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Despite or perhaps because of this experience, China, which is known for making deals in unstable conditions and world pariah governments, may now have a leg up on Western oil firms. It has learned an important lesson: keep the locals happy. Says Kamel Al-Rafii, 64, a former economics professor at the University of Wasit: "I imagine that the Chinese company will succeed in the courageous step in the exploration of Ahdab and this will encourage other foreign companies to follow their example." Indeed, none of the companies on tap for the bids at the end of the month show...
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...
...below 100 per week for the past 10 weeks and regard the trend as a sign of success. But that level of violence is more than enough to keep most people on edge. "From what we see on a daily basis, the war is still going on," says Salim Kamel Shawal, who runs a wholesale women's underwear shop in northern Baghdad. "The war will be over when Baghdad is stable, whenever that is." With reporting by Tariq Anmar/Baghdad...
...since fighting erupted at the end of March, according to Iraqi government figures offered by al-Sheikhly. Another 2,930 have been wounded, he said. Ongoing fighting continues to worsen the crisis in the vast Shi'ite slum, the Baghdad stronghold of the Shi'ite Mahdi Army militia. Mohammed Kamel Hassan, a volunteer organizer in Sadr City for the Iraqi Red Crescent Organization, said up to 500 families have already been displaced from areas around the fighting in recent days. "We have a big movement," said Hassan, whose organization is working closely with the Iraqi government on new emergency plans...
DIED Over a peripatetic 40-year career, he appeared in more than 100 TV shows, with small parts in hits such as Beverly Hills, 90210; L.A. Law; and hbo's Six Feet Under. But Stanley Kamel will probably be remembered best for his regular role as devoted but put-upon psychiatrist to Tony Shalhoub's obsessive-compulsive detective in Monk, in its seventh season this summer. "I have what every actor dreams of: a hook," he told TV Guide last year. "I'm the psychiatrist on Monk. Everyone knows who that is." He suffered a heart attack...