“Everyone wants to kill me! The Americans want to kill me, the Shiites want to kill me, the Kurds want to kill me and even the insurgents.... Every night a different car passes by my house.”

— Fakhri al-Qaisi

"A Nation in Blood and Ink" by Dexter Filkins, The New York Times, August 14, 2005
Commenting on the suspicions against him due to his roles as member of the constitutional committee, and as a Sunni Muslim who knows people with ties to the Iraqi insurgency.

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