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Raed, who had already checked Baghdad's morgues, drove the next day to a U.S. military base to ask if his brother was being held there. An Iraqi translator suggested he try the detention center at Baghdad international airport, where a soldier told Raed to return the next day to another entrance. There, hundreds of Iraqis stood for hours in 120º heat, searching for relatives. Finally, an American woman tapped Mohammed's name into a laptop computer but came up with nothing. She told Raed to try the Republican Palace; there a U.S. soldier turned him back. Overhearing his plight...
Almost no one noticed when a large jet swooped over the military mess hall at the Baghdad airport last Thursday evening. The 1st Armored Division's big brass band was noodling through jazz standards like Take the A Train while 550 soldiers sat at refectory tables, looking hungry and impatient to return to their camps so they could call their families for Thanksgiving. Finally, L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. proconsul in Iraq, took the stage and asked if there was anyone in the room more senior than he who could read the President's Thanksgiving message to the troops. There...
...rate, the worst in Colorado since state officials began keeping count six years ago. Hospitals are packed, and school attendance has dropped 30% in some districts. With more hacking coughers passing through the metal detectors at Denver International Airport, security screeners are being careful to change their latex gloves frequently. Texas and Nevada have also seen a surge in cases...
...woman to receive the Peace Prize, and the honor has stirred pride and joy in millions of others from Rabat to Kuala Lumpur. Ebadi was in Paris when the award was announced in October, and when she returned to Tehran, thousands of Iranians, mainly women, turned out at the airport to welcome her home with tears, songs and carnations. "I don't have the same courage as Mrs. Ebadi," says Zahra, a 60-year-old sociologist. "But now when I walk in the street, I stand taller." Ebadi's Nobel is proof that while Muslim women continue to endure severe...
...FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP-GETTY IMAGES SPORTS MECCA The city has no mosques. Plans to build one near the airport fizzled; the Orthodox church claims it will taint the skyline...