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Imagining a Post-Saddam Iraq

Terry talks again to some of the our guests from earlier in the Gulf coverage. Two interviews in this segment:

Iraq emigre Laith Kubba, the leader of the London based group, "The Conference on Human Rights and Democracy in Iraq." He talks with Terry about planning for democracy in a post-Saddam era.

Rashid Khalidi. He's a professor of modern Middle East history at the University of Chicago. He and Terry will be talking about what will become of the Palestinian question, now that Saddam has been defeated and the Palestinian leadership had aligned itself with Saddam.

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Plotting a Course Toward a Stable Iraq

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Rashid Khalidi, the Associate Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago, talks about the recent bombing of Tel Aviv by Iraq -- an attack intended to force Israel to establish a Palestinian state. Khalid discusses why many Palestinian Arabs have aligned themselves with Saddam Hussein.

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