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The Omaha Nighthawks cashed in a dominating defensive performance Friday to pick up their second victory in the United Football League.
The Nighthawks spotted Virginia a field goal's lead, then shut down the Destroyers to pave the way for a 38-10 victory at TD Ameritrade Park.
The game, which drew 3,563 to the 24,000-seat stadium, brought an end to a tumultuous third week for the UFL. Players, coaches and staff on the financially troubled league's four teams have yet to be paid, although league officials have guaranteed payment and stood firm in their commitment to complete a fourth season.
The win left the Nighthawks 2-1 and in second place behind unbeaten Las Vegas, which will visit Omaha for a game next Wednesday. Virginia dropped to 2-1.
The Destroyers took a 3-0 lead with 1:04 to play in the first quarter on Kenny Spencer's 28-yard field goal. The Nighthawks then scored 31 unanswered points before Virginia got its only touchdown midway through the fourth quarter.
Omaha needed less than two minutes to erase its early deficit as quarterback Jason Boltus lead the Nighthawks on a seven-play, 67-yard drive that ended with his 7-yard touchdown run.
Boltus also scored Omaha's second touchdown, on a 5-yard run, after the Nighthawks recovered a fumble on the Virginia 40-yard line. Boltus needed seven plays to get his team to the end zone for the score that made it 14-3 with 6:44 left in the second quarter.
Virginia countered with a clock-eating drive that took the Destroyers from their 36 to a first down on the Omaha 16. Linebacker Steve Octavien dropped Virginia running back Dominic Rhodes for a 7-yard loss on first down and, after a pair of incompletions, Spencer came on to attempt a 41-yard field goal.
His line-drive attempt was wide left, and Boltus needed just two plays to get the Nighthawks in field-goal range. He completed a 32-yard pass to Cameron Kenney and a 10-yarder to Preston Brown. After a pair of incompletions, Brandon Coutu kicked a 46-yard field goal to make it 17-3 as time expired in the half.
Omaha quickly added to its lead to start the second half. Running back John Griffin opened the third quarter with runs of 26, 21 and 2 yards to set up a 26-yard scoring pas from Boltus to Brown.
Virginia appeared on the verge of closing its deficit when Chris Griesen drove the Destroyers to a first down at the Omaha 9-yard line. Adrian Peterson rushed for 7 yards on first down but was dropped for a 3-yard loss on second.
Griesen's third-down pass fell incomplete, setting up a 23-yard field-goal attempt by Spencer. Omaha's Aaron Weathers broke through and blocked the kick, then picked up the ball and returned it 86 yards to make it 31-3 with 7:33 left in the third quarter.
Virginia got its only touchdown when backup quarterback Mike McMahon drove the Destroyers 55 yards in the fourth quarter, capping the march with a 4-yard run.
Omaha added its final score when cornerback Antonio Fenelus stepped in front of a McMahon pass and returned it 35 yards with 3:31 left in the game.


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After a pair of free throws ties the game up with seconds left in overtime, Kunkel (No. 12) throws his hands up in dismay. But it's not over. Kunkel takes the inbounds, and takes advantage of some soft D from the already-celebrating black team. He heaves it up and—it's Kunkel time.


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Infante crowns O's with six RBIs in series win
BALTIMORE -- Who's the Royals' RBI king?
There was no doubt about it on Sunday -- Omar Infante. He knocked in six runs as the Royals and James Shields trounced the Baltimore Orioles, 9-3, on a sunny 59-degree afternoon at Camden Yards.View Full Game Coverage
BALTIMORE -- Who's the Royals' RBI king?
There was no doubt about it on Sunday -- Omar Infante. He knocked in six runs as the Royals and James Shields trounced the Baltimore Orioles, 9-3, on a sunny 59-degree afternoon at Camden Yards.View Full Game Coverage
That gave Infante a team-high 17 RBIs. He used a home run, a double, a sacrifice fly and a groundout as his run-producing tools. His two-run homer off reliever Evan Meek capped his big day in the seventh inning.
"It was a great day for me," Infante said. "I'm happy because that doesn't happen many times for a player. It's a great day for me and for the team."
No, it doesn't happen very often -- just once before for Infante.
"I don't remember that," he said.
Oddly enough, the only other six-RBI day of Infante's 13-year career came against the Royals -- last Sept. 6 when he led the Tigers to a 16-2 victory in Kansas City. The losing pitcher? James Shields.
Infante was reminded of those facts. His face lit up.
"Oh! Yeah, yeah. Now I remember that day," he said.
So, quite naturally, Shields was asked if he knew when Infante last knocked in six runs.
"I have no clue. Probably against me," Shields said.
Bingo. Good guess. Actually only three of Infante's five hits and two of his six RBIs came against Shields that day.
Anyway, on this Sunday at Baltimore, Shields won his third game as the Royals ended their trip with a 3-4 record. He pitched seven innings, giving up two runs on just three hits, while striking out six and walking two.
The Royals won this series, two games to one, after losing three of four at Cleveland.
The Royals immediately took advantage of an Orioles miscue in the first inning.
Nori Aoki opened the game against right-hander Miguel Gonzalez with a long fly ball that sent Gold Glove Award winner Adam Jones racing into deep center field. He appeared about to catch the ball, but it fell off his glove and he was charged with an error that allowed Aokl to scamper to third base.
When Infante followed by bouncing out to shortstop, Aoki scored for a 1-0 lead.
Jarrod Dyson opened the third with a single, stole second, moved to third as Aoki tapped out, and scored on Infante's sacrifice fly.
Infante added his third and fourth RBIs in the fifth after the Royals caught another break. Alcides Escobar singled and was caught off base, and was in a rundown when fill-in first baseman Nick Markakis tossed the ball into center field. Escobar escaped back to first base.
Aoki singled to right and Infante pounded a double off the left-field wall to score both runners for a 4-0 lead.
"Today Aokl did a good job leading off -- and Alcides and Dyson," Infante said. "So, I saw a lot of guys on second base and third base. Today, I made a lot of good contact because I'm working hard in the cage. Because the last couple of days, I hit a lot of fly balls which I don't like. I like to hit line drives."
And that he did.
Infante's two-run homer, which followed Aoki's bunt single, came during the Royals' four-run seventh inning against Meek. All the runs came after two outs. Eric Hosmer and Billy Butler both singled and scored on Alex Gordon's double.
"The seventh inning for us was a huge inning because all that developed with two outs on Nori's bunt," manager Ned Yost said. "And the floodgates opened, and it broke the game open."
Meantime, Shields survived a couple of fielding mishaps. In the third inning, he lost a little popup into the sun by David Lough. It dropped for a single.
"That was probably not a good way to give up your first hit of the game, but as soon as he hit it, it was in the sun and it didn't come out," Shields said.
"I had no idea and I think for two pitches after that, my eyesight probably wasn't that good. I think I stared into the sun for five or 10 seconds solid. I wasn't just hoping it didn't hit me in the face or something. I had no clue where it was going."
In the fourth with one out and one on, Shields fielded a comebacker from Steve Clevenger and went for a double play, but his throw went into center field for an error. He recovered by getting J.J. Hardy to roll into a double play.
There was no escaping Nelson Cruz's bat in the sixth, however, Jemile Weeks led off with a single to short and Cruz followed by belting his seventh homer over the left-center-field wall. That gave Cruz 24 RBIs in 22 games.
"The only runs they got [off Shields] was Nellie hit a two-run homer on a changeup but, other than that, I thought he threw the ball great," Yost said.
Infante, however, stole the show and Shields, ever the appreciative pitcher, first mentioned his second baseman's defense.
"Omar was definitely the player of the game." Shields said, "and it all started with that play he made barehanded. Obviously, he had another play later in the game, I think it was the next inning. He had a great day today and definitely carried our team."
Along with his 17 RBIs, Infante has a .279 average with 24 hits, including two homers. He's drawn eight walks.
"He's going to be as consistent as it gets for a ballplayer," Shields said. "Facing him last year, you know that he was one of those guys consistent day-in and day-out, and it's definitely showing right now."
Yes, and Infante was pretty consistent that day last September against Shields and the Royals.
"Well, I'm glad he's on my team now," Shields said with a smile.


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Embattled celebrity chef Paula Deen's publisher on Friday canceled her upcoming No. 1-selling cookbook, the latest hit to her business empire after her admission of using the "N" word 30 years ago.
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Ballantine Books announced it was canceling the October release of "Paula Deen's New Testament: 250 Recipes, All Lightened Up," which is ranked as the No. 1 seller on Amazon.com in advance of what had been its scheduled publication.
Erosion of Deen's corporate support continued Friday as Sears, Kmart, J.C. Penney and Walgreens announced they were cutting ties, and QVC network said it is taking a pause in their relationship.
Actions by the home shopping network and Sears Holding Corp., parent company of Sears and Kmart stores, along with the other two retailers came at the end of a week-long series of corporate "partners" who have severed or suspended ties with the Savannah tourism icon.
Those came after a deposition prepared in a federal lawsuit against her and her family-run businesses revealed she had used the "N" word in the past. That was followed by two apology videos on YouTube and an appearance on NBC's "Today' show.
The corporate exodus has included the Food Network, Smithfield Foods, Caesar's Entertainment, Target Corp., Wal-Mart, Home Depot and diabetes drug maker Novo Nordisk, which "suspended for now" its patient education activities with Deen.
On "Today," Deen made it a point to tell host Matt Lauer QVC had not dropped her.
But Mike George, chief executive officer of the QVC network, on Friday posted a blog on the company's website in which he said, "For now, we have decided to take a pause. Paula won't be appearing on any upcoming broadcasts and we will phase out her product assortment on our online sales channels over the next few months."
"We all think it's important, at this moment, for Paula to concentrate on responding to the allegations against her and on her path forward."
"Some of you may wonder whether this is a 'forever' decision - whether we are simply ending our association with Paula. We don't think that's how relationships work. People deserve second chances. And we always strive to do the right thing."
He cited what he called a "positive, long-standing relationship with Paula. She has always been gracious and supportive to every QVC team member she encountered. And we value, as we hope you know, all of our relationships. We believe it's important to handle difficult situations such as this in a thoughtful and fair manner that recognizes our common humanity.
"And in any strong relationship, when troubles arise, the first step is to talk. We have talked with Paula and her team extensively over the last several days, and together we have considered what is best for our customers, for Paula and for QVC."
Sears Holdings Corp., based in Hoffman Estates, Ill., said Friday it made the decision to phase out all products tied to the brand after "careful consideration of all available information."
"We will continue to evaluate the situation," spokeswoman Amy Diamond said.
Also on Friday, former president Jimmy Carter said that while there is no condoning the racial slurs Deen uttered, she has been candid and apologetic.
"She was maybe excessively honest in saying that she had in the past, 30 years ago, use the terrible word," Carter said in an interview with CNN's Suzanne Malveaux. "I think she has been punished, perhaps overly severely, for her honesty in admitting it and for the use of the work in the distant past. She's apologized profusely."
He noted her programs in Savannah that benefit "almost exclusively oppressed and poverty-stricken black people."
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text: Meet a Specialist: John Loewenstein, M.D. A two-week elective course in ophthalmology as a third-year medical student led to a lifetime of specialization for Mass. Eye and Ear's Associate Clinical Chief of Ophthalmology and Associate Chief of Ophthalmic Education Dr. John Loewenstein. "I just thought the eye was beautiful, and examining it was fun," he says. As one of 15 physicians who comprise Mass. Eye and Ear's Retina Service, Dr. Loewenstein treats common and rare retinal conditions from diabetic retinopathy to macular degeneration. A practicing ophthalmologist for almost 40 years, he enjoys his specialty as much now as he did during that two-week course in medical school. "I never get tired of examining the eye," he says. In addition to providing clinical care through the Retina Service, Dr. Loewenstein also plays an important role improving clinical care by educating the ophthalmologists of the future. Dr. Loewenstein currently serves as Vice Chair for Medical Education for Harvard Ophthalmology and previously served as Residency Program Director for the Harvard Ophthalmology Residency Training Program for more than a decade. Since joining Mass. Eye and Ear in 1985, Dr. Loewenstein has developed numerous program innovations, including a progressive surgical curriculum and a formal, faculty-proctored wet lab mentoring program. In addition, he and Dr. Demetrios Vavvas established the first national vitrectomy course for first-year vitreoretinal fellows, which fills to capacity each year. Developing computer simulations to enhance the quality of present and prospective residents' surgical education is also a major focus of Dr. Loewenstein's research. In collaboration with Dr. Bonnie Henderson, he pioneered a revolutionary teaching tool, the Mass. Eye and Ear Cataract Master™. This interactive computer program for teaching cataract surgery is now available to residency programs worldwide. Using a similar approach, he is heading up another computer based project that will ultimately help teach residents to screen for retinopathy of prematurity. Whether he is providing education or clinical care, it is the variety of tasks involved in practicing ophthalmology that fascinates Dr. Loewenstein. "I love working with the residents and fellows and caring for my patients," he emphasizes. "Whether I'm in an exam room or in a conference room, there is always something exciting happening at Mass. Eye and Ear." Contact Dr. Loewenstein's office at 617-573-4274. View Dr. Loewenstein's online bio for more information. Request an appointment. Contact Us Today! 617-523-7900


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Bringing Innovation to InsuranceBy Eileen Feretic | Posted 2008-07-30 Print
For New York Life, "good enough" is never good enough. The company strives to serve its customers and expand its business by encouraging and funding creative business and technology initiatives.
Insurance and innovation. They don't seem to go together, do they? Yet, one insurance company is making major investments in innovative programs and initiatives designed to provide better service to customers, while continuing to expand its business around the world.
Founded in 1845, the New York Life Insurance Co. is the largest mutual life insurance company in the United States, with 15,000 employees and 50,000 agents worldwide. Despite its longevity, the New York-based firm is not mired in the past. The company's executives encourage, support and fund creative endeavors in all aspects of the business, and advanced technology plays a key role in those efforts.
Eileen Slevin is at the center of technology innovation at New York Life. As chief information officer and head of the Corporate Information Department (CID), Slevin directs a staff of 1,300 IT professionals in six U.S. locations, providing technology services for the company's customers, employees and agents.
In addition, Slevin has responsibility for two other strategic areas: Corporate Internet and Business Resilience. Corporate Internet develops and leads the implementation of the company's Internet and intranet vision and strategy. Business Resilience is responsible for protecting employees, as well as company and customer assets, in the event of a disaster; minimizing the impact of a business disruption; and managing records in accordance with business, legal and regulatory requirements.
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"Because life insurance is such a mature industry, we spend quite a bit of time thinking about how we can bring innovation to our company," Slevin says. "About six years ago, we created a program called New Horizons, which is specifically focused on innovation. We encourage our employees to formulate ideas for building new businesses—not just new products, but actual businesses. Quite a few creative ideas come out of that program every year."
As an example, Slevin says the company has developed different kinds of insurance, such as Family Protection Insurance, which is a comprehensive family life insurance plan that covers both parents and dependent children in one simple term policy.
"Every year, we have a new version of the New Horizons program," she says. "All the executive officers contribute what we consider to be the equivalent of venture capital, and we vote on the 10 to 15 employee and agent proposals that we think have the best chance of becoming profitable businesses. These proposals are presented to our Executive Management Committee, which consists of our senior executive leadership, and they make the final cut of two or three proposals, which are then funded."
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DANVILLE, Ky. – Centre College (16-4, 9-2 SAA) used a balanced offense and a shot 50 percent in the second half to earn a 72-62 Southern Athletic Association win over the Birmingham-Southern Men's Basketball (15-6; 8-3 SAA) Friday at Alumni Gym.
Larry Thomas recorded a double-double with 17 points and 11 rebounds while Zac Richards chipped in 14 and eight rebounds as the only Panthers in double-figures.
The Colonels were led by Blake Scinta with 20 points and Bryon Ellis with 18 points while Tyler Wesley added 12 points and a team-high eight rebounds.
The Panthers shot 35 percent in the first half and went 2-of-12 from 3-point land but managed to hold a 29-27 halftime edge. BSC shot 27 percent in the second half and finished the contest shooting 31 percent and 15 percent from 3-point range.
After shooting 38 percent in the opening half, Centre shot 50 percent from the floor and made 4-of-8 3-pointers in the second half.
BSC held a 33-29 lead on a Richards layup at the 16:54 mark of the second half before Centre went on an 11-0 run that included three straight 3-pointers to take a 48-35 lead with 13:59 to play.
Centre was able to keep the Panthers at arm's length until a Larry Thomas jumper cut the deficit to 53-52 with 6:11 left in the second half.
Centre stretched the lead to 57-52 on a Wesley layup less than a minute later and pushed the lead to 66-58 with 1:04 left in the contest.
The Panthers close out the road trip against Sewanee in Sewanee, Tenn., on Sunday at 3 p.m.


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We're Still Locking Up the Mentally Ill
When the only prescription is jail time.
By Sady Doyle


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Birthday Cakes
Well a friend's birthday is coming up this week so I have been thinking about some of my favorite cake recipes. This recipe from the Barefoot Contessa for Chocolate Cassis Cake is one of my favorites (and while not a crucial factor for me it is flourless)!
Chocolate Cassis Cake
For the cake:
Baking spray with flour, such as Baker's Joy
12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter
10 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, such as Pernigotti
6 tablespoons creme de cassis liqueur
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
5 extra-large eggs, at room temperature
1 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
For the glaze:
6 ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, chopped
1/4 cup heavy cream
2 to 3 tablespoons creme de cassis liqueur
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
To serve:
2 (1/2 pint) boxes fresh raspberries
1 pint fresh strawberries, hulled and thickly sliced
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup creme de cassis liqueur
For the cake, Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9-inch round springform pan with baking spray. Line the bottom of the pan with parchment paper and spray it again with baking spray.
Melt the butter and chocolate together in a heat-proof bowl set over a pan of simmering water, stirring occasionally until smooth. Set aside to cool for 5 minutes. Whisk in the cocoa powder, cassis, and vanilla and set aside.
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment (you can also use a hand mixer), beat the eggs, sugar, and salt on high speed for 3 to 5 minutes, until pale yellow and triple in volume. Pour the chocolate mixture into the egg mixture and carefully but thoroughly fold them together with a rubber spatula. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 35 to 40 minutes, until just barely set in the center. Allow to cool in the pan for 30 minutes and then release the sides of the pan. Invert the cake carefully onto a flat serving plate, remove the parchment paper, and cool completely.
For the glaze, melt the chocolate and cream together in a heat-proof bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Stir until smooth. Off the heat, whisk in the cassis and vanilla. Allow to cool for 10 minutes and spread over just the top of the cake.
Fifteen minutes before serving, toss the berries gently with the sugar and cassis. Cut the cake in wedges and serve with the berries on the side.
Recipe courtesy of Ina Garten


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Hiker that fell through ice warns others
Valdez Glacier rescue has happy ending for all
Valdez man Aaron Rasmussen was rescued by fellow hikers Saturday after he broke through thin ice on the Valdez Glacier and found himself submerged up to his chest in icy water.
"We kept our heads together and my friends got me out in good order," Rasmussen said in a telephone interview Tuesday morning. "They thought quick and got me out."
Rasmussen, an Eagle Scout, also credits the fact the hiking party of three was indeed prepared for emergencies and were properly outfitted for the rigorous and dangerous hike.
Don Bickley, who works with Rasmussen at the IT department for Prince William Sound Community College, was with him during the hike and described the accident.
Bickley, Rasmussen and PWSCC student Shawn Standal were hiking on the Valdez Glacier, taking photos and shooting video. The trio came upon ice caves and large ice columns near the lake and decided to explore them a little further. Rasmussen was in the lead, but further on the right from his buddies when the incident occurred.
"We heard some cracks," Bickley said, "The ice broke and he went in."
Rasmussen estimates that with the weight of his backpack and other gear he probably weighed in at 400 pounds when he fell into the frigid pool of water. Fortunately, he was wearing the proper gear for the environment and was prepared to get wet in icy conditions.
Bickley said he managed to grab Rasmussen's backpack and other gear from him before he and Standal attempted to pull him from the hole.
"He kept getting stuck in the chest area," Bickley said.
He hit on the idea of having his friend position himself horizontally instead of vertically so he could be pulled out.
The story could have ended much differently.
"I've learned through experience and other stuff how to gear for certain things," Rasmussen said.
Having been born and raised in Valdez, Rasmussen grew up hearing and seeing tales of outdoor experiences going wrong.
"A lot of things could have gone wrong," he said. "Everything aligned just right."
Rasmussen described himself as experienced, but not "experienced, experienced" at Alaska outdoors activities. If he'd learned anything, it was to be prepared. This trio of hikers were indeed prepared and were able to save their imperiled friend in a matter of minutes.
"It was really, really quite quick," he said.
Rasmussen said he wanted to share his story to warn other hikers on the Glacier about patches of thin ice in the ice caverns on the glacier. During the interview, he said he got an email from the wife of another hiker on the glacier that had experienced a similar fall through thin ice recently.
Bickley, whom Rasmussen called a very experienced hiker, had advice for others considering hikes on the glacier – and what to do if the unexpected occurs.
"I'd just say, if you're going on the glacier, be prepared," he said. "Stay calm and don't freak out."
Last summer, Valdez experienced two dramatic rescues of hikers that were unprepared for the rigors of the Alaska outdoors. While both stories had happy endings, rescue volunteers put their lives on the line to save inexperienced and unprepared hikers from situations that experts say could have been easily avoided.


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The day in mid-April that the Iraqi mujahideen executed an Italian security guard who had been taken hostage near Fallujah, I went dynamite fishing on the Tigris. My host was a Shiite cleric, Ayad Jamaluddin, whom I met in Baghdad last summer. He lives on the river, in an imposing house supplied by the Coalition Provisional Authority, to which he has close ties, although they aren't as close now as they were when we first met. There were more bodyguards outside the house than I remembered, and a gauntlet of cement-filled oil barrels. There were also more new cars parked in the compound, late-model black Mercedes-Benzes, mostly, and a dark-blue Rolls-Royce with cream-colored leather seats and a gold-plated front grille. Gardeners were watering a carefully clipped lawn. Jamaluddin met me in a room with teal-green glazed brick walls and Islamic fretwork, and we walked to the garden in back of the house, where there was a raised stone platform ringed by carved stone plinths. It was designed for Sufi prayers. The previous inhabitant of the house, Saddam's vice-president, who now has a ten-million-dollar price on his head, is a practicing Sufi. The platform was not far from Jamaluddin's most conspicuous contribution to the garden, a mudhif, a reed house with an arched roof, traditionally used for meetings by the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq. Jamaluddin's mudhif is about twenty feet wide by eighty feet long and stands perhaps twenty feet high. The floor is covered with handwoven Bedouin carpets, and the walls are lined with kilim cushions. The mudhif is air-conditioned, but it also has elegant ceiling fans. Jamaluddin intended it to be a conference center, he told me last summer, where people could meet to exchange ideas freely. It was a symbol of Iraq's position as a bridge between East and West, and he relished the irony of its being in the garden of Saddam's deputy: "It is built out of reeds that come from marshes drained by Saddam."
Jamaluddin is a handsome, serene man of forty-two with a short, neatly trimmed beard. He was wearing a white robe with a brown suède vest and a white crocheted skullcap. We walked through the garden, along paths shaded by date palms and planted with roses and gardenias, and out to a parapet above the river. A metal fence along the riverbank had been covered with a protective screen of corrugated roofing, and there were armed men in guard towers at the corners of the garden. We sat in plastic chairs and drank tea. Jamaluddin smoked a Cuban cigar while we watched some of his security men carry a plastic bag down the bank and fiddle with something inside it. Jamaluddin explained that it was TNT, which they were preparing for the fishing expedition.
The Jadiriyah bridge spans the Tigris a few hundred yards upriver from Jamaluddin's house. The old Tariq Aziz mansion, which is now the home of Abdulaziz al-Hakim, a member of the Iraqi Governing Council and the leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, is next to the bridgehead. I asked Jamaluddin how he felt about having Hakim as his neighbor. He laughed. "It's good for my security," he said. The Hakim complex is crawling with bodyguards and gunmen from sciri's Badr corps, which is the largest and best-organized Shiite militia in the country.
A white plastic pedal boat was tethered to a jetty in the bullrushes along the bank below us. The men who had been fiddling with the TNT climbed into the boat, and only then did I realize that we would not actually be doing the fishing ourselves but observing it. The men pedalled into the river, a little upstream. One of them threw something out of the boat, and there was a tremendous boom and upwelling of water, green on top and black underneath. It looked as though a huge jellyfish had appeared. This quickly subsided, and the men in the boat pedalled around the spot for a while and then drifted downriver. We looked at the water, expecting to see some stunned river fish float up, but nothing happened. The river moved along, marked here and there by little whirlpools and swirling currents. The water was lime green, with pink and gray flecks in the fading light of day. In a few minutes, some tiny silvery fish appeared on the surface, no bigger than a finger.
Jamaluddin is the youngest son of a religious scholar from the Shiite holy city of Najaf and the nephew of a famous Iraqi poet. He participated in student protests against the government in the late seventies, and when Saddam came to power, in 1979, he was sentenced to death. He got out of the country, going first to Iran, where he studied Islamic religion and philosophy, and then, in the mid-nineties, to Dubai, which is his primary residence and where his six children and two wives live. One of the wives is a wealthy Iranian woman and the other is from Dubai.
Late in 2002, Jamaluddin was approached by American officials who were gathering together pro-Western Shia who could be counted on to help stabilize Iraq after the upcoming war. He was one of several Shia who were flown into the country by the Coalition just before Baghdad fell, and last summer he was full of ideas about forming a new political party and "tasting freedom," even though mainstream Shiite groups, like sciri, considered him too radical and had kept him off the Iraqi Governing Council. Jamaluddin says that he once believed in a Khomeini-style Islamist revolution for Iraq, but that he is now a fervent secularist. His current ideas about the separation of church and state would be considered heretical by many Muslims. (When I first met him, he had an Iranian house guest, Hussein Khomeini, the grandson of the late ayatollah, who advocated an invasion of Iran by the United States.)
Despite being marginalized by the Shiite establishment, for the first few months of the occupation Jamaluddin maintained a lively dialogue with the Americans. Now, however, he said, he isn't consulted often by Paul Bremer or other Coalition officials. The coolness set in early last winter, after Ayatollah Sistani began making pronouncements and issuing fatwas about direct elections and the constitution, and Bremer began accommodating him by accelerating the transition to Iraqi rule. "I advised them not to pay any attention to Sistani," Jamaluddin said. He thought that accommodation showed weakness. Sistani was not another Khomeini, but he was a fundamentalist, and he wanted Islam to play an important role in the new Iraqi state. Jamaluddin didn't see how this was compatible with ideas about a secular democracy taking root in Iraq.
After twenty minutes or so of roaming fruitlessly around the eddies downriver, Jamaluddin's men pedalled back to the jetty, and he suggested that we repair to the reed house to eat masgouf, the charcoal-grilled fish that is Iraq's national dish. Jamaluddin had bought a big fish earlier in the day, in case the dynamite fishing was unsuccessful.
The American plan to install friendly Shiite former exiles in positions of power in Iraq began to go wrong early on, most spectacularly on April 10th last year, the day after Baghdad fell, when Abdel Majid al-Khoei, a member of an important clerical family, was murdered near the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf, one of the holiest Shiite shrines. Khoei had been flown into Najaf in early April, and Ayad Jamaluddin met him there. They were staying with American military forces on the outskirts of the city. Ahmad Chalabi, the Pentagon's primary Shiite candidate for a leadership position, was bivouacked a hundred and forty miles south, in Nasiriyah, with his little band of Free Iraqi Fighters.
Jamaluddin had not been in Najaf for more than twenty years. Khoei had left in 1992, in the aftermath of the Shiite uprising against Saddam following the Gulf War. His father, a Grand Ayatollah who was Sistani's immediate predecessor, died under house arrest in Najaf soon afterward. In 1994, his older brother was hit by a truck on the road between Najaf and Karbala. Abdel Majid al-Khoei and his wife and four children lived in London, where he ran the Al Khoei Foundation, a well-endowed charitable organization. His principal American contacts were with the C.I.A., which disapproved of Chalabi, whom it believed to be untenable as a future leader.
Jamaluddin said that he and Khoei found themselves in circumstances that were unfamiliar and disorienting for two urbane sons of the upper class. "The place where we were was dusty, and it was exhausting," he said. "It was not very suitable for us, but our sublime purpose in being there, which we were both anticipating, was the liberation of the Iraqi people. It was a meeting in a place for which we both felt a great responsibility." They went to Ayatollah Sistani's house with specific requests in mind. "My aim was to secure his protection and that of the holy shrines," Jamaluddin said. "I learned afterward that Abdel Majid"—Khoei—"was seeking Sistani's legal approval—a fatwa—for the U.S. military forces to be in Najaf." The city was by no means secure then, but there were only a few young guards at Sistani's house, and his son told them that the Ayatollah had gone somewhere else, for protection. When Khoei asked about Sistani's position regarding the American forces, the son said that his father didn't get involved in such matters. According to Jamaluddin, this made Khoei angry, and he said, "Then the people must find a new religious authority," and he left. Jamaluddin was more sanguine. "The whole city was in a panic," he said. No one knew for sure that Saddam was really out of power.
Jamaluddin shared a room with Khoei in those early, tumultuous days, and says that he warned him that he had heard people speaking against him. There are many factions among the clerics in Najaf, and it is easy to imagine that the resident clerics would be threatened by the newcomers, especially since they arrived with American soldiers and a great deal of money to distribute. Jamaluddin left for Kuwait on the evening of April 8th, and his brother Qusay, who is a doctor, and several of their friends stayed with Khoei. On the morning of the tenth, Khoei went to the mosque with the official custodian, Haidar Raifee, who was generally disliked because he was suspected of stealing from the shrine and diverting funds to Saddam and the Baath Party. Jamaluddin says that people began gathering around the men, demanding Haidar's ouster, but that Khoei spoke of reconciliation and tried to calm things down. "Then the people became violent, breaking glass and pulling knives," Jamaluddin said. His brother told him that Khoei pulled out a gun and fired it in the air. "Suddenly, everyone had pulled out guns—pistols and Kalashnikovs—and started shooting." Three of Khoei's fingers were blown off. "Then they tied him up and took him out of the mosque and began attacking him and Sayyid Haidar with knives," Jamaluddin said. Haidar was killed at the gate of the mosque. Khoei "had on a flak jacket and so the knives were not so effective, but he was bleeding. About a hundred metres from the mosque, he found a shop and asked the shop owner to kill him"—to put him out of his misery. "The shop owner said he couldn't, but gave him water. Then people came and got him again, and one man, using a sword, stabbed him in the neck. But he was not dead yet. Then they dragged his body perhaps ten metres in the street, and he was stabbed until he died. My brother called me from his cell phone and told me what was happening. He was too upset to describe it in detail, but he did later, and another friend who was there said the same thing."
Jamaluddin's account corresponds in general to the report from an Iraqi judge that led to the arrest warrant for Moqtada al-Sadr, the extremist Shiite leader who has been more or less at war with the Coalition for the past several weeks. Eyewitnesses said that Sadr's men killed Khoei. On April 3rd this year, nearly a year after the murder, the Coalition arrested Mustafa Yaqoubi, Sadr's deputy, as an accomplice.
The Coalition Provisional Authority decided to act on the arrest warrant for Sadr himself on April 5th, a little more than a week after it shut down his newspaper, Al Hawza, for fomenting violence against Americans, and the day after thousands of his followers took to the streets to protest the arrest of Mustafa Yaqoubi. Sadr's supporters commandeered police stations and other government buildings in Najaf and Kufa, a town a few miles away, where Sadr's main mosque is. They also occupied Nasiriyah and Kut, predominantly Shiite cities, and took charge of Sadr City, the Shiite slum in northern Baghdad. The fighting was often fierce. Eight American soldiers died in Sadr City, and many iraqis were killed and wounded.
The Shiite uprising coincided grotesquely with the Coalition's confrontation with the Sunnis in Fallujah. On Sunday, April 4th, hundreds of American soldiers began surrounding Fallujah in preparation for an attack that was meant to ferret out the men who a few days earlier had killed four contractors who were escorting a convoy. The killings were grisly, and images of decapitated and burned bodies hanging from a bridge were widely disseminated. In the ensuing days and weeks of fighting, scores of Americans and hundreds of Iraqis died. Thousands of refugees fled into Baghdad, where tanks fought street battles and helicopter gunships sent rockets into Shiite neighborhoods. The Green Zone, where the C.P.A. has its headquarters, was operating under a state of siege. Then the kidnappings and murders of foreigners began. It became dangerous for anyone who looked European, American, or Asian to move around. The city resounded with explosions at all hours. Bombs were set off at roadsides, rockets and mortars were launched into the Green Zone, at military convoys, and at hotels. Most, if not all, of Iraq's reconstruction projects came to a halt.
I drove out to Kadhimiya, an old Shiite neighborhood in northwestern Baghdad, on April 5th. I had already been to Sadr City, where a crowd at a funeral had become angry at the sight of Westerners, and my companions and I had decided to leave. In Shula, another Shiite district, a hundred or so fighters milled around the front of the Sadr party's office, heavily armed and edgy-looking. A throng of men and boys were jumping up and down across the street, and several boys scrambled over the carbonized hulk of an American military vehicle, yelling hysterically. One particularly brutish-looking teen-ager had a dagger in his mouth. A house had been shot up by a helicopter, and smoke still curled from its roof. We left when the crowd began to get out of control and a group of young men started pounding on our car.
Kadhimiya is one of Baghdad's oldest and most pleasant neighborhoods, with wide streets lined with villas and date palms. There are always pilgrims around the Kadhimiya mosque, including many from Iran, and shoppers crowd the streets of the old bazaar, where goldsmiths sell their wares. The promenade in front of the mosque is usually full of families and chaste couples and venders hawking ice cream and soft drinks. Small shops sell sweetmeats, pickled cauliflower, olives, nuts, carpets, and black wall hangings that have gold Koranic inscriptions and the images of the fathers of Shiism, Imam Ali and Imam Hussein, woven into them—romanticized portraits of handsome, robust men whose eyes melt with compassion.
Early in March, during the festival of Ashura, which commemorates the death of Imam Hussein, several bombs exploded outside the mosque, killing at least sixty people. Nine more bombs went off in Karbala, where Imam Hussein is buried, killing more than a hundred people. No one is certain who carried out the attacks, but the Americans were blamed for having allowed them to happen, and when troops attempted to come into Kadhimiya to help they were turned back by a group of hostile young men who hurled abuse and rocks at them. An American security adviser who visited both sites that day noted in his report to Paul Bremer that "events today suggest we are sitting on a powder keg."
When we pulled up alongside the pilgrims' buses near the mosque, I asked Salaam, my Shiite driver and occasional translator, to see if we were going to be welcome. He came back a moment later with some men wearing the black shirts and trousers of the Mahdi Army, the militia that Sadr formed last summer. They received us in a perfunctory way and we walked across the promenade to a husseiniyah, a Shiite community center, which had been turned into the local Sadr headquarters. More fighters searched us at the door. The courtyard inside was a tumult of men and boys with weapons. They were dressed in black, and most of them wore green headbands, symbolizing their combat-readiness. A large man in a black robe and a turban who appeared to be in his mid-thirties introduced himself as Sheikh Raed. "What you see here today is a demonstration of support for our leader, Moqtada al-Sadr," he said. "The schools are closed, and university students are coming to ask if they can join us." Paul Bremer had recently described Sadr as an "outlaw" whom the Americans were determined to capture. "It is Bremer who is an outlaw," Raed said. "Sadr is an Iraqi. Bremer is not. Maybe we will catch Bremer." A young, intense-looking man sitting next to Raed leaned toward me. "We are all Moqtada al-Sadr," he said.
Raed's boss, Hazem al-Araji, came in and sat down in the corner. Hazem, Moqtada al-Sadr's representative in Kadhimiya, had fled to Syria and then to Iran in 1999, after the killing of Sadr's father, a Grand Ayatollah, and two older brothers, he said shyly in English, in a reedy, soft voice, and he ended up in Vancouver for two years. The late Grand Ayatollah al-Sadr had been his spiritual mentor. Hazem pulled up his black pantaloons to show me a bandage on his left leg. He had fallen and hurt himself the day before, during a shootout between Sadr's men and Iraqi and American security guards outside the Baghdad Hotel, on Sadoun Street, near the Palestine Hotel, where I was staying.
Our conversation was interrupted several times by men coming in to give Hazem notes or to whisper in his ear, and by many calls on his cell phone. An armored column was approaching Kadhimiya, and the men in the room speculated that the Americans were going to enter the neighborhood and attack them. "They will try," Hazem said, smiling and arching his eyebrows. They did try, and the result—the next afternoon—was a firefight in which at least one man from Hazem's group was shot and killed. "Some guys, not from this mosque, shot at the Americans, and the Americans opened fire and killed one of our people," Sheikh Raed explained afterward.
Moqtada al-Sadr was said to be holed up in his mosque in Kufa, and on the morning of the sixth I drove there with two photographers, Samantha Appleton and Franco Pagetti. We went in two cars. The roads were full of Shiite pilgrims beginning their walk—in some cases, all the way from Baghdad—toward Karbala, where, in four days' time, Arbayeen, the festival marking the end of the forty-day mourning period for Imam Hussein, would take place. They strolled along, most of them wearing black and carrying flags. One group led a camel covered with a multicolored cloth. Little tents and stands and open-air kitchens had been set up with pots of rice and soup, in keeping with the Shiite custom of offering food and drink to the pilgrims. No American military convoys were visible.
At a leafy curve in the road on the outskirts of Kufa, a score or more armed men, most with their faces masked by kaffiyehs and wearing the black turbans of the Mahdi Army, controlled a checkpoint. They were brandishing RPGs and Kalashnikovs at cars. Several of them had yellow U.S. Army-issue grenades. We had been following seven Red Crescent ambulances for a while, and as we drove up, the fighters at the checkpoint and the drivers of the ambulances began shouting Sadr's name. The drivers had decided to join the uprising. A little farther on, at a bridge over the Euphrates, a sentry was wearing a flak jacket with the word "police" in yellow letters in English and "Mahdi Army" scrawled in Arabic script above it. Fighters were stationed all over the square around Sadr's mosque, but we were told that Sadr had moved to Najaf, so we drove there, passing through roadblocks around the shrine of Imam Ali, where a Sadr aide was giving a press conference in a small courtroom in the alleyway leading to their office. When he was through, fighters danced in a circle, shouting, "Down with America! Down with Israel!" for the benefit of photographers and cameramen.
A week later, I was in my room at the Palestine when Franco Pagetti telephoned from the lobby to tell me that Sadr's deputy from Kadhimiya, Hazem al-Araji, was being arrested downstairs. He had come to the hotel for an interview with an Italian journalist and had been seized as he was leaving. By the time I got down there, Hazem was in the middle of a scrum of shouting people, including several American soldiers, who were trying to drag him away. He was making calls on his cell phone as the scene grew more and more chaotic. A group of sheikhs in head scarves who had been attending a meeting leaped into the fray. They pushed through the mob and shouted that they would not allow Hazem to be arrested. The American soldiers said that they didn't intend to arrest him—they just wanted to "talk" to him. After about fifteen minutes, the mob, with Hazem at the center, moved into the conference room where the sheikhs had been meeting. Hazem sat down and made more phone calls, but the soldiers finally managed to get him to his feet. They maneuvered him out of the room and took him away in an armored personnel carrier.
"Do you realize what is going to happen now?" several Iraqi friends said to me incredulously. They predicted violent demonstrations by Shia in Sadr City within hours and, very possibly, attacks on the hotel complex. Arresting Hazem was an extraordinary political blunder, given that the arrest of Yaqoubi, another Sadr deputy, had led to the violence in the first place. Somebody in authority finally figured this out, and Hazem was released, but not before being driven to the American military prison at the airport, given a medical checkup, read his rights and obligations as a detainee, and placed in a cell for five hours. Eventually, as he explained later, an American official arrived and told him he was free to go, apologizing for the arrest, which he said had been a "mistake." Hazem was driven back to the Palestine, where he gave some interviews and said that, all things considered, he had been well treated.
At the husseiniyah in Kadhimiya a few days later, there were no armed men, no black uniforms, no weapons in evidence. Shiite leaders had brokered a settlement and fighting had stopped pretty much everywhere except Najaf, where Sadr was still sequestered, issuing belligerent statements. Twenty-five hundred American troops had surrounded Najaf, but an attack seemed unlikely, since Ayatollah Sistani had warned the Coalition not to enter the holy city.
The Kadhimiya mosque had reopened, and I walked over to attend noon prayers with Hazem and several of his followers. The mosque custodians made way for us, and we were all sprayed with rosewater. Several thousand men sat waiting in the large interior courtyard. As Hazem made his way around the edge of the crowd, his men, and then all the men in the crowd, began chanting "Hail Moqtada, down with America, down with the Governing Council," and pumping their fists in the air. The Friday prayers turned out to be a political rally, as first Sheikh Raed and then Hazem spoke at length. Several men held up pictures of Sadr. Across the courtyard, I could see Iranian pilgrims coming and going. Some of them ignored the rally altogether; others stopped to watch and listen. After about three hours, it was over, and I was swept out of the mosque with Hazem's entourage.
That afternoon, Sadr's militia again clashed with Coalition soldiers in Kufa, and a number of his men were killed. I returned to Kadhimiya in the evening, expecting the atmosphere to be chilly, but it wasn't. Hazem said that a firefight had taken place, but he blamed aggressive Coalition troops for it. Calls kept coming in over his cell phone, and at one point he announced that a Canadian hostage being held in the south had just been released. He looked pleased, and I asked him who had kidnapped the Canadian. "Criminals," he replied. He said that the kidnappings around Fallujah were also being carried out by bandits, and when I pointed out that some of the hostages were clearly being held with political goals in mind, he said that if the "resistance" was carrying out such actions "then they made a mistake."
The degree to which Sadr's people and the insurgents in Fallujah were coördinating their actions was a subject of debate, particularly among Shia who resent Sadr and think that he is dangerous and not very bright. Some of them even said they had evidence that the two uprisings were not coincidental, or simply a result of Bremer's miscalculations, but had been planned. They showed me communiqués published by murky Sunni mujahideen groups that proclaimed solidarity with Sadr. The men in Fallujah who were fighting the Americans were an amalgam of disgruntled tribesmen, Baathists, old Republican Guards, criminals—as Hazem said—and a number of Islamist foreign fighters. The day after the murder and mutilation of the American contractors, a group calling itself the Brigades of Martyr Ahmed Yassin claimed that the killings had been carried out in retaliation for Israel's assassination of Yassin, the Hamas leader, in March. The next day, Sadr announced that he was "the striking arm in Iraq" of Hezbollah and Hamas.
The coupling of Sadr's uprising with that of the Fallujans couldn't have come at a worse time for the Coalition. The U.S. military, only three months away from a transfer of power and the dissolution of the C.P.A., was in the middle of a huge troop rotation, with many new and inexperienced soldiers coming to Iraq. And the hastily trained, poorly paid, and utterly demoralized Iraqi security forces were unlikely to be of much help. Indeed, most of them abandoned their stations or handed them over at the first sign of trouble. Some switched sides.
Early in April, I had sent a message to James Steele, Paul Bremer's Counselor for Iraqi Security Forces, asking if we could talk. He replied, "Jon, I'm up to my ass in alligators at the moment." I had met Steele in El Salvador, two decades earlier. He was an Army colonel then, a tall, rangy Vietnam veteran from Texas, in his late thirties. He was in El Salvador from 1984 to 1986 as the chief of a team of military advisers who had been dispatched by the Reagan Administration to assist the Salvadoran government in the campaign against the Marxist guerrillas of the F.M.L.N. Steele was a personable man, and he gave the impression of being a straight-arrow type. In the late eighties, during the Iran-Contra investigation, he testified before a Senate committee about his involvement with Oliver North's program to supply arms to the Nicaraguan contras through the Salvadoran Air Force base at Ilopango. He worked with the Panamanian police after the U.S. invasion that toppled Manuel Noriega, and, in 1990, he helped put down an attempted armed revolt by Panamanian security forces. He left the Army as a highly decorated soldier and later worked for Enron and several other private companies.
Steele had been in Iraq for several months, on his second tour of duty since the end of the war. Last summer, he spent four months training an Iraqi police swat team to deal with terrorists and organized crime. On April 10th, several days into the bloody battle in Fallujah and the Sadr uprising, we met at the entrance to the Green Zone. Steele was waiting for me at the end of a bleak corridor of razor wire and sand-filled blast barricades and U.S. Army checkpoints. He looked much as he did in 1984—he was still tall and lanky, and his short hair was still mostly a sandy color. He has eyes that seem to be in a permanent squint, and he stoops a little, the way tall men often do. He wore construction boots and jeans and had a revolver strapped to his leg. We walked over to the Al Rashid hotel. Steele stayed there last summer, but the hotel was fully booked now, and he was living in a trailer. "I'm trailer trash," he said.
I hadn't been at the Rashid since the early days of the war last year. Right before the "shock and awe" campaign, after repeated warnings from the Pentagon that the Rashid was a "legitimate military target," the journalists staying there moved to the Palestine, across the river. The Rashid looked pretty much the same to me, except for some gouges on the upper floors where pieces of rockets or shrapnel had hit it. But I noticed that all the guests were American, and there were a lot of soldiers walking around. The Sudanese doorman in the Sinbad uniform who always stood by the entrance was no longer there, nor was the unflattering mosaic-tile portrait of the first President Bush, with the words "Bush Is Criminal," that had been set into the foyer floor.
We sat down in the coffee shop, which was nearly deserted, and Steele told me that Paul Wolfowitz, whom he described as an old friend, had asked him to work in Iraq. Steele had experience in the power-and-electricity-generating business, and it was suggested that he become the senior adviser to the Iraqi Electricity commission, which was trying to get Iraq's power supply up and running again. When Steele arrived in Baghdad last May, however, in the chaotic aftermath of the war, and reported for duty to Jay Garner, who initially had the job of leading the postwar reconstruction, he was put in charge of training policemen. "Garner knew of my work with security forces," Steele said. "That's what I did in Cambodia and El Salvador and Panama, and so it was fine by me." He went home in September, but returned to Iraq because "I think we're on the side of the angels here."
Steele advocates robust military action, "combined with the right political moves," to quell the insurgencies. "In Fallujah, a heavy hand makes sense," he said. "That's the only thing some of those guys will understand. Down south, too. We can't be seen as weak. Otherwise, this kind of thing can happen everywhere." He said that the problem in Najaf was strategically more important than the one in Fallujah: "We can't afford to miscalculate with the Shia. Most of them are in our corner and do not support Sadr, and we can't lose them." He hoped that, once Sadr was "neutralized," his organization would fall apart, although "Sadr's got something going for him now, in that he is playing to the underlying resentment against us. There's a lot of people who don't want us here. At some level, people feel pride when they see Sadr thumbing his nose at us. They think to themselves, You tell 'em! But if Sadr can be discredited, then his followers, many of whom are uneducated and without jobs, will probably back down again. Sad as it is to say, they're used to being defeated here."
Iraqi policemen hadn't performed well in their first real confrontation. There had even been some suggestions that police were involved in the killing of the four contractors in Fallujah. Steele had gone into Fallujah before the siege, in the hope of finding the fourth contractor's body and to see if reports of body parts still hanging from a bridge were accurate. The town was eerily quiet. "I've been in Fallujah a number of times, and each time I feel a level of hatred toward us," he said. "I can usually bond with people, especially the police, just about anywhere, but it's more difficult to do in Fallujah than anyplace I've been in Iraq." He retraced the contractors' journey, going to where they had been attacked and killed and following the routes where the bodies were dragged and then hung from the bridge and, in one case, buried in a shallow grave. The fourth body, he learned, had been recovered by the police the previous afternoon, and he thanked them for this. "Americans don't leave the bodies of their comrades behind," he said. He questioned the police chief and went over the events of that day and concluded that there was no evidence that the Iraqi police had betrayed the contractors. But "they did not get involved, and their response was inadequate."
A few days later, Steele invited me to come with him for a surprise nighttime inspection of the main Iraqi police station in Sadr City, where, in the first days of the uprising, Sadr's militia seized most of the police stations and battled with American soldiers, killing a number of them. They fled when U.S. tanks moved in. We met outside the Rashid. Steele's assistant, a Special Forces colonel named James Coffman, was kitted out for combat and carried a submachine gun. Steele was dressed in a short-sleeved shirt and jeans and wore a bulletproof vest. I put mine on as well.
After a round of manly hugs and cheek-kissing with twenty or so Iraqi policemen he'd trained last summer—and who had apparently volunteered to go along with us—Steele led me to a white Japanese sedan parked outside the security barricades of the Green Zone. The car was caked with dust. I was thankful that it was not one of the big S.U.V.s favored by Coalition officials and private contractors. Vehicles like that have become moving targets for insurgents and assassins, and everyone I know in Iraq who owns one now keeps it parked in the garage. Steele said that the sedan was his goodluck car. He pointed to a couple of bullet holes in the right-hand side. He'd been ambushed last fall, he explained, but didn't realize it until the bullets whacked into the car. One of them had come through the door and hit the rear base of the front passenger seat. He didn't think it was a very well-organized ambush. "If they had really planned to get me, they'd have pulled off something a little better. I think it was just that they were there and I happened along, and they saw I looked like an American and went for it."
A Beretta submachine gun and a Kalashnikov were tucked into the space between the front seats where Steele and I sat. A chubby Iraqi policeman who seemed to regard Steele as something of a god sat in the back. Steele put a police light on the roof and fiddled with a power attachment in the cigarette lighter until he got it working, and then we were off, a cavalcade of cop cars driving at high speed through Baghdad's dark streets toward Sadr City. Every so often, Steele flashed the light on the roof and switched on his siren and we would shoot through an intersection. The few motorists on the roads made way for us with alacrity. Steele had the radio tuned to the U.S. armed-forces network, which was playing David Bowie's "Let's Dance."
We negotiated several residential back streets that were a foot or more deep in raw sewage. "Sadr City's always had a drainage problem," Steele muttered. We were headed for the Al Jezaaer police station. It is on the very edge of town, separated from a mosque by a barricade of razor wire and concrete-filled oil drums. We parked close to it, and as we walked toward the station several policemen pointed their weapons at us and called out. Then they realized who we were and let us through. Inside the station, we crowded into the office of the Sadr City police chief, Colonel Marouf Amran Musa, a small, stocky man who seemed pleased to see Steele. Marouf said that order had been largely restored in Sadr City.
Five of Sadr City's seven police stations had been taken over, but only for about four hours, Marouf said. He pointed to the stations on a map on the wall. His station and one other were the only ones that had not been seized. During the revolt, he said, he had gone to a station that was in the hands of Sadr's men. There was little he could do. "There were fifty guys with RPGs sitting on top of the building," he said, "so I came back here and put twenty-five cops on our roof with the heavy machine gun. I sent some more policemen to the other station, Al Karama, so that it would not fall. Then I called the U.S. Army. They came with armor and choppers, and the militia ran away." After it was all over, he said, he found that the police had lost a hundred and forty rifles, but he had managed to get seventy-five back. A handful of detainees had escaped as well. He'd lost only one policeman, who had vanished along with his rifle.
Steele praised Marouf, saying that he was a brave man and had shown true leadership qualities. Marouf smiled and waved his hands in a show of modesty. "I am a son of this city, I've been with the force for twenty years and worked in all of its stations, and I have good relations with the people," he said. "There are three strong political parties here in Sadr City: Moqtada's group, the Dawa party, and Badr"—the militia belonging to the Supreme Council of Islamic Revolution in Iraq. "And, of course, there are the Americans, which I suppose is the fourth party." We all laughed at his little joke. "You're a master diplomat," Steele said.
Marouf told Steele that his main problem was that he didn't have enough weapons or men. "There may be five thousand RPGs in Sadr City," he said, "and we have none. Some of the criminals even have mortars. We have five hundred policemen and only thirty bulletproof vests." And only the one heavy machine gun. Steele smiled: "You're not asking me for mortars and RPGs are you?" "A heavy machine gun for each station would be good," Marouf said. Steele nodded and made a note. Marouf said that he would also like commendations for fifty-seven officers who had stood fast during the revolt. Steele nodded, and noted this down as well.
Marouf turned to more long-standing problems. "This city changed a lot for the worse during Saddam's regime," he said, "and, as you can see"—he cocked his head toward the back of the station, where the sewage-filled streets were—"we need help. There are about three hundred and fifty thousand unemployed men in Sadr City." Steele was getting impatient, and he interrupted Marouf. "You need to get the city council up and running again," he said. "I've heard some members have resigned. That city council is your vehicle, your key, to getting services." That wasn't what Marouf had in mind. "The council's been in place for a year now and nothing has been done," he said. He mentioned the sewage problem, and the fact that the electricity didn't come on in Sadr City until 2 a.m. "We hear about a lot of money being spent on us, and we've seen nothing here." Steele threw up his hands. He promised Marouf that he would carry his message back to Bremer, but reminded him that his main priority was security. Marouf nodded politely, and Steele got up to leave.
The limitations of Steele's mandate hung heavily over this meeting, collegial as it had been. I wondered how effective Moqtada al-Sadr's call to arms would have been if the Americans had initiated a civic-action program in Sadr City. Thousands of men could have been employed to pave roads, dig a new drainage network, create a garbage-disposal system. If they had, no one in Sadr City could say, as they do now, that the Americans have done nothing for the Iraqis but get rid of Saddam and make their lives more insecure.
"Sadr's followers are simple people," a Shiite friend of mine said recently. "They are easily led by someone who says he is defending their interests. They listen to him because there have been so few visible reforms in the last year. The Iraqis suffered terribly under Saddam, and yet not one of the war criminals from his regime has been put on trial. None of the people who found relatives in mass graves have received compensation. The garbage in Sadr City is symptomatic of the bad conditions they live in. That's the kind of thing that makes people join a mob."
One afternoon, at Ayad Jamaluddin's riverfront mansion with the driveway full of expensive cars, I asked Jamaluddin what he thought about Moqtada al-Sadr's uprising. "Creating a new, free, and democratic Iraq is like giving birth," he said, gnomically. We were sitting in the reed mudhif. A black man wearing a gray dishdasha and a kaffiyeh loosely wrapped around his head, Bedouin style, sat by an open fire and prepared pots of sweet tea and bitter Iraqi coffee for us. A young partridge, a beautiful creature with large eyes and a sharp red beak and soft gold and white-and-black markings, hopped around the mudhif, watching us quietly. Jamaluddin had raised the partridge, which was quite tame. I asked him whether he thought, as the Americans were then insisting, that Sadr should be arrested for his alleged involvement in the murder of Khoei. "He should be tackled politically," he said, carefully. "The arrest warrant should not be served until there is an Iraqi government in place to deal with him. Then his and all the other militias should be disbanded."
The dissolution of the Iraqi militias has been a central tenet of Coalition policy from the beginning, and certainly Sadr's Mahdi Army, which is a relatively new phenomenon, does not seem like a force that could be harnessed in the name of stability, but there is a good case to be made that the militias attached to mainstream political parties could be turned into the core of a new Iraqi security force. A proposal along those lines was made last autumn by several members of the Governing Council. Ahmad Chalabi signed the proposal, as did Iyad Alawi, a secular Shiite politician; the Kurdish leaders Jalal Talabani and Massoud Barzani, both of whom have a sizable number of seasoned peshmerga fighters; and Abdulaziz al-Hakim, whose Badr fighters already provide a security force throughout much of southern Iraq.
I had run the idea past James Steele, who was skeptical about the militias' giving up their party allegiances. It was U.S. policy not to empower militias but to get rid of them. That was why he had been working with the police and advising Bremer on security matters in general. Most American officials regarded groups like Hakim's Badr organization as too closely linked with Iran and therefore untrustworthy. Bremer had turned down the Governing Council proposal but had compromised by creating a special battalion of several hundred Iraqis from the various militias, who were trained by Special Forces. The battalion was fighting alongside American soldiers at Fallujah. A Hakim aide insisted to me that it was the only reliable new Iraqi military group now in existence. The forces trained by the Coalition lacked "vision," he said. Not to mention experience. Hakim himself told me that he had fielded twenty-five hundred men in Karbala for the festival of Arbayeen in mid-April, and that they had captured several terrorists carrying explosives and prevented a slaughter from occurring.
Ayad Jamaluddin dismissed the idea of the Iraqis policing themselves any time in the near future. He believed that Iraq needed shock treatment, and that it would be best administered by the Americans. "Iraqis are sick, you know, and what they need is a psychiatrist," he said. "For thirty-five years, Saddam Hussein didn't allow Iraqis to think. The Iraqi people are missing something: they are missing a soul. They need a dictator—that is their problem. The Shia want their dictator; the Sunnis want theirs. Unfortunately for us, the Iraqi people's only model of a leader is Saddam Hussein."
I remarked that his hopes for a sweeping transformation of a national psyche had few historical precedents, at least under modern American stewardship. The postwar transformations of Germany and Japan were possible only because there was a wholesale capitulation by the regimes in both countries after devastating military assaults. In Japan's case, this had come about after the atomic blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and after Emperor Hirohito's radio broadcast offering Japan's unconditional surrender, and the admission that he was not a divine being. Jamaluddin smiled: "Then maybe what we need is another Hiroshima for Iraq. Maybe Fallujah will be our Hiroshima. Inshallah."
A few days into the siege of Fallujah, when several hundred people had been killed and the hospitals were overflowing with wounded civilians, a convoy of ambulances and trucks loaded with food and medicine set off for Fallujah from the Mother of All Battles mosque, in western Baghdad. The mosque was built by Saddam to celebrate his survival in the first Gulf War, and its minarets were designed to resemble Scud missiles. Until the latest war, it held a copy of the Koran written in what was supposed to be Saddam's blood. The mosque has been renamed the Mother of All Villages mosque, but it is still a bastion of the Sunni Muslim community, which is, generally speaking, anti-American. Last summer, I attended a rally there at which several leading Sunni clerics spoke out bitterly against the Americans. They decried the Governing Council as a bunch of quislings and referred to arcane international conspiracies aimed at dividing and squashing the proud Iraqi nation—especially the Sunnis. Boys handed out leaflets printed with statistics that purportedly demonstrated that the Shia were not the majority of Iraq's population but in fact a minority. This calculation had been achieved by dividing the population into two main categories, Shia and Sunnis, rather than three, the third being Kurds. The Kurds are, indeed, mostly Sunni, although—not surprisingly, considering their ill treatment at the hands of a long succession of Sunni-dominated Iraqi regimes—the majority of them regard themselves first and foremost as Kurds. The sentiments expressed that day reminded me of things I had heard in Belfast, from the most hard-line of Ulster's anti-Catholic Protestant Loyalists.
Now, as Salaam and I drove up to the mosque, we saw a couple of large dump trucks being loaded with sacks of flour and boxes of cooking oil and bags of rice. The provisions were being transferred from small pickups that arrived in a steady stream. One of the pickups flew two black flags, Shia flags, like battle standards. An Iraqi man who was standing near me commented, in good English, "You see that. It's from a Shiite mosque." He said that mosques all over Baghdad were accepting donations from people and dispatching them to be sent on to Fallujah. "Before, there was no common ground between Sunni and Shia," he said, "but now there is. The reason is because the Iraqi people are tired of the occupation and the humiliation of soldiers pushing in their doors and stealing from them and bothering their women and sticking guns in their faces." The man smiled. We shook hands. He introduced himself as Mouyed al-Muslih, the chief engineer for the grounded Iraqi national airline. He was also the head of the Iraqi airline pilots' and engineers' union. Muslih asked me if I was an American. I said I was, and he said that in the seventies he had attended Oklahoma State University. He had had a "great time" there.
We stopped to listen to the sound of heavy machine-gun fire coming from a spot on the highway a few hundred metres away. "That's the Americans," Muslih said, then continued talking, mostly about things I had heard before from many Iraqis—about how what the U.S. was doing in Iraq was orchestrated by the Israelis, who had a nefarious influence on the Bush Administration, and how Israel intended to destroy Iraq. "We all wanted change," he said, "but the Americans have shown us their ugly face. You see the people in the streets. They are quiet when they see the American soldiers, they don't say anything, but in their heads and minds there is a lot of hatred. You cannot just take away a people's security and give them nothing in return."
The Iraqis chosen by the Americans to represent them were one of the biggest problems, Muslih said. "Everyone hates these guys on the Governing Council. Most of them were living outside of Iraq for twenty or thirty years. Some were thieves who ran away after committing their crimes, and they came back with the C.I.A. There are twenty-five million people here, and many of them are good, qualified people. Why didn't you choose from among them?" The transfer of power planned for June 30th was not a solution. "As long as the American army stays here, all of this is just bullshit!"
After we left the Mother of all Villages mosque, Salaam drove me to a mosque not far from his home, in the mixed Sunni-Shia neighborhood of Al Salaam. It was bounded by a wall on which there was a poster of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the Hamas leader who had been assassinated in March by the Israelis. A poster of Moqtada al-Sadr had been affixed to another wall nearby. A couple of pickup trucks in front of the mosque were being loaded with food for Fallujah, and the imam, a bespectacled, bearded man named Sheikh Fadel al-Gaidy, whom Salaam introduced me to, was overseeing things. Several older men wearing head scarves were sitting in chairs in the entranceway of the mosque, watching. A banner hung above them. It said, in Arabic, "All the citizens of Al Salaam send food, money, and medicines to the mujahideen of Fallujah and Ramadi." A dozen or so men and boys gathered around us, and one of the boys shouted out, "Sunni and Shia are together. All of Iraq is Fallujah." Sheikh Fadel said that this was a common sentiment in the neighborhood. "The relationship between Sunni and Shia has deepened since the downfall of the regime, because we have a common enemy," he said.
"Is this a jihad?" I asked.
"Yes, it is a jihad," he said.
"How will it end?"
"It will end when the Americans leave Iraq." ♦


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When you look to package eina-svn from community it using
, but this url doesn't exists.
When you try to checkout it you get
svn: warning: W170000: URL 'http://svn.enlightenment.org/svn/e/trunk/eina' non-existent in revision 79400
I found good url at
it seems to me like they moved their svn to other adress.
Maybe I do something wrong so if someone can confirm me this bug.
I want to ask what with this. I'm new to this so I dunno if create bug or what.
Thank you for reply
It got moved into efl: http://svn.enlightenment.org/svn/e/trunk/efl/
The old seperate eina is here: http://svn.enlightenment.org/svn/e/trunk/IN-EFL/eina
Last edited by teekay (2012-11-16 19:56:11)
Thank you for explain.
So or so the package need to be changed if am I right.
Yes, the packages in Community badly need updated. There have been a ton of changes in the last couple of month which break many/most of the EFL pkgbuilds.
Ideally, the packages in Community should be the stable 1.7.x releases, which is what e17 is being developed against. I made up a bunch of pkgbuilds for the stable releases and e17 alpha, but it won't let me put them in the AUR. Maybe I should just send them to the maintainer?
For now, just use this pkgbuild from the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/efl-svn/ It builds the new single-tree EFL including Eina.
Last edited by Scimmia (2012-11-17 04:32:35)
Ok Scimmia thank you for answer and for that package
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