... . The Iraqis wonder if the allied forces would attack at twelve or wait until the break at dawn. At the main Allied base in Duran, the Allies were keeping a watchful eye on the Iraqi positions. They knew that an attack of Iraqi planes and Scud-Bs could be coming at any minute. Pilots stood by in their fight suits ready at ... , Marlin Fitzwater broke the news. Operation Desert Storm had begun. The allied planes roared down the runway in Saudi Arabia and from the decks in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. The F-15s, F-117As, A-7Es, and more were to converge on Iraq and bomb Baghdad. The fi...

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... neither hindered nor stopped it. Some facts about Mr. Hussein. And what we know about Saddam Hussein's family? Nothing good. Saddam's son Udayy maintained a private torture chamber known as the Red Room in a building on the banks of the Tigris disguised as an electricity installation. He created a militia in 1994which has used swords to execute victims outside their own homes. Members ... , cruel and reckless man an atomic bomb-*. How dangerous that would be? To judge by the reaction of Mr. Bush's foreign critics, the magnitude of the threat is in the eye of the beholder. But it is not d...

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