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...QASR, IRAQ: Local Iraqis daubed Xs across a mural of Saddam Hussein in this port city, which is now under allied control...
...Coast Guard, the General Accounting Office and others have said that more funding is necessary to ensure that residents of port cities like Boston are safe. When Bush laid the final groundwork for war with Iraq, he pledged to protect the nation’s ports. We hope that he makes good on his pledge, but recent history provides many reasons to doubt. When the Coast Guard reported that secure ports would cost nearly $1 billion, Bush responded with rhetoric about the importance of the Coast Guard to national security, but he failed to request a single dollar in either...
...army on its own in the face of the allied onslaught. That may explain why U.S. and British troops encountered meager resistance as they pushed toward the oil-rich southern Iraqi city of Basra. One day into the ground war, allied forces secured the town of Safwan and the port city of Umm Qasr; Marines seized two vital oil fields that Saddam's forces may have been preparing to set ablaze. Iraqi forces managed to set fire to only nine of 1,000 oil wells. In western Iraq, special-operations forces secured a key airfield where U.S. officials thought Saddam...
...death, the first U.S. serviceman to be killed in combat in Gulf War 2 will receive what he always wanted in life: American citizenship. Marine Lance Corporal Jose Guti?rrez was shot in the chest as his unit took heavy fire in the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr. Everyone believed he was 22. But his true age is part of a story of epic persistence that took him from Guatemala to Los Angeles, from the life of an orphan to the life of a Marine...
...First problem is the port city of Umm Qasr in the south. This was said by the Pentagon to have been taken last Friday, but as late as today - Monday - house to house fighting continued there, holding up coalition plans to ship in humanitarian...