Word: fattah
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...With reporting by Massimo Calabresi, Matthew Cooper, Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/Washington and Hassan Fattah, Romesh Ratnesar and Simon Robinson/Baghdad
...rummage through women's wardrobes. Iraqis also resent the roundups that detain civilians, including many innocents, for weeks on end. U.S. troops have fallen into lethal fire fights, like the one in Karbala last Friday, when they clashed with religious groups. And they are alienating poor farmers like Abdel Fattah Naef, who once maintained lush orchards in a town 60 miles north of Baghdad. Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division bulldozed his farmland last month following a series of ambush attacks on American convoys traveling past it. "If nine people in this area hated the Americans before this," says Naef...
...Tikrit, nabbed two more "high level" resistance leaders on the same night. Said Russell after the raid: "The source came through." And he could come through again--if his name doesn't end up on the wrong list. --With reporting by Timothy J. Burger and Massimo Calabresi/Washington, Hassan Fattah and Vivienne Walt/Baghdad and Michael Ware/Tikrit
...says an elder who declines to give his name. "The resistance does exist, but it's not to protect Saddam or avenge Uday and Qusay. The resistance belongs to the community." A community that's hard to fit on just one deck of cards. --Reported by Hassan Fattah and Vivienne Walt/Baghdad, Massimo Calabresi/Washington and Michael Ware/Tarmiyah