Word: muwaffak
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...then on the ninth day, everyone drew back. A delegation of Iraqi leaders led by Allawi's National Security Adviser, Muwaffak al-Rubaie, arrived from Baghdad to open talks with al-Sadr aides. U.S. troops suspended their offensive against the Mahdi Army, while the fighters who had battled the Americans hand to hand melted back into the sanctuary of the shrine...
...trenches. Their prime targets are the global terrorists and foreign jihadis who take their cues from Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian acolyte of Osama bin Laden. The new government is blunt in its approach. "Be ruthless. Either they kill you or you kill them," National Security Adviser Muwaffak al-Rubaie tells TIME. "With them, there can be no mercy." Al-Rubaie thinks al-Zarqawi made a "fatal mistake" with the wave of bombings two weeks ago that killed more than 100 Iraqis in a single day: "That alienated everyone." It could help al-Shahwani quickly recruit informants and obtain...
...defiance in the dock, Saddam may not be happy that he has been formally transferred to Iraqi custody. Iraq's national security adviser, Muwaffak al-Rubaie, tells TIME that Saddam "started to shake" when he learned of his impending transfer. Saddam's apprehension recalls a comment he made to an Arab leader before the first Gulf War, indicating his sense of how Iraqis felt about him: "If I am killed, there will be no part of me left bigger than the tip of my finger...
...Saddam, his defiance may have limits. "I think he's up for a deal," says Muwaffak Rubaiye, who with three other members of the Iraqi Governing Council met with Saddam soon after he was nabbed. Rubaiye thinks the former Iraqi dictator would tell all about his missing unconventional weapons if he were accorded prisoner-of-war status, which would protect him from the death penalty. "He even learned words of English, like rubbish and surrender," says Rubaiye. "He was clearly preparing himself for surrender...
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