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Duque’s roommate, Soren J. Siebach ’08, was arrested the same night on charges of possession of LSD and marijuana, as well as a drug law violation in a school zone. Police found the drugs in the students’ suite, which they visited after sending Duque to the hospital...
...Baghdad - or at least, not in a part of the city that most Iraqis would recognize. Instead, we?re inside the fortified International Zone, the 4-sq.-mi. palace compound largely built by Saddam Hussein which since 2003 has been home to the top U.S. diplomats and is still the only patch of Iraq deemed secure enough for most visiting dignitaries to see. The driver, a staff member of the U.S. embassy, rarely ventures into downtown Baghdad because of safety concerns...
...even within the palace walls, anxiety is rising. The U.S. hopes to hand over 75% of the country to Iraqi security forces by the end of the summer, including much of the International Zone. But trust in the Iraqis? ability to maintain security is so low that many U.S. officials are hesitant to venture into the areas that are already under Iraqi control. They have even concocted a name for the turf that lies between the U.S.-controlled areas of the compound, known as the Green Zone, and the uneasy "Red Zone" of Baghdad: it?s called the Amber Zone...
...along the notoriously perilous airport road. At one point they were slowed by a traffic blockage. They went straight to meetings that continued into dinner with Iraqi leaders at U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad?s residence. The sound of an exploding mortar round that had been lobbed over the green zone?s walls disrupted conversations that were, by all accounts, serious and intense...
...preparation for a possible bird-flu pandemic), collaborate on clean-energy programs and improve coordination on border security. But he also made clear that he wasn't going to rush into the ambitious agenda favored by some Canadian business leaders and academics toward establishing a common tariff and security zone. Instead, he was content to say of the U.S. President, "I believe he understands our issues...