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...reform politically. Arab governments are thus put in a very vulnerable position where neither interest can be satisfied; either the leadership sacrifices civil stability in order to cooperate with the U.S. and reform, or the leadership takes a hardline against American pressure—the consequences of which Saddam Hussein could articulate...
That said, al-Jaafari is a man with a past. He leads the Islamic Dawa Party, a deeply religious Shi'ite group that spearheaded a rebellion against Saddam Hussein's regime in the late 1970s. Dawa received backing from the Shi'ite regime in Iran. During the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s, Saddam made membership in the party punishable by death and brutally suppressed the movement. Like much of the Dawa leadership, al-Jaafari fled to Iran and then to Britain. The group's past activities are murky. Al-Jaafari was a member of Dawa's political wing when...
...Hussein, a graduate student at the University of Baghdad, emphasized that Saddam Hussein’s departure had empowered the Iraqi people...
Iraqi student Quasay Mehdi Hussein said this was the first time the students attended a conference where they could speak their minds freely without being told what to say. He added that he spent more time informally talking with other delegates than participating in the conference itself...
...these conversations, Hussein spoke on Thursday with Shira Kaplan ’08, an Israeli student, at a reception hosted by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. The two students discussed the future of their region and how to teach tolerance for “the other side,” Kaplan said...