Genial-looking and soft-spoken, Faily spent most of his adult life in Britain, working for various information technology companies and advocating the ouster of Saddam Hussein. After the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, he returned to Baghdad, finding work at the Foreign Ministry; then, in 2010, he was appointed Iraq’s envoy to Tokyo. Now, as the new ambassador to the U.S., he has spent his first weeks in Washington walking the halls of Capitol Hill, attempting to persuade skeptical lawmakers that what Iraq really needs is more arms.
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