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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...doctor was kneeling next to the detainee, and Adam went and knelt next to him. I heard them telling the captive, a Bahraini named Halim, that he was going to be all right. On the ground outside the shower I noticed a pool of dark red blood; the detainee had apparently cut his wrists with a razor. Sitting on the cellblock steps was a trembling National Guardsman, a kid of no more than 19, trying to calm his nerves with a cigarette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An American Witness | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

...Abdul Halim crossed his arms and listened skeptically to a few more American promises. The construction executive was sitting in a harshly lit room in the Baghdad Convention Center last Wednesday with a few dozen other unhappy Iraqi business-people. The 41 men and two women, representing telecom, engineering and construction firms from all over the city, had come to find out why the fruits of Iraq's reconstruction have so far eluded them. Two months ago, Halim says, he approached Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), a unit of the Houston company Halliburton, hoping that his construction and engineering firm, Gulf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq The Halliburton Connection: The Master Builder | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...last week. The Coalition Provisional Authority and the Iraqi Ministry of Trade organize the weekly meeting for Iraqi companies hoping to find work as subcontractors to firms such as Halliburton, the biggest contractor in Iraq. "Our goal is to help you make contact with the prime contractors," Orr said. Halim, like the others, sat stone-faced and unconvinced. Orr tried to be encouraging but gave few answers for what a growing number of disaffected Iraqis say is a system designed to shut them out of their own country's economic recovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq The Halliburton Connection: The Master Builder | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...Mahdi Army and U.S. forces. There's another battle up the road in al-Sadr's hometown, Najaf. As the mosque broadcasts reports of glorious victories over U.S. tanks, the worshippers seem unmoved by the fighting. "The U.S. troops do this every Friday," says one of the faithful, Sheik Halim al-Fatlawi. "The Americans want to terrorize us into not coming to prayers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter From Iraq: Heeding the Call Of The Cleric | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

...that left 19 dead over Christmas 2000, in which Samudra said he played an instrumental role, three of the attackers died when their devices exploded prematurely. Even more telling is the story of the last bomber Samudra personally sent out on a mission before Bali: the hapless Taufik Abdul Halim. According to his own court testimony, Taufik was dispatched to a Jakarta shopping mall in August 2001 with a bomb concealed in a plastic bag. He reached the target, but the bomb went off before he could escape, blowing off part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suicidal Terror or Error? | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

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