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Ft. Hood to send 3,000 ground troops to Persian Gt
AL-JABER AIR BASE, Kuwait (AP) — The
Pentagon is sending up to 3,000 U.S.
ground troops to the
Persian Gulf region “to
discourage any creative
thinking” by Iraqi leader
Saddam Hussein.
At the same time, Sec
retary of State Madeleine
Albright ruled out any
massive military inva
sion of Iraq. “The admin
istration does not agree
with those who suggest
we should deploy hundreds of thousands of
American troops to engage militarily in a
ground war in Iraq,” Albright said in a
speech in Washington.
Saddam
The latest deployment of U.S. ground
forces was disclosed by a senior military of
ficial traveling in the region with Defense
Secretary William Cohen.
He said up to 3,000 troops from Fort
Hood, Texas, will be sent to Kuwait over the
next 10 days or so to help defend Iraq’s
southern neighbor.
“The purpose is to ensure the security of
Kuwait,” the official said, speaking on con
dition of anonymity. “It’s to discourage cre
ative thinking on (Saddam Hussein’s) part.”
Although Cohen had not formally signed
the deployment order, a Pentagon official
said Monday “the forces have been re
quested and that request is being consid
ered and processed.”
Theywilljoin 1,500Army troops who have
been using Ml-Al tanks, armored Bradley
troop carriers and other vehicles during a
scheduled exercise in the desert emirate.
The armored vehicles were stored in
Kuwait after the 1991 Persian Gulf War and
have been used repeatedly by U.S. troops in
training exercises.
Cohen flew about 50 miles outside
Kuwait City on Monday to visit the this
desert air base, which is surrounded by the
broken and bombed-out remains of con
crete bunkers hit by U.S. strike aircraft in
1991 after the Iraqi invasion.
“You are the best and the brightest Amer
ica has to offer,” Cohen told the the crowd of
mostly U.S. Air Force men and women. “You
are great warriors and diplomats.”
Walking through the crowd, the former
senator from Maine told the young men and
women, "It’s important to look at your faces
“You are the best and
the brightest America
has to offer.”
William Cohen
U.S. Defense Secretary
so when I sign a deployment order 1 take inn
account those faces.” The defense secretar
spent nearly an hour handii;
medallions posing for photoi
“We’re locked and loaded,
Coning, a deputy commandei;
ties with ilu* Ohio Nation i
turned out to hear Cohen "Just.
Buck Buckingham, an Fl*
Denver due to return homeir
his unit from the Colorado Ns
said he would be disappoint
action was (irdered after hem
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ingham. whose jet is armedn
infrared missilesdesignedtt 1
and armored vehicles. |
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States, and we want to be at
we re trained to do."
Aid arrives for
quake victims
RUSTAQ, Afghanistan (AP) — The
first desperately needed aid trickled
in Monday for earthquake victims in
Afghanistan's mountains — on
trucks where roads were passable,
on donkeys where snow and ice
were too deep.
Survivors slowly walked out, with
stories of whole families lost.
Frozen bodies were strewn
across devastated towns and vil
lages, many still unburied after
Wednesday’s 6.1-magnitude
quake crumbled hillside homes of
mud and brick or buried them un
der landslides.
Rescue workers say as many as
5,000 died in the quake and a se
ries of ruinous aftershocks.
One girl wept as she tried to re
count how her entire family of sev
en was crushed under the rubble of
their home in the northeastern vil
lage of Khojah Khirat.
“It’s so painful, so painful,” 7-
year-old Bahrish whispered, her
eyes brimming with tears.
“I don’t know if I have any rela
tives left.”
The patients lay in darkness on
the building’s dirt floor — the clin
ic’s power had gone out.
13 dead following
El Nino fed floods
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Soldiers
and rescue workers scraped away
mud and debris Monday after El Nino-
fed floodwaters roared through a bor
der shantytown, killing 13 people and
forcing hundreds to flee their homes.
Three teen-age girls were killed af
ter fast-flowing mud swallowed their
family’s car at the foot of the eastern
shantytown of Mexico Undo, or Beau
tiful Mexico. Swirling floodwaters
dragged an 18-year-old girl from her
house to her death.
Some 500 people took refuge at
shelters because their neighborhoods
were buried in mud, water and debris.
North of the border. Californians
took advantage of a break from the
storms that have battered the West
Coast for a week. They cleared
roads, cleaned catch basins and
drains and rebuilt sandbag barri
cades. Sunshine bat’i
California, which saw.;
rain in some areas.
Forecasters saidth
was expected to blow;;
north Monday night,r;
the bad weather hitte^
Washington state.
But California was;
drying up. Seven-look
with a six-foot-high tide:
Clemente beach home;
100 feet of sand at fr:
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