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2001 In Iraq
The following lists events that happened during 2001 in the Ba'athist Iraq, Iraqi Republic. Incumbents * President of Iraq, President: Saddam Hussein * Prime Minister of Iraq, Prime Minister: Saddam Hussein * Vice President of Iraq, Vice President: Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf * Vice President of Iraq, Vice President: Taha Yassin Ramadan Events February * February 16 – United Kingdom, British and United States, U.S. forces carry out February 2001 airstrike in Iraq, bombing raids, attempting to disable Iraq's air defense network. * February 17 – Baghdad is bombed by US and UK war planes, killing three people. * February 19 – The Arab world and the United Nations Security Council, UN Security Council criticize the attacks by the US and UK two days ago. * February 20 – The critics of the raids by the UK and US claim that foreign ministers are planning to refine the sanctions against Iraq. April * 28 April – Construction of the Umm al-Qura Mosque, one of the largest mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001
The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participants in Operation Enduring Freedom, multi-national coalition in an United States invasion of Afghanistan, invasion of Afghanistan after the Taliban government was unable to extradite Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden within 24 hours. Other international conflicts in 2001 were the 2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff, standoff between India and Pakistan as well as the Second Intifada between Israel and Palestine. Internal conflicts began 2001 insurgency in Macedonia, in Macedonia, 2001 Central African Republic coup d'état attempt, in the Central African Republic, and RFDG Insurgency, in Guinea. Political challenges or violent conflicts caused changes in leadership in Argentina, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia, Nepal, and the Ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Armed Forces
The United States Armed Forces are the Military, military forces of the United States. U.S. United States Code, federal law names six armed forces: the United States Army, Army, United States Marine Corps, Marine Corps, United States Navy, Navy, United States Air Force, Air Force, United States Space Force, Space Force, and the United States Coast Guard, Coast Guard. Since 1949, all of the armed forces, except the Coast Guard, have been permanently part of the United States Department of Defense. They form six of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Each of the different military services is assigned a role and domain. The Army conducts land operations. The Navy and Marine Corps conduct maritime operations, the Marine Corps specializing in amphibious and maritime littoral operations primarily for supporting the Navy. The Air Force conducts air operations. The Space Force conducts space operations. The Coast Guard is unique in that it specializes in maritime opera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 By Country
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2001 In Iraq
The following lists events that happened during 2001 in the Ba'athist Iraq, Iraqi Republic. Incumbents * President of Iraq, President: Saddam Hussein * Prime Minister of Iraq, Prime Minister: Saddam Hussein * Vice President of Iraq, Vice President: Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf * Vice President of Iraq, Vice President: Taha Yassin Ramadan Events February * February 16 – United Kingdom, British and United States, U.S. forces carry out February 2001 airstrike in Iraq, bombing raids, attempting to disable Iraq's air defense network. * February 17 – Baghdad is bombed by US and UK war planes, killing three people. * February 19 – The Arab world and the United Nations Security Council, UN Security Council criticize the attacks by the US and UK two days ago. * February 20 – The critics of the raids by the UK and US claim that foreign ministers are planning to refine the sanctions against Iraq. April * 28 April – Construction of the Umm al-Qura Mosque, one of the largest mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Su'ad Salim
Sua'd Salim (Hajj Su'ad Salim, Arabic: سعاد سليم b.1918, Ankara d. 2001, Iraq) was an Iraqi artist and cartoonist who is noted for designing the coat of arms for the Iraqi Republic along with other medals and badges of honour. Life and career Sua'd Salim was born in Ankara, Ottoman Empire in 1918 to Iraqi parents. His parents were both originally from Mosul in Northern Iraq, but his father, Mohammed Hajji Selim, a military officer with the Ottoman army, had been stationed in Ankara at the time of his birth. The family returned to Baghdad in the 1920s, when the children were relatively young. His father was an amateur artist who later taught drawing to the children of King Ghazi. His mother was an artist and a skilled embroiderer and his siblings, Jawad, Nizar and Naziha all became notable Iraqi artists in their own right. He grew up in the Haidarkhana district of Baghdad and was educated at the Ma’mouniyah Primary School, the Alsharqiya School and the College of La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franso Hariri
Franso Toma Hariri (, ; 1937 – February 18, 2001), was an Iraqi Assyrian politician, and a high-ranking and long-standing Kurdistan Democratic Party member and head of the KDP block of the Kurdistan Region Parliament. Personal life Franso Hariri was born in the city of Harir (70 km from Erbil) in 1937, and graduated from the Erbil Teaching Institution in 1960. He worked for the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the early 1960s and was a close friend of the late Kurdish leader Mustafa Barzani. Franso held important positions in the KDP during the Kurdish Revolution. He was elected a member of the KDP Central Committee in 1979 and was the head of the KDP delegation in the Kurdistan regional parliament, the governor of Erbil, and a minister in the third Kurdistan Regional Government in Erbil. He supported projects for the beautification and modernization of the city of Erbil. He was also well known as a strong supporter of education, health, and sport projects in the city. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basra
Basra () is a port city in Iraq, southern Iraq. It is the capital of the eponymous Basra Governorate, as well as the List of largest cities of Iraq, third largest city in Iraq overall, behind Baghdad and Mosul. Located near the Iran–Iraq border at the north-easternmost extent of the Arabian Peninsula, the city is situated along the banks of the Shatt al-Arab that empties into the Persian Gulf. It is consistently one of the hottest cities in Iraq, with summer temperatures regularly exceeding . Built in 636 as a military camp, Basra played an important role as a regional hub of knowledge, trade and commerce during the Islamic Golden Age and is home to the first mosque built outside the Arabian Peninsula. It was a center of the History of slavery, slave trade in Mesopotamia, until the Zanj Rebellion, Zanj rebellion in Battle of Basra (871), 871. Historically, Basra is one of the ports from which the fictional Sinbad the Sailor embarked on his journeys. It has experienced numerou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shanksville, Pennsylvania
Shanksville is a Borough (Pennsylvania), borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States. It has a population of 199 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census. It is part of the Somerset, Pennsylvania Micropolitan Statistical Area and is located southeast of Pittsburgh and west of Philadelphia. Shanksville garnered global attention during the September 11 attacks when United Airlines Flight 93, bound from Newark Liberty International Airport, Newark, New Jersey, for San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, crashed in adjacent Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, Stonycreek Township after its passengers rebelled against the flight's Al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda terrorist hijackers. It was the only one of the four hijacked planes that failed to reach the terrorists' intended target. Geography Shanksville is located at (40.017182, -78.905891), with the borough covering 0.2 square mile (0.5 km2), all land; it also has the seventh-highest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arlington County, Virginia
Arlington County, or simply Arlington, is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Virginia. The county is located in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of the Potomac River directly across from Washington, D.C., the national capital. Arlington County is coextensive with the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau's census-designated place of Arlington. Arlington County is the eighth-most populous county in the Washington metropolitan area with a population of 238,643 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. If Arlington County were incorporated as a city, it would rank as the third-most populous city in the state. With a land area of , Arlington County is the geographically smallest Administrative divisions of Virginia, self-governing county in the nation. Arlington County is home to the Pentagon, the world's second-largest office structure, which houses the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Defe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pentagon
The Pentagon is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense, in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. The building was constructed on an accelerated schedule during World War II. As a symbol of the United States Armed Forces, U.S. military, the phrase ''The Pentagon'' is often used as a metonym for the Department of Defense and its leadership. The building was designed by American architect George Bergstrom and built by contractor John McShain. Ground was broken on 11 September 1941, and the building was dedicated on 15 January 1943. General Brehon Somervell provided the major impetus to gain Congressional approval for the project. Colonel Leslie Groves was responsible for overseeing the project for the United States Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which supervised it. The Pentagon is List of largest office buildings, the world's second-largest office building, with about of floor space, of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Trade Center (1973–2001)
The original World Trade Center (WTC) was a complex of seven buildings in the Financial District, Manhattan, Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Built primarily between 1966 and 1975, it was dedicated on April 4, 1973, and was collapse of the World Trade Center, destroyed during the September 11 attacks in 2001. At the time of their completion, the 110-story-tall Twin Towers, including the original 1 World Trade Center (1970–2001), 1 World Trade Center (the North Tower) at , and 2 World Trade Center (1971–2001), 2 World Trade Center (the South Tower) at , were the History of the world's tallest buildings#Skyscrapers: tallest buildings since 1908, tallest buildings in the world; they were also the List of tallest twin buildings and structures, tallest twin skyscrapers in the world until 1996, when the Petronas Towers opened in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Other buildings in the complex included the Marriott World Trade Center (3 WTC), 4 World Trade Center (197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
