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...military's estimated 4,000 Muslims. In the meantime, Yee must be charged under the military code within 120 days of his arrest or be released. Whether Yee and al-Halabi knew each other and collaborated in a spy ring or are simply fellow Muslims whose devoutness was mistaken for betrayal is the next chapter in a spy story that is still being written. --Reported by Simon Crittle/New York, Eli Sanders/Olympia, Maggie Sieger/Chicago and Mark Thompson/Washington
...crossed Saddam on that point.) Alternatively, in the hall of mirrors that was Iraq, Saddam may have been trying to fool everyone into thinking that he had something he hadn't. But if the assumption that Saddam had deadly weapons looks, at least for now, to have been mistaken, it was to an extent understandable...
...former MIC official insists that this view is mistaken. "In Iraq we don't write everything," he says. The claim that Saddam would destroy his most dangerous weapons of his own accord and not retain the means to prove it seems a stretch. But a captain in the Mukhabarat, the main Iraqi intelligence service, says he was a witness to just such an exercise. In July 1991, he says, he traveled into the Nibai desert in a caravan of trucks carrying 25 missiles loaded with biological agents. First the bulldozers took a week to bury them. It took three more...
...helps answer one logical argument that the Administration has been making ever since the weapons failed to appear after the war ended: why, if Saddam had nothing to hide, did he endure billions of dollars in sanctions and ultimately prompt his own destruction? Perhaps because even he was mistaken about what was really at stake in this fight...
...from time to time, when you go looking for more, you find them. "You build a case in your own mind that something's wrong," says Barsky. Even if a doctor assures you it isn't true, you have the symptoms to prove to yourself that the doctor is mistaken...