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Shooting For years Blackwater have been operating above the law, but Nisour Square Shooting was the last straw. On Sept. 16, 2007 a Blackwater convoy opened fired on a crowd of unarmed citizens killing 14 and wounding 18. “In Baghdad, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki promised that Blackwater guards would be held accountable for what he called "a big crime" in the weekend violence. Iraqi officials have threatened to expel Blackwater from Iraq over the incident, in which at least nine Iraqis were killed.” (Fainaru
war is over, even though nothing was accomplished (Kirk et al. 2014). Iraq was facing 13 years of scantions, therefore regime diverted its resources to flexible networks of patronage that kept it in power (Dodge 2007, 88). Iraq faced widespread of lawlessness and after the violent regime changed US could not control the situation. Iraqi civilians were looting, attacking ministries building and this resulted into a series of event (Kirk et al. 2014) . From a military perspective the regime was taken
all intelligence on Iraq. Seymour Hersh claims that, according to a Pentagon adviser, " was created in order to find evidence of what Wolfowitz and his boss, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, wanted to be true—that Saddam Hussein had close ties to Al Qaeda, and that Iraq had an enormous arsenal of chemical, biological, and possibly even nuclear weapons that threatened the region and, potentially, the United States”.The issue of Iraq's nuclear weapons took a hit a turning point in 2002–2003, when
Minister Nouri al-Maliki's distrustfulness that Sunnis were out to decimate his questionable administration and his merciless endeavor to suppress their restriction to Shia control; the war-fatigued United States' negligence of how Syria's considerate war exhibited an overpowering open door for the fragmented and for the most part barren al Qaeda in Iraq to rise again on both sides of the Syrian outskirt; the Obama organization's hesitance to apply discretionary compel even as the Maliki government
2016 has just began and already we have seen two major terrorist attacks from a group that used to be called al-Qaeda but is now called ISIS. This group seemed to have emerged on to the terrorist scene overnight and in 2014 they became famous for their success at taking over parts of Iraq and Syria. They also became famous for their brutal beheadings, genocide of other religious groups in Iraq/Syria and their social media presence that helps them recruit many around the world. So how is it possible
Are government whistleblowers acting in the public interest, or do they endanger the public by exposing classified information? Just as government transparency has waned in recent years, there have been several instances of very public national intelligence whistle-blowing. Large scale leaks such as those published by The Guardian and WikiLeaks have prompted debate on issues of government secrecy, as well as the balance between security and liberty. High profile whistleblowers like Bradley Manning
Iraqi citizens are suffering. Iraq is closely associated with the rest of the Arab and Islamic world. The Iraqi national identity is highly Arabic. Iraq and Iran still hold military tension due to the Gulf War. Iraq also feels that Turkey, Syria, Al-Qa'ida, Shia and Ba'ath party extremists to be political enemies.
group but what strengthens the people’s wants to join the group is the mistreatment the citizens face in their country from their political leaders. For example one of the biggest causes for people to join ISIS in Iraq was the Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Because he was a Shia Muslim he treated the Sunni population of his country poorly which caused citizens to want a change, and ISIS gave them hope. Most of the members of ISIS share this same background. ISIS is also heavily integrated in Syria
resulted in the creation of secular one-party states, characterized by socialist economics, and hierarchical government organization. In 1951, Ba’athism was brought to Iraq by Fuad al-Rikabi, who established the Iraqi Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party (Polk, 2006). After Iraq’s 1968 revolution, Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr and his cousin Saddam Hussein became president and vice president, respectively. Both of them were active members of the Ba’athist Party, and thus, Iraq’s new government was