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In the morning of March 11, 2004, Susan Lindauer woke to find five F.B.I. agents at her front door. After reading her her rights, the agents took Lindauer from her home in Takoma Park, Md., to the F.B.I. field office in Baltimore, where she was charged with having acted as an unregistered agent of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government and otherwise having elevated the interests of a foreign country above her allegiance to the United States. ''The only visible sign of stress is that I'm chain-smoking,'' she said when I met with her recently. Forty-one and free on bail, she wore...

We walked into a small room where a soldier lay face up, eyes closed. His hair was cut short to the nubs. Arnold Duplantier was in a black body bag with the corner folded back. He was shirtless. The sniper's bullet had found the opening in his body armor and gone straight into his chest and through his heart. CSM Mellinger puts his hand on Arnold's shoulder, pats the shoulder and then places his hand on Arnold's head, as if to say something to Arnold. Another young soldier bear hugs CSM Mellinger the way a son might hug a father...

[Breaking News Ticker] SADDAM’S ITALIAN LAWYER GIOVANNI DE STAFANO TOLD A LONDON-BASED DAILY THAT A MEETING WAS HELD BETWEEN HIMSELF AND OSAMA BIN LADEN AT THE RASHID HOTEL IN BAGHDAD IN 1998. (AL-SHARQ AL-AWSAT, LONDON, 10/15/04)

<p>BAGHDAD — U.S. forces have arrested 35 pro-Saddam holdouts in connection with last month's rocket attack on Baghdad's Al Rasheed Hotel, a senior American officer said yesterday.</p> <p>The former regime loyalists were tracked down after two weeks of painstaking detective work and surveillance, the officer said.</p>

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Soldiers arrested 18 people in a deadly missile barrage last month that Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz narrowly escaped, officials said Sunday. U.S. warplanes bombed near a center of Iraqi resistance, and the military said it was intensifying the fight against insurgents after increasingly bloody attacks. The U.S. command also announced the death of another soldier, killed late Saturday when his vehicle struck a land mine in Baghdad. A senior Iraqi official warned that mounting violence may delay steps toward a new constitution, considered a major condition for returning the country to full Iraqi rule. Lt. Col....

The US military has detained 18 people in connection with last month's rocket attack on Baghdad's Rashid hotel, which killed a US colonel and wounded 15 others, an army spokesman has said. "We can confirm there have been some detentions, exactly 18 is the number," said Lieutenant Colonel George Krivo. "There will be more information and details within 24 to 48 hours," he said. Eight to ten rockets hit the heavily fortified Rashid, where US Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was staying while on a visit, in the early morning of October 26. The bombardment was the first deadly hit...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 10/28/03 - Baghdad in Liberated Iraq BREAKING: Baghdad - Liberated by America BREAKING: Baghdad - Terrorized by Baathists, Syrians and others QFN ==== QUAGMIRE-FREE NEWS ========= Baghdad ========= LIBERATED BY THE USA In Baghdad, Iraq, Iraqi children and US heroes, who liberated them. LIBERATED BY THE USA In Baghdad, Iraq, Iraqi children freed by the USA attend classes at the new Al Shaima'a secondary school. In Baghdad, Iraq, at the market. In Baghdad, Iraq, US heroes celebrate the reopening of the 14th of July bridge. In Baghdad, Iraq, the Red Cross, long...

US authorities failed to act on a warning from an Iraqi police informant in August that the staff of Baghdad's al-Rashid hotel had been infiltrated by Ba'ath party spies seeking targeting information on the governing coalition's top brass. The hotel was badly damaged on Sunday by a rocket attack which narrowly missed the floor occupied by Paul Wolfowitz, the US deputy defence secretary. An American colonel was killed and 17 others, including a British treasury official, were wounded. Security sources confirmed yesterday that the man detailed his suspicions in a letter. The al-Rashid serves as offices and accommodation for senior...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Army officer killed in a rocket barrage on a Baghdad hotel had a high-ranking position in which he directly advised civilian administrator L. Paul Bremer on how the occupation was being received by Iraqis, a military official said Monday. The Pentagon identified the officer as Lt. Col. Charles H. "Chad" Buehring, 40. He was in his hotel room Sunday at the time of the attack, which also injured fifteen people. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was visiting the hotel at the time of the attack, but escaped unharmed. Buehring was in charge of psychological operations for...

French Missiles Used in Hotel Attack (CNSNews.com) - A British newspaper reported that half of the rockets used in Sunday's attack on the Al Rasheed Hotel were French weapons produced after an arms embargo was imposed against Iraq following the Gulf War

BAGHDAD — The assault on the Rashid Hotel by Iraqi resistance fighters Sunday was designed to grab attention by flaunting their ability to inflict casualties on U.S. soldiers and civilians, even those ensconced within the most secure compound in Iraq, according to terrorism experts and law enforcement officials in Baghdad. The onslaught, in which one U.S. colonel was killed and 15 people were wounded, did not cause as many casualties as previous attacks on other high-profile targets in the capital. But it exhibited the growing sophistication of the opposition's tactics and raised hard questions about whether it would be possible...

AN influential Lebanese politician and leader of its Druze community triggered US outrage today when he expressed regret US Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was unhurt in a Baghdad rocket attack. "We hope the firing will be more precise and efficient (next time), so we get rid of this microbe and people like him in Washington who are spreading disorder in Arab lands, Iraq and Palestine," Walid Jumblatt said in a statement. Jumblatt, who is also the leader of the Progressive Socialist Party, called Wolfowitz a "friend of Ariel Sharon", the hardline Israeli prime minister, "and one of the main...

<p>October 27, 2003 -- Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was just a floor away from danger yesterday when a missile barrage blitzed the Baghdad hotel where he was staying - killing an American colonel and wounding 18 other people. Wolfowitz was dressing in a 12th-floor room when eight to 10 missiles crashed into the western side of the Al Rasheed hotel at 6:10 a.m. - punching holes in the modern, concrete facade and shattering windows in two dozen rooms.</p>

<p>BAGHDAD — A contractor supplying kitchen staff and secretaries for the Al Rasheed Hotel, the scene of yesterday's rocket attacks, was allied to Saddam Hussein's security services and might have been providing intelligence to the anti-U.S. resistance, an Iraqi informant said yesterday.</p>

French bombs in Baghdad Smashed ... the wrecked Rashid hotel By TREVOR KAVANAGH and BRIAN FLYNN A BAGHDAD hotel where US defence chief Paul Wolfowitz was staying was yesterday blitzed by rockets made in FRANCE.Half of the missiles fired were modern French weapons, said experts — produced after the arms embargo imposed on Iraq following the first Gulf War.The shock discovery will further fuel growing concern over blackmarket French arms links with Islamic terrorists.The French government has furiously denied turning a blind eye to illegal weapon supplies, despite the recent discovery in Iraq of military hardware apparently built there. Guest...

Presenter: Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz Sunday, October 26, 2003 Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz Briefs at the Baghdad Hospital           DEPSECDEF WOLFOWITZ:  I’d like to begin by mentioning that Col. Gagliano, the senior surgeon here, and Col Pritchard, the commander of the hospital, are just two of many examples of incredible Army medicine I’ve run into over the last few months.  Thank you for what you’re doing.            We just met with the five critically injured from this morning’s blast.  Almost symbolically, it’s an incredible mixture of one UK civilian coalition partner, and four Americans, - three civilians, one military...

"...Blood spots marked the stairway, as the 16 wounded made their way down to the lobby. Wolfowitz was there, before security aides took him to a shelter. He was unhurt and seemed angry but otherwise unfazed by the attack. Wolfowitz lunched later with soldiers from the Army's1st Armored Division, who had captured the makeshift rocket launcher and towed it back to their headquarters. The launcher was a crudely soldered array of 40 rocket tubes, hidden in a freshly painted blue electrical-generator van. It had been parked near the hotel about 15 minutes before the attack and fired by a battery-operated...

News of the rocket attack against the Rashid Hotel spread rapidly around the streets of Baghdad, although attitudes are divided between people who support such operations and those who do not. The rockets - probably fired from a multiple launcher on a pick-up truck or all-terrain vehicle - struck the west side of the famous hotel after 0600 on Sunday. "We were asleep and a loud noise woke us up," said Hala from Mansour, about three kilometres (2 miles) away from the Rashid. "It is a big target... I am not surprised they did it while (US Deputy Defence Secretary...

WASHINGTON, Oct 25 (AFP) - The United States on Saturday warned that Islamic extremists are plotting an attack, possibly a suicide car bombing, against a hotel in a specific Baghdad neighborhood that is frequented by westerners. In a notice to Americans now in Iraq, a State Department consular officer in Baghdad said the US military had become aware of the threat recently but could not pinpoint the targetted hotel. "The US military has indicated that Islamic extremists intend to carry out a bomb attack against a hotel in the Karada area of Baghdad," said the notice, a copy of which...

Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz (fourth from left) talks with reporters and military personnel following a rocket propelled grenade attack on Al Rasheed Hotel in downtown Baghdad on Oct. 26. Wolfowitz was on the 12th floor of the hotel when it was hit. American Forces Press Service photo by Donna Miles Wolfowitz Unhurt, Says Attack On Hotel Won’t Deter Mission By Donna Miles / American Forces Press Service BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 26, 2003 — Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, who was on the 12th floor of the Al Rasheed Hotel in downtown Baghdad when it was hit today...