TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 3月20日 23時21分

Deep inside Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone sits the opulent, sprawling edifice that until 2003 served as Saddam Hussein’s Republican Palace. Now, down those same long marble corridors where Saddam once ruled with an iron grip, is the office of Haider al-Abadi, who has been charged with creating a prosperous country out of postwar Iraq. Al-Abadi, 65, seems an unlikely figure to have landed the role. Short and soft-spoken, he does not look like the textbook version of a war hero, yet he has been cast as one in his election campaign. Billboards around #Baghdad highlight his role as Iraq’s military commander in chief, who brought the country back from the brink. An electrical engineer raised in Baghdad, al-Abadi spent more than 20 years in exile in London during Saddam’s regime. He flew home in 2003, just as the U.S. invasion began. As a member first of the governing council and then #Iraq’s parliament, he witnessed firsthand the turmoil that followed 2003, which cost 4,500 American lives and an estimated 460,000 Iraqi ones. In 2014, its fighters seized swaths of territory, including Iraq’s second city, Mosul. With most U.S. combat troops having left the country in 2011, the Iraqi military was badly outgunned, and many fled the jihadists’ path. Al-Abadi was appointed Prime Minister that year, after at least four Iraqi army divisions collapsed in the face of ISIS. Dislodging ISIS took over three years. It was a grueling battle; retaking Mosul involved what U.S. commanders called the deadliest urban combat since World War II. In December, al-Abadi congratulated the country for crushing an "enemy that wanted to kill our civilization." Little more than a month later, he shudders at how close ISIS came to seizing Baghdad itself. "Do not forget, they tried to establish a state in the region," he says, sitting in his Baghdad office with a large map of Iraq on the wall. "And they were not a long distance away from achieving their dream." Al-Abadi now has a much more complex mission: governing his fractured country, while ensuring that ISIS cannot regroup. Read the full story on TIME.com. Photograph by @emanuelesatolli for TIME

[BIHAKUEN]UVシールド(UVShield)

>> 飲む日焼け止め！「UVシールド」を購入する