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...mostly waiting for something to happen. After the first heavy 36 hours of this war, when Marines rolled through southeastern Iraq destroying Saddam's 51st division and the U.S. Army powered up the western flank, the last two days have been less dramatic. A supply column now runs from Kuwait north of Nasiriyah where fighting still continues. Much of the American military force is now heading toward Baghdad for what is expected to be Saddam's last stand...
...muddy battlefields near the town of Halabja on the Iran-Iraq border, the Kurdish militants of Komal guard the northern flank of the war's principal aggressors, Ansar al Islam. Western and local intelligence services have suggested variously that Ansar is backed by al-Qaeda, Tehran and Baghdad. Whatever the identity of its sponsors, Ansar has proved to be a major headache for the local authorities - the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which runs the eastern section of the Kurdish region protected by the Anglo-American "no-fly" zone. For the past year, Ansar fighters have periodically attacked and overrun...
...possibly Japan will feel pressured to develop nuclear strike capabilities of their own to deter the North, say diplomats. That raises the prospect of China?which already shares borders with nuclear powers India, Pakistan and Russia?facing ancient adversaries armed with weapons of mass destruction on its eastern flank, too. Last month, during a regular meeting of senior foreign ministry diplomats at a luxury compound east of Beijing, a group of about fifteen department heads and other officials discussed a request from Washington that Beijing use its influence to convince Pyongyang to halt nuclear weapons development. According...
...massive exercises from a new Gulf command center in Qatar and pressing allies for support. But when Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz met with Turkey's foreign minister on Tuesday, he was told that country would allow the U.S. to use all-important bases to attack Iraq's northern flank only if a military intervention had been authorized by the UN Security Council. Foreign Minister Yasar Yakis went to great length to emphasize that Turkey believes a war would require a new UN resolution. And the Security Council is unlikely to even consider military action against Iraq unless Baghdad impedes...
Even if Fiorina can thwart Dell's attack in hardware and services, that still leaves IBM gunning for her other flank in higher-end corporate computer systems and services. IBM retained its market share in servers through this year's second quarter, while Compaq's share has eroded slightly, enabling IBM to pull to a tie in terms of global revenues, according to IDC. IBM CEO Sam Palmisano recently said the company would invest $10 billion to enable clients to purchase computing power "on demand," signaling to HP and other rivals that Big Blue is planning a war of attrition...