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Indeed, the man on the tape looked like Saddam, with his trademark mole and the small bump on his left cheek. He spoke with Saddam's characteristic enunciation, which includes a slight slurring of his words. When he visited a checkpoint at an intersection, smoky black clouds could be seen above the horizon, which could have come from the oil fires Iraqis have set around Baghdad to hinder U.S. pilots. It was 90 in Baghdad the day the tape was shown, and some of the men in the swarming crowds wore sweaters or leather jackets. But the temperature had been...
...suspect, and the longer the conflict lasts and the more innocents that are sacrificed, the less welcome the Americans may be. The recent suicide bombing, in which four 3rd Infantrymen were killed, swiftly followed by the 3rd Infantry Division's killing of seven women and children at a checkpoint, was the perfect one-two for Saddam Hussein's desperate endgame...
...guerrilla-style attacks. On Day 2, the order came to assume all Iraqis were hostile unless proved otherwise--an assumption that many of these young soldiers had made anyway. Since receiving their new instructions, the soldiers have dropped their message of liberation for one of mistrust and irresistible force. Checkpoint squads have arrested hundreds of Iraqis who are unable to communicate their reasons for traveling, while detaining others carrying AK-47s as "terrorists," even though Iraqis carry AKs the way Texans do handguns...
...past 24 hours, the frontline British checkpoint has advanced to about a mile inside Basra's southern border. Standing behind several Challenger II tanks and a Warrior APC are Captain James Moulton and soldiers of his company of Irish Guards. They check those coming down the road for weapons and then hand them leaflets promising that this time, the coalition forces will stay as long as it takes--and asking for assistance in pinpointing the enemy. "Now they are getting more used to us Brits being around," says Moulton. "A lot more people are offering information about the situation inside...
...taxi drivers, Iraqi soldiers brought a grim new meaning to the old term "theater of war." Surrendering conscript or armed militia member? Distressed pregnant woman or canny suicide bomber? The difference between combatants and noncombatants was in the eye of the beholder, suddenly. For a coalition sentry manning a checkpoint, the penalty for guessing wrong was death--his own death if he failed to fire in time or that of an innocent if he fired too hastily...