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It would not be entirely true to say that Iraq has never really seen any stability since the European mandate gobbled up what was left of the Ottoman writ over the area after the first world war. As recently as the time of Saddam Hussein’s predecessor at the presidency, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (1968-79), most commentators […]