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Positioned on a mountainside in between, the Americans unleash their own barrage. During four hours of battle, I saw U.S. forces drill Ansar with mortars, heavy machine-gun and antiaircraft artillery, 40-mm grenades and 500-lb. bombs dropped from planes overhead. Still, the fire was returned by an enemy clearly visible through binoculars. At one stage an Ansar defender screamed, "God is Great," even as grenades and heavy rounds peppered the cave he had ducked into...
...front line in the lowlands. A day earlier, about 100 U.S. soldiers had joined with Kurdish peshmerga (those who face death) in an assault against Ansar's base. The U.S. bombs flattened a mosque in the village of Biarra that had been used as terrorist headquarters, replete with a gun pit on top. The assault capped a week of pummeling by American Tomahawk cruise missiles that prompted the al-Qaeda-linked militants to take to the snowy mountains bordering Iran. This corner of northeastern Iraq, near the town of Halabja, is rough territory, a no-man's-land of escape...
...PERILS The U.S. expects Iraqi soldiers to position gun nests in densely populated areas, capitalizing on the coalition's reluctance to inflict high numbers of civilian casualties. The bigger unknown is whether the Iraqis will unleash chemical or biological weapons in their own capital...
Much of the male-written humor centers on homoerotic punchlines, as the inexplicably gay-themed Top Gun musical is largely about men riding their co-pilots, and a group of friends hold an intervention when their buddy appears to be suffering from the emasculating effects of dating...
...Search for the Smoking Gun...