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Israel’s reported strike January 18 on a joint Iranian-Hezbollah convoy driving on the Syrian Golan Heights was one of the most strategically significant events to have occurred in Israel’s neighborhood in recent months. Its significance lies both in what it accomplished operationally and what it exposed. From what been published to date about the identities of those killed in the strike, it is clear that in one fell swoop the air force decapitated the Iranian and Hezbollah operational command in Syria. The head of Hezbollah’s operations in Syria, the head of its liaison with Iran, and Jihad Mughniyeh, the son...

US says hit "leadership target" with huge bombs AS SAYLIYA CAMP, Qatar, April 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Tuesday its aircraft had hit what it called a "leadership target" in the Baghdad district of Mansur on Monday afternoon with four 2,000 pound (900 kg) bombs. "We are confirming that a leadership target was hit very hard," Major Brad Bartlett, a spokesman at U.S. Central Command war headquarters in Qatar, told reporters. "Battle damage assessment is ongoing." Asked if the target had been Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, the spokesman declined to comment. A U.S. official in Washington said...

War Diary: Friday, March 22, 2003Mar 21, 2003 The March 20 attempt to decapitate the Iraqi government appears to have failed. The U.S. government now seems to be acknowledging that Hussein survived the attacks. Indeed, he may not have been at the target to begin with. It appears likely that CIA Director Geoge Tenet had some intelligence, realized that the price of missing was relatively low, the value of success high, and took the shot. But there appears to be more to the story than this. Defense Department officials announced that the "shock and awe" campaign had been postponed,...

John Bachelor says his sources say no resistance reported from Baghdad. US is keeping lid on story for fear of mass revolts. Picking this up from their pre-show WABC feed.

WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush had only three minutes left to decide when he gave the order to start a war on Iraq with an attack on senior Iraqi leaders, believed to include President Saddam Hussein. "Let's go," Bush told his war council, as recounted by senior White House officials on Thursday. CIA Director George Tenet and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had sought an urgent meeting with Bush on Wednesday to discuss last-minute intelligence that they believed showed they had a fix on the Iraqi leadership in Baghdad. Bush gathered his war council in the...

OPERATION: IRAQI FREEDOM GI held in base attack made anti-U.S. remarks Mother of Asan Akbar claims son accused because he is Muslim Posted: March 24, 2003 3:10 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com The Muslim U.S. soldier accused of killing a division captain and wounding 15 fellow soldiers in a grenade and automatic weapon attack on members of the Army's 101st Airborne Division encamped in Northern Kuwait made anti-American statements after he was apprehended, according to the Los Angeles Times. "You guys are coming into our countries and you're going to rape our women and kill our children," Army Sgt. Asan...