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That’s when I tuned in to the siege of some anonymous Iraqi outpost outside an irrelevant southern city. I watched three American tanks fire their chain guns into a berm for about an hour, supposedly rooting out an Iraqi tank. But the only thing I could see on TV was flying sand. The phantom tank disposed of, American tanks eventually turned their attention and guns toward the snipers in the building...
...Saddam's fate is not known, Kozyrev reports, nor that of his sons. Wild rumors that circulated in the neighborhood afterwards had Saddam climbing into a tank or firing mortar shells at American positions following the strike, but nobody is setting much store by those accounts...
...disappearance of the government minders had been an omen for the 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...
That proved a futile hope for the crew of a British Challenger 2 tank fighting outside Basra in pitch darkness last week. The crew blasted another Challenger, killing two compatriots inside. Among other friendly-fire episodes of the war so far: a U.S. Patriot missile shot down a British Tornado aircraft, killing two servicemen. Another soldier died after two British armored vehicles came under fire, possibly from a U.S. A-10 aircraft. U.S. officials are investigating another incident near Nasiriyah, in which one Marine unit fired on another, wounding more than...
...travelers stay away. Hong Kong businessmen were even barred from attending a major watch-and-luxury goods trade fair in Basel, Switzerland, unless they submitted to intrusive health checks, sparking a diplomatic row. Says Christine Loh, a former Hong Kong legislator who now runs Civic Exchange, a political think tank: "The importance of getting it right in terms of Hong Kong's image is critical, and this is where we've been messing...