editors note: Thucydides Project is my project to start to collect sources and eyewitness accounts of the War on Terror. I hope to put the sources together in some kind of systematic narrative. I am starting with the 3-19-03 and the coalition invasion of Iraq. I hope to then move one day forward and one day back from this date.

A Sense of Gloom Is Felt Within the Arab World

NEIL MacFARQUHAR. New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Mar 19, 2003. pg. A.20

-What did the 11^th hour diplomatic to Hussein look like?

-Arab Union of Physicians Egyptian branch of Muslim Brotherhood calls for Muslims to join the fight in Iraq

A Woman Serving on the Blurred Edge of Combat; Tours of Duty

Steven Lee Myers. New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Mar 19, 2003. pg. A.16

A Worried World Shows Discord

Alan Cowell. New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Mar 19, 2003. pg. A.1

-Whatever happened to the human shields?

Quote-China's newly appointed president, Hu Jintao, took his first cautious steps into international crisis diplomacy in telephone conservations with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and Mr. Chirac.

Kong Quan, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, said Beijing wanted a peaceful outcome. ''We demand that the Iraq question be solved with the United Nations framework,'' he said. ''Under such circumstances, we still urge peace and want to avoid war.''