Article: EMERGING SIGNS OF A NEW IRAQ RUMSFELD DENIES INTENT TO BASE U.S. MILITARY IN COUNTRY.(News)

Byline: P-I NEWS SERVICES

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Glimmers of a new Iraq were evident yesterday, 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 charges of war crimes or crimes against humanity.

Efforts to bring electricity to Baghdad progressed. Iraqi engineers started a turbine at the ...

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