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...presence of the thousands of U.S. and British troops. Saddam is a vile dictator who has brought misery to his people and many others in the states that surround him. I have done legal work on behalf of Iraqi refugees who were appealing refusals of requests for asylum in Britain and know firsthand of the torture, terror and butchery of the Iraqi regime. PAUL FRANCIS HANLEY Cheshire, England...
...Immigration and Naturalization Service picked up a baby-faced young man. Guti?rrez claimed he was only 16 and eligible for asylum. The usually unbending INS believed him and let him stay. It had been a lie, but it was hardly the most extreme thing Gutierrez had done in his life. He had been born in Guatemala in 1974 but his parents died while he was very young during the country?s brutal civil war. His sister Engracia, just four years his senior, was his only remaining family and he lived on the streets of the capital, Guatemala City...
...After winning asylum, Guti?rrez shuffled between foster homes and was eventually placed with Marcelo and Nora Mosquera, themselves immigrants from Latin America. The Mosqueras, who have three biological children of their own, have raised 30 foster children. And so the Guatemalan orphan who had barely a family suddenly had a tribe of foster siblings. Still, he never forgot Engracia and the hardships she continued to live with in Guatemala. He would send her $20 or $30 whenever he could. Guti?rrez went to high school and community college, and dreamed of being an architect. But, on the advice of a foster...
...power. With such a high regard for his own safety, Saddam might back down and truly disarm only if he sees his own life and military support threatened by an allied invasion. Such a threat might also push Saddam toward another alternative—such as seeking asylum in another Arab state. With hawks like Bush running the United States, Saddam must know that an invasion of Iraq would continue all the way to the occupation of Baghdad and the overthrow of his leadership. But with progress on a U.N. resolution lagging, Saaddam is in the clear...
...blow came with the arrest last fall of the group's leader, Mullah Krekar, while he was passing through the Netherlands en route to Norway, where he is applying for asylum. Krekar, a Marxist turned cleric whose real name is Najmuddin Faraj and who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan, flatly denies that his group has ties to al-Qaeda or Saddam. "I never had links with Saddam's family, government, party--not in the past, not now, not inside Iraq or outside," he told the BBC last week in Oslo. Ultimately, Kurdish officials are less impressed with the group...