Armando Olivera Quotes

It is a very volatile situation, one that has been going on for a month and will not go away. The U.S. has made it pretty clear they will react with overwhelming force if they feel threatened.

It`s one of the things that the Marines and the Army feel they`re lacking right now, particularly the Marines, which have very few women in those roles.

Saddam Hussein (the Iraqi president) has guranteed the safety of the passengers aboard and will treat them as if they were Iraqi citizens.

This, they say, is the definitive battle for Samarra.

Hijackers may be Chechens

No surpise in Istanbul

They`re in convoys, taking the same risks as the male solders and Marines. The biggest risk here at the moment are those roadside bombs, the explosive devices. They`re getting increasingly sophisticated and increasingly powerful. And there seems to be almost a never-ending supply of suicide bombers, all of them said to be foreign fighters still coming through here.

This is definitely an embarrassment for the Turkish Government

I think that the real emotion is one of great pride,

They`re in convoys, taking the same risks as the male solders and Marines,