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...future fiance Sara McWilliams, with him at right, at summer school. Given his penchant for mischief, Herrgott surprised his family when he announced in his senior year that he wanted to be a police officer. To earn money for his training, he joined the Army, just as his cousin T.J. Kewatt had done a year earlier. As kids the two had spent hours playing with G.I. Joe dolls. In Iraq since May, Herrgott loved driving tanks. He was in a Bradley fighting vehicle guarding the Baghdad museum when he was shot by a sniper. Kewatt, also in Iraq, accompanied...
...Tikrit where he sought refuge early last week, Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti, the fourth-most-wanted man in Iraq, had a panorama on a life come undone. To the south he could make out the sprawling family farmlands where he used to spend weekends with his boss and cousin, Saddam Hussein. A few miles up the road stood the ex-regime's garish presidential palaces, now occupied by soldiers of the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division. And to the north Mahmud could survey the open desert plains just beyond the city and ponder how to make a great...
...tried to get out of making the trip but was told she knew too much. Two days later, the entourage drove north in 65 cars, staggered in sets of two or three so they would not be conspicuous. Among the passengers was Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti, a cousin and trusted aide of Saddam's, who was arrested in Tikrit by U.S. forces last week...
...Star Search contestant at age 10, Beyonce (it's her mother's maiden name) has rehearsed for fame her entire life. And she's still nervous. Despite the industry perception of Destiny's Child as Beyonce and two warm bodies in stilettos, she insists that Michelle Williams and her cousin Kelly Rowland are crucial collaborators, and she misses them. "It's scary. I've been singing with Kelly since I was 9, and every day of my life, every time I've been on a stage, every interview, she's [been] there. So it makes me nervous...
...strangest thing about being kidnapped, says Mohammed Salahuddin, was how familiar?and even inevitable?it seemed. The 53-year-old political activist had already negotiated a $2,000 ransom for his brother Badruddin in December 1998, and a few years before that he had secured his first cousin's release from another gang. So Salahuddin knew exactly what was happening when 10 armed men surrounded his Jeep on March 25 as he drove to a party meeting in a remote corner of India's northeastern Bihar state. Holding him at gunpoint, they yelled: "Move and we'll shoot!" Salahuddin recalls...