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    showdown. But not everyone was there. And if it were not for my squad training, cohesiveness, and diligent house search during a mission to check and clear an area believed to contain many empty houses in the northeastern sector in the Iraqi town of Tal Afar, it could have been that no one would have ever even known about the fortified fighting position built into a seemingly normal house. As it turned out, though, the first house we entered to

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    no light on streets. All of a sudden, the dark silent night was put to an end as six-year-old Samar Hassan was screaming and crying. A car was approaching in the dark when several American soldiers were patrolling a main road of northern Iraq’s Tal Afar which was a town rife with insurgents. Concerning that the vehicle might carry insurgents and suicide bombs, the soldiers began to flash lights and waved arms to indicate the car to stop. However, the Hassans didn’t see the sign but kept driving

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    referred to as a showdown. But not everyone was there. And if it were not for my squads training, cohesiveness, and diligent house search during a mission to check and clear supposedly empty houses in the north eastern sector in the Iraqi town of Tal Afar, it could have been that no one would have ever even known about the guy in the hole in the wall. As it turned out, though, the first house we entered to gain access to the roof in order to pull security for

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    The Afars who make up about thirty-five percent of the population and the Issa who make up about sixty percent of the population, were root causes of the country’s internal division and conflict (CIA 1). To compound the problem, European colonization of the

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    Operation Restoring Right (Tal Afar, Iraq) Entering into OIF II 2004, the reduction of coalition forces in Tal Afar, Iraq was slim to non-existing. These conditions allowed for terrorists/insurgents to return and seize this key piece of terrain located near the Syrian border. By spring of 2005, Tal Afar was commonly referred to as "al-Qaida’s town due to the stronghold insurgents had on the city. In April 2005, the 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment (3rd ACR) out of Fort Carson, Co would have a change

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    supposedly empty houses in the northern sector in the Iraqi town of Tal Afar, it could have been that no one would have ever even known about the guy in the hole in the wall. As it turned out, though, the first house we entered to gain access to the roof in order to pull security for the rest of the platoon did indeed turn into a showdown with a lone insurgent. Ultimately ending with one less insurgent on the streets of Tal Afar and me standing before the 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment’s

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    In this paper, I will analyze a film about ISIS and explain how all three theoretical perspectives: Structural functionalism, social conflict, and symbolic interactionism. This film analyzes paper will give the reader in-depth look at ISIS and its sociological concept. On August3, 2014, ISIS went to a village at 2:00 p.m and destroyed a lot of houses in the village. They massacre hundreds of Yazidi men. They took 3,000 women and children captive. Thousands of Yazidis, who survived the ISIS rampage

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    ISIS Events

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    What could you do to help to stop ISIS? How did ISIS come to be, how did they become so powerful, and why they are doing what they are doing. The major events that ISIS was involved in. Also a girl who got kidnapped in Iraq and in Syria and her experiences there. ISIS's effect on the world in 2015 and before because of this war in Syria and Iraq. ISIS has done a great deal since ISIS formed in 1999 and has affected people not just in Iraq and Syria but the world. The goal of ISIS is to make a unified

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    67 individuals reported harmed in four bombings - three in the northern town of Hawija and one in Baghdad, 3 US officers executed, 1 remote prisoner taken, 40 outside prisoners accepted to be alive in confinement, 20 presumed agitators caught in Tal Afar, 8,000 Iraqi troops, 30,000 US troops working in Baghdad, 1,800,000 barrels of oil created, 25 percent of Iraqis totally subject to government nourishment hand-outs, 50 percent of Iraqis with no entrance to safe drinking water. Women and honorable

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    While time travel still remains elusive to us, scientists have been able to discover things about our past as a species that were practically inconceivable over 150 years ago when Charles Darwin released his book entitled The Origin of Species. They have especially uncovered many pieces to our still incomplete puzzle over the past 20 years so that we now have a nearly complete idea of how our species Homo sapiens came to be. This story of our history includes dozens of species’ and hundreds of fossils

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