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...captured prisoners of war. Kuwaiti victims were dismembered by axes and drowned in acid baths; U.S. POWs were beaten and forced to urinate on the American flag. The atrocities were so widespread, said the report, 'that they could not have occurred without the authority or knowledge of Saddam Hussein...
...Pakistan's army was surprised, so too were the country's American allies. Under pressure to score a victory in the war on terror as unambiguous as the capture of Saddam Hussein, the Bush Administration prodded Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to send 11,000 troops into the country's semiautonomous tribal area in March on a search-and-destroy mission. The quarry: top Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters believed to be hiding out in tribal lands since being routed from Afghanistan three years ago by U.S.-led coalition forces. Some optimists even thought Osama bin Laden might be plotting...
Bakhtiar, who was on the air live during the Sept. 11 attacks, said she welcomed the ouster of Saddam Hussein but criticized the Bush administration for not having a post-war plan...
...Iraqis, such images have come to define the American occupation just as powerfully as the toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue did a little more than a year ago. Back then, U.S. Marines and Iraqis worked together to pull down the statue, an event that marked the symbolic end of Saddam's regime. The square was far from full that day. Most ordinary Iraqis were still too scared to venture out of their houses and apartments, preferring to peek through curtains at the arrival of freedom. But the feeling of liberation and joy among those who did go into...
...Company were not enthusiastic about the truce either: twice last week they thought they were on the verge of attacking the city, only to be told to stand down. U.S. commanders last Friday announced that a new, 1,100-man Iraqi force, led by a former general in Saddam Hussein's army with a Republican Guard background, was assuming responsibility for disarming the estimated 2,000 insurgents believed to be still holed up in Fallujah...