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Hm... i didn't look at it like that. Now that you mention it, it does look a little like the Israeli flag. Maybe that's why the people are rejecting it.
New Iraqi flag is chosen
26/04/2004 - 2:52:47 PM
Iraq’s US-picked leaders approved a new flag for the country, making a dramatic change that drops the Saddam Hussein-era slogan God is great, changes the colours and introduces symbols of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
The new flag is white, with two parallel blue strips across the bottom representing the rivers and a yellow stripe between them representing Iraq’s Kurdish minority.
Above the stripes is a blue crescent representing Islam.
Council spokesman, Hameed al-Kafaei, said they approved the design as the new official flag – though the artist was asked to touch up the colour of the crescent, perhaps to a darker blue or a different colour.
The old Iraq flag had a red and white bands across the top and bottom, with a white band between them with three green stars.
During the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, Saddam added the words God is great, to boost the religious credentials of his secular regime.
“This is a new era,” al-Kafaei said. “We cannot continue with Saddam’s flag.”
[ 04-28-2004, 07:22 AM: Message edited by: johnny ]
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