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...when I see it," says one 45-year-old village leader, who is too afraid to give his name. We meet in the ramshackle sports hall of Lhokseumawe Polytechnic, where about a thousand refugees (700 of them children) from two villages near Simpang Keramhave sought shelter from a troop buildup in their area. They rely on donations begged from vehicles passing the campus gates...
...goes to their belly," she says. "When women get fat, they tend to get fat all over--fat at the ankles, fat in the sides, fat in the upper arms." So although women generally avoid the monster plaques that kill so many men in early middle age, the continuing buildup in women's arteries may come back to haunt them in their...
Tikrit went like so many of the Iraqi centers of power - it caved in on itself. Even while the international media reported a buildup of hardcore units - the Republican Guard and similar elite formations - the defenders of Tikrit were planning to leave. "They left three days ago," said Ahmed, who lived near military bases on the edge of the city. "They abandoned everything they had and went home." Other Tikritis coming out of the city say that all the elite structures of the Saddam regime have disintegrated. If Saddam or his close associates were in the city they gave...
Wartime investing isn't what it used to be. The Iraq war won't require any massive buildup of materiel that would stoke heavy industry and the profits of defense contractors. America's military might helped the conventional fighting go quickly in the war's early days. But the generals on Wall Street, expecting as much, have been shooting down defense stocks for months. Yet stocks overall tend to do well after the U.S. engages in hostilities, and this time should be no exception. The Dow ran up 8.4% last week--its best weekly gain in 20 years--and moved...
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld starts troop buildup in Middle East. Iraq issues declaration denying possesion of weapons of mass destruction. U.S. and U.K. reject the declaration, claiming Iraq is in “material breach” of U.N. resolutions. U.S. sets Jan. 27 as the decision day for war against Iraq. Inspections team finds “zilch” evidence of weapons of mass destruction. Iraqi exiles at a fractious meeting in London agree on power-sharing plan for post-Saddam Iraq...