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To: foundation who wrote (5827)2/26/2003 1:34:46 PM
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'Hundreds of thousands of troops' to occupy Iraq, says US general

By Rupert Cornwell in
Washington

26 February 2003
The military force required to occupy a
post-Saddam Iraq could comprise several
hundred thousand troops, far higher than any
estimate so far, the US Army's most senior
general said last night.
General Eric Shinseki, the army's Chief of Staff,
told the Senate Armed Services Committee that
Iraq was "a piece of geography that's fairly
significant" and that a post-war force would
have to be big enough to maintain safety in a
country with "ethnic tensions that could lead to
other problems".
Questioned by Senator Carl Levin of Michigan,
the most senior Democrat on the Committee,
General Shinseki declined to give a specific
estimate, saying he would rely on the
recommendation of commanders in the region.
But he added in response to further probing that
the figure would be "what's been mobilised to
this point, something on the order of several
hundred thousand soldiers". And he added:
"Assistance from friends and allies would be
helpful."
The US and Britain will have massed at least
200,000 troops in the Gulf by the time a war
might start, perhaps in mid-March. But it had
been assumed until now that the post-war
deployment would be much smaller, with Iraqi
soldiers taking an increasing share of
responsibilities.
Pentagon commanders have already complained
that their forces are being stretched thin by the
looming war with Iraq and the growing tensions
on the Korean peninsula.

news.independent.co.uk
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