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...know what weapons we'll have in Jericho," says Lieut. Colonel Mohamed Youssef Al Sadi, commander of a 20-man unit drawn from the Badr Brigade, which is expected to patrol Jericho. "We have forgotten our Kalashnikovs." They have been trained, however, to handle American M-16s. Whether the Israelis will allow the men of the P.L.O. to carry them is still undecided...
...sign of trouble. The next message was entirely unambiguous: several rounds of artillery fire from an Iraqi emplacement near the Saddam Dam. Though they were not hit, the American pilots followed standing orders and answered in kind, dropping four cluster bombs on the firing battery. The fighters, three F-16s and one F-4G, then returned to Incirlik air base in Turkey...
...Buchanan with his promise of "religious war." Reagan ended his speech with his "shining city upon a hill" peroration, a vision of the sunny uplands of America's future. Buchanan ended his speech too with a vision of America at its best: a couple of soldiers pointing M-16s at a mob of fellow (presumably black and Hispanic) Americans...
...have thought he could take advantage of the transition in Washington to violate the U.N. coalition's no-fly zone in southern Iraq. He miscalculated. On Dec. 27 a pair of Iraqi MiGs committed the double offense of entering the zone and then turning to confront U.S. F-16s. The American aircraft shot down one MiG; the other fled to Iran. Iraqi officials blasted the incident as "blatant aggression." President Bush said the shootdown was consistent with the need to enforce U.N. resolutions, and President-elect Bill Clinton gave him solid support. A day later, even as the U.S. aircraft...
...ruins thin out at the eastern end of Mogadishu, which the Marines refer to as "Mog," giving way to a surprisingly green plain where donkeys, cattle and camels graze. The Marines are entering territory they have not yet explored. Sitting on top of their vehicles, they point M-16s toward the thorn trees and foot-high shoots of corn on either side of the road. Hot exhaust fumes coat their faces in soot. Each time the convoy approaches a village, Somalis come out to cheer. "It's unbelievable," says Fisher. "You're expecting them to shoot at you, and they...