Engineer Abdulrahman al-Qadi said he saw no point in only a two-week ceasefire.

Unlike his predecessors al-Farabi and Ibn Sina, he was a Qadi, a jurist of the Shariah law, as well as a philosopher.

Its principal source is at Tell el-Qadi, where it rises out of a basaltic mound whose summit is crowned by the ruins of Laish.

As an Iraqi company it's not a commercial matter, it's about investing and developing the production of Iraq, Crescent executive director Abdullah al-Qadi told Reuters.