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ahajtin"Ron is like a modern-day Rambo," he said, "and we never pictured him caught or being a prisoner. This hurts."
Update:
KUWAIT CITY -- U.S. planners expected that the military and political structure of southern Iraq would implode in the early days of the war. But on Saturday at the crossroads of the highways linking Baghdad, Basra, Umm Qasr and Kuwait, it was obvious that this strategy wasn't working out as planned.
Iraqi fighters were still operating in every direction: The road south to Umm Qasr was unsafe; the road east to Basra was unsafe; the road north to Nasiriyah and Baghdad was unsafe. Even the road back into Kuwait was uncertain.
Update:
KUWAIT CITY -- U.S. planners expected that the military and political structure of southern Iraq would implode in the early days of the war. But on Saturday at the crossroads of the highways linking Baghdad, Basra, Umm Qasr and Kuwait, it was obvious that this strategy wasn't working out as planned.
Iraqi fighters were still operating in every direction: The road south to Umm Qasr was unsafe; the road east to Basra was unsafe; the road north to Nasiriyah and Baghdad was unsafe. Even the road back into Kuwait was uncertain.
