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...pine and eucalyptus trees inside the presidential compound; peacocks and gazelles roamed the grounds. One party pad that neighbors call the China house was decorated entirely in chinoiserie, complete with murals of Chinese women doing the washing and playing the erhu, a two-string instrument. In the upscale Baghdad suburb of Karada, Uday kept a love nest for trysts...
...Berets, a special unit of Serbian state security linked to war crimes and, now, to dozens of political murders under the Milosevic regime. Legija was "a killer paid by the state," according to Kandic, and had been running a drug trafficking and extortion ring out of the tiny Belgrade suburb of Zemun. The group had infiltrated not just Prime Minister Djindjic's security, but the prosecutor's office, where Djindjic's government had been preparing indictments against them. On the day Djindjic was killed, one conspirator was monitoring the Prime Minister's movements on closed-circuit television in state security...
...palace, in the tony Baghdad suburb of Karada, was not Uday's main residence but rather a 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...
...home hardest when seen through the experience of a single person. In last week's issue, TIME ran a photograph of a young boy named Ali Ismail Abbas, who had suffered excruciating burns and the loss of both arms after a missile hit his home in a southern suburb of Baghdad. It was not known whether any of Ali's family members had survived; the only relative tending to him at the al Kindi hospital was an aunt. The photo of the armless boy evoked distress and concern from readers around the world...
...Leung hardly looks the part of a modern Mata Hari, with her librarian glasses and hair in a bun. She lived with her husband and son in a $1.3 million house in the leafy L.A. suburb of San Marino. Although she called herself a venture capitalist and ran a consulting business from home, she spent much of her time courting California's political players. She was host of a fund raiser for the failed gubernatorial race of former L.A. mayor Richard Riordan and gave $10,000 to his campaign. When Chinese leaders Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji came to town...