Iraq Flies New National Flag

Politics | April 26, 2004, Monday // 00:00

Iraq's Governing Council has approved a new national flag to replace the one flown by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

It consists of a pale blue crescent on a white background and has a yellow strip between two lines of blue at the bottom.

The white stands for peace, the crescent for Islam, the yellow represents the Kurdish population, while the blue strips represent Iraq's main rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates.

The new flag will be raised over government buildings within days, says spokesman Hamid al-Kefaae.

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