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...this would separate Saddam and the top tier of the ruling Baath Party from others in the regime who might be persuaded to save themselves and their country by overthrowing Saddam. The resolution would be designed to open a window just before a U.S. invasion began so that an Arab delegation would have a chance to direct the Iraqi generals to one last fire escape. A coup might seem unlikely, given Saddam's record of airtight personal security, but the hot breath of the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division next door in Kuwait may have changed the climate in Iraq...
...propose that, as a condition for amnesty, Iraqi officials would have to unambiguously accept the removal of all weapons of mass destruction. Pentagon officials say the U.S. would probably still push for American troops to enter Iraq, in part to hunt down those weapons, a proposition that might inflame Arab opinion. What's more, the Saudis propose that however Saddam might be removed, the structure of his regime would remain essentially intact--its secret police, its soldiers, its allies all over Iraq. The Saudis want a central authority strong enough to avert an Iraqi civil war, which could lead...
That is not exactly the vision Bush has sold of a new, democratic Iraq. Arab diplomats, however, believe that the White House has come to see the advantage of replacing Saddam with a friendlier strongman rather than with a rainbow coalition of supposed Iraqi democrats. Their calculation: a stable Iraq would be easier for the U.S. to manage after the war ends, require less messy nation building and reduce the chances that whole U.S. Army divisions would have to occupy Iraq for years. "Saner heads are prevailing," says a Western diplomat in the region. "All the talk about remaking...
...familiar predicament for Basra. Strategically poised on the bank of the Shatt al Arab, one of the Middle East's busiest waterways, the city has been a juicy target for raiders, including the Persians, Turks and British, for more than 600 years. It was heavily shelled by the Iranians during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war. In the 1991 Gulf War, allied forces controlled access to the city but did not need to enter it in strength; the Iraqi army had pulled out without much of a fight. Could Iraqi soldiers turn and run again? That's a prospect nobody...
...notable statues are not of Saddam but of such historic figures as the poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and the philologist Al-Khalili bin Ahmed al-Farahidi and of "martyrs" from earlier battles. The most poignant of Iraq's countless memorials is on the corniche along the Shatt al Arab: 100 bronze statues of war heroes, each pointing an accusing index finger in the direction of the old enemy, Iran...