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To: Ilaine who wrote (84915)	3/22/2003 11:52:44 AM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

U.S. Apologizes to Iran for Errant Missile abcnews.go.com

To: Ilaine who wrote (84915)	3/22/2003 12:23:38 PM
From: BigBull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

4th Infantry Division is being sent from Texas to join up with their equipment in Kuwait And not a moment too soon. Apparently the southern oil fields are under coalition control. Taking the northern fields would be a major inducement to the RG and SRG to surrender. It would result in the sure knowledge that they would eventually be unpaid and fighting on foot.

To: Ilaine who wrote (84915)	3/22/2003 1:33:03 PM
From: russwinter	Respond to of 281500

Some notes on the Husseingrad defense: globalsecurity.org Any good maps of the area online? ""It was reported that Saddam Hussein has instructed regional government officials that he aimed to defeat a US invasion by avoiding direct military engagements in the open, instead concentrating the Iraqi resistance in major cities where civilian and American casualties would be highest. Hussein's strategy centers on drawing US forces into Baghdad [and other urban area], where Iraqi equipment and troops would not be as exposed to American airpower. In August 2002 it was reported that Iraqi authorities were planting iron rods and barbed wire in large areas around the Iraqi capital Baghdad, a measure they believed would help thwart a possible landing by US paratroops. Thousands of tons of steel, hundreds of trucks and an army of workers and engineers were reportedly involved in the campaign which has fueled fears among Baghdad's nearly five million people that a US attack was imminent. The rods are said to rise at least one meter above the ground and are densely planted to avoid air landing by soldiers or movement by non-mechanized infantry. In August 2002 it was reported that earthmovers were digging positions for mechanized infantry in the outskirts of Baghdad while the army was trying to spread out heavy equipment to make it more difficult for the US warplanes to target. The Republican Guard and the Special Republican Guard corps, the backbone of President Saddam Hussein's loyal troops, were reportedly digging trenches along the shores of the Tigris river in Baghdad. The trenches covered the area opposite the Presidential complex in Baghdad, known as Abu Nawas and once famous for its Mazkouf or grill fish restaurants. Abu Nawas, a popular summer retreat for millions of Baghdadis, was totally under the control of Saddam's troops. Pedestrians and picnickers were not allowed to walk in its parks and its fresh fish-mongers had been sent away. Abu Nawas restaurants and hotels have been turned into military barracks as fears mounted of a massive US military attack. In August 2002 it was reported that militias of the ruling Baath party and the force known as Saddam Commandos have been told to stockpile on food and fuel. The regime is banking on street fighting to repel the Americans if they attack. Reports from inside Iraq said that the authorities had issued more guns and rocket-propelled grenades, or RPG's, to their supporters. Most of the preparations currently under way were similar to those the regime took prior to the 1991 Gulf War over Kuwait. Mark Bowden, the author of "Black Hawk Down," observed that "the kind of urban fighting that members of Task Force Ranger faced in 1993 would little resemble such fighting in Baghdad.... Any assault on Baghdad would almost certainly take place at night after severing electric lines, giving advancing American forces with their night-seeing devices a huge technological advantage. .. Nevertheless, fighting it out with Hussein on the streets of Baghdad would exact a terrible cost.... It is always possible that the Iraqi military will refuse to fight for Hussein, but this is wishful thinking. A foreign army will be invading their capital city. It is far more likely that they will fight, and tenaciously." ["Urban War, The Right Way" Los Angeles Times August 30, 2002]