Al-Zaidi, who faced the cameras wrapped in an Iraqi flag, was missing a tooth, but otherwise appeared in good health.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

Iraqi President Jalal Talibani is getting the red-carpet treatment in France, with the Iraqi flag flying on the Champs Elysees in Paris.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Omar Adnan(ph), who sells car parts, says he will never give up the current Iraqi flag.

NPR: Flag Symbolizes Divisive Issue of Kurdish Autonomy

Above all, the Iraqi flag, in a region where flags matter mightily, flutters nowhere.

ECONOMIST: Iraqi Kurdistan

As a band played the Iraqi national anthem, officials lowered the old flag and hoisted a temporary one at a ceremony at Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's office in Baghdad's Green Zone.

CNN: Couple, son killed during U.S. raid in Iraq