Talk:Samarra

message: The informative section on demography and ethno-religious makeup of the city was deleted by a sour grape here who was bothered by the realty.  Good job since Wiki has no editorial supervision over such beings.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2000:C686:B00:223:12FF:FE20:7BC7 (talk) 21:59, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Demography

message: "On 16 March 2006, the US air force conducted a major bombing raid over the city. It was claimed to be the biggest attack of it's kind in Iraq since the invasion of 2003." Shouldn't this particular passage be listed as an "event in progress", since this particular campaign will probably continue for at least a few days? See the article below.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/03/16/iraq.main/index.html
The operation dubbed "largest since the invasion of 2003" referred to air assault, not bombing. Which means the US Army, not the US Air Force. And it was north of Samarra, I believe. Oh, and half the troops were Iraqi Army, not US. Who was doing the bombing?
*"Operation Swarmer has yielded significant amounts of weapons and IED-making materials, as well as terrorist training materials. Caches include rockets and mortar rounds of varying sizes, rocket-propelled grenades, SA-7 surface-to-air missile components, hand grenades, machine guns, assault rifles and nearly 2,000 rounds of armor-piercing rifle ammunition.
*"Troops also discovered more than 500-feet of detonating cord, blasting caps, artillery rounds packed with plastic explosive, and remote initiation devices such as cordless phone base stations and washing machine timers – materials all used to make IEDs.
*"Other terrorist supplies included training publications, Iraqi Army uniforms, and video tapes. The tapes show U.S. troop locations in Iraq, the rigging and detonation of a car bomb, a suicide bomber and equipment taken from Iraqi Police." http://www.mnf-iraq.com/Daily/Mar/060319.htm
Other than that this section was ok.
:OK; my mistake. But it takes nothing away from my main point - since the campaign was announced as stretching over several days, it should have been listed as an "event in progress". Jonas Liljeström 11:29, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bombing raid 

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thread_title: Deleted external links

message: In the same paragraph it is stated that Iraq was invaded in 2003 by the United States of America, and in 2003 by Coalition Forces.  Which one is it?  While the USA did have by far the largest force, there were many other nations involved, therefore the "first" invasion statement might be considered either untrue, divisive, politically motivated, or emotional, depending on point-of-view.  I do not know a whole lot about WikiPedia editing, but I would think that points-of-view need to be clearly marked as such, and referenced as to who holds that point. - J Kulacz 24.119.221.235 (talk) 02:40, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern Era section question 

message: I'd have thought this would transliterate as "sarr man ra'a", as min = from and man = who. Can any arabic speakers confirm this?
Rainbowsharkling (talk) 18:25, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  “Sarr min ra’a” "سر من رأى"  

message: Why page "samarran culture" assigned to page "Samarra (modern town)"? It is absolutely incorrect! 94.24.208.24 (talk) 06:54, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  samarran culture 

message: REF 3: "The Samarra bowl, at the Pergamon Museum, Berlin. The swastika in the center of the design is a reconstruction.[3]" REF 3: Stanley A. Freed, Research Pitfalls as a Result of the Restoration of Museum Specimens, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 376, The Research Potential of Anthropological Museum Collections pages 229–245, December 1981. This implies the swastika was painted on to the bowl by someone at the Pergamon Museum.
I'd like to query this because swastika symbols were commonplace all over the ancient world (vast amount of data on this on wikipedia); why is it a surprise to find one in Ancient Sumer!?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quaeroveritatem (talk • contribs) 11:49, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  swastika on Samarra bowl 

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