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...another time or place, the unknown gunmen who smashed Alaa's front door and ransacked his home in January might have been armed burglars. But this was Baghdad, a few days after Saddam Hussein was hanged. "They were aiming to kill me," says Alaa, a television producer who was at work at the time. "I covered every day of Saddam's trial and his execution. Of course people wanted me dead. I ran." Three weeks later, Alaa, 29 - like many interviewed for this article, he did not want his last name to be used - peers out of a high-rise...
...strongly disagree. Have the candidates who voted for the Iraq war demonstrated good decision making? Why did they vote for war? Did they evaluate Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's assertion that Iraq could have a nuclear weapon so soon? Did they not consider the possibility that removing Saddam Hussein from power might unleash a civil war among Iraq's intensely hostile ethnic groups? American voters need to understand what motivated those ayes in Congress...
Ambulance driver Hussein Mohammed (not his real name) never knows which van he'll get when he arrives for his shift at the dispatch center in downtown Baghdad. The ten vehicles on the lot are a mix of imports, including Nissans, Toyotas and Mercedes. If he's lucky, Mohammed will get a Peugeot. "It's the easiest to handle," says the shy, skinny young man who speaks in a raspy whisper. "And it's the fastest...
...beginning his studies at Harvard in August 2001, Dewachi has entered the U.S. on single-entry visas. According to Dewachi, Iraqis were denied the more convenient multi-entry visas usually granted to international students because Iraq was seen as a “state supporting terrorism” under Hussein...
Because of immigration policy, Dewachi said he had to stay in the United States for the first three years of his Ph.D. program. He said in a phone interview from Montreal that after the fall of the Hussein regime in 2003, he “got the courage to leave and visit my family in Beirut, Lebanon, who had also left Iraq...