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...Iraq; in a roadside grenade ambush; between the cities of Tikrit and Bayji. The former professor of agriculture, appointed governor in April, was the highest-ranking Iraqi official to be killed by insurgents since May. The ambush occurred as Kashmoula was on his way to meet Iraqi President Sheik Ghazi Ajil al-Yawar...
...office in Baghdad's Republican Palace from visiting a close friend - a tribal sheikh he had come to know well during his 10-month command of the 101st Airborne Division in the northern city of Mosul. As is often the case, Petraeus is one lucky man: His friend, Sheikh Ghazi Yawar, was appointed as Iraq's new president three weeks ago. And Yawar's most critical priority is the one Petraeus is now charged with overseeing: getting Iraq's military and police forces up and running. "It was wonderful to see him," gushes the 51-year-old general about...
...Named. Ghazi Al-Yawar, 45, U.S.-educated Sunni tribal leader and former exile; as the new president--a largely ceremonial job--of the interim Iraqi government that will take over on June 30; in Baghdad...
...Iraq Center for Research and Strategic Studies (ICRSS) asked Iraqis to rank 17 prominent religious and political leaders. Iyad Allawi, Prime Minister of the interim government that will take over administrative power from the Coalition Provisional Authority on June 30, finished in sixteenth place. Behind him, dead last, came Ghazi al-Yawer, who on Tuesday was named president of the interim government...
...detainees say in most cases the prisoner made a noose out of clothes or sheets and tried to hang himself from the cell bars; one, they say, tried to slit his throat with a knife he had made from metal. "Whenever we saw someone trying to kill themselves," says Ghazi Salahuddin, a detainee from Pakistan released in July, "we would all shout, attracting the attention of the guards." The new mental-health clinic on the base is usually close to full...