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With the insurgency still raging, some Iraqis fear that the de-Baathification order will drive newly unemployed officers into the arms of the rebels. Says an Iraqi captain, who asked to be identified by his nickname, Abu Laith: "If the government has 1,000 enemies now, they will have 10,000 enemies." --By Christopher Allbritton

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq's Next Fault Line | 4/26/2005 | See Source »

...reported that U.S. soldiers flattened the house and apricot trees of Laith Klabos and his family, near Tikrit. The photo of him standing in the ruins of his demolished home reminded me of pictures showing the treatment of Palestinians by the Israeli army. Are we following these tactics? STEVE C. KEMIJI Sacramento, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 29, 2003 | 12/29/2003 | See Source »

Some property owners take issue with that claim. One is Laith Klabos, 22, who grows apricots in Boasil village. On the night of Nov. 19, U.S. soldiers wrecked his family's house and flattened their grove of fruit trees. Klabos insists his family had no weapons and was not helping the resistance. "Is this the democracy they promised us?" he asked. "They come and blow up our houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Losing Hearts And Minds | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...scholarship was at the high school--essay level." Others believe I.N.C. and its allies in the Administration already knew what they wanted to do and undermined an effort to unite Iraqis of all persuasions around a common project. "What happened to all that work we put in?" says Laith Kubba, an Iraqi at Washington's National Endowment for Democracy. For whatever reason, the Future of Iraq project was pretty much ignored. "The White House barely knew about it," says a former official involved in postwar planning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So, What Went Wrong? | 10/6/2003 | See Source »

That said, we should also note that the cast, under the stage direction of Laith Zawawi, does not even come close to succeeding. Most of the performers overact terribly, and the repeated violence, which is intended to startle the audience and evoke sympathy for the title character, is so overdone that it borders on the hysterical...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Direction and Complexity Mar Lowell House Opera 'Lulu' | 4/27/1990 | See Source »

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