Iraq

Following are highlights of the declaration, which was disclosed after a four-day meeting in the British capital. – Iraq will have a democratic, federal, parliamentary and pluralist system that does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex or ideology. A constitution will acknowledge the composition of the Iraqi …

American intelligence officials have been working alongside Kurdish officials in recent weeks, and recruiters for an American-sponsored opposition group have been selecting candidates for a program to train scouts and translators that one day may help American forces inside Iraq, according to Kurdish and Western officials. American military planners have …

During the 23 years of Saddam’s rule, Ibrahim’s fealty has served him and hundreds of thousands of other Iraqi Christians well. But as a U.S.-led war against Iraq looks increasingly likely, Ibrahim believes the Christians’ luck might finally be running out, along with their leader’s. “Until now this has been …

* * * The Assyrian Christians, a non-Arab, Semitic people with a 5,000-year presence in northern Iraq, constitute some 5% to 10% of the Iraqi population. Despite constant threats from Muslim neighbors, they have kept their ethnic and linguistic identity alive and maintain a flourishing diaspora in Australia, Europe and …

The majority of the members of this committee are Shiite moslems whose number in Iraq, particularly in southern Iraq, makes up 60 percent of the 22 million Iraqi population. The Assyrian Delegation was given a 3 percent representation of the total number of attendees to the Conference. Consequently, of the …

1-Ibrahim Hamoudi 2-Dr. Ahmed Chalabi 3-Ahmed Ali Muhsin 4-Akram Al Hakim 5-Albert Yelda 6-Ayad Al Samaraei 7-Dr. Ayad Allawi 8-Ayham Al Samaraei 9-Dr. Bayan Al Aaraji (Woman) 10-Bayan Jabr 11-Tawfiq Al Yasiri 12-Jalal Al Talabani 13-Jned Manko 14-Jawad Al Attar 15-Jawhar Namiq 16-Hatem Mukhlis 17-Hatem Shaalan Abu Al Joun 18-Hajim …

Discussions continued into the early hours of this morning, particularly over the make-up of a 50-person follow-up committee to coordinate the opposition groups. Hoshyar Zebari, of the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), told reporters: “We have had a very good period. We have discussed all papers and passed them unanimously by …

The Campaign acknowledges that the NEW IRAQ starts when Iraqis, individually , recognize, and set an agreement to their basic civil rights, the NEW IRAQ starts when Iraqis demand and enforce their rights as a reference, as a dominant part of the future Iraqi constitution, and making them binding to …

What would a post-Saddam Iraq look like? It will require imaginative Iraqi and American leadership to build a successful new state. But the feasibility of the following ideas rests on several further assumptions. First, that the unseating of Saddam’s regime does not take place at the cost of large-scale civilian …

In the Christian villages and hamlets dotting the northern enclave, historic churches and monasteries today conduct their services in classical Aramaic, presenting a picture of a people and their culture untouched by time. But nothing could be further from the truth. Linguists warn that the Aramaic language is in its …