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SIMILARITIES REVEALED ......................................................................99 
C. 
AVENUES OF FUTURE RESEARCH .....................................................101 
D. 
IN CLOSING: A WORD ABOUT WORDS .............................................102 
LIST OF REFERENCES ....................................................................................................103 
INITIAL DISTRIBUTION LIST .......................................................................................111 

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LIST OF FIGURES 
Figure 1. 
Provincial Map of Iraq .....................................................................................15 
Figure 2. 
Coalition Provisional Authority Boundaries....................................................17 
Figure 3. 
Area Controlled by the Peshmerga ..................................................................24 
Figure 4. 
Depiction of Tribal Affiliation in Iraq .............................................................37 
Figure 5. 
Poster of Moqtada al Sadr in Sadr City ...........................................................46 
Figure 6. 
(From Left) Iraqi Army Company Commander, NAC Chairman, and Sadr 
City Cleric (affiliated with the Mahdi Militia) Discussing Governance 
During Neighborhood Advisory Council Meeting ..........................................52 
Figure 
7. 
Iraqi Interpreter Holding the back plate of an Incoherent Spray 
Explosively Formed Penetrator........................................................................61 
Figure 8. 
Lieutenant Colonel Gary Luck Jr., Commander of Third Battalion, 
Fifteenth Infantry Regiment Shakes Hands with Sheiks from Sadr City ........62 
Figure 9. 
Demographic Establishment of Palestine in 1920 ...........................................69 
Figure 10. 
1947 United Nations Partition Plan of Palestine..............................................93 

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