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Dr [[Farid Ayar]] is a member of the [[Iraqi Independent Electoral Commission]] and a veteran reporter who left the state [[Iraqi News Agency]] in the early 1990s and later became secretary-general of the [[Federation of Arab News Agencies]] (FANA). Ayar returned to Baghdad as soon as Saddam Hussein was deposed and, in April 2005, began developing the [[National Iraqi News Agency]] (NINA) in collaboration with [[IREX]]’s director of media programs in Iraq, [[Joe Raffelberg]].[http://www.irex.org/newsroom/news/2005/1025_iraq.asp]
After the 2005 Iraqi elections, Farid Ayar assured the media that “neither the U.S. nor any other foreign nation intervened in our pure and honest election. I know of no such allegations.” [http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050725fa_fact]
==External Sources==
*Dahr Jamail, "[http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=7152 What They're Not Telling You About the...]", ''Znet'', February 01, 2005. *Seymour Hersh, "[http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050725fa_fact Get out the vote: Did Washington try to manipulate Iraq’s election?]", ''The New Yorker'', July 18, 2005.
[[Category:Iraq]][[Category:Media]]
