Statement released by the Coalition of Iraqi National Unity Denouncing the series of terrorist bombings which hit cities in Iraq today 9/9/2012     A congratulatory message to the Muslim World on the setting in of Eid al-Fitr Al Mubarak      A congratulatory message to the Muslim World on the advent of Laylat al-Qadr     Console Memory Of The Martyrdom Of Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib (May Allah Honor Him)     The Second Conference Of Coalition of Iraqi National Unity - 07/07/2012     Statement issued from CINU Condemning the outrageous assault on the Shiite al Waqf Divan     CINU conference in Anbar Governorate     Statement issued from the CNU in support of the Iraqi people demonstration held on Friday, February 25     Statement on the occasion of the victorious Egyptian Revolution     Statement of CINU denunciating Basra & Anbar incidents        
 
Iraq, a corridor between two oceans and a bridge between tree continents
 

If we think to close our minds eye for a moment of dream away from war, and have shut the eyelids well from all that is happening today in Iraq of booby traps sounds, and shooting everywhere, and sat on the throne of truth which grants us warmth in thinking of the other face of Iraq, known to every far and wide that this country is full of tourist beautiful sites dotting the whole territory from north to south.

And whereas Arabian Peninsula stretches in Southeast Asia, Iraq rises in the northeast of the main Peninsula, to the south a somnolent plain that hosts dozens of marches (Ahwar), lakes, pools and girdled and traversed by a network of rivers, while it climbs undulating in the middle until when it has reached the outskirts of the north the clouds descend over the heads of its mountains crowned with snow interposed on both banks of the Tigris the city of Baghdad, the capital; nonetheless, Iraq is considered a land bridge between three continents Asia, Africa, and Europe and a conduit that connects between the Indian ocean, and the Mediterranean, the most abundant place on earth in water and fertility. In Iraq, all civilizations were born, and he was the cradle of varied heavenly religions and underneath its ground the secrets that explain from where the human history had originated, and how the great king Gilgamesh was the nucleus of the first emerging literature and humane philosophy. In an area of 438,446 km2        
there located (18) city or governorate mediated on the banks of the Tigris river the capital Baghdad built by the Caliph Al Mansour, however, this Iraqi area is as a land bridge between three continents Asia, Africa and Europe and a connecting corridor between the Indian ocean and the Mediterranean. Furthermore, Iraq is among the most prolific place on the earth in water and the most fertile thereof, since its great rivers the Tigris and Euphrates descend from the north peaks of north in a semi strange dialogue by being closer and more distant at times spreading their tributaries to the point of overlapping to meet embracing one another in Basra governorate in the south, forming Shatt-al-Arab. The Tigris River length from upstream to downstream is 1718 km, while the Euphrates is about 2300 km, and the length of Shatt-al-Arab in the south is 110km, from both rivers' junction till its mouth in the Arab Gulf.

It is said that ethnic, religious and sectarian diversity and difference of climates in Iraq between north, center and south have bestowed this country with another advantage unique from other countries of the world, for this diversity has rendered this country to melt quickly, and since ancient times, in the world's civilizations, considering that all religions are present herein, in addition to its borders which oversee a number of countries that granted him in their turn extra tourist benefits.

It is said also, that Iraq was named "kingdom of the four directions" at the time of Hammurabi, and whoever rule this country is said to be the king of the four directions as he overlooks the four directions of the world, so this country was surveilled from all directions that always tried to rule him. However, man lived in Iraq since very early times where his relics were found in the northern and north-eastern mountain caves, and those relics are still engraved into these caves, and if we visualized some sort of interest in those relics accompanied with the appropriate musical settings while we enter as tourists into those regions, with the appropriate provisions served, what would happen and how could we count the number of people who will enter those beautiful caves that bear the history of man in those very early civilizations, and if we entered the city of Chamchamal in Kirkuk we would find spell-binding sites that take sight towards a distant dream in which past and present are mingled together, so from the archeological site of Balka town in which one day were found human artifacts from the stone ages.


Source: Iraq, foremost