US already at war inside Iraq

[maury <maury@WEBTEXAS.COM>]

This post may be off topic today, but that status could change

momentarily.

Follows only the 1st paragraph and the URL of this self-explanatory news



item. I've read DEBKA for quite some time and believe it to be a

reputable

Israeli news servivce. The URL allows you to read more if you wish. I

have

seen none of this in usual US news media or sources.

Cheers,

Maury Siskel        maury@webtexas.com

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     US Iraq Campaign Has Its First Engagement

     DEBKAfile Special Military Analysis

               10 August:

America's offensive against Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq has

begun as an exercise in gradualism rather than a D-Day drama.

DEBKAfile's military sources report that tens of thousands of US,

British, French, Netherlands, Australian troops may take part in the

campaign, openly or covertly, but not in massive waves that fling

themselves telegenically on Baghdad. The fact of the matter is that

American military concentrations are already unobtrusively present

in northern and southern Iraq. The US campaign to oust Saddam is

therefore unfolding already, albeit in salami-fashion, slice by slice,

under clouds of disinformation and diversionary ruses -- like the

latest statements by President George W. Bush (No date set yet for

the offensive) and British premier Tony Blair (Plenty of time before

the war begins), or the grave reservations issuing from the Russian,

French and German leaders. The peasoup of deception is further

thickened by utterances in the last 48 hours from Turkish prime

minister Bulent Ecevit, King Abdullah of Jordan, President Hosni

Mubarak of Egypt and the Saudi crown prince Abdullah. They warn

Washington that attacking Iraq would be a terrible mistake, one

which they want no part of.





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