Word: talabanis
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...restrictive society of Iraq stops many women from getting involved in politics, said Iraqi native Ala Talabani, noting that there still are no women mayors or judges and only two women on the newly formed Government Council...
...Talabani remembered an occasion when she asked a woman at a workshop about her opinion...
...nearly cried and said, ‘This is the first time in my life somebody asked me about my opinion,’” Talabani recalled...
Things are improving in Iraq, Talabani noted, as there now is a woman on each of nine City Councils in Baghdad...
Until it adopts a set of criteria for allotting official posts, the U.S. is relying on the advice of Iraqi exiles like Talabani. A member of Garner's staff in Kuwait before the war, Talabani gave the Americans a report on Iraq's health officials and their connections to the Baath Party. The most high-profile vetter is Iraqi businessman Saad al-Janabi, who fled the country in 1995 after falling out with Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay. Al-Janabi, who still has close ties with remnants of the old regime, has returned from Hemet, Calif. (where his wife...