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...Iraqi move came amid a headlong rush toward what was expected to be an epic land clash between the allied and Iraqi armies arranged in southern Iraq, Kuwait and northern Saudi Arabia. Some commanders had suggested the battle could begin in a matter of weeks...
...Iraqi Scud strike on the northern Saudi city of Hafr al-Batin was intercepted by a Patriot missile...
Armageddon is a fine, thumping word, almost onomatopoeic in its evocation of finality. This metaphor for ultimate conflict probably gets its name from Mount Megiddo, a scraggly hill on a great plain in northern Israel where, as many conservative Protestants believe, a great battle will end history's most terrible war. According to scenarios drawn from prophetic passages in Daniel, Ezekiel, Zechariah and Revelation, a number of nations, including Babylon (read Iraq) and led by an evil Antichrist, will invade Israel during this conflict. But then the Son of God will return to halt the slaughter and, according to some...
...Muslim ruling elite were to be ousted wholesale, no alternative government could easily take charge of the country's highly politicized military and secret police. Fear of these institutions is the strongest glue binding Iraq's fractious populace, including its long-oppressed Shi'ite Muslim majority and its rebellious northern Kurds. "When the Iraqis stop fighting us," says a senior Bush adviser, "they may turn to fighting each other." The advisers believe postwar stability in Iraq and the region is better served if the country's next ruler is "someone in the clan" -- one of Saddam's close associates, probably...
Support for vouchers is incredibly high among Chicago minorities: 58 percent of Chicago Blacks and 63 percent of Chicago Hispanics support private school vouchers, according to a recent survey by Northern Illinois University...