VOL. XLVI

No 20

19-May-2003

Arab Press Review

Political Stalemate In Iraq

(MEES Translation)

The following is an article by Harun Muhammad (an Iraqi nationalist writer living in London) entitled The Group Of Five In Baghdad Are Caught In A Vicious Circle that was published in al-Quds al-Arabi on 12 May.

The meetings that Masud Barzani (chairman of the Kurdish Democratic Party KDP), Iyad Alawi (secretary-general of the Iraqi National Alliance INA), Ahmad al-Chalabi (leader of the Iraqi National...