dr. rafe al-issawi. rafe was born near falluja, trained and rose to become the head of the falluja hospital including most famously during the november 2004 battle for solution. he was elected in 2005. in 2006 he became minister for foreign affairs. in 2008 deputy prime minister of iraq in 2010 finance. 2012-13 rafe came under attack. his bodyguards were arrested. he was the target of the assassination and he was forced to resign from the government. he is the personification of the events that led to the alienation of the community of 2012 and 2013. to my immediate right is governor tran 11. board of muslim he has degrees in engineering and lott also found out looking that good i/o that in 2009 governor atheel became the governor of the province and at that time it was a tremendously important events in iraq and i can do your early adventures of early adventures on we took over the governorship, which i think were critical in broaching were breaching the difference is between sunni and kurds. still the

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dr. rafe al-issawi and governor atheel al-nujayfi. [applause] >> good morning, everybody.ould like first to thank my friend ken for this invitation and thank you all for your attendance. and if i would especially to thank my colleague and my old friend. when i was director of the fallujah hospital. please raise your hand, thank you very much. the only cause i make my comments on powerpoint is to make it easier for you on specific topics on the situation in iraq. i agree with mr. ken in order to talk about five things to defeat extremism in iraq to start building back, we have to describe exactly what's going on in the ground on iraq now on political, security and others. so now i'll talk about defeating extremism and building back because you're talking about almost fragile damage state in iraq. both on the isis site on daesh are on the malicious site. simply i put this up to give the impression what it looks like the indirect. in order not to repeat -- [inaudible] we have to do the exact defense and the causes that led to that situation. i would like you to just focus on