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...bravado nothing came of it. At 9:59am Mitchell ordered the small squad to turn about face. Three minutes later, just after the lead Abrams M1-A1 had swiveled around, the first enemy shot burst in a black cloud 150 meters above and 200 meters away at one o'clock from Mitchell...
...enemy would not get the jump on Charlie Rock. A civilian pick-up had been spotted five hundred meters out on their right flank, another one crammed with people vanished behind a sand bungalow 1,200 meters away at their two o'clock. Here on the outskirts of Ash Shinariya, a small town on the Euphrates 200 kilometers south of Baghdad, crews spent their night watching thermal imaging detectors in Bradley fighting vehicles. They'd been picking up enemy scouts probing their sandbagged positions blocking a bridge over the Euphrates, five kilometers south west of town...
...slow start is particularly upsetting to some because the panel was given 18 months to complete its probe, and the clock has been ticking since November 27 but the commission has made scant progress in the four months since. Republican commissioner Slade Gorton, a former senator, told TIME that if the investigation needs more time, he'll support seeking an extension. "If I think more important work can be done of course, we'll ask for more time," Gorton said. "We're going to work with this deadline in mind." Kean said that, even though the panel has lost "considerable...
...presumed stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons. These soldiers would be operating in a lawless, battle-scarred landscape in which civilians would be fearful and shell-shocked but might have information about weapons of mass destruction (WMD) concealed from U.N. inspectors. And they would be working against the clock. "Once the regime falls, the cities are imploding and the Baath Party is taking off running, there's going to be a vacuum," says Captain Vern Tubbs, 37, coordinator of the civil affairs mission for the 3rd Infantry. "We'll be trying to keep the country from collapsing...
...democratic process was tested too. History's clock stopped on Nov. 7, 2000, when George W. Bush and Al Gore failed to conclude the presidential election in a timely fashion, with the contested votes of a few thousand Floridians standing between the two. On Dec. 12, 2000, Bush, loser of the popular vote, won the presidency on electoral votes by fiat of the Supreme Court in the most controversial election in the history of the union...