Q&A: Ninewa Gov. Atheel Nujaifi

The capital city of this province is Iraq's second-largest city by population and was a major center in the Ottoman Empire, but it is best known today for being home to the last Iraqi vestiges of al-Qaida.Ninewa Governor Atheel Nujaifi, however, is less interested in the past or present than the future.He claims the central government hasn't invested enough here, and so Nujaifi is striking a deal with Iraq's Kurdish leadership, once his political enemies, to provide electricity and chann...