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...later, the Americans decided to communicate a message of their own. Shortly after sunrise, more than 50 U.S. Army vehicles, led by M-1 tanks and Bradleys, suddenly powered into the center of Baghdad. Cruising at 25 m.p.h., the patrol shredded the enemy--killing perhaps more than 1,000 Iraqis--who dared take it on. Timid Iraqis waved cautiously from side streets, only to watch the invading forces rumble back out of the city. This was a mission not to take territory or wipe out an army but to make a point: Our tanks can penetrate your defenses at will...
...gallons, but that wasn't enough to meet the need. U.S. military engineers, meanwhile, set to work to restore power and the water supply. But the people still seemed overjoyed, if thirsty. The biggest problem U.S. soldiers faced was keeping the crowds away from them as they tried to patrol the streets...
Others tell of a city where bands of young Fedayeen Saddam militia patrol in white trucks, shooting anyone who defies them. Residents talk of their fears of anarchy and looting and of the terror at the sounds of mortars, rockets and gunfire that crack day and night across this city of 1.3 million. Underneath it all is the unfathomable, almost irrational fear that Saddam Hussein could still survive this war and return to wreak terrible vengeance on anyone who turns against his regime, as he did after U.S. forces left...
...militia are gone from Zubayr, but Dr. Hussein is apprehensive about a breakdown in security in the town. "It is very unsafe," he says. "There is no police force, no administrative apparatus of any kind." The British have instituted a 7 p.m. curfew but have few spare troops to patrol the streets. During the day, the town appears to be getting back to normal, with foodstuffs appearing in the market. But normality has its limits...
...being there," Burwin says. One or two times a day, convoys of up to 10 vessels rendezvous at either side of the Strait to be escorted across the 58-km passage by a combination of antisubmarine aircraft and gunship helicopters in the air and frigates, destroyers and fast patrol boats on the sea, according to Burwin. Some 60 ships have been escorted since the program began last month. Intelligence officials believe al-Qaeda is using the shipping business - with its lax regulations and virtually non-existent security - to transport men and materiél, and fears remain high...