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From the farm, seven cars, carrying among others the maid and Saddam, proceeded to another relative's home in al-Tarmiyah, north of Baghdad, and arrived at 9 p.m. At the gate of the residence, a guard failed to recognize the VIPs, who had disguised themselves in traditional Arab garb. Mahmud pulled out a revolver and shot the guard in the left shoulder. Once inside, the men spent hours discussing strategy. At one point, the maid overheard her boss ordering an aide to gather medicine for Uday and escort him to neighboring Syria. (U.S. officials said last week that Mahmud...
...army is deserting." U.S. forces seized the capital on April 9 as Saddam statues toppled everywhere. But the man, perhaps, remained standing. On April 24, before the maid was allowed to return to Baghdad, she overheard her boss say Saddam was with Qusay in the Adhamiyah district, incognito in Arab garb and driving an ordinary car. --By Michael Weisskopf/Baghdad
...coalition body count is mounting steadily in the postwar insurgency, despite two large sweep operations north of Baghdad last weekend designed to eliminate resistance. U.S. commander have begun to acknowledge that they're facing an organized insurgency, blaming remnants of the old regime and jihadists from other Arab countries who had come to Iraq to fight the U.S. More worrying are the attacks that have occurred this week south of Baghdad, in predominantly Shiites areas. An insurgency confined to the Sunni minority is more easily contained than one whose base extends to the Shiite majority...
...other demands such as a release of prisoners, Hamas will undertake to refrain from attacks on Israelis for a three-month period. But they will reserve the right to resume such attacks if Israel strikes at them. That way, they're staying on the right side of Palestinian and Arab public opinion, in the belief that ordinary Palestinians will blame Israel for the next cycle of terror attacks and assassinations. Indeed, Hamas has not yet formally announced the hudna, and it could yet claim ongoing Israeli assassinations as grounds for demurring...
...unlikely to win a Palestinian civil war. Abbas has almost no independent political base, and his ability to deliver depends to a considerable degree on the extent to which he is able to win Yasser Arafat's backing - that may be the chief reason European and Arab diplomats have continued meeting with Arafat to win his support for implementing the "roadmap" despite Washington's official policy of ignoring the PA leader. And while U.S. officials have so far avoided a face-to-face meeting, the man chairing Monday's meeting between PA security officials and President Bush's envoy, John...