... blessed heaven, resided by religious leaders, regarded as religious Holy Cities and considered advanced in science and literature. Other than playing important roles in cultural aspect, Muslim cities during the Post-Classical Age were also crucial hearts of economy, especially trades in the Muslim world. Persian Muslim traveler and Ismaili spy Nasier Khusraw's (Doc #3) report on Cairo depicts a vivid ... cooperation and prosperity of every Muslim city on the map to form such an intricate, advanced and lucrative trading network of the Muslim world. To conclude, Muslim cities in the Post...

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... when the war is over. But are these people able to live their normal lives after the destruction the war has caused? Is there actually something to go back to? Post conflict reconstruction is the most important aspect in any war fought in the world. Whether that country won or lost, it must be able to overcome the damage and build ... the society back up to where it used to be. U.S. intervention is very common in post-war reconstruction of any country. This was true in post-war Germany and is currently being performed in post-war Iraq. The suicide of Adolf Hitler and the surrender of Ge...

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Iraq: Changes during Pre and Post War Changes have always been an occurrence inside the borders of Iraq. Many rulers and followers have come and gone, leaving everlasting imprints on the land. The history of Iraq ... same three plants. The treatment plants were considered to be useless during the war and remain to be unused. Over two hundred neighborhood and local councils have been set up post war, representing 85% of Iraq population. At the national level a constitution and national elections are underway. The citizens possess new feelings towards the new government, many traits and feelin...

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... .gov/infocus/iraq/). These goals remain to be met. Not withstanding these factors, American soldiers are dying every day. The American military must find a safer way to conduct operations in post-war Iraq. There are several means to this end. The most obvious solution is what New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has called the "More, Better, Faster Method," and calls ... again require more manpower, either from additional troops being brought to Iraq or the diversion of troops from reconstruction. America has several options for ensuring the safety of troops conducting post-war opera...

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... want to look into the range of those drones. It might surprise you to know they can't get here from there."" "Dana Priest, who covers the CIA for The Washington Post, says that while most intelligence may start out as objective, once it reaches the policymakers, its character tends to change. The president, she says, takes the information from the CIA ... intentionally by the government to serve some agenda, or, often to the dismay of government officials, can be leaked without their knowledge. For example, on November 10, 2002, the Washington Post and the New York Times both ran simila...

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... to the United States - with the possibility that this might increase the risk of U.S. casualties - it would alienate the U.S. It would also deprive Turkey of any influence in shaping any post-war period and deny Ankara (Turkey's capital), crucial financial compensation it has already negotiated with Washington in the event of war [www.washingtonpostnews.com]. By mobilizing troops into the Middle ... among its own Kurdish minority for years, and fears a U.S. invasion will trigger a full-scale uprising aimed at establishing an independent Kurdish state in northwestern Iraq and southeaster...

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... . Iraq has not been found in anyway involved with Afghanistan or the Al Qaeda terrorist network. However, Iraq was mentioned in several post attack speeches given by executives. When President Bush surveyed the global political landscape through his post September 11th lenses in his State of the Union address, he rightly viewed major threats to American society as coming from Iraq, Iran ... ...

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... . Lieberman agrees with the other candidate believing that we should disarm Saddam without using war. Lieberman wants to lay out a vision to rebuild Post-War Iraq. Lieberman has urged the Bush Administration to lay out a vision of post-Saddam Iraq that would address the suspicions of many toward American policy and pave the path to a better life for the Iraqi people. Clark ... ...

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... undeniable evidence that Iraq is developing weapons of mass destruction. U.S. officials have admitted that there is no evidence that Iraq has resumed its nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons programs (Washington Post). Resumption of UN weapons inspections holds the greatest promise of keeping Iraq from developing weapons of mass destruction. However, President Bush has outright dismissed Iraq's agreement to allow the return ... our focus will go very heavily there, and it will be hard to sustain the momentum in the war on terrorism," he said. "That's the biggest danger that I see (W...

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... of the United States would not hesitate to unleash the most powerful army in the world on Iraq. Bush also said that the Hussein regime was harboring terrorists, and in a post September 11 United States he considered it a priority to intervene with a country aiding them in any way. The establishment of democracy and the liberation of the Iraqi people from the ... a fact that waging war is extremely expensive, and before this one started it was estimated to cost the US taxpayer a total of $160 billion for the actual military campaign and post-war occupancy alone. Another point taken into ...

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... needs, devastating attacks such as the ones above are a chillingly real reality and although state sponsors are starting to become a thing of the past, it only takes one. The Washington Post talked to Dr Bob Brown, head of the intelligence division that is a part of the NATO anti-terrorist unit currently based at Hereford in the United Kingdom, about terrorism and ... weapons of mass destruction. Washington Post: How hard is it to obtain and manufacture weapons of mass destruction? Dr Brown: It is easy to get the information and instructions about how to make weapons of mass ... ...

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... fact, then you worry about the safety of your family member much more than you normally would. You also worry that when they get out they could have a condition like post-traumatic stress syndrome, where they have horrible flashbacks of things like combat.(Barlow1) There are now developed methods to help people cope with these stresses so that they don't develop ... conditions such as post-traumatic stress syndrom. For dealing with the stresses of being in the military, military doctors and psychiatrists have developed many methods for dealing with what they call deployment stress, or ....

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... , thereby blurring the demarcation between domestic and foreign policy. This assessment will discuss this notion by examining various categories of policy making, namely decision making; behaviour; and consequences, respectively. The post globalization era in the Third World will be the focus of this study. Firstly, the issue of decision making will be examined. Traditionally, the policy decisions made in a country have ... the demarcation between domestic and foreign policy in terms of policy consequences. In conclusion, this assessment examined the effect of globalization on the demarc...

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... . Iraq has not been found in anyway involved with Afghanistan or the Al Qaeda terrorist network. However, Iraq was mentioned in several post attack speeches given by executives. When President Bush surveyed the global political landscape through his post September 11th lenses in his State of the Union address, he rightly viewed major threats to American society as coming from Iraq, Iran ... ...

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... in putting forth views that are often untruthful, but the media hardly ever questions them, and when they do, they do so in circumlocutious ways. In an October 22 Washington Post article, staff writer Dana Milbank pointed to a "presidential tradition of embroidering key assertions," adding "for Bush, facts are malleable," and noting that the administration's statements on Iraq have been "dubious ... pointed out that Bush is guilty of "distortions and exaggerations," chalking it up to "presidential embroidery [being] a hoary tradition." For the plainspoken--who you won't find writing for...

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... core values, global support of free and open societies, and preemptive wars against terrorist groups and states within the "axis of evil" as the major points of the post-9/11 foreign policy of the United States. Taking action on that foreign policy, the United States waged a war against terrorism which initiated the invasion of Afghanistan to bring justice to ... ...

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... Johns Hopkins School of Advanced Studies. Lawrence has also written about the foreign policy and international affairs of the United States for numerous well known publications such as the Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. The other author William Kristol was born December 23rd, 1952. He was an American neoconservative political analyst and commentator. Kristol also served as a foreign policy ... ...

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... weapons still have not been found. III. The war in Iraq is boldly unconstitutional A. "Congress not the president, has the right to declare war," writes William Raspberry in the Washington Post (January 6, 2003). B. In Article 1 section 8 of the U.S. constitution it is clearly stated: "The Congress shall have the power to declare war." C. Although on October 11, President Bush did receive congressional ... ...

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... , though at least several thousand military deaths. Iraqi civilian dead is estimated between 7,863 and 9,693. Estimates place civilian wounded at over 20,000. So the question remains. Has the post cold war period brought greater opportunities for peace and human security? In terms of actual military fatalities it would appear so. 3 million Koreans perished in the Korean War. 1.5 million Vietnamese ... ...

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... total cost to produce and air "blagh" will be around $7,000. The show will be aired weekly so we will shoot the show every Thursday at 6:00. We will begin post-production and we will edit the show every Friday morning so that the show will be ready to air on Sunday. We will need about $1,000 for the set. The ... ...

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... . Air Tasking Orders were critical but without Intelligence gathering sources the target lists would be useless. Intelligence was the key factor in air operations and selection of targets. The valuable post-attack damage assessment was done at real-time with the aid of humans and electronic sources. The air campaign was set in place on 17 January. On day 2, the United ... ...

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... great obliquity to the moral judgment, and to tempt us to many crimes. During a war of ten years there will always be many whose income depends on its continuance. The post war effect is much worse, families would not have all the men due to the fact that they were killed fighting the war. Buildings and shelters would have to be ... ...

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... deserves recognition as a automous state. So we now must address the problem, and what it is that keeps this idea of automous recognition from happening. In each of the new post war countries, the Kurds found they were treated with suspicion and pressured to conform to the ways of the majority. Their old independence and traditional pastoralist way of life was ... ...

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... showing not only of the effort he would give for the sake of team, but also his consciousness of those people around him; after the game, he skipped the usual post-game huddle and immediately headed towards the other team's bench to again apologize to the injured boy and his parents. In addition to Timothy's balance of competition and sensitivity, his ... ...

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The current Secretary-General of the UN is Kofi Annan. He was born in Ghana, on the 8th of April 1938, and assumed his current post in January 1997, and was reappointed in January 2001. His career highlights have been a mission to ensure transfer to democratic rule in Nigeria in 1998, brokering an agreement between Libya ... ...

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