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...aides, happen every few days. On one level, they have been successful. In their recent operations around Tikrit, U.S. soldiers with the 4th Infantry Division's 1st Brigade--known as the Raiders--have enjoyed several big scores: they helped special forces nab Saddam's trusted aide Abid Hamid Mahmud, seized more than a ton of plastic explosives and hundreds of weapons and uncovered at a farm more than $9 million in cash plus a buried chest of jewels worth more than $1 million that belonged to Saddam's first wife Sajida. But the U.S. forces have been unable to capture...
...houseguest was told to make his bed under the stars because the power had gone out and it was too hot inside without air conditioning. From the rooftop balcony of the two-story house in northern Tikrit where he sought refuge early last week, Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti, the fourth-most-wanted man in Iraq, had a panorama on a life come undone. To the south he could make out the sprawling family farmlands where he used to spend weekends with his boss and cousin, Saddam Hussein. A few miles up the road stood the ex-regime's garish...
...rural area outside Tikrit. She tried to get out of making the trip but was told she knew too much. Two days later, the entourage drove north in 65 cars, staggered in sets of two or three so they would not be conspicuous. Among the passengers was Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti, a cousin and trusted aide of Saddam's, who was arrested in Tikrit by U.S. forces last week...
...take cover. In Mahmudiyah, for instance, the commander of a 150-man Republican Guard unit ordered his troops to leave their tanks in the market and prepare to confront U.S. forces on foot. "The commander--he'd be dead if he'd stayed in those tanks," says Hadi Abid, 47, a worker who watched the scene unfold from a nearby hill...
...apprehended in Hong Kong were two Pakistanis from Peshawar, Sayed Mustajab Shah, 54, and Muhammad Abid Afridi, 29, and Ilyas Ali, 55, a U.S. passport holder who lived in Minnesota from 1974 through 2001. In April, Ali allegedly started negotiations in San Diego to sell hashish and heroin to a buyer, who happened to be an undercover FBI agent. Apparently he then got on a plane to Pakistan to gather his two friends. On Sept. 15, say court papers, the threesome flew from Karachi to Hong Kong and checked into three rooms at the marble-clad Conrad Hotel, where...