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Articles of the author Zaid Al Ali
A constitution of fools
Adopting a draft constitution is a very difficult exercise under American occupation, writes Zaid Al-Ali As Iraqis get ready to go to the polls on 15 October 2005 in order to decide whether to adopt the country's defective sdraft constitution, the (...)

13 - 10 - 2005
Comment: Hard days ahead
Zaid Al-Ali writes about the lessons learnt from writing a constitution under the nose of a hostile foreign occupation In the end, the constitutional commission violated its own rules and principles, and still could not present Iraq with a text that (...)

01 - 09 - 2005
Separation is the goal, federalism the means
Iraqis are divided over the draft constitution, and especially over the federalism issue, writes Zaid Al-Ali In what is now becoming a familiar pattern, the Iraqi constitutional committee has once again failed to complete the draft constitution and (...)

25 - 08 - 2005
Rights ridiculed
The trial of Saddam Hussein continues to be a farce that would stand nowhere else in a court of law but in Iraq, writes Zaid Al-Ali Efforts to prepare for the trial of Saddam Hussein keep getting worse. Magistrates in charge of the investigative (...)

18 - 08 - 2005
Dividing Iraq
Federalism is the new stick that is being used to beat Arab nationalism, writes Zaid Al-Ali Almost a century ago, foreign powers waged war in the Middle East officially for the purpose of liberating the region from oppression. Although each of their (...)

23 - 06 - 2005
What due process?
In contrast to the work of the international tribunals in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, the "national" trial of Saddam Hussein looks to be a legal travesty, writes Zaid Al-Ali Of all the developments that have taken place in Iraq since 2003, few (...)

21 - 04 - 2005
Iraq's economic catastrophe
This week two years ago, while Allied tanks rumbled into Baghdad, the collapse of Saddam's infamous statue symbolised the fall of a dictatorship. But have the two intervening years brought Iraqis freedom? Ploughing through political, social and (...)

07 - 04 - 2005
Covering up Iraq
American news coverage of Iraq remains woefully deficient, writes Zaid Al-Ali* On 12 March 2005, a study of news coverage of the war in Iraq, which concludes that United States newspapers were broadly objective in their reporting, was published by (...)

24 - 03 - 2005
Whither Falluja?
In the end, the offensive in Falluja did not have the impact that many had expected, writes Zaid Al-Ali* On 19 November 2004 -- 11 days after the US military launched a massive assault on Falluja -- a top American commander stated that the assault (...)

09 - 12 - 2004
Forgetting Iraq
Zaid Al-Ali* embarks on a different course in life after a visit to his native Iraq It was just as people around the world started believing that the situation was improving, and just as they had started shifting their attention to other matters (...)

07 - 10 - 2004
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