John F. Burns
"The first signs were an air raid siren followed by antiaircraft fire and loud explosions over the city that appeared to be bombs. The antiaircraft fire appeared to be ineffective, striking at low altitude over the city." [more]
"No event in years has shaken Iraq like the amnesty with which President Saddam Hussein emptied Iraq's jails on Sunday. Within minutes of the broadcast at noon, a crowd began gathering outside Abu Ghraib prison, 20 miles west of Baghdad, the grimmest in a gulag that has incarcerated tens of thousands of political prisoners. Soon, the gates were forced open and the mob stormed the cellblocks, liberating as many as 10,000 captives." [more]
"Their concerns are so deep that the Kurds have set aside political differences among themselves to speak with a common voice on the possibility of American action against Mr. Hussein." [more]
""I'm very proud of our forces; they are very capable of taking actions against intruders into our country," General Musharraf said. As for suggestions that American forces might eventually need to mount "hot-pursuit" raids into Pakistan, he added: "I don't think that doing this is in the coalition's interest, or in Pakistan's interest."" [more]
"Wounded Americans lie side by side with Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters at this old Soviet airfield." [more]
"Afghanistan's volatile post-Taliban politics took a grim turn today when Hamid Karzai, chairman of the interim government, said the killing Thursday of one of his ministers was carried out by other senior government officials, including the intelligence chief." [more]
"Officials with Pakistan's military intelligence agency gave figures today intended to show that India had moved 23 more army divisions with at least 150,000 additional combat troops into what Pakistan described as strike positions along the border in recent days, bringing Pakistan's estimate of India's border force to about one million. Pakistan also said that India had deployed 600 combat aircraft." [more]
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(Reuters, Dec 18)
"Federal prison officers in Brooklyn physically and verbally abused immigrants detained after the Sept. 11 attacks, slamming them against the wall and painfully twisting their arms and hands, the U.S. Justice Department's inspector general said on Thursday." [more]
(STAFF, DEBKAfile, Dec 14)
"Saddam was seized, possibly with the connivance of his own men, and held in that hole in Adwar for three weeks or more, which would have accounted for his appearance and condition. Meanwhile, his captors bargained for the $25m prize the Americans promised for information leading to his capture alive or dead." [more]
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