Iraq : a country study

Image 1 of Iraq : a country study area handbook series Iraq a country study

Contributor: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division - Metz, Helen Chapin
Date: 1990-01-01

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Image 5 of Iraq : a country study Iraq a country study Federal Research Division Library of Congress Edited by Helen Chapin Metz Research Completed May 1988 vr u V

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Image 6 of Iraq : a country study On the cover Samarra Mosque built approximately AD 836 by the Abbasid caliph Al Muhtasim who made Samarra his capital Fourth Edition 1990 First Printing 1990 Copyright 1990 United States Government as...

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Image 7 of Iraq : a country study Foreword This volume is one in a continuing series of books now being prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Con gress under the Country Studies Area Handbook Program...

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Image 9 of Iraq : a country study Acknowledgments The authors wish to acknowledge the contributions of the fol lowing individuals who wrote the 1979 edition of Iraq A Country Study Laraine Newhouse Carter Angus MacPherson Darrel R Eglin Rinn...

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Image 11 of Iraq : a country study Contents Page Foreword in Acknowledgments v Preface xi Country Profile xiii Introduction xxiii Chapter 1 Historical Setting 1 Mark Lewis ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA 6 Sumer Akkad Babylon and Assyria 6 Iranian and Greek...

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Image 12 of Iraq : a country study RELIGIOUS LIFE 86 Islam 86 SunniShia Relations in Iraq 95 SOCIAL SYSTEMS 97 Rural Society 99 Impact of Agrarian Reform 103 Urban Society 105 Stratification and Social Classes 109 FAMILY AND SOCIETY...

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Image 13 of Iraq : a country study The President and the Council of Ministers 182 The Judiciary 184 Local Government 185 Kurdish Autonomy 186 POLITICS 187 The Baath Party 187 The Politics of Alliance The Progressive Na tional Front...

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Image 14 of Iraq : a country study The Impact of Casualties on the Armed Forces 245 Treatment of Veterans and Widows 246 INTERNAL SECURITY 247 Internal Developments and Security 247 Internal Security in the 1980s 251 Incidence of Crime...

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Image 15 of Iraq : a country study Preface Like its predecessor this study is an attempt to treat in a con cise and objective manner the dominant social political economic and military aspects of contemporary Iraqi society Sources of...

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Image 17 of Iraq : a country study Country Profile Country Formal Name Republic of Iraq Short Form Iraq Term for Citizens Iraqis Capital Baghdad Geography Size Area of Iraq variously cited as between 433970 exclud ing Iraqi half of...

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Image 18 of Iraq : a country study Neutral Zone shared with Saudi Arabia and 437393 square kilometers Topography Country divided into four major regions desert in west and southwest rolling upland between upper Euphrates and Tigris rivers highlands in...

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Image 19 of Iraq : a country study medical and paramedical personnel especially in rural areas and probably in northern Kurdish areas Economy Gross Domestic Product GDP estimated at US35 billion in 1986 in 1987 GDP estimated to have a...

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Image 20 of Iraq : a country study wheat and barley main crops Date production dropped sharply because of war damage to date palms Exports Almost US12 billion including crude oil in 1987 Crude oil refined petroleum products natural gas...

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Image 21 of Iraq : a country study Airports International airports at Baghdad and Basra with new airport under construction at Baghdad Also ninetyfive airfields sixtyone with permanentsurface runways Government and Politics Government In accordance with Provisional Constitution of July...

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Image 22 of Iraq : a country study Union to rapprochement with United States diplomatic relations reestablished in 1984 cordial relations with Western Europe es pecially France and good relations with Persian Gulf states and Jordan Iraqi relations with Syria...

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Image 24 of Iraq : a country study XX

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Image 25 of Iraq : a country study 3 Lak Urmia IRBIL C y IfULAYMANWy vSuloymaniyoN TAMM f International boundary Governorate boundary National capital Governorate capital O 25 50 100 Kilometers I r xxi

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Image 27 of Iraq : a country study Introduction IN THE LATE 1980s Iraq became a central actor in Middle Eastern affairs and a force to reckon with in the wider international community Iraq s growing role resulted from the...

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Image 28 of Iraq : a country study the Provisional Constitution of July 16 1970 that institutional ized the RCC s role Within the Baath power lay primarily in the hands of Baathists from the town of Tikrit the birthplace...

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Image 29 of Iraq : a country study Saddam Husayn had expelled from Iraq in 1978 reportedly at the shah s request revived the historic hostility between the two coun tries Saddam Husayn feared the impact on Iraqi Shias of...

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Image 30 of Iraq : a country study ownership and by reducing bureaucratic regulation of enterprises thus reducing labor costs Despite the introduction of more liberal economic policies in Iraq in the late 1980s few indications suggested that the political...

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Image 31 of Iraq : a country study the regime saw an opportunity to instill such fear in the Kurds a significant percentage of whom had cooperated with Iran dur ing the war that their dissidence would be discouraged In...

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Image 32 of Iraq : a country study to the divided ownership created under the 1975 Algiers Agree ment Failing such a settlement Iraq threatened to divert the waters of the Shatt al Arab above Basra so that it would...

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Image 33 of Iraq : a country study export income as well as to meet domestic needs The First Bagh dad International Exhibition for Military Production took place from April 28 to May 2 1989 featuring numerous types of Iraqi...

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Image 34 of Iraq : a country study ruraltourban migration particularly in southern Iraq caused by the war had intensified a process begun before the war and had created an urgent need for housing educational and health facili ties in...

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Image 35 of Iraq : a country study Chapter 1 Historical Setting

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Image 36 of Iraq : a country study Calf s head that appears as an ornament on golden harp from Ur ca 2500 B C

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Image 37 of Iraq : a country study IRAQ A REPUBLIC since the 1958 coup d etat that ended the reign of King Faisal II became a sovereign independent state in 1932 Although the modern state the Republic of Iraq...

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Image 38 of Iraq : a country study Iraq A Country Study Two other factors that have inhibited political centralization are the absence of stone and Iraq s geographic location as the eastern flank of the Arab world For much...

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Image 39 of Iraq : a country study Historical Setting rise of new class relations based on economics fueled frequent tribal rebellions and urban uprisings during much of the twentieth century Iraq s social fabric was in the throes of...

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Image 40 of Iraq : a country study Iraq A Country Study crossed the border into Iran embroiling the country in a costly war see fig 1 Ancient Mesopotamia Sumer Akkad Babylon and Assyria Contemporary Iraq occupies the territory that...

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