Word: confrontive
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...international antiwar movement does not have the problems of division and delicacy that confront groups in the U.S. In Berlin, Paris and Cairo, protesters are united by pacifism and anti-Americanism. The war has only reaffirmed their views and intensified their fervor, and protests in Europe and the Middle East are likely to endure well into any possible American occupation of Iraq...
American and British forces could still confront fearsome resistance if the Republican Guard units defending Baghdad are ready and willing to fight. No one expected Iraqi forces to put up much of a struggle in the barren, Shi'ite-dominated south, where support for Saddam's regime is soft. "We figured they would cave," says a Pentagon official. "They aren't the Republican Guard." But Saddam's most loyal fighters remain entrenched farther north, outside the capital and in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit. While their numbers are dwindling by the day--from desertions if not from U.S. bombs...
...Twenty four hours earlier,42 year old Iraqi civil engineer Abdul Amir had told the check point soldiers that the Army in Shinafiyah was staying at home and the only fighter they might confront would be poorly trained militias. " Some of them want to fight, and some of them may be made to fight."he said. "It's suicide. There is no benefit, only fighting, only death. Their only chance is cheating, fighting beside children, using white flags, whatever they have...
...inspector says that the Pentagon must be careful not to fall into an Iraqi trap. He suspects that the movement of substantial numbers of Iraqi Republican Guard units southwards from Baghdad to confront advancing U.S. forces may be an attempt to create a battlefield situation favorable to the use of weapons of mass destruction. ?If Iraq still has chemical weapons it wants to use,? he says, ?it would want to cause as much damage as possible in one short attack. Therefore, the U.S. needs to be careful not to amass large numbers of troops in any central location.? The most...
...clear, the Medina division of Iraq's Republican Guard sent some 1,000 armored vehicles out of Baghdad toward the frontline positions of the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division. Although such a deployment would stiffen resistance on the approaches to the capital, U.S. commanders would welcome the opportunity to confront the Guard outside of the capital, where the coalition's overwhelming air superiority would be decisive, rather than in Baghdad's densely populated streets...