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If Firdos Square did not exist, a set designer could have built it. Sitting conveniently across from the Palestine Hotel, the de facto headquarters of the press in Baghdad, the square lacked only floodlights and a craft-services table to be a stage set for Saddam's grand finale. Dozens...
The go-ahead came on the evening of April 1. As Marines staged a diversionary attack, besieging nearby Iraqi irregulars, Army Rangers set up a perimeter around the hospital. It was a moonless night, but the stars were bright enough to guide the Navy SEALs who slipped into the hospital...
Mohammed set out on foot and walked 6 miles before he came across a group of Marines. Then, hands raised, Mohammed approached and said, "I have important information about woman soldier in hospital." Over the next 48 hours, the Marines sent him back to the hospital twice to gather more...
President Bush visited the marines at Camp Lejeune last week. He also visited the Coast Guard. The week before, he visited the Army; before that, the Navy. The speeches were pretty much the same: Saddam's finished, victory is assured, hurrah for our courageous troops. Cheerleading is a plausible presidential...
The images of impassioned Iraqis taking sledgehammers to a statue of Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad flooded the airwaves on Wednesday. Meanwhile, headlines worldwide proclaimed that Hussein’s Baghdad had fallen. But the statue’s destruction—which U.S. marines, using a cable fixed to...