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Love Knows No Boundries- Ghazi al-Yawer |
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Love Knows No Boundries
- Ghazi al-Yawer
17.9.2004
Reporters on the
Job, David Clark Scott, World editor |
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Ghazi al-Yawer |
Love
Knows No Boundries: Baghdad is abuzz over the
reported betrothal of President Ghazi al-Yawer to
Public Works Minister Nesreen Mustafa Berwari, says
staff writer Howard LaFranchi. "No one is sure if
the couple are married or simply engaged.
But more
interesting to Baghdadis than the fact that the
President already has two wives in Saudi Arabia is
that Ms. Berwari is a Kurd, hailing from one of the
Kurdish north's two dominant political parties, the
Kurdish Democratic Party or PDK," says Howard.
"Some seem to suspect the kind of power marriage
that once typified European royalty by trying to
expand influence and territory," he says. With the
minority Kurds and Sunnis (Mr. Yawer's faith) both
planning for elections that are expected to favor
the majority Shiites, some people here see the
marriage as sensible alliance building. |
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" Yawer is a scion of the leader of Iraq's powerful
Shamar tribe, which populates land from Syrian to
Kuwait. Some Iraqis say it's not the time for a
president to be marrying, with bombs going off and
Iraqis dying. But one Iraqi woman told me maybe it
has nothing to do with politics. 'Maybe they just
fell in love despite themselves,' she said. 'Why
not?' "
David Clark Scott
World editor
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