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...landing strips, surprising the enemy at its rear. On the road to Tikrit, they fingered Iraqi vehicles fleeing the capital for destruction by M1 tanks. And inside the capital, the elite Delta Force slipped into Baghdad's back alleys and into its sewers to eavesdrop on communications, cut fiber-optic cables, target regime leaders and build networks of informants...
...corner as continuously arrive there. On its longer side, it forms sweeping irregular stacks of white and black concrete and darkened glass, all of them resting on a clear-glass lobby. On its narrow end, it shoots those same interlocking volumes out in irregular square planes. Down below, fiber-optic light strips embedded in the pavement glide under the lobby's plate-glass wall and then across the ground floor in diagonals--lines of force that announce the edgy nerve paths of the place you're about to enter...
...terms of capabilities, the regime has its up and downs. This officer mentioned one clever thing that Saddam had done to harden his communications system. "He buried fiber optic cables, which made it much more difficult for us to disrupt the system. But now we're getting to those," he said...
...Best Buy and PNC last year. "I'd be surprised if he hasn't got more exposure to junk bonds," says Russo. "And what this tells us is, now is a good time to buy distressed assets." That message also seems clear in Buffett's recent investments in fiber-optic company Level 3 and energy firm Williams Cos., both strapped financially. These are public companies, but Buffett did not buy their common stocks. He holds non--publicly traded securities in each--convertible bonds in Level 3 and convertible preferred stock in Williams. Buffett also cherry-picked a prize gas pipeline...
...northern and southern regions from which Iraqi planes are banned. In the past, when Iraqi forces fired on allied planes, the reply came in attacks on guns and missile batteries. That has changed. Now the allied planes are attacking command-and-control centers, communications nodes and the fiber-optic network that links Iraq's air-defense system. "We're responding differently," says a Pentagon official, "hitting multiple targets when we're fired upon--and they're tending to be more important targets...