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...measure, an election whose credibility is questioned by substantial sections of the Iraqi population and the international community could do more harm than good. And the prospect of the January deadline producing a flawed election has led observers from UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and Jordan's Crown Prince Abdullah to Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry to urge a postponement. But the flip-side of the coin may be equally dangerous: the consequences of not holding the election on schedule could add the prospect of massive Shiite unrest to the security challenge posed by multiple insurgencies, and leave the Allawi...
...head-scarf ban, officials from the main Islamic organizations in France were dispatched to Baghdad to attempt to contact the insurgents and negotiate a release. President Jacques Chirac launched an all-out diplomatic push too, sending Foreign Minister Michel Barnier on a whirlwind tour of Arab capitals. King Abdullah II of Jordan and the Qatar Foreign Minister called on the Iraqi Islamic Army - which is believed to have abducted and executed Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni last month after Italy failed to meet demands to pull its troops from Iraq - to free the hostages. Even Hamas, which earlier in the week...
...Value of jewelry presented as gifts to President Bush, his family and aides in 2003 by Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah; gifts of more than $285 become federal property...
...critical to act quickly. Of the 52 hostages who have been abducted in the past year, 35 have been freed, most in the first days after capture. In Rifat's case, the top Canadian representative in Baghdad could offer little help, so Rifat's brother-in-law Abdullah al-Khazraji has taken charge. Venturing almost daily into the netherworld of Fallujah, the restive Sunni city where many of the hostages end up, al-Khazraji has met an assortment of shadowy informants. Some claim to know Rifat's whereabouts; others say they can deliver him for cash. "I feel like...
...could take the city, but we would have to kill everyone in it." MOHAMMED ABDULLAH AL-SHAHWANI, Iraq's director of national intelligence, on the difficulty of dealing with stubborn insurgents in the city of Fallujah...