Awaiting the Worst
Kurds are expecting the quiet of recent days to be broken by the opening of the northern front.
22 Feb 05
Middle East
Drawing the Enemy to Baghdad
Saddam Hussein is seeking to pull American and British forces into guerrilla warfare and street-to-street fighting.
22 Feb 05
Silencing Saddam
Iraqis looking for signs of a collapsing regime wonder why the Americans have yet to stop the government television.
22 Feb 05
Airing the Truth
Networks' decisions to censor gruesome images of war may violate their legal duties to inform.
22 Feb 05
The Battle for Basra
The people of Basra oppose the regime but they will not rise up until they are certain Saddam Hussein is falling.
22 Feb 05
Taking it in Their Stride
War is drawing ever closer, but for the moment the main concern in Iraqi Kurdistan is clouds.
22 Feb 05
America's Moslem Miscalculation
The war is creating a major realignment within the Islamic world, with even moderate Moslems calling for jihad against the US.
22 Feb 05
An Arab Awakening, at Last?
The Iraq and Palestine conflicts are converging, and the Arab street is stirring.
22 Feb 05
The Missing Rebels
A key reason Iraqis have not risen up against Saddam Hussein is that hundreds of thousands were "disappeared" the last time they did.
22 Feb 05
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