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...border in Kuwait, U.S. troops made their final preparations. Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division began lining the bottoms of their vehicles with sandbags - a proven method of surviving a landmine. Inspections of aircraft and ground vehicles intensified; it's 400 miles to Baghdad from their camp in the Kuwaiti desert, and nobody wants to be left behind...
...flat, parched sands of northern Kuwait have grown crowded in the past few weeks. Normally the desert plains are dotted with oilworkers and the occasional weekend tent of a Kuwaiti city dweller connecting with his Bedouin roots. But now the country's northern half is a restricted military zone crammed with more than 100,000 U.S. and British troops. Makeshift firing ranges are double-booked. Patrols practicing forays into Iraqi wastelands bump into one another where their perimeters overlap. When troops from the 101st Airborne Division arrived last week, soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division had to move camp back...
...north, across two trenches and an electric fence, lies the enemy. U.S. commanders on the ground are convinced that the Iraqi soldiers are a force of truly desperate men--a thin line of conscripts, many of them drawn from Shi'ite and Kurdish communities that despise Saddam. Kuwaiti guards report that when Iraqi soldiers swarmed across the border 12 1/2 years ago and began a seven-month looting spree, the first stop for the occasionally barefoot Iraqis was not the luxury-car dealers but the food stores. And back then they were better looked after. Last year an Iraqi border...
...have also been stepped up. Propaganda leaflets are dropped daily, promising punishment or death to Iraqi troops who resist or who unleash chemical or biological weapons. In the Kuwaiti desert, Western camera crews that taped 3rd Infantry Division troops storming a mock Iraqi street were being co-opted by military media strategists, who privately say street fighting forms no part of the war plan. The exercises were designed to spook Baghdad...
...WHERE'S THE MONEY? Some of it, of course, pays for the sumptuous Iraqi palaces that Saddam collects, 20 of them in the Baghdad area alone. But a Kuwaiti-financed investigation conducted after the Gulf War determined that Iraq had about $10 billion in bank accounts and other investments around the world, nearly all of it well hidden. One that remains in the open involves a long-held 8.4% share in Hachette, a French media group that publishes such well-known titles as Elle and Woman's Day. In response to questions about Iraq's stockholding, a Hachette owner...