Word: durrah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They gathered to demonstrate their unity to the world. Yet in the breaks between their formal sessions of solidarity posing at Beirut's Bristol Hotel last week, the disparate members of the Iraqi opposition could not resist heaping scorn on one another. Someone noted that before Youssef al-Durrah joined the Democratic Movement, he served as Saddam Hussein's press director. A rival pointed out that Hassan Alawi of the Arab Independents once worked as Saddam's speechwriter. And that communist, Naziha Doulaimi? Well, a critic readily volunteered, she had once been a full member of Saddam's Cabinet...
...democracy irrelevant. "It is the motivated minority that counts," said he, "and the Islamic movement is the most motivated." Even democracy's true believers doubted its feasibility in Iraq. "Participation in political parties requires a political maturity that is lacking in Iraq," said the Democratic Movement's al-Durrah...
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