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Before the war, Yunis had connections with members of Saddam's inner circle, including al-Tikriti, who surrendered to U.S. forces last month, and Sayf al-Rawi, chief of the Republican Guard's Forward Command. After the war, she allowed al-Rawi's bodyguard to stay in her house for 10 days. The bodyguard told her that "all the high-ranking members used to meet here on different occasions" and that Qusay sometimes slept in her son's room...
...then northeast to Tikrit. At least some of the attacks there seem to have been organized. "The combat actions that we have been engaged in over the past few days in that area," said McKiernan last week, "probably have some local cohesion to them, some local command and control." The dangerous triangle, perhaps not coincidentally, is also the area where informed speculation reckons Saddam and his sons Uday and Qusay are hiding. In Baghdad itself, money is being distributed to the needy in Saddam's name, and in both Baghdad and Tikrit--Saddam's hometown--graffiti, some...
...Iraqi military has had a rough couple months. First it endured a crushing rout at the hands of U.S. and British forces, then watched as enemy soldiers took up residence in the garish palaces? that once served as the Iraqi command centers.? Last month the head of the U.S.'s postwar administration in Iraq, Paul Bremer, delivered the? most painful blow, dissolving Iraq's armed forces and putting 400,000 soldiers? out of work without so much as a pink slip...
According to a letter he sent to his family before his death, James Adamouski came to be known as “Father Jimmy” by the soldiers under his command because he conducted prayer services, scripture readings, and served communion for his fellow soldiers...
Over the crash of artillery shells came the command, “Hit the wall!” Several soldiers ducked into a small, protected courtyard. But the man without a gun couldn’t quite fit—his laptop...