Back to Iraq ; Iraqi-American with Business Ties to Vancouver Remains Cautiously Optimistic
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As the small Jordanian passenger plane spiraled into its missile- evasion approach to Baghdad International Airport, Nawzad Othman said he sat strapped in his seat wondering what he would find on his trip home. The last time Othman visited Iraq, in 1989, he vowed not to return until the dictator Saddam Hussein was gone.
"Under Saddam, Iraq was transformed into a republic of fear and repression," Othman told a World Affairs Council audience this week. "You could see it in people's eyes, they way they talked, behaved. It's hard for us to comprehend the brutality."See the full content of this document
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Back to Iraq ; Iraqi-American with Business Ties to Vancouver Remains Cautiously Optimistic
Othman left his native land in the late 1950s to study on a scholarship in the United States. A civil engineer and urban designer, he became an American citizen in 1968 and founded and is president of Otak Inc., a Lake Oswego, Ore., engineering firm. His c...
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