Word: tikritis
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...houseguest was told to make his bed under the stars because the power had gone out and it was too hot inside without air conditioning. From the rooftop balcony of the two-story house in northern Tikrit where he sought refuge early last week, Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti, the fourth-most-wanted man in Iraq, had a panorama on a life come undone. To the south he could make out the sprawling family farmlands where he used to spend weekends with his boss and cousin, Saddam Hussein. A few miles up the road stood the ex-regime's garish...
...Saddam end up in Yunis' house? As war loomed in late March, the garrulous businesswoman--a stout 36-year-old with bright red hair and brooding eyes--rented the place to Kamal Mustafa Abdallah Sultan al-Tikriti, a former business associate who headed Iraq's Republican Guard. Al-Tikriti did not tell her why he wanted the house, but Yunis suspected it might be used as a storage site or meeting place. When she returned to her home two days after the strike it was empty, but official papers were strewn everywhere. She found a box of AK-47 ammunition...
Before the war, Yunis had connections with members of Saddam's inner circle, including al-Tikriti, who surrendered to U.S. forces last month, and Sayf al-Rawi, chief of the Republican Guard's Forward Command. After the war, she allowed al-Rawi's bodyguard to stay in her house for 10 days. The bodyguard told her that "all the high-ranking members used to meet here on different occasions" and that Qusay sometimes slept in her son's room...
TIME: There have been reports of a shooting in Baghdad involving President Saddam's eldest son Uday [seemingly second in power these days] and Saddam's half brother Watban Ibrahim al-Tikriti...
Hussein Kamel: It never happened. TIME: You have been described as unfit for power by Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, President Saddam's half brother. What was your relationship with...