RAMADI

see Ar Ramadi, Iraq.

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books on: Ramadi  - 78 results

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1.
Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt
Book by Arthur Goldschmidt Jr.; Lynne Reinner, 1999
Subjects: Egypt--History--1517-1882--Biography--Dictionaries, Egypt--History--1798---Biography--Dictionaries
...New York Times (16 Feb. 1947): 57. Ramadi, Adab wa tarab, 132-138. Sharif, M.M...Radwan, Lutfi, Muhammad Abd al-Wahhab. Ramadi, Adab wa tarab, 215-219. Sadoul, Cinema...lst ed., 270-288; 2nd ed., 326-353. Ramadi, Min a `lam al-adab, 259-264. Saharti...
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The Story of the Arab Legion
Book by Brigadier John Bagot Glubb; Hodder & Stoughton, 1948
Subjects: Jordan--History, Trans-Jordan--Arab Legion
...FOLLOWING PAGE RAMADI BRIDGE, 1921 40 ON THE...of 1921 on the Middle Euphrates, at Ramadi and Fellujah. There was little to do...bridge over the River Euphrates below Ramadi. To maintain the bridge, I had a gang...
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Iraq, 1900 to 1950: A Political, Social, and Economic History
Book by Stephen Hemsley Longrigg; Oxford University Press, 1953
Subjects: Iraq--History
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International Handbook on Chemical Weapons Proliferation
Book by Gordon M. Burck, Charles C. Flowerree; Greenwood Press, 1991
Subjects: Chemical Weapons
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The Iraq War: Strategy, Tactics, and Military Lessons
Book by Anthony H. Cordesman; Praeger, 2003
Subjects: Iraq War, 2003-, National State, Strategy, Tactics
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journal articles on: Ramadi  - 22 results

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Islamic Just War Theory and the Challenge of Sacred Space in Iraq
Journal article by Ron E. Hassner; Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 61, 2007
Subjects: Conflict management--Religious aspects, Religious conflict--Management, Sacred places--International aspects, Sacred places--Military aspects, Sacred space--International aspects, Sacred space--Military aspects
...operations at seven mosques in the town of Ramadi, the southwestern point of the Sunni triangle...Iraqi counterparts searched for weapons, Ramadi residents responded in anger to these...2) By early November, operations in Ramadi began producing tangible results. Marines...
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Speak No Evil: Targeting a Population's Neutrality to Defeat an Insurgency
Journal article by Christopher M. Ford; Parameters, Vol. 35, 2005
Subjects: Insurgency--Analysis, Insurgency--Iraq, Insurgency--Public opinion, Insurgency--Social aspects, Iraq--Military aspects, Iraq--Political aspects, Iraq--Social aspects
...Latifiyah, Mahmudiyah, Salman Pak, Baqubah, Balad, Taji, Baiji, Ramadi, and just about everywhere else you can name, the people absolutely...to the "Sunni triangle," an area running from Baghdad west to Ramadi, and then north to Mosul. But insurgents quickly expanded beyond...
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U.S. Military Courts and the War in Iraq
Journal article by Michael J. Frank; Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 39, 2006
Subjects: Judicial process--Laws, regulations and rules, Military courts--Usage, Military occupation--Laws, regulations and rules
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The United States in Iraq: Assessment and Outlook: Bill Harris Finds Positive Aspects to the American Intervention in Iraq
Journal article by Bill Harris; New Zealand International Review, Vol. 29, 2004
...poll of 1620 Iraqis in Baghdad, Falluja, Ramadi, Basta, Najaf, Irbil, and Sulaymaniyya...for the United States were the Falluja, Ramadi, Takrit, and Balad areas--the heartland...like the Republican Guard. Falluja and Ramadi are also well known for conservative Sunni...
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Chronology of the Iraq War: 2004
Journal article; Social Education, Vol. 69, 2005
Subjects: Coalition Occupation of Iraq, 2003---Chronologies
...Iraqis in several hours of fighting in Ramadi. 25 Selected groups of Iraqis in the...Clashes take place in Hilla, Samarra and Ramadi; U.S. forces claim to have killed more...planes attack insurgents in Falluja and Ramadi on this and succeeding days. 27 Violence...
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magazine articles on: Ramadi  - 84 results

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The Devil You Know: Keeping the Peace in Ramadi Calls for a Little Moral Dexterity
Magazine article by John B. Renehan; American Scholar, Vol. 78, Summer 2009
Subjects: American military assistance--Social aspects, Baghdad, Iraq (City)--Military aspects, Military assistance, American--Social aspects, Military police--Training, Military readiness--Social aspects, Police administration--Personal narratives, Police departments--Personal narratives
...The Devil You Know: Keeping the Peace in Ramadi Calls for a Little Moral Dexterity...and brother are dead--killed, here in Ramadi, by foreign jihadists--and he will cheerily...disturbing and hopeful, here at the West Ramadi Iraqi Police Station, which sits at a...
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The New Anbar: What the Surge Hath Wrought
Magazine article by Mario Loyola; National Review, Vol. 59, September 10, 2007
Subjects: American military assistance--Personal narratives, American military assistance--Social aspects, Iraq--Military aspects, Military assistance, American--Personal narratives, Military assistance, American--Social aspects
...presidential envoy Meghan OSullivan in Ramadi, the provincial capital, and I am to go...minutes. We are received on the ground in Ramadi by the burly and jovial governor of Anbar...armored vehicles and heads to downtown Ramadi. As we drive through town I am amazed...
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Covering Iraq: The Modern Way of War Correspondence
Magazine article by Michael Fumento; National Review, Vol. 58, November 6, 2006
Subjects: Iraq--Military aspects, War correspondents--Travel, War correspondents--Works, War--Media coverage, Wars--Media coverage
...Correspondence. by Michael Fumento Ramadi, Iraq WOULD you trust a Hurricane Katrina...on a purported Fallujah-like attack on Ramadi reported by four journalists in Baghdad...Baghdad yet they pretend they can cover Ramadi. One way the Baghdad press corps and its...
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Behind Bars: An Iraqi Working as a Contract Photographer for the Associated Press Has Been Held-Uncharged-By the U.S. Military for Seven Months. the U.S. Says Bilal Hussein Has Links to Terrorists. the Outraged AP Implores the Pentagon to Charge Him or Free Him
Magazine article by Charles Layton; American Journalism Review, Vol. 28, December 2006
Subjects: Associated Press Broadcasters--Political activity, Hussein, Bilal--Cases, Hussein, Bilal--Crimes against, Journalistic ethics--Military aspects, Photographers--Cases, Photographers--Crimes against, Terrorism--Cases, United States. Department of Defense--Cases
...Marines showed up at Husseins door in Ramadi, the provincial capital, where he worked...AP reequipped Hussein and sent him to Ramadi, also in Al-Anbar Province, where insurgents...became the APs only source of images from Ramadi, and one of the very few sources for any...
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What Drives the Iraq Insurgency
Magazine article; World and I, Vol. 19, September 2004
Subjects: Insurgency--Analysis, Insurgency--Iraq, Iraq--Crimes against, Organized crime, Terrorists--Analysis, Tribes--Analysis, United States. Marine Corps--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
...A coordinated mortar barrage hit U.S. military camps in Ramadi at 1:05 p.m. one day recently. The attack killed one Marine...the insurgents learn from each other. "If something happens in Ramadi, the folks in Fallujah think: Whats up here? Is there an opportunity...
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newspaper articles on: Ramadi  - 391 results

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'Regime Remnants' Hit Marines, Says JCS General
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 8, 2004
Subjects: Myers, Richard B., Rumsfeld, Donald H.
...Iraqis who attacked a Marine Corps unit in Ramadi were trained military fighters who disappeared...photographer who was with the Marines in Ramadi, the fighting on Tuesday began with a...The Iraqi military group that attacked Ramadi was described as "regime remnants" by...
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Iraqis Doubt Bush Plan as Insurgents Flex Muscle
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 2, 2005
...gunmen yesterday of the western city of Ramadi. But Iraqis interviewed yesterday also...300 insurgents took over the streets of Ramadi, the capital of the restive province of...Washington Times. "It was easy for them to take Ramadi," said the witness who asked to be identified...
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Iraqi Soldiers Vote Ahead of General Public
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 13, 2005
Subjects: Insurgency--Iraq, Sadr, Moqtada, Soldiers
...Byline: Sharon Behn, THE WASHINGTON TIMES RAMADI, Iraq - Iraqi soldiers cast some of the...who is based at Camp Ali, just outside Ramadi. "This will be an elected government...bullet-pocked houses. Soldiers call the drive into Ramadi "Thunder Run." U.S. and Iraqi forces have...
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Slain Sheik's Wife Ails in Birth; Shi'ites Slow Medical Care
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 5, 2007
Subjects: Health care industry, Islamic sects, Shiites
...in Iraq is in critical condition in a Ramadi hospital following complications from a late pregnancy. A source in Ramadi told The Washington Times that the 29-year-old...emergency Caesarean-section delivery at Ramadi General Hospital last week. The sheiks...
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Seabees Buzz in to Build Up Bases; Battalion Went from Damaged Gulf Coast to Insurgent Zones
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 3, 2006
Subjects: Hurricane Katrina, 2005, Insurgency
...Byline: David Axe, THE WASHINGTON TIMES RAMADI, Iraq - A U.S. Navy construction battalion...in general, and the contested city of Ramadi in particular, have seen some of the heaviest...high-ranking Seabees. On Jan. 22 at the Ramadi detachment, the Seabees had set aside...
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encyclopedia articles on: Ramadi  - 2 results

 
 
1.
Ramadi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RAMADI see Ar Ramadi , Iraq. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Ar Ramadi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AR RAMADI ar rama de, town, provincial capital, central Iraq, on the Euphrates...important victory over the Turks there in 1917. The name also appears as Ramadie or Rumadiya. The town has been a center of Sunni insurgent resistance since...


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