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Last week was rough for disciples of Saddam Hussein. But while Saddam's sons were being gunned down by U.S. forces, another less famous supporter of the fugitive Iraqi dictator held his ground. Mowaffaq Mahmoud al-Ani, Iraq's ex-Ambassador to China, has completed seven weeks of an armed occupation of Iraq's embassy in Beijing. According to Talal al-Khudairi, who has been tapped by Iraq's new Foreign Ministry to assume the ambassadorship, al-Ani received a telegram relieving him of his duties on June 6. Determined to ignore the order, al-Ani chained the doors...
...some satisfaction from a few big catches: after passing out the 55 playing cards depicting their most wanted, they began to take some tricks--two half brothers, the Finance Minister, a senior party official. Top science adviser Amir al-Saadi had surrendered the week before, and Imad Hussayn al-Ani, who is supposed to have been in charge of Saddam's VX nerve-gas program, turned himself in on Friday. For good measure, Abu Abbas, mastermind of the Achille Lauro hijacking in 1985, was captured in Baghdad...
...weapons. Since every other government facility has been pillaged, there's no reason to believe such marketable weapons are secure. "It's not that no one knows where they are," Cirincione says. "It's that we don't know where they are." Iraqi detainees like al-Saadi and al-Ani are not likely to talk for fear of being prosecuted for war crimes. Both have been saying, as an intelligence official put it, "Weapons of mass destruction? What weapons of mass destruction? We have no stinking weapons for you." But everyone else, down to the janitors, is expected to cooperate...
...lives are ultimately connected, even though these strands seem so disparate." Ararat's disparate yet connected lives include a production aide named Raffi (David Alpay), who vanishes to Turkey in search of his roots and returns with what he claims is extra footage for Saroyan's film; his mother, Ani (Egoyan's real-life wife, Arsinée Khanjian), an art historian and adviser on the fictional film; Celia (Marie Josée Croze), Raffi's stepsister, who blames Ani for their "freedom-fighter" father's death; and David (Christopher Plummer), the customs inspector who interrogates Raffi on his return...
...Ani no longer sounds as angry as she once did, but that does not mean that her work has lost its edge. On the contrary, it has reached new heights. —S. N. Jacobs