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...just a shortage of drugs that is hurting the Iraqi medical system. Dr. Murtada Hussan, Deputy Director of the Al Mansur Pediatric Hospital in Baghdad says that supporting facilities like ventilation, sewage disposal and elevators have disappeared because of a shortage of spares. And Iraq's doctors, once considered the best in the Arab world, no longer have access to advances in medical science because they have no books, no Internet connections and barely any money to attend international conferences. "They say we use everything for weapons," he says bitterly. "But everything has a dual use. Even a kitchen knife...
...chilling account of the meeting in Thailand was given by one of those present, Mohammed Mansur (Sammy) Jabarah, a 20-year-old Kuwaiti-born Canadian citizen, who was arrested in Oman in April and is now being interrogated at an undisclosed location in the U.S. According to sources familiar with an FBI report of Jabarah's interrogation, details of his testimony?including the dramatic order by Hambali to target bars and nightclubs?were passed on by U.S. officials to all Southeast Asian governments in August, a full two months before the Bali attack...
...look for anomalies in their shipping documents, route or cargo. There are unsettling signs, however, that al-Qaeda has been recruiting in the Windsor and Detroit areas. In late July, Canadian authorities handed over to the fbi a 20-year-old Canadian citizen of Kuwaiti heritage. Investigators said Mohammed Mansur (Sammy) Jabarah admitted traveling to Singapore last October to help mount an aborted plot to blow up the U.S., British, Israeli and Australian embassies there. And last week a federal grand jury in Detroit indicted four local Arab men with conspiring to support radical Islamic terror attacks against...
...DOWN WITH AMERICA slogans daubed along the gangway in English. All the capital's buildings, bridges and roads damaged in the 1991 war and in follow-up American attacks in 1998 have been rebuilt. Fancy shops selling the goods of globalization line the posh streets of the al-Mansur neighborhood, and even the poor man's market in the Washash neighborhood peddles plentiful fruit and cheap Chinese...
...monthly food ration to buy medicine. Imported medicines are smuggled in through the embargo-busting trade with Jordan and the Emirates, but only the rich can buy those. The poor get cheap pills from "private" Iraqi drug companies that "never, ever work," says a pharmacist in the posh Al-Mansur district...