Word: bayati
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...There are ongoing negotiations," says Abas al-Bayati, an Iraqi parliamentarian and member of the defense and security committee. "We are still waiting for the final draft...
...enthusiastic. "We are following our supreme merja, Sistani," said Jafar al-Khazali, a 29-year-old day laborer as his daughter, Sou'ad, clung to his leg. "I will not lose my rights again like before." "I am looking forward to seeing my dreams come true," said Khalida al-Bayati, a Shi'ite housewife. "I want to see my country not like it was under Saddam." Al-Bayati holds no nostalgia for the old regime, having lost a child to cancer that she blames on Saddam's use of chemical weapons in the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War. Her faith...
...turn toward the corner, where a quiet discussion among a group of Sunnis is getting contentious. The subject preoccupies Sunnis across Iraq: whether to vote in this week's referendum on a new constitution. "The best way for us to show our opposition is to boycott," says Majid al-Bayati, 63, a retired lawyer, as some congregants mutter approval. "It's a complete waste of time." Upon hearing this, construction worker Samir Abdel-Haadi, 33, pushes back. "That is the kind of thinking that got us where we are today," he says, referring to the elections last January that produced...
...beige concrete-and-brick building that looks more like an old warehouse than one of the country's best-regarded medical facilities. The Yarmouk district, on Baghdad's western flank, is ringed by the city's most violent neighborhoods, where insurgents tend to concentrate their attacks. Chief surgeon Jamil Bayati estimates that his tiny ER has taken in 10,000 people in the past 12 months and that more than 1,000 of them had "war wounds"--inflicted by insurgents, the U.S. military or Iraqi security forces. Bayati figures that "this is the busiest ER in the world...
...chronicle the devastating toll of the war on the daily lives of Iraqis, I spent part of last week in Bayati's ER. In the midst of my reporting, the story turned highly personal: two members of TIME's Baghdad staff became victims of a bomb blast and were rushed to Yarmouk Hospital. From that point on, I was intimately involved in nearly every decision the doctors and staff made as they struggled to keep my badly wounded colleagues alive. In the process, I experienced the anger, anxiety, frustration and sorrow that so many Iraqis must endure, often...