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...charge, ex-deputy minister Ahmed Rashid Gailini, was disliked by many of his subordinates for his ties to Saddam's regime. Rather than dismiss Gailini, Carney had persuaded him to step down and put his name up for re-election against another candidate, Mohammed Abdul Mujib, a ministry official in charge of investment. Carney and the two candidates left the room, and the attendees began a vigorous debate and then voted. When the results were announced, Abdul Mujib was in; Gailini was out. The vote was 38 to 2. U.S. officials had already dismissed four other Industry Ministry officials, either...
...Hussein hospital, 35 bodies have been brought in since the city fell April 6, many dismembered by a cluster-bomblet blast, according to chief surgeon Ali Iziz Ali. An additional 50 have been treated for fractures and deep, narrow puncture wounds, typical of the weapons. Karbala civil-defense chief Abdul Kareem Mussan says his men are harvesting about 1,000 cluster bombs a day in places Myers said were not targets...
Saudi Arabian Defense Minister Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz must have privately cheered last week after the U.S. announced that thousands of its troops stationed in his country would soon be gone. Their posting has long been a prickly political matter for the Saudis and has provided a fat target for al-Qaeda's propaganda. Osama bin Laden considered the foreign military presence sacrilegious and made the removal of U.S. soldiers a central objective of his holy war against the West...
...Last year, after being elected chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir state, Mufti Mohammed Sayeed dismantled the feared special forces responsible for most of the abuses. In Srinagar, Kashmir's ancient lakeside city, some Muslim elders are encouraged by the words of peace emanating from New Delhi and Islamabad. Abdul Ghani Bhat, chairman of the separatist All Parties Hurriyat Conference, an alliance of 26 Kashmiri separatist parties and groups, said he was "optimistic" about the future. "The boys with guns will have to fall in line," said Bhat. "They will have to listen to reason." For now, the spectacle...
...than form a government themselves, the five - the leaders of the two main Kurdish parties, Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani; Ahmed Chalabi from the Pentagon-backed Iraqi National Congress; Iyad Allawi, head of the Iraqi National Accord, an exile organization of Iraqi officials who defected from the regime; and Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, a leader of the Iran-based Shiite organization the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq - are calling for a national assembly toward the end of the month to elect an interim government that would serve for two years and organize democratic elections. But given...