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...pipeline pumping oil from northern Iraq to Turkey, only two days after it was reopened for the first time since the war - and depriving the reconstruction effort of $7 million a day during the weeks it may take to repair. The pipeline remains vulnerable despite U.S. plans to deploy some 1,000 Iraqi security guards along the 600-mile route. Insurgents Saturday blew a hole in Baghdad's key water pipeline, leaving residents without drinking water for days. While such attacks might seem counterintuitive for an insurgency seeking popular support, there may nonetheless be a political rationale behind each: Given...
...weight of evidence on his side, since Britain's top spies appear to be backing Campbell's insistence that although he did suggest some small changes to the dossier text, they kept control of it, and in particular, originated the provocative claim that Iraq had WMD ready to deploy in 45 minutes. So most observers expect the fac to exonerate him of the "sexing up" charge, though he will likely take flak for issuing a second paper last February that mixed up new intelligence information with an old graduate thesis on Saddam's power structure that one of his aides...
...advantages in technology and firepower - as the Israeli experience in the West Bank and Gaza and even the current U.S. operations in Afghanistan testify. The enemy keeps on coming. And confronting a determined enemy sheltering in a supportive, or at least permissive, civilian population requires that the occupying power deploy thousands more troops than the guerrilla formations. Their efforts to identify and eliminate enemy combatants hiding among civilians inevitably result in mistakes and miscalculations that alienate the local population, even generating sympathy for the guerrillas. The U.S. military in Afghanistan and Iraq has opted for large-scale sweeps, involving upward...
...proved that he torqued up WMD evidence to serve his p.r. needs, he might even be pushed toward resignation. An intelligence official told the BBC that a dubious claim in the WMD dossier Blair released last September--that some of Saddam's troops were trained to deploy chemical weapons within 45 minutes--was penned in at the last minute by Downing Street aides. Another charge in the dossier, that Iraq was procuring tons of uranium from Africa, was quickly shown to be bogus...
...will stay aloft to conduct atmospheric studies and a lander that will descend to the surface. Dubbed Beagle 2, after Charles Darwin's famous specimen-collecting ship, the lander is only 3 ft. wide when packed for flight, but on the ground it will open like a flower and deploy an impressive array of equipment. Among the instruments are a drill capable of digging 5 ft. below the surface, 12 ovens that can heat samples to some 1,600ºF to generate carbon dioxide and a mass spectrometer to identify carbon isotopes, along with other elements. The lander can also measure...