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...Iraq's northern and southern no-fly zones, from which Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's planes have been barred since shortly after the 1991 war's end, the number of missions flown by British and American warplanes has jumped sharply in recent months. Pilots are flying four missions a week, and they've expanded their target list from Iraqi air defenses that actually lock on to their jets to all surface-to-air installations, threatening or not. They're also hitting military headquarters and surface-to-surface missile systems...
There are actual plans for ground fighting, though, in conjunction with Iraqi opposition groups, similar to the special-forces linkups with the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan against the Taliban in 2001. In the northern Iraqi autonomous zone of Kurdistan, U.S. troops are readying the various Kurdish militias for war. They are conducting weapons training and policing an alliance among them. And since September, at Taszar air base in Hungary, the U.S. has also been providing combat training to 5,000 Iraqi rebels, including Kurds and Shi'ites from the south. Another group trained at Taszar will become advisers...
Then there's the pipeline from northern Iraq to the Turkish Mediterranean coast, which until recently exported up to hundreds of thousands of barrels a day of Iraqi crude, all of it outside the U.N.-sanctions system. Long dependent on Iraqi oil, Jordan illicitly imports some 110,000 bbl. a day, for which it pays a below-market price directly to the Iraqi government. Yet another pipeline runs from northern Iraq to Banias, a Syrian port, with a second outlet in Lebanon. It currently carries some 230,000 bbl. a day, generating annual revenue estimated at more than $1 billion...
Most of the Crimson’s half-dozen challengers this weekend are northern teams as well and have been equally plagued by the weather. Bucknell had each of its first ten scheduled games canceled due to snow and inclimate weather. Lehigh (1-0) has had eight games canceled...
...beloved on the Palestinian street for his defiance of the U.S., but he has never been a significant factor in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His only direct presence in Palestinian politics comes in the form of the Arab Liberation Front, a miniscule Ba'athist organization based in the northern West Bank. And while the president is correct in charging that Saddam provides lavish compensation to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers, he is hardly alone among Arab leaders in doing...