Iraqi anti-war activist urges withdrawal

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By BILL MONTGOMERY
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 05/17/06

An Iraqi labor organizer who says he endured torture under Saddam Hussein is touring the eastern United States, telling anti-war audiences that life in today's Iraq is far worse and bloodier with sectarian violence because of the American-led invasion that overthrew Saddam.

"Instead of one bad person running Iraq, today we have tens of bad people doing lots of killing," said Samir Adil, referring to civil strife by sectarian Sunni and Shiite militias who he said kill each other as well as civilians, children, Iraqi soldiers and foreign — mostly U.S. — troops amid failed public services and garbage rotting in the streets.

Adil, co-founder of the Iraqi Freedom Congress, is on a tour sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, the traditionally anti-war Quakers. He was invited to Atlanta to address a Tuesday night meeting at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta in DeKalb County.

Adil insists that only a quick withdrawal of U.S. and coalition "occupation" troops can begin to end the violence ..

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