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...jamming plane made sure that no Iraqi missiles would get a good shot at the Baghdad-bound B-1. The crew never saw their target; the cloud cover below stretched for miles. But satellites were the real eyes of the mission. For this strike, U.S. Central Command called for two 2,000-lb. smart bombs known as JDAMs, then doubled the order. A JDAM, once loaded with coordinates, is guided to its kill by global-positioning-system satellites that put it within feet of its target point...
...hunt was being carried out by force in western Iraq, near the town of Qaim, where U.S. troops faced heavy resistance. In this regime stronghold, U.S. officials believe Saddam may have stockpiled prohibited long-range missiles and even attempted to restart his nuclear program. Officials at U.S. Central Command speculated that the fierce defense of the site by Iraqi forces suggests that they may have something to hide...
...first time since the war began, Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf did not appear to make his extraterrestrial pronouncements of impending victory. Iraqi military uniforms and weapons were lying in ditches, artillery pieces abandoned under bridges. CIA eavesdroppers monitoring official communications heard ... nothing--no orders being given, no commands to move Iraqi forces. "It has been very deafening, the silence," a Defense Department official told TIME, which was one reason many in Washington came to think that maybe this time they had finished off Saddam after all. A U.S. intelligence official agreed: "All command-and-control communications pretty much...
Soldiers initially told not to respond to looters unless their own safety was threatened--the British high command "doesn't want us to make ourselves unpopular here," said a British soldier--were eventually given freer rein. By Friday the BBC was reporting that British soldiers shot and killed five bank robbers in Basra. The Pentagon imposed a nighttime curfew on Baghdad, and on Saturday, despite a fire fight downtown, the capital overall was much calmer. The looting had subsided, residents were returning to the city, and many shops and restaurants had reopened. In days to come, the U.S. hopes...
...special-forces soldier replied, "Some of them probably were, but they have had a conversion." Outside the group's headquarters in a local factory were parked seven late-model Nissans and a very new-looking Mercedes. To charges that the men had been looting the town, second in command Hassan Mussawi insisted, "We are self-financing; the people give us what we need." In a city of hungry people, none of these new gendarmes looked as if he had missed a meal in a long time...