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...nothing against Shi'ites ... our dead are buried with theirs, as theirs are buried with ours in Fallujah," says insurgent commander Abu Saif. It's a sentiment echoed by the Sadrist leaders, who bear scars from dueling with the U.S. "We have many relationships binding us together," says Abu Zainab...
...motives. The concert, according to its website, was organized with “guidance and logistical support” from the American Islamic Congress (AIC). Supporters of the concert may be surprised to know that the AIC was a vocal supporter of the Iraq invasion. In 2002, AIC director Zainab al-Suwaij stated her position clearly: “The real question is not whether to liberate Iraq, but why we have not done so already.” In a Los Angeles Times op-ed, al-Suwaij wrote: “On behalf of Iraqis who cannot speak openly...
...Zainab Salbi was a terrified teenager in Baghdad during the war between Iran and Iraq. Bombs routinely fell around her house. Years later, as a 23-year-old student at George Mason University in Virginia, she read a TIME article about the systematic rape of Bosnian women by Serbian soldiers, and it moved her to action. "I grew up in a war, so I was drawn to suffering," she says. Within six months, having raised $2,000 with the help of a local Unitarian church, she traveled to Bosnia, determined to do something. Today Salbi's group, Women for Women...
...Zainab Hawa Bangara from Sierra Leone, a former member of the U.N. Development Project Sierra Leone Task Force who has been an active fighter for decentralization of government and against poverty in her country, spoke of the particular power women had in mediation of conflict in Sierra Leone...
...cancer, reduced fertility, miscarriages and children born with congenital defects. In the southern Basra province, multiple congenital malformation cases have shot up from 37 in 1990 to 301 in 2002. "We have a generation of children that are going to die too soon," says Dr. Jnana Ghalib Hassan, Zainab's pediatrician. "First the Americans poisoned our land, and now we are being denied medicines to help these people...