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...Pentagon's vaunted satellite network, which last week helped U.S. pilots and Navy seamen bomb Saddam Hussein's bunker and other targets in Baghdad, in danger of going dark? According to knowledgeable U.S. officials, a highly classified $17 to $19 billion replacement system, supposed to be completed around 2005, has gotten so far off schedule that the military could suffer an "imagery gap" as aging satellites in the current system flicker out. The so-called Future Imagery Architecture program, managed by Boeing Co. - and nicknamed "FIASCO," a pun on its acronym, by some insiders - is also running well over budget...
...very on the fence between ‘somewhat support’ and ‘undecided,’” he said. “Overall, I’m very cautiously in favor of it. I think Saddam is a danger to us and to something near and dear to my heart, Israel...
...Destroying Saddam's regime quickly and with minimal civilian casualties remains the fundamental objective of the war. Bombing Baghdad certainly raises the political stakes, because it substantially increases the risk of civilian casualties in the densely populated city. Precision-guided munitions help alleviate the danger, but can't entirely eliminate it. And precision bombing requires precision intelligence - the U.S. bomb that destroyed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1998 was guided by satellite with deadly accuracy; the problem lay in the intelligence that had wrongly identified the building. The inability of U.S. and British intelligence tips to guide UN weapons...
...unprecedented hostility the war has ignited among even relatively moderate quarters in the Arab world. Fierce clashes on the streets of Egypt and Yemen in the past two days have served as a reminder of the strains the war has put on Arab governments allied with Washington. Still, the danger of civilian casualties increases exponentially if coalition armies are forced to wrest control of Baghdad from determined defenders, and U.S. commanders are hoping that the combination of heavy air bombardment of the regime's power centers and the rapid drive by coalition forces towards Baghdad will prompt an internal collapse...
...begins in Iraq, some alums and at least one current Harvard student remain in the Middle East, and some say that despite the danger, they prefer Jerusalem to Cambridge...