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...this looks like Las Vegas." TYRONE FRANKLIN, Marine captain, on Saddam Hussein's abandoned 1,000-acre compound in Tikrit, which includes monuments, artificial lakes and palaces...
Even as the U.S. works to stabilize a postwar Iraq, Turkey is setting out to create a footprint of its own in the Kurdish areas of the country. In the days after U.S. forces captured Saddam's powerbase in Tikrit, a dozen Turkish Special Forces troops were dispatched south from Turkey. Their target: the northern oil city of Kirkuk, now controlled by the U.S. 173rd Airborne Division's 3rd Brigade. Using the pretext of accompanying humanitarian aid the elite soldiers passed through the northern city of Arbil on Tuesday. They wore civilian clothes, their vehicles lagging behind a legitimate...
...spies and party apparatchiks--is part of the de-Baathification that both critics and proponents of the invasion had insisted would ultimately be necessary. There was no telling how many party leaders had escaped, whether they fled to Syria, as Rumsfeld suggested they had, or were holed up in Tikrit, preparing to mount one last showdown. By the end of the week, the Pentagon was handing out decks of playing cards with the faces of the most-wanted Iraqi leaders, so the soldiers could play go fish...
...anything bad about Iran--are quite happy to pile on Damascus. Syria denies helping Iraq or its fleeing officials. It is the presence of Iraqi weapons expertise, says a senior British official, that makes "dealing with Syria so important." None of this implies that after the allied troops take Tikrit, they will smartly turn left and head to Damascus. Administration policy, insofar as there is one, holds that the demonstration of American power in Iraq will encourage Syria to forswear terrorism and any ambitions to acquire weapons of mass destruction. But the Syrian regime is on notice that...
...this looks like Las Vegas." TYRONE FRANKLIN, Marine captain, on Saddam Hussein's abandoned 1,000-acre compound in Tikrit, which includes monuments, artificial lakes and palaces...