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...which had just refueled in midair, had been out on another mission, but then came a scintillating tip. For the previous few weeks, Baghdad's tony Mansur district, home to many of the Iraqi regime's elite, had been "crawling" with U.S. special forces and Iraqi informants working for the CIA, according to a U.S. official. On Monday afternoon, a non-American source reported to U.S. intelligence that he or she had seen Saddam and his entourage enter a compound--near the popular al-Saa restaurant--that was a known gathering place for Iraqi intelligence officials. The U.S. was still...
...American civilians - including diplomats, engineers and businessmen held as hostages or human shields - and their relatives were able to collect more than $120 million two weeks ago. But Acree and his fellow POWs, along with another 200 former hostages and human shields whose cases are pending in U.S. District Court, may be out of luck. Last month former U.N. Ambassador Bill Richardson and 20 other high-ranking former diplomats and military officers argued in a letter to Bush that "it would be simply unthinkable to ask the American POWs tortured by Iraq to bear the cost of the reconstruction...
...were preening and patting themselves when the announcement of who those bodies were. That's totally inappropriate. If they want to pat themselves on the back, they should have a party somewhere else. I'm just appalled at that, that our public people are like that. You have a district attorney calling this a slam-dunk before there's even an arraignment. I'm feeling like I'm living in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union. I've just sick of this. (Her eyes are tearing up.) I think every man out there should be in fear if this...
...that they necessarily knew it, but a Marine platoon stumbled into a potential hornet's nest at 1:30 on Friday in Baghdad, at the al Hanif al Naaman Mosque in the Adhimiya district. Adhimiya is a bastion of the capital's Sunni Muslim minority, whose members have traditionally dominated Iraq's ruling elite both before and during Saddam Hussein's regime. And had the Marines been able to read the banners in Arabic held aloft by worshipers, or understand the sermon of Sheikh Ahmad al Kuwaisi booming out over loudspeakers, they might have been impressed with the content...
Assistant District Attorney Adrienne Lynch argued that Pring-Wilson poses too much of a flight risk to be released from jail. The defense had requested that Pring-Wilson be released on $100,000 cash bail and placed under house arrest...