Word: aziz
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...BARRED. SAUDI ARABIAN WOMEN; from voting in the country's first nationwide municipal elections; in Riyadh. The country's election committee head, Prince Mansour bin Mutib bin Abdul Aziz, said it isn't possible to set up female voting booths or to identify the vast majority of women who live without identification before the three-stage election begins in February...
...TARIQ AZIZ, former Iraqi Foreign Minister, on Saddam's miscalculation that the Bush Administration would never risk a ground war to depose...
...weapons of mass destruction. So imagine the shock his generals received in late 2002 when U.S. forces were massing on the country's borders for an imminent invasion, and Saddam suddenly informed them that Iraq had no biological or chemical or nuclear weapons at all. Longtime aide Tariq Aziz told U.S. interrogators that military morale plummeted the moment senior officers learned Iraq would have to fight the U.S. without those weapons. The dictator's cunning policy of deception had deceived the wrong side...
...speak up were constrained by fear of losing their jobs--or their lives. That fear generated a culture of lying that subverted Saddam's decision making. Top men, said an aide, "habitually" concealed unpleasant realities from Saddam. In late 2002 military officers lied about their preparedness, according to Aziz, which led Saddam to miscalculate Iraq's ability to deter an invasion...
...suspended for disloyalty and breach of trust a few months later, after she complained about its lax accounting system. BARRED SAUDI WOMEN; from voting in the country's first nationwide municipal elections; in the capital, Riyadh. The country's election committee head, Prince Mansour bin Mutib bin Abdul Aziz, said it isn't possible to set up voting booths for women or to identify the vast majority of females - who live without identification papers - before the three-stage election process begins in February 2005. ARRESTED MAMOUN DARKAZANLI, 46, a Syrian-born German suspected of having ties to Osama bin Laden...