Rationally connected varieties and fundamental groups

On a rationally connected variety we would like to use rational curves to obtain a similar result. Complete intersection curves are essentially never rational. (For instance, if X ⊂ P is a hypersurface then a general complete intersection with hyperplanes is rational iff X is a hyperplane or a quadric.) Therefore we have to proceed in a quite different way. Let X be a smooth, projective, rationally connected variety over C and X ⊂ X an open set whose complement is a normal crossing divisor ∑