The State Department, with its own minister for three presidential terms, has failed to recover an Iraqi national security officer who was unjustly arrested and persecuted for purely political reasons by a regional neighboring country. Nor was it due to the voice of the people he was supposed to represent to the world, nor to the demands of the Legislative Council represented by the Parliament. The Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs has become a stock agency of the Kakahi Barzani family and not a federal Iraqi office that represents the Iraqis!