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...Older brother Latif was an Iraqi army conscript sent to Kuwait in 1990. He, with the rest of his battalion, surrendered to U.S. forces at the first opportunity. "Our senior officer told us before the war not to fight and to surrender, and after sixteen hours of the war that's exactly what we did," he says, insisting the conscripts overlooking his town would be looking to do the same thing this time. He worries though that hardline intelligence and secret police officers have been put into the units to ensure the men stay and try to weather...
...most of the soldiers here knew about the speech was that the President had given Saddam 48 hours to go into exile. "All I know is that the President gave him 48 hours and eight of them are gone," said Major Brian Winski, the Executive Officer of the 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry...
...flak vest, the gas mask, the extra socks. "I have about 18 pair with me," Beets says, because "you can't put a price on comfort." On the closet door hang his desert tan fatigues, sharp with new creases. Members of Beets' unit, Charlie Company of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, got word today that they should switch from their standard Army green camis to tan, intended to make infantrymen like Beets invisible in the sand, except for the blindingly bright American flag they have to sew on the right shoulder when they're about to deploy overseas...
...denies that Laskar Jundullah, which sometimes acts on its behalf as an enforcer of Islamic purity, is involved in terrorism, and says it can't be held responsible for its worst elements. "It's like asking an army general to be responsible if a rogue soldier in his battalion breaks the rules," he says. When the foun-ders of the group them-selves are detained terrorists, the problem may be more than a matter of a few rogues...
...targets last week ranged from the presidential palace to a military base for Iraq's Chemical Defense Battalion to a factory for animal vaccines to three distilleries, where they found workers making 75¢ gin but no nuclear devices. When the inspectors determined that a fermenter the U.N. had tagged as suspicious years ago was missing, Iraqi officials quickly led them to another veterinary complex, where it was located. At al-Muthanna, the chemical base, the U.N. team unearthed some dusty shells filled with mustard gas, but they had been previously tagged and sealed in past inspections. Only at the Karama...