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Saddam Hussein must have known that the Republican Guard could not stop the advance of the U.S. military on Baghdad, but he might have imagined it could slow the onslaught. As U.S. forces swept through Iraq from Kuwait, the Iraqi command deployed four divisions--the Baghdad, Medina, Nebuchadnezzar and Hammurabi--south of the capital in two defensive arcs. The outer arc, about 100 miles long, stretched roughly from Karbala to Kut. The inner one, some 30 miles long, extended from Yusufiyah to Suwayrah. Just how many troops this involved is unclear. On paper, each of the four divisions had roughly...
...past few months, several drivers have made public appearances for their benefactors at military installations around the world. Over the New Year, Nadeau spent a week in Afghanistan and Kuwait, hanging out with the troops and even driving a tank. Shortly thereafter, a number of drivers accompanied team owner Richard Childress on a five-day tour of U.S. bases in Spain, Germany, Sicily and Bosnia. In March, Rudd visited Nevada’s Nellis Air Force Base and, according to the Charleston Post and Courier, “got about as close as a civilian can get to an F/A-22...
...quite possibly chaotic. It seems increasingly clear that a new government cannot be created by the U.S. alone. And so Bush should ask for help--not from the U.N., at least not yet, but from the six countries that are Iraq's immediate neighbors--Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Kuwait, and, yes, Iran. He should invite the Presidents of all six, as well as Tony Blair, to a conference on the future of Iraq...
...quite possibly chaotic. It seems increasingly clear that a new government cannot be created by the U.S. alone. And so Bush should ask for help - not from the U.N., at least not yet, but from the six countries that are Iraq's immediate neighbors - Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Kuwait, and, yes, Iran. He should invite the Presidents of all six, as well as Tony Blair, to a conference on the future of Iraq...
EVACUATED. ALI ISMAIL ABBAS, 12, Iraqi burn victim who suffered the loss of both arms after a U.S. bomb hit his home near Baghdad; to a burn-treatment center in Kuwait City, where he underwent surgery to place skin grafts over his burns. The boy, who gained worldwide attention after a photo of him was published in TIME, is expected to remain at the center, where doctors hope to fit him with prosthetic arms...