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The following are excerpts from the televised confessions of Muayed Al-Nasseri, who commanded Saddam Hussein's "Army of Muhammad" throughout 2004. The confessions were aired by an Iraqi TV channel that operates from the UAE, Al-Fayhaa TV, and were monitored and translated by the MEMRI TV Project. The following are excerpts; to view the clip, visit http://memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=492: [1] 'The Army of Muhammad was Founded by Saddam Hussein After the Fall of the Regime' Interrogator: "What is your name?" Muayed Al-Nasseri: "Colonel Muayed Yassin 'Aziz 'Abd Al-Razaq Al-Nasseri, commander of the Army of Muhammad, one of the resistance factions in Iraq. The...

The following are excerpts from the televised confessions of Muayed Al-Nasseri, who commanded Saddam Hussein's "the Army of Muhammad" throughout 2004. The confessions were aired by the Iraqi TV channel that operated from the UAE, Al-Fayhaa TV, on January 14, 2005. Interrogator: What is your name? Muayed Al-Nasseri: Colonel Muayed Yassin 'Aziz 'Abd Al-Razaq Al-Nasseri, commander of the Army of Muhammad, one of the resistance factions in Iraq. The Army of Muhammad was founded by Saddam Hussein after the fall of the regime, on April 9, 2003. At first, Yasser Al-Shab'awi was put in charge, until his captured in July...

Israeli electric car firm Better Place, which hoped to revolutionize driving habits in Israel and worldwide, will file for bankruptcy in the coming week. The trailblazing firm sought to accelerate a world motoring shift away from gas-guzzling cars to electric, battery-powered vehicles. But “the company was not well-served by having things it thought would happen over a decade happen within a year,” a source familiar with the company’s financial woes told Fortune on Friday. snip It also touted partnerships developing in France and the US, harboring particular hopes of an electric car revolution pushed by the Obama administration. snip

Agassi has used the platform that tennis gave him to pursue his lifelong goal of giving children in need a better education. He founded his own school in Las Vegas 10 years ago and just forged a partnership with Canyon Capital to provide $500 million of funding for 75 charter schools across the country in the next three years. "Andre Agassi has done more to help others than any athlete has ever done," his former coach Nick Bollettieri says. "He helped take tennis to another level, but what he is doing now with education will be so much greater because...

Tennis legend Andre Agassi has admitted he wore a blond mullet wig during the 1990s because he didn't want people to know he was going bald. The grand slam winner wore a toupee for much of his early career, successfully deceiving the audience into believing the long, flowing locks were his, he writes in a soon-to-be-published autobiography. Agassi discusses in his upcoming book how distressed he felt to be going bald: "Every morning I would find another piece of my identity on the pillow, in the wash basin, down the plughole." "I asked myself: you want to wear a toupee?...

LONDON — Eight-times grand slam winner Andre Agassi has admitted using the recreational drug crystal meth and lying to men's governing body the ATP to escape a ban. In his book, serialised in The Times, the American candidly describes being introduced to the drug in 1997 by his assistant when his game was in freefall and he was having doubts about his impending marriage to actress Brooke Shields. "Slim dumps a small pile of powder on the coffee table. He cuts it, snorts it. He cuts it again. I snort some. I ease back on the couch and consider...

Andre Agassi makes the sensational confession today that he lied to the tennis authorities to escape a ban for taking hard drugs. The American, one of the finest players to grace the game, tested positive for the highly addictive drug, crystal methamphetamine, and then duped the Association of Tennis Professionals into believing he had taken it by accident. The admissions come in a soul-searching autobiography that is being serialised exclusively today and tomorrow in The Times. The 1992 Wimbledon champion, the winner of eight grand-slam titles, also says that he has always secretly hated playing tennis and lived in fear...

.." Agassi was known as "Abu Al Qaqaa"..

NEW YORK (Reuters) - American tennis star Andre Agassi, who retired from center court earlier this month, has wasted no time in building a new career -- in real estate. A company set up by Agassi and his wife Steffi Graf, a former world No. 1 tennis player, said on Monday it had partnered with privately owned Exclusive Resorts LLC, a time-share company headed by AOL co-founder Steve Case to develop "luxury resort communities." "As I begin the next chapter of my life, I am looking for ways to pursue a career in business, specifically in real estate," Agassi, 36,...

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As the cheers rained down on him from every part of cavernous Arthur Ashe Stadium, the sweat on Andre Agassi's brow gave way to tears. The eyes, which for 20 years had been so piercing, so sharp in pinpointing weaknesses in his opponents for exploitation on the tennis court, grew cloudy with mist. Moments before, the 36-year-old Las Vegan's highly successful career had come to an end Sunday, losing in the third round of the U.S. Open to unheralded Benjamin Becker. The 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 7-5 defeat closed the book on one of the greatest eras for U.S. men's...

Andre,, Thanks for all the thrills, excitement and championship play on the tennis courts the last 21 years!

LONDON -- Andre Agassi said on Saturday he would retire from tennis after the U.S. Open this year. "This Wimbledon will be my last and the U.S. Open will be my last tournament," the 36-year-old American told a news conference.

Iranian-American tennis superstar is planning to visit his father's native country Iran, the German online daily Netzeitung reported Thursday. "I will also eventually visit Iran which has a special place in my heart," Agassi was quoted as saying in Dubai where he was invited to take part in a pr campaign. Born in the United States, the 34-year-old Agassi has never been to Iran. Agassi's father Mike appeared in the 1948 and 1952 Olympics as a member of the Iranian olympic boxing squad.

Federer, Agassi Take Tennis To New Heights Feb. 23, 2005 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Tennis stars Roger Federer and Andre Agassi took their game to new heights on Tuesday. Federer and Agassi are in the United Arab Emirates for the Dubai Open. They took some time off their schedules to knock the ball around together on the roof of Dubai's Burj Al Arab Hotel. The pair played on a converted helipad almost 700 feet above sea level.

To put it bluntly, everything you read today by sportswriters about tournament tennis prior to 1968 and the advent of the big-money professional game is completely wrong. For one thing, between 1930 and 1968 very few champions or top players were rich young men. Far from it....Perhaps from a distance they looked rich when they were tennis stars. They behaved like gentlemen. It was insisted upon.... But beginning in 1968, a strange reversal occurred. The teenagers could not act like adults because the adults -- even on Ivy League campuses -- had joined the kids, adopting their distinctive music, hair...

LONDON -- Andre Agassi was ordered Wednesday to pay British tax on income earned from endorsements, a ruling with implications for other sports. Judge Sir Gavin Lightman of the London High Court said Agassi had to pay about $50,000 in taxes on income paid by Nike and Head Sports to his U.S.-based company Agassi Enterprises Inc. British tax authorities argued that because Agassi spent time each year competing at Wimbledon and other tournaments in Britain, that activity was relevant to his endorsement earnings. Agassi's lawyers had appealed a tax demand for the 1998-99 tax year. But Lightman agreed with tax...

Anyone else out there watching the mens final? Agassi is up 3-0 in the first set as I tuned in.

NEW YORK -- Pete Sampras took a huge step in his career revival Saturday, reaching the U.S. Open final by beating the heat and a steady Sjeng Schalken. With power on his serves and dominance at the net, Sampras wore down the Dutchman for a 7-6 (8-6), 7-6 (7-4), 6-2 victory and a chance to end more than two years without a title. Sampras, who lost the Open final the past two years, goes for his fifth Open championship Sunday against sixth-seeded Andre Agassi, who beat defending champion Lleyton Hewitt. "It's a pretty tough turnaround emotionally, physically, but I...