Author: DXO
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Iraq’s Premier Takes Hard Line Against Rebels
August 9, 2004 By JOHN F. BURNS and ALEX BERENSON BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 8 – Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, reinforcing his reputation as a man ready to deal harshly with his adversaries, flew into the embattled city of Najaf on Sunday and said that there would be “no negotiations or truce” that would spare rebel…
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Tentative accord reached in Najaf to halt fighting
August 8, 2004 By DEXTER FILKINS and JOHN F. BURNS Najaf: Aides to the country’s most powerful Shiite leader said they had reached a tentative agreement on Thursday to end the three-week siege in this Shiite holy city, after a day of chaos and bloodshed here that left at least 74 Iraqis dead and more…
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Marines Pushing Deeper Into City Held by Shiites
By Alex Berenson and John F. Burns NAJAF, Iraq, Aug. 7 – Marine commanders battling Moktada al-Sadr’s rebel militiamen in this Shiite holy city said Saturday that the fighting had cleared the rebels from the ancient cemetery in the heart of the old city, but that more fighting lay ahead in the streets and alleyways…
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Copter-Borne Medics: Disciplined Ballet, Choreographed to Save G.I.’s
by John F. Burns, New York Times August 6th, 2004 BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 5 – For days, an unnatural quiet had settled on the Army’s 45th Medical Company, one of four airborne medical evacuation units supporting 130,000 American troops in Iraq. Little was heard of the three rings on the radios carried by the standby…
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Upon First Seeing Filming of a Reality TV Show
I was in Midway Airport last night traveling to Raleigh, NC on Southwest Airline Granada Films is shooting a show called “Airline“ It is based on the doings of Southwest Airlines at Midway and is to be shown on A&E I saw a sign of waiver to that effect at the airport– a blanket statement…