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...which were smart--about half were directed against the Republican Guard. Judging from the look of the battlefields today, the bombing was largely surgical. In the open market in Mahmudiyah, five tanks were hit from the air while they were parked in alleyways so narrow that their gun turrets could not be turned. The storefront windows a few feet away were blown out, but otherwise the surrounding buildings are intact. In some cases, the Iraqis attempted to hide tanks and trucks from U.S. planes by parking them underneath freeway overpasses, and even though the vehicles were destroyed by laser-guided...
...landscape south of Baghdad bears evidence of fighting that never happened. Along the sides of roads are thousands of recently constructed earthwork bunkers, trenches and sandbagged gun emplacements, all facing south. Inspection showed that almost none have spent shell casings, cartridges, scorch marks or any of the other normal detritus of war. If they did hold soldiers at any time, the men had left before any shots were fired by or at them. In some places there are still signs of hasty departures: along the roadsides, discarded uniforms and berets; in buildings, scattered maps, manuals and gas masks...
...staged daily in front of the Palestine and Sheraton hotels where the media are staying are any indication, Iraqis are demanding their freedom from a brutal imperialist occupation - although clearly not sufficiently brutal to suppress the demonstrations themselves, which a mere month ago would have been greeted with machine gun fire...
...Today most of the fires that blazed when I first arrived are out, and there are far fewer explosions and gun battles to be heard at night - the only sound that awakens me now is the morning calling of the birds. Away from the political turmoil of the threatening sheikhs of violence and fundamentalism, on the streets of Baghdad and looking out from my hotel balcony, I no longer know that I am in a country that...
...Police Tactical Unit, a team of elite blue-bereted Hong Kong cops led by the flinty Simon Yam. Yam and his jackbooted troops spend most of the film terrorizing helpless criminal punks, who are only too eager to sell each other out. They're on the lookout for a gun lost by Detective Lo (Suet Lam), an obese bumbler who makes Inspector Clouseau look like Gil Grissom from...