post-Hussein

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The province had enjoyed relative calm in recent years as many war-weary Sunni Arabs across Iraq began to shun an insurgency they once fueled, and bought into the post-Hussein political process they previously considered tainted and dominated by the Shiite majority.

Christian leaders such as Archbishop Sako say Iraqi Christians are caught in the middle as more powerful groups—the majority Shiite Muslims; the Sunni Muslims that dominate in Mosul and further south; and the Kurds in the north, who are predominantly Muslim—jockey for power in post-Hussein Iraq.

Iraq's post-Hussein political structure, a flawed and fragile combination of elections and ethnic and sectarian quotas, has largely kept the country functioning through some of the darkest hours since the U.S.-led invasion.

He saw a role for himself in post-Hussein Iraq: he would publish his opinions, helping steer his country toward a respectful, democratic society in which everyone had the right to speak his or her mind.

The assessment on post-Hussein Iraq included judgments that while Iraq was unlikely to split apart, there was a significant chance that domestic groups would fight each other and that ex-regime military elements could merge with terrorist groups to battle any new government.

Those of us who foresaw an "immensely volatile and complex maze" as a probable eventuality in a post-Hussein Iraq cannot allow those who blithely overlooked such likelihoods to escape a political day of reckoning.

But now that a host of Islamic extremists are jockeying for power in post-Hussein Iraq, Christians from Mosul in the northern part of the country to Basra in the south reportedly feel intimidated and are trying to flee the country.