... it apart. The three ethnic groups that are tarring apart at Iraq from the inside out are the Sunni Arab, the Sunni Kurd, and the Shiite Arab. These three groups all used to fall under the rule of Saddam Hussein before the United States Government took over with an aggressive attack ... human traits and is best shown through the use of maps. Iraq has three main culture regions: the Sunni Arab, the Sunni Kurd, and the Shiite Arab. These three groups have characteristics that help unify and divide Iraq. All three groups are located at different points through Iraq, with the Sunni ... someo...

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... , and Saddam Hussein was not removed from power; in fact, he was free to turn his attention to internal Shiite and Kurd revolts and moved to brutally suppress them. Expecting U.S. assistance and finding little, the Shiite and Kurd were massacred. Mass graves of Shiite have been found containing thousands of dead bodies. The one assistance the U.S. offer was setting up a no fly zone ... ...

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... , they were taken into custody. During the next few days, more then 450 people were rounded up and killed, Hussein personally killed high-ranking members of the Baath party including Shiite member of Command and the head of the labor union. This cleansing insured Hussein's power in Iraq. In 1980, since it seemed that the Shiites could be a threat to Saddams ... presidency, Iraq invaded Iran and conducted an eight-year war against one of its closest neighbors and the home of the Shiite fundamentalist Muslims. The Iran-Iraq war, which lasted eight years, between 1980 and 1988 would permane...

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... before the end of next year. Besides attacking American troops, insurgents have also targeted Iraqis cooperating with the U.S.-led coalition and members of new, U.S.-backed police forces. Late last month, a Shiite Muslim leader " Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim " was assassinated in a bomb blast in the holy city of Najaf south of Baghdad. The attack, widely thought to be the ... in the 25-member Governing Council. The attack on al-Hashimi underlines the risk faced by Iraqis who cooperate with the American-led occupation in high profile positions. She is a Shiite Muslim and a career di...

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... and Iraq. American military has been present in Iraq since that time, as we have enforced a ban on Iraqi military flights over Iraq's Kurdish lands in northern Iraq and the Shiite region in southern Iraq. Within the past decade we have sent American military personnel to Somalia to protect United Nations" troops conducting a humanitarian operation to relieve the famine resulting from ... ...

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... midnight February 28, 1991 was criticized, because it allowed Baghdad to rescue a large amount of military equipment and personnel that were later used to suppress the postwar rebellions of its Shiite and Kurdish citizens. In his own defense, the president asserted that the war had accomplished its mandate. The mission, given by the Security Council, was to expel the Iraqi forces ... ...

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... way imaginable. There are thousands of political refugees from nuclear scientists to news reporters that were falsely tortured and imprisoned by Saddam. There are hundreds of thousands of Kurds and Shiite Muslims that were Murdered purely on their religious beliefs and ethnicity. This is called genocide, the total and complete annihilation of a race within a certain area. Do some dictators from the ... ...

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... Iranian section called Khuzestan, an area known for it's oil fields. A more important issue than geography was religion. Both nations were Muslim, with the leaders from Iran mainly from the Shiite branch and the leaders of Iraq from the Sunni. Before the Iranian revolution, the distinction between the countries was less religious than ideological. The ruling Ba'ath Party in Iraq ... ...

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... far all of the main American aims seem to have been met, Saddam is no longer in power, Iraq is moving towards establishing a democratic government, and, as the formerly prohibited Shiite Muslim march to Karbala's holy shrine on April 22, 2003 (Council on Foreign Affairs) proved, at least some of the Iraqis have been liberated. The alternative of war was therefore ... ...

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... was said that if you did not vote for him, you would have your food rations stripped for a month and you would be sent to live in the desert. Jowad, a Shiite Muslim said, "we vote for Saddam because we have no choice" (Cooperman 49-50). If you cannot win an election fairly, perhaps you have too much control over your country ... ...

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