Informants who pointed out Latchin for American investigators say he was put in a program that spread sleeper agents for Saddam Hussein. He was told to become a U.S. citizen, to spend years hiding in Chicago until summoned to begin spying.In the meantime, he spent. Then he went bankrupt.He has …
Read More »JAN. 30 ELECTION: Rockin’ the vote – Many Iraqis travel far to register to vote
Bet-Shmuel has lived in exile ever since. But on Monday, he went to a Skokie, Ill., community center to raise his voice once again, this time registering to vote in the Iraqi national elections at the end of this month. All day, hundreds of Iraqi expatriates and their children streamed …
Read More »Political future of postwar Iraq
Devolution into federated states (letter, January 13) is an apparently attractive answer, the more so since Iraq is an artificial country, cobbled together from three Turkish provinces containing three substantial ethnic/religious groups each of which detests and distrusts both the others. The catch is that it wouldn’t stop there. The …
Read More »Released archbishop calls for Iraq poll delay
“I don’t think this is the right moment,” he said. “The very first thing we need is security and reconciliation.”The Tablet reports that Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa, 66, was kidnapped from in front of a church in the city and bundled into a car. He was released on Tuesday. The …
Read More »Iraq: Fixing The Middle East (2) – by Orlando Marville
Saddam Hussein is usually portrayed as the villain of the piece. It would be near impossible to defend the man. It would, however, be more than useful to understand what helped him attain the position that he so brutally controlled until the most recent United States and British invasion. During …
Read More »Trek to democracy – Ariz. residents heading to LA to register, vote
“It was a time when a lot of fear was starting to spread into the population. You literally had to escape,” recalled Oshana, 36, whose journey took her from Iraq to Jordan and then to the United States, where her family settled in Chicago. Oshana, now a resident of Glendale, …
Read More »Lettre ouverte ? Monsieur Mats Einarsson, rapporteur de la Commission des migrations, des r?fugi?s et de la population.
Cr?er un centre europ?en en m?moire des victimes des d?placements forc?s de populations et du nettoyage ethnique en oubliant les d?portations des Arm?niens est le comble du cynisme que seul un monstre aussi froid que l?administration europ?enne pouvait afficher. Voici que l?Europe de la raison accouche d?une absurdit? aussi criminelle …
Read More »Trek to democracy – Ariz. residents heading to LA to register, vote
It was 1977 and in his climb to power Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was intensifying his persecution of religious and ethnic minorities through a brutal campaign of fear, intimidation, torture and death. As Assyrians, a Christian minority in Iraq, Oshana’s family knew they had to get out.“It was a time …
Read More »World?s Assyrians savour Swedish soccer saga
So when it played for a spot in Sweden?s premier division, Ninos Gawrieh and some 30 friends huddled around a television in a house in the Syrian town of Kamishly, cheering it on. Thousands of other people around the world were also watching the game, hoping that the team …
Read More »Violence Continues to Drive Out Christians from Iraq as Election Nears
At a time when the presence of Iraq?s Christian minority could be significant in helping democracy take hold of the war-torn nation, Iraq?s beleaguered Christians continue to flee their country because of attacks and threats, news agencies and persecution watchdogs say. Since the recent wave of church bombings began last …
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