... of intellect and learning resided there. Spanish Muslim traveler and geographer Ibn Jubayr's (Doc #1) description of Damascus as a highly honored, blessed, and heavenly city of Allah where Jesus and Mary took refuge in reflects the city's importance in Islam culture as a religious sacred site, which shows that Muslim cities during the Post-Classical Age strengthened Islam by attributing its current ... prosperity to the blessings of Allah and the alleged arrival of saints. While Damascus wasn't strictly a Holy City of Islam, the map of "Muslim Holy Cities" (Doc #8) shows thirteen d...

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... per week in a two hundred eighty three-day-period that started on March 20th of the same year leaving 525 deaths accounting 440 of them to the US. Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), as the US Government called the major conflict campaign in Iraq, comprehended of only 42 days, generating ... soldiers. Even though OIF officially ended on May 1st, the military operations in this Middle Eastern country are still being held in order to keep peace to ensure the reconstruction of an Iraq shattered by decades of war and embargo while Saddam Hussein's Regime was still on the power. By ... diplomatic ...

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