... Arabs. That this is an existing problem for the Iraqi government can be seen in the chaos and civil conflicts that have been occurring between the various religious and political factions in Iraq since the 2005 elections. The current government is seen by many Iraqis as little more than puppet government controlled by the United States and its allies. According to ... international community will have a great deal to do with how the future government of Iraq is run. Ramsay (2005) also discusses the current state of civil war between the various factions of Iraqi society, and the growing...

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... as of 2002 is 17.99 deaths per 1,000 persons annually. Diseases such as cholera and malaria continue to plague this ravaged nation. Death tolls rise each day as rival factions continue to kill each other in Mogadishu as well as the outlying areas. In early 1993 the UN began sending peacekeepers as well as U.S. soldiers into the Mogadishu region to ... ...

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... disparate radical Islamic groups of varying nationalities to work toward common goals - the expulsion of non-Muslim control or influence from Muslim inhabited lands. Al Qaeda now encompasses members and factions of several major Islamic militant organizations, including Egypt's Islamic Group and al-Jihad, Algeria's Armed Islamic Group, Pakistan's Harakat ul-Mujahidin, the Islamic movement of Uzbekistan, and opposition groups in ... ...

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