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WEB EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE

MARCH 2004

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• ATTACKS ON JOURNALISTS HAMPER COVERAGE
Insurgents are mixing up their tactics in Iraq, increasingly targeting journalists and other foreigners—and making it hard for news organizations to staff their bureaus in Baghdad

• Fineman: Is Fallujah the New Somalia?• War Stories: Stress Takes Its Toll in Iraq

FEBRUARY 2004

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• THE IRAQI HANDOVER: WILL THE DATE SLIDE?
Worried about civil war, some Bush insiders want to delay the Iraqi handover past June. The Bush political team sees that as a very bad idea. And so does Iraq's administrator

• Holding the Line• The Tale of The Lying Defector

JANUARY 2004

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• TAKING TEA—AND IRAQ'S PULSE—IN BAGHDAD
Our correspondent canvasses the cafés of Baghdad to find out what the average Iraqi thinks of the U.S. occupation

• Dickey: Bush’s Bad Judgment on Iraq Intel• Terror Watch: Is CIA Really to Blame for Iraq Intelligence?

DECEMBER 2003

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• HOW WE GOT SADDAM
'Don't shoot,' the bearded, submissive man said to the soldiers. He was Saddam Hussein, hiding in a hole, the man the Pentagon called 'High Value Target Number One.' The story of his capture--and what's next.

• Dickey: Did U.S. Capture Saddam's Mojo?• Zakaria: The 'Republic of Fear' Is Dead

NOVEMBER 2003

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• CHINOOK DOWN
The chopper attack that killed 16 U.S. soldiers provided the most frightening indication yet that the shadowy Iraqi insurgency is growing more sophisticated and more deadly

• Lessons of History• Iraq’s Donkey Desperadoes

OCTOBER 2003

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• THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS PLACE
Even before the al Rashid attack and car bombings, life in Baghdad was a daily dance with death

• Show Me the Money• The Other Casualties

SEPTEMBER 2003

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• ANOTHER BOMB IN BAGHDAD
Latest attack has political subtext

• The Only Way Out Is Forward

AUGUST 2003

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• A MIGHTY FALL
Tariq Aziz was once the international face of Saddam’s regime. Now his family is angry that U.S. troops are still keeping him prisoner

• Darkness Visible• Roughest Region

JULY 2003

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• ‘THEY HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT’
A guerrilla-war expert assesses the tactics used against American troops in Iraq—and how the U.S. soldiers should be trained to fight back

• Excessive Force?• Longing for Home

JUNE 2003

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• UDAY’S HOME MOVIES
Saddam Hussein’s son left behind an extensive video collection in his palaces—many of the films featuring himself

• ‘I Said, “Please, God, Don’t Kill Me”’• Deadly Hot

MAY 2003

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• ATTACKS ON THE RISE
Two U.S. soldiers were killed and nine wounded on Tuesday in Iraq. It was the most serious attack since major combat was declared over on May 1. Does this mark a new phase of violence?

• Coming Out of the Shadows• ‘Why Rumsfeld Is Wrong’

APRIL 2003

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• ON BAGHDAD’S FRONTLINES
NEWSWEEK’s Kevin Peraino, embedded with the Third Infantry Division, filed this on-scene report on the battle for the Saddam International Airport

• Aiding the Enemy• Saddam's Victims: The ‘Abu Earless’ Brigade

MARCH 2003

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• EMBED REPORT: THE FINAL HOURS
The battalion that fired the first shots of the last gulf war is given its orders to begin fighting this one

• Analysis: Not What America Expected• ‘We Will Turn Bush Into a Dog’

WAR IN IRAQ

Complete coverage of the war in Iraq, by month

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Talk Transcript

• Talk Transcript: Iraq, One Year Later
Christopher Dickey joined us for a talk on Iraq on March 19. Read the transcript.

PHOTO GALLERY

A Year of War

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PREVIOUS COVERAGE FROM THE MAGAZINE

From our archives

•	April 21 issue: How to Win the Peace
•	April 14 issue: Saving Private Lynch
•	April 7 issue: A Plan Under Attack
•	March 31 issue: The War Room
•	March 24 issue: America the Arrogant
•	March 17 issue: Saddam's War Plan

SPECIAL FEATURE

• American and British troops killed in Iraq

PHOTO GALLERIES

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From shock and awe to protests at home to the fall of Baghdad. The story of the war on Iraq, in photos

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INTERACTIVE

Taking It To the Streets

An interactive guide to urban warfare.

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INTERACTIVE

Targeting Baghdad

An interactive map of the Iraqi capital.

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AUDIO

•	Rod Nordland, in Basra, on Iraqi police returning to the streets and Baghdad police's first arrest
•	Kevin Peraino with the 3rd ID on camping out in Saddam's palace, how the Iraqi soldiers lived and more
•	Arian Campo-Flores with the 3rd ID on the end of resistance at the airport, and the troops' feeling that the end is near
•	Arian Campo-Flores with the 3rd ID on capturing a fedayeen compound, troops showing fatigue and more
•	Ron Haviv on the biggest concern for U.S. troops, surviving a sandstorm and more...
•	Kevin Peraino on civilian reaction to troops, Iraqi POW comments, first gas scare and more
•	Kevin Peraino with the 3rd ID on the snafus that keep the supply convoys busy
•	Melinda Liu on the bombing of Iraq's capital and Saddam's propaganda machine
•	Colin Soloway on life in a desert sandstorm, threats to his convoy and more
•	Arian Campo-Flores on his unit's skirmish with Iraqi forces, the biggest threat facing the soldiers and more
•	Colin Soloway on reaction to the first casualties and the start of 'shock and awe'
•	Babak Dehghanpisheh on strikes in Northern Iraq
•	Kevin Peraino on his entry into Iraq with ground forces

VIDEO

•	U.S. security sweeps strain relations with Iraqi villagers
•	A visit to Baghdad's morgue
•	Chasing looters with Alpha Company
•	Baghdad's Committee for Missing Persons
•	The grisly hunt for Saddam's last victims
•	How U.S. soldiers are beating boredom at the Euphrates
•	A Shiite demonstration turns violent in Basra
•	A hospital director survives a missile attack
•	A prisoner of war surrenders to Rod Nordland
•	Former political prisoners show how they were tortured in Basra
•	Air raid sirens in Kuwait City

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