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...team of 600 soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division and U.S. special forces that acted on the tip that Saddam was hiding in a little town called al-Dawr, 15 miles from his hometown of Tikrit. These soldiers had been scouring the area for months in the belief that he would stay close to home, where loyalty among those who most benefited from his rule still ran deep. U.S. intelligence sources tell TIME that over the past month they were getting better leads. "In the last three to four weeks, our forces have been able to capture people...
...LAID TO REST. SUN ZHIGANG, migrant graphic designer whose beating death in March by fellow inmates and attendants in a vagrants detention center in Shenzhen led to the reform of China's strict residency laws; in his hometown of Huanggang, Hubei province, China. Although Sun had the requisite residency papers for Shenzhen, the 27-year-old wasn't carrying them when he was stopped by police for a random check. His death created an uproar in China, and in June, President Hu Jintao signed an executive order forbidding police from detaining migrants simply for lacking the proper identification...
Tribal travelers don't necessarily see kids as an obstacle to their adventures; the tribe simply expands. Jayme Simoes, 36, and his wife Laura, 34, are planning a 10-day trip next spring to the Azores with at least two and perhaps four other couples from their hometown of Hillsborough, N.H. "We all have 2-year-olds, and it was hard to find someplace exotic and interesting but still safe for our children," Jayme explains. "Laura and I had just been to the Azores and raved about it, so our friends proposed a group trip. Our kids all get along...
...Iraq, announced yesterday morning that the 4th Infantry Division arrested the country’s former president at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday in an underground “spider” hole near the Tigris River, in the town of Adwar, ten miles from Saddam’s hometown of Tikrit...
...team of 600 soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division and U.S. special forces that acted on the tip that Saddam was hiding in a little town called al-Dawr, 15 miles from his hometown of Tikrit. These soldiers had been scouring the area for months in the belief that he would stay close to home, where loyalty among those who most benefited from his rule still ran deep. U.S. intelligence sources tell Time that over the past month they were getting better leads. ?In the last three to four weeks, our forces have been able to capture people...