Apr 5, 2004 · KBR [Kellogg, Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton] had a role to play in some of the problems that arose during the attack that occurred on 5/6/7 April at the CPA Compound in Al Kut, Iraq. Primarily, the biggest issue is that of procurement and logistics.

Mar 1, 2006 · In April 2004, Shi‘ite firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Jaysh al-Mahdi militia rose in revolt against the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq. Revolt on the Tigris tells the tale through the eyes of Etherington, a British political officer in charge of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) office in Al-Kut, the capital of the southern ...

Jan 1, 2004 · Months before the Iraq war of 2003, The New Yorker, Christian Science Monitor, and The New York Times published reports about Ansar al-Islam (“Partisans of Islam”), a brutal band of al-Qa’ida guerrillas based in a Kurdish area of northern Iraq near the Iranian border. U.S. officials pointed to Ansar al-Islam as the “missing link ...

Oct 9, 2005 · An official assessment following Muqtada al-Sadr’s uprising in April 2004 blamed a British political officer in al-Kut for ‘intentionally toning down’ reports of [Shia] insurgent activity’. In Amara, British officials transferred the Baath party headquarters to the Badr Corps; many locals wanted to use it as a health clinic instead.

Sep 1, 2004 · Al-Kut, Iraq: After-Battle Report. September 1, 2004. Middle East Quarterly. Iran’s Link to Al-Qaeda ...

Sep 4, 2019 · Kata’ib Hezbollah, a member of the Popular Mobilization Forces, entered Syria from Iraq to help retake al-Bukamal. Then it decided to stay in Syria. This group is run by Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an Iraqi who served alongside Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the 1980s when Iran was fighting Saddam.

Mar 1, 2007 · Upon his return from Iraq, where he headed the CPA office in Al-Kut, British political officer Mark Etherington penned Revolt on the Tigris. Like Squandered Victory, it is deeply flawed, more an exercise in navel-gazing than illumination. Rather than shed much light on Al-Kut, its political figures, or the complexity of the local society ...

May 29, 2006 · Iraqi president Saddam Hussein glorified violence in his efforts to shape Iraqi culture and society. He embraced a curriculum which required high school students to memorize a speech delivered by the seventh-century governor of Iraq, Al-Hajjaj bin Yusuf ath-Thaqafi, to dignitaries of Kufa, then the most important city in Iraq.

Al-Sabah: Resolution 687 is the mother of resolutions, dealing with weapons of mass destruction, Kuwaiti prisoners of war and hostages in Iraq, just compensation, and the return of all stolen items from Kuwait. Baghdad must not be able to pick and choose from that resolution but must implement it in its entirety.

May 17, 2015 · The decisive factor in the success of the Anbar Awakening was that al-Qaeda in Iraq was seen by most Sunnis, especially the Islamists within the insurgency, as a greater enemy than the U.S. forces. Nor was AQI the only enemy: The sectarian government in Baghdad, which Sunnis saw as a pawn of Shiite Tehran, was an enemy as well.