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Iraqi engineering professor Nabil al-Rawi remembers being at a conference in Beirut on Feb. 5 and watching on TV as U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell made a presentation to the U.N. laying out the U.S. case that Iraq was pressing ahead with its weapons programs. Conference participants from other Arab countries grilled al-Rawi whether Powell's charges were true. An exasperated al-Rawi tried to reassure his counterparts that he and his teams had abandoned their illegal programs years earlier. Did they believe him? "I don't think so," he says...
...Kahar al-Rawi, a relation of Nabil's, also thinks he would have known had Baghdad revived its WMD efforts. A professor of economics, he was a top financial adviser to the regime and knew the government books well. He says he would have known if money was disappearing into a black hole created by a special weapons project. Similarly, Iraqi scientists note that their community is small and tightly knit; most of them studied together and worked together. If a new, secret WMD program had started up, they argue, certain core players who held the necessary expertise would have...
...Although U.S. officials say they haven't given up hope that Abbas will return, Palestinian sources say there's little chance Abbas--who tearfully accused Arafat of inciting threats against him--would return under Arafat. Among the possible successors to Abbas are Ahmed Qureia, speaker of the Palestinian parliament; Nabil Shaath, who served as Abbas' Foreign Minister; and Munib al-Masri, a Palestinian businessman...
...This is serious ... we are just investigating if a debt is owed." NABIL HILMI, Egyptian lawyer, on his plan to sue Jews worldwide for "plundering" gold during their Exodus from Egypt as described in the Bible...
...satisfied. After meeting last week in Arbil, in northern Iraq, members of the leadership council called Bremer's modified plan "insufficient." Some factions, including the Pentagon-backed Iraqi National Congress (I.N.C.), told TIME they may refuse to cooperate with the council. "We wish them the best of luck," says Nabil al-Mousawi, a top aide to I.N.C. leader Ahmed Chalabi. "But at this point my advice would be that we not be involved...