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...slowly American troops will weed out the enemy, and as its desperation grows, we will continue to stride ahead with confidence and assurance, knowing we will punish those who dared to mess with our country, an America we have sworn to protect. Albert Shepard, Sergeant, U.S. Army Camp Navistar, Kuwait...
ALBERT SHEPARD, SERGEANT, U.S. ARMY Camp Navistar, Kuwait...
...Iranian penetration of Iraq was a long time in planning. On Sept. 9, 2002, with U.S. bases being readied in Kuwait, Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei summoned his war council in Tehran. According to Iranian sources, the Supreme National Security Council concluded, "It is necessary to adopt an active policy in order to prevent long-term and short-term dangers to Iran." Iran's security services had supported the armed wings of several Iraqi groups they had sheltered in Iran from Saddam. Iranian intelligence sources say that the various groups were organized under the command of Brigadier General Qassim Sullaimani...
...fierce competitiveness and courage that NBC's Brian Williams, who took over Brokaw's spot last year, says makes news of his death harder to believe. Williams recalls sitting last year with a nonchalant Jennings on an airstrip at Baghdad Airport, waiting for a C-130 transport to Kuwait just a day after a similar plane had been shot down on take-off from the same airport. "He just sat in a folding chair, reading a book. He was absolutely in his element," says Williams. "Peter never lost a challenge in his life, which is part of the reason that...
...defunct Coalition Provisional Authority - expire on Dec. 22. Transparency is the watchword, says Siyamend Othman, CEO of the NCMC. Hearings, he pledges, will be held on Iraqi television "and we will be asking some tough questions to each bidder." Two years ago Egypt's Orascom Telecom, Kuwait's MTC Atheer and the Iraqi-Gulf consortium AsiaCell got the prizes, but potential bidders acknowledge the cost will be "way more" than the $3.5 million spent in 2003. So how much money is the NCMC looking for? The Iraqis, one insider told Time, want "as much as they can get." - By Maryann...