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...British forces are preparing to fight their way into the town in order to avert a humanitarian catastrophe. Hundreds of Iraqi armored vehicles left the predominantly Shiite city Wednesday, and came under air attack by coalition aircraft. And in a surprise move whose purpose is not yet clear, the Medina division of Iraq's Republican Guard sent some 1,000 armored vehicles out of Baghdad toward the frontline positions of the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division. Although such a deployment would stiffen resistance on the approaches to the capital, U.S. commanders would welcome the opportunity to confront the Guard outside...
...broadcast hailing the resistance of his forces and urging them on. Still, the duration of their resistance of his regime may be determined by the outcome of the battle beginning on the southern approaches to Baghdad, as the U.S. Third Infantry Division comes face to face with the Medina Division of Iraq's Republican Guard...
Still, the film, which was funded partially by a number of Islamic foundations, tries too hard. When the Muslims in Medina murder 700 Jews, up pops a commentator to insist that Muhammad was not anti-Semitic. When the Prophet allows his followers to take up to four wives, the film stresses that he was, for his time, something of a feminist. When Muhammad leads his troops into battle, it is explained that he did so only because there was no alternative...
...conservative Ratzinger offered a virtual Vatican seal of approval for recent comments by two Latin American Cardinals--each considered possible papal successors--who also blamed the pedophilia crisis on the American press. Another sign of a hardening line in Rome came in a letter from Jorge Arturo Cardinal Medina Estevez published in a Vatican magazine last week. A growing number of officials in Rome have become convinced that the cause of the U.S. crisis is the prevalence of gay priests in American parishes. In his letter, Medina Estevez called the ordination of homosexual men "inadvisable and imprudent and, from...
Hernández-Medina said referring individual students to the dean avoided a bigger problem...