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...believed to be sleeping. They said that three dozen Tomahawk missiles, outfitted with 1,000-lb. warheads and fired from six battleships in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, slammed into three targeted buildings in Baghdad. In addition, two U.S. F-117 warplanes from an air base in Qatar dropped four 2,000-lb. bombs on the underground bunker believed to be housing Saddam, Qusay and Uday. The CIA received an intelligence report that one of Saddam's sons was either killed or seriously injured while a second intelligence report cited sources who saw Saddam carried...
...contrast between the upbeat briefings being given by the Pentagon and Centcom in Qatar and the actual situation on the ground in southern Iraq is becoming ever more striking. Since the ground war started last Thursday, U.S. forces have indeed raced forward, reaching Najaf and other points in the north that are within striking distance of Baghdad. But the costs of this rapid advance are now being paid. There is mounting insecurity behind the front lines, and spreading harrassment of the long logistics column that links Kuwait with the troops 240 miles to the northwest...
Franks will climb aboard his command plane for Qatar this week, and he won't be back for a while. At lunchtime last Friday hundreds of Centcom troops and staff gathered out behind Franks' headquarters while listening to the country music of Neal McCoy. He's a Texas country-and-western star who traveled with Franks to visit the troops in Afghanistan over Thanksgiving. Before McCoy and his band began their hour-long set, Franks got up, microphone in hand, and belted out a version of an old Charley Pride tune called (Is Anyone Going to) San Antone? As Franks...
...stationed in the Persian Gulf ready to move on Iraq, authorities feared that he would activate sleeper cells in the gulf states or recruit fresh volunteers for suicide attacks against U.S. military targets. His network of agents in Kuwait (where he was born to a Pakistani father) and in Qatar--two key staging posts for the U.S. command--are still intact, intelligence experts say. "This is the planner, the key planner of 9/11 and probably al-Qaeda's most active planner right up until his capture," says a White House aide...
Mohammed's plans were exposed by accident. While experimenting with explosives in January 1995, Yousef set fire to his Manila apartment and fled. Police found evidence linking him to Mohammed. Other plotters arrested in Asia named Mohammed as their ringleader. But by then he had escaped to Doha, Qatar. In 1996 he was indicted in absentia in a New York federal court for the airline-bombing plot. But when the U.S. notified Qatar that he was a wanted man, Mohammed was tipped off and fled the emirate, according to Washington intelligence sources. As for Yousef, he was captured in Pakistan...