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Mohammed Imad Khazalalrubai does not appear in any deck of cards or on any list of Iraq's most wanted. Until last week, the 16-year-old was an ordinary student in an affluent suburb of Baghdad. But it took only minutes to transform him from a bystander to American rule in Iraq to a willing recruit for the resistance movement, vowing to kill U.S. soldiers. As he and his brother Zaid drove home after collecting their family's monthly rations of flour, rice and cooking oil, they came upon a hastily established American checkpoint, part of an outer security...
Thus it was somewhat of a surprise that the antipathetic brothers were ultimately found together, holed up in a mansion on a busy thoroughfare in a suburb of the northern city of Mosul. In the end, they went down together, engaging U.S. forces in a four-hour battle before both were taken out of the house dead, provoking celebrations in Iraq and relief in Washington. The removal of two aces from the Pentagon's deck of the 55 most-wanted Iraqis provided a much-needed boost to a White House reeling from growing public suspicions that it stretched its case...
...such excellent fettle? 'Cigarettes and gin,' chuckles Denis. His almost flawless public performance is all the more admirable for hiding his true nature: short-fused, outspoken, archconservative ... When he is not busy escorting his wife, he can frequently be spied on the exclusive golf course in [the London suburb] of Dulwich ... He even launched a popular campaign against slow golfers with the argument: 'After all, the quicker you finish your round, the more time you will have for a pint...
...Malaysian police sources told TIME that on June 9 they arrested 36-year-old Alias Osman in a Kuala Lumpur suburb. Alias, they claim, was a member of the militant Islamic group Jemaah Islamiah (JI). Police say he led them to an oil-palm plantation where a cache of chemicals was buried, including an unspecified amount of sodium azide, a powder that can be used to make poison gas. "When mixed with water, acid or metal, it changes rapidly to a highly toxic gas," says a Malaysian-government chemist. "The gas can be fatal...
...spend a lot of your time with an extremely diverse group of people with all sorts of energy and ideas, I’d take that over a suburb any day,” he says...