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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Duncan Baird who started this subject1/14/2003 9:29:03 AM
From: Alighieri  Read Replies (1) of 1583111
 
Turkey: Holding Its Ground

The Pentagon wants troops at Iraq’s northern border


NEWSWEEK

Jan. 20 issue — Turkey’s hesitation to allow U.S. troops to use its soil as a springboard for an invasion of Iraq has “stunned” the Bush administration, a senior U.S. official told NEWSWEEK. Washington wants to deploy “two or three divisions” of ground troops in Turkey plus an unspecified number of combat air wings. A possible force of 80,000 poised on Iraq’s northern border suggests that the invasion plan relies far more heavily on a “northern front” than has so far been revealed.
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