The newspaper is published by Udayy Saddam Husseyn, the president's son. On 25 April, the newspaper published a report that the Iraq Central Bank was intending to issue a large banknote. After the Central Bank's denial of the news item, the dinar recovered slightly on foreign exchange markets. Although there is no direct evidence of this, one only need compare the rapid ascent of his younger brother, Qusayy, with Udayy's relative anonymity over the last few months.
Arab sources tend to present a different, less sectarian, picture.
As Abu Al-Nasr poses the issue, both cases involve classical geopolitics. And both cases also involve preserving the status quo. The basic question involved in the Kosova conflict is one of ethnic cleansing, not of religion. It is odd that the Assyrian Network would not make this distinction, especially since the Assyrians of Iraq have themselves been exposed to ethnic cleansing. In the Yugoslavia of Milosevic, the Kosovars are being subject to ethnic cleansing not because they are Muslim, but because they are not Serbs.