WebOrigins. Rumsfeld's statement brought attention to the concepts of known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns, but national security and intelligence professionals have long used an analysis technique referred to as the Johari window.The idea of unknown unknowns was created in 1955 by two American psychologists, Joseph Luft (1916–2014) …

WebThe First Battle of Fallujah, code-named Operation Vigilant Resolve, was an operation against militants in Fallujah as well as an attempt to apprehend or kill the perpetrators of the killing of four U.S. contractors in March 2004.. The chief catalyst for the operation was the highly publicized killing and mutilation of four Blackwater USA private military contractors, …

WebThe United States public's opinion on the invasion of Iraq has changed significantly since the years preceding the incursion. For various reasons, mostly related to the unexpected consequences of the invasion, as well as misinformation provided by US authorities, the US public's perspective on its government's choice to initiate an offensive is increasingly …

WebEarly opposition. The opposition to the war manifested itself most visibly in a series of worldwide protests against the Iraq War during February 2003, just before the invasion of Iraq starting on March 20, 2003. Noam Chomsky said: Poll results available from Gallup International, as well as local sources for most of Europe, West and East, showed that …

WebThe Senate Report on Iraqi WMD Intelligence (formally, the Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq) was the report by the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence concerning the U.S. intelligence community's assessments of Iraq during the time leading …

WebSaddam Hussein nasceu na aldeia Al-Awja, pertencente à cidade muçulmana sunita de Ticrite, situada a 150 quilômetros de Bagdá.Nascido em uma família de pastores pobres do grupo tribal al-Begat, um sub-grupo da tribo Al-Bu Nasir (البو ناصر); sua mãe, Subha Tulfah al-Mussallat, nomeou seu filho recém-nascido como "Saddam", que em árabe significa …

WebGhazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawar (Arabic: غازي مشعل عجيل الياور, born 1958) is an Iraqi politician. He was the vice president under the Iraqi Transitional Government in 2006, and was interim president of Iraq under the Iraqi Interim Government from 2004 to 2005. He also served as the president of the Governing Council of Iraq in 2004 following the US-led coalition …

WebOperation Telic; Operation Telic Campaign Medal for Service in Iraq. The medal is made of cupro-nickel and bears on the obverse the crowned image of the Queen. The reverse shows an ancient Assyrian Lamassu sculpture above the word Iraq. The 1.5 inches (38 mm) wide ribbon is a sand colour with three central stripes of black, white and red, the three …

WebNouri al-Maliki (en arabe : نوري المالكي) (aussi connu sous son ancien nom de guerre de Jawad al-Maliki, qu'il décide de ne plus utiliser à partir de son accession au pouvoir), né le 20 juin 1950 à Abou Gharaq, est un homme d'État irakien membre du parti chiite Dawa.Il est Premier ministre de 2006 à 2014, puis vice-président de 2014 à 2015, puis de 2016 à 2018.

WebThe Nisour Square massacre occurred on September 16, 2007, when employees of Blackwater Security Consulting (now Constellis), a private military company contracted by the US government to provide security services in Iraq, shot at Iraqi civilians, killing 17 and injuring 20 in Nisour Square, Baghdad, while escorting a U.S. embassy convoy. The …