... 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 discrete Holy ... that although Muslim cities all played crucial roles in the trading network, every city was distinct and worked as different functions in the network, so it took the cooperation and prosperity...

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... 000 US troops back home. Although the objective of OIF was accomplished by the Coalition when this gained control of Baghdad, the major objective of the war is still not achieved. For this reason, the military presence of the US, and the rest of the Coalition is critical in order to confirm ... government so that this will still no longer represent a threat of national security not only to the US but to the World. Even though a war is not always the answer to all the conflicts, in this case this became the last option when the diplomatic avenues were exhausted as Iraq did not ... from ...

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