Word: commandeering
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...Obsession with process has made Byrd a god in West Virginia; his mastery of appropriations has funneled billions to the perennially poor state. While Al Gore lost the state in 2000, Byrd won all but seven of its 1,970 precincts. Senators, too, admire his command, seeking him out like a somewhat eccentric sage. When Bill Frist ascended to Byrd's old post as majority leader, the two met for two hours. Hillary Clinton comes by for advice...
Uday won't have that chance. But he did have an opportunity to defend his father's regime before it fell. Indeed, he did a much better job of it than his more respected younger brother. The Republican Guard, under Qusay's command, barely resisted the U.S. invaders, and it was partly Qusay's fault. One reason the front lines against Baghdad fell so easily, says one of his officers, is that he kept impulsively moving units from one place to another, right up to the last minute. Many were simply out of position when the Americans arrived...
...blamed on GAM in the past, but which this time was so well orchestrated that one independent observer suggested the military might have been behind it. Curfews, either military-ordered or self-imposed, were in effect in every Acehnese town. Meanwhile, in Lhokseumawe in northern Aceh?the military's command center for its largest campaign since the 1975 invasion of East Timor?rifle-toting police in ski masks patrolled the streets on trail bikes. In the countryside, newly arrived marines were entrenched in the ruins of houses torched in previous failed campaigns to wipe out the rebels. Indonesian flags, raised...
...Numan's capture was accompanied only by a terse statement from the US Central Command that offered no detail. But TIME has learned that Numan's capture followed a three-week back-and-forth negotiation involving Numan's family and other intermediaries, a scenario not unlike the one that paved the way for the surrender of deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz to US forces on April...
...Americans struggle to fill key posts, unreformed Baathist hard-liners are trying to reassert their authority. "We've left the bad Baathists a lot of latitude, and they have had a lot of time to regroup," says retired Colonel Ted Seel, Central Command liaison to the Iraqi National Congress, a group opposed to Saddam that recently returned from exile. Dr. Goran Talabani, a neurologist who is advising the Americans on Iraq's health-care system, says Baath loyalists are threatening Health Ministry employees and telling them not to cooperate with the Americans. Talabani, a cousin of Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani...