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Basra. Later, I saw even worse conditions all over Iraq. My
people had no shoes, no clothing, no food. They were sick all
the time. They earned just enough to keep from dying on the
streets. I love my people. Marxism is the only answer."
I nodded. There was little else I could do or say under the
circumstances. With the radical I was a radical; with the Communist I was pro-Communist; with the Fascist, pro-Fascist;
with the anti-Zionist, anti-Jewish. All these and many other
roles I had assumed to survive.
THE WOMAN IN BLACK—SYMBOL OF ISLAM
ONE day I gained an additional insight into the Moslem
social code. My informant was a neatly dressed university
graduate, twenty-six years of age, whom I shall call Sabaa. He
was a member of the Arabic Club, whose avowed pro-German
leader late