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To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (80109)3/7/2003 2:50:06 AM
From: FaultLine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
t also raises the prospect of a surprise US land attack on Baghdad across the desert from the south-west. The town of Ar'ar which the airport usually serves is only 255 miles from the Iraqi capital as the crow flies, through mostly unpopulated territory.

Suprise indeed. With all the talk of Saddam flooding areas of the Tigris and Euphrates valleys, this over (dry) land route must complicate the defense of Bagdad.

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--fl