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To: John Carragher who wrote (112953)	8/26/2003 11:21:02 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

re: English print Iraq daily paper for your future reference: from their website: Seed funding from Iraq Today comes from Mina Corp, a British private investment firm. Iraq Today is aimed at four readership groups: English speaking resident Iraqis, expatriates, non-resident diaspora Iraqis and non-resident investors and potential investors. An international audience is also being captured via our website. Iraq Today is owned by Mina Corp, a UK based private investment group, and Hussain Sinjari, the proprietor of the Al-Ahali Media Group, a committed democrat who has fought political oppression in Iraq for more than 25 years. Hussain Sinjari is a Kurd who lives in Erbil, Kurdistan, and is a former Minister for Municipalities in Iraqi Kurdistan- KDP. He now runs the Iraqi Institute for Democracy (IID). THE VISION OF THE BRIDGE: iraq-democracy.org For now, the IID is obliged to depend on funding, mostly from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), in Washington, and the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, in London, but also from the Kurdish parliament. 216.239.51.104 Sinjari, amiable and optimistic when speaking about the future of democracy in Iraq, becomes frustrated as the discussion shifts towards the growing international anti-war movement, which he feels has missed the point. "They are expressing their feelings against war and for peace. But at the same time they are not talking against dictatorship in Iraq. This is missing from their message." "You talk about peace?" Sinjari asks. "Yes. Of course. Yes to peace. But what about dictatorship? What about Saddam and making him open up? Making the government reform?" Sinjari quickly rattles off more outrages. "What about the liberties of the people? What about democracy? What about the freedom of the press? The political freedoms -- but also the individual freedoms in Iraq? This is missing from these peace movements." "With all of my respect and appreciation -- but their message is wrong," he says. "Stop war? Okay. Make peace? Okay. But then, that shouldn't be a full stop; that should be a comma. Then also demand freedom for the Iraqi people. Because without that, indeed, the message is wrong." 216.239.51.104 Interestingly, he was against the sanctions, but for the invasion.