October archives

October 18, 2002

Hussein warns of 'road of blood' ahead

Seeming to fight back tears, a solemn Saddam Hussein took the oath of office for a third term as president with his right hand on the Koran. He then warned America that he was again ready for war.

October 17, 2002

Iraq: Voters `100%' behind Hussein

The phone lines are scratchy, the electricity is spotty, and the government is broke.

October 14, 2002

Iraqi voters' choice: Yes or yes

At first blush, Tuesday's uncontested referendum on whether Saddam Hussein should stay on as Iraq's president seems like a love fest.

October 13, 2002

Iraqis in no-fly zone live small-scale war

Across the blue sky of northern Iraq and in the golden hills and parched olive groves below, Iraqi artillery forces and U.S. fighter jets dodge one another in increasingly common episodes that both sides worry are a prelude to war.

October 10, 2002

Hussein dots Iraq landscape with mosques

Rising from the craters and dust of the bombed-out downtown airport is the enormous shell of what someday is to become one of the grandest mosques in Arabia, named after none other than Saddam Hussein.

October 8, 2002

In Baghdad, a call to arms

They swear that their government-bought Kalashnikovs are loaded and ready, that urban warfare training has made them battle-sharp, and that they will never give up even if America ousts Saddam Hussein and ushers in a new regime.