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Iraq report
6 April 2001, Volume  4, Number  11

 London's "Al-Sharq Al-Awsat" reported on 30 March that Kurdish historian and scholar
Muhammad Jamil Bandi Al-Rusbayani, 88, had been murdered with an axe in Baghdad on
27 March. He reportedly had received international support for his research. Following the
coup in 1968, Al-Rusbayani was an advisor to the committee on the affairs of the north,
which was then chaired by current President Saddam Husseyn. He also worked in several
committees of the Kurdish department of the Iraqi Scientific Academy and has published
several works on history, language, and literature.
(David Nissman)
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