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...defendants may be wondering how long he'll keep hogging the microphone. Like their deposed leader, each is accused of playing a role in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shi'ites after an assassination attempt against the President in the northern Iraqi town of Dujail. Prosecutors allege local Baath Party official Mohammed Azawi Ali helped arrest suspected assassins' relatives, regardless...
That's why U.S. officials in Iraq are reaching out to the Sunnis, the insurgents and former Baath Party members as part of a program to quell the violence by peeling them away from al-Zarqawi. "The fault line between al-Qaeda and the nationalists seems to have increased," says Ambassador Khalilzad. Here's an inside look at how those splits have started to emerge, how they are redefining the shape of the insurgency in Iraq--and why the U.S. is now turning to some of its old enemies...
REPORTED DEAD. IZZAT IBRAHIM AL-DOURI, 63, former top aide to Saddam Hussein and ranked No. 6 in the Pentagon's Most Wanted deck; by the formerly ruling Baath Party, in a message to reporters. Al-Douri, whose death could not yet be confirmed by U.S. officials, has been at large since December 2003, when Saddam was captured. He was believed to have leukemia...
...Neither claimed to have any loyalty to Saddam or his lieutenants; their loyalty, they said, was to the law. "We are professionals," said al-Zubeidi, explaining that he had never been a member of the Baath party. "We are not related to a political party." Indeed, al-Zubeidi, a youthful 65-year-old with black hair graying at the temples and wire-rimmed glasses that bent forward off his nose, had a history as a Shiite radical-he had spent over 14 months in prison during the '60s and '70s for membership of a religious opposition group. But al-Zubeidi...
...occupation of Iraq. A representative of Saddam's former No. 2, Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, was there. But the most intriguing man in the car may have been a retired general named Muhammad Yunis al-Ahmed, who had been a senior member of the Military Bureau, a secret Baath Party spy service. The bureau's job had been to keep an eye on the Iraqi military--and to organize Baathist resistance in the event of a coup. Now a U.S. coup had taken place, and Saddam turned to al-Ahmed and the others and told them to start "rebuilding your...