Word: interiorities
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...With the Interior Ministry's Samarra commando battalion, the soldiers had found some 300 individual pieces of weaponry like mortars, rockets and plastic explosives in six different locations inside the sparsely populated farming community of over 50 square miles and about 1,500 residents. The raids also uncovered high-powered cordless telephones used as detonators in homemade bombs, medical supplies and insurgent training manuals...
...Though recent French governments have a tradition of yielding before student protests, Villepin vows to remain firm. Some within his ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party - particularly those close to Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, a likely rival in next year?s presidential elections - have called for dialogue or even a suspension of the measure. But backing off would put Villepin, whose poll numbers have dipped steeply in the last month, on the defensive for the rest of his term. Whether he has to sweeten the deal somehow will become clear over the next few days: even high school...
...then lastly of course, there is the issue of people in key positions. There are, of course, good people in each of the communities and political forces. There has to be an emphasis on competence. The key institutions - such as defense, interior, intelligence and some others - have to be run by people who are broadly trusted. It is very important that the ministries are run people that are unifiers, not polarizers...
RESIGNED. GALE NORTON, 52, as Secretary of the Interior; in Washington. The first woman to hold the post, she led the Bush Administration's controversial effort to open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling...
...disgruntlement with Khalilzad reached a peak in late February, when he complained about sectarian abuses by al-Jaafari's Shi'ite government. His thinly disguised target was the Interior Ministry, which Sunnis say employs Shi'ite death squads. Shi'ites interpreted Khalilzad's comments as a threat to their influence. "They thought I was trying to give [the ministry] to the Sunnis," Khalilzad says. And justified or not, some Shi'ites say Khalilzad's slapdown contributed to the rage that erupted after the Feb. 22 terrorist bombing of the sacred Shi'ite shrine in Samarra, which left hundreds dead...