City of fear : postcards from the edge
IRAQ WAR
POST-SADDAM BAGHDAD
Straits Times correspondent Derwin Pereira reports from Baghdad US troops, Fedayeen militia, looters and vigilantes roam the streets of Baghdad
Iraq
9 seconds. That’s all the time you have. After that, you’re dead.
That is the line being drilled into American soldiers in Kuwait as they practise gearing up for the fearful possibility of a
US troops gear up for urban battles
The American military may have to fight the Iraq war in the city streets. DERWIN PEREIRA, who is in Kuwait City, reports
Long road to Baghdad
VOICES FROM THE NEWSROOM
IRAQ WAR
The war in Iraq changed forever the nature of war reportage. The continuous stream of pictures and information,
My friends were skinned alive by Saddam’
IRAQ: THE LOOMING WAR
Kuwaiti businessman Alfajji once called Saddam his friend but now sees him as a dangerous fiend who must be
Angry Kuwaitis await Saddam’s fall
WHAT SADDAM DID TO KUWAIT
Killed thousands of its people.
Took thousands as prisoners, hundreds of whom are missing.
Torched oilfields.
Stole billions of dollars.
TWELVE years
Disappointment and disbelief
IRAQ WAR
ARAB REACTION
Arabs say US troops may have won the battle for Baghdad but the war for hearts and minds in the
Inside Umm Qasr
IRAQ WAR
SPECIAL REPORT
Straits Times correspondent Derwin Pereira files from Iraqi territory. The first city to be taken by coalition forces is a
Jordan king blasts war to appease angry citizens
IRAQ WAR
THE ARAB RESPONSE
NEWS ANALYSIS
Washington sympathetic to ally's predicament, say analysts.
FACED with growing public anger over developments in Iraq, Jordan's King Abdullah
Saddam’s men in black’
IRAQ WAR
UNCONVENTIONAL FORCE
Spotted in Baghdad for first time: Saddam's men in black'
A DAY after Iraq threatened to resort to 'non-conventional' warfare, President
Saddam’s suicide schools
SPECIAL REPORT
Straits Times correspondent Derwin Pereira, now in Amman, Jordan, speaks to Palestinian militants about Iraq's training camps for suicide bombers and
When target is right, I’ll blow up’
IRAQ WAR
HUMAN BOMBS: PT II
FOR a man intent on strapping a belt of dynamite to his waist and blowing himself up, Mohamed