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...alive--is a source of mounting frustration for the Administration. Last week, engineers from the 1st Armored Brigade began clearing up to 5,000 tons of rubble from the site of the April 7 bombing, searching for Saddam's remains. But most Pentagon officials believe he survived the raid. A longtime employee of Saddam's family who worked at their farmhouse in Tikrit told TIME the Iraqi leader phoned the house on April 8 looking for guards to launch surface-to-surface missiles. "I think he's alive," says a U.S. intelligence official in Iraq, "because if he suffered...
...regional governor's residence in Kirkuk last week. (Every Iraqi, sadly, already knows the F word.) "The American soldier is, please excuse the word, very high-handed," says Abu Mousa, a veteran Iraqi journalist. Much more worrisome: some Iraqis believe the U.S. troops are light-fingered too. "They raid houses and take any money they can find," says Abufawaz Khazal, a former government scientist. "It's clear that [U.S. soldiers] are working with the local black marketeers," says a businessman in Baghdad. "They take guns from people on the streets and pass them to their fences." Sheik Khalid Alefan, cousin...
...kind of enjoyed it. He loved it because he could watch TV while his laundry was being done for free, and raid the refrigerator and have a bigger space to relax in,” Helen says...
...they pounced. And in one of the biggest coups of the antiterrorism campaign so far, they grabbed a Yemeni al-Qaeda leader named Waleed Muhammad bin Attash along with five Pakistanis who had stashed 330 lbs. of explosives and weapons under the produce. Another big fish netted in the raid was Ali Abd al-Aziz, a bin Laden bagman who, U.S. officials tell TIME, funneled nearly $120,000 to the Sept. 11 hijackers. Aziz could help expose the secret financial networks that fund al-Qaeda operations...
Last week's raid of the terrorists' lair yielded an additional 770 lbs. of explosives--in all, enough to level a city block. It was a timely haul. Interrogations revealed that Attash and his cohorts had imminent plans to crash a small plane laden with the explosives into the U.S. consulate in Karachi. That prompted the Department of Homeland Security to issue an advisory to all pilots and aircraft-rental companies, urging them to secure their planes in case other aerial attacks had been planned. "Just because these six have been arrested, it doesn't mean there's no longer...