SHAQLAWA, IRAQ: Opposition leaders apparently laid aside their differences and issued a unified appeal Sept.27 to Iraq’s army, ruling Baath Party and citizens to rise up against Saddam Hussein.

Two Kurdish guerrilla leaders, flanked by Shiite clerics in black robes and turbans and a retired Iraqi general in khaki declared support for a “democratic, pluralistic and unified Iraq with Islam as its national faith.”

Article extracted from this publication >> October 9, 1992