The electricity is out again, so the middle-aged Iraqi man leads his foreign visitor by lantern light into the guest room of his home. Abu Mustafa, as he asked to be called, lives in a simple house in a middle-class Iraqi neighbourhood. But the simplicity of his home and the traditional long Arab gown he wears belie his stature as a man who knows a great deal. Abu Mustafa was once a colonel in the Iraqi army. Now he’s involved in the fight to oust foreign troops from his country. He agreed to an interview in which he explained what the real armed Iraqi resistance, the muqawma, is all about. Full Story