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In lawless Baghdad, a son plots justice
Sun Foreign StaffBAGHDAD, Iraq - Seventeen-year-old Maan Ganawi came home from computer class Friday afternoon and found his mother dead on the living room sofa, shot three times. He did not call the police, because the phones were still not working. Even if they had...Tags: Justice System, Satellite Technology, Wars and Interventions, Judges, Prisons
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U.S. struggles in quicksand of Iraq
Times Staff WriterNearly a month after Baghdad fell to U.S. forces, the reconstruction effort is struggling to gain visibility and credibility, crime is a continuing problem, Iraqis desperate for jobs and security are becoming angry and the transition to democracy promised...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Computer Sciences Corporation, Health and Safety at Work, The Godfather (movie), Wars and Interventions
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Cheney says he believes Hussein is dead
From Wire ReportsDALLAS - Vice President Dick Cheney said during a speech yesterday that he believes that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is dead. He said the White House had received intelligence information about Hussein's location in Baghdad and that, soon after, U.S....Tags: Sydney (Australia), Satellite Technology, Television, Newspaper and Magazine, Death
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One family's ribbons now more poignant
Sun StaffANTIOCH, W.Va. - Just before the war began, 3-year-old Bailey Mitchell asked her mom the meaning of the yellow ribbons that had begun to appear around this mountainous region straddling the Maryland-West Virginia border. Brenda Mitchell explained that...Tags: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Arts, Defense, United Nations, Wars and Interventions
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Hussein's hometown of Tikrit could be site of violent last stand
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - While the battle for Baghdad has so far been less than the bloody quagmire that military planners feared, a more likely spot for a violent last stand of Saddam Hussein's loyalists could be the northern city of Tikrit, Hussein's ancestral home...Tags: Heads of State, United Nations, Islam, Referenda, Death
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Iraqi army flees Kurd militia; Kirkuk and rich oil fields fall
Sun Foreign StaffKIRKUK, Iraq - The road to Kirkuk was littered with discarded Iraqi army boots. Defenses around the Iraqi-held city crumbled yesterday after assaults by Kurdish forces, a brief uprising by Kirkuk's residents and a wild flight by thousands of Iraqi...Tags: Arts, Health and Safety at Work, Downstream Oil and Gas Activities, Wars and Interventions, Referenda
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Focus of battle shifts north
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON -- U.S. forces battled remnants of Iraq's army yesterday by helping Kurdish fighters capture a key city in the country's oil-rich north and engaging in scattered gunbattles in Baghdad. Farther south, U.S. troops encountered more of the kind of...Tags: Justice System, Wars and Interventions, National Government, Vehicles, Dick Cheney
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Attack dampens a warm welcome
Sun Foreign StaffBAGHDAD, Iraq - When word spread last night that a suicide bomber had wounded four Marines guarding a checkpoint here, the news did not seem to fit the day. Yesterday had promised a much different ending. Members of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines had...Tags: Arts, La Mirada, Vehicles, Children, Hospitals and Clinics
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North's Kurds dance, cheer to mark what they see as revenge on regime
Sun Foreign StaffIRBIL, Iraq - The honking, whistling and dancing, the careening motorcades and the celebratory gunfire here in the main city of Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq all signaled the same thing yesterday - that Saddam Hussein's regime no longer ruled Baghdad....Tags: Defense, Dance, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Wars and Interventions, Vehicles
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Iraqis flood streets to greet U.S. troops
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - U.S. forces wrenched Baghdad from the grip of Saddam Hussein's regime with surprising ease, as Iraqi resistance melted away and crowds of Iraqis surged into the streets yesterday to greet U.S. troops and deface images of their president....Tags: Interior Policy, Military Equipment, Emergency Incidents, Wars and Interventions, National Government
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In a perfect TV moment, statue goes down
Sun Television CriticThe image of Saddam Hussein's statue being pulled to the ground yesterday in Baghdad provided television with a visual metaphor for the fall of the dictator that resonated with centuries-old symbolism. It also offered viewers emotional release after weeks...Tags: Wolf Blitzer, Photography, Television, Colleges and Universities, Symbols and Symbolism
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On Arab TV, few tears shed over regime's fall
Sun Foreign StaffJERUSALEM - Saddam Hussein's rule may have crumbled yesterday when American troops triumphantly took over the streets of Baghdad, Iraq. But perhaps more important, the regime went unmourned on Arab television. News stations from the Persian Gulf to...Tags: Defense, Television Stations, Television, Wars and Interventions, National Government
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