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Monday, September 30, 2002
INTERNATIONA
THE BATTALIO
U.S. forces build up around
Iraq as world awaits next niov
KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait
(AP) — U.S. Marines rode mas
sive green hovercrafts last week
onto the Kuwaiti shore the same
way they did 12 years ago in the
opening days of the Gulf War.
Instead of meeting hostile
Iraqi troops, they joined
Kuwaiti allies for a three-week
exercise in the desert.
Fighter jets from the USS
Abraham Lincoln flew over
head, not part of the exercise,
but on their way to enforce a
“no-fly” zone in southern Iraq.
Engineers in Qatar, mean
while, are finishing a new for
ward command post for the U.S.
Central Command — the men
and women who would lead a
war in Iraq. They’re expected to
arrive in November to direct
another exercise from the low-
profile buildings camouflaged
as sand dunes.
Special operations forces have
put up tents at a new base in
Djibouti, across the Red Sea
from Yemen. In Kuwait, part of
itn armored infantry brigade from
Fort Benning, Ga., sits within 28
miles of the Iraqi border — a 10-
hour drive to Baghdad.
U.S. military spokesmen
insist the exercises and deploy
ments are routine, or part of the
war against terrorism. But there
is little doubt these forces
could be used in an invasion of
Iraq to remove President
Saddam Hussein.
During a visit to Kuwait last
week. Central Command’s Gen.
Tommy Franks said his men
“are prepared to do whatever we
are asked to do.”
While the governments of
Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and
Saudi Arabia refuse to discuss
military matters, their citizens
bear witness daily to the U.S.
military presence in the region.
The Kuwaiti government
ordered gas masks for all civil
servants and authorized their
sale to civilians. Troops have
rolled out Patriot missile batter
ies to defend against possible
Scud missile attacks.
“From what we’re seeing, it
looks like something is going to
happen, but it’s hard to know
exactly what,” said Bader al-
Otibi, a government worker
who was taken prisoner during
the Iraqi occupation in 1990.
“I’m against war, but I’m also
against Saddam.”
Along the featureless,
rolling desert that is shared by
Kuwait and Iraq as a border,
unarmed U.N. monitors stand
guard in a 10-mile-wide demil
itarized zone. An electric fence
and anti-tank trenches mark it,
but there’s little to slow an
invading force.
From what we're
seeing, it looks like
something is going
to happen, but
it's hard to know
exactly what.
— Bader al-Oitibi
government worker
Experts differ on the number
of troops needed to invade Iraq
— estimates vary from 50.000
to 350,000. depending on the
strategy. Deployments already
planned would bring the num
ber of troops in the region to
near 50,000 by November,
which coincides with a U.S.-
proposed deadline for Iraq to
comply with U.N. resolutions.
U.S. military personnel, with
their close-cropped hair, mili
tary-issue luggage and incon
gruous civilian clothes, are
already in hotels in Bahrain,
Qatar and Kuwait.
F-16 fighter jets roar over
Qatar’s capital, Doha, and vans
full of troops shuttle between
the 5th Fleet’s headquarters
JufFair, Bahrain, and the interr
tional airport, where the L ;
Navy maintains a special tenr
nal for aircraft that fly to i
USS Abraham Lincoln
other regional bases.
The aircraft carrier
Harry Truman, leading a
battle group, is scheduled
within striking distance ofla
in November to replace the IS
George Washington 1
group. Pentagon officials
bringing the total U.S. b.
forces in the area to morefe
2t),(KK) sailors and 255 aircrai
The Marines, in Kuwaifi
the “Eager Mace” exerci*
make up the 11th Mar/:
Expeditionary Unit,
amphibious invasion force
2,2(X) troops. A similar f®
accompanies most carrier
groups, meaning 6,600 Mar :
will be in the region
November.
The U.S. Air Force keo
6,(XK) personnel and an uni'
closed number of planes
Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sulur
Base; 1.700 troops at Indi
Turkey; and 3,300 at the.
Udeid Air Base in Qatar,
rently home to refueling pla
Several thousand more U.S
Force members operate fra
two air bases in Kuwait
hundreds of ground sup]
workers are in the United A.?
Emirates and Oman.
Part of the 3rd Brigade.:
Infantry Division from B
Benning is wrapping upara
tine six-month tour as Kuwaii
defenders, waiting to be relieve;
in November by the 2i
Brigade from Fort Stewart,Ga.
a Central Command spokesmr
said. A typical armored infantr;
brigade numbers between 2,50
and 3.000 troops.
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tie group’s sailors, could hffl
their stay extended, twfettv
spokesperson said.
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to a plethora of military installations designed to
provide U.S. enemies with an ever-present threat
of fast action. Scheduled deployments will bring
the population of U.S. troops in the region close
to 50,000 by November.
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