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These are the men in the middle now. Warrant Officer Kamal Aziz, a 29-year veteran of the Saddam-era police corps, spent a few weeks retraining last May, learning American-style arrest techniques and the basic art of urban warfare. "It was almost the same training as we had before," he says, standing guard outside the Yarmuk police station in west Baghdad. But now that stations like his are top targets for insurgents fighting the U.S. occupation, he says, "the challenge is bigger." A few men at his station wear borrowed U.S. body armor, but many have...
...last January, al-Zahawie was summoned back to Baghdad for what he had expected would be a request to help Iraq's Foreign Service plan for deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz's planned visit to the Vatican. Instead, upon landing in Baghdad, al-Zahawie was taken to meet with UN weapons inspectors. Five inspectors interviewed him in a 90-minute session, he says...
...hope of undermining the dangerous influence of the Islamist madrasahs so long as Pakistan remains as poor and illiterate as it is. Parents know that at least the madrasahs will give their children a free meal. "It's poverty and hunger that drive these students to the madrasahs," says Aziz Ahmed Faruqi, who teaches in a Karachi seminary. "If their stomachs weren't empty, they wouldn't come." --By Tim McGirk/Karachi. With reporting by Ghulam Hasnain...
...Hours after Abbas' resignation, Israeli forces bombed an apartment in Gaza City where Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the founder of Hamas, was believed to be meeting with the organization's top two military officials. Hamas leaders promised revenge for the strike, which slightly wounded Yassin. "Our operations," said Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a top official, "will strike everywhere." --By Romesh Ratnesar. Reported by Perry Bacon Jr./Washington and Jamil Hamad/Jerusalem
COUNTERSTRIKE 1818 to 1922 The Ottoman Empire and Egypt took back the land by 1818. But in 1902 Abdul Aziz ibn Saud led a Saudi resurgence, successfully uniting the different regions into one nation...