Bitter was looking for new customers, but didn't want to cannibalize his wholesale trade with interior decorators.

FORBES: Sibling rivalry

Ayad Allawi, another Shia who was in exile in London, has gone some way to picking up the remnants of the Baath party, making links to trade unions and beefing up the revamped interior ministry he now controls.

ECONOMIST: Iraq

Mikhail Pashkin, who heads a Moscow police trade union, is now reviewing the personnel issue as part of a working group on further Interior Ministry reform.

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