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...their trenches and head toward Baghdad, they could suffer crippling losses from coalition air strikes. Allied commanders believe that units that survive the U.S. assault will lack sufficient numbers or time to establish effective defenses. Having kept most of his military out of Baghdad presumably to guard against a coup, Saddam has entrusted the city's defense mostly to the 15,000-man Special Republican Guard and the Special Security Organization. Those groups are badly outmuscled by the 325 Abrams tanks, 200 Bradley fighting vehicles and 100 attack helicopters soon to bear down on them. The survivors among the defenders...
...major coup for the psychology department, psychologist Steven Pinker has decided to leave MIT for an appointment at Harvard, according to two Harvard professors...
...look of the war, barring a an unexpected uprising, coup or decapitation strike on Saddam's hiding place, there may be much death and destruction in Iraq before it is all over. I'm guessing that the leveling of Baghdad, if that tragedy were to occur, would counteract Iraqi joy at Saddam's demise...
...back in August he had begun garnering a few big allies clandestinely—a job easily achieved by giving the French oil rights in post-war Iraq and by paying off Russia the amount of money owed by Saddam—he could have prevented the U.N. coup. With no major world leaders challenging Bush, we would hear much less chatter from the protest types, mirroring the silence surrounding America’s interventions in Bosnia and Afghanistan...
...time Arab knights," says Toujan Faisal, a former Jordanian member of parliament. There are less romantic explanations as well. As head of a regime of cutthroats, Saddam could not afford to show signs of weakness; the minute he started to negotiate flight, he would open himself to a coup. Still, some experts suggest that Saddam might have entertained the option of going underground like Osama bin Laden so that his shadow would continue to make Iraq quake...