" War on iraq was not justified" The 2003 Iraq War lasted less than three weeks. It began in the early morning hours of March 20‚ when American missiles struck Baghdad. By April 9‚ U.S. forces had advanced into Baghdad. By April 15 Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had vanished‚ and U.S. and allied officials pronounced the end of major combat operations. Although the war itself was short‚ arguments over whether it was justified had been made for months and years prior to the attack‚ and still continue
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documents which have become front-page news items. Early releases included documentation of equipment expenditures and holdings in the Afghanistan war and corruption in Kenya.[12] In April 2010‚ WikiLeaks published gunsight footage from the 12 July 2007 Baghdad airstrike in which Iraqi journalists were among those killed by an AH-64 Apache helicopter‚ known as the Collateral Murder video. In July of the same year‚ WikiLeaks released Afghan War Diary‚ a compilation of more than 76‚900 documents about the
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Document-Based Question Response – PREP The Islamic World Prompt: To what extent was Islam a unifying cultural force in Afro-Eurasia? Overall thesis: The Islamic world was essential for most of the Afro-Eurasia cultures because it provided stable civilizations. Many of the civilizations in these areas were separated and struggling. However‚ when the Muslims began to take over vast areas of land‚ Islam provided a stable religion across an area that had previously contained different cultures
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The devastation of the Black Death following hard on the heels of the Mongol destruction of Islam’s most important city and capital of the Abbasid Empire‚ Baghdad‚ eliminated Islam’s old political order. Nonetheless‚ these two catastrophes prepared the way for new Islamic states to emerge. Of these‚ the Ottoman‚ the Safavid‚ and the Mughal dynasties ultimately grew powerful enough to become empires themselves. The most powerful‚ the Ottoman Empire‚ occupied the pivotal area between
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Al Ghazali is an influential thinker of medieval Islam. He describes his education and his intellectual crisis‚ which left him so full of doubt and questions‚ to the extent that he he resigned from his professorship in Baghdad‚ and felt the need to retire from the world. However‚ his faith returned after years of questioning and seeking‚ during which he achieved direct knowledge of God in the form of the experience of the Sufis. Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali’s ‘Al-Munqidh Min Ad-Dalal’ successfully
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“There’s a flag wrapped around a score of men (hey!)/ a gag‚ a plastic bag on a monument.”The statue of Saddam Hussein was torn down in Baghdad and the American flag was draped over it. The United States was literally and metaphorically suffocating Iraq and its people‚ like a plastic bag. “Bombs away here’s your punishment‚” refers to the idea of Bush bombing anyone who disagreed with him or didn’t give him what he wanted. When John McCain was asked in 2008 what were his plans for Iran he just responded
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Mongols and Religion Religion was exceptionally important to the Mongols as they had a central belief system through which everything they did was decided and justified. Genghis Khan himself used to travel to the top of a sacred mountain near his home before beginning a conquest or battle and pray. (Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world). They believed in the interaction of spirits with the temporal world‚ or Shamanism. At the head of this religion was the Shaman‚ he was responsible
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those two things were the main things that caused injuries and deaths. According to another article by Max J. Rosenthal Isis claimed responsibility for attacks on the mall. “ISIS has claimed responsibility for a major attack at a shopping mall in Baghdad on Monday that killed at least 18 people.” Isis has done many evil things in the world and will most likely continue to do these evil things like they have done
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One of the main reasons for the growth and popularization of the Islamic faith between 1000 and 1300 CE was the commercial networks‚ that were maintained by Muslim merchants‚ that carried the word of the Quran to many regions. And as Islam spread many more people converted to the faith. A branch of Islam called the Sufis‚ who were more mystical and communal‚ spread rapidly and gained great appeal during this time. The Sufis appealed to the common people through its strong connections to brotherhood
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Due to the development of science and technology‚ the world is experiencing an information revolution. With the arrival of information age‚ the traditional information producing strata changes and new media rise gradually. Citizen journalists can be regarded as a representative of new media. As the concept is relatively new‚ it is not yet completely defined. Generally speaking‚ citizen journalists refer to members of the public who are not trained or employed as professional journalists for a living
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