Word: brutalize
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...forces continued to charge forward through the arid plains of central Iraq, but they were forced to defend their positions every step of the way. A fierce and somewhat unexpected enemy was the Fedayeen Saddam, a paramilitary group headed by Saddam's brutal son Uday that was dispatched by the regime to hide in cities and pick off invading forces. The militants stunned the allies with their will to fight, inflicting dozens of casualties on coalition troops. Allied commanders said late last week the coalition had killed hundreds of Fedayeen and had begun rooting them out of the cities. Early...
...military has long prepared to lay siege to Baghdad instead of plunging directly into the city and engaging in brutal door-to-door urban warfare. Allied commanders say they may cordon off the capital with a loose chain of troops, tanks and armored vehicles. U.S. troops may cut off the supply of water, food, electricity and communications--encouraging civilians to flee the city center and leaving Saddam's soldiers and perhaps even the Iraqi leader holed up. U.S. forces would then attack targets inside the city with air strikes, long-range weapons and surgical commando raids with...
...three-or even four-way fight. Two main Kurdish groups, the PUK and the Kurdish Democratic Party, have co-existed uneasily, even though both despise Saddam. After Sept. 11, several Taliban-like groups also emerged. They mostly blended into Ansar, which, with help from Baghdad, has used brutal tactics to try to impose Islamic fundamentalism on the secular Kurds. There are no noncombatants here. One morning, while in a position being bombarded by mortars for six hours, one of the local fighters known as peshmerga told me, "These bombs don't recognize your identity." Territory shifts frequently. The day before...
Americans underestimate the threat of a civil war following military action in Iraq. Although Saddam is a brutal dictator who is a problem for the world, he holds together a country that may sink into anarchy and chaos after he is gone. The Kurds, Shi'ites and different Sunni Arab tribes may try to set up their own countries or may fight for control of the government, a scenario that would have an enormously negative impact on the entire Middle East. SAYYED AHMAD MAZZIDI Isfahan, Iran...
...participated in such hostile lobbying in the past. But playing a leading role in a brutal public battle is new ground for HMC, according to Don Cassidy, a senior research analyst at Lipper, a fund-tracking outfit...