Kenneth Bigley

A military occupation was established and run by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), which later appointed and granted limited powers to an Iraq Interim Governing Council. Troops for the occupation came primarily from the United States and the United Kingdom, but twenty-nine other nations also provided some troops, and there were varying levels of assistance from Japan and other allied countries. Tens of thousands of private security pers ...

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The multinational forces still exercise considerable power in the country and, with the New Iraqi Army, conduct military operations against the Iraqi insurgency. The role of Iraqi government forces in providing security is increasing. According to Article 42 of the Hague Convention, "[t]erritory is considered occupied when it is actually placed under the authority of the hostile army." [2] The International Humanitarian Law Research Initiative sta ...

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Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - End of the War. On May 1, 2003, President Bush declared the "end of major combat operations" in Iraq, while aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln which had hung a large "Mission Accomplished" banner. The weeks following the removal of the Saddam Hussein regime were generally a euphoric time among the Iraqi populace. New York Post correspondent Jonathan Foreman, reporting from Baghdad in May 2003, wrote that looting was less widespread than reported, and that "the intensity of the ...

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Johnson cultivates an image as an eccentric, straw-haired fop, disorganised and scatty; he once explained the lateness of his work by claiming that "Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power", as well as getting his own name wrong on Have I Got News For You, and successfully getting locked out of his own home in front of reporters (having just told them his family would definitely forgive his affair). Twice his mobile telephone has gone off while he was on the BBC – once on Have I Got News For You, the other while being in ...

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In 2001, Johnson became MP for Henley-on-Thames, succeeding Michael Heseltine. He had previously failed to win Clwyd South in 1997. In 2004 he was appointed to the frontbench as Shadow Minister for the Arts. This was part of a small reshuffle resulting from the resignation of the shadow home affairs spokesman, Nick Hawkins. He was also a vice-chairman of the Conservative Party, with emphasis on campaigning. Johnson was dismissed from these high-profile posts in November 2004 over accusations that he lied about having a four-year extra ...

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For more deaths, see: Deaths in 2004 2004 - January. January 2 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (b. 1927) January 4 - Joan Aiken, English author (b. 1924) January 6 - Tug McGraw, Baseball player (b. 1944) January 6 - Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1954) January 12 - Randy Van Warmer, Singer and songwriter (b. 1955) January 14 - Uta Hagen, German Actress (b. 1919) January 22 - Ann Miller, dancer and actress (b. 1923) January 27 - Jack Paar, American television show host (b. 1918) January 29 - M. M. Kaye, ...

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Billy Connolly was born in Glasgow, Scotland to Mary and William Connolly, the son of an Irish immigrant. Connolly was brought up in the Anderston, and later Partick, districts of Glasgow and attended St. Gerard's Secondary School. He started his working life at the age of 15, becoming a welder in a Glasgow shipyard, but left that trade to become a folk singer. ...

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He was one of the four children born to Stanley Johnson and his first wife, Charlotte Johnson-Wahl. He is the great-grandson of the last interior minister of the Imperial Turkish government, who signed the arrest warrant for Kemal Ataturk, now regarded as the founder of modern Turkey. Boris' grandfather sought asylum after his father was beaten to death and stuck in a tree. Boris was educated at Eton College, where he was a King's Scholar, and read Greats at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Brackenbury Scholar, and President of the Oxford Union. While at Oxford he was also a member of the Bullingdon Club, ...

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After leaving university he lasted a week as a management consultant ("Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix, and stay conscious"), before becoming a trainee reporter for The Times, but within a year he had been sacked for falsifying a quotation from his godfather, Colin Lucas, later Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Following a short period as a writer for the Wolverhampton Express and Star, he joined The Daily Telegraph in 1987 as leader and feature writer, and from 19 ...

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Possible estimates on the total number of people killed in the invasion and occupation of Iraq vary widely. All estimates below are as of 12 December 2006, and include both the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the following Post-invasion Iraq, 2003-2006. References ^  Herold, Marc, et. al., "Iraq Bodycount". (ed. This is not a news organization; Public database of media-reported deaths in Iraq) See also:

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Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Spring Uprisings. In the spring, the United States and the Coalition Provisional Authority decided to confront the rebels with a pair of assaults: one on Fallujah, the center of the "Mohammed's Army of Al-Ansar", and another on Najaf, home of an important mosque, which had become the focal point for the Mahdi Army and its activities. In Fallujah four private military contractors, working for Blackwater USA, were ambushed and murdered, and their corpses desecrated. In retaliation a ...

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Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Military occupation, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Legal status of the coalition presence, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - 2003, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - End of the War, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Insurgency begins, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Saddam captured and Elections requests, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - 2004, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Spring Uprisings, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Transfer of sovereignty, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Offensives and counteroffensives, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - 2005, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Iraqi elections and aftermath, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Announcements and renewed fighting, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Participating nations, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Casualties, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Iraqi councils and authorities, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Reconstruction, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Civilian government, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - United Nations resolutions, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Elections, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Sovereignty for Iraq, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Iraqi insurgency, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Guerrilla war, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Sabotage, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Fallujah, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Muqtada al-Sadr, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Hostages, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Fall-out, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Iraq Coalition members departures, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - U.S. military patrolling, Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - External articles and further reading

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There are three tunnels under the River Mersey: one railway tunnel, the Mersey Railway Tunnel, and two road tunnels, Queensway Tunnel and Kingsway Tunnel. There is also the Mersey Ferry, made famous by the song Ferry Cross the Mersey by Gerry and the Pacemakers. In fact the song is now played on the ferryboats themselves every time they prepare to dock at Liverpool. In 2001, Speke Airport was renamed Liverpool John Lennon Airport, in honour of the late Beatle John Lennon. The airport's logo consists of a sketch that Lennon had ...

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A great many famous names have been associated with Liverpool; for a list, see List of famous people from Liverpool. Liverpool has also played a large part in UK (and sometimes world) Pop Music culture since the 1960s. For a list of some noteworthy groups from the area, consult the list of famous bands from Liverpool. ...

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Because no television broadcasters are based there, Liverpool could be seen as poorly represented in the media when compared with other major UK cities. The ITV region which covers Liverpool is ITV Granada, which based in Manchester. The BBC's regional news is also based in Manchester. This arrangement has always been controversial locally. Liverpool is the home of the TV production company Mersey Television which formerly produced the now-defunct soap opera, Brookside, and currently produces Hollyoaks for Channel 4 and Grange Hill for the BBC. Merse ...

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The economy of Liverpool is beginning to recover from its long post WWII decline. Between 1995 and 2001 GVA per head grew at 6.3% annum. This compared with 5.8% for inner London and 5.7% for Bristol. The rate of Jobs growth was 9.2% compared with a national average of 4.9% for the same period, 1998-2002. Like the rest of the United Kingdom the city has seen a large growth in service industries and has several major call centres. The activities of the port have left the site with a communications infrastructure that had for a long time ...

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In Liverpool primary education is available in various forms supported by the state include secular, Church of England, Islamic, Jewish and Roman Catholic. Currently no specific Islamic secondary education is provided. One of Liverpool important early schools was The Liverpool Blue Coat School was founded in 1708 as a charitable school, it continues today. Liverpool College[7] is the leading private school. Another of Liverpool's notable senior schools is St. Edward's College, a former pri ...

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The built environment of Liverpool contains over 2,500 listed buildings (26 Grade I and 85 Grade II*) it is the inheritance of high-minded public spirit since the later 18th century, largely with Dissenter impetus, that has resulted in more public sculpture than in any UK city aside from Westminster, more listed buildings than any city apart from London and, surprisingly, more Georgian houses than the City of Bath. In 2004 Liverpool's waterfront was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, the justification is Liverpool's importance ...

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As of September 2005, there were 26 countries with military forces stationed in Iraq. These were Albania, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Georgia, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States, and Ukraine. Fiji is also present but under the United Nations banner. Poland, the Netherlands, N ...

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The establishment of a new civilian government of Iraq was complicated by religious and political divisions between the majority Shi'ite population and the formerly ruling Sunni class. Moreover, many of the people in Saddam's ruling Ba'ath Party were perceived as tainted by the association by some parties. In northern Iraq, Kurds had already had effectively autonomous rule for 12 years under the protection of the no-fly zone. On May 16, 2003, U.S. officials abandoned the plan to cede authority to a democratically chosen interim civili ...

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Post-invasion Iraq 2003–2005 - Iraqi elections and aftermath. On 31 January, an election for a government to draft a permanent constitution took place. Although some violence and lack of widespread Sunni participation marred the event, most of the eligible Kurd and Shia populace participated. On 4 February, Paul Wolfowitz announced that 15,000 U.S. troops whose tours of duty had been extended in order to provide election security would be pulled out of Iraq by the next month. ^{See also:}

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Inhabitants of Liverpool are referred to as "Liverpudlians" and nicknamed "Scousers", though this term is often (erroneously) used to cover other Merseysiders. They are noted for their distinctive accent and dialect, called Scouse. Liverpool has a vibrant artistic life. Several pre-Raphaelites are among the important paintings in the Walker Art Gallery. Sudley House contains another major collection of pre 20th century art. [3] The Tate Liverpool gallery houses the modern art collection of the Tate in the north of England. The Liverpo ...

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Despite the efforts to save him, Bigley was beheaded on October 7, 2004. His death was first reported on Abu Dhabi television the following day. He was only weeks away from retirement and the birth of his first grandchild. A multi-faith memorial service, attended by Tony Blair and his wife Cherie, was held for him in Liverpool on November 13. As of December 2005, his body has not been recovered. The kidnappers made a film apparently showing Bigley's killing, and the tape was subsequently posted on Islamist websites and on one "shock" ...

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