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Keeping the "Infant" in "Infantry"....
My son sent me this shot of him and his buds. Not sure where it is (other than Iraq) or who took the shot for him.
A murky view of the coast of Iraq across the Shatt Al Arab river as seen from Abadan in Iran.
Across the water lies Iraq, with Basra some 30 km up river and the Persian Gulf about the same distance down river...
This is from a "Die-In" that took place at UA today. It was part of a protest against the Iraq War. I was requested to be the photographer for the event by the group hosting it. This is my favorite shot from it.
Laying between my two Iraqi Republican Guard figures is an authentic Mother of All Battles medal, awarded by Saddam Hussein to his army for his self proclaimed victory in the "Mother of all Battles", Desert Storm.
Congrats to Lando for another awesome figure. The mustache is killer, unfortunately I can't use it for my actual Iraqis because I'm doing them in flesh, but I'll find a use.
Please tell me what you think of my custom figure on the right! I like him a lot.
this is another design of the Iraqi flag. this design shows Iraq as a clean shiny new place. this design always inspires me to develop my nation and my country.
skinproject in pursuit of albino people all around the world, I came across Arya, a 6 years old wonderful Kurdish little boy, and his wonderful family, who lives in KRG of Iraq. They are taking care of him, even if sometimes it’s not easy, mainly because of eyes problems which affect albino people
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This Copernicus Sentinel-1 image combines two acquisitions over the same area of eastern Iraq, one from 14 November 2018 before heavy rains fell and one from 26 November 2018 after the storms. The image reveals the extent of flash flooding in red, near the town of Kut.
Kut is in the lower-centre of the image. It lies within a sharp ‘U-bend’ of the Tigris River, which can be seen meandering across the full width of the image. The image has been processed to show floods in red, and it is clear to see that much of the area was affected including agricultural fields around the town. Dark patches in the image, including the large patch in the centre , however, indicate that there was no or little change between the satellite acquisitions.
After the searing dry heat of summer, November typically signals the start of Iraq’s ‘rainy season’ –but November 2018 brought heavier rainstorms than usual. Many parts of the country were flooded as a result. Thousands of people had to be evacuated, and infrastructure, agricultural fields and other livelihoods were destroyed, and tragically the floods also claimed lives. Declared an emergency, the International Charter Space and Major Disasters was activated. The Charter takes advantage of observations from a multitude of satellites to aid emergency relief. Images from Copernicus Sentinel-1 contributed to this particular effort.
The two identical Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites carry radar instruments, which can see through clouds and rain, and in the dark, to image Earth’s surface below. This capability is particularly useful for monitoring and mapping floods, as the image shows. Satellite images play an increasingly important role in responding to disaster situations, especially when lives are at risk. Also, after an event, when damage assessments are needed and plans are being made to rebuild, images from satellites are a valuable resource.
This image is also featured on the Earth from Space video programme.
Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2018), processed by ESA,CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Une des plus anciennes villes de la Mésopotamie (Epoque de Sumer). Elle date du III ème millénaire avant JC, a eu son apogée au VI ème av.JC sous Nabuchodonosor II mais a été abandonnée au IV ème avant JC. L'Euphrate ayant changé de cours, la ville s'est ensablée pendant plus de 2000 ans. Elle a été redécouverte par l'archéologue britannique Léonard Wooley de 1922 à 1934. Elle a été en partie restaurée sous Saddam Hussein. Patrimoine Mondial de l'UNESCO.
Dans la Bible, elle est présentée comme la ville d'origine du Patriarche Abraham.
La grande ziggurat est construite en briques crues à l'intérieur et cuites à l'extérieur avec des lits de roseaux intercalés et du bitume, abondant dans la région, pour lier les briques. Elle comprend 3 escaliers, un au milieu qui mène au sommet et 2 sur les côtés. Tout en haut se trouvait un temple ou chapelle où on adorait le dieu Nana, dieu de la lune. Les trous que l'on voit devaient servir pour le drainage.
A young girl holds a kalashnikov at a firearms class in Baghdad, at the compound of the Iranian backed Badr Brigade, August 30, 2014. The infamous Shia militia was one of a number of Iranian backed irregular proxies enlisted to defend Baghdad against the onslaught of the Islamic State.
Cpl. Miles P. Wilson cleans the windows of a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter just before sunrise at Al Taqaddum, Iraq, Aug. 31. The Purple Foxes of HMM-364, Marine Aircraft Group 16 (Reinforced), 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward), assumed authority from the Red Dragons of HMM-268 Aug. 29, for providing casualty evacuation, general transportation and raid flights. Wilson is a crew chief and Lafayette, Ind., native.
Photo by: Cpl. Jonathan K. Teslevich
Submitting Unit: 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing
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Babylon was the capital city of Babylonia in Mesopotamia (in contemporary Iraq, about 70 miles south of Baghdad). The name is the Greek form of Babel, which is derived in turn from the Semitic form Babilu, meaning "The Gate of God". This Semitic word is a translation of the Sumerian Kadmirra.
History
The earliest mention of Babylon is in a dated tablet of the reign of Sargon of Akkad (24th century BC short chr.), who made it the capital of his empire. Over the years it fell back afterwards into the position of a mere provincial town and remained so for centuries, until it became the capital of Hammurabi's empire (18th century BC) From this time onward it continued to be the capital of Babylonia.
The city itself was built upon the Euphrates, divided in equal parts among its left and right banks with steep embankments built to contain the river’s seasonal floods. Babylon gradually grew in extent and grandeur, but in process of time it became subject to Assyria. It rebelled against the Assyrian rule under Mushezib-Marduk and again under Shamash-shum-ukin but was besieged and taken over by Sennacherib and Assurbanipal (Kandalanu) again.
Early turmoil
During the reign of Sennacherib, Babylon underwent a constant state of revolt, which was only suppressed by the complete destruction of the capital. In 689 BC its walls, temples and palaces were razed to the ground and the rubbish thrown into the Arakhtu, the canal which bordered the earlier Babylon on the south. This act shocked the religious conscience of Mesopotamia; the subsequent murder of Sennacherib was held to be an expiation of it, and his successor Esarhaddon hastened to rebuild the old city, to receive there his crown, and make it his residence during part of the year. On his death Babylonia was left to his elder son Shamash-shum-ukin, who eventually headed a revolt against his brother Assur-bani-pal of Assyria.
Once again Babylon was besieged by the Assyrians and starved into surrender. Assur-bani-pal (or Assurbanipal) purified the city and celebrated a "service of reconciliation", but did not venture to "take the hands" of Bel. In the subsequent overthrow of the Assyrian empire the Babylonians saw another example of divine vengeance.
On the fall of Nineveh (612 BC) Babylon had thrown off the Assyrian yoke, and became the capital of the growing Babylonian empire.
With the recovery of Babylonian independence under Nabopolassar a new era of architectural activity set in, and his son Nebuchadnezzar made Babylon one of the wonders of the ancient world.
It was under the rule of king Nebuchadnezzar (605 BC-562 BC) that Babylon had become one of the most splendid cities of the ancient world. Nebuchadnezzar ordered the complete reconstruction of the imperial grounds, including rebuilding the Etemenanki and the construction of the Ishtar Gate, the most spectacular of eight that ringed the perimiter of Babylon. The Ishtar Gate survives today in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. Nebuchadnezzar is also credited with the construction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (one of the seven wonders of the ancient world) which he is said to have had built for his homesick wife Amyitis. Whether the gardens did exist is a matter of dispute. Although excavations by German archaeologist Robert Koldewey are thought to reveal its foundations, many historians disagree about the location, and some believe it may have been confused with gardens in Niniveh.
Babylon under the Persians
After passing through various vicissitudes the city was occupied in 538 BC by Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, who issued a decree permitting the Jews to return to their own land (Ezra 1). Under Cyrus, and his heir Darius I, Babylon became a center of learning and scientific advancement. Babylonian scholars completed maps of constellations, and created the foundations of modern astronomy and mathematics. However, under the reign of Darius III, Babylon began to stagnate.
Invasion by Alexander the Great
In 331 BC The Persian king Darius III was defeated by the forces of the Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great at the battle of Gaugamela, and in October Babylon saw its invasion and occupation. A native accounting of this invasion notes a ruling by Alexander not to enter the homes of its inhabitants.
Under Alexander, Babylon again flourished as a center of learning and commerce. But, after Alexander’s mysterious death in 323 BC in the palace of Nebuchadrezzar, his empire was divided amongst the generals, and decades of fighting soon began, with Babylon once again caught in the middle.
The constant turmoil virtually emptied the city of Babylon. A tablet dated 275 BC states that the inhabitants of Babylon were transported to Seleucia, where a palace was built as well as a temple to which the ancient name of E-Saggila was given. With this event the history of Babylon comes practically to an end, though more than a century later it was found that sacrifices were still performed in its old sanctuary. By 141 BC, when the Parthian Empire took over the region, Babylon was in complete desolation and obscurity.
Archaeology of Babylon
Historical knowledge of Babylon's topography is derived from the classical writers, the inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar, and the excavations of the Deutsche Orientgesellschaft, which were begun in 1899. The topography is necessarily that of the Babylon of Nebuchadrezzar; the older Babylon which was destroyed by Sennacherib having left few, if any, traces behind.
Most of the existing remains lie on the east bank of the Euphrates, the principal being three vast mounds, the Babil to the north, the Qasr or "Palace" (also known as the Mujelliba) in the centre, and the Ishgn "Amran ibn" All, with the outlying spur of the Jumjuma, to the south. Eastward of these come the Ishgn el-Aswador "Black Mound" and three lines of rampart, one of which encloses the Babil mound on the N. and E. sides, while a third forms a triangle with the S.E. angle of the other two. W. of the Euphrates are other ramparts and the remains of the ancient Borsippa. We learn from Herodotus and Ctesias that the city was built on both sides of the river in the form of a square, and enclosed within a double row of lofty walls to which Ctesias adds a third. Ctesias makes the outermost wall 360 stades (42 miles/68 km) in circumference, while according to Herodotus it measured 480 stades (56 miles/90 km), which would include an area of about 520 km² (approx. 200 square miles).
The estimate of Ctesias is essentially the same as that of Q. Curtius (v. I. 26), 368 stades, and Clitarchus (ap. Diod. Sic. ii. 7), 365 stades; Strabo (xvi. 1. 5) makes it 385 stades. But even the estimate of Ctesias, assuming the stade to be its usual length, would imply an area of about 260 km² (100 square miles). According to Herodotus the width of the walls was 24 m (80 ft).
Saddam Hussein installed a huge portrait of himself and Nebuchadnezzar at the entrance to the ruins. He also had part of the ruins rebuilt, to the dismay of archaeologists, with his name inscribed in an imitation of Nebuchadnezzar, on many bricks used. One frequent inscription reads, "This was built by Saddam Hussein, son of Nebuchadnezzar, to glorify Iraq." The bricks became sought after collectors' items after the fall of Saddam, and the ruins are being restored to their original state.
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Veiled Iraqi women hold portraits of Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada Al Sadr during a demonstration by protesters demanding that the status of toppled leader Saddam Hussein be changed to that of a war criminal, allowing his execution, in central Baghdad January 20, 2004. The United States formally declared Saddam Hussein a prisoner of war, entitling him to a host of rights spelt out by the Geneva Convention. REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber
Iraqi militiaman at Sabaa Nissan ('the 7th of April') water treatment plant in Baghdad.
I managed to snap a couple of photos of this lovely old gentleman while I was touring Sabaa Nissan as part of the Human Shield Action to Iraq. The photo is amazingly detailed; you can see every separate hair on his face and my reflection in his bright eyes. I didn't get his name unfortunately because I couldn't speak enough Arabic and he had a quiet demeanor. I often wonder if he's still alive.
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Added to Cream of the Crop for being the best photo I have taken and my most 'favourited' photo by other flickr.com users.
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14-Dec-2009: Updated with processed photo