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DEBKAfile Special Military Report

Preparing for the Attack on Iraq

August 12, 2002, 6:41 PM (GMT+02:00)

Notwithstanding official denials, the 4,000 US troops who began landing in Aqaba Monday, August 12, will be transferred to the northeast Jordanian desert region bordering on Iraq. Officially, they have come for a three-week joint exercise with the Jordanian army. But DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the American increment supplements the US force already stationed in Jordan, raising the total to close to 8,000 US troops.
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Turkish Troops Set to Advance on N. Iraqi oil cities – Ahead of US Attack

DEBKAfile Special Military Report

December 25, 2002, 8:30 AM (GMT+02:00)


	Israeli chief of staff Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon pays brief trip to Turkey

The conference held in Turkey on Tuesday, December 24, between Israel’s chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon and Turkish army chief Gen. Hilimi Ozkok, wrapped up the arrangements made by the US, Israel and Turkey for concerted action in the approaching war with Iraq. The operations of their air and missile defenses, as well as their air and naval forces, will be closely synchronized under arrangements that have also made provision against Syria and the Hizballah joining the conflict.

A second key visitor to Turkey Tuesday was Iraqi Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani, whose Patriotic Union of Kurdistan-PUK fighters have been fighting tooth and nail in the past two weeks to fend off the bid by a pro-Saddam force made up of fundamentalist Kurdish Ansar al Islam, al Qaeda and Iraqi intelligence officers, for control of the Halabjah region in northeast Iraq. The pro-Saddam is effectively in control of the Halabjah-Suleimaniyeh highway east of the big oil city of Kirkuk, a circumstance of...
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