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A Gruesome Scene on Highway 9 (washingtonpost.com) |
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Topic: Current Events |
1:09 pm EST, Apr 2, 2003 |
] NEAR KARBALA, Iraq, March 31 -- As an unidentified ] four-wheel-drive vehicle came barreling toward an ] intersection held by troops of the Army's 3rd Infantry ] Division, Capt. Ronny Johnson grew increasingly alarmed. ] From his position at the intersection, he was heard ] radioing to one of his forward platoons of M2 Bradley ] Fighting Vehicles to alert it to what he described as a ] potential threat. ] ] "Fire a warning shot," he ordered as the vehicle kept ] coming. Then, with increasing urgency, he told the ] platoon to shoot a 7.62mm machine-gun round into its ] radiator. "Stop [messing] around!" Johnson yelled into ] the company radio network when he still saw no action ] being taken. Finally, he shouted at the top of his voice, ] "Stop him, Red 1, stop him!" ] ] That order was immediately followed by the loud reports ] of 25mm cannon fire from one or more of the platoon's ] Bradleys. About half a dozen shots were heard in all. ] ] "Cease fire!" Johnson yelled over the radio. Then, as he ] peered into his binoculars from the intersection on ] Highway 9, he roared at the platoon leader, "You just ] [expletive] killed a family because you didn't fire a ] warning shot soon enough!" A Gruesome Scene on Highway 9 (washingtonpost.com) |
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ArabNews: Exclusive: 'If They Stop Now We're As Good As Dead' |
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Topic: Current Events |
2:28 pm EST, Mar 31, 2003 |
] The people I spoke with at Umm Qasr said they were happy ] about the removal of Saddam, as he had held them in ] terror for years. They took me to see the local Baath ] Party headquarters. They told me that many bad things ] happened there and that most of those picked up in the ] middle of the night and taken to that building were never ] seen again. ] ] I entered the building and walked around. I couldn't ] help noticing the excitement in the people's voices ] as they pointed out the bullet holes and the charred ] remains of where the building burned. ] ] That was when I first got the sense that these people ] were really eager to see Saddam and Baath gone. ] ] I asked several what they thought of the US/UK plan to ] remove Saddam. They told me: "Now that they have ] started to remove him, they cannot stop. If they do, then ] we are all as good as dead. He still has informants in ] Umm Qasr and he knows who is against him and who ] isn't." ArabNews: Exclusive: 'If They Stop Now We're As Good As Dead' |
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Salon.com Life | Bushes against Bush |
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Topic: Current Events |
2:25 pm EST, Mar 31, 2003 |
Yet another anti-Bush rally that I wish I could have attended. The protesters would disrobe, form the Chinese symbol for peace, and a photographer would climb up into a cherry picker and take their picture from above. I wasn't really sure how nudity was going to help the peace movement, but I'd never gotten naked in front of more than two people at a time, and the idea of doing it for something I believed in seemed like a great idea. Salon.com Life | Bushes against Bush |
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The Arrogant Empire by Fareed Zakaria |
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Topic: Current Events |
12:39 pm EST, Mar 25, 2003 |
Donald Rumsfeld often quotes a line from Al Capone: "You will get more with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone." But should the guiding philosophy of the worlds leading democracy really be the tough talk of a Chicago mobster? The Arrogant Empire by Fareed Zakaria |
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