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Naked force and utter ruthlessness were Saddam's preferred methods for staying atop his country's turbulent politics. From the day Saddam at age 20 launched his career as a gunman for the nationalist Baath Party, he knew what it meant to be in an enemy's cross hairs. When Iraq's military toppled the monarchy in 1958, mobs dragged the mutilated bodies of the regent and Prime Minister through Baghdad's streets and hanged them from city gates. Saddam himself tried--but failed--to assassinate the leader of the coup, Abdul Karim Qaseem. And when Baath plotters did murder...
...resistance comes a few minutes later. The convoy stops south of Afak, the first big town, fearing that a local bridge may not support the tanks. Men are seen running through a field and a date-palm grove, north of the road. A machine gunner atop a tank starts shooting, and suddenly the air is ripped by bullets. The copters dance over the field, firing down. McCoy bounds into the palm grove, lobs a grenade over a small berm and opens fire on a group of men. When the shooting stops, Marines spread through Afak while human exploitation teams...
...George Bush's Iraq 'n roll war? The task fell to someone eager to shoulder it: Michael Moore, producer-director of "Bowling for Columbine," a docu-tragicomedy that just about predicted a bogus U.S. war post-9/11. One of the few leftists to park his ample carcass atop the non-fiction best seller list for months on end, Moore was spoiling for this fight. On Thursday, he had posted an open letter to "Governor" Bush that decried his "lying and conniving." Saturday, at the Independent Spirit Awards, he had given a dry run of his Oscar speech, to much...
...uncle, calling out her name. Chief Dinse said last week Elizabeth had suffered a "strong psychological impact" that may have overwhelmed any impulse to escape. Having secured his first new bride, Mitchell made a move for another. Police suspect that on the evening of July 24, he climbed atop a chair and carved a hole in the screen of the bedroom window of Jessica Wright, Elizabeth's 18-year-old cousin...
...Road ahoy! The Netherlands After centuries of finger-in-the-dike battles to keep water at bay, the Dutch are floating a different strategy. Why not live, work, shop - even drive - on the water? Builders in the Netherlands aren't thinking houseboats, but wood-and-aluminum constructions that float atop huge pieces of polystyrene encased in concrete. Six prototype homes have been towed to Ijburg, near Amsterdam. Imported from Canada, the concept dates to the 1930s, when lumberjacks built shacks on floating timber they couldn't sell, say developers Ooms Avenhorn. Another 250 houses - to sell for at least...