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...coalition forces here. We have some suspicions, but so far we have found no direct proof," the officer said. There is also no evidence of any al-Qaeda presence in the majority Shi'a south. And when an al-Qaeda leader escaped from detention in Afghanistan last year, and fled to southern Iraq, the locals tipped off coalition authorities, who killed him while attempting to recapture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brits' Different View of Iraq | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

...Dallas and that the President had been rushed to a hospital. Then a few minutes later came these precise words, spoken in just the tone you would imagine: "Ladies and gentlemen, the President is dead," followed immediately by funereal music. My mother burst into tears, and I, profoundly embarrassed, fled the room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: The Flavor Of Memories | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...four-star general who still has street cred at the Pentagon, to help flesh out the plan and then sell it to the White House. The neocons don't have the same juice they had at the start of the war, in part because so many of them have fled the government in shame. But they are a long way from dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What a Surge Really Means | 1/4/2007 | See Source »

...terror, he was inept at international relations and diplomacy. His enemies abroad were myriad. Certainly, he and Assad's regime in Damascus were not friendly, despite the political genetics that linked their ruling parties. But he was also an enemy of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Iranian cleric who had fled the Shah's persecution and sought refuge in Iraq's holy Shi'a city of Najaf in 1965. Saddam did not make it a comfortable stay and Khomeini moved on to exile in Europe. When the Ayatollah became the supreme leader of Iran's Islamic revolutionary government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saddam Hussein Is Dead | 12/29/2006 | See Source »

JESSICA SIMPSON got so flustered at the Kennedy Center Honors as she was singing 9 to 5 to Dolly Parton that she stopped midway and fled the stage--hardly an argument for women in the workforce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Memorable Performances of 2006 | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

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