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...stop the advance of the U.S. military on Baghdad, but he might have imagined it could slow the onslaught. As U.S. forces swept through Iraq from Kuwait, the Iraqi command deployed four divisions--the Baghdad, Medina, Nebuchadnezzar and Hammurabi--south of the capital in two defensive arcs. The outer arc, about 100 miles long, stretched roughly from Karbala to Kut. The inner one, some 30 miles long, extended from Yusufiyah to Suwayrah. Just how many troops this involved is unclear. On paper, each of the four divisions had roughly 10,000 men, but according to U.S. intelligence, all were undermanned...
...Baghdad's Outer Karada street, immense satellite dishes sell like bread - as the Arabic expression goes - demonstrating a hunger for information that has also prompted a booming market for local and international newspapers. Baghdad may be the world's only city of more than 5 million inhabitants without a cellular phone system, but that will come soon - and every household that can afford them is sure to have several. For now, Iraqis desperate to tell family and friends that they are safe must plead with journalists for a few minutes on their satellite phones, or pay $10 a minute...
After more than a year of debate about such lofty issues as God's place in a new constitution and Europe's role in outer space, the European Convention returned to earth last week with a thud. The grandly named Convention on the Future of Europe, led by former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, has been meeting since February 2002 to thrash out a new architecture for an enlarged European Union of 25 states. With just under two months to go before the body presents its draft constitution, Giscard infuriated delegates by unilaterally unveiling proposals...
...assault kicked off, close to 300 peshmerga from one of the Kurds' top units raced to the Iraqi line. The fighters and the U.S. special forces leading them found themselves in a bigger battle than they had anticipated. With two tanks firing as they withdrew, the Iraqis yielded their outer ring of bunkers but stood fast on the city's outskirts. Iraqi soldier Riaz Jihad Zahir explains why he and his comrades stayed. "The officers had told us Baghdad had fallen, but they said the execution squads would kill us if we left," he says...
Sargent’s synagogue is “best understood as forming part of the entire ensemble,” according to Volk. Many scholars have noted that Sargent intended the paired figures to be seen as only the outer trappings of a truer inner spirituality–and so that both church and synagogue were outmoded...