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...active resistance against occupying U.S. forces. But in other ways, Mosul was a comfortable fit for the brothers, because key elements of Saddam's top officer corps came from there. At what point the brothers arrived in Mosul, a scenic city that is a popular family holiday destination, remains unclear. As TIME reported in the June 2 issue, in late May Uday dispatched a relative to try to negotiate the terms of a surrender to U.S. forces, according to a source familiar with the communications. The U.S., of course, never had any intention of offering Uday the amnesty he sought...
...begin. "If you are going to fight corruption, you have to deal with the Uzans," claims Radikal columnist Berkan. Bizarrely, state-owned companies continue to go Uzan's way. In June the family won yet another privatization bid, this one for the petroleum company Petkim, though it's unclear how it will come up with the down-payment by August's deadline. Yet no one denies that Uzan's far-right nationalist Youth Party is a political threat. Support has risen in internal polls from 7% to 17% in the past eight months. A minimum of 10% is needed...
Judging by the number of coalition deaths last week, it seems clear that the situation in Iraq is getting worse. What's unclear is whether the attacks are part of an organized resistance to the American occupation. When the enemy was Saddam and his armed forces, resistance was easy to understand; now it's not. In the Pentagon, officials are nervously revisiting their earlier assumption that the resistance was haphazard and spontaneous. "It may have begun that way," says a senior Pentagon official, "but as these attacks grow more numerous, you get the sense that there's someone pulling...
...casting the decisive vote, he wrote an opinion that no other justice joined with in full, although four others concurred in part. The result is that while Bakke had widely been considered the standard, it was unclear whether the ruling was ever good law, a question put to rest on Monday...
...person who could settle the questions cannot do so, at least for now. Lynch might have some memory loss (it's unclear how much) and has yet to give a public account of what she recalls of her ordeal. --By Michele Orecklin. Reported by Melissa August and Sally B. Donnelly/Washington and Joshua Kucera/Nasiriyah