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How Iraqi Professor
Overcame Doubts
To Trust a General
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ^
| Monday, November 3, 2003
| HUGH POPE
Posted on 11/03/2003 9:59:41 AM PST by presidio9
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:50:16 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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MOSUL, Iraq -- "Don't expect me to go on television to express gratitude," declared Iraqi historian Jazeel Abd al-Jabbar al-Jomard.
U.S.-led forces ousted Saddam Hussein, a man Mr. Jomard despised, and helped rebuild the scholar's looted Mosul University, Iraq's second-largest. None of that has changed the short, thickset, 51-year-old professor's vehement opposition to Washington's policy and actions in the Middle East.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: goodnews; iraq; jomard; mosuluniversity; progress; rebuildingiraq
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posted on
11/03/2003 9:59:41 AM PST
by
presidio9
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Interesting reading
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posted on
11/03/2003 10:03:37 AM PST
by
Coop
(God bless our troops!)
To: presidio9
Hearts and minds...one at a time.
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posted on
11/03/2003 11:07:39 AM PST
by
mass55th
To: Dark Wing
ping
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posted on
11/03/2003 11:12:56 AM PST
by
Thud
To: presidio9
printing, so I can read it later...it looks very interesting.
Thanks for posting it.
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posted on
11/03/2003 2:59:30 PM PST
by
meema
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