Word: odai
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...blasé, and many Iraqis sympathetic to al-Zaidi, including his family, laid Thursday's conviction squarely at the Prime Minister's feet. "This is a political court. Muntazer is being treated like a prisoner of war. He is not a normal prisoner," the correspondent's brother Odai told reporters outside the courtroom. "This decision has been taken by the Prime Minister's office...
Suspicion. Secrecy. Blood ties. These are bywords for Iraq's stern patriarch, Saddam Hussein. So his countrymen were stunned last week when he publicly disclosed that he had imprisoned his eldest son Odai, 25, for bludgeoning a presidential bodyguard to death with a club. Saddam has apparently dealt harshly but secretly with kinfolk before. Five years ago, three of his half brothers mysteriously disappeared, reportedly after plotting a coup...
...will of God," but said it was his duty not to exempt anyone from the law. In this case, justice may be tempered with mercy. "I could not hold back my tears," said Justice Minister Akram Abdul-Qader Ali, who named a committee to investigate the killing. Odai has enjoyed a playboy reputation, and is rumored to have acted violently on occasion. He held prominent public posts, but his ostentatious life-style contrasted sharply with his father's calls for sacrifice during the gulf war. In the conspiratorial world of Baghdad politics, it was impossible to know all the reasons...
...decided that new and appropriate good deeds would be "comforting our brave soldiers in Manchuria." Seven socialite maidens were picked out of the 2,000,000 and solemnly blessed by a Shinto priest (see cut). Last week, the socialite Misses Tsuneyo Ishii, Fumiko Yamaguchi, Sakiko Yendo, Toshiko Odai. Masako Aoyagi and Chisato and Kijo Chiba were busy in Manchuria, comforting...
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