... served as the "throne of the Caliphate" and "heart of the entire region" as well as "headquarters of the army" and "mother of all towns," which shows that Muslim cities like Cordoba were of great political and military importance to the Muslim world. Also, Arab scholar Al-Tabiri's (Doc #6) records of the story of Abbasid Caliph Al-Mansur changing the capital for a safer one reflects that the supposed ... the safety, loyalty and most importantly, political power he required. But although Al-Tabiri was one of the most important sources of early Muslim history, it's unlikely that ...

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... 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 the death of one hundred thirty nine US ... 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 ... citizens are not allowed to travel outside ...

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