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...accounting procedures but was suspended for disloyalty and breach of trust a few months later, after she complained about its lax accounting system. BARRED SAUDI WOMEN; from voting in the country's first nationwide municipal elections; in the capital, Riyadh. The country's election committee head, Prince Mansour bin Mutib bin Abdul Aziz, said it isn't possible to set up voting booths for women or to identify the vast majority of females - who live without identification papers - before the three-stage election process begins in February 2005. ARRESTED MAMOUN DARKAZANLI, 46, a Syrian-born German suspected of having ties...
These days Mohammed Amin Radhy opens his pediatric clinic only three days a week, for three hours at a time. In the new Baghdad, it's a life-or-death journey just to travel the 3 1/2 miles from his home in the elegant Mansour district to his office in a dicey part of the city near Tahrir Square. And when he does go to work, he encounters grim suffering he never expected to see. On a recent weekday a woman, swathed head to toe in a black aba, tugs her wailing child up the pitch-black stairs...
Baghdadis have learned to program their lives around the vagaries of electric power. When it's on, they rush to do everything that requires it, from running water pumps to powering the kids' PlayStation. In Mansour the Radhys have electricity four or five hours a day, no more than during last summer despite repeated promises of improvement. And they never know which four hours it will be, so the women can find themselves doing laundry at dawn or filling water cisterns at midnight. A male in the family has to go out every day for ice to keep food from...
...royal rulers. Though the al-Saud dynasty has controlled the country for 72 years, the public is losing faith in its ineffectual governance and doubts its ability to snuff out terrorism. British ambassador to Saudi Arabia Sherard Cowper-Coles calls the terrorist threat "serious and chronic." One Saudi lawyer, Mansour al-Qerni, is even more pessimistic. "Is this going to end, or are my children going to have to accept this as a part of their lives?" Says a Saudi political analyst: "The way people are talking, it amounts to a no-confidence vote for the government." Al-Qaeda...
...yards blocked from street view. Mulhern, well built and well dressed, with his head fashionably shaved, says he began feeling like a marked man during his only other trip to Baghdad, last summer. He left in July, feeling uneasy; three days later, the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad's upscale Mansour neighborhood was devastated by a suicide bomb a few doors from where he had spent six weeks, sleeping mostly outdoors on the roof to escape the suffocating heat. "There were body parts on our roof," Mulhern says he heard from colleagues. Several streets in Mansour, where scores of Westerners live...