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...National Accord (I.N.A.), says that in early March, I.N.A. leader Ayad Alawi, who now sits on the Governing Council, met with top U.S. officials, including Rumsfeld, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of State Colin Powell, to recommend that the U.S. keep the Iraqi army and police force intact to maintain security. Chalabi, for his part, had argued for a U.S.-trained, 15,000-strong military-police force to keep the peace after the collapse of Saddam's regime. "It would have made all the difference in the world," he says. But U.S. policymakers, claims Chalabi, "didn't listen...
...never anticipated this predicament. They expected that WMD arsenals would be uncovered quickly once the U.S. occupied Iraq. Since then, Iraq has been scoured, and nearly every top weapons scientist has been captured or interviewed. That the investigators have found no hidden stockpiles of VX gas or anthrax or intact gas centrifuges suggests that it may be time to at least entertain the possibility that Iraqi officials all along were telling the truth when they said they no longer had a WMD program...
...satellite photos showing a new building at the site and suggested it was designed for covert nuclear research. But al-Rawi claims it was rebuilt to produce radar and antiaircraft systems. When TIME visited the plant this summer, there were signs of heavy bombing, but the new building was intact--and carpeted inside with documents in French, Russian, Arabic and English, all having to do with radar equipment, frequencies and trajectories...
...moments, but Australia won there not because they were the most elegant and imaginative side when they had the ball but because they were all but impenetrable when they didn't. The Wallabies conceded just one try in that tournament; this time, few expect them to keep their line intact for more than 30 minutes of the Cup opener against Argentina. The game's guardians have since subtly reinterpreted some of the game's laws so that it's now easier for teams to retain possession and launch repeated raids, with the result that spectators at Tests in both hemispheres...
...seems that Flanders, 50, a retired concrete producer, has taken his hobby to an extreme. It began harmlessly enough when he laid a picturesque model-train track in his backyard; his wife's pretty tulips remained intact for the most part. Then he decided that the trains needed indoor storage, and he ran the track into the barn. After that he added rails over the driveway, and before long, he was digging a 4-ft.-wide strip across the yard. From there the park has kept growing and growing. "It's just, as we started building things and we kept...