FOR a few days Abid Minqash was the most famous man in Iraq. Today, however, his farm, in the Hindiyah district, an hour’s drive from Baghdad, takes some finding. It is not just the confusing network of lanes and irrigation canals, or the dust storm that throws an orange cast over the land. Strangers have been here before asking after Mr Abid, and the local people do not like talking about him. “Don’t know” is the typical answer to inquiries about his whereabouts. Two children point in opposite and equally misleading directions. “He’s one of the big liars,” one man...