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...were sworn in, Masar Sarhan al-Rubaiyi, 24, a pharmacy undergraduate at the University of Baghdad, decided to throw a party. As a supporter of a Shi'ite political party, al-Rubaiyi was celebrating the ascent of the country's Shi'ite majority after decades of repression under Saddam Hussein. But the revelry turned sour after officials at the college of pharmacy asked al-Rubaiyi and his friends to break up the event, saying it violated a university policy banning sectarian gatherings on campus. The students refused the request, and al-Rubaiyi scuffled with the bodyguard of the dean...
...with a gentle "Hey, Toots"? Bradford's boyish police chief, Josh Chambliss, 30, is sitting in his neat-as-a-pin living room with wife Farrah and baby Chloe, clicking through an electronic album on his computer of photos he took of life in Baghdad: the palace of Saddam Hussein's son Uday and his infamous rape bed. Bloody, blown-up bodies on a street, a severed head, the heart blasted from an Iraqi's chest lying in the street. "It freaks Farrah out," Chambliss says with an apologetic look her way. He's not quite sure why he keeps...
...shadowy machinations of his friends, are innumerable?and at one point he was jailed for his foreknowledge of plots. He knew almost all the major players of the Middle East at the time, from King Feisal of Saudi Arabia to Yasser Arafat to a young Iraqi named Saddam Hussein. Aburish was part of the Palestinian diaspora after the creation of Israel in 1948, and in exile his family took up the tourist trade in Beirut. There Mohammed Khalil Aburish (everyone called him by the more informal name Abu Said) pampered clients, including Saudi princes, during a period when...
...Tony Blair thought his re-election would put the Iraq war behind him, George Galloway is determined to prove him wrong. The newly elected M.P. for the antiwar, socialist Respect party has called the collapse of the Soviet Union "the biggest catastrophe of my life"; has told Saddam Hussein, "Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability"; and was expelled from the Labour Party for - among other reasons - saying Blair and George W. Bush had "attacked Iraq like wolves." Last week his rhetoric served him well when he trounced a U.S. Senate committee that had accused him of profiting...
...sissies," specialized in improving the public image of despots; of an apparent suicide; in Rome. Always flamboyant?he added the "Von" to his name and regularly appeared at formal events in a black cape?his clients included Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu, Laurent Kabila of Congo and Saddam Hussein...