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Blasting the bill, Henigan said representatives will wrongfully “wrap themselves in the Constitution and hide behind the Second Amendment myth” of gun-ownership rights to justify voting in favor of the bill...

Author: By Alexander J. Finerman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Expert Panel Debates Gun Control | 4/9/2003 | See Source »

...charge forward through the arid plains of central Iraq, but they were forced to defend their positions every step of the way. A fierce and somewhat unexpected enemy was the Fedayeen Saddam, a paramilitary group headed by Saddam's brutal son Uday that was dispatched by the regime to hide in cities and pick off invading forces. The militants stunned the allies with their will to fight, inflicting dozens of casualties on coalition troops. Allied commanders said late last week the coalition had killed hundreds of Fedayeen and had begun rooting them out of the cities. Early Saturday, U.S. Marines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sticking To His Guns | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

...inflicting civilian casualties has helped Saddam's small bands of loyalists cling to control of the cities, from which they hope to drag the U.S. into a frustrating, Vietnam-style guerrilla conflict. "People say to me, 'You are not the Vietnamese. You have no jungles and swamps to hide in,'" Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz told one interviewer last year. "I reply, 'Let our cities be our swamps and our buildings be our jungles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sticking To His Guns | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

...Landmarks Mosques, hospitals and historic buildings that the U.S. would prefer not to demolish could hide soldiers or munitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Urban Warriors | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

...Civilian shields Iraqi soldiers likely to hide among noncombatants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Urban Warriors | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

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