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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 action film from B-movie film studio Cannon Films. It was directed by Ted Post and written by Mann Rubin...
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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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  • 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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  • Franchise - Hudson Guild - Human chain - Human geography - Human settlement - Human shield - Human shield action to Iraq - Hung parliament - Hunt Saboteurs...
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    Iran–Iraq War was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. Active hostilities began with the Iraqi invasion...
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    significant territory in Iraq and Syria in 2013, but lost most of it in 2017 and 2019. In 2014, the group proclaimed itself to be a worldwide caliphate...
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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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    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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  • 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 1991 Iraqi uprisings were ethnic and religious uprisings against Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime in Iraq that were mainly led by Shia rebels and...
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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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    deployed to Operation Desert Shield in Saudi Arabia. During Operation Desert Storm, the battalion was the Brigade Assault Force for the breach of Iraqi defenses...
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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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    Insurrection, Moro Rebellion, World War I, World War II, Vietnam War, and Iraq Campaign. Shield: Argent on a bend azure (heraldry), between (in sinister chief)...
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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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  • 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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    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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    band: "a shield ... surmounted by a man's and a woman's clasped hands, sustained by a pair of dove wings with a white star aloft; on the shield can appear...
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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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    intervention into Syria by declaring Operation Euphrates Shield, mainly targeting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. It had also fulfilled other pre-existing...
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  • Karl Dallas (category English anti–Iraq War activists)
    BBC News, Pensioner's 'human shield' offer, 24 January 2003. Retrieved 2 July 2013 BBC News, Pensioner to become Iraq human shield, 17 February 2003. Retrieved...
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