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• 23 October 2005: A former member of the Ba’ath Party was assassinated by gunmen in Najaf. 894 • 22 October 2005: A daughter of a former Ba’ath Party member was killed and two others were wounded in an assassination attempt on her father in Diwaniyah. 895 • 17 February 2005: Haider Kadhim, a former intelligence worker, was shot in the back of the head after six gunmen disguised as ISF talked their way into his home in the Baghdad neighbourhood of Saidiyah. 896 • 12 February 2005: Taha Hussein Amiri, a prominent judge who handed down death sentences during Saddam’s regime, was killed by two gunmen on motorcycles as he was being driven to work in the city of Basrah. 897 • February 2005: Abdulrazak Karim Al-Douri, a former major in the Iraqi Intelligence Service, and who had worked in the Interior Ministry, was killed together with a coworker when gunmen surrounded their car and shot them. 898 • 19 November 2005: Five former members of the Ba’ath Party were killed in a series of attacks in Kerbala. 899 • 17 November 2005: A former member of the Ba’ath Party was assassinated and his son is wounded by gunmen in Kerbala. 900 • 26 July 2004: Brigadier Khaled Dawoud, a former Ba’ath Party District Head, and his son were killed in Baghdad. It was likely a revenge killing by Dawoud’s victims. 901 • 8 July 2004: Ali Abbas, the former treasurer of a Regional Committee of the Ba’ath Party, was killed when a bomb hidden in his car exploded outside the Baghdad rope factory that he owned. 902 • 20 December 2003: Gunmen targeted Damiyah Abbas, a former provincial official of the Ba’ath Party, killing her five-year-old son in front of their home in Najaf. She was believed to have participated in the repression of the 1991 Shi’ite uprising. 903 • 20 December 2003: Former Ba’ath party official Ali Kassem, suspected of being an informer for the intelligence services, was killed in Najaf. 904 • 19 December 2003: Gunmen killed former Ba’ath Party official and district mayor of Najaf’s Al-Furat neighbourhood, Ali Qassem Al-Tamini, in Najaf. 905 894 Asheville Global Report, Iraq War timeline Oct. 17–23, 2005, No. 354, 27 October – 2 November 2005, http://www.agrnews.org/?section=archives&cat_id=14&article_id=298. 895 Ibid. 896 Allam, see above footnote 511. 897 Ibid. 898 Ibid. 899 Asheville Global Report, see above footnote 894. 900 Ibid. 901 Paul Garwood, Heavy Fighting at Buhriz Kills 15, AP, 26 July 2004, http://www.juancole.com/2004/07/ heavy-fighting-at-buhriz-kills-15-paul.html. 902 Reuters, Former Baath official killed by bomb, 8 July 2004, http://www.abc.net.au/news/ newsitems/200407/s1149853.htm. 903 CBC News, Two former Baathists killed in revenge attacks, 20 December 2003, http://www.cbc.ca/ world/story/2003/12/20/revenge_killings031220.html. 904 Ibid. 905 Christopher Torchia, Pentagon to send more troops to Iraq, AP, 21 December 2003, http://www.seacoastonline.com/2003news/12212003/world/66788.htm. 182
• 17 December 2003: An angry mob dragged Ali Al-Zalimi, a former regional chief of the Ba’ath party, from his car and beat him to death in Najaf. He was believed to have helped repress the 1991 Shi’ite uprising. 906 • October 2003: Kasim Al-Falahi, former Iraqi Ambassador to Lebanon, who headed the Iraqi Intelligence Service in southern Iraq from 1996 to 1998, was abducted by gunmen. His body was found two days later with a single bullet through his forehead. 907 • October 2003: Six unknown gunmen sprayed the house of Qassem Al-Hantawi, a former brigadier with the Iraqi Intelligence Service, in Baghdad. While Al-Hantawi survived, four former colleagues of his were killed, including Assam Al-Douri, who left his job as an accountant in the Iraqi Intelligence Service 15 years ago and had reportedly even cancelled his membership in the Ba’ath Party. 908 • October 2003: Mohammed Abdul Nabi Al-Gishi and Muhsen Abdul Wahid Al-Hajama, school principals, teachers and division commanders in the Ba’ath Party, were killed in two different incidents in Basrah. Reportedly, they were responsible for arresting people. 909 • September 2003: Dr. Abdullah Al-Fadhil was killed by gunmen shot in his car as he was leaving the College of Medicine in Basrah. He was known to have enforced a decree to cut off the ears of army deserters. 910 • 4 June 2003: Shaikh Ali Sa’adoun, head of the Sa’adoun tribe, was killed by four gunmen. The tribe had maintained close ties with the former Government and some of its members were local officials. 911 • 17 May 2003: The singer Daoud Qais, known for his odes to former President Saddam Hussein, was shot dead. 912 • 16 May 2003: A man called Salam had reportedly killed Najm Abud, the son of a Ba’ath Party member suspected of ordering the execution of Salam’s brother in Al- Amarah. The family of Najm Abud reportedly retaliated immediately, killing Salam and setting fire to his house. 913 • 14 May 2003: Karim Hamid Qasem Al-Azawi, a barber, was shot dead by two masked gunmen while at work in Basrah. His family told AI that he might have been killed because he was a member of the Ba’ath Party, despite the fact that he had been imprisoned by the former regime. 914 • 13 May 2003: An attempt to kill a Ba’ath Party member in the Al-Hartha area of Basrah resulted in clashes between two tribal groups in which at least five people died and three were wounded. 915 • 10 May 2003: Falah Dulaimi, the assistant dean of the Mustansiriya University’s College of Sciences, was shot by students as he walked to his campus office. He was 906 Ibid. 907 Ratnesar, see above footnote 508. 908 Ibid. 909 Brinkley, see above footnote 510. 910 Ibid. 911 AI, Iraq – The need for security, see above footnote 510. 912 Wilson, see above footnote 510. 913 AI, Iraq – The need for security, see above footnote 510. 914 Ibid. 915 Ibid. 183
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A. Current Situat
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and gatherings, Shi’ite religious
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Government Officials and Other Pers
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Iraqi Asylum-Seekers From Central a
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expand on the legal and policy guid
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The general chaos following the inv
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evenues. 41 An understanding of var
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Article 140 of the Constitution cal
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the Middle East in terms of women
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epealed the CPA’s decision to sus
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The Iraqi judiciary continues to be
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Al-Sunna. In addition, members of t
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military commander in Iraq, General
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IV. PARTICULAR GROUPS AT RISK A. Re
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to Osama Bin Laden, the Shi’ites
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Shi’ite militias on the other han
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underscored how explosive the confl
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Ninewa Plains in particular have be
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The overall climate results in non-
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efuge in the three Northern Governo
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an international court. 261 Several
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The alleged main perpetrators of at
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In the current climate of religious
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prohibition to kill, lie, commit ad
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Mandaeans as belonging to the “Pe
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have found refuge with the Sabaean-
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distributed to homes in Baghdad gav
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KRG. Mr. Falak Al-Deen Kakai, senio
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“those Iraqis who had lost their
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government offices, 441 and changin
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security, of transferring hundreds
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2. Roma (Kawliyah) 461 a) Introduct
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Ghraib and was known for its strong
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Sunnis willing to denounce violence
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CPA began to allow some vetted ex-B
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een killed in Iraq and another 491
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Acts committed against employees or
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E. Government Officials and Other P
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3. Persons Opposing the Ruling Part
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3,250 professors had fled Iraq sinc
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There are a number of possible moti
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inside the media compound, refrain
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3. Artists Iraqi artists, actors an
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groups for not giving priority to t
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population at large and bring the c
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after their release. 660 UNAMI HRO
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evidence that over forty people had
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Both sexes have become victims of s
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