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...always be better than the Americans at ferreting out intelligence about insurgents. That helps explain why many in Washington privately say they regret Bremer's decision to disband the Iraqi army on May 23. U.S. officials are urgently searching for potential leaders of a new Iraqi army. An Arab businessman in close touch with the U.S. government tells TIME that one commander who has attracted attention is Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai, a Sunni Muslim who was Saddam's Minister of Defense. Though Hashim was on the U.S.'s most-wanted list, this source says he was in contact with...
...also tainted. What could turn out to be India's biggest-ever corruption case emerged this month when Bombay's top policeman, Commissioner R.S. Sharma, went on leave after he was accused by a court-appointed investigator of mishandling the case of Abdul Karim Telgi. A small-time businessman, Telgi is suspected of printing and selling counterfeit government documents, called stamp papers, that can be used as legal tender in India. Telgi's stamp-paper revenue?estimates range from $750 million to $7 billion?was a loss to the National Treasury; it allegedly ended up in his 68 bank accounts...
Meet Jaime Gleicher, daughter of uber-wealthy businessman Leo Gleicher. She and best friend Ally Hilfiger (Tommy’s daughter) unite in “Rich Girls,” MTV’s latest offering of deliciously unrealistic reality TV. “Rich Girls” documents the 18 year-olds’ Manhattan misadventures, which invariably include walking their credit cards down Fifth Avenue—as Ally notes, “We just prance around this damn city like it’s our little shopping haven...
...commander who has attracted attention is Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai, a Sunni Muslim who was Saddam?s Minister of Defense, an Arab businessman in close touch with the U.S. government tells TIME. Though Hashim was on the U.S.'s most-wanted list, this source says he was in contact with the U.S. before the war and was consulted by American officials after he was taken into custody in Mosul. A former CIA official says Hashim is "a great guy, basically an officer?s officer." He adds that Hashim would "bring a real sense of empowerment" to Iraqis who never...
...hinterland than going to war in Chechnya. Ordinary Russians shed no tears for the oligarchs, although in some quarters Khodorkovsky's arrest could turn him into a martyr. But unlike in the West, in Russia he's not seen as an icon of the new breed of businessman. For common Russians he's an icon of all the sins of the last ten years. That's to the extent that anyone in the hinterland is paying much attention to this. It's not foremost on their minds, even if it will almost certainly effect their future...