Word: zibari
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...three decades of opposition to the Saddam Hussein regime, Gen. Babikir Zibari worked as both a military commander and a political leader of the Kurdish Pesh Merga. So the top general in the new Iraqi Army knows better than most when a military question requires a political answer...
...tiny al-Haq Sunni mosque with rocket-propelled grenades. Afterward, members of the local unit of the Shi'ite Mahdi Army surrounded the mosque, guarding it from further attack. "That afternoon and night the Shi'ites prayed in my mosque," says the grateful local imam, Jawhar Omar al-Zibari. "They told me they would die before allowing another attack." But the imam's Sunni flock is streaming out of the area. A year ago, at least 50 people went into the mosque for the five-times-a-day prayers; now it's a good day when 10 people show...
...from al-Zibari's mosque, Sahar Nema says that while she and her family are not exactly comfortable in their cramped sleeping arrangements, they are spared the sectarian nightmares that haunted them in their previous home. In the days ahead, the family will have to confront difficult choices--where to look for jobs, where to send the kids to school, what to do about the home they abandoned. They may ultimately try to swap homes with one of the Sunni families being forced out of al-Shulla by the influx of Shi'ites. "I don't care if the house...
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