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About the Iraq Body Count project Iraq Body Count (IBC) records the violent civilian deaths that have resulted from the 2003 military intervention in Iraq. Its public database includes deaths caused by US-led coalition forces and paramilitary or criminal attacks by others. IBC's documentary evidence is drawn from crosschecked media reports of violent events leading to the death of civilians, or of bodies being found, and is supplemented by the careful review and integration of hospital, morgue, NGO and official figures. Systematically extracted details about deadly incidents and the individuals killed in them are stored with every entry in the database. The minimum details always extracted are the number killed, where, and when. Confusion about the numbers produced by the project can be avoided by bearing in mind that: IBC's figures are not 'estimates' but a record of actual, documented deaths. IBC records solely violent deaths. IBC records solely civilian (strictly, 'non-combatant') deaths. IBC's figures are constantly updated and revised as new data comes in, and frequent consultation is advised. IBC builds on innovative uses of new technologies without which this citizens' initiative would be impossible. The project was founded in January 2003 by volunteers from the UK and USA who felt a responsibility to ensure that the human consequences of military intervention in Iraq were not neglected. Finally, IBC could not exist without the journalists and media support workers, Iraqi and international, who labour to report war's daily carnage at the risk, and all too often the cost, of their health or their lives. For more on IBC's principles and objectives see the Rationale. For a more detailed description of IBC's working methodology and inclusion criteria, see the Methods section. For technical, research and media contacts, conditions of use, as well as a listing of IBC personnel

Iranian fighter jets have bombed Islamic State (IS) jihadists in eastern Iraq in recent days, but the strikes were not coordinated with US forces, the Pentagon says.

The movement arrived in Baghdad markets gold to its peak after the feet of employees to spend salaries that have occurred in greater by the Ministry of Finance to buy gold jewellery. "راديو سوا" التقى بعدد من النساء اثناء تجوالهن في اسواق الذهب في بعض مناطق بغداد، حيث أوضحت نازك محمد المدرسة في معهد إعداد المعلمات في منطقة المنصور أنها حالما استلمت تلك الفروقات المالية اتجهت إلى سوق الذهب في مدينة الكاظمية لشراء بعض المصوغات موضحة ذلك بالقول: "Radio Sawa" met with a number of women during the Rangers in the gold markets in some areas of Baghdad, where Mohammed said Nazik school at the Institute for the preparation of teachers in the Mansour she once received such differences financial headed to the gold market in the town of Kazimiya to buy some jewellery explained that by saying: :عندما كنت طالبة كان يعجبني شراء طقم فذهبت إلى السوق لشرائه وكنت فرحة به وبخاصة عندما استلمت الفروقات وحققت جزءا من امنيتي نوعا ما". : When I was student, I like buying kit I went to the market to buy it, you joy, especially when it received differences and achieved part of my somewhat. " كما أكدت أم حيدر التي تعمل خياطة في احدى المصانع الحكومية أنها استطاعت ان تسترد خاتم زواجها الذي باعته بسبب الضائقة المادية التي مرت بها عائلتها في وقت سابق، مطالبة في الوقت ذاته التجار بعدم استغلال هذه الزيادات وقالت: Umm Haider also confirmed that work in a sewing factory government that they were able to recover the ring because of her marriage, which sold the material hardship experienced by her famil

Tehran, March 14, IRNA - Iran will not trust US, Chief of Staff of Armed Forces Major General Hassan Firouzabadi said on Saturday.

BAGHDAD, Nov 09, 2014 (AFP) - The fate of the Islamic State group's enigmatic leader remained unclear Sunday after the US-led coalition unleashed airstrikes near the Iraqi city of Mosul targeting top jihadist militants.

The Sahwa Councils were first created in Anbar after some Iraqi tribes agreed to work together with the US forces against the actions of Al-Qa'eda, and in order to wipe out all the elements of Al-Qa'eda in their areas.

America and Iraq are locked into a situation that may not be resolved through negotiations between the two parties. If the parties can't agree on a new agreement prior to the U.N. resolution authorizing U.S. forces in the region then the parties MAY extend the U.N. resolution in order to maintain the "multi-national" troops in the region.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Iraq on Sunday in the first such visit since before the 2003 US-led invasion, the foreign ministry said.

Asked 10 members of the House of the Jordanian government not to send ambassador to Baghdad, for reasons ranging from opposition to the failure of the Iraqi government importer of Jordanian factories and reducing the use of ports and land entry points with Jordan to receive imports, in addition to non-release of Jordanian prisoners in Iraq. ومن الأسباب الأخرى التي أوردتها المذكرة التي رفعها النواب إلى رئيس المجلس عبد الهادي المجالي في الجلسة المعقودة الأحد عدم التوصل إلى حل لمشكلة الديون الأردنية على العراق وعدم تحمل مسؤولية بغداد لنحو مليون عراقي لاجئ في الأردن. Other reasons mentioned by a memo submitted to the President of the Parliament Abdul Hadi Majali on Sunday at the failure to reach a solution to the problem of Jordanian debt to Iraq and not to assume responsibility for Baghdad to about one million Iraqi refugees in Jordan.

The study is the latest in a long series of attempts to come up with realistic numbers of civilian deaths. The numbers are politically fraught, and researchers' work has been further complicated by problems in collecting data while working in a war zone. The estimates have varied widely. The Iraq Body Count, a nongovernmental group based in Britain that bases its numbers on news media accounts, put the number of civilians dead at 47,668 during the same period of time as the World Health Organization study, the W.H.O. report said. President Bush in the past used a number that was similar to one put forward at the time by the Iraq Body Count. But another study, by Johns Hopkins, which has come under criticism for its methodology, cited an estimate of about 600,000 dead between the war's start, in March 2003, and July 2006. The World Health Organization said its study, based on interviews with families, indicated with a 95 percent degree of statistical certainty that between 104,000 and 223,000 civilians had died. It based its estimate of 151,000 deaths on that range. Those figures made violence the leading cause of adult male deaths in Iraq and one of the leading causes of death for the population as a whole, the health organization research team reported online in the New England Journal of Medicine. More than half the violent deaths occurred in Baghdad. While the new study appears to have the broadest scope to date, increasing its reliability, well known limitations of such efforts in war areas make it unlikely to resolve debate about the extent of the killing in Iraq. Iraqi officials gave conflicting assessments of the newest study, with one senior Health Ministry official praising it and another saying the numbers were exaggerated. The White House said that it had not seen the study and would not comment on its estimated death toll, but that the recent increase in American forces had reduced civilian and military casualties. "We mourn

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful (1) Praise be to Allah, the Cherisher and Sustainer of the Worlds (2) Most Gracious, Most Merciful (3) Master of the, Day of Judgment. (4) Thee do we worship, and Thine aid we seek. (5) Show us the straight way. (6) The way of those on whom Thou hast bestowed Thy Grace, Those whose (portion) is not wrath and who go not astray. (7)

Begin reviewing this time line at the year 2002;n then use the arrows at the date on the right to move through the time line; by month, for the full year of 2002. Then select the year 2003 and move through it on a monthly basis to know the full details of each month of the 2003 year. Do the same for all other years on the calendared time line

A spokesman for the coalition forces in Iraq, General Kevin Bergnr that initial investigations into the bombing, which targeted the town of Freedom on Tuesday proved the involvement of groups associated with Iran, as saying. واضاف بيرغنر في المؤتمر الصحافي المشترك مع الجنرال بروكس باش قائد فريق التدريب في قوة طيران القوات المتعددة الجنسيات الذي عقد ببغداد الأربعاء: He added Bergnr joint press conference with General Brooks Bash team leader Force flight training in the multinational forces which was held in Baghdad Wednesday: "التحقيقات ما تزال جارية، وهناك أشخاص يشتبه بوقوفهم وراء الحادث، وهم أعضاء في خلية للمجاميع الخاصة المرتبطة بايران ولدينا معلومات استخباراتية تؤكد أن الهجوم نفذ من هذه المجموعات وليس من تنظيم القاعدة". "Investigations are still ongoing, and there are people suspected of being behind the incident, members of the cell aggregates associated with Iran and we have intelligence information confirm that the attack carried out by these groups and not from Al Qaeda." وعن مطالبة الحكومة العراقية من القوات الأميركية رفع يدها عن حماية معسكر أشرف الخاص بمنظمة مجاهدي خلق الايرانية في محافظة ديالى شمالي بغداد قال بيرغنر: And the Iraqi government called for U.S. forces lift its control of Camp Ashraf protect private MKO Iran in Diyala province north of Baghdad, said Bergnr: "نحن نتفهم مخاوف الحكومة العراقية من وجود منظمة مجاهدي خلق الايرانية في محافظة ديالى وستناقش مع إدارة الجيش الأميركي، وقد أخبرتني السفارة الأميركية �

"The Security Council today ended a week of closed negotiations by unanimously adopting adjustments to the "oil-for-food" programme for Iraq, giving Secretary-General Kofi Annan more authority to administer the programme for the next 45 days.\n\nThe programme, created in 1995 to ease the impact of the sanctions imposed following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, permitted Iraq to use part of its oil revenues for food and medicine and has been the only sustenance for some 60 per cent of Iraq's people. It was suspended on 17 March when the Secretary-General withdrew United Nations personnel from Iraq, just prior to the start of military action."

"Sir Maurice Hankey: "Control of these resources becomes a first-class war aim"\n\nDuring World War I (1914-18), strategists for all the major powers increasingly perceived oil as a key military asset, due to the adoption of oil-powered naval ships, new horseless army vehicles such as trucks and tanks, and even military airplanes. Use of oil during the war increased so rapidly that a severe shortage developed in 1917-18."

Tehran, YJC. Majlis Speaker says as terrorists have moved down to Iraq, some governments which used to support them are beginning to get worried.

Will this "alleged" mutual defense pact between Iraq and Iran affect America's abitlity to conclude a diplomatic solution to the nuclear issue between Iran and the rest of the world?

WARNING! DO NOT GET AMERICANS ANGRY else pay the price. America's mission in the world is to bring peace and FREEDOM to the world by removing oppression everywhere in the world without regard to the cost of ; its blood, or treasure, or to receive any rewards for doing so. PEACE benefits the WHOLE world. http://www.diigo.com/list/liveinfreedom/clintons-iraq-liberation-act

New Iraq report: 15 of 18 benchmarks satisfactory after all.