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...most audacious operations, although not a single shot was fired. On the morning of Nov. 14, dozens of men wearing police commando uniforms pulled up in a fleet of pickup trucks at a building belonging to Iraq's Ministry of Higher Education. They fanned out across the four floors and herded everybody--staff and visitors--into a single room. All of them were ordered to hand over their cell phones. Then the women were taken into another room and locked in. About 150 men were marched outside, bundled into the pickup trucks and driven away. The whole operation took just...
...this year. Loosely affiliated with the Mahdi Army of the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, Abu Deraa's death squad is suspected of involvement in some of the most daring kidnappings in the capital--including the Oct. 23 snatch of the U.S. soldier Ahmed Qusai al-Taie and the Nov. 14 raid on the Ministry of Higher Education. (Although more than half of the 150 abductees were released, many remain unaccounted for.) Abu Deraa has a personal fondness for gruesome torture. One of his signature techniques is running a drill into the skull of his live victim. His appetite...
...cultural icons of the past 60 years. Readers celebrated achievements by heroes who have had a lasting impact on the world and reminded us of those we had forgotten With the exception of Mother Teresa, your list was an assortment of achievers, intellectuals, artists and celebrities, but not heroes [Nov. 13]. Time should also have noted the nameless, uncountable millions of sufferers this world has produced in the past 60 years. Those who endured the struggle just to survive from one day to the next, or fought against incurable diseases, or tried not to succumb to pain or injuries inflicted...
When Taiwan's first lady Wu Shu-chen was indicted on corruption and forgery charges on Nov. 3, opponents of President Chen Shui-bian lit fireworks and popped champagne corks, sure that his resignation would soon follow. That celebration is now looking premature. Over the past three weeks Chen has shored up support among members of his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP); last Friday, DPP lawmakers thwarted - for the third time - a recall motion that would have triggered a national referendum on Chen's ouster...
...Even better for the embattled President, someone else's woes are for once dominating the news. Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou, party chairman of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) and a likely 2008 presidential candidate, was forced to admit on Nov. 15 that an aide had forged receipts when tallying mayoral expenses. Ma also spent last Thursday morning being questioned by prosecutors over expense money Ma says went to charitable donations, but which his adversaries have accused him of keeping for himself. DPP lawmakers were the first to lodge an official complaint over Ma's expense accounts in August, and they...