Nir Rosen - Aftermath

Al Sabah newspaper

Al Sahwa (the Awakening)

See also Awakening program/groups; Sons of Iraq (SOI)

Al Sajjad Mosque

Al Tanf refugee camp

Al Wathba (The Leap) movement

Al Zawra TV

Alawites

Algeria

Ali (cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad)

Ali, Jamal Jaafir Mohammed (Abu Mahdi al-Muhandes)

Allawi, Ayad

Allush, Mustafa

al-Alousi, Mithal

Amal Movement

Amawi, Mohammad Zaki

America/Americans. See United States

American Enterprise Institute

American proxies

Amir, General Abdul

al-Amiri, Hadi

al-Amli, Abu Khalid

Amman

Amriya

Amriya Freedom Fighters (AFF). See Fursan (Amriya Freedom Fighters/Thurwar)

Anbar Awakening

Anbar province

See also Falluja

Annadawi, Muhamad Fawad Latufi

Ansar al-Islam group

Ansar al-Sunna group

Ansar al-Tawhid wa al-Sunna group

al-Ansari, Sheikh Haitham

Anti-Saddam militias, Iranian-sponsored

See also Shiite militias

Aoun, Michel

Arab Current

Arab League

Arab University of Beirut

Arabiya television

Arabsat network

Arafat, Yasser

al-Araji, Baha

al-Araji, Hazim

Arbaeen ceremonies

al-Aridi, Ghazi

Armed Forces Journal

Army of Muhammad

Army of the Mujahideen

Ash Sharq radio

Ashura holiday

Asia Foundation

al-Askari, Sami

Askari Shrine

See also Samarra shrine attack

al-Assad, Bashar

al-Assad, Hafiz

Association of Free Prisoners

Association of Muslim Scholars

Assumptions, underlying, about Iraq and Afghanistan

al-Aswad, Muhamad

Atiyyah, Ghassan

Australia

Awakening Council

Awakening phenomenon

Awakening program/groups See also Iraqi Security Volunteers (ISVs); Sons of Iraq (SOI)

al-Awamli family

al-Awar, Hossam

Ayn al-Hilweh refugee camp

Azzam, Abdallah

Azzam, Hudheifa

Baath Party/Baathists See also Hussein, Saddam

Bab al-Tabbaneh area

Badr Brigade

Badr Organization (formerly the Badr Brigade)

Baghdad

American devolving their authority in

battle for

as a city of decay

concentration of attacks against the coalition in

continued escalation of violence in

economic center of

improved security in, reason for

main no-go zone of

major coordinated terrorist attacks in

media coverage of inside and outside of, issue with

number of refugees from

sectarian cleansing in

and the shifts in sectarianism

six years after the fall of, changes that were apparent

surge efforts in and around, aspects of the

See also specific districts, neighborhoods, and sites

Baghdad Brigade

Baghdad International Airport

Baghdad Operation Center (BOC)

Baghdad Security Plan

Baghdad TV station

al-Baghdadi, Abu Omar

al-Baghdadi, Ayatollah Ali

Baghdadiya television

Bahrain

Bakri, Nada

Balkans

al-Banna, Hassan

Baquba

Barack, Obama

Baradar, Mullah

Baram, Amatzia

al-Barrak, Abdul Rahman bin Nasser

Barudi, Sheikh Bilal

Barzani, Massoud

Basair (The Mind’s Eye) newspaper

Basra

Batal al-Tahrir (Heroes of Liberation) section

al-Bawi, Ghassan Adnan

Bayat al-Imam (Oath of Loyalty to the Leader)

Bazzaz, Hassan

Bedawi refugee camp

Beirut See also specific districts and neighborhoods

Beirut International Airport

al-Beit, Ahl

Beri, Nabih

al-Berjawi, Shaqer

“Best Practices in Counterinsurgency” (Sepp)

Biden, Joe

bin Aqil, Muslim

bin Jabrin, Sheikh Abdallah

bin Laden, Osama See also Al Qaeda

bin Sultan, Bandar

Bishara, Azmi

Black September (Palestinian uprising)

Blair, Tony

Bodine, Barbara

al-Bolani, Jawad

Bonn conference

Bosnia

Bremer, Paul

Britain

and Afghanistan

and Basra

British colonizers

British Mandate authority

Brookings Institution

Brown, Gordon

Buratha Mosque

Burj al-Barajneh refugee camps

al-Burqawi, Isam Taher al-Oteibbi

Bush administration

Bush, George W.

Cairo

Campbell, John

Canada

Carter, Phil

Casey, George

Celebrity pundits

Center for New American Security (CNAS)

Center for Strategic International Studies

Central Command

Chadarchi, Naseer

Chalabi, Ahmad

Chamberlin, Robert

Charge of the Knights campaign

Chechnya

Chesney, Ed

Chiarelli, General

Children

art from Palestinan

fear in

fights between Sunni and Shiite

and IEDs

as orphans

view of Americans

Christian Lebanese Forces

Christian militias

Christians

in Baghdad areas

in Lebanon

relocation of

as the third target of AQI

City of Mosques See also Falluja

City of Peace cemetery

Civilian Police Assistance Training Team (CPATT)

Clerics, rise of

CNN

Coalition Press Information Center

Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). See Office of the Coalition Provisional Authority (OCPA)

Cockburn, Patrick

COIN Academy

COIN warfare. See Counterinsurgency (COIN)

College of Technology

Colombia

Colonial case, labeling Iraq as a, effort to avoid

Combat outposts (COPs)

Commanders of the Jihad (chanting)

Communists

Confederation of Iraqi Tribes

Conference of Iraqi Sunnis

Council of Ministers

Council of Notables

Counterinsurgency (COIN)

in Afghanistan

average time period of

manual on

paradox involving

population-centric

proponents of, influence of

soldiers’ perspectives on

as still violence

training in

Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice (Galula)

Crane, Conrad

Crider, Jim

Criminal Medicine Department

Critical Infrastructure Security guards

Crocker, Ryan

The Da Vinci Code (book/movie)

Dadullah, Mansur

Dadullah, Mullah

al-Damalouji, Meisoon

Damascus

Damascus International Airport

Danish cartoons

Dar al-Ifta. See Sunni Endowment

al-Daraji, Abdul Hadi

Darfur

Darwinian approach

Daud, Engineer

Dawa Party

de Mistura, Stefan

de Quincy Adams, Jasper

De-Arabization idea

Death squads

De-Baathification policy

Defensive jihad

Democracy

Democrats and Republicans

Denmark

Department for the Protection of Professors

Dermer, P. J.

Dhaher, Khaled

al-Dhari, Dhamer

al-Dhari, Harith See also Association of Muslim Scholars

Di Rita, Larry

Diab, Salim

al-Din Albani, Muhamad Nasir

Dinniyeh group

District Advisory Councils (DACs)

Diwaniya

Diyala province

Dora

Druze revival

Dulaimi, Adnan

al-Dulaimi, Asma

al-Dulaimi, Saadoun

Dulaimi tribe

East Timor

“Eating Soup With a Spoon” (Gentile)

Economic sanctions, impact of

Egypt

Eid al-Adha holiday, Saddam’s execution during

“80 percent solution” attempt

Elections

in Afghanistan

based on proportional representation, effect of the

exaggerated claims made about

groups banned from

media coverage of

public indifference to