Word: looter
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There are still traces of yellow-brown powder around the side of the big rusty drum where Ali Awad stores gasoline. Ali says he bought it from a looter. His neighbors think he took it himself. The 50 gallon drum had been full of heavy yellow powder, Ali recalled, but the looter emptied it onto the floor of the store at the Al Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center one day in mid-April when local people literally dismantled Iraq's largest nuclear site. The powder - or yellow cake - could, however, eventually kill Ali and many other locals. It is mined uranium...
...guard--in this case by Syed Munem El-Musawi, imam of the Imam Ul Huq Ali Mosque, and a group of Kalashnikov-toting volunteers from the impoverished Sadr City area of Baghdad, known until the city's liberation as Saddam City. It is from here that many of the looters came as well, and, says Ahmad Khalaf, 26, a software-engineering student, "we want to show the world that not everybody from our neighborhood is a thief and a looter...
...hindsight makes it easy to criticize the Coalition for not sprinkling a tank here and there to protect important museums; after all, a counter-attack never materialized. Yet these are not realistic demands, for isolated and charged with murky rules of engagement (is it okay to machine-gun a looter?), these tanks would have been too vulnerable to justify deploying them so precariously...
...Some Kurdish peshmerga soldiers tried to stop men looting an oil refinery office. One orange and white taxi came out with a rusty refrigerator on top. An angry peshmerga demanded he put it back, but the looter had a gun. And so he went on. Other cars continued to stream out of the refinery parking lot, with leather office chairs and air conditioners tied precariously to the tops of their cars...
...assorted Harry Potter ogres, there was still a healthy supply of singing Kiss dolls, Star Wars’ Amidala action figures, The Simpsons’ Bleeding Gums Murphy figurines, and Mary-Kate-and-Ashley videos to satisfy the masses. And who knows what loot (or lil’ looter) was left beneath the mounds of boxes piled in corners here and there? Even in the autumn of its years, FAO Schwarz had managed to provide, as its website boasts, a unique shopping experience in “an unforgettable environment.” Yes, long after the last...