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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Kenneth O'Keefe (section Human shield action to Iraq)
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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Gulf War (redirect from Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm)
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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Islamic State (redirect from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria)
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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Jarhead (film) (redirect from Welcome to the suck)
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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Turkish involvement in the Syrian civil war (redirect from Turkish Intervention in Syria and Iraq, 2014-present)
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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