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...value of $1.5 billion were eradicated from the state's 18 federal forests, a tenfold increase from 1994. In Sequoia National Park, renowned for its majestic trees, rangers confiscated eight tons of marijuana in a single week last September. "We have a tremendous influx of Mexican growers," says Ross Butler, a special agent for the federal Bureau of Land Management. "They are sophisticated. They have guns. And we don't know much about who they...
...cards people, we see a very positive effect, with a lot more people coming forward with information." On Thursday, during a raid south of Tikrit, soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division captured what the Pentagon said were "five to 10" suspected members of Saddam's security detail. A former butler of Uday's, visited by a group of Saddam's relatives two days after the deaths of the brothers, says Saddam's family is "very depressed and nervous" that the former leader may soon be captured. "They were very impatient to hear news from 'our uncle,'" says the butler, using...
...Zaydan's house, according to Uday's former butler, was a center for Fedayeen money and rations, so it made sense for Uday and Qusay to wind up there. Qusay took his son Mustafa to the house, says the butler, "because he depended on him. He could go and switch on the generator or go shopping. His face is not very well known." Abdul Jabar Mohammad Arif, who owns a bread shop opposite the mansion, says he noticed nothing unusual until the night before the raid, when al-Zaydan came by to pick up 60 loaves of flatbread. Normally...
Uday and Qusay Hussein are accounted for, but what about Saddam's other close relatives? It's hard to say. A butler who worked for the Iraqi leader until the regime fell says Saddam's first wife Sajida and the couple's daughters--Raghad, Rana and Hala--fled to Syria after the war started but were deported back to Iraq. Another butler, who served Uday, says the women made their way to Mosul, where Uday and Qusay died, and remain there--presumably with at least some of their combined seven children--protected by a tribal chief...
According to a former secretary to Saddam, the strongman's second wife Samira is in Beirut with the children from her first marriage and her grandchildren. Saddam and Samira are rumored to have had a son named Ali, but the family butler says there is no such person. (Saddam does have a nephew named Ali.) The young man mistakenly known on the Baghdad street as Ali, according to the butler, is actually Samira's grandson Saif, 20. The butler and the former secretary claim that the marriage contract between Saddam and Samira specified that she not bear him any children...