U.S.
needs hand to get city back on feet
MOSUL, Iraq - As they struggle to bring this oil-rich city under
control, American soldiers are turning to the former regime - including
people who were trying to kill them only days ago.
[April 21, 2003]
Dr.
Germ off & running
The
hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq heated up yesterday when
U.S. troops raided the Baghdad home of Dr. Germ - the demure microbiologist
who headed Saddam Hussein's biological program.
[April 17, 2003]
Poverty
stuns Marines
For
two Marines in Tikrit who grew up near Hunts Point in the Bronx - but
didn't know each other until they met here - Iraq is turning out to
be a place of stark haves and have-nots.
[April 16, 2003]
Dead
boy a pawn as factions fight
KIRKUK, Iraq - The only sure thing about the death of Hussein Mohsin
Jalal is the car he died in.
[April 15, 2003]
Kurds taking names
KIRKUK, Iraq - Like most government buildings here, the registration
bureau is a mess
[April 14, 2003].
Troops take Tikrit,
too
There was no last stand for Saddam Hussein and his vaunted Republican
Guard. U.S. troops faced skirmishes but no organized resistance as they
rolled into Saddam's hometown of Tikrit yesterday.
[April 14, 2003]
Without fight, U.S.
takes Mosul
MOSUL, Iraq - The city had fallen, but it had not been taken.
[April 12, 2003]
Kurd
troops grab Kirkuk
KIRKUK, Iraq - Kurdish militia seized the oil-rich northern city of
Kirkuk yesterday as U.S. troops began moving into Mosul, Iraq's third-largest
city.
[April 11, 2003]
Kurds
king of mountain
U.S. and Kurdish forces dislodged Iraqis from a key mountain stronghold
guarding the main northern city of Mosul yesterday, their biggest victory
yet.
[April 10, 2003]
Party
locals provoked attack, victims say
AIN
SIFNI, Iraq - Mayan Khatun was washing her dishes when the kitchen wall
exploded.
[April 8, 2003]
U.S.
bombs kill 18 Kurds
IRBIL, Iraq - A U.S. war plane mistakenly bombed a convoy of Kurdish
fighters and U.S. commandos in northern Iraq yesterday - killing at
least 18 Kurds and wounding at least 45 others.
[April 7, 2003]
Blasts
from past in north
OUTSIDE
KHAZER, Iraq - Using tactics reminiscent of those used in Afghanistan,
10 members of the U.S. Special Forces fought alongside local militia
yesterday, taking on a much larger Iraqi force.
[April 6, 2003]
Kurds
in north keep up hope -and guard
Sherwan
Hussein stopped just outside the village he fled 14 years ago and picked
up the remnants of a poster of Saddam Hussein.
[April 2, 2003]
Many
Kurds more afraid of Turkey
ERBIL, Iraq - Abdolmotaleb Abdolkarim Hosien has good reason to hate
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
[March 3, 2003]
Grim
Kurds prepare to suffer in new war
KALAK, Iraq - All that lies between this small Kurdish village and the
Iraqi front line is about half a mile of no-man's land and a cemetery
holding the bones of those killed when the Iraqi troops came through
in 1991.
[March 1, 2003]
Wary
Turks stock up - and wait for war
SILOPI, Turkey - With Iraq just 6 miles from this border town - and
the fear of a biochemical attack hanging in the air - no one here really
wants war.
People are sealing their windows with plastic and digging makeshift
bomb shelters
[February 26, 2003]
Turkey
paves the way for U.S.invasion force
Turkey signaled
its willingness yesterday to allow the U.S. to use its territory
for a northern invasion of Iraq.
[February 7, 2003]
Unpublished
article
Soran, Iraq - There are no fences in this prisoner of war camp in
Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq. The inmates, former soldiers in
Saddam Hussein's armies - or 'guests' as their half-dozen Kurdish
guards insist on calling them - lie on blankets just yards from the
open road.
[April 4, 2003]