101.  In sermons at Friday prayers, mosque preachers addressed the standoff that almost led to the American attack.

102.  In other preparations, the Iraqi government has been encouraging citizens to move into grounds of the presidential palaces and factories that could be vulnerable to American attack.

103.  In the United States, it was big news when Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was heckled Wednesday as she tried to justify an American attack on Iraq.

104.  Iraq also can hope that U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan will be able to head off an American attack, as he did in a deal with Saddam in February.

105.  Iraq claims the spy planes are designed to help plan an American attack, not to gather information for the United Nations.

106.  Iraq says it does not fear American attacks.

107.  Iraq had warned that the surveillance flights risked triggering Iraqi anti-aircraft batteries, reportedly on alert in case of an American attack.

108.  It appeared the meetings were aimed at rallying public support and morale in areas of the country considered likely targets of an American attack.

109.  Jabar Faris, a university student, said an American attack would be met with resistance.

110.  Leaders in Iran, Turkey and other countries that border Iraq fear they would be the victims of economic and political fallout from an American attack.