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Deployments

• 3rd ID deploying all brigades to Kuwait Amry News Service 03 Jan 2003-- The entire 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized) has received deployment orders to Kuwait to join division command and control elements and it's 2nd Brigade, which finished a live-fire exercise in the desert just before the holidays.
• Air Force prepares for major deployment AFPN 03 Jan 2003-- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld directed the deployment of additional forces to support operations Enduring Freedom, Desert Spring and possible future contingencies Dec. 24.
• KUWAIT / GULF WAR VETERANS VOA 03 Jan 2003 -- In 1991 the United States sent military forces to the Persian Gulf to help oust Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Now, 12 years later, the United States is preparing for another fight against Iraq. Gulf War veterans are providing insight and guidance to a new generation of troops who may soon face Saddam Hussein's forces
• KUWAIT / U-S TROOPS VOA 03 Jan 2003 -- In a few weeks, thousands more U-S troops, two aircraft carrier battle groups and additional combat aircraft are scheduled to head to the Persian Gulf in preparation for a possible war with Iraq.

US Policy

• If Force Necessary Against Iraq, U.S. Will Prevail, Bush Says Washington File 03 Jan 2003-- "If force becomes necessary to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction ... to secure our country and to keep the peace, America will act deliberately, America will act decisively, and America will prevail because we've got the finest military in the world," said Bush.
• EDITORIAL: SADDAM AND THE KURDS VOA 03 Jan 2003 -- In 1979, immediately upon coming to power, Saddam Hussein silenced all political opposition in Iraq. He has also tried to silence ethnic and religious minorities. During the Anfal campaign of 1987-1988, the Iraqi regime eliminated more than four-thousand Kurdish villages and forced surviving Kurds into zones. Estimates of the number of Kurds who were killed range as high as one-hundred-eighty-two thousand. Thousands were killed with poison gas
• BUSH IRAQ VOA 03 Jan 2003 -- President Bush says the United States is ready to use force to disarm Iraq if it does not comply with U-N inspectors. Mr. Bush again said Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is defying the United Nations by not disclosing weapons of mass destruction

United Nations

• Tracking the Inspections 03 January 2003RFE/L 03 Jan 2003 -- A total of 44 inspectors visited three sites on 3 January.
• IRAQ / INSPECTORS VOA 03 Jan 2003-- President Bush's comment that he hopes the United States will not have to go to war against Iraq, is being dismissed by that country's newspapers.
• UNMOVIC IAEA Press Statement on Inspection Activities in Iraq UNMOVIC/IAEA 03 January 2003

Foreign Reactions

• KUWAIT / WAR DEBATE VOA 03 Jan 2003 -- Kuwait - a key U-S ally in the Persian Gulf region - could soon become a major launching pad for U-S forces in the event of a U-S led attack on Iraq. Anxiety about a second Gulf War is increasing as Kuwaitis debate what effect another conflict will have on their country and the region

News Reports