Word: munem
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...building, is heavily guarded by U.S. soldiers as well as local policemen. To enter the compound, the car would have had to pass through at least three checkpoints in less than 300 yards. "Only somebody with the right papers could have made it through the guards," says Jabbar. Brigadier Munem Abdul Khalek, a senior officer at the scene, said it was too early to say how the explosion was triggered, but ruled out a suicide bombing. The full extent of the damage is unknown; U.S. soldiers barred journalists from the site. The main road leading to the compound was blocked...
Like the museum, the libraries are belatedly under guard--in this case by Syed Munem El-Musawi, imam of the Imam Ul Huq Ali Mosque, and a group of Kalashnikov-toting volunteers from the impoverished Sadr City area of Baghdad, known until the city's liberation as Saddam City. It is from here that many of the looters came as well, and, says Ahmad Khalaf, 26, a software-engineering student, "we want to show the world that not everybody from our neighborhood is a thief and a looter...