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This is American planners' worst fear. City combat blunts the U.S. military advantages of speed and knowledge. What the Pentagon calls "urban canyons" offers hideouts for foes and civilians as well as sniper nests and underground lairs from which combatants can strike. Buildings create vast "dead spaces" for an enemy to exploit out of the sight of those trying to kill Saddam. They hinder communication and hamper anything flying low, like helicopters, spy drones and warplanes assisting forces on the ground. In cities, mobility and maneuver--two tenets of U.S. ground-combat strategy--hit a dead...
...Saddam's regime, the Bush Administration's thinking and the consequences of action--and inaction. Read all Time's Iraq cover stories from the Gulf War to now, including the most recent, "The Sinister World of Saddam," and see our interactive map detailing how and where the U.S. might strike. At time.com/iraq...
...weapons is painstaking work. The U.N. says that if allowed to return, its inspection team would need a year to document the full range of Saddam's arsenal. That's too long for Administration hard-liners, who fear that Iraq could use U.N. monitors as shields against a military strike, as Serb forces did during the Balkan wars. There's also the problem of what happens once the inspectors finish their work. There's every reason to believe that, if left in power, Saddam would become more determined to obtain weapons of mass destruction. "Even if the inspectors go back...
PAKISTAN Three Strikes Against Terrorism Pakistan and the U.S. scored a victory against al-Qaeda with the arrest of Ramzi Binalshibh. Two other suspected al-Qaeda members were killed and at least 10 were detained in a series of raids in Karachi. Officials believe Binalshibh, a Yemeni who belonged to al-Qaeda's Hamburg cell, helped plan the Sept. 11 attacks. He had been denied a visa to enter the U.S. four times. Germany said it would request his extradition. Elsewhere, Dutch police arrested the head of a Kurdish group suspected of links with al-Qaeda, while Italian authorities took...
...streets or earthen berms being erected or fortifications underway. I did see a lot of troops in the streets and I saw that Iraq had beefed up their air defense in the capital. I saw that they were moving these air defense units frequently to avoid a strike. But I wasn't there to carry out a full canvas of Iraq's military capabilities...