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Bryndís R., Mosul: "The CIA has a long history of toppling governments with minimal effort, just by inciting local unrest by using money to brainwash locals against their governments. They did this before in Iran. They are trying it again. Those on the streets in Teheran against the Islamic government is all the mental offspring of the CIA."

CIA memiliki sejarah panjang menggulingkan pemerintah dengan sedikit usaha, hanya dengan menghasut kerusuhan lokal dengan menggunakan uang untuk mencuci otak penduduk setempat melawan pemerintah mereka. Mereka melakukan ini sebelum di Iran. Mereka mencoba lagi. Mereka yang di jalan-jalan di Teheran terhadap pemerintahan Islam adalah semua keturunan mental CIA.

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Buckingham wrote that in Mosul 'the Christians are estimated: of Chaldeans of both descriptions, one of which differs little from the Catholics, there are thought to be a thousand families; of Syrians, five hundred'. The population as a whole was 'thought by the people of the place to exceed a hundred thousand; but I should think.. . that it was even less than half that number'. That doesn't sound much of a population for a seemingly flourishing .city. For by 1800 Mosul contained a foreign resident population that included French Carmelites (French and Italian religious orders were well represented), Greek bankers and Venetian merchants. British officers of the East India Company passed through on their way from India to London on leave. Tartar dispatched riders galloped their stocky horses northwards, carrying diplomatic mail to Istanbul; camels transported ordinary mail through Mosul and Aleppo to the Mediterranean. From Basra in the deep south boats brought satin and velvet from France, English cloth, German metal goods, glass from Vienna and Bohemia, and sugar from America.

There are more Christians, proportionately, in Mosul than in any other Iraqi city. That has long been the case. Their villages cover the low hills to the north of the city and their monasteries crouch like indestructible sanctuaries high up on sheer mountain-sides. One of Mosul's troubles in the past was the unending feuding between the Christian sects and the important Christian families in the city, although that has long since given way to completely peaceful co-existence.