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...President George W. Bush announces that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended"; soon after, General Tommy Franks moves his headquarters from Qatar to Tampa, Fla. may Saddam meets secretly in a car in Baghdad with four advisers, including a representative of Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri (Saddam's former No. 2) and Muhammad Yunis al-Ahmed of the top-secret Military Bureau. Saddam tells them to start "rebuilding your networks" and later sends instructions on how to conduct a guerrilla...
...continuing attacks on coalition troops were considered temporary phenomena that would soon subside. On May 1, President George W. Bush announced, "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended," on the deck of an aircraft carrier, near a banner that read MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. Shortly thereafter, Franks moved his headquarters from Qatar back to Florida. He was followed there in June by McKiernan, whose Baghdad operation included several hundred intelligence officers who had been keeping track of the situation on the ground. "Allowing McKiernan to leave was the worst decision of the war," says one of his superiors. (The decision, he says...
...military-intelligence sources say many of the documents still have not been translated or thoroughly analyzed. "You should see the warehouse in Qatar where we have this stuff," said a high-ranking former U.S. intelligence official. "We'll never be able to get through it all. Who knows?" he added, with a laugh. "We may even find the VX [nerve gas] in one of those boxes...
...doesn't hit the air until July 24, but the new Caracas-based regional television network Telesur is already being called the Latin al-Jazeera. Like the Qatar-based network, which since its debut in 1996 has become the broadcasting voice of the Arab world, Telesur (sur is Spanish for "south") aspires to be the medium through which Latin Americans see their news and culture. Some 70% of its $2.5 million seed money has been put up by oil-rich Venezuela and its flamboyant President, Hugo Chávez--whose leftist, often anti-U.S. agenda includes increased Latin American integration...
Thus far, the Iraqi Reconstruction of Higher Education Commission has approved spending of $25 million to rebuild damaged buildings, the World Bank has offered a $15 million equipment grant, and the wife of the emir of Qatar has also donated $15 million to an international fund for Iraqi higher education...