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...There have been legal appeals, claims of intimidation, rowdy scenes in Parliament and armed guards at its gates. What there hasn't been is law-making. "This isn't about issues of policy - no one has even mentioned the word," says Mike Manning, head of P.N.G.'s economic think tank the Institute of National Affairs. "It's about naked power grabs...
...some Iraqi leaders say Allawi's ties to U.S. intelligence and the widely unpopular Governing Council will undermine him. Says Sheikh Mohammed Basher al-Faidi, spokesman for the Association of Muslim Scholars, a powerful group of Sunni clerics: "This is a man who came into Iraq in an American tank. Is there anybody who honestly believes the Iraqi people will respect such...
...things have changed. Pulling up to the pumps in my truck to fill the tank ($50.02), I feel like a big green dinosaur myself...
...were fired at, and one tank took a direct hit--I never knew whether from the enemy or our own tanks--and the whole crew was killed. After we took another hit, we found a little wood and dug in. The order to all tank units, maybe from the Fuhrer, was not to yield a single meter. Before I slept that night under my tank, I wrote an angry letter home. As a young officer, I thought we could have broken the invasion if we'd been better...
Israel's campaign against Palestinian militants took a particularly tragic turn last week. Israeli troops have lately been engaged in an intense hunt for the tunnels Palestinians use to smuggle weapons into Rafah, the southernmost town in the Gaza Strip. During one such operation, Israeli commanders ordered a tank to fire warning shots over the heads of a crowd of Palestinian protesters--fearing they would cut off a clutch of Israeli infantrymen--and wound up killing seven people. The deaths provoked international outrage. Even the U.S., Israel's staunchest ally, withheld its veto and permitted the U.N. Security Council...