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...Turkish Special Forces team put up no resistance though a mean arsenal was discovered in their cars, including a variety of AK-47s, M4s, grenades, body armor and night vision goggles. "They did not come here with a pure heart," says U.S. brigade commander Col. Bill Mayville. "Their objective is to create an environment that can be used by Turkey to send a large peacekeeping force into Kirkuk...
Some U.S. military and intelligence officials believe that before his disappearance, Saddam may have tried to disperse his biochemical arsenal to forces in far-flung parts of the country. "No one is expecting to find a factory with lots of gleaming missiles stuffed full of WMD," says a British official. "These weapons have been dismantled into their component parts and hidden." The Pentagon's goal is to secure suspected weapons sites and then methodically inspect them--rather than blow them up, which would risk spreading deadly toxins in the air. Still, the allies need to move fast. Some...
...occurred. The country's major cities fell without the weeks of grinding door-to-door fighting that many had feared. Fewer than 120 U.S. soldiers perished, a figure at the low end of the most hopeful forecasts. Iraq's bridges and dams and essential infrastructure survived. While no arsenal of chemical and biological weapons had yet been found, those arms had also not been used--on U.S. forces or on Tel Aviv. There was no crisis of refugees on the borders, though the U.N. had predicted 1.5 million. The oil fields were secure. The Turks and Kurds were...
...been shown in AIDS research, knowing your enemy is merely the first battle in what is likely to be a lengthy war. AIDS and SARS (and the common cold, for that matter) are caused by viruses?and viruses are notoriously hard to kill. Although doctors have a huge arsenal of drugs and antibiotics capable of wiping out most bacterial infections, a viral invasion is a tougher proposition. "All along, it's been much easier to produce agents to kill bacteria than to kill viruses," says Professor Brian Tomlinson, a clinical pharmacologist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK...
...final hiccup late last week, when Pyongyang appeared to claim it had almost finished reprocessing 8,000 spent fuel rods - which would produce enough plutonium for up to half a dozen nuclear bombs - leaving officials scrambling to figure out if the North was intent on building a nuclear arsenal or just trying to build leverage ahead of the talks. Killer's Wrist Slapped THE NETHERLANDS Supporters of slain politician Pim Fortuyn expressed outrage at the 18-year jail sentence imposed on his assassin, Volkert van der Graaf; prosecutors said they would appeal for a life term. An outspoken, right-wing...