Iraqi Insurgent Figures
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King
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading
member of the revolutionary Ba'ath Party, which espoused secular pan-Arabism, economic
modernization, and Arab socialism, Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought
the party to long-term power. In April 2003, Saddam's whereabouts remained is question during
the weeks following the fall of Baghdad and the conclusion of the major fighting of the war.
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Queen
Iraqi Woman In Burqa
A Burqa is an enveloping outer garment worn by women is some Islamic traditions for the purpose
of cloaking the entire body. It is worn over the usual daily clothing, often a long dress or
a shalwar kameez, and removed when the woman returns to the sanctuary of the household. The
garment is usually sewn from light materials, and requires many meters of material.
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Bishop
Iraqi Sniper
Here, an Iraqi Sniper carrying an SVDK. The purpose of it is to deal with targets which are
too hard for standard 7.62x54R sniper rifles like SV-98 or SVD, such as assault troops in
heavy body armour or enemy snipers behind covers. The effective range of SVDK is cited as ‘about
600 meters'. The 16.5-gram bullet has a hardened steel core and is launched at about 770 m/s,
generating about 4900 Joules of muzzle energy. At 200 meters the 7N33 bullet has 80% chances
to penetrate 10 mm (0.4") armour plate.
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Rook
Iraqi RPG
In the period following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the RPG became a favourite weapon of the
insurgent forces fighting the U.S. troops. Since most of the readily-available RPG-7 rounds
cannot penetrate M1 Abrams tank armour from the front or sides, it is primarily effective
against soft-skinned or lightly armoured vehicles, and infantry. However, even basic RPG-7
rounds can disable tanks and occasionally even lead to permanent losses if the tank is hit
where armour is weak.
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Knight
Iraqi Suicide Bomber
Suicide bombings in Iraq since 2003 have killed thousands of people, mostly Iraqi civilians, and
arguably constitute a new phenomenon in the history of warfare. Suicide bombings have been used
as a tactic in other armed struggles, but their frequency and lethality in Iraq is unprecedented.
Iraqi insurgents began to shift their focus away from attacking U.S. and coalition forces with
roadside bombs and instead began targeting the Iraqi population with suicide bombers and vehicle-borne
IEDs.
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Pawn
Iraqi Assault Soldier
An at the ready interpretations of the Iraqi soldier. The Mahdi Army, also known as the Mahdi
Militia or Jaish al Mahdi, is an Iraqi paramilitary force created by the Iraqi Shi'ite cleric
Muqtada al-Sadr in June 2003. The group rose to international prominence on April 4, 2004
when it spearheaded the first major armed confrontation against the U.S.-led occupation forces
in Iraq.
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