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Back in Washington, the Pentagon has been grooming some useful backup for Chalabi. Two subway stops from downtown, upstairs from a McDonald's, are the offices of the seven-week-old Iraq Reconstruction and Development Council. A pet project of Wolfowitz's, the organization consists of a group of exiled Iraqi technocrats sympathetic to Chalabi who have been feverishly planning how to restart everything from irrigation to trash collection to oil production as soon as the fighting stops. When they get the word from Garner, they will deploy as liaisons between his temporary American ministers and those Iraqis deemed salvageable...
...safe house in which Uday could hide out, as well as, according to a neighbor, a "love nest" to which he would bring his many girlfriends. Snapshots found in the remains of a darkroom show him fishing with friends, riding a motorbike in a black leather jacket, posing with pet lions and hanging out in shorts and a cowboy...
...Often used as a doggie playplace by urban pet owners, this enclosed area may occasionally contain—ahem—remnants of previous canine users...
...article of faith in Washington - and in London - that if terrorists ever possess weapons of mass destruction, they will use them. Hence states that have connections to terrorism must not be permitted such weapons. Within that framework, encouraging the development of democratic structures in the Middle East - the pet project of some neoconservatives in the Administration - is a way of advancing the primary policy. Citizens of states with legitimate channels for political expression are less likely, the argument goes, to be swayed into the terrorists' camp. In other words, if there were a group of democratic states in the Middle...
...scene, Chung plays the teacher’s pet in a medical class, responding confidently and astutely to her teacher’s question: “This type of patient has a common characteristic,” she declares. “There is a definite difference.” Interestingly, the advertisement chose to draw attention away from Chung’s anthropology concentration and toward her pre-med status...