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Salient reporters are “going undercover” to gather information on left-wing campus groups, said Kavulla, who today will don hippie garb to do field research at a Copley Square political rally for Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean...
From the farm, seven cars, carrying among others the maid and Saddam, proceeded to another relative's home in al-Tarmiyah, north of Baghdad, and arrived at 9 p.m. At the gate of the residence, a guard failed to recognize the VIPs, who had disguised themselves in traditional Arab garb. Mahmud pulled out a revolver and shot the guard in the left shoulder. Once inside, the men spent hours discussing strategy. At one point, the maid overheard her boss ordering an aide to gather medicine for Uday and escort him to neighboring Syria. (U.S. officials said last week that Mahmud...
...deserting." U.S. forces seized the capital on April 9 as Saddam statues toppled everywhere. But the man, perhaps, remained standing. On April 24, before the maid was allowed to return to Baghdad, she overheard her boss say Saddam was with Qusay in the Adhamiyah district, incognito in Arab garb and driving an ordinary car. --By Michael Weisskopf/Baghdad
Grouped in tiny knots of fewer than half a dozen, many of these special-forces veterans were dropped into northern Iraq months before the war. The teams began to renew old ties and make new ones, traveling with interpreters, wearing local garb, trying to blend in and take control. An Army captain who jumped into the region with a team of four others told TIME that his detachment suddenly found itself in charge of 300 Kurdish fighters from the north, known as peshmerga, who had been fighting Saddam for a dozen years. Joint strategy meetings were anything but regular Army...
...Neither has seen the show before—“It’s something about transvestite aliens, right?” asks Ahn—but they’ve heard enough to know that attendance requires made-up faces and the appropriate accoutrements: namely, Goth-inspired garb. “Basically I just pulled whatever black I had out of the closet,” says Goodwin. Ahn, who hails from rural Ohio, even dyed her hair back to its natural dark hue for the occasion...