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To: IQBAL LATIF who started this subject	3/23/2003 8:28:52 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (3) of 50167

Hi all; Here's the fucking latest news: Analysis: The toughest day Jonathan Marcus, BBC News, Sunday, March 23, 2003 The battle around Nasiriyah may be a turning point in public perceptions of this war. It is going to involve some real fighting and there will be casualties and setbacks for both sides. But the real question is what the Iraqi resistance at Nasiriyah implies for the future course of this conflict. There is no doubting the pace of the US advance into southern Iraq. But that pace itself poses the age-old military problem of securing lines of communication. It is no surprise then that the US servicemen and one woman captured by the Iraqis came from a maintenance battalion, not a combat unit, moving up to support the advance. All the evidence suggests that small units loyal to Saddam Hussein's regime have been dispersed in a number of locations in southern Iraq to attack and possibly delay US forces following up this rapid advance. Saddam Hussein's only real strategic options are to sit tight in Baghdad and hope that his military can inflict casualties on the US and British forces and slow their progress. But the decisive engagement in this war could be close at hand. US and British spokesmen say that air attacks have already begun on the Republican Guard units that stand between the advancing coalition forces and Baghdad. But this is a war of many battles. Defeating Iraqi units loyal to Saddam Hussein is only one part of the US war plan. The direct attack upon the Iraqi regime's nervous system in and around Baghdad is equally important. The US and Britain need Saddam Hussein's regime to collapse and will not want a long standoff at the gates of the city. news.bbc.co.uk That's right. That's the best gloss that the BBC can put on things. The fact is that as we move towards Baghdad, our supply lines get stretched through more and more crowded parts of Iraq and we are more subject to guerilla warfare. This sucks. -- Carl

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