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...people have taken refuge. "We need to stop the attacks," says Lynn Heinisch, of U.S. aid group CARE, "and get them food, medicines and shelter before it's too late." Getting Closure SPAIN A judge investigating the Madrid train bombings charged a Lebanese man in connection with the attacks. Mahmoud Slimane Aoun was detained on suspicion of involvement with other suspects accused over the bombings. And an Italian court approved the extradition to Spain of Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, an alleged mastermind of the attacks that killed 191 in March...
...Staff writer Jasmine J. Mahmoud can be reached at mahmoud@fas.harvard.edu...
Jasmine J. Mahmoud ’04, a government concentrator in Winthrop House, was an associate editorial chair of The Crimson...
...reaction to Allawi's appointment highlighted the near impossibility of choosing an unelected Iraqi government that can command wide support. Almost from the moment they endorsed Allawi, Governing Council members rushed to declare that he was no one's top choice. "He's a compromise candidate," says council member Mahmoud Othman. "Nobody wanted him at the start, but in the end nobody rejected him." Allawi is a former member of Saddam's Baath Party who left Iraq for London in the mid-'70s and was later attacked by an ax-wielding assassin when he refused Saddam's demands to return...
...Like many Iraqis, al-Faidi blames the Americans - and especially CPA boss Paul Bremer - for Allawi's appointment. But many also finger Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations envoy who was charged with helping select the new government. Mahmoud Othman, a member of the Governing Council, was pulling no punches. "After weeks and weeks of talking with all sorts of Iraqis, he goes and picks somebody from the GC?" he said. "What was the point of this long, complicated exercise, all those long consultations? And what happened to his ideas about picking technocrats to run the new government?" Asked whether Allawi...