Q&A: Ninewa Gov. Atheel Nujaifi
The powerful Mosul leader wants to move past the days of al-Qaida, and is demanding help from Baghdad, Kurdistan, Turkey and Exxon to get there.
Atheel Nujaifi, the governor of Ninewa province, in his office in Mosul. (KAMARAN NAJM/Iraq Oil Report/Metrography)
MOSUL - The capital city of this province is Iraq's second-largest city by population and was a major center in the Ottoman Empire, but it is best known today for being home to the last Iraqi vestiges of al-Qaida.
Ninewa Governor Atheel Nujaifi, however, is less interested in the past or present than the future.
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