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...Even if Afghan officials want to help hunt down terrorists, they are woefully underequipped. An Afghan official told TIME that the U.S. experimented with giving satellite phones to provincial security chiefs earlier this year. But the officials, who hadn't been paid in months, used them to run international-call services on Uncle Sam's tab. The Americans took back the phones...
...news that Saddam Hussein had survived by being buried alive. Like a pharaoh in his tomb, he had surrounded himself with symbols of his lost power - two AK-47s, a pistol, $750,000 in $100 bills. The Butcher of Baghdad was nestled underground with pictures of Ben Franklin. The hunt for Saddam that began with a hellfire of bombs eight months ago ended without a shot being fired. It was soldiers from the Raider Brigade of the Army?s 4th Infantry Division who dug him out of the 8-ft.-deep spider hole; the palace monster of monuments and torture...
...news meant that the man George Bush vowed to hunt down was now at his mercy, and so he has choices to make. He could declare victory and go home, but nothing in his reflexes or rhetoric suggests that, having placed Saddam in a cage, he is inclined to leave his other promises unfulfilled. And so the latest in the series of tests of a President?s instincts and motives comes to this: Does he trust the people he says he went to war to free to do the right thing? If a sense of justice is the necessary rock...
...vengeance being exacted only now? "After the regime fell, people concentrated on surviving," says Naji Chachan, an attendant at a Baghdad morgue. "They needed time to hunt these people down." Aws notes that when the U.S. conquered Iraq, many Baathists fled the cities for rural areas or foreign countries. Now many are returning to Baghdad, he says, in some cases having run out of money. In the city, it is easier to find them...
...Tellem also understands the needs of big league G.M.'s. Of the teams currently in the Matsui hunt, seven-the Mariners, Red Sox, Yankees, Anaheim Angels, Baltimore Orioles, Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets-have strong working relationships with Tellem. The other two, the Chicago Cubs and the San Francisco Giants, are long shots. Neither is known as a big free-agent spender...