Mr. Mamet is directing and he looks the part in a scarf, black beret and round yellow-framed glasses.

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If reporters believed that they had witnessed an American drive deep into the heart of the capital, Mr. Sahhaf, in the green uniform and black beret of the ruling Baath Party, wished to disabuse them.

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