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...General James T. Conway, the Marines' top commander in Iraq, has not been impressed by the weapons turned in so farthe first truckload last week was a rusty junk bin of antique arms--and warned that an all-out assault would follow if the rebels did not comply. A showdown, he said, would come in "days, not weeks." Some former Pentagon officials are worried about the signal that deadline sent. "We've got to stop this business of getting up in front of the world and saying, 'We are going to do this in Fallujah,' and then we seem...
...Despite repeated attempts to negotiate a solution to the standoff in the hotbed of Sunni resistance to the Coalition, Tuesday's renewed outbreak of fighting appeared to point to the inevitability of a military showdown. Having gone in hard initially in response to the killing of four American private security operatives, the Marines were pulled back and negotiations opened after the reported killing of hundreds of Iraqi civilians prompted outrage even among Washington's closest allies in Baghdad. Iraqi Governing Council member Adnan Pachachi, who sat alongside First Lady Laura Bush during the State of the Union address, called...
With that, the Crimson held onto its two-game deficit in the standings to Red Rolfe division rival Dartmouth—which beat Yale twice yesterday, 11-1 and 11-0—going into next weekend’s pivotal four-game, Ivy season-ending showdown against the Big Green...
...with the late Iranian revolutionary Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini a belief in rule by the clergy in a strict theocratic state. Al-Sadr's strategy, it now appears, is to engage coalition forces in a deadly confrontation, in the belief that Iraqi Shi'ites will support him in a direct showdown with the U.S. His rabid anti-Americanism, which previously failed to connect with the majority of Shi'ites, now strikes a chord. A year after the war began, their tolerance is exhausted. The lower rungs of society are fed up with the slow pace of reconstruction and unkept U.S. promises...
...closer “Canada vs. the United States” was a confused but somewhat amusing rendition of an event Drew swears “is going to happen sooner or later”—an apocalyptic showdown between the two leading superpowers of North America. If Drew and his band of compatriots are going to lead the charge for the Canadians, they need to focus on tightening up their potentially devastating lightning offensive, otherwise their blitzkrieg push will collapse under its own weight, as it nearly did during parts of this show. A lot is riding...