IRAQ - July 5 - US Plans To Attack From 3 Directions.A report in the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times says a US Central Command document titled "CentCom Courses of Action" calls for air, land and sea-based forces to attack Iraq from three directions - the north, south and west - in a campaign to topple Pres. Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein (born April 28, 1937, Tikrit, Iraq—died Dec. 30, 2006, Baghdad) President of Iraq (1979–2003). He joined the Ba'th Party in 1957. Following participation in a failed attempt to assassinate Iraqi Pres. . The document envisions tens of thousands of Marines and soldiers probably invading from Kuwait. Hundreds of warplanes based in eight countries, possibly including Turkey and Qatar, would unleash a huge air assault against thousands of targets, including airfields, roads and fibre-optics communications sites. Special forces or covert CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). operatives would strike at depots or laboratories storing or manufacturing suspected weapons of mass destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or and the missiles to launch them. None of the countries identified in the document as possible staging areas have been formally consulted about playing such a role, US officials said, underscoring the preliminary nature of the planning. US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited US bases in Kuwait and Qatar and the 5th Fleet in Bahrain on his most recent trip to the Gulf region in June. The existence of the document that outlines significant aspects of a "concept" for a war against Baghdad indicates an advanced state of planning in the military even though US Pres. Bush continues to state in public that he has no fine-grain war plan on his desk for the invasion of Iraq. But the concept for such a plan is now highly evolved and is apparently working its way through military channels. The Central Command document does not contain a time line of when US forces could start flowing to the Gulf or how long it would take to put all the forces in place. A US military analyst said: "The Iraqis aren't just going to sit on their butts while we put in 250,000 people". Bush has received at least two briefings from the head of the Central Command Gen. Tommy Franks Tommy Ray Franks (born June 17, 1945 in Wynnewood, Oklahoma) is a retired General in the United States Army, previously serving as the Commander of the United States Central Command, overseeing United States Armed Forces operations in a 25-country region, including the Middle East. on "concept of operations A verbal or graphic statement, in broad outline, of a commander's assumptions or intent in regard to an operation or series of operations. The concept of operations frequently is embodied in campaign plans and operation plans; in the latter case, particularly when the plans cover a series " for a possible attack against Baghdad. The most recent briefing was on June 19, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the White House. A senior US defence official said: "Right now, we're at the stage of conceptual thinking and brainstorming". |
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