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Open Discussions
in conjunction
with
Gulf Cultural
Club
Iraq
Five Years On: A Way
Out?
By
Mr.
Michael Binyon*
Journalist
and leader writer for The Times
The
joint American-British occupation of Iraq is five years
old this month and with no sign of ending. Five years on ? Iraq is a broken country with no security, severe power
supply shortages and medical facilities and basic utilities worse than pre-war
saddam era. Violence and insecurity for the Iraqis is the norm with an estimated
million (other Iraqi sources estimates are even higher) Iraqis killed to date.
Mr. Binyon will discuss the reasons behind the failed occupation and what (if
any) is the way out of this quagmire for the
occupation.
* Michael
Binyon has been writing editorials for The
Times since 1991. After a year teaching in Minsk for the
British Council, he joined the Times Educational Supplement in 1968, moving to
the BBC Arabic Service two years later. He joined The Times in 1972, covered the
1973 Middle East war and became a foreign correspondent in 1975. He
reopened the Times bureau in Moscow in 1977, moved to Bonn
in 1982, to Washington as bureau chief in 1985 and then to Brussels in 1989. In 1991 he became the paper's diplomatic
editor, attending most international summits. Educated at Cambridge , he speaks French, German, Russian and some
Arabic, and is a frequent broadcaster on the BBC and overseas television
stations. He has won two British press awards, and has published a book "Life in Russia ". He was awarded the OBE in 2000.
Date:
Tuesday, 15th April 2008
Time: 6.30pm Sharp!
Venue: Abrar House, 45 Crawford Place, Edgware Rd, W1H
4LP.
Dinner will be served.
Free
Admission. However please register your place by sending an email at info@... or
sending a text on 07795 660 438.
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