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  2. Culture of Iraq - Wikipedia

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    The Iraq national football team were the 2007 AFC Asian Cup Champions after defeating Saudi Arabia in the final, held in Jakarta, Indonesia. In 2006, Iraq reached the football final of the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, after defeating former FIFA World Cup semi-finalists South Korea and eventually finished as runners-up, winning silver.

  3. Smoky Night - Wikipedia

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    Smoky Night is a 1994 children's book by Eve Bunting.It tells the story of a Los Angeles riot and its aftermath through the eyes of a young boy named Daniel. The ongoing fires and looting force neighbors who previously disliked each other to work together to find their cats.

  4. Iraq National Library and Archive - Wikipedia

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    The Hague regulations (Article 2, Fourth Geneva Convention, 1949) state that as an occupying force the USA should have taken measure to ensure that "cultural property must be respected". [7] American archeologists and academics even warned the US military of the location and importance of protecting Iraq's museums and libraries.

  5. Iraqi nationalism - Wikipedia

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    Abd al-Karim Qasim promoted a civic nationalism in Iraq that recognized Iraq's Arabs and Kurds as equal partners in the state of Iraq, Kurdish language was not only formally legally permitted in Iraq under the Qassim government, but the Kurdish version of the Arabic alphabet [clarification needed] was adopted for use by the Iraqi state and the ...

  6. The Onion got it right in 2003 on the Iraq War - AOL

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    RELATED: See the U.S. presence in Iraq over the years. See Also: Paris attacks signal move toward more global IS strategy. The latest ISIS rampages send 3 messages.

  7. Iraqi literature - Wikipedia

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    Al-Mutanabbi, an Iraqi poet Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia, regarded as the earliest surviving notable literature, British Museum.. Iraqi literature or Mesopotamian literature dates back to Sumerian times, which constitutes the earliest known corpus of recorded literature, including the religious writings and other traditional stories maintained by the Sumerian ...

  8. A Wave Of Violence Sweeps Iraq - The Huffington Post

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    At the time, violence in the country was at its lowest since the start of the Iraq War in 2003. The United States even had plans to withdraw its troops. Four years have passed, and while massacres in Iraq have diminished in frequency, they have persisted — even as many Americans believed sectarian violence had been suppressed.

  9. Moral Injury: The Grunts - The ... - The Huffington Post

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    In Afghanistan, some ugly aspects of the local culture and the brutality of the Taliban rubbed American sensibilities raw, setting the stage for deeper moral injury among Marines like Nick Rudolph. U.S. military soldiers tend to a local Afghan man, who was shot after being suspected of planting an IED roadside bomb in Genrandai village in ...