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...running water. The atmosphere is sour, too. Gathered in the apartment are members of the two main anti-Russian factions: the Wahhabis and those aligned with Aslan Maskhadov, the Chechen President overthrown by the Russians in 2000. Jamal knows he can trust the non-Wahhabi resistance not to betray him. But Maskhadov's men emphasize their disdain for the Wahhabi prohibition on alcohol and tobacco by drinking vodka and smoking cigarettes as Jamal talks. In late August, when guerrillas cordoned off parts of Grozny and killed at least 50 officials and paramilitaries associated with the Kremlin-backed government, Jamal...
...sleeps secure in the knowledge that locals won't betray him, despite Moscow's $10 million reward for information leading to his capture. Asked if she would report Basayev to the Russians if she spotted him, one woman shot back: "Are you out of your mind?" According to Sharip, a Chechen police officer and childhood playmate of Basayev's, "If someone did inform on Shamil, it would be last thing they ever did. The very same person who took the call would phone Basayev straight away. The informant would be a dead man." Basayev maintains his protective bubble through fear...
...part, Bush portrays himself as not the perpetrator but the victim of inflexibility. "Washington is a much more bitter, ugly place, dominated by special interests, than I ever envisioned," he tells TIME. "If you sign on to this idea, you will then betray this cause." Bush says he will keep trying to reach out to the other side, but he is not about to change his ways. "I'm going to make hard decisions. Some don't like that. But my job is to solve problems, not pass them...
...thought you were my friend,” Kowal remembers him saying to Shofner. “How could you betray me like this...
...Chalabi did betray U.S. secrets to Iran, it appears he was playing a brazen double game. U.S. commanders in Iraq have said the information Chalabi's organization has passed on to the U.S. since the war began has been helpful. According to a March assessment by a high-ranking military intelligence officer reviewed by TIME, the I.N.C. provided about 50 reports a month last year of "actionable" intelligence, which, among other things, led to the arrest of former leaders of Saddam's regime. The officer stated that the I.N.C. was "directly responsible for saving the lives of numerous" U.S. troops...