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Saturday, March 29, 7 pm at
Brazos Community
Church
(located In the shopping center
behind Golden Corral on
University Drive)
THE BATTALION
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The Oldest Mexican Cafe in Downtown Bryan
Known for
The Biggest Breakfast Tacos in the Brazos Valley
Featured in the October 2002 edition
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779-7337
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10 NEWS
Friday, March 28, 2003 THE BATTALION
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld speaks
to defense attaches and representatives from 26
of the Operation Iraqi Freedom coalition nations
gathered at the Pentagon for a meeting on
Couim.sY of Department or Defense
Thursday. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multi
national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi peo
ple, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction
and end the regime of Saddam Hussein.
Rumsfeld hopes for
Shiite uprising in Baghdad
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By Robert Burns
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Donald
H. Rumsfeld suggested on Thursday that U.S.
forces bearing down on Baghdad might lay siege
to the capital and hope anti-Saddam Hussein citi
zens rise up against the govern
ment before American troops have
to invade the city of 5 million.
Rumsfeld also said the United
States and its battlefield allies
would accept nothing short of
total victory in Iraq.
“There isn’t going to be a
cease-fire,” Rumsfeld told the
Senate Appropriations defense
subcommittee. He said later, “It
will end at the point where that
regime does not exist and a new
regime is ready to go in its
place.”
Rumsfeld appeared before two
congressional committees Thursday amid efforts
by the Bush administration to counertact specula
tion that the war effort is bogging down and that it
underestimated the need for armored forces to
protect attacking U.S. troops long supply lies
inside Iraq. The defense secretary said there is a
near-continuous flow of fresh U.S. forces into the
Persian Gulf, noting that 1,000 paratroopers from
the Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade jumped into
northern Iraq on Wednesday. He estimated that
between 1,500 and 2,500 troops are arriving daily.
The total number of American forces in the
Gulf region stands at 250,000. Close to 90,000 are
in Iraq, a senior defense official said Thursday.
That’s an increase of some 13,000 since Tuesday.
An additional 100,000 to 20,000 ground troops
are in the process of heading to the Gulf, includ
ing the army’s 1st Armored Division, 1st Cavalry
Division and the 2nd and 3rd Armored Cavalry
Regiments. Also, elements of the 4th Infantry
Division left for Kuwait on Thursday from Foil
Hood, Texas, although the ships carrying the divi
sion’s equipment won’t all be there until about
April 12.
Iraq claimed to have downed an Army Apache
attack helicopter and a U.S. drone aircraft, but
Pentagon officials confirmed only
the loss of a reconnaissance
drone. They said footage of a
downed Apache shown on Iraqi
state-run television was of an
Apache that was lost during fight
ing Monday. After curtailing
airstrikes because of to blinding
sandstorms and thunderstorms,
allied planes intensified their
attacks Thursday as the weather
improved. They flew more than
600 strike missions across Iraq,
witli special focus on Republican
Guard forces ringing Baghdad,
officials said.
Asked by Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., what
American ground troops would do once they
reached Baghdad, Rumsfeld answered by allud
ing to what is happening a Basra, Iraq’s second-
largest city. British forces there have “aid siege,
hoping for a successful uprising by the city’s
Shiites.
Rumsfeld noted that both Basra and Baghdad
have large Shiite populations. “And they are not
terribly favorable to the regime,” Rumsfeld said.
“They’ve been repressed, and they are in the pres
ent time in Basra assisting us.” He said that
roughly half the Baghdad population is Shiite.
“The regime has tended to be fearful of them
and repress them,” he said. Rumsfeld said he
expected Saddam’s loyalists to shoot any Iraqi
troops in Baghdad who try to surrender and those
who might try to assist U.S. forces.
There isn't going to
be a cease-fire. It will
end at the point where
that regime does
not exist.
— Donald H. Rumsfeld
U.S. Defense Secretary
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NEWS IN BRIEF
Two men suspected of assassination shot and killed by police
BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) - Police shot and killed two major suspects in the assassination
of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic as they resisted arrest late Thursday, the government said.
Dusan Spasojevic and Milan Lukovic were leaders of the Zemun Clan, a crime gang that has been
accused of masterminding the March 12 assassination of Djindjic, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
"The suspects resisted arrest and opened fire on police officers ... they were killed in an ensuing
shooting" in the town of Sarajevo, 17 miles south of the capital, the ministry statement said.
The ministry revealed no details about what specific role the two allegedly played in the assassina
tion, and police were not immediately available for comment.
Police have rounded up more than 3,000 suspects in the investigation that followed the Djindjic
killing. About a third of them remain in custody.
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