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Ottawa - No hard feelings, Prime Minister Paul Martin said Friday, as he waved goodbye to roughly two dozen cabinet ministers appointed under the old regime. Martin's new broom swept into every corner of the cabinet that he was fired from 18 months earlier in a dispute with former prime minister Jean Chretien. After his swearing-in Friday, Martin named 38 ministers, retaining just 16 of those he worked with under Chretien. "When we put together this cabinet, it was done on the basis of merit, decisions as to the kinds of people who were going to be able to take us to the next level," said Martin, who served nine years as Chretien's finance minister. Montreal - Iraqi-born Ali Moussavi, who lost several family members to Saddam Hussein's reign of fear, thought his father was joking Sunday when he called to say the ousted dictator had been captured. But the Montreal business student realized the long-awaited news was real once he turned on the television and saw the scruffy, bearded former leader being examined by captors. Iraqi-Canadians, most of whom live in Montreal and Toronto, have been torn between their hatred of Saddam and their fears about the consequences of the U.S.-led occupation of the country. But Iraqis interviewed Sunday expressed only jubilation over his capture, adding they hope it will end the deadly series of bombings.
