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Meeting last month at a sweltering u.s. base outside Doha, Qatar, with his top Iraq commanders, President Bush skipped quickly past the niceties and went straight to his chief political obsession: Where are the weapons of mass destruction? Turning to his Baghdad proconsul, Paul Bremer, Bush asked, "Are you in charge of finding WMD?" Bremer said no, he was not. Bush then put the same question to his military commander, General Tommy Franks. But Franks said it wasn't his job either. A little exasperated, Bush asked, So who is in charge of finding WMD? After aides conferred...
...Iraq's military that it was in their interest not to put up a fight. "As we had access to leaders, we spoke with them and said, 'You need to make a choice here,'" says U.S. Army Brigadier General Vincent Brooks, chief spokesman for the U.S. Central Command in Doha, Qatar. "Those that made the choices will have an opportunity to live another day. Those who did not did not survive the operations...
...coalition foxholes and camps scattered across the Iraqi desert; the grit of battle and the prospect of losses to come seemed to produce even more clear-eyed determination among the military leaders to finish the job. After a ceremony for fallen servicemen at his headquarters in Doha, Qatar, last Friday, Central Command Chief General Tommy Franks gathered his staff and tersely told them, "There will be more." Says a senior Administration official: "We're seeing a hardening and steeling of the troops." That's good. Because for the Americans on the road to Baghdad as much as for the President...
...guys!,? said the U.S. general as he entered a room full of reporters for the first background briefing by a senior officer at CENTCOM HQ in Doha. He asked if there were any Arab media in the room. (Al Jazzera was not there...
Mohammed's plans were exposed by accident. While experimenting with explosives in January 1995, Yousef set fire to his Manila apartment and fled. Police found evidence linking him to Mohammed. Other plotters arrested in Asia named Mohammed as their ringleader. But by then he had escaped to Doha, Qatar. In 1996 he was indicted in absentia in a New York federal court for the airline-bombing plot. But when the U.S. notified Qatar that he was a wanted man, Mohammed was tipped off and fled the emirate, according to Washington intelligence sources. As for Yousef, he was captured in Pakistan...