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...Even if inspectors return to Iraq with expanded powers, can they document, uncover and dismantle Saddam's full arsenal more completely than their predecessors? (From 1991 to 1998, monitors found hundreds of tons of chemical agents, dismantled more than 800 Scud missiles and wiped out Saddam's budding nuclear program, but they didn't come close to uncovering everything.) The U.S. has even less confidence in inspections after a hiatus: Saddam has had the past four years to hone his concealment skills. In eight years of efforts to uncover Iraq's stockpiles, "we taught them what we could find...
...inspectors left Iraq for the last time in Dec. 1998, sizable chunks of Saddam's weapons program were gone: 39,000 chemical munitions, 690 tons of chemical agents, 3,000 tons of precursors, 426 pieces of production equipment. The U.N. had also dismantled or accounted for 817 Scud missiles, which might have lofted toxic warheads at Iraq's neighbors...
...control sites. Next to go would be Saddam's palaces and other symbols of his power, such as television studios and transmitting towers used to fill Iraqi airwaves with his words and image. Other early targets would include the mobile missile launchers in western Iraq capable of lobbing Scud missiles--perhaps laden with biological or chemical weapons--toward Israel. During the previous war, the U.S. failed to knock out a single Scud launcher. This time, with improvements in satellites, drones and intelligence, it should fare better...
...American attack on the Arab and Muslim world. Better still, link it directly to the Bush administration's close relationship with the government of Ariel Sharon, whose policies offend even Washington's most moderate Arab allies. That's precisely what Saddam tried to do in 1991 when he fired SCUD missiles at Israel just as the U.S.-led coalition assault began, in hopes of persuading the Arab world that the issue was the Palestinians rather than Kuwait. The gambit failed because Israel refused to be provoked into retaliation and because the U.S. had secured unprecedented Arab support - by pressing Israel...
...boat girl, Ee Kan, and boat boy, Ai Kum, seem to know what they're doing, poling furiously as the gnarled fingers of overhanging branches grasp and claw at us. Ee Kan wails as we scud past an exposed rock, and I prepare to abandon ship. As we slide over the last of the rapids into blessed calm water, I am relieved to remember that a serenade from these silk-swathed gondoliers was part of the deal. Both are Dai tribespeople, but they're singing their hearts out in Mandarin. "This is a famous Chinese song about...