Arif Babul - U.S.-Iraq ProCon.org

"...foreigners cannot dictate the details of the kind of society that emerges; they must necessarily be worked out by the Iraqis themselves, forged out of the conditions and needs particular to Iraq."

"Iraq Crisis and Its Global Implications for Muslims,"
April 16, 2003 speech at the University of Victoria

Name:	Arif Babul, Ph.D.
Title:	Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria
Position:	No position found to the question "Should the U.S. have attacked Iraq?"
Reasoning:	"...foreigners cannot dictate the details of the kind of society that emerges; they must necessarily be worked out by the Iraqis themselves, forged out of the conditions and needs particular to Iraq." "Iraq Crisis and Its Global Implications for Muslims," April 16, 2003 speech at the University of Victoria
Credibility/ Ranking:	Experts PhD's, JD's (lawyers), Judges, Members of Congress, Ambassadors, Consulate Generals, heads of government, Cabinet-level positions, military generals/admirals, Chief Weapons Inspectors, members of legislative bodies with significant involvement in, or related to, the U.S.- Iraq conflict.
Involvement:	7/97-present - Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria 8/00-present - Director, Canadian Computational Cosmology Collaboration 5/07-8/07; 1/05-5/05 - Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Oxford & University of Durham 6/05 - Visiting Scientist, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India 6/05-8/05; 6/04-8/04 - Visiting Professor, Astronomy Department, University of Washington 12/04 - Visiting Scientist, “Galaxy-Intergalactic Medium Interactions” workshop, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara 8/01-6/04 - Principal Investigator and Coordinator, Experimental Laboratory for Instrument Development in Astrophysics, University of Victoria/Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics 9/02-12/02 - CITA Senior Fellow, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto
Education:	Ph.D., Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, 1989 B.A.Sc., Engineering Science, University of Toronto, 1985
Relevant Affiliations:	1999-2002 - Member, National Research Council's Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics Advisory Board Director and Founding Member, NSERC Collaborative Research Opportunity Initiative Awarded University of Victoria's Faculty of Science Award for Research Excellence, 2004
Contact Info:	Phone: 250-721-8844 FAX: 250-721-7715 E-Mail: babul@uvic.ca Web Site: http://visav.phys.uvic.ca/~babul
Other:	Select Publications: "Progress Towards Understanding the Global and Structural X-Ray Properties of Galaxy Clusters," Galaxy-Intergalactic Medium Interactions, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, December 9, 2004 "On the Intracluster Medium in Clusters" (with co-authors Ian G. McCarthy and Greg B. Poole), presented at the Multiwavelength Cosmology International Conference, Mykonos Island, Greece, June 17 - 20, 2003 "A Semi-analytic Model of Halo Dynamics" (with co-author James E. Taylor), A New Era in Cosmology, ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 283