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| Iraq |
| Revised flag hoisted over Baghdad |
| 2008-02-05 |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #3 have you all run out of shit too worry yourslef about or something |
| Posted by: sinse 2008-02-05 15:23 |
| #2 And now they have the seeds for their very equivalent to the Confederate Flag controversy. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2008-02-05 13:25 |
| #1 The new flag retains the three colours of the old one - red, white and black. But the stars that represented the ideology of the Baath party - unity, freedom and socialism - have been removed. In 2004, a line of Arabic script reading "Allahu Akbar", or "God is great", supposedly written in Saddam Hussein's writing, was changed to a different calligraphy. Protests The latest change came at the behest of Kurds - but not all Iraqis are impressed with the change. "This is a disaster ... I am using the old flag in my office and at home," Falluja Mayor Rasheed told Reuters last month. The news agency reported ordinary Iraqis - who say the flag has little to do with Saddam Hussein - had attached the old flag to their cars in protest. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-02-05 12:22 |