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...Numan's capture represents an intensification of the US campaign against the one-time Iraqi leadership. Gen. Tommy Franks today ordered all full members of the former ruling Baath Party to identify themselves to the U.S. military. "Go to the nearest U.S. military forces and identify yourselves, and then wait to be told what to do,'' the general's statement said. ?There must be no Baath Party activity, because the party no longer exists.? As many as 1.5 million of Iraq's 24 million people belonged to the party, but only 25,000 to 50,000 were hard core members...
...Gulf War II, Serbian and U.S. officials tell Time, Serbia gave the U.S. vital information about Iraqi targets. Serbia was perfectly poised to lend a hand. Throughout the 1990s, Yugoslav firms defied U.N. sanctions and did business in Iraq: an outfit named Yugoimport built the Baath Party...
...Janabi and his ilk are precisely the kind of feedback the Americans say they need in order to rout out the irredeemable. "There will be a vetting process," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said last week. "People will say, 'Well, wait a minute--those people were part of the senior Baath Party,' in which case they'll be taken out." The Garner camp has another fear: that some Iraqis may try to use the de-Baathification process to settle old scores, demanding that a boss be sacked for personal rather than political reasons. But generally U.S. officials are optimistic that...
...adopts a set of criteria for allotting official posts, the U.S. is relying on the advice of Iraqi exiles like Talabani. A member of Garner's staff in Kuwait before the war, Talabani gave the Americans a report on Iraq's health officials and their connections to the Baath Party. The most high-profile vetter is Iraqi businessman Saad al-Janabi, who fled the country in 1995 after falling out with Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay. Al-Janabi, who still has close ties with remnants of the old regime, has returned from Hemet, Calif. (where his wife Lori...
...investment. Carney and the two candidates left the room, and the attendees began a vigorous debate and then voted. When the results were announced, Abdul Mujib was in; Gailini was out. The vote was 38 to 2. U.S. officials had already dismissed four other Industry Ministry officials, either for Baath Party connections or for abrasive management style, but removing someone as powerful as Gailini was a delicate task. "This is the time of democracy," he said, clearly crestfallen. "Should I leave now?" Abdul Mujib, magnanimous in triumph, asked him to stay on as an adviser. --With reporting by Joshua Kucera...