Word: interiorities
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...told TIME that he believed the Badr Corps, the military wing of Iraq's largest Shi'ite political party, was out to get him and his fellow attorneys--and using the police to do it. Al-Zubaidi said he had been told by reliable witnesses that Ministry of Interior vehicles were used in the kidnap and execution of his fellow defense attorney Saadoun al-Janabi on Oct. 20. The Iraqi government and the Badr Corps both deny any involvement in the kidnapping. But al-Zubaidi cited his suspicions as the reason he refused an offer by the Iraqi government...
...beard and cocooning himself in flab. The actor must want to prove that his star quality is more than just Cary Grant looks and a stud's sly aplomb. It is. Here he seduces the viewer into looking closer, to catch the eye glint of skeptical intelligence, the interior burden that a samurai for the CIA bears with weary grace, and for reasons he may have forgotten or never known...
...large early-evening repast: half-eaten bowls of lamb and okra, traces of hummus, a dented mound of rice. As he stirs three small, white tablets of artificial sweetener into a tear-shaped glass of tea, Ibrahim al-Jaafari describes the scolding he gave the Minister of the Interior that morning. A U.S. raid the day before had found evidence that Iraqi police were torturing detainees at a secret prison in Baghdad. Soon after he was told about it, al-Jaafari announced he was launching a full investigation. But even he has no illusions about how much control he actually...
...deadly insurgencies (on Friday and Saturday alone, five suicide bombings killed more than 120 people), an Iraqi army riddled with factional militiamen and a police force suspected of conniving in sectarian violence. A case in point is last week's discovery by U.S. forces of 173 prisoners at an Interior Ministry bunker. The majority of them were believed to be Sunni and several reportedly showed signs of torture or starvation. It has only increased the public perception that the Interior Ministry, which runs the police, is under the sway of a powerful Shi'ite faction. The head of the Interior...
...second cloud over the ministry has formed from various accounts that police vehicles were used in the killings of lawyers defending Saddam Hussein's lieutenants in the current trial. Two eyewitnesses who told friends they saw Ministry of Interior vehicles take lawyer Saadoun al-Janabi from his office on Oct. 20 before he was discovered dead have themselves been killed. (One witness was shot just last week while taking his pregnant wife to a Baghdad hospital; TIME had been trying to reach him to have him relate what he saw.) "All fingers point to the Ministry of Interior," insists Saddam...