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To: NickSE who wrote (422)	3/8/2003 8:54:04 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 504

Huge military front coming out of Jordan to meet up with the Kuwaiti one. Don't think anyone realizes the scope of it yet. Jordan's King, in Gamble, Lends Hand to the U.S. nytimes.com .....Although the cooperation has been masked, it is an open secret in the streets of Amman and in the teeming Palestinian refugee camps where anti-American feelings run high. Travelers on the 250-mile route from Amman to Ruweished, near Iraq, have reported sightings of uniformed American soldiers traveling the highway in unmarked vehicles, and others have reported heavy American equipment being unloaded at Aqaba, Jordan's Red Sea port. Groups of trim, hardened, close-cropped Americans in civilian clothing checking into Amman's hotels on furlough are a common sight. Some are on military duty, others veterans working for private companies under Pentagon contracts. Asked what they have been doing in the desert, they offer wry smiles. "Let's just say that Saddam Hussein is in for a few surprises," said one.....