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US ambassador to Iraq says country needs a "Mandela"
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 10 - 09 - 2007


Iraq's political reconciliation is seriously
handicapped by the lack of an Iraqi personality such as South
Africa's Nelson Mandela, a top US diplomat said Monday according to DPa.
In long-awaited testimony before the US Congress, the US
ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, described the "animosity and
suspicions" which have fed violent insecurity in Iraq over the past
18 months.
During the decades of oppression by the late Iraqi leader Saddam
Hussein, and in the aftermath since his ouster in 2003, "no Nelson
Mandela emerged," Crocker noted, adding he "would not have survived."
The former apartheid government in South Africa imprisoned Mandela
for 27 years, but he was released in 1990 to oversee one of the most
successful political transformations in world history.
During his presidency from 1994 to 2000, Mandela led the
reconciliation efforts to restrain black majority anger against the
minority whites who had oppressed them.
In Iraq, long-oppressed majority Shiites are now in control of the
government, and minority Sunnis who were once in charge complain that
they are left out of the new power structure. Sunnis are blamed for
carrying out the violent insurgency that makes day-to-day life
dangerous in Iraq, reported DPA.
One sceptical Democratic congressman, Tom Lantos, on Monday
worried that the United States was funding both sides of Iraq's
"religious civil war" by arming and funding Sunni tribes in places
like Anbar.
"Instead of acting as a leader for Iraq as a whole, (Iraqi Prime
Minister Nuri al-) Maliki has} erated as a front man for Shiite
partisans and presided over a Shiite coalition that includes ...
notorious ... death squads and sectarian thugs," Lantos charged, according to DPA.


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