Word: habib
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...Staff writer May Habib can be reached at habib@fas.harvard.edu...
...Habib ’07 is a social studies concentrator in Pforzheimer House. When not writing for the English-language Daily Star, she spends her time teaching William M. Rasmussen ’04 how to say, “I swear I am not a CIA or Mossad agent” in Arabic and picking up bad Lebanese habits like smoking Marlboro Lights, drinking highly caffeinated tea and sleeping in the afternoon...
...account. In many cases, the women's parents do not want the men prosecuted, viewing their daughters' death as unavoidable. Even when investigators find evidence of a murder, they often fail to persuade family members to cooperate. Last month a Baghdad coroner reported the death of Mouna Adnan Habib, 32, a mother of two, who had been delivered to the city morgue with five bullets in her chest. Habib's left hand had been cut off--a practice common in honor killings, in which men amputate the woman's left hand or index finger to display as proof to tribal...
...secret of its friendliness with the Iranian government, which supported the campaign to topple Saddam. "My relationships with Iran are excellent," Chalabi says. For years, the I.N.C. has maintained an office in Tehran with the full knowledge of the U.S. State Department. In fact, a top deputy to Habib, one of the principal targets of last week's raid, says he left Iraq on May 14 and is now in Tehran, a common port of call for I.N.C. officials on their way out of Iraq...
...whereabouts of top Baathists and the movements of insurgent cells. But that relationship also gave Chalabi and his aides extraordinary access to members of the U.S. intelligence community. At least two DIA agents who were attached to the ICP worked in the same office as Habib, the I.N.C. intel czar who is believed to have relocated to Tehran. Chalabi and his advisers deny that they received any classified information from the U.S. But Lang says that, if I.N.C. officials were in league with Tehran, they would have been able to compromise U.S. security simply by revealing the way in which...