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Saddam's circles of hatred
The tribal structure put in place by the dictator is now turning against him, reports Helga Graham; 'If you demand an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, Iraqis would be all blind and toothless'
Sunday 20 August 1995
The flight of Saddam's daughters and sons-in-law to Jordan was caused by a feud and murder within the first circle of power in Iraq - Saddam's immediate family. But the second circle which surrounds the dictator, a circle formed by the Sunni tribal members who run the elite military and intelligence units, has also undergone a partial process of collapse, becoming, in effect, a second circle of hate.
In May this year, the death under torture of an officer of the Dulaimi tribe, following an assassination attempt, provoked riots and widespread arrests in the mainly Dulaimi city of Ramadi. Earlier, a land dispute at the village of Zawiya near Tikrit, Saddam's heartland, turned into a two-week siege and full- scale shoot-out between emergency forces and former soldiers who were members of the Juburi tribe.
Given the importance of the Juburi and Dulaimi tribes to the Iraqi power structure these scenes, too, must have seemed alarming to the ruling family. Jordanian sources say that Hussein Kamel Hassan, Saddam's son-in law, who defected last week and who was the second most powerful man in Iraq, visited Jordan a month ago and confided to King Hussein that the whole of Iraq had become "unworkable". The king advised him discreetly to attempt a coup from within Iraq.
The word "tribes" tends to provoke mental vertigo in the West. Who exactly are these exotic beings? Why are they now alienated? Does it matter?
Few people have a better understanding of this second circle of power in Iraq than a sheikh of the Juburi tribe, Mishan al Juburi, who gave his first-ever interview to the Independent on Sunday in London last week.
Mishan al Juburi, who came from a poor village near Tikrit, was first brought into Saddam's circle as a young man in 1975. Asked what he wanted by the Iraqi leader, he petitioned only for pensions for poor families in his region.
Saddam gave him a car, $11,000 and granted his wish to become a journalist. So Saddam bought my loyalty," he said. "I truly admired him. He talked of freedom and socialism. This meant that thousands of my tribe could eat, our schools were no longer of mudbrick. We had roads.
"Our lives changed, especially after electricity which until then only the cities had. We believed that electricity and everything came directly from Saddam, not understanding the quadrupling of the oil price. We were ready to die for him."
Mishan Juburi's biggest chance came in 1982-1983. At the height of Iraq's 1982 defeats in battles with Iran, Saddam jettisoned the socialist principles of the Baath party and sought salvation in the ancient tribal values. Accompanied by Mishan Juburi, he visited Tikrit and the small towns of Beji and Sharquat to recruit some 50,000 young men from the largest Sunni tribes, the Juburi. The next largest tribe, the Dulaimi, were also approached by Saddam at that time.
"He saw that the Juburi were brave," says Mishan al-Juburi. "Even when living in towns they still had the values of tribal villagers - communal spirit, belief in honour and an admiration for valour. Desertion in battle - a big problem for Saddam at the time - is unthinkable."
The new recruits were intended as Saddam's personal bodyguard which would protect him from the army, and to set up the Republican and Special Guards.
Additionally, young tribal officers with ten years' army experience were promoted to the top of the army and the special units. In intelligence training centres, Juburis and Dulaimis were, after Tikritis, selected for promotion.
As one of the architects of Iraq's new tribal infrastructure, Mishan al Juburi's star continued to rise. He became an intimate friend of Saddam's son, Uday, and makes no bones about enjoying the pleasures of Baghdad in this privileged circle. "As a sheikh, you can do anything in Baghdad," he says with a wolfish grin.
The clash between Saddam's dictatorship and tribal values began to emerge in the late 1980s. Mishan Juburi himself drew down the displeasure of the regime when he went on television and denounced the incompetence of the hospital services, following the death of his young son.
A brief period in jail followed. During this time, the scales fell from his eyes. The gap between Saddam's words and actions, between talk of honour and freedom and the actuality of torture chambers and acid baths became unbridgeable in his mind.
After he was released, he says, "I couldn't sleep normally. I went to hotels to hide. I dreaded that they knew what I was thinking. Once in the night I saw Uday's bodyguards on the security television screen. Uday only wanted my gold Piaget watch, but I was terrified."
Mishan began to withdraw from his personal role in the regime, and went into business, exporting wool - "very profitably" - from his tribal area to Britain. Discreetly, he began to move his own money out of the country. But it was not until 1989 that he actively became involved in a coup attempt.
A former classmate, a Captain Sattam al Juburi, whom he had helped become a captain in the Republican Guard, asked him to assist in placing fellow Juburis in special positions in the same unit. Suspecting nothing, Mishan phoned several members of Saddam's family to request these favours.
But Captain Sattam was, in fact, planning the most serious pre-Gulf War coup with large-scale support in tank and artillery units, due to take place on Army Day in 1990.
Taking Mishan into his confidence, Sattam told him: "Saddam's massacres will dishonour us in history. How do we face our own children? We have to stop the brutality."
He asked Mishan, with his special knowledge of the ruling elite, to assess the reaction to a democratic revolution, especially in the army. Mishan concluded that the army was loyal to Iraq rather than Saddam. The Republican Guard and special intelligence units were more concerned with their own self-preservation and would go along, provided their own safety was promised. Mishan left Iraq to be ready to explain the democratic aims of the coup in the West.
But at the last minute, the plot was discovered and the Army Day celebrations were cancelled. The coup plotters were killed, Sattam himself refusing to speak under torture. Mishan remained overseas, the sole survivor.
This coup was a critical point in initiating the bad blood between Saddam and the highly placed Juburi in the military. There followed a kind of Carry On Conspiring atmosphere, as Juburi masterminded two further attempted coups.
In 1991, Juburi pilots bombed one of Saddam's safe houses, missing him by minutes. A year later, Mishan Juburi's brother, Sheikh Dira, was the centre of a bizarre plot against Saddam, which was described by the former US Secreatry of State, James Baker, as the most significant attempt on Saddam's life since the Gulf War.
Sheikh Dira played a curious role in Saddam's household as the leader's former bodyguard, but he was also a famous faith healer and mystic who was able to cure Saddam's violent migraine headaches by putting a cloth over his master's head and touching his shoulder with the tip of a sword. Dira was thus, uniquely, allowed to bear arms in Saddam's presence. The plan was to use this privilege to decapitate the dictator.
But he and an associate in the intelligence services were betrayed - and executed by having dynamite detonated in their mouths. After their deaths, tens of thousands of people from all tribes defied an official ban and turned out to pay their respects to the two men. This display of mass disobedience gave warning of the scale of disaffection in the Tikriti heartland.
As each plot unfolded, executions and dismissals followed, and the circle of hatred around Saddam expanded. Given the strength of tribal solidarity, this rebellious spirit is far more difficult to eradicate than in a conventional army.
And it is not a conflict that Saddam - or any dictator who might follow him - can win. He has moved hundreds of Juburis out of the leadership and relies now on smaller tribes with lesser ambitions.
But the allied Juburi and Dulaim are simply too numerous for Saddam ever to gain his former security.
The series of coups also point up an unsuspected radical current that has sprung up among the important military and tribal sections of the country. The combination of tribal pride and their suffering in the Iran- Iraq war and subsequent conflicts have led to a turning point: the demand for a share of power - and wealth - for all of them.
As the Middle East and the world awaits the next development, Mishan al Juburi welcomes the defection of Hussein Kamel, who is thought to have escaped with almost pounds 20m in state funds, which means the Iraqi opposition can for the first time operate independently of American funds.
"We of the second rank of the Iraqi establishment have not so far succeeded," says Mishan al Juburi. "Kamel in the first rank has knowledge that may allow him to break through. His family has killed hundreds of mine ... but I think about lives to be saved in the future, not past deaths.
"If you demand an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, Iraqis would all be blind and toothless."
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OPINION: Observing Lydia Ko's brief but stellar professional golf career is like watching a little sporting miracle unfold.
The Korea-born, New Zealand-based sports prodigy is rewriting record books with apparent ease, and her star looks set to rise for as long as she wants it to.
At just 17, she is the youngest player to earn US$1 million, having this week chalked up her second LPGA tour victory since turning professional less than a year ago, and her fourth overall.
Already ranked No 2 in the world, it is a question of when, not if, she becomes No 1. An inevitable major title will confirm her as a force in women's golf.
It is not just that Ko has got game. It's her calm manner, composure under pressure on the course and her impeccable demeanour off it that have her earmarked as a future sporting great.
When she duffs a shot or makes bogey she doesn't scream or throw her club. She laughs at herself.
Golf eats players alive and burnout is always on the radar. But Ko is showing she has the temperament to avoid the usual pitfalls.
She is a sports marketing dream. Likeable, respectful to her elders but still a fun-loving teenager at heart, she so far appears impervious to the trappings of success. No scandal here - her laundry is clean and crisply folded.
Ko's maturity is astonishing. She has a rare ability to get her head into the game. She visualises where she wants to put the ball and has the technique to execute it.
Golf is a notoriously fickle pursuit. It torments and teases and plays tricks on the mind.
It takes an icy kind of character to overcome the mental obstacles, quite apart from the physical ones. Yet Ko is leaving older, more experienced players in her wake on the leaderboard.
A lot of it has to do with her work ethic. She is fanatically dedicated to hitting golf balls. The muscle memory helps keep her swing consistent. She is also a big game player who finds another gear in competition.
Time named her as one of its 100 most influential people, and she is credited with sparking increased interest in golf around the planet among junior players.
There are a lot of people watching her and there is untold pressure on her to perform. She's handling it all so far. Go Lydia Ko.
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Taiwanese Chan Yung-jan returns the ball as Zheng Saisai of China looks on during their BMW Malaysian Open semi-final match against Ukrainians Lyudmyla Kichenok-Olga Savchuk. Yung-jan-Saisai won 4-6, 6-4, 10-4. – M. Azhar Arif / THE STAR
KUALA LUMPUR: The sibling rivalry between two Taiwanese will be put to test when top seeds Timea Babos-Chan Hao-ching take on Chan Yung-jan-Zheng Saisai in the women's doubles final of the BMW Malaysian Open at the Royal Selangor Golf Club on Sunday.
Taiwan's Yung-jan and her partner from China, Saisai, checked into the final on Saturday with a 4-6, 6-4, 10-4 win over Ukrainians Lyudmyla Kichenok-Olga Savchuk on a day when rain again played havoc with the fixtures, causing a delay of more than three hours.
Before the sky opened up, Yung-jan-Saisai, who are playing together for the first time, struggled to get their game going and lost 4-6 in the opening set.
They got their act right in the second set, winning it 6-4 to force a third set – just before the downpour. The long wait did not seem to affect Yung-jan-Saisai as they went about wrapping up the match with an astounding 10-4 win in a tie-breaker.
The 24-year-old Yung-jan, the elder sister of Hao-ching, is eyeing her second Malaysian Open title after winning it in 2010 with Zheng Jie.
"I will be facing my younger sister ... it will tough but interesting," she quipped.
Asked if she had played against her 20-year-old sister before and who won it, she replied: "We played against each other in the East Asian Games in the mixed doubles before ... but is it important to know who won?"
"My youngser sister won but I will try to go for my second title here. I'm playing with Zheng for the first time but we complement each other because we talk about our game very often ... and that helps."
The sisters will resume their partnership after the Malaysian Open and Yung-jan was quick to add: "She will always be my partner ... sometimes we team up with different players from other nations because it suits our schedule and plan."
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A VICTIM of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is to tell her story of rape,
starvation and escape on The Oprah Winfrey Show next Thursday.
Akallo Grace Gall (right in picture, with Oprah Winfrey) was
abducted at the age of 14 from her school dormitory in north Uganda, with 138
other girls, in 1997. She is now telling of her ordeal in order to encourage
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On the day after the girls were taken, a nun from their school tracked the
group, and, despite threats, pleaded for the girls' release. In the end, the
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alive. She came to, and dug her way out of her own grave.
She escaped when the LRA camp was attacked by the Ugandan army, then walked
300 miles across arid plains to reach home.
Back in Uganda, however, she was taunted and abused by her peers at school,
as well as by her own stepmother. She persevered with her schooling, however,
and will receive a diploma from the Uganda Christian University this August.
She hopes to gain a degree in communications in order to highlight the
plight of the Acholi people of northern Uganda. The memories, though, will
always be with her: "I have seen heads smashed and people beaten until their
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For the first time in 20 years, Dayton staple Marion's Piazza is expanding.
The locally-based pizza chain plans to open a restaurant in Troy this fall or winter on 2.6 acres of land on Experiment Farm Road, just north of Ohio 41 near Interstate 75. In addition, the pizza company has plans for a Mason location.
"The demand is out there," said Roger Glass, president of Marion's Piazza. "It's basically the response of our customers. They love our pizza."
Glass estimated the two new restaurants will cost $5 million total. The 2.6 acre parcel in Troy sold for $430,000.
He said customers at the chain's northern and southern locations have expressed their desire for stores farther away from Dayton proper. The company decided to act on that demand now given its firm economic footing. In 2009, Marion's recorded its most profitable year and, although final figures aren't yet available, also posted strong sales last year.
Despite the recession, Marion's remained in the black because the company maintained its standards and its services, while still offering customers an affordable dining option, Glass said.
"We had to be on our toes with everybody else. We just try to give people their money's worth," he said.
Because of its recent success, Marion's was well positioned to capitalize on the recession-battered market and begin expansion.
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Many years ago, my wife, Helen, and I were serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as an older couple. Tracting door to door was up to our discretion. On one occasion, we decided to do a city block in Burlington, Colo. There was one more house on the block to do.
Above the entrance to the door was a plaque with the words "The Corpse." It was my wife's turn to knock but she declined. Thinking it was a joke for Halloween, I became curious. Responding to my knock was an older man. Very graciously, Jim Gernhart invited us inside.
After making the usual introduction, we started our discussion with the film "Man's Search for Happiness." Then we began the first lesson on the Joseph Smith story. We introduced the Book of Mormon. During our explanation of the Restoration, we mentioned the need for baptism. He made the statement that he believed much of what we told him was true but would not be baptized because he was afraid of deep water at his age of nearly 90 years.
During the following days, we had several discussions but to no avail. On one visit, we brought up the subject of what the plaque over his door meant. His story of holding his own funeral in 1951 to do a "test run" was intriguing.
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'Just don't hold it that way': Apple boss Steve Jobs offers his advice after complaints iPhone 4 loses reception when held
Apple boss Steve Jobs has responded to complaints about the new iPhone 4 losing its signal by telling users to 'just avoid holding it in that way'.
Angry users have complained that the £500 phone's reception suddenly plunges to almost zero when they simply hold it in their hand.
Dozens of videos have been placed on YouTube showing the iPhone 4 losing signal the moment the metal antenna that surrounds the edge of the new device is covered.
Jobs issued his bizarre advice as he responded to an email from a user on the
Ars Technica technology news site who had complained about the sudden loss of signal.
In an astonishingly blunt response, Mr Jobs replied: 'Just avoid holding it in that way. All phones have sensitive areas'.
In a statement, Apple said: 'Gripping any mobile phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance, with certain places being worse than others depending on the placement of the antennas.'
'This is a fact of life for every wireless phone. If you ever experience this on your iPhone 4, avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band, or simply use one of many available cases.'
Apple claims that using one of its 'bumpers' - which cost £25 each and clip over the iPhone to protect it - will stop the user's hand interfering with the signal.
The firm is selling the rubber bumpers on its website but none will be shipped to the UK until July 16th.
Users have flooded Twitter with rumours about the problem and stop-gap remedies including using tape to cover the bottom of the phone.
Left-handed users are being particularly affected because when they hold the phone in their left hand their fingers cover more of the right-hand side of the phone - where the antenna is.
The left side of the iPhone 4 receives Wi-Fi signals while the right side picks up the 3G signal for calls.
Technology website T3 ran a test using one of the 'bumper' cover for the phone which appears to solve the issue.
Danish wireless technology expert called Gert Frølund Pedersen told Wired magazine that the problem is probably because the phone's new antenna is built into the metal frame which surrounds the device.
'Human tissue will have an inhibitory effect on the antenna. Touch means that a larger portion of the antenna energy turns into heat and lost.
'This makes the antenna less efficient to send and receive radio signals,' he said.
A loss of signal, known as attenuation, can occur when an antenna is bridged.
Holding it in your hand will change the length of the antenna and interfere with the specific wavelengths it is calibrated to pick up.
The Apple iPad also faced some teething problems when it was launched with users reporting problems when they tried to connect to wi-fi. A software update had to be issued to sort this problem out.
And the iPhone 4 is not the first Apple 3G phone to have problems with its reception - users also reported problems with the earlier iPhone 3GS when it was first released too.
There have also been early reports of problems with the iPhone's screen.
Launched by Steve Jobs as 'retina display', with an paralleled definition and number of pixels, some users in the US have complained about some yellow discolouration.
The spots can appear in corners and the thin bands have shown up toward the tops and bottoms of customers' screens.
Some Apple insiders on web forums have claimed that the yellow colour is down to the clue that the firm uses to bond the glass on its screens which has not had the time to evaporate.
They claim that the discolouration will clear after a day or two as the glue evaporates.
The iPhone 4 was unveiled earlier this month. At the time, Mr Jobs said it represented 'the biggest leap since the original iPhone'.
It offers video calling, a higher-resolution display and the ability to record and view high-definition video.
The new handset updates the iPhone 3GS which launched a year ago and sold more than a million units in its first weekend.
A spokesperson for Apple was not immediately available to comment.
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