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...former secretary to Saddam, the strongman's second wife Samira is in Beirut with the children from her first marriage and her grandchildren. Saddam and Samira are rumored to have had a son named Ali, but the family butler says there is no such person. (Saddam does have a nephew named Ali.) The young man mistakenly known on the Baghdad street as Ali, according to the butler, is actually Samira's grandson Saif, 20. The butler and the former secretary claim that the marriage contract between Saddam and Samira specified that she not bear him any children...
...about Saddam's underground network. Brigade commander Colonel James Hickey says a core group of bodyguards around Saddam apparently is moving his money around the area, from Baiji, 20 miles north of Tikrit, to Balad, 50 miles to the south. At the end of June, the brigade intercepted a nephew of Saddam's who was carrying $800,000 in a Samsonite briefcase, presumably moving it from a hidden stash to a delivery point. The farm where the brigade found millions of dollars and Sajida's jewels is believed to have been a way station for those aiding Saddam...
...suit by Principe and her nephew is not directly related to the main battle over who owns the Berlin properties; it rather focuses on the alleged 1951 fraud. But Principe does stand to gain if the Jewish Claims Conference wins, as it usually gives a percentage of any settlement to surviving relatives. This sort of legal morass was exactly what the Germans hoped to avoid after reunification. The government deliberately decoupled unresolved ownership questions from use of the property itself, which enabled large swaths of eastern Germany to be developed even as title to the real estate remained contested...
...Taedong River Royal Family (1996) By: Lee Il Nam, Kim's nephew (the author was killed by unknown assailants in 1997) Dirt: A top official shot his own wife to death in front of Kim to prove his loyalty after she displeased the dictator...
...pointing to a recovery. In the U.S., the software company Oracle has launched a $6.3 billion hostile bid for rival PeopleSoft. In Europe, BP and Russia's TNK have signed a $6 billion deal, and a Swiss orthopedics company, Centerpulse, which had an almost sealed deal with Smith & Nephew of the U.K., is suddenly being wooed by a U.S. firm, Zimmer Holding. Investors are thrilled, because all the activity suggests that the stock-market recovery of the past few weeks will continue. "It's exactly the sort of thing that should happen around the trough of the market," says Michael...