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Spokesman for Iraqi PM Resigns Over Decade-Old Singing in Name of Saddam

© Photo : Twitter/Mustafa al-Najafi Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi's spokesman Rafid Jaboori
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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi's spokesman Rafid Jaboori has resigned over a video showing him singing praises of Saddam Hussein over 15 years ago.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – In a Friday Facebook post the spokesman admitted that more than 15 years ago, he did sing a song in the name of Saddam, as he had to "meet the requirements of living at that time."

I didn't want to further embarrass the prime minister's office… so I requested I be relieved and that was done. I owe you even though most of you do not know me personally

Posted by ‎رافد جبّوري — Rafid Jaboori‎ on Saturday, 18 April 2015

Jaboori, who became Abadi's spokesman less than six months ago and who was a BBC journalist before that, apologized for having offended anyone, stressing that despite his praises of Saddam Hussein, he was not a member of the Baath party.

A US-led coalition launched a military operation against Hussein's government in March, 2003. According to the American leadership, the invasion, dubbed Operation Iraqi Freedom by the United States, aimed to eliminate weapons of mass destruction believed to have been held by the late Iraqi leader. The subsequent Iraq War claimed the lives of more than 100,000 civilians between 2003 and 2011, according to the Iraq Body Count database.

In October, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Islamic State extremists, who have ceased vast areas in Iraq and Syria, could be drawing power from former activists from Saddam Hussein's Baath Party.

I am a convergence jbwry, spokesman for the Prime Minister's Office, Dr. Haider Abadi.. I'll admit I before more than 15 years sing a song national received in the name of saddam, and I have to meet the requirements of living at that time, and is known for each of the ead= conditions Iraq before 2003..
And tell all of trying to take advantage of this fact which have mlayyn iraqis, such experiences must be put in pcob, and do not use so bad, it is from ʿraqyy inside was able to protect himself independently of Saddam and His blood and its brutal
Was it =crosshairs, i'll admit I apologize if I offended anyone.

, I was young and wisdom. But I am even at that time, I was not a member of the baath party and I am not mission, now.
Yeah, I admit that I made that song, but I did not expect to this story interactions, there has been a long time ago.

I chose work along with Dr. Abadi do not he looks like my dreams. And like the future I think and for that I decided to do with all my loyalty to him and home. But I find it I have to apologize today because I did not know about the song or anything for that when she picked me for spokesman obtainment media.

Who knows me knows my if I despite the hardship alleviator struggled and I graduated from High School Baghdad school first in iraq, and then I got engineering degree from the university of technology.
And my life. I did not cause or going to inflict harm that one.
Then ʿrftmw I press in a medium major global is albi bai, then watch betmoon adayy at the site of the spokesperson, do you have any observations?

Posted by ‎رافد جبّوري — Rafid Jaboori‎ on Thursday, 16 April 2015
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