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  • Reds under the ruins (Iraqi Communism)

    05/01/2003 7:07:16 AM PDT · by Enemy Of The State · 2 replies · 149+ views
    Asia Times ^ | 5.2.03 | Paul Belden
    Reds under the ruinsBy Paul Belden BAGHDAD - He still calls himself Abu Ayad, but that's only because old habits die hard. "It's my secret name," he explains with a smile, wiping his professorial spectacles against the sleeve of his neat, nerdy, button-down yellow shirt. This secret-named, hardened political fighter is, it turns out, a shy man at heart. Shy - but not embarrassed. The name and the reason behind it, may seem to be holdovers of a different era, but they were once the dead-serious necessities of political activism in this land where even the suspicion of such an...