VOL. XLVI

No 26

30-June-2003

Arab Press Review

Iraqi Sunni Concerns

(MEES Translation)

The following is extracted from an article by Sami Shursh (Iraqi Kurdish writer) entitled Al-Ramadi, al-Faluja and Baghdad: Resistance Of Arab Islamists Or Sabotage By Saddam? that was published in the daily al-Hayat on 14 June:

Despite the complicated political atmosphere in Iraq these days and the large number of factions resisting or trying to resist the US occupation authority, it is clear that Sunni Islamic...