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    The Human Shield Action to Iraq was a group of people who traveled to Iraq to act as human shields with the aim of preventing the U.S.-led coalition forces...
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    War veteran. In 2001, he set fire to his United States passport. Subsequently, he led the human shield action to Iraq and was a passenger on the MV Mavi...
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    activists organised Human Shield Action to Iraq in advance of the March 2003 invasion. Ultimately, Human Shield Action brought 200 people to Iraq. Many of them...
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  • Israeli–Palestinian conflict Human shield action to Iraq "EU nations condemn Hamas for what they describe as use of hospitals, civilians as 'human shields'". AP News....
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  • The Human Shield is a 1991 low-budget American film from B-movie film studio Cannon Films. It was directed by Ted Post and written by Mann Rubin and stars...
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    detention camp Human shield action to Iraq International public opinion on the war in Afghanistan Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011) List of Iraq War resisters...
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    that it was a center of Iraqi military operations, and that the civilians had been deliberately moved there to act as human shields.[citation needed] Saddam's...
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  • Families for Peace Human shield action to Iraq International Campaign Against Aggression on Iraq Iraq Peace Action Coalition Iraq Solidarity Campaign...
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  • Human shields are legally protected persons—either protected civilians or prisoners of war—who are either coerced or volunteer to deter attacks by occupying...
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  • Namaa Alward (category Iraqi film actresses)
    humanitarian organisations. Alward traveled to Iraq in 2003 as a participant in the human shield action to Iraq.[citation needed] Mørketid (1995) "Namaa...
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    towns in Iraq. Iraqi Republican Guard units were also reported to be using human shields. Some reports indicate that the Fedayeen used ambulances to deliver...
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  • Franchise - Hudson Guild - Human chain - Human geography - Human settlement - Human shield - Human shield action to Iraq - Hung parliament - Hunt Saboteurs...
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    The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the First Gulf War, was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. Active...
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  • Saddam Hussein's alleged shredder (category Torture in Iraq)
    argument on the whole idea of liberating Iraq.[citation needed] Groups that organized the human shield action in Iraq say they have no record of Rev. Kenneth...
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  • operations in Syria, Iraq and Iran, in order to attack groups Turkey classifies as PKK-related. *: Most of Turkey's Operation Euphrates Shield combats were between...
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    State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), is a transnational Salafi jihadist...
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    The 1991 Iraqi uprisings were ethnic and religious uprisings against Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime in Iraq that were led by Shia Arabs and Kurds....
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  • torture to accomplish strategic ends is its proven link in "making it harder to recruit potential Iraqi allies". Such methods are not only deemed human rights...
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    administration of George W. Bush, actively pressed for military action against Iraq, claiming that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction...
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  • as Operation Desert Shield. This operation aimed to deter further Iraqi aggression and prepare for potential military action to liberate Kuwait. The...
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    the Iraqi government, American troops went to assess Iraqi forces and the threat posed by ISIL. In early August 2014, ISIL began its Northern Iraq offensive...
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    to Iraq. Kuwait's large-scale economic assistance to Iraq often triggered hostile Iranian actions against Kuwait. Iran repeatedly targeted Kuwaiti oil...
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  • airstrikes by Russian warplanes". The use of human shields and executions of civilians who tried to flee continued in Iraq right through until the group lost is...
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    and made calls for U.S. government action to support the human rights and religious freedom of the group in Iraq. Amal Clooney of the Center for Justice...
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  • spotter. When Kuwait is invaded by Iraq, Swofford's unit is deployed to Saudi Arabia as a part of "Operation Desert Shield" in the Gulf War (1990–1991). Eager...
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  • "human shields" begin to return to their home countries because the Iraqi government actually wanted to use them as human shields. The human shields that...
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    Gulf War air campaign (category Airstrikes in Iraq)
    the air forces of the coalition against targets in Iraq and Iraqi-occupied Kuwait from 17 January to 23 February 1991. Spearheaded by the United States...
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    single action or battle, unless that particular operation was wide, but only consisted of one major battle. For example, Operation Ocean Shield included...
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  • Valley of the Wolves: Iraq (Turkish: Kurtlar Vadisi: Irak) is a 2006 Turkish action film directed by Serdar Akar and starring Necati Şaşmaz, Billy Zane...
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    The occupation of Iraq (2003–2011) began on 20 March 2003, when the United States invaded with a military coalition to overthrow Iraqi president Saddam...
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