A Thousand Tactics to Trap the `Mongols'

Iraq has promised to use "creative" tactics to obstruct coalition troops. TEMPO reports from the heart of Baghdad.

April 8, 2003

GO west some way. Ask the locals where the volunteers are trained. Don't forget to say you are a friend from Indonesia." Four days before coalition troops crossed the "red line", TEMPO reporter Zuhaid el-Qudsy caught a ride on a vegetable truck from the Baghdad markets to Khalis, a fertile agricultural district, around 65 kilometers to the southeast of the capital. The area is reputedly a training base for suicide volunteers. One hour's drive from

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