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...days later, Washington and London gave Iraq what a Bush Administration source called a "Schwarzkopfian" message -- "gentle but firm." The implication was that the U.S. and Britain were prepared to use force, if necessary, to remove the gunmen from Zakhu. Baghdad relented. Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Abdul Amir al-Anbari told reporters that 50 "policemen" would remain behind. That was fine by Washington, provided that the 50 were natives of Zakhu -- not outsiders bused in -- and that they registered with the Americans. The Iraqi about-face, in turn, prompted the first small trickle of Kurdish refugees to come down from...
...Definitely, we would like to see everyone withhis family by Christmas, because that is a veryjoyous and happy occasion, and it is time forfamily reunions," Iraq's ambassador to the UnitedNations, Abdul Amir al-Anbari, said Thursday...
USAir didn't think the personal hygiene of Randi Freeman and her husband Amir Omrani was up to snuff after they boarded a flight from Seattle to Pittsburgh last month. Airline personnel asked the couple to disembark, and a gate supervisor informed them that both the crew and assorted passengers had complained about their offensive body odor. Freeman and Omrani, an Iranian national, were given toiletries and sent to the washroom as the plane left without them...
...points. "Or a single cut here if calculations prove his tibia too short for two cuts," said Dr. Lehman, touching the middle of the shin. The doctors did not know yet whether the bone-stretching frame could hold in line Reza's shin in three pieces his brother Amir, 12, barely suppressed a wince whenever the doctors said the word cut. But Reza, unconcerned, continued to flip the TV channels, even when Dr. Vladimir Golyakhovsky, a hospital fellow, came in with the frame, which looks like a cylindrical birdcage. He explained that the pins forming the bottom...
...looks ten feet tall to me already," said Amir...