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...allied troops begin to liberate Iraqi cities from Saddam's tyranny, the battle for the hearts and minds of 22 million Iraqis will remain impossible to win so long as the country is under relentless U.S. bombardment. A nagging anxiety among U.S. commanders is that the toll on Iraqi civilians is bound to increase if the allies face stiffer resistance near Baghdad. Although Rumsfeld insisted that the U.S.'s massive aerial blitz has spared not just civilians but also infrastructure targets like roads, bridges and power plants, there was less certainty among some of the soldiers who carried...
...assault clearly took a toll on Ansar's militants. Politburo member Mahmood Sangarwi of the P.U.K. says 60 dead were left behind after Friday's battles. In the rocky terrain of Saturday's exchange I saw eight more slain Ansar fighters. Some had died in their bunkers; others were cut down as they fled over open ground or among relatively exposed rocky outcrops. Their corpses remained where they had fallen throughout the assault...
...next rush-hour attack came right after dark the next day, but by this time the 2nd Brigade had set up "toll-booths"-heavy armor-on the roads leading from Najaf. "They attacked like morons," says Perkins. "But they kept coming." In one area guarded by two Bradleys, several hundred Iraqis were killed, according to the local battalion headquarters...
...built its wealth on the colorful knitwear of the retail chain bearing its name, but this PONZANO, ITALY, family is now widely diversified in catering, sporting goods and toll roads...
...Edizione Holding, a family-owned company, the Benettons have bought stakes in operations as diverse as Formula One racing, Prince tennis racquets and a firm that refurbishes railway stations. Just last month they paid $7 billion to acquire a majority stake in Autostrade, the company that runs Italy's toll roads. (They already own the firm that runs the roadside restaurants.) Not all of their investments have been profitable: they lost an estimated $400 million on a mobile-telephone firm that collapsed...