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In the late 1970s and early 1980s, an alternative stock market, trading in shares of Gulf companies, emerged in Kuwait, the Souk Al-Manakh. [44] At its peak, its market capitalization was the third highest in the world, behind only the U.S. and Japan, and ahead of the UK and France. [44] Kuwait has a large wealth-management industry. [44]
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According to the CIA World Factbook, citing a 1987 Iraqi government estimate, the population of Iraq is formed of 70-80% Arabs (including Marsh Arabs) followed by 15-20% Kurds and other minorities form 5% of the country's population, including the Turkmen, Kaka'i, Bedouins, Roma, Assyrians, Circassians, Mandaeans, and Persians. [28]
Kuwait City (Arabic: مدينة الكويت) is the capital and largest city of Kuwait.Located at the heart of the country on the south shore of Kuwait Bay on the Arabian Gulf, it is the political, cultural and economic center of the emirate, containing Kuwait's Seif Palace, government offices, and the headquarters of most Kuwaiti corporations and banks.
James H. Critchfield, head of the CIA's Near East Division from 1959—1969. By 1961, the CIA had cultivated at least one high-level informant within the Iraqi wing of the Ba'ath Party, enabling it to monitor the Party's activities. 1962: Planning for regime change See also: Operation Vantage A CIA cable reveals that the Ba'ath Party "first approached Arif about a coup in April 1962." In mid ...
The CIA World Factbook, as a public domain source, is widely used as a source by Wikipedia. Some of the statements in it are undisputed and can be used without further qualification. This includes: On other matters, however, the factbook takes a non-neutral point of view. Information on those matters must thus be made NPOV-compliant, either by ...
The CIA World Factbook gives the world annual birthrate, mortality rate, and growth rate as 1.915%, 0.812%, and 1.092% respectively [84] The last one hundred years have seen a rapid increase in population due to medical advances and massive increase in agricultural productivity [85] made possible by the Green Revolution. [86] [87] [88]
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA / ˌ s iː. aɪ ˈ eɪ /), known informally as the Agency, [6] metonymously as Langley [7] and historically as the Company, [8] is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human ...