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...after falling out with Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay. Al-Janabi, who still has close ties with remnants of the old regime, has returned from Hemet, Calif. (where his wife Lori Van Arsdale is mayor), to his family home, now frequently visited by Americans, in the Mansour area of Baghdad. Al-Janabi, a well-heeled Arab with a pencil-thin mustache and an affinity for American slang, describes Garner as "my homie...
...Although statues and portraits of the dictator have been torn down and dragged through the streets, the man himself has yet to be found. U.S. intelligence reportedly believes Saddam may well have been killed by bunker-buster bombs dropped on a restaurant in the al-Mansour neighborhood Tuesday where he was sighted meeting with aides. British intelligence, however, says the Iraqi leader was seen escaping the site moments before the bombing. Iraqi opposition sources say he slipped out of the capital with at least one of his sons. Some speculated he may try to retreat to his hometown of Tikrit...
...TIME photographer, who has spent months in Iraq, believes the Republican Guard units inside Baghdad have simply dispersed and gone home. He made his way to the house in the suburb of al-Mansour bombed the previous night by U.S. 'bunker-busters' following an intelligence tip that placed Saddam Hussein and his sons there. "I have never seen such a huge crater," said Kozyrev. "Can't imagine what kind of munitions were used to wreak such havoc. The house was a kind of private villa of which nothing is left...
...January of this year, JI operational commander Riduan Isamuddin, known as Hambali, met with Mohammed Mansour Jabarah, a 21-year-old Cana-dian operative of al-Qaeda in southern Thailand. Hambali, who trained and fought in Afghanistan from 1987 to 1991, is a member of both the JI and al-Qaeda consultative councils. Ham-bali proposed to Jabarah?who was dispatched to the region by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, head of al-Qaeda's military committee?that the terror campaign evolve to bombing bars, nightclubs and restaurants frequented by Westerners...
...LINES "Yesterday I died. That's bad news for me, but it's not bad news for you." Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, quoting from a letter that will tell shareholders his succession plan after he dies "We have to sell our oil. We cannot drink it." Saleh Mansour Al Rajhy, Saudi ambassador to South Korea, arguing that fears of runaway oil prices are overblown "The average E.U. cow receives more than $2 a day in support from governments. That is more than the income of half the world's population." Julian Filochowski, director of the Catholic Agency...