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Former Iraqi Leader Jalal Talabani Dies at 83

HeadlineOct 04, 2017

Former Iraqi president and Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani has died. Talabani became Iraq’s first non-Arab president in 2005, at the height of the U.S.-led occupation. Talabani’s supporters credit him with smoothing over Iraq’s sectarian tensions, but his government was repeatedly accused of operating death squads and torture centers.

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