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Lying on a beaten-up hospital bed with two bullets in his right leg, Amar Ali Najim has plenty to complain about. A few hours earlier, the Baghdad policeman had responded to reports that a gang of thieves was menacing a market. Arriving on the scene, Najim and his colleagues walked straight into a trap, presumably set by the gunmen who shot him and two other cops. But even in his current state, immobile and connected to an intravenous drip, Najim, 37, is upbeat. Things in Iraq are getting better, he says: "The violence has dropped by half. We still...
...truth, there are three possible paths to an Iraqi provisional government, and each has problems. The easiest and worst would be to simply turn over authority to the current Governing Council, which has too many questionable Iraqi exiles like Ahmed Chalabi and too little input from the Grand Ayatullah Ali Sistani, the most powerful Shi?a cleric, or the general Sunni populace. The Bush Administration's chosen path is more responsible but too slow-write a new constitution, have a referendum on that constitution and then hold general elections. Colin Powell has set a six-month target for the constitution...
...Gaza Strip. The violence came just before Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Conflict of Interest ALGERIA The governmental crisis deepened as the main political party, the National Liberation Front (FLN), withdrew five ministers from the coalition cabinet. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika fired FLN leader Ali Benflis as PM in May, and sacked five other FLN ministers last month. The U.N. Moves In LIBERIA Fighting between rebels and government forces in Monrovia marred the formal takeover by the U.N. of peacekeeping duties. The 3,500 members of the interim West African force already in Liberia formed the nucleus...
...SENTENCED. Ali Imron, 33, key planner of last year's Bali bombing; to life in prison for "planning, conspiring and organizing an act of terrorism"; in Denpasar, Indonesia. Imron is the third principal in the Bali case-including his older brother Amrozi-to be sentenced. He has expressed remorse, leading a panel of five judges to spare him from execution...
...about the time that Al Capone wanted to meet him after a match, but he refused, because he ‘knew that guy was nothing but trouble.’ Or, he’d tell us about the time he was referee for a match with Mohammed Ali, and he had to tell him to quit goofing around and box properly...