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...hatred they sow among the victims, nations and people will come back to haunt us." ABDULLAH AHMAD BADAWI, Prime Minister of Malaysia, warning of repercussions from abuse in U.S. military prisons...
...June 30. The assignment has made Brahimi the man to see in Iraq, even as what he calls an "impossible" security situation makes it too dangerous for him to move around. "Sometimes he sighs, and it's like that east wind coming out of his lungs," says aide Ahmad Fawzi. "The longer the day, the longer the sigh. You can see the weight of the world on his shoulders. Sometimes I just want to put my arms around him and tell him it's going to be all right...
...intelligence community--the I.N.A. continues to receive CIA funding--Allawi is a reassuring figure to the White House, which hopes to maintain influence over Iraq's future through its ties to the new body's most powerful executive. The CIA has long backed him over his voluble rival, Ahmad Chalabi, to whom Allawi is related by marriage. A Brahimi aide claims that Allawi's appointment also received Sistani's blessing, which the U.S. hopes may earn him some quick credibility. But some Iraqi leaders say Allawi's ties to U.S. intelligence and the widely unpopular Governing Council will undermine...
...White House meeting in late April opened with the presentation of a seven-page, single-spaced memo titled "Marginalizing Chalabi." Drafted by the National Security Council (NSC), the document detailed three options for sidelining the controversial Iraqi political figure Ahmad Chalabi--methods ranging from gently pushing him offstage to cutting off U.S. funds for his intelligence-gathering operation. Once a Pentagon favorite to lead Iraq, Chalabi had been criticizing Washington for dragging out the transfer of power to Iraqis. It was time for Chalabi...
...Ahmad Chalabi likes to sleep in. He does his work at night, engaging in endless back-room meetings and talk sessions that often drag on past midnight. On most days he rises late and eats breakfast alone--but last Thursday his wake-up call came early. At 10 a.m., five armored humvees pulled up outside Chalabi's two-story house in west Baghdad. While U.S. soldiers cordoned off the street, seven Iraqi police officers broke down the front door and stormed the living room...