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Iraqis React to Sunday's Election
ResumeIraq's interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi pronounced the election a major victory over terrorism. The hope now is that the newly elected representatives will be seen as legitimate leaders and will manage to forge a functioning democracy in the country.
Hear reactions from Iraqi citizens about their first free election in nearly half a century.
Guests:
Anthony Shadid, Pulitzer Prize winning Islamic Affairs correspondent for the Washington Post;
Anwar Aljebor, director of the government sponsored radio station Radio Al-Nahrain and resident of Basra;
Wamidth Nadhmi, Professor of Political Science at Baghdad University and spokesman for Iraqi Foundation Congress, a political party that included representatives from various ethnic and religious groups;
Sanaa Tarik, Director of the Independent Iraqi Woman's Organization
Falah Mustafa, Minister of State in the Kurdistan Regional Government and life long resident of Northern Iraq;
Wafaa' Al-Natheema, translator and founder of the Institute of Near Eastern and African Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts;
Michael Ignatieff, Director of the Carr Center of Human Rights Policy at Harvard University
This program aired on January 31, 2005.