...five-month buildup called Desert Shield became Operation Desert Storm as allied aircraft attacked Iraqi bases and Baghdad government facilities. The six-week aerial campaign climaxed with a massive ground offensive on Feb. 24-28, routing...

...what sort of regime might follow. From the day U.N. weapons inspectors entered Iraq after the Gulf War, the Baghdad government tried to hide its stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and its nuclear weapons technology. Yet the investigators...

...Islamic fundamentalists. This Pandora's box once opened cannot be shut by shoving a few ex-Baathists into the new Baghdad government, as urged by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her photo-op visit last weekend. By all accounts...

...leader did not mention America and Britain by name, but referred to them as the "forces of evil" -- a phrase the Baghdad government frequently uses after U.S. and British airstrikes in the no-fly zones over northern and southern Iraq. "The...

...laboratories. "We have some plans," he said. A recent U.S. intelligence report said an Iraqi document indicates the Baghdad government "was interested in developing mobile fermentation units" for biological weapons. This is "not something we find...