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...project of Wolfowitz's, the organization consists of a group of exiled Iraqi technocrats sympathetic to Chalabi who have been feverishly planning how to restart everything from irrigation to trash collection to oil production as soon as the fighting stops. When they get the word from Garner, they will deploy as liaisons between his temporary American ministers and those Iraqis deemed salvageable from Saddam's sprawling bureaucracy. Over a period of three to six months, the U.S. bosses will hand over their ministries to the I.I.A. as they show their ability to work on their own. That means Chalabi supporters...
Military officials say the Pentagon may put off an all-out ground assault on Baghdad until the Army can deploy 20,000 more troops from the 4th Infantry Division--who left Fort Hood, Texas, for Kuwait this week--to the front lines to reinforce the two forces already in place. As it regroups on the ground, the U.S. plans to ratchet up the pressure from the air. Apache helicopters from the Army's 101st Airborne Division have begun attacking the Republican Guard's Medina division southwest of Baghdad. Warplanes and gunships will try to smash the three Republican Guard divisions...
...fought their way through Nasiriyah and across the Euphrates, but in that city too, fighting continues as Iraqi forces try to reinforce their defenses. Even as they prepare to tackle the Republican Guard units on the outer ring of Baghdad's defenses, coalition forces are also reportedly planning to deploy more of their resources to quell ongoing Iraqi resistance in the south, which has exceeded expectations and raised problems of harassment of supply lines to the Baghdad front...
Active-duty soldiers are doing their job when they deploy, but reservists--truck drivers from California and Maryland, cops and sheriffs from Utah and Maine, helicopter pilots from Georgia, engineers from Alabama--are leaving theirs behind. Ironically, that social disruption is exactly what the Pentagon intended when it redefined the mission of the reserves after Vietnam. Bitter at having been isolated from the rest of American society, it shifted to the reserves many traditional military tasks, like police and logistics. The idea was that any major war would require calling up those part-time soldiers and force sacrifices across...
Blix says December declaration was incomplete but inspectors have not found “smoking guns” indicating weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. British begin to deploy troops. Blair says U.K. and U.S. could act against Iraq without a second U.N. resolution. The chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency says inspectors need “a few months” to finish their work. Inspectors find chemical weapon warheads unaccounted for in the declaration. Arab nations urge Saddam to leave Iraq. U.S. promises immunity if he goes into exile. Thousands of demonstrators protest potential...