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To: NickSE who wrote (91017)	4/7/2003 6:43:38 PM
From: quehubo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I wonder where all these cockroaches are going to scatter too? I suspect some of them are being forced back into Afghanistan. I think the government needs to come up with another brilliant disinformation scheme that would entice all these homicidal lunatics to think they had the upper hand at Bagdad International Airport, or some other convenient place to send them off to Allah. Come one, come all, to get the Americans because they ran out of bullets and will power. President Bush sure as hell is doing one hell of a job.

To: NickSE who wrote (91017)	4/7/2003 6:46:55 PM
From: NickSE	Respond to of 281500

Special Ops steal show as successes mount in Iraq washtimes.com When Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld received briefings on different options for the Iraq war plan, he repeatedly sought a larger role for Special Operations. He got his wish. In the war's first week, more than 10,000 Special Operations forces took part in covert and overt missions. They seized airfields, spread propaganda leaflets, hunted down Ba'ath Party leaders and, last week, rescued an Army private from the clutches of Fedayeen Saddam fanatics. A U.S. official with direct knowledge of war planning said Mr. Rumsfeld repeatedly voiced concern that the strategy devised by Central Command did not make sufficient use of commandos. "This war plan has Rumsfeld's imprint all over it," the official said. "Without Rumsfeld you would not see all these things that Special Operations are doing." The commando force today exceeds the 6,000 deployed for Afghanistan in 2001, which then represented Special Operations' largest war role since Vietnam. [cont'd...]