How the US let al-Qaida get its hands on an Iraqi weapons factory | World news | The Guardian
Going with the fact that Saddam and his deputy Izzat el dury funded the salafi and wahabi Islamists since 1991 in the "Faith" campaign, and despite the Guardian's title, their article has something interesting:

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Those are the cables (some) from wikileaks

1. http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics...9&nav_id=71203
2. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/arti...htrisaari-plan
3. Alleged links between the
   Russian
   Russia
   government and
   organised crime
   Organised_crime
   .[24] Russia was labelled as a Mafia-state.[129]
   
4. Russian president Dmitry Medvedev often acts under the influence of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and "plays Robin to Putin's

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An Exhibition That Gets to the (Square) Root of Sumerian Math - NYTimes.com

A Culture of Mathematics - Slide Show - NYTimes.com

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I would like to note that this is speaking of governments only, not the country and not the people.
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It took me a brief search through my source to bring this information and links, to Iraqis inside and outside, most of this is common knowledge to them, I had more source in Arabic text but I can not assume one knows or knows not how to read them, note that this is just a sample and that a lot of the links listed under one country have information about one or more of the others....

Living in Iraq throughout the war, I remember few stuff about the events leading to war, I went on to verify and collect them into the following :

1-The Iraq-Iran conflict goes back all the way to the mid 1930's (check this), preceded by the continuous Ottoman-Persian squabble over Shat al arab waterway (check the Second Treaty of Erzurum).
2-The Shah of Iran was supporting the Kurdish rebellions in the Iraqi North keeping Iraq busy and weak, he used that support as a blackmailing...