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KCBS IN Depth: Iraqi Parliament Member Once Sentenced to Death by Hussein


Source: kcbs
February 11, 2006

(San Francisco KCBS)--A man once sentenced to death for opposing Saddam Hussein is now a member of the Iraqi parliament.

Younadam Kanna founded Iraq's Assyrian Democratic Movement in 1979. In 1982 Kanna joined with other anti regime leaders and he says in 1984 in absentia and without a trial, he was sentenced to death.

But today Kanna serves in Iraq's parliament hoping to help move his country toward democracy.

Kanna spoke with KCBS' Mike Pulsipher and Kanna conceded that Iraqis currently cannot even provide their own day to day security. "Our police, our security, our army don't know enough to take over the responsibility and even the police which we have now is infiltrated by the enemy, by the bad guys," he said.

Kanna says he believes the rest of the world sometimes gets a distorted picture of life today in Iraq and he is especially critical of the media in the Middle East including the well known Al Jazeera. Kanna says it and other outlets often ignore the positive and dwell on the negative.

To hear this complete interview tune in Sunday at 8:30 am and 8:30 pm for KCBS "In Depth."

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