Iraq Off The Beaten Path

CNN mosque

by lordvader

This is the September the 14th Mosque in central Baghdad. It is more commonly known as the CNN mosque, as it often appears in the background when broadcasts are made from Baghdad. The Sheraton hotel is in the background. Firdos square, where Sadaam's statue was pulled down, is between the mosque and the hotel.

Khanaquin

by jkseddon

This town, past the green line, will be sure to drive home how horrific the Anfal campaign was. Despite being a majority Kurdish city, it remained under control of the central government after the 1991 war. Khanaquin 'looks like Iraq', or at least the Iraq you see on TV. Further north the desert turns into pretty lush mountains but this far south, you can see the same desert and palm trees most would associate with Iraq.Now it is a pretty sleepy place and when I visited under PUK control, having been seized during the war. It is sure to be a disputed city in the future.

terrible...

by fabrice

terrible experience:samarra----we ate in a little restaurant there,but some saudi pilgrims arrived and we were told to leave,because moslems do not want to eat with non-moslems(I imagine if in france,I ask in a restaurant to throw away all the arabs!!!).Then we visited the ziggurat(a tower like the tower of babel)where I had such a vertigo on the top that I almost died.

No...

by ChicagoHeidi

Don't go off the beaten path... There's a war going on!

My Family

by marimar_72

I miss my family in Iraq...I miss the long walks we used to take on the river side.......I pray each day that they will survive the war.

the symbol of the ninive culture

by fabrice

ninive,ninawah in arabic, is very near the city of mosul in northern iraq

ishtar in babylone,but it has...

by fabrice

ishtar in babylone,but it has been rebuilt,it is a new one,there is a better one in the museum of berlin!!

kerbala,in the shiite region

by fabrice

Holly Shrine for PeligrimsI...

by al-murtuza51

Holly Shrine for PeligrimsI will send phone nos later, or travel & tourism companies's adresses