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...Neil Jordan, who hasn’t directed a feature since 1999’s The End of the Affair, ends his absence with this heist film, based upon Jean-Pierre Melville’s jazzy 1955 noir Bob le Flambeur. Nick Nolte, who weathered a well-publicized DUI arrest last year, does nothing to rehabilitate his image by starring as a graying, heroin-addicted gambler who tries to rob a casino. Holding the film together are a passel of modern noir/heist elements—the prostitute, the chummy detective, the technology whiz, exotic locations and lush cinematography (in this...
...Their claims to military prowess are limited to nocturnal raids with Special Forces soldiers to capture or kill Saddam loyalists still in An Najaf. "We try and arrest our enemies," Mussawi says, "but if they resist we have to kill them." To date, everyone appears to have resisted. One of the Special Forces soldiers on the way out to lead one of these nocturnal raids yelled out to a group of reporters, "You guys can make yourselves useful in the morning by washing the blood off our trucks...
...Iraqi Shiites, al-Khoei returned to An Najaf two weeks ago with the help of the U.S. military after a decade in exile outside Iraq. He was the son of the former Grand Ayatollah of An Najaf, Abdul-Qasim al-Khoei, who had died in 1992 under house arrest by Saddam Hussein's regime. The current Grand Ayatollah, Ali al-Sistani, was also under house arrest until U.S. troops took control of the city last week...
...inviting a British invasion. The Black Watch Regiment fired on the Iraqi positions in a bid to halt the attacks; while some civilians made it to safety, others were forced back into the city. In Basra and in al Zubayr to the south, British troops staged surgical raids to arrest and kill Iraqi paramilitary commanders and called in air strikes to destroy buildings where Baath Party leaders were meeting. A British army official says the operations "were specifically designed to show locals that Saddam's men are no longer in charge." But British forces hesitated to make a move into...
...became depressed after Yang’s arrest and was given a two month disability leave from Harvard...