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...rifles hidden in the garden and seven AK-47 magazines wrapped in plastic and sunk into a pile of rotting chicken parts. The soldiers also found a Republican Guard uniform and posters of Saddam, and from a field beyond the house they unearthed a telltale box of star-cluster signal flares. "They initiate ambushes with these," says Lieut. Colonel Steve Russell. The flares are further evidence that the Tikrit area, home base for Iraq's fallen leader and his most fervent supporters, is a center of resistance to the U.S. forces...
...dramatic blow against the resistance that has plagued the U.S. occupation forces: Paul Bremer, Washington's viceroy in Baghdad has long insisted that the capture or killing of Saddam and his sons would break the psychological grip of the old regime on many Iraqis. Their deaths mark the sharpest signal yet that Saddam isn't coming back, and that he will eventually be found by the Americans. And that message will boost the confidence of those Iraqis inclined to work with the occupation authority, while demoralizing Baathist resistance fighters by eliminating two of their key political leaders and warning them...
...What it does signal is at least there’s finally going to be action on this project which has mostly just been going nowhere and being very secretive,” he said. “I hope it will help in fundraising efforts for the major renovation and I certainly hope it goes forward next year...
...bankruptcy stronger--and profitable. But the "new" company will issue a "new" stock, so any stock you purchased before it comes out of bankruptcy usually has no value. How can you tell if the stock is old or new? If its ticker symbol ends in Q, that's the signal to "get out quick." A "Q" means the company is in bankruptcy, and even the pros say figuring out details of who gets what, and when, is difficult. "The information flow can be very sketchy. Management is in turmoil. It's a very imperfect market," says Jonathan Rosenthal, a partner...
...three in a day] since December 2001," enthuses Peterson. Has the merger lovefest really returned - and if so, is that a good or bad thing for average investors and the companies themselves? The mergers are widely regarded as one sign of impending economic recovery, but few want them to signal a return to the hysterical days of the late 1990s, when companies eager to create value snapped one another up like shoppers at a discount outlet. Spurred on by investment bankers, consultants and their own hubris, firms used their own inflated stock as currency or took on massive debt...