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To: michael97123 who wrote (93398)	4/14/2003 8:52:20 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

Long "Travelogue" type article in the "New Yorker." THE COLLAPSE by JON LEE ANDERSON A regime disappears and chaos ensues. Issue of 2003-04-21 and 28 Posted 2003-04-14 The battle for the Republican Palace complex on Monday, April 7th, the day the first American tanks appeared in the center of Baghdad, had a symphonic quality. Much of it was boom and bang?heavy concussive thumps from tank fire and bombs, the ripping bursts of rockets?but there was also a rhythmic noise, like a huge steel drum being pounded, and, frequently, a great grinding sound. The light clatter of automatic-weapons fire joined in now and then underneath it all. I was watching the battle from the balcony of a room at the Sheraton Hotel, on the east bank of the Tigris, across the river from the palace grounds, which cover hundreds of acres in central Baghdad. Several times, I heard a loud crackling, like metallic popcorn popping?ammunition dumps exploding. F-18 fighter jets, which had replaced the B-52s that had been dropping bombs on Baghdad for two weeks, hit the palace area and screamed off again. The grinding noise was coming from the guns of low-flying A-10 Warthogs, firing four thousand bullets per minute. REST AT:http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/