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To: JHP who wrote (3404)	3/22/2003 7:39:15 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 3467

US gives up on Turkey move The Pentagon has abandoned the idea of sending the US army's 4th Infantry Division through Turkey as part of its plan to send US forces into northern Iraq. BBC Pentagon correspondent Nick Childs says it is a measure of how important it was to the Pentagon to use Turkey to send significant ground forces into northern Iraq that it waited this long before abandoning the idea. Now, even as Turkey has opened its airspace to US forces, a senior defence official told the BBC that the ships carrying the heavy equipment for the US army's 4th Infantry Division which have been waiting for weeks in the eastern Mediterranean are, as he put it, heading south for the Persian Gulf. They are expected to head for Kuwait along with the division's 20,000 troops who have also been on standby for weeks back at their base in Texas. The US wanted to move troops across the Turkish-Iraq border Our correspondent says the US military gave up a long time ago on the idea of having a significant troop build up in Turkey in time for the start of any campaign, but it still hoped the troops could deploy through the country as part of follow-on operations. The Pentagon is worried about stability in northern Iraq and is determined to establish some sort of presence there, probably by flying troops in but they will be fewer in number and they will be more lightly armed than the Pentagon would have liked. news.bbc.co.uk