IRAQI

Mesopotamian, today

• Operation ___ Freedom

• 1990 Kuwait invader

• Al Anbar resident

• Al Hillah resident

• An Najaf native

• Arab Spring protestor

• Arabian dialect

• Bagdad native

• Baghdad

• Baghdad citizen

• Baghdad dad, for example

• Baghdad local

• Baghdad resident

• Baghdadi, e.g.

• Baghdadi, say

• Baghdadian

• Basra denizen

• Basra native

• Basra resident

• Basran, e.g.

• Chemical Ali, e.g.

• Citizen of Basra

• Dinar earner

• Dinar earner, perhaps

• Dinar spender

• Dweller along the Tigris

• Euphrates swimmer

• Faisal II subject

• Faisal II, for one

• Fertile Crescent dweller

• Form of Arabic

• From Baghdad, say

• Gulf war loser

• Gulf War soldier

• Hussein, for one

• Irish terrorists meet queen - one from Baghdad, perhaps (5)

• Jordanian's neighbor

• Kirkuk denizen

• Kirkuk native

• Kirkuk resident

• Kurd, frequently

• Kurd, maybe

• Kuwaiti neighbor

• Like Saddam

• Like some Bedouins

• Like some dinars

• Man from Baghdad

• Man from Mosul

• Many a Kurd

• Mesopotamian, now

• Modern dweller in ancient Ur

• Modern-day Mesopotamian

• Mosul native

• Mosul resident

• Najaf native

• Native of Baghdad

• Native of Basra

• Native of Mosul

• Neighbor of a Turk

• Nouri al-Maliki, for one

• One barred from a U.N. no-fly zone

• One who spends dinars

• One whose national anthem is Mawtini

• Operation ___ Freedom (2003-2011 conflict)

• Operation ___ Freedom (2003)

• Persian Gulf citizen

• Persian Gulf figure

• Persian Gulf swimmer, perhaps

• Person from Baghdad

• President Jalal Talabani, for one

• Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, e.g.

• Ramadi resident

• Resident of Baghdad or Basra

• Saddam Hussein, e.g.

• Saddam Hussein, for one

• Saddam Hussein, notably

• Saddam, e.g.

• Salah ad Din denizen

• Savings plan question starting to intrigue certain Middle Easterner (5)

• Sayid of Lost, e.g.

• Sufferer of U.N. sanctions

• Syrian's neighbor

• Thief of Baghdad, e.g.

• Tikrit native

• Tikrit resident

• Turk's neighbor

• Unoccupied Middle Easterner, as of last month

• A native or inhabitant of Iraq