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...sent 200 élite soldiers to the Gulf, but denied they were playing a combat role - until photos of them posing with U.S. Marines turned up in the papers...
...that day, and pushed west across the muddy plain and then north. A few Iraqi pickup trucks passed the convoy along the main highway. Men waved white flags or had them attached to their radio antennas. The quick movement of the first two days - think of it as 'Blitzkrieg Lite,' in which parts of Iraq's army were slashed, but towns and cities like Basra were not even bothered with - had given everyone hope of a quick end to the war. But on the push north word came from other parts of Iraq that all was not right. Resistance...
...bloodless popular revolt, the leader of that movement, Zoran Djindjic, placed a call to one of the most feared men in Serbia: Milorad Lukovic, known to his friends as Legija, or the Legionnaire. Djindjic knew that Lukovic, a square-jawed former paramilitary who was commander of the élite Serbian police unit called the Red Berets, could have crushed the uprising that ousted Milosevic. Djindjic wanted assurances that he would not. But he recognized the risk he was taking by even agreeing to meet Lukovic. "If Milosevic wanted to kill me, Legija would have been...
Bitten By The Big Apple Besieged by falling poll numbers and a $3.4 billion budget deficit, New York's Mayor and self-made billionaire Michael Bloomberg is leaving the city to do a little hunting - in his $10 million London townhouse. Next week, Bloomberg will host London's élite business leaders and try to sell them on moving their companies to New York. And he'll also meet London's Mayor "Red Ken" Livingstone. The odd couple will talk about London's new congestion charge - something else Bloomberg is interested in importing. Does it pay to decamp? Here...
...promises to be an intriguing story—more intriguing, I assure you, than what happens after too much Beast Lite...