And if one of these officials had been assassinated by the Mahdi militia or any of these other Sunni rebels, It would have been devastating for American foreign policy. So these six guys had to stay alive. And I protected a guy named Ibrahim El Jafri, who was a deputy vice president who became the first democratically elected prime minister in the history of Iraq. And if you remember the pictures with people holding their fingers up, the purple with the indelible ink. Yeah. There's a picture of him standing in this, the press center in Baghdad holding his finger up. (36:03–36:14)
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Asserts that Ibrahim El Jafri was the first democratically elected prime minister of Iraq.
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