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    The Al-Aimmah Bridge disaster (Arabic: كارثة جسر الائمة, lit. 'Bridge of the Imams disaster') occurred on August 31, 2005 when 953 people died following...
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    Al-Aimmah Bridge (Arabic: جسر الأئمة, romanized: Jisr al-'Ā'immah, lit. 'Bridge of the Imams') is a bridge over the river Tigris in the Iraqi capital of...
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  • group gained notoriety on 31 August 2005 when it shelled the nearby Al-Aimmah bridge, causing seven people to die and 35 to be wounded. At some point, he...
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  • the bridge estimated that between 953 and 1,033 people were killed and between 322 and 815 injured in what became known as the 2005 Al-Aimmah Bridge disaster...
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    grenade launcher, and six others were wounded, while fighting near Kut's bridge across the Tigris river. Facing resistance from the Mahdi army, Ukrainian...
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    be Ali Shallal al-Qaisi but the online magazine Salon.com later raised doubts about his identity. It was later reported that although al-Qaisi was photographed...
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  • Battalion, 64th Armored Regiment was holding the west end of the al-Jumhuria Bridge. The U.S. Forces were under attack from Iraqi units on both sides...
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    Kadhimiya (redirect from Al-Kadhimya)
    Al-Aimmah Bridge over the Tigris River. About 1000 people were killed. Iraqi officials executed Saddam Hussein at an American operated facility in al-Kāẓimiyyah...
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    Battle of Fallujah, initially codenamed Operation Phantom Fury, Operation al-Fajr (Arabic: الفجر, lit. 'The Dawn') was an American-led offensive of the...
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    around Jumhuriya Bridge by an Iraqi surface-to-air missile. On April 4, 2003, the 2nd Tank Battalion Marine Corps had a stiff fight with the Al Nida Division...
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    Iraq Family Health Survey Lancet surveys ORB survey Damage to Baghdad Al-Aimmah Bridge disaster Human rights Humanitarian crisis 2007 cholera outbreak Financial...
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    On 14 December 2008, Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi removed his shoes and threw them at United States president George W. Bush during a joint press...
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    The Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda link allegations were based on false claims by the United States government alleging that a secretive relationship existed...
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    parliament. August 31: 2005 Baghdad bridge stampede: Rumors of a suicide bomber lead to a stampede on the Al-Aaimmah bridge; about 1,000 people died. September...
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  • Abbas Al-Faraji Abdul Wahab Abdul Qadar Al-Qalamchi Bara Sadoon Ismail Al-Ani Sami Hawa Hamud Al-Sabahin Fawziyyah Aliwi Hassoon Ali Hadi Naji Al-Rubaie...
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    their corpses were dragged through the streets before being hung over a bridge crossing the Euphrates. The insurgents provided images to news agencies...
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    et al. and found that the 500,000 casualty estimate by Hagopian et al. was not supported by data. Spagat and Van Weezel said that Hagopian et al. made...
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    are termed "known unknowns". The term was originally coined by Little et al. and reported a number of times in the literature since then as a general...
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    1 December 2003, a former driver divulged the name Muhammed Ibrahim Omar al-Musslit, Saddam's comrade, known to TF 121 as "the source" or "the fatman"...
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    9/11 attacks. British media was more cautious in its coverage. The Qatari Al-Jazeera network was heavily critical of the war. The most popular cable network...
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    Adhamiyah (redirect from Al Azamiyah)
    caught in a crowd crush on Al-Aimmah Bridge, while coming from the opposing shore of Kadhimiyah, began jumping from the bridge in an attempt to escape the...
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    and intelligence, in liaison with our allies", the alleged links between al-Qaeda and the regime in Baghdad explained by Colin Powell were not established...
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    Jaffar Al-Faylee, Zaki (2010). Tareekh Al-Kurd Al-Faylyoon. Beirut. pp. 485, 499–501.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Al-Hakeem...
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    the ace of diamonds is Saddam's presidential secretary Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti. This strict correspondence to the order of the most-wanted list was...
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    Iraq War from March 2006 to November 2006, for control of the capital of the Al Anbar Governorate in western Iraq. A joint US military force under the command...
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    physical and psychological torture, and rape, as well as the killing of Manadel al-Jamadi and the desecration of his body. The abuses came to public attention...
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    the Marines of Regimental Combat Team 1 passed through the city over the bridges and attacked north towards Baghdad. However, fighting continued in the...
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    already active in the areas north of Kirkuk and Mosul. U.S. forces take the bridge at Samawah. The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution allowing...
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    The killings occurred in the city of Haditha in Iraq's western province of Al Anbar. Among the dead were men, women, elderly people and children as young...
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    the allegations related to Iraqi weapons (as well as the Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda link allegations), at which point the Bush and Blair administrations...
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