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...they detected high levels of radiation at the site and speculated that the complex may have contained enough uranium to build nuclear weapons. But weapons experts say that U.N. weapons inspectors sealed the complex more than a decade ago and that it contains "low enriched" uranium good mainly for civilian energy use. Other finds, including 20 medium-range missiles that may have been designed to carry nerve agents and barrels of chemicals seized in an agricultural facility near Karbala, are still under investigation. Pentagon officials say it will take weeks to complete tests of the materials...
...civilian casualties may prove the most shocking. With Iraqi fighters mixing with civilians, it has been hard to distinguish between combatants and noncombatants. And highly touted smart weapons have turned out to be messier than advertised. A 2,000-lb. bomb steered by a JDAM guidance device may rarely miss its mark by more than 13 ft.--the length of the steering system and the explosive--but when the bomb blows, it sends high-speed shrapnel flying as far as a mile. There may be a lot of uncounted innocents in such a big footprint...
Though U.S. officials viewed much of the looting as the last spasm of a dying age, the mayhem did promise to complicate the urgent reconstruction campaign. When civilian authorities make their way into Baghdad, they will be setting up shop in offices and hospitals that for the most part were carefully spared by U.S. bombers but were emptied of every last desk chair by people so poor, they looted the garbage. In Basra thieves wrecked equipment in the electrical booster stations, which in turn cut off the water supply once again. The headquarters of the company that oversees...
...stood by with weapons while Suharto slaughtered 200,000 East Timorese. He opposed and obstructed Vietnam peace talks in 1968 to help Nixon and his “secret plan” get elected, and then convinced him (although it probably wasn’t hard) to massively bomb civilian targets in Cambodia, helping Pol Pot emerge to finish what he’d started. Now Nixon and Pol Pot are dead; Pinochet is indicted and near death. Only Kissinger lives on—Cambodia, Laos, East Timor and Vietnam lie in ruins, a still-smoking homage to his diplomatic...
...sophomore who displayed an upside-down American flag in her window to express her opposition to the ongoing war in Iraq. They left hateful messages directed against the student herself, and more broadly, against Muslims and Iraqis. Several days later, Yalies holding a silent vigil in memory of Iraqi civilian casualties were spit upon and harassed at residential college dining halls. Then came more affronts: an obscene and threatening message was left outside the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale, where many Muslim student groups meet...