Fear and chaos on the road to Baghdad By Kim Sengupta in El-Mahawail, Iraq 15 March 2003 The road to Baghdad is good and straight, ideal for US and British heavy armour, the Abrams and the Challengers, coming up from Basra for what is expected to be Saddam Hussein's last stand. El-Mahawail, Ilmullah and Eskandaria, cities and towns on the final 100 miles of this route to the capital, could be the key sites for desperate and fierce clashes in which the Iraqi forces may attempt to halt the advance. With just days to go before an almost certain invasion,...