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...assault clearly took a toll on Ansar's militants. Politburo member Mahmood Sangarwi of the P.U.K. says 60 dead were left behind after Friday's battles. In the rocky terrain of Saturday's exchange I saw eight more slain Ansar fighters. Some had died in their bunkers; others were cut down as they fled over open ground or among relatively exposed rocky outcrops. Their corpses remained where they had fallen throughout the assault...
...Rhonda Cornum, her voice laced with gentle sarcasm, calls it the "famous sexual assault." It happened in the back of a truck, somewhere behind Iraqi lines in February 1991. A flight surgeon on a downed Blackhawk, she and Sgt. Troy Dunlap had been taken captive. As they bumped along a desert road in the dark, her Iraqi captor pushed her muddy, bloodied hair out of her face - and kissed her. Pulling a blanket over them, he unzipped her flight suit and started fondling...
...which may sustain the resistance of Iraqi irregular forces elsewhere in the country and could also bring increased pressure from Arab countries who have allowed their territory to be used to stage a war that they insisted, above all, be brief and decisive. On the other hand, accelerating the assault on Baghdad risks a bloodier fight that would almost certainly raise the level of civilian casualties as coalition forces target Iraqi forces sheltering in residential neighborhoods. And while the advance of the capital has seen U.S. forces punch through Iraqi lines without depleting their columns by deploying forces to secure...
...Having failed to shock the Iraqi forces into surrender, coalition forces are positioning themselves for a direct assault on Baghdad's defenses, well aware that the duration of the war will now be determined largely by the depth of Iraqi resistance. Even though that resistance has defied the more optimistic expectations that accompanied the start of the war, there's little doubt that the U.S. and its allies will ultimately prevail. But the intensity of that resistance, and its potential to create a drawn out and increasingly messy conflict could complicate the task of stabilizing a post-Saddam Iraq...
...familial bonds. She belatedly celebrated her 15th birthday and modeled her brand-new wardrobe for friends and family. But even as she reacquainted herself with conventional teenage life, investigators were worried about the battery of questions they would soon have to ask, broaching such grownup topics as polygamy, sexual assault and religious fanaticism. On Friday evening several thousand people flocked to Liberty Park for a citywide celebration of Elizabeth's return. She did not attend but sent along an autographed poster with the message "I'm the luckiest girl in the world!" It was a moment for laughter and celebration...