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...great autonomy in foreign and military affairs. But as he contemplates the final 17 months of his term, perhaps the most he can hope to accomplish is to get his Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin, into position to succeed him as President. That would bar the door to Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who was once close to Chirac but is now the most popular man of the right and the President's toughest antagonist. So Chirac's potential to be a nuisance remains imposing. But his political influence can now only be exercised to benefit or to harm others...
...public services and jobs is the only way for France to avert a repeat of the violence that wracked the suburbs over the past three weeks. "We need fluidity here," Borloo says. "More banlieues flowing into the towns, and more from the towns gushing out to the banlieues." Though Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin were the most visible politicians during the crisis, Borloo may be the only man with a real plan for fixing the banlieues. Last year, he launched a project - now budgeted at $35 billion over five years - to demolish and rebuild...
...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...