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...most of his life, Khadir honed the occupation he learned as a child: fighting in the Kurdish militia against Saddam Hussein's forces. He was jailed seven times since the age of 14 and saw a favorite uncle executed. Now, at 32, he is perfecting an entirely new skill that could change this region as much as have the wars in which he has fought: drilling for oil. Since late November, he has toiled about 9 m aboveground on the first derrick erected in Kurdistan in decades - by a Norwegian outfit using a Chinese rig, of all things. From...
...Over the past few weeks, he has been holding up deployment papers at the last minute, demanding answers and explanations about which units are going where, why. He has been running similar drills for months on the generals and admirals, reworking the plans to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein. General Tommy Franks, the Army four-star who would run the war as head of U.S. Central Command, actually prepared the plan. But as a Pentagon officer points out, "That misses the point. Franks may be the draftsman, but Rumsfeld's the architect...
...forces are slain under questionable circumstances. Rex S. Arul Smyrna, Georgia, U.S. Why doesn't time try to show some of the many positive things resulting from the war in Iraq? In various parts of the nation, life now is vastly improved over what it was like under Saddam Hussein. You go out of your way to publish negative photographs and editorials. Your articles are so slanted, it's ridiculous. David Prothero Irwin, Pennsylvania, U.S. Your account of the alleged massacre and ensuing cover-up at Haditha was the latest appalling example of the plague this war has become. Like...
...accusations against both Vice President Dick Cheney and President George W. Bush. The prosecution’s filing said that Libby told a grand jury that Bush had authorized Cheney to leak specific classified information that supported the administration’s views on Iraq, namely that Saddam Hussein had attempted to acquire uranium ore from Niger...
...Pentagon, it got relatively little press because President Clinton?s impeachment and doomed House Speaker-to-be Bob Livingston?s extramarital-affair scandal were exploding at the same time. As the attack unfurled, Pentagon officials privately conceded their barrage was based on crude estimates of where Saddam Hussein might be hiding elements of his banned WMD programs...