Word: battlefield
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...Iraq. Ansar al-Islam has sent a clear reminder they are willing, and able, to strike anywhere. A month ago they assassinated a senior party and military official in the midst of negotiations with extremist elements. The Kurdish fighters along this frontline are anxiously awaiting the arrival on the battlefield of U.S. bombers and ground troops - to dispatch not only Saddam and Ba'ath Party, but also Ansar and its al-Qaeda backers...
...part in combat missions. Philippine officials say details are still being worked out, but any increased U.S. presence in the region is certain to fuel tensions with the MILF. "If negotiations fall apart?and it's more likely than not that they will?it will be back to the battlefield," says Parouk Hussin, Governor of the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao...
That depends on how long the fighting lasts and how much damage Iraq's oil fields sustain. Even if a U.S. battlefield victory comes in just a few weeks--and there is no major sabotage to Iraq's oil fields--the country's production of 2.8 million bbl. a day is likely to shut down, perhaps for as long as three months. The oil fields will have to be checked for mines and other hazards before local workers and foreign experts can get down to business...
...even fire trucks decked out defiantly with the crest of FDNY. In addition to the new hardware, there are legions of plastic action figures—mostly GI Joes—which hang from little hooks waiting to turn a seven-year-old’s playroom into a battlefield...
...President and his strategists like to affirm that disarming Iraq is central to the war against terrorism. But that means the risk of retaliation against Americans is not confined to the battlefield. Faced by the difficulty of outfitting missiles with chemical and biological warheads, Saddam may conclude he will have better luck setting up terrorist free-lancers with unconventional weapons to use against innocents outside the theater of war. A Rand Corp. report estimates that a smallpox attack carried out by teams of special-ops troops on the 10 largest U.S. airports could infect between...