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There are still traces of yellow-brown powder around the side of the big rusty drum where Ali Awad stores gasoline. Ali says he bought it from a looter. His neighbors think he took it himself. The 50 gallon drum had been full of heavy yellow powder, Ali recalled, but the looter emptied it onto the floor of the store at the Al Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center one day in mid-April when local people literally dismantled Iraq's largest nuclear site. The powder - or yellow cake - could, however, eventually kill Ali and many other locals. It is mined uranium...
...Iraqi objections to Ali Shnan al-Janabi and his ilk are precisely the kind of feedback the Americans say they need in order to rout out the irredeemable. "There will be a vetting process," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said last week. "People will say, 'Well, wait a minute--those people were part of the senior Baath Party,' in which case they'll be taken out." The Garner camp has another fear: that some Iraqis may try to use the de-Baathification process to settle old scores, demanding that a boss be sacked for personal rather than political reasons. But generally...
Similar controversies are brewing on other fronts. Last week a group of Baghdad health-care workers gathered in front of the Palestine Hotel, home to many foreign journalists, to protest the Americans' appointment of Ali Shnan al-Janabi as Health Minister. The workers opposed al-Janabi because he is a branch member of the Baath Party and is suspected of taking money and gifts from the regime. At the State Oil Marketing Organization, a former director says he is refusing to return to work under the U.S.-appointed head of the Oil Ministry, Thamer Ghadhban, because...
...fears among "acceptable" Baathists who are reluctant to work with the Americans. "After 35 years of dictatorship," says al-Janabi, "they cannot believe nothing will happen to them." He may have underestimated popular objections to some of the officials he is willing to rehabilitate. The Health Ministry's controversial Ali Shnan al-Janabi (no relation), for instance, was one of his recommendations...
...recent monthlong visit to New York City, Ali Dickson drove from L.A. because the airlines deemed it too cold to allow her German shepherd, Summer, to fly in the cargo bay. She stayed nearly exclusively at Loews hotels, which offer doggie room service, Loews Loves Pets bowls and mats, and a dog passport to document her travels. The valets in Nashville, Tenn., had bones for Summer, and they let her owner know whether other dogs had checked into the hotel and what floor they were on. "She loved the hotel. When she got in the room, she would gallop around...