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...Kanan Makiya, an Iraqi dissident and director of Harvard’s Iraq Research and Documentation Project, said American soldiers would be embraced by the oppressed Iraqi populace...
Iraqi dissident Kanan Makiya made the case for war. Makiya, who directs Harvard’s Iraq Research and Documentation Project and advises the White House on democracy in Iraq...
...Muhammad might have approved of the pageant and maybe even found a wife among the contestants. The pageant was moved from Nigeria to London, and on Saturday Miss Turkey, Azra Akin, ended the whole nightmare by walking away with the tiara and $150,000 prize. Pageant co-host Sean Kanan, an actor from the U.S. soap The Bold and the Beautiful, made brief mention of the violence that preceded this outcome, saying, "Our thoughts go out to the families that suffered." Akin, who plays the flute, added, "I think it is good for a woman to have this position...
...Kanan M. Makiya, an associate of Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, started and currently heads the project, which collects and analyzes Iraqi government records that document human rights violations, mass murder and chemical weapon usage...
Saddam's "Republic of Fear"--as Iraqi exile Kanan Makiya dubbed Iraq in the title of his 1989 book--looks remarkably tame these days. You can fly into Baghdad's Saddam International Airport on one of the embargo-busting planes from Jordan or Syria or Lebanon that make regular runs--even if you are greeted by blood-red DOWN WITH AMERICA slogans daubed along the gangway in English. All the capital's buildings, bridges and roads damaged in the 1991 war and in follow-up American attacks in 1998 have been rebuilt. Fancy shops selling the goods of globalization line...