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...loaded in the back of the vehicle. "Boots!" they reply. Again. "Dirty!" "Boots!" The infantrymen barrel out of the truck toward a two-story home perched on the edge of a sandy bluff overlooking the Tigris, some 10 miles north of the city of Tikrit. They reach the compound's metal gate, M-16s locked and loaded. A translator bangs on the door. When an old woman opens up, the troops sweep through the garden and into the house. An intelligence report had said Taha Yasin Ramadan, Saddam Hussein's Vice President, might be in the area...
...Early on in the standoff, claim Iraqi diplomats, al-Ani's wife made threatening phone calls to three Iraqi families who live in the compound, telling them she would kill them if they didn't leave the embassy grounds. Says one diplomat, "she called my home and said she'd shoot my son and deliver his body to my wife's lap." Al-Khudairi has applied to China's Foreign Ministry to intervene on his behalf, but thus far Beijing has merely posted extra guards outside the embassy. "This man is a thug," says al-Khudairi...
...agenda." It helps, too, that he worked for the first President Bush and shares W.'s pedigree and passions: both men attended Yale as undergraduates and received MBAs from Harvard, and both are avid runners. In Baghdad, Bremer beats the heat by jogging around the palace compound at 5:30 a.m. three or four times a week...
...often cuts them off before they finish their sentences. "A lot of people come in here with problems," he says. "The people I really like are the ones who come in here with solutions." Although the Americans are frequently criticized for spending too much time in the garrisoned palace compound, Bremer insists he gets out "every day. I've traveled all over this country...
...Village life might be rustic, but Purser is hardly deprived. The compound he shares with his daughter, Polly, 29, who is a designer for the firm, rambles like a Sultan's palace, landscaped with pools and pavilions and tended by a large retinue of servants. If there are any in Tembi opposed to the rule of its high-minded foreign potentate, they keep it to themselves. One of the company's foremen, a Tembi native called Daud Subroto, has worked for Purser for seven years. "Before, people in Tembi were only farmers. Now they have good jobs," he says...