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...official said, "but one target was more important than the other two." Shortly after the missiles found their marks, a pair of U.S. F117 fighters dropped four 2,000-lb. bunker-busting bombs on an underground facility believed to be housing Saddam and at least one of his two ruthless sons Qusay and Uday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Awestruck | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

...regime built on terror, al-Majid, 62, has stood out as one of the most ruthless members of Saddam Hussein's inner circle. A cousin of Saddam's, he presided over the occupation of Kuwait before the first Gulf War, crushed the 1991 Shi'ite rebellion in the south and oversaw the execution of two Iraqi officers--who were also his nephews and Saddam's sons-in-law--after they defected to Jordan and returned to Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemical Ali: Saddam's Henchman | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

...peshmerga are as tough as Ansar is ruthless. "These guys literally walk up the mountain, get wounded and walk back down," says a U.S. medic. "They're tough sons of bitches." On Friday, as the medic worked at a casualty collection point, he says one wounded Kurdish soldier with a head wound simply straggled in, walked up and just "died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling Terrorists in the Hills | 3/30/2003 | See Source »

...fuzzy thinking of the antiwar side makes it impossible for my head to follow. Hauerwas' recommendation that we ask "Iraqi Christians what we can do to make their lives more bearable" does not address the central issue of weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a ruthless dictator bent on territorial expansion. Hauerwas' assertion that the 9/11 attacks were not an act of war but acts of murder is similarly woolly. If the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center were not an act of war, I don't know what is. JANET LAWSON Concord, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 24, 2003 | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

...government called it the work of "bad people." "Ruthless killers" would have been more to the point. How else to describe the heavily armed gunmen who staged a roadside ambush in northern Laos last week, killing at least 12 people, including two European tourists and a Chinese national? One diplomat who visited the scene told TIME the attackers clearly wanted a "maximum casualty count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos' Unlucky 13 | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

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