Garner brings glimmer of new Iraq; Visits Baghdad: Meanwhile, the job of rooting out the old Iraq remains to be done

From: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) | Date: April 22, 2003| Author: ASSOCIATED PRESS | Copyright information

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Glimmers of a new Iraq were evident Monday, as the American charged with rebuilding a ravaged country came to Baghdad, and Muslim multitudes converged on holy cities for a ritual long suppressed by Saddam Hussein's regime.

But the work of rooting out the old Iraq went on. Military officials announced the arrest of a key figure in the bloody suppression of the Shiite Muslim uprising of 1991 - Muhammad Hamza al- Zubaydi, the "Shiite Thug" they promised to try on char...

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