Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...seems almost distant once you get past the church doors. Inside, chandeliers from high ceilings illuminated a Christmas morning with nearly a thousand Iraqi Catholics filling row after row of packed pews - more than the building has seen in years...
...Baghdad improve, Iraq's persecuted Christian minority continues to stream out of the country. At Mar Yousif's service on Christmas morning, the head priest, Pios Cacha, who has seen his congregation dwindle from 1,200 families to 650 since the U.S. invasion, led a sermon that was straightforward: Iraqi Christians should come back to Iraq and start rebuilding their broken country, and their community...
...When Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi hurled his shoes at President Bush during a Dec. 14 press conference, he was doing what many frustrated Iraqis wished they could. Al-Zaidi's act of defiance made him, at least temporarily, a national hero for many Iraqis, with crowds gathering in the streets of Baghdad to celebrate his very pointed insult. (See "Aftermath of a Shoe Attack...
...wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have diminished the role of the CIA. It's the military in those two countries that collects the body of intelligence. Pragmatically, it couldn't have been otherwise. A lieutenant leading a patrol through an Iraqi village is much more likely to collect relevant information than a CIA officer confined to an office...
...Zaidi, Muntader •beating of by Iraqi security officers after shoes of are taken off and thrown at Bush...