2/05/2005
One of Saddam's Men Speaks Out on the Elections
Iraq elections, democratic practice but ... by Ahmed Janabi
When Baghdad was occupied on 9 April 2003, the last Iraqi ambassador of Saddam Hussein`s government to the UN, Muhammad al-Duri, declared that the game was over.
A journalist, university professor and statesman who served as an Iraqi delegate to the UN from 1999 to 2003, he left Iraq in 1999 to act as Iraq`s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Switzerland before he was moved to New York where he remained until he resigned after the occupation of Iraq.
When Baghdad was occupied on 9 April 2003, the last Iraqi ambassador of Saddam Hussein`s government to the UN, Muhammad al-Duri, declared that the game was over.
A journalist, university professor and statesman who served as an Iraqi delegate to the UN from 1999 to 2003, he left Iraq in 1999 to act as Iraq`s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Switzerland before he was moved to New York where he remained until he resigned after the occupation of Iraq.