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While President Bush says he hasn't yet decided whether to go to war with Iraq, the U.S. is giving Saddam Hussein every indication that a reckoning is near. In recent weeks, with quiet but gathering urgency, the Pentagon has been moving its forces into the Persian Gulf theater to prepare for battle. More than 50,000 troops are now deployed in the gulf--5,000 of them at bases in Qatar, the roughly Connecticut-size emirate that serves as a headquarters for the military's Central Command and its chief, General Tommy Franks, who would direct any operation against...
...lesson every week and can specialize in what they do best. At First Presbyterian Church of Arlington Heights, Ill., adult "shepherds" recently guided teams of children to five stations that taught the lesson of David and Goliath: Mary's and Martha's Bed & Breakfast had storytelling on a Persian-style rug; Creation Station was an activity corner with art projects; Acts of Faith Theater featured a play; Kingdom.com offered Internet surfing; and the screening room, Paradise Pictures, showed a religious-themed movie with popcorn. "When I was sitting in church before, I used to bring something to do, like draw...
...Europe has not been spared. A sterner form of the religion - one that demands universal application of Shari'a, asserts the superiority of Islam and rejects assimilation with non-Muslim societies - is supplanting the more flexible faith that long prevailed in the diaspora. Fueled by Wahhabi funds from the Persian Gulf and a radical interpretation of the Koran, Muslim preachers insist that their European congregants are living in dar al-harb, the realm of war. They seek to reshape European Muslim communities into virtual ghettos. By mirroring the de facto separatism fostered by European attitudes, radical imams have created fertile...
Herbert also had a lengthy military career and served in four wars: World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf...
...assaults would kick off a new war. America's $2 billion radar-eluding B-2 bombers could attack Iraq from bases in the U.S., England or Diego Garcia, and Navy warships already in the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean could pummel key Iraqi targets with long-range cruise missiles. Once Iraq's air defenses are crushed, more vulnerable F-14s and F-18s from three or four Navy carriers by then in the region could begin striking additional targets. The speed of the air war would depend in part on which neighboring countries--Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Turkey, Saudi Arabia...