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...proved a futile hope for the crew of a British Challenger 2 tank fighting outside Basra in pitch darkness last week. The crew blasted another Challenger, killing two compatriots inside. Among other friendly-fire episodes of the war so far: a U.S. Patriot missile shot down a British Tornado aircraft, killing two servicemen. Another soldier died after two British armored vehicles came under fire, possibly from a U.S. A-10 aircraft. U.S. officials are investigating another incident near Nasiriyah, in which one Marine unit fired on another, wounding more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fratricide: Misfiring in the Fog | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

...Strait, which can provide [terrorists] with cover or an alibi for being there," Burwin says. One or two times a day, convoys of up to 10 vessels rendezvous at either side of the Strait to be escorted across the 58-km passage by a combination of antisubmarine aircraft and gunship helicopters in the air and frigates, destroyers and fast patrol boats on the sea, according to Burwin. Some 60 ships have been escorted since the program began last month. Intelligence officials believe al-Qaeda is using the shipping business - with its lax regulations and virtually non-existent security - to transport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meanwhile, Back at the Other War | 4/6/2003 | See Source »

...with 141,905 shares of Boeing and 34,153 of General Dynamics—who carry the largest contracts for the tanks and aircraft carriers sent to Iraq—Harvard is poised to benefit from their impending growth as well...

Author: By Jessica E. Vascellaro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Stands To Profit From War | 4/4/2003 | See Source »

...with jamming the enemy's air-defense and communications systems, were told to take off for Baghdad within the hour. Two F-117s based in Qatar followed behind them, reaching the skies above Iraq's capital before dawn broke. "It was fairly quiet," says the pilot of a Prowler aircraft, who asked to be identified by his handle, Dutch. "There wasn't a lot going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Awestruck | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

...past Nasiriyah, a long column of the 101st Airborne Division barreled out of Kuwait into the desert on a parallel track, crossing the marshes and heading toward Baghdad. Scores of Harriers and A-10 Warthogs took off from bases in Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and from aircraft carriers in the gulf, providing support to the Marines and British ground forces laying siege to Basra. Midday Sunday, the Marine column ran into stiff resistance outside Nasiriyah in what appeared to be a coming together of Iraqi forces that had been fighting in sporadic skirmishes with the 3rd Infantry over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Awestruck | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

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