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For more than 40 years the Historic Documents series has made primary source research easy by presenting full primary documents and excerpts from documents on the important events of each year for the United States and the world. Each volume includes approximately 70 events with well over 100 documents from the previous year, from official or other influential reports and surveys, to speeches from leaders and opinion makers, to court cases, legislation, testimony, and much more.
Historic Documents is renowned for the well-written and informative background, history, and context it provides for each document. Each volume begins with an insightful essay that sets the year's events in context, and each document or group of documents is preceded by a comprehensive introduction that provides background information on the event. Full-source citations are provided. Readers have easy access to material through a detailed, thematic table of contents and a cumulative five-year index that directs them to related material in earlier volumes.
Iraq Conducts Elections Amid Tenuous Security Environment: April 16 and 20, 2013
Iraq Conducts Elections Amid Tenuous Security Environment: April 16 and 20, 2013
On April 20, 2013, Iraqis went to the polls to choose the representatives for their provincial councils in the first election since U.S. troop withdrawal in 2011. More than 8,100 candidates vied for 447 seats, and did so under the threat of violence from rival candidates and extremist groups, as the level of sectarian violence grew to its highest level in years. The results of the election were noted as an indication of the local level of support for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his Shiite government. The international community indicated that it will continue closely watching the security situation in Iraq, ...
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