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...Destroying Saddam's regime quickly and with minimal civilian casualties remains the fundamental objective of the war. Bombing Baghdad certainly raises the political stakes, because it substantially increases the risk of civilian casualties in the densely populated city. Precision-guided munitions help alleviate the danger, but can't entirely eliminate it. And precision bombing requires precision intelligence - the U.S. bomb that destroyed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1998 was guided by satellite with deadly accuracy; the problem lay in the intelligence that had wrongly identified the building. The inability of U.S. and British intelligence tips to guide UN weapons...
...ignited among even relatively moderate quarters in the Arab world. Fierce clashes on the streets of Egypt and Yemen in the past two days have served as a reminder of the strains the war has put on Arab governments allied with Washington. Still, the danger of civilian casualties increases exponentially if coalition armies are forced to wrest control of Baghdad from determined defenders, and U.S. commanders are hoping that the combination of heavy air bombardment of the regime's power centers and the rapid drive by coalition forces towards Baghdad will prompt an internal collapse of Saddam's regime...
...Kirkuk. They were driven out by Saddam's forces during an anti-Kurd pogrom, called the Anfal, in 1998 and 1999. The younger brothers would like nothing more than to push through the Iraqi lines encircling the city once they collapse and join what is expected to be a civilian uprising. "We want to fight with our lives," says...
...imperative for our military to move swiftly and the need to avoid innocent casualties creates a complex juggling act - finishing the war quickly, as President Bush said late Wednesday, requires maximum force. But maximum force also greatly increases the risks of civilian casualties, particularly since Saddam has deployed so many of his key military resources in civilian population centers. Most of the ordinance dropped by U.S. planes these days is guided with precision to its targets by satellite or laser-pointer, but precision bombing require precision intelligence - the U.S. bomb that destroyed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade...
...number of false alarms notwithstanding, the feared attacks with chemical and biological munitions have not thus far materialized, and Saddam's strategy may be to try and draw the coalition forces into a bloody battle for Baghdad, in the belief that they may balk at the military and civilian casualties that could involve...