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...killing zones the Iraqis have devised over the past six months. It is handy to know how to hot-wire a bulldozer. The 20th Engineer Brigade is under orders to take what is needed along the way and leave a receipt, in Arabic and English. If it is civilian equipment, "we have papers to fill out, to leave with the owner so they could later claim compensation," says Colonel Robert Flowers, commander of the brigade. He has distributed homemade hot-wiring kits for trucks and other vehicles but ordered his troops not to take anything they don't need...
...recent wars most civilian casualties have come among those who have had the misfortune to live near military installations and to be hit by badly aimed bombs. That has probably occurred in Baghdad as well, but not this time. The dispute here is whether the bunker was an ordinary civilian bomb shelter, as the Iraqis insist, or a former shelter recently converted to military use, as the U.S. command maintains...
American officers say flatly they do not target civilian buildings. This is something they have stressed since the war began, and the overall allied commander, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, contends that his pilots take additional risks to avoid hitting civilians. Pilots approach targets closer than might otherwise be the case, flying lower and slower. They take extra time on the bombing run, which means they are more vulnerable to Iraqi missiles...
...rescue workers pulled corpses out of the Baghdad rubble last week, Jordan's King Hussein denounced the allied bombing that caused the deaths and called for an immediate cease-fire. Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali declared a "day of mourning in memory of the innocent civilian victims," while Sudan's Foreign Ministry called the episode a "hideous, bloody massacre." Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, however, sounded a different note. "It is inconceivable for a ruler to make propaganda from the corpses of his citizens," he said. "I am very sorry to see civilians dying, but unfortunately, these things happen...
Most Egyptians also feel they paid a disproportionate price on behalf of the Arab cause during the five brutal wars waged with Israel since the Jewish state was founded in 1948. Military and civilian losses during these conflicts amounted to more than 20,000. "Arabs are traitors," says Tawfiq. "You cannot feel secure with them. We fought for them, but they did not do anything...