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...same day, Iraqi television delivered a surprise 12-minute segment of a smiling, relaxed Saddam in military uniform walking around Baghdad, cheered by citizens. In Washington, debate raged: Was it really him? Was the tape made after March 19? Skeptical commentators suggested we might be seeing one of the doubles Saddam has acknowledged using. But U.S. officials say the CIA has no information that he has ever used doubles for close-ups like that one. The agency believes he uses stand-ins in motorcades and long-distance appearances, just as a Secret Service agent who looks similar...
Indeed, the man on the tape looked like Saddam, with his trademark mole and the small bump on his left cheek. He spoke with Saddam's characteristic enunciation, which includes a slight slurring of his words. When he visited a checkpoint at an intersection, smoky black clouds could be seen above the horizon, which could have come from the oil fires Iraqis have set around Baghdad to hinder U.S. pilots. It was 90 in Baghdad the day the tape was shown, and some of the men in the swarming crowds wore sweaters or leather jackets. But the temperature had been...
...just the armed forces that will have to adapt to guerrilla warfare. So will the public. Americans like their wars to have clean endings, with ticker-tape parades and a memorial on the Mall in Washington. But guerrilla wars aren't like that. Parents of fighting men in the old colonial powers got used to hearing that their sons had died in sordid skirmishes whose names nobody had heard of or--like the six Americans killed when their helicopter crashed in Afghanistan last week--in accidents far from home. Guerrilla warfare may have fine American antecedents, but we have always...
...Americans killed in action, or 13%, were victims of friendly fire. In the new Gulf War, the U.S. Air Force has a dedicated anti-fratricide cell operating out of Saudi Arabia that reviews targeting decisions for air strikes. New technologies include: 1-sq.-in. strips of glow tape stuck to U.S. troops' uniforms and visible only through rifle optics and night goggles, and tiny Phoenix Beacons, attached to vehicles and carried by soldiers, that emit a flashing infrared beam visible only through specially calibrated night-vision equipment...
Also carried: Portable light Tape or paint for marking targets Flare Biohazard suit...