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...campaigned from the center in 2000 than the Bush who governed from the extreme right in 2004. But even if these hopes are dashed, he needs national support in the critical battle for Fallujah and throughout the Sunni triangle in Iraq. The military is poised for one of the bloodiest and most difficult of all its campaigns since the actual invasion. We cannot let them--or the Iraqi people--down. In the run-up to the Iraqi elections, on which hinges so much of the future in the war on terrorism, Bush needs the backing of his former opponents...
...story goes, on Flanders Field, one of the bloodiest battlefields in Belgium during World War II, no poppy flowers were able to grow before the war. Numerous explosions and artillery fire during the fighting, however, changed the composition of the soil, making it possible for poppies to grow in the field...
...still the Man. Straight from medical treatment for a heart condition in London, he was driven into Najaf at the head of thousands of unarmed loyalists who had answered his call to march on the city. Within hours, he had brought an end to postwar Iraq's bloodiest battle. Even the cocksure al-Sadr bowed his head when he came to sit on a threadbare carpet across from Sistani and acceded to the cleric's commands...
...Unbroken Circle MIDDLE EAST The Palestinian Cabinet declared a state of emergency as Israel continued a major military operation inside the Gaza Strip, intended, it said, to stop Palestinian militants firing rockets at villages in southern Israel. More than 50 Palestinians and five Israelis died in some of the bloodiest fighting of the four-year-old intifadeh, as Israeli tanks rolled into northern Gaza and troops sought to create a buffer zone along the border. Palestinian militant group Hamas said it would continue its rocket attacks. Oil on Troubled Waters NIGERIA A truce between the government and Niger Delta rebels...
...Events on the ground in Iraq have gotten worse. In terms of [people killed in action], this was the bloodiest month since we’ve been there,” he said...