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This Day In Iraqi History - Mar 26 Iyad Allawi won 2010 election PM Maliki came in 2nd
1918 Battle of Khan Baghdadi between Ottomans and British started
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Dr. Michael Izady of Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs recently gave an interview to the Swiss-based International Relat... -
Professor Nadje Al-Ali is a professor of gender studies at SOAS, University of London. She has authored several books and articles... -
1928 Abdul Sadoun became PM for 3 rd of 4 times Replaced Askari who was forced to resign over opposition to his consc...
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What, exactly, is freak about it?
I spent 14 days in June 2008 in Tikrit waiting for a clear day to fly home on leave.
Combination of long-term regional persistent droughts, poor agricultural soil controls, and just plain bad weather conditions.
The Baghdad pics are never as bad as in the Tikrit, where you see the red wall marching toward you, and a complete red-out once it arrives.
Iraq is clay, not sand, so the usual term is dust storm. Census records from the 1950s-1970s tracked the days of dust storm obliteration--usually a few every year. Very different in recent times.
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