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...delegates met in Nasiriyah, the northern city of Mosul reportedly saw up to 12 people killed when a local protest against the governor installed by U.S. forces erupted in violence. Even in Baghdad, a handful of demonstrators gathered for an anti-American demonstration outside the Palestine Hotel, scene of last week's widely televised toppling of Saddam's statue. Further north in Kirkuk, forced expulsion of Arab Iraqis by armed Kurds continued, and near Saddam's hometown of Tikrit heavily armed local tribesmen fought fierce gun battles with marauding groups of Kurdish bandits. And in the southern town...
...last time Jay Garner was in Iraq, the locals begged him to stay. That was in 1991, in the aftermath of the Gulf War, when almost 8,000 U.S. servicemen and -women were still occupying the northern part of the country. Garner was in charge of providing a safe haven for thousands of Iraqi Kurds after Saddam Hussein brutally suppressed their postwar rebellion. In June 1991, with an uneasy peace in place, the Americans began pulling out. In the city of Dohuk, 1,500 Kurds surrounded then Major General Garner's headquarters. "No, no, Saddam!" they chanted. "Yes, yes, Bush...
This 25-year-old photographer picked up her first camera in high school and hasn't looked back. A journalistic veteran of last year's Afghan war, Brooks has been in northern Iraq for TIME since February and has covered, among other things, the assault by Kurds and U.S. Special forces on Ansar guerrillas. "The battle with Ansar was similar to Tora Bora" In Afghanistan, she observes. "The Ansar fighters were retreating into mountains, hiding in caves and breaking off into small groups...
...Harvard women’s water polo team began the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Northern Division Championship in dominating fashion, but was once again unable to steer clear of an obstacle which has thwarted it all season long—host and Ivy rival No. 17 Brown...
...magnitude of the game—which would decide a berth in the Northern Division finals—far outweighed any similar matchup from earlier in the season, while the 11-goal margin of defeat was the largest for Harvard all season long...