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SADDAM'S LAST STAND The Iraqi leader has pulled his Adnan Republican Guard division from the northern city of Mosul toward Baghdad, suggesting that he is more interested in a showdown in his capital than in defending Iraq's borders. The same ethnic tensions that make Iraq tough to govern should make it easier to push Saddam and his defenders into Baghdad. The Kurds have virtual autonomy in northern Iraq. In the south, U.S. troops face an uncertain reception. While Shi'ite Muslims disdain Saddam's Sunni-led government, they are also wary of a coalition that allowed Saddam...
...flat, parched sands of northern Kuwait have grown crowded in the past few weeks. Normally the desert plains are dotted with oilworkers and the occasional weekend tent of a Kuwaiti city dweller connecting with his Bedouin roots. But now the country's northern half is a restricted military zone crammed with more than 100,000 U.S. and British troops. Makeshift firing ranges are double-booked. Patrols practicing forays into Iraqi wastelands bump into one another where their perimeters overlap. When troops from the 101st Airborne Division arrived last week, soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division had to move camp back...
...Camp Grizzly in the northern desert, Marines spend the sunset hour of most days throwing horseshoes they've made by bending tent spikes. Some do chin-ups on a 2-by-4 hung from a wooden frame next to their tent. Or they just relax by lounging on a wooden bench they built. Behind the bench, a sign on a pole reads BUS STOP. "What bus are you waiting for?" someone asks. "We're thinking of a loop," says Lance Corporal Josh Hotvet, 21, a Marine Reservist from Albany, N.Y. "Baghdad and then home...
...appointed Prime Minister after parliament overturned a law barring him from public office because of a conviction for inciting religious hatred. He is likely to call for a second parliamentary vote on a motion to allow the deployment of U.S. troops on Turkish soil. Washington wants to open a northern front in any war against Iraq and needs Turkish bases to do so. Parliament's approval of the deployment would be controversial, since the Turkish public is overwhelmingly antiwar. The cash-strapped government has negotiated a $15 billion compensation package from the U.S. if the deployment takes place, and fears...
...reunifying the divided island before the Greek section joins the E.U. next year broke down when Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash rejected a U.N. power-sharing proposal, despite support for the plan from opposition parties and tens of thousands of Turkish Cypriots. Denktash insisted on formal recognition for the northern Turkish part of the island and objected to a requirement that he said "would force 100,000 Turkish Cypriots to leave their homes to make way for returning Greek Cypriots." The failure of the talks means that only the internationally recognized south will join the E.U. in 2004. KGB Redux...