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Many in Iraq’s minority feel that after boycotts the time is ripe for compromise. That’s why some voted for the constitution yesterday. Peter Beaumont reports from Tikrit
Sunday October 16, 2005
The Observer
General Isa Abdel Mahmoud al-Jibouri is a walking contradiction. Once a poster boy for the military of the old Iraq, a popular commander who led the first tanks during the invasion of Kuwait, he was one of the first Iraqi casualties of the 1991 Gulf war, injured when his tank was attacked by an allied warplane.
These days, however, there are Iraqis who would like to kill him for his prominent role as the security co-ordinator for the new government of Iraq in the city of Tikrit, the home town of Saddam Hussein. Sitting in his office in the city, he has the new Iraqi constitution on his desk. It is a constitution that, like many Sunnis in his office, he has eloquently opposed. Last week Isa changed his mind.
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observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1593254,00.html
Sunday October 16, 2005
The Observer
General Isa Abdel Mahmoud al-Jibouri is a walking contradiction. Once a poster boy for the military of the old Iraq, a popular commander who led the first tanks during the invasion of Kuwait, he was one of the first Iraqi casualties of the 1991 Gulf war, injured when his tank was attacked by an allied warplane.
These days, however, there are Iraqis who would like to kill him for his prominent role as the security co-ordinator for the new government of Iraq in the city of Tikrit, the home town of Saddam Hussein. Sitting in his office in the city, he has the new Iraqi constitution on his desk. It is a constitution that, like many Sunnis in his office, he has eloquently opposed. Last week Isa changed his mind.
Read the rest:
observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1593254,00.html