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In this handout photo from the U.S. Navy (news - web sites), Sergeant Andrew Garrett watches K-Dog, a bottle nose dolphin attached to Commander Task Unit 55.4.3 leaps out of the water while training near the USS Gunston Hall in the Persian Gulf on March 18, 2003. Commander Task Unit 55.4.3 is a multinational team from the United States, Great Britain and Australia conducting deep/shallow water mine clearing operations to clear shipping lanes for humanitarian relief and are currently conducting missions in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. (AP Photo/ U.S. Navy, Brien Aho, HO) CAMP AS SALIYAH, Qatar -...

<p>CAMP AS SALIYAH, Qatar — Coalition forces will shun frontal assaults on Basra and other Iraqi cities in a deliberate attempt to avoid major civilian casualties that could damage their wider war aims, commanders said yesterday.</p> <p>Attacking U.S. and British troops have decided to bypass cities where there is likely to be heavy resistance rather than risk treating the war's critics to the televised sight of bloodied corpses or charred remains of civilian adults and children.</p>

<p>CAMP AS SALIYAH, Qatar — The top worries in the minds of the men who will run the war with Iraq reflect the new face of warfare — information overload and a temptation to micromanage battles from their high-tech command center in Qatar.</p>