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...Pentagon's plan was to fight from the "inside out"--a lightning drive on Baghdad to decapitate the regime and then liberate the rest of the country--Saddam has counterattacked from the outside in. He let allied forces plunge deep inside Iraq, leaving their rear and flanks ill protected so that his forces could harass and ambush them. His aim was shrewd and twofold: to pester and wear down allied forces and lure the U.S. into inflicting politically costly civilian casualties...
...partly in response to World War II atrocities. Today they are widely accepted by the international community, including the U.S., which ratified them in 1955, and Iraq, which agreed to them in 1956. The 85,000-word conventions spell out rules for the ethical treatment of wounded and ill soldiers and sailors at battle (the first and second conventions), POWs (the third, which Rumsfeld invoked) and civilians (the fourth). The basic idea behind all four is that those in wartime who cannot or do not pick up a weapon must be treated with humanity. Not only do the combatants have...
...This ring-fence approach, isolating suspected victims and painstakingly retracing their steps in the days before they fell ill, "showed us that infection control works," says Dr. Balaji Sadasivan, Singapore's Minister of State for Health and the Environment. It paid another dividend: authorities got an early warning that most victims were getting sick after visiting hospitals with known SARS patients. "The moment we realized hospitals were the most dangerous place, we designated Tan Tock Seng [Hospital] as a SARS-only hospital and shut it down to all other patients," says Sadasivan...
...Hong Kong's response, by comparison, has been marked by what appear in hindsight to be tardy half-measures. As in Singapore, Hong Kong's outbreak started at a medical facility?the Prince of Wales Hospital, where nearly 100 patients and staff rapidly began falling ill beginning March 8. But even after it became clear that a potentially deadly mystery illness was loose in the wards, visitors and outpatients came and went freely for several days, despite mounting evidence that the disease could be highly contagious...
...Wednesday, the paratrooper, whose name cannot be released until his family is notified of his injury, was still alive, although still seriously ill. The doctors at the Tallil hospital estimate that his chances of survival are now over 50 percent. Young Private Talraas is happy to be alive, but is anxious to get back to his brothers on the front line...