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...anger worked as well as if the war were some elaborate training movie. Initial Iraqi resistance was so weak that Air Force Captain Genther Drummond, who took part in the opening assault, remarked, "It was as if we had no adversary." The few unexpected developments were favorable: only scattered anti-American demonstrations broke out in the Arab world rather than the massive pro-Iraqi riots that some had feared. As late as Friday noon, George Bush felt compelled to issue another warning against public "euphoria." Said the President: "There will be losses. There will be obstacles along...
Hundreds of partially soaked citizens, many of whom were taking the day off from work, greeted morning commuters emerging from the Government Center MBTA subway stop. The crowd appeared to be a loose coalition of groups. Some showed intense anti-American sentiment while others called for supporting American troops...
...Tokyo, before the fatal leg of the journey. But who was the man? And where had he come from? Awad's evidence would put the pieces together. Based on his debriefing, the U.S. government undertook an eight-year investigation that ultimately implicated the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein in anti-American terrorism...
Already, some Soviet analysts say, the deployment of American soldiers to guard the holy places of Islam has stirred anti-American and anti-Western feelings among Muslims. Moscow frets that the crisis could ultimately widen the gap between North and South, pit the Islamic world against Europe and set the stage for future regional challenges that will prove beyond the control of either superpower...
Others are not so sure. In Jordan observers note that the facedown with Saddam has united Communists, Baath socialists and Islamic fundamentalists into a single anti-American front, something that has never happened before. If Saddam should succeed in bringing Israel into a war with the U.S., the result would be sheer political disaster. Such a conflict would look like a ganging up of the U.S. and Israel against the Arabs. Hatred of the U.S. could lead to coups toppling pro-American governments throughout the region as well as widespread terrorism...