Engineer Amer-al-Saadi

Lt . Gen . Amer-al-Saadi

Engineer and

Saddam Hussein's Chief Scientific Adviser

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Republic of Iraq

Location: Middle East, bordering the Persian Gulf, between Iran and Kuwait

Area: 437,072 sq km

Climate: mostly desert; mild to cool winters with dry, hot, cloudless summers; northern mountainous regions along Iranian and Turkish borders experience cold winters with occasionally heavy snows that melt in early spring, sometimes causing extensive flooding in central and southern Iraq

Terrain: mostly broad plains; reedy marshes along Iranian border in south with large flooded areas; mountains along borders with Iran and Turkey

Population: 22,427,150 (July 1999 est.)

Religions: Muslim 97% (Shi'a 60%-65%, Sunni 32%-37%), Christian or other 3%

Languages: Arabic, Kurdish (official in Kurdish regions), Assyrian, Armenian

Capital: Baghdad