Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Aside from the few units that were able to escape to Saudi Arabia, including a majority of the air force, all of this equipment was either destroyed or taken by the Iraqis.

* 1982 – Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran – Iraq War.

Franks argues that by keeping the ships at sea the Iraqis were deceived into believing a U. S. attack was yet to come from the north through Turkey, though Colin Powell and others have questioned his view ( Plan of Attack, Bob Woodward, 2004 ).

Also during the 1991 Gulf War, Dutch hackers stole information about U. S. troop movements from U. S. Defense Department computers and tried to sell it to the Iraqis, who thought it was a hoax and turned it down.

Powell also claimed that Iraqis visited Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and provided training to al-Qaeda members, although thousands of Arabs from many countries did the same.

The stunned soldiers from the 16 Air Assault Brigade inform the Iraqis that they were not firing at them, and tell them it is too early to surrender.

Critics of the CPA argue that these policies were not only rather blatant attempts to shape Iraq's economy in the interests of American ( and other ) investors and against the interests of Iraqis themselves, but also that they were illegal under international law, because an occupying power is prohibited from rewriting the laws of the occupied country.

After a review of the military strategy in the end of 2004, then commanding general of the MNF-I, General George W. Casey, Jr. directed the Coalition forces to shift their focus from fighting insurgents to training Iraqis.

At least 5, 000 Iraqis were killed in the fighting from February 8 – 10, 1963, and in the house-to-house hunt for " communists " that immediately followed.

Its ranks included mainly Syrians, Lebanese, Palestinian Arabs and Druzes and a few hundreds of Iraqis, Transjordanians, Muslim Brothers from Egypt and Circassians.

They come from our country but they come from all countries, and indeed sometimes the contracts are from our country or another country and they employ people from totally different countries including Iraqis and people from neighboring nations.

" Pachachi also commented on the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse " What kind of reaction do you expect from the Iraqis?

Saudi Forces aided by United States Marines victoriously engaged in the Battle of Khafji during Operation Desert Storm to free it from Iraqis

The Iraqis concentrated well over 100, 000 troops from the battled-hardened Iraqi Republican Guard versus 15, 000 second-rate Iranian Basij soldiers.

By employing the use of massive artillery barrages, air bombardments, and extensive amounts of chemical weapons, the Iraqis eventually expelled the Iranians from the peninsula within thirty-five hours, with much of their equipment captured intact.

This has not stopped Snuffles from getting into trouble, as he hid weapons of mass destruction for the Syrians and Iraqis, concealed Osama bin Laden in his kitty tree, fenced stolen property, ran an illegal booking operation, scalped tickets, and various other illegal doings.

Scout Snipers became a core element of the Marines ' strategy, averaging 31 kills apiece in the battle, while PSYOP Tactical Psychological Operations Teams from Tactical Psychological Operations Detachment 910 tried to lure Iraqis out into the open for the Scout Snipers by reading scripts that were aimed at angering insurgent fighters and by blaring ACDC along with Metallica and other rock music over their loud speakers.

* The Ground Truth Project -- A series of exclusive, in-depth interviews and other resources with Iraqis, aid workers, military personnel and others who have spent significant time working to rebuild Iraq from the inside.

The video, taken from an upper storey of a building in the southern Iraqi town of Al-Amarah, shows many Iraqis outside a coalition compound.

Kuwait made several representations to the Iraqis during the war to fix the border once and for all but Baghdad repeatedly demurred, claiming that the issue is a potentially divisive one that could inflame nationalist sentiment inside Iraq.

He became a member of the Democratic leadership as a deputy majority whip, where he befriended Bill Clinton after they worked closely on several issues, including serving as the ranking House Democrat in favor of NAFTA's passage in 1993, Clinton in turn sent Richardson on various foreign policy missions, including a trip in 1996 in which Richardson traveled to Baghdad with Peter Bourne and engaged in lengthy one-on-one negotiations with Saddam Hussein to secure the release of two American aerospace workers who had been captured by the Iraqis after wandering over the Kuwaiti border.

In a mirror image of its 1961 deployment to Kuwait, the Commando returned on Operation Driver in 1994, in support of Kuwait, following some threatening troop movements by the Iraqis on their side of the border.

In 2003 the Iranian government set up a camp in Mehran to accommodate an anticipated influx of up to 50, 000 Iraqi refugees from the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the U. S .. By April of that year, over 100, 000 Iraqis had massed near the border, prompting the Governor of Mehran to issue a plea for additional resources.

* 2003 – 2003 invasion of Iraq: Baghdad falls to American forces ; Saddam Hussein statue topples as Iraqis turn on symbols of their former leader, pulling down the statue and tearing it to pieces.

Many more died during the following months, while nearly two million Iraqis fled for their lives.

When Grobba reported that the Iraqis as Arab nationalists saw the British and the Jews as their enemies and wished to ally themselves with Germany against their common foes, Ribbentrop was delighted and become obsessed with the idea of an Iraqi-German alliance.

This insult was demonstrated in Iraq, first when Saddam Hussein's statue was toppled in 2003, Iraqis gathered around it and struck the statue with their shoes.

The Iraqis then told Bull they would only go ahead with the project if he would also help with development of their longer-ranged Scud-based missile project.

* 2004: Anthony Shadid, Washington Post, for his extraordinary ability to capture, at personal peril, the voices and emotions of Iraqis as their country was invaded, their leader toppled and their way of life upended.

Iraqis are a particularly extroverted people, and their conversations will often be adorned with many hand gestures.

Blix gave an update of the situation in Iraq, and he stated that the Iraqis were now more proactive in their cooperation.

* According to a U. S. officer, approximately 650 Iraqis were killed around Najaf " in the last twenty-four hours " while the American forces would not have, on their side, recorded any casualties.

The Iraqis called their T-72 copies the " Lion of Babylon " ( Asad Babil ).

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

* In 2010, the IRC ’ s Commission on Iraqi Refugees issued a third report on displaced Iraqis entitled, “ A Tough Road Home: Uprooted Iraqis in Jordan, Syria and Iraq .” The report asserted that Iraqis are trapped in poverty and uncertainty and their needs are growing more acute, even as international attention and assistance wanes.

During his time as Governor in Syria, Ja ’ far listened to many Iraqis about the status of their homeland and British rule.

Troops often play cards to pass the time, and seeing the names, faces and titles of the wanted Iraqis during their games will help soldiers and Marines in case they run into the wanted individuals in the field, Brooks said.

At nightfall the Iraqis resumed their attacks against the Rangers, but once again close air supported the U. S. forces.

The Iraqis concluded that U. S. planes could as easily target them with bombs as leaflets if their intent was lethal.