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Monday, September 24, 2012
"how liberated Iraq chose its anthem"
""Iraq’s current national anthem, “Mawtini” (“My Homeland”), was adopted in
2004 on the order of Coalition Provisional Authority chief Paul Bremer, who
admired the song when he heard it at a concert."" (thanks "Ibn Rushd")