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...simple virtue that it wasn't concocted by Americans or their allies on the Governing Council. But members of the post--June 30 government still have to be effectively blessed by foreigners--a point not lost on Iraqis. "They cannot fix a wrong with a wrong," says Salah Hassan Habib, 22, a butcher in a Shi'ite neighborhood in Baghdad. "The next government should be elected." The U.N.'s reputation in Iraq is hardly lustrous: ordinary Iraqis suffered for more than a decade under sanctions enacted in the U.N.'s name. Also, since Saddam's fall, the newly free Iraqi...
...aide to an Iraqi Governing Council member called the timing of the U.S. move "sheer incompetence." But now that U.S. officials have provoked the upstart cleric into battle, they face this trickiest of challenges: to quash his rebellion without making things worse. --Reported by Brian Bennett, Vivienne Walt and Hassan Fattah Meitham Jasim/Baghdad; Scott MacLeod/Cairo; and Massimo Calabresi and Mark Thompson/Washington
...resident Turiya Faylali. Government spokesman Nabil Benabdallah denied reports that authorities failed to distribute foreign relief material. Restraint seemed essential given the historic tensions between Rabat and this remote mountainous area adjoining Morocco's northern coast. The rebellious region was deeply mistrusted and neglected during the reign of King Hassan II. His son, King Mohammed VI, arrived on a rare visit to the region on Saturday. Aides said he would pressure government officials to improve the relief effort...
...hunch who their catch was--the CIA had given them a heads-up that he might be in the area--the Kurdish officials snapped a digital mug shot of the traveler and e-mailed it to their American intelligence contacts. The confirmation came back quickly: the Kurds had nabbed Hassan Ghul, one of the key al-Qaeda operatives still on the run. "When Washington heard we had him," said a Kurdish official in Baghdad, "they were doing cartwheels...
...some of their instructions, until the American invasion of Iraq smashed Ansar's base in northern Iraq, and sent its members fleeing into Iran. "About 35 Saudis came to see us from al-Qaeda before the war, in order to cement their relationship with us," says Quds Hassan Abbas, 32, who led one of Ansar's fighting battalions until shortly before the war erupted...