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...water supply once again. The headquarters of the company that oversees all oil production in the south of the country was pillaged. "Where is the security?" asked an enraged Kareem Judy, 42, an engineer in British-controlled Basra, as he stood outside the gutted five-story shell of the Sheraton Hotel. "How can the British let this happen?" Crucial utilities technicians were not about to return to their jobs if they were afraid of being caught in cross fire or having their cars stolen...
...Marines have seen two of their own to the grave today. Many of them think the hit was a short round, friendly fire. But an investigation the following day points to an Iraqi shell. "We're really touchy about friendly fire," says McCoy later. "It's better that it was enemy. But either way, those Marines are dead...
...might need to renew her prescription. A week later, hospitals in the capital city of Beijing were playing shell games with SARS patients, moving them around the city in ambulances so they wouldn't be discovered by the WHO. Patient numbers were still being underreported (the WHO says there may be 200 cases in Beijing compared with the official government number of 40), investigators were not allowed access to medical records, and whistle-blowers were offering embarrassing accounts of official cover-ups to the foreign press. China's new leadership, led by President Hu Jintao, suddenly found itself entangled...
...caches in almost every district of the city. The American forces are trying to deal with the problem, destroying many caches in controlled explosions - massive blasts that can be heard across the city. But many of the caches are in residential neighborhoods and must be removed, very carefully, one shell at a time. The Americans don't have the manpower to do that...
...journalists at the Palestine Hotel, the peril came from an unexpected quarter - U.S. tanks deployed on the opposite bank of the Tigris River. Kozyrev called again Tuesday afternoon, Baghdad time, so shaken he was barely able to speak. One of the U.S. tanks across the river fired a shell into the hotel, killing two journalists. Others were wounded and taken to hospital. (The commander of U.S. 3rd Infantry forces inside Baghdad reportedly said the tank fired a single round after U.S. troops came under fire from the hotel, a claim disputed by some of the journalists present...