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...play tells the story of three friends who left Iraq for London during Saddam Hussein's rule. All are Westernized, middle-class professionals, with a penchant for whisky and a preference for quoting Martin Amis over the Koran. Oscillating between Baghdad and London in the years 1998 and 2005, the play skillfully dramatizes the tug between two locations and two states of mind in the central character of Salim, a bisexual doctor who has just penned a controversial novel entitled Masturbating Angels, partially in rebellion against his Iraqi heritage. Though initially in favor of the invasion, Salim returns to Iraq...
...That interaction, and the politicization of the government information machine under Campbell, goes to the heart of his darkest period. Campbell's bitter dispute with the BBC after its correspondent Andrew Gilligan said in 2003 that Campbell had "sexed up" a government dossier about Saddam Hussein's weapons capability still occludes his achievements. The row claimed several scalps at the BBC, including Gilligan's and the broadcaster's top two bosses. The government scientist David Kelly, unmasked as Gilligan's source, took his own life. "Campbell won his battle with the BBC," says veteran journalist turned p.r. man Michael Prescott...
...intense friendship. As his press chief, Campbell diverted bolts of anger away from a frequently unscathed Blair, but ended up smelling increasingly of sulphur himself. His bitter dispute with the BBC after its correspondent Andrew Gilligan said in 2003 that Campbell had "sexed up" a government dossier about Saddam Hussein's weapons capability claimed scalps at the broadcaster, Gilligan's and the BBC's top two bosses. The government scientist David Kelly, unmasked as Gilligan's source, took his own life in June. When a judicial inquiry into the circumstances surrounding Kelly's death vindicated Campbell, a wave of critical...
...well about our country. Whoever becomes President in 2009 will have to repair all the damage that George W. Bush's Iraq war and the arrogant, contemptuous way it has been conducted have done to the world's view of our country. But a President with the middle name Hussein and a father born in Kenya will have a large head start. Not because of his talents or his ideas or his moral fiber but simply because...
...violence that has racked Baghdad since the fall of Saddam Hussein has made all that impossible. Many young people say it's just inappropriate to think of love at a time like this. "Sometimes I wish there was love in my life, but then I feel guilty," says Muna Hussein, 20, a Kurd who works as a translator in the Green Zone. "I feel I am a bad person for wanting romance for myself when my country is bleeding...