The ruling family is so insecure, it feels it has to consult every faction, tribe and senior cleric before making any decision.
Under Mr. Hussein's rule, members of the Albu Nasir tribe occupied the senior posts in the Baath Party and the government.
The account was confirmed by a member of the tribe, and a senior Iraqi intelligence official in Baghdad.
Tacuma, the tribe's wizened senior shaman, said that the only threat he could remember rivaling climate change was a measles virus that arrived deep in the Amazon in 1954, killing more than 90percentt of the Kamayurá.
Prominent figures from the mainly Sunni Muslim clan, one of the most powerful tribes in Yemen, hold senior positions in the armed forces and the government.
A1 U.S. Searches Arabian Desert The vast Arabian desert known as the Empty Quarter is being scoured by pilotless United States surveillance aircraft for signs that operatives of Al Qaeda have sought refuge among the nomadic tribes there, according to senior Yemeni officials.
The trackless, desolate sands of the vast Arabian desert known as the Empty Quarter are being scoured by pilotless United States surveillance aircraft looking for signs that operatives of Al Qaeda have sought refuge among the nomadic tribes there, according to senior Yemeni officials.
-- LAURENCE H. TRIBE, constitutional law professor and senior counselor for access to justice in the Department of Justice.
And weeks before the scheduled federal takeover on Oct. 1 of the reservation's social service system, which is responsible for the care of the tribe's sexually abused children, senior staff members at the Bureau of Indian Affairs continued to play down the issue.
An article on March 2 about opposition by Senate Democrats to the nomination of William G. Myers III for a seat on a federal appeals court misstated the number of times he met with representatives of the mining industry in a dispute with an Indian tribe while he was the senior lawyer at the Interior Department.
