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...Skies greece Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, persuaded a 20-year-old Turkish draft dodger to surrender and release 200 hostages after hijacking an Istanbul to Ankara flight and forcing it to land in Athens. The hijacker used three razor blades and four candlesticks to commandeer the aircraft. A Greek prosecutor charged him with a string of criminal offenses; authorities did not immediately respond to Ankara's request for extradition to Turkey. Arming the Iraqis RUSSIA George W. Bush complained to Vladimir Putin about Russian firms' alleged sale of military technology to Baghdad. Antitank missiles used to knock...
...Through four hours of battle, I saw U.S. forces drill the three Ansar positions with mortars, heavy machinegun and anti-aircraft artillery, 40mm grenades and 500 pound bombs dropped from planes overhead. Still, the fire was returned by an enemy clearly visible through binoculars. At one point, three Ansar fighters simply stood on a mountain ledge, not flinching at the torrent of fire poured at them. At one stage one defender screamed "God is Great," even as grenades and heavy rounds peppered the cave he had ducked into...
...wife and mother - then 38 - wrote about her ordeal with a gung-ho matter-of-factness. As a flight surgeon assigned to the 229th Attack Helicopter Regiment at Fort Rucker, Alabama, she was aboard a Blackhawk searching for a downed F-16 pilot on February 27, 1991 when the aircraft came under fire. Five soldiers on board died. Cornum and two others survived. Pinned under the wreckage, she dug her way out with two broken arms, a broken finger, a gunshot wound, torn knee ligaments, an eye glued shut with blood, and other injuries...
...However, says the U.N. inspector, ?the Iraqis have problems delivering their WMD in a militarily effective manner.? He reveals that more than 70% of Baghdad's declared and suspected WMD were in ?aerial? form-meaning they were designed to be delivered by aircraft. Since Operation Desert Storm, the Iraqi Air Force has almost ceased to exist. The U.N. inspector also added that any biological weapons that Iraq might still possess would ?not cause much of a problem for the U.S. forces.? He explained that the Pentagon is familiar with most or all of Baghdad's suspected bio weapons...
...popular uprising in the besieged city of Basra may have been overstated, and British forces are preparing to fight their way into the town in order to avert a humanitarian catastrophe. Hundreds of Iraqi armored vehicles left the predominantly Shiite city Wednesday, and came under air attack by coalition aircraft. And in a surprise move whose purpose is not yet clear, the Medina division of Iraq's Republican Guard sent some 1,000 armored vehicles out of Baghdad toward the frontline positions of the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division. Although such a deployment would stiffen resistance on the approaches...