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...commanders say they are winning the race, but it's a tense fight in which they have to rely on allies they don't know. One night last week, Russell was in an office building in downtown Tikrit, waiting for a call from a new intelligence source who said he knew where a prominent Fedayeen leader was staying for the night. Four M1 Abrams tanks, six Bradley fighting vehicles and two infantry platoons from the 4th Infantry Division stood poised to capture the man, who was believed to have been plotting for months to kill American soldiers in the area...
...sisters, Amman is the ideal place to go into exile; the majority of Jordanians worship Saddam, and are likely to give his daughters the full privileges of Arab protection. In downtown Amman, a reporter seeking public reaction to the TV interviews was admonished by a shopkeeper, "We don't talk about our guests with outsiders." The sisters and their nine children are housed in one of the King's guesthouses in the royal enclave of Dabouq but are expected eventually to move to a private home...
During the past few weeks of fighting, the Old Bridge between downtown Monrovia and the industrial Bushrod Island formed the front line. Each push or counterattack started here and, invariably, ended here. But on Aug. 5, when government troops stepped onto the bridge, the rebels were waiting for them - with handshakes and hugs. "They looked at me and said, 'We're happy. We want peace,'" says Timothy Daydee, a 29-year-old government soldier. "I looked back and said, 'Yes, I want peace.'" For the rest of the afternoon, the rebels on one side of the bridge danced and waved...
SOMEWHERE ALONG I-95—My dad used to tell me about his “weekend commuter” colleagues, the ones that worked with him in downtown Manhattan, but lived way out in Rochester and western Connecticut. They kept apartments in the city and took long trips home each weekend, seeming to spend just enough time there to eat a meal or two with their families and friends, and maybe get in a round of golf, before heading back for another week at the office...
...Lastly, avoid the temptation to escape with your purchases by taxi or tuk tuk. The air-conditioned Skytrain is only 100 meters away from the northeastern market entrance at Mo Chit station (before the rail system was built, it took an hour to get here from downtown). And as Mo Chit is the northern terminus of the Sukhumvit line, you've got a good chance of a seat?plus you'll also avoid the City of Angels' hellish traffic snarls...