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...Gulf War. They seldom miss their target - something that Iraqi civilians are banking on as they brace themselves for war. In Baghdad, when asked why they were not building shelters, most Iraqis shrug and say that the missiles never struck civilian areas unless they were mistaken for defense targets. Fighter jets, loaded with smart bombs, will follow the missile barrage. Over the last 12 years, the U.S. military has gathered significant intelligence on Iraq's defense capabilities. These can, say experts, be taken out in days. "We want to prepare the way and quickly create an environment where our land...
About an hour into Amandla, a new documentary on the role that song played in the battle against apartheid in South Africa, South African Parliament member Thandi Modise appears onscreen to recount her experiences as a freedom fighter...
...MILF, the country's biggest Muslim rebel group, denied responsibility for the attack. Face-Off in the Sky NORTH KOREA The U.S. began to dispatch long-range bombers to the Pacific island of Guam following the interception of an American spy plane in international air space by North Korean fighter jets. Tensions between Pyongyang and Washington, stemming from U.S. concerns over North Korea's nuclear-weapons ambitions, continued to rise...
...stone-gated palace. His bodyguards--American special forces--are so wary of another assassination attempt that even Cabinet ministers are frisked before they enter his office. When Karzai left the palace last week to begin the journey that will take him to Japan and the U.S., American F-16 fighter jets prowled overhead to ensure that no missile-toting foe shot down his plane...
...Muntaha is, after all, a creature of Saddam's Iraq. "The president has looked after me," she says. A member of the ruling Ba'ath Party since she was 12, she was married just three months when her fighter-pilot husband was killed in 1981, an early victim of the Iraq-Iran war. Ever since, she's been wedded to the state, drawing her husband's pension, teaching 'home science' at a government-run high school for girls, and volunteering at the General Federation of Iraqi Women. Her daughter Sabreen, 21, studies journalism at Baghdad University, and Muntaha hopes...