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...documents--salvaged from government offices as looters rampaged through the capital--remain untouched in basements and storerooms, mostly in Baghdad. Other key evidence may have "gone up in smoke," says Salem Chalabi, a former New York City corporate attorney who leads the tribunal. Prosecutors may tap Saddam's former henchmen to build their case, say Iraqi officials. Eleven such loyalists had charges read to them at the makeshift U.S. military courtroom. Some are ready to cut deals, hoping to avoid the firing squad by testifying against their old boss. Isolated in his cell, Saddam has had ample time to mull...
...insurgency's shift toward a religious outlook is in part driven by financial necessity: the capture of Saddam and his henchmen drained the insurgency of its former sources of funding. That forced Iraqi groups to turn to foreign financiers in places like the gulf, and they have demanded that the insurgents adopt a more radical religious identity. "After we rolled up Saddam, we hit them pretty hard, and this is what they turned to," says a senior U.S. military official. "It would appear there are not only some marriages of convenience but also some groups that have crossed over...
...time drug dealer and a big-time womanizer but also a cute, cheeky, likable guy, working the fringes of the London demimonde. One night, for no reason that director Mike Hodges and writer Trevor Preston care to make clear, a car dealer (a particularly malevolent Malcolm McDowell) and two henchmen abduct and brutally rape him. Davey commits suicide, and his terminally taciturn brother Will (Clive Owen, the star of Hodges' Croupier) returns to the criminal life from a rough rural retirement to avenge the kid's death...
...Hampshire this year, The Crimson Staff endorsed distinguished war veteran and Massachusetts Senator John F. Kerry in the year’s first major political contest. We were glad to see that the Democrats picked a leader of such caliber to take on the president and his henchmen in the general election. Despite what misleading Republican attack ads say, Kerry’s record on the war in Iraq, taxes, the environment, social security and health care is much more in line with mainstream America than Bush’s radical right-wing agenda disguised by the unconvincing veneer...
...election appointment of a number of pro-Western reformers to help manage the country’s economy. Putin’s political clout, meanwhile, has allowed him to brush aside many of the once-influential military and intelligence officials who often act more like Kremlin henchmen than civil servants. The super-wealthy “oligarchs” who ruled Russia during the Yeltsin years have also been neutralized. All of these reforms will attract more foreign investment, which is desperately needed in a country historically short of capital. And as long as Putin proceeds to better the business...