Word: iraq
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...lesser reporter than Steavenson (a former TIME colleague) would have found the task of building a story around an absent protagonist too daunting. The book examines the darkness at the heart of Saddam's Iraq: the ever-present fear and the collaboration with evil it engendered...
Stripped of all insignia of rank, the soldier delivered to Iraq's infamous Abu Ghraib prison seemed just another anonymous victim of Saddam Hussein's capricious cruelty. He was swiftly executed, his bullet-ridden corpse crammed into an abandoned refrigerator. For General Kamel Sachet, a national hero, it was an ignominious...
...also an untimely one: five years later, in 2003, journalist Wendell Steavenson arrived in Iraq to "learn more about the locked-in years of Saddam's regime" and chose Sachet as the prism through which those years might best be refracted. In the resulting book, The Weight of a Mustard Seed (the title is a quote from the Koran), she tries to understand why Iraqis who deplored what was happening to their country became Saddam's accomplices. "How," she asks, "do ordinary little human cogs make up a torture machine...
...haven't plaintiffs attached Iraq's oil revenues in international courts? That account is kept safe by special U.N. protections at the moment, and its currency reserves in Baghdad cannot be touched. But any move by Iraq on international capital markets involves a gamble unlikely to turn out well unless Iraq takes steps to settle the outstanding claims, an issue U.S. officials in Baghdad are stressing when talking to Iraqi policymakers in trying to shore up the nation's finances for 2010 and beyond...
...pictures as Iraq sees a revival...