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A U.S. Navy Seabee mans a vehicle-mounted machine gun while travelling through Al Hillah, Iraq in May 2003. The Triangle of Death is a name given to a region south of Baghdad during the 2003–2011 occupation of Iraq by the U.S. and allied forces [1] which saw major combat activity and sectarian violence from early 2003 into the fall of 2007.
Triangle of Death (Iraq), a term applied by American and coalition forces, during the Iraq War, to a region situated just to the south of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad; Triangle of death (Italy), an area in southern Italy with an unusual high number of deaths caused by cancer and other diseases, suspected to be caused by illegal dumping of toxic ...
The Triangle of Death a cinéma vérité documentary which follows the day to day combat experiences of the riflemen of Echo 3rd Platoon from 2nd battalion 24th Marines of the United States Marine Corps, while deployed in the Iraq Sunni Triangle of Death. The film also documents the first Iraqi election in 2005 after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
An estimated 550,000 people live in the triangle of death. The annual death rate per 100,000 inhabitants from liver cancer is approximately 38.4 for men and 20.8 for women in this area, as compared to the national average of 14. The death rate for bladder cancer and cancer of the central nervous system was also higher than the national average. [5]
The name Triangle of Death was given to an area SW of Algiers, whose apexes are Blidah, Médéah and Hadjout, where some of the worst massacres of the 1990s took place. [1] In 1998, 100 people were killed in a massacre that the Algerian government attributed to Islamic extremists.
Bust of Lý Thường Kiệt. Lý Thường Kiệt (李 常 傑; 1019–1105), real name Ngô Tuấn (吳 俊), was a Vietnamese general and admiral of the Lý dynasty. [1] He served as an official through the reign of Lý Thái Tông, Lý Thánh Tông and Lý Nhân Tông and was a general during the Song–Lý War.
He also works as a teacher, poet and correspondent. His works include approximately 30 novels, 4 essays, 2 series and some collections of poems. He is regarded as one of Vietnam's most successful writers. His best-known series, Kính Vạn Hoa (Kaleidoscope), which contains 54 volumes, has been made into 3 drama series of the same name.
Nguyễn Hải Dương (born in Phong Điền District in Thừa Thiên Huế province on 15 April 1943) pen name and political name Nguyễn Khoa Điềm is a Vietnamese poet and government literary official. [1] [2] [3] He graduated from Hanoi National University of Education. [4] His work is included in the book, Six Vietnamese Poets. [5]