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...capacity to take any situation and bend it to his will. "Three years ago, Abu Mousab was asking us for advice on how to start a jihad in Iraq," said an insurgent commander who had first met al-Zarqawi in Fallujah in the weeks after the fall of Saddam Hussein. "But in a few months, we were, one way or another, fighting the jihad by his rules...
...Rose Garden this morning, President George W. Bush was one of the few Administration officials who wasn't smiling. Having learned the hazards of gloating, he maintained a deliberately somber mien as he saluted American troops for the allies' most dramatic victory in Iraq since Saddam Hussein was captured in December 2003. He didn't allow himself a public grin until half an hour later, at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast. While Washington slept, Iraqis had announced that an American air strike had killed Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, who competed only with Osama bin Laden for the title of world...
...film's most memorable characters is Elliott Lovett, last seen rapping in Uday Hussein's former palace. When he told the filmmaker his Miami hometown was more dangerous than Baghdad, "I followed that lead like you would as a journalist," says Gittoes. And what that led to is Rampage, the documentary that has its Australian premiere at the Sydney Film Festival next week. In 103 fast-and-furious minutes, we meet Lovett's neighborhood of Brown Sub. It's Miami Vice without the pastel suits and palm trees, a no-go zone where AK-47s are the weapons of choice...
...daily reports of civilian deaths--such as the story of U.S. troops' opening fire last week on a car carrying two women, or of Islamic extremists gunning down a tennis coach and two of his players last month for wearing shorts. Iraqis honed their imperviousness to atrocity under Saddam Hussein, when the regime killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens. But the sheer numbers of victims from this war has deepened the desensitization. That may explain why the debates about the overall death toll don't seem to resonate with many Iraqis. "What is the use of numbers?" asks Mithal...
...those of us who mistakely supported the war in Iraq, it is tempting to say we were betrayed by the facts. After all, we backed a war to rid Saddam Hussein of weapons he didn't have...