Most of the cooperatives stopped functioning during the seven-month Iraqi occupation.

With the Iraqi occupation and the turmoil in the region, the flow of money has virtually halted.

Human rights groups agree that atrocities are being committed under Iraqi occupation.

And with some 350,000 cars destroyed or stolen during the Iraqi occupation, the market remains a dealer's paradise.

How can they say they're not intervening when they're making it easy for the Iraqi military occupation to hold on?

During the Iraqi occupation, however, the exhibition halls were systematically looted, damaged or set fire to.

"The Iraqi occupation by America was a great mistake," he told reporters.

Estimates of the cost of the Iraqi occupation keep spiraling upward.

It also results from American mismanagement of the Iraqi occupation.

The area has been under Iraqi occupation since shortly after the war started in September 1980.