Word: kuwait
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...began last week, the American army in Kuwait received a remarkable order from the brass: stow your flags. The fearsome steel coil of tanks and artillery and Bradley fighting vehicles was told to enter enemy territory humbly, stripped of all banners, including the Stars and Stripes. This seemed slightly un-American - we're flag crazed to the point of silliness - and entirely appropriate; liberation, not conquest, was the stated purpose of the war. And so, when the Marines captured their first town, Umm Qasr, and the American flag was reflexively raised in triumph, it was quickly hauled down...
Should war with Iraq break out, it would begin with bombing, commando raids and armored columns pushing north from Kuwait. A second wave of soldiers, including Murray, would follow, fanning out across Iraq on a different mission. Their principal tasks: to win over the Iraqi people by handing out emergency humanitarian aid, and to unearth Saddam's presumed stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons. These soldiers would be operating in a lawless, battle-scarred landscape in which civilians would be fearful and shell-shocked but might have information about weapons of mass destruction (WMD) concealed from U.N. inspectors. And they...
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...rear-echelon camp of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division in Kuwait was rocked by a grenade attack early Sunday morning, local time. TIME's Jim Lacey was 20 yards away from the tent when the attack occurred; he reports 10 people were injured, six of them critically after two grenades were thrown into a tent. Lacey says the grenades targeted the tent of one of the commanders of the 101st...
...that the longer he is able to survive and demonstrate that his forces are putting up resistance, the better his chances of averting the catastrophic regime-collapse the Americans are trying to achieve. Thus far he's lobbed a couple of missiles into the invasion's staging grounds in Kuwait, and has set fire to a handful of oil wells. A number of false alarms notwithstanding, the feared attacks with chemical and biological munitions have not thus far materialized, and Saddam's strategy may be to try and draw the coalition forces into a bloody battle for Baghdad...