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...seize power and seek U.S. backing. Former U.S.-appointed Prime Minister Iyad Allawi suggested on Iraqi TV last weekend that Iraqi political leaders, despite being marginalized by the Iraqi electorate, might have to create an extra-constitutional ?emergency government.? One of his key allies, acting speaker of parliament Adnan Pachachi, told reporters that such a government would not be based either on the constitution or on the election results - results, he claimed, which didn't necessarily reflect the true will of the Iraqi people . Such a move would likely provoke a violent Shi'ite reaction, if not full-scale civil...
...Carroll was kidnapped Saturday in a notorious neighborhood of Iraq?s capital. A flurry of gunmen wielding pistols surrounded her car just about a 1,000 feet from the office of a prominent Sunni politician that she had just left. Carroll had reportedly been there to interview Adnan al-Dulaimi, the leader of the Iraqi Accordance Front, a Sunni political party. He wasn?t there and she left after waiting between 20 and 30 minutes. According to the driver and witnesses, the gunmen forced the driver to stop, then pulled him out of the car, piled in and drove away...
...Prime Minister Abd Mutlaq al-Juburi, a former Baathist general under Saddam; Ala Makki, a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Iraqi Islamic party, the largest Sunni political group; Dr. Hatem al-Mukhlis, a secular New York-based doctor and ally of former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi; and Sheikh Adnan al-Janabi, a secularist tribal leader and expert on petroleum...
Homegrown bombers remain rare, but U.S. and Iraqi military officials are backing away from previous claims that suicide operations are the exclusive preserve of foreign jihadis. "I won't be surprised if there are Iraqis out there who are following the example of foreigners," says Colonel Adnan al-Juboori, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry. Marwan claims he knows of 15 Iraqis who have blown themselves up this year, and he believes there are "hundreds of others" like him who are waiting for the opportunity. Last week al-Zarqawi's group announced that it had set up a separate brigade...
...third video, discovered inside one of the Marcoses' semiofficial New York residences, showed Imelda, in black velvet and diamonds, as hostess at a dinner party for Saudi Arabian Billionaire Adnan Khashoggi in a plush Manhattan town house. "You have contributed a lot," says her guest in a gallant toast. "History will judge...