What We Left Behind The New Yorker, By Dexter Filkins Published: APRIL 28, 2014 مقالة مطولة ل دكستر فيلكنز نشرته مجلة نيويوركر عما خلفه الاحتلال الأمريكي للعراق وراءه، نشر يتاريخ 28 أبريل/نيسان 2104 An increasingly authoritarian leader, a return of sectarian violence, and a nation worried for its future. On Christmas Day last year, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki appeared on Iraqi television to wish his country’s Christian minority—which has been fleeing by the thousand since the American invasion, in 2003—a happy holiday. Maliki, who is sixty-three, wore a dark-blue suit and a purple tie, and stood almost perfectly still at a lectern flanked by Iraqi flags. His long face conveyed, as it almost always does, a look of utter joylessness. Having spent much of his life hunted by assassins, Maliki gives the impression of a man who learned long ago to ruthlessly suppress his feelings. “He never smiles, he never says thank you, and I’ve never seen him say, ‘I’m sorry,’ ” a longtime associate of Maliki’s told me. For Maliki, the holiday greetings were a pretext. What he really wanted to talk about was protests unfolding in Anbar Province, west of Baghdad. “Thank God, the truth has been revealed,” he said. لمتابعة قراءة التقرير على الرابط: Continue Reading: nyr.kr/1tpQ7f9 #معاً_ضد_الارهاب #مصر #الجزائر #تونس #المغرب #السودان #ليبيا #الصومال #السعودية #سوزيا #العراق #الأردن #فلسطين #لبنان #البحرين #الكويت #الإمارات #اليمن #عُمان #القاهرة #عمّان #دبي #بيروت #غزة_تنتصر #غزة #Gaza #القدس #دمشق #بغداد #داعش
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