Word: samarai
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...welcomed the visit as an opportunity, regardless of whether Obama wins in November. "I think it's a very important visit," Kurdish MP Tanya Gilly told TIME. "As a Senator he should see the situation on the ground so that he can better understand [Iraq]." Sunni MP Ayad al-Samarai of the National Accordance Front says: "It will be good for him to get to know each leader, hear their thoughts and see how each side is thinking...
...American audience more measured. One delegate, a former army officer who asked to be referred to as "Abu Ali", even admitted that he had a sister in Florida, and said he would come to the U.S. himself if he could. "America doesn't leave a country by force," said Samarai. "Bush has been in a hole, digging deeper. So every year, it has become more difficult for America to leave Iraq. But what the muqawimma [resistance] movement has done is more than America can bear. Now there is not only a military battle in Iraq, there is a political battle...
...American project in Iraq is now precarious," said Nizar al-Samarai, a conference spokesman and former official in the Saddam Hussein regime. "We are sure of our victory now, so we decided to meet." Samarai and others described a new kind of resistance activity - a more deliberate and organized coordination between the political and military elements of the insurgency, as they look past guns to governance. "One arm now knows what the other is doing," he said...
...throw out the constitution, dissolve the parliament, cancel all resolutions issued from the Bremer era on, and disband the existing security forces and U.S.-trained Iraqi army divisions. The U.S. embassy in Baghdad, they said, would have to close - "as in Saigon. With helicopters on the roof" said Samarai - until Washington recognized a new, resistance-led Iraqi governing council, and offered compensation to all individuals and organizations affected by the war. Under the new leadership, all Iraqi citizens who worked for or cooperated with the current, coalition-backed government would be arrested. A "reconciliation council", drawn in large part from...
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