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...prolonged delay, 1,000 members of the U.S.'s 173rd Airborne Brigade parachuted into northern Iraq to open a second front. A senior U.S. official told TIME that U.S. military special operations and CIA paramilitary teams are roaming all over Iraq looking to pick off key Iraqi military and civilian leadership figures...
Saddam loyalists went even further just outside Basra, Iraq's second largest city, which was surrounded by British troops. British military officers said that members of the Black Watch Regiment saw more than 1,000 civilians--including babes in arms--crossing a bridge on foot, presumably to escape the besieged city. Witnesses said Iraqi troops, led by some of the 1,000 members of the Fedayeen who were holding out in the city, opened fire with machine guns, apparently fearful that the residents' departure would set off a civilian exodus from the city, inviting a British invasion. The Black Watch...
...regime: the longer the allies remain handcuffed by their desire to limit collateral damage, the longer the conflict will be--and perhaps the deadlier for coalition troops. "The war ultimately will boil down to how many of our soldiers we are willing to sacrifice to keep dead Iraqi civilians off al-Jazeera," says a Navy officer at the Pentagon. Defense officials say that as the battle for Baghdad is joined in coming weeks, the U.S.'s unusually tight restrictions on target selection may be relaxed. Notes a Pentagon official: "We won't announce it." In the chaos of the battlefield...
...high civilian death toll would play into the hands of Saddam. He presumably calculates that the U.S. could be made to quit fighting by international condemnation of the further loss of innocent life. In Baghdad, Iraqi officials claimed last week that U.S. bombs hit a marketplace and a hospital, killing 30 civilians; U.S. commanders said the damage may have been caused by falling Iraqi antiaircraft missiles...
Fedayeen Saddam ("Saddam's Men of Sacrifice") 20,000-25,000 Formed in 1995, the fedayeen handpicks members as teenagers from loyal tribal areas and are considered among the fiercest of Saddam's fighters. Often disguised in civilian garb, fedayeen units have mounted attacks against coalition troops. Operating outside the law, the group has a "death squadron" that executes people in their homes...