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To: Alighieri who wrote (165121)	3/20/2003 3:38:41 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574784

US Marines Cross Kuwait Border Into Iraq-Officials WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Units of the U.S Marine 1st Expeditionary Force crossed from Kuwait into southern Iraq (news - web sites) to begin securing positions for a thrust northward by U.S. and British troops, U.S. officials said on Thursday. But the officials, who asked not to be identified, cautioned that the troop move and a fresh wave of night bombing and cruise missile strikes on Baghdad did not represent the massive military blitzkrieg promised by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld earlier said the eventual ground and air invasion of Iraq "will be of a force and scope and scale ... beyond what has been seen before." "Believe me, you will know that when you see it," said one of the officials. He contrasted such a massive undertaking with the air strikes on Thursday night in Baghdad, apparently precisely directed against government and military targets near the center of the capital. "I would not read that (full-scale attack) into the move" by the Marines across the demilitarized zone between Kuwait and Iraq, said one of the officials. The Marine unit is part of a combined force of more tan 150,000 U.S. and British troops poised in northern Kuwait near the Iraqi border. "This is all part of the preparation" for a major ground attack, said another U.S. official. "There will be things that you see and things that you don't." story.news.yahoo.com