From dictatorship to democracy : an insider's account of the Iraqi opposition to Saddam /
Today, Hamid al-Bayati serves as Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations. But for many years he lived in exile in London, where he worked with other opponents of Saddam Hussein's regime to make a democratic and pluralistic Iraq a reality. As former Western spokesman for the Supreme Council for t...
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :
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2011
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Table of Contents:
- The birth of the Iraqi opposition
- The journey from Salah al-Din to Washington
- Failed coups and U.S. policy shifts
- A strategic shift : from containment to liberation
- Uniting the opposition
- War and occupation
- Dealing with Bremer
- Negotiating the transition
- Self-rule
- Conclusion : the new Iraq.
