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Has anyone seen any other source on the bit below posted earlier? "DEBKA file's military sources" are usually heavily medicated. >DEBKAfile’s military sources report key American military movements in the >last two weeks in the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and Middle East that >radically shift the strategic focus of the US war on terror westward, >bringing Iraq, Lebanon and its Syrian-controlled Beqaa Valley into range. >The US aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk is heading out of the Arabian Sea, its >task in Afghanistan as a floating command center for air and marine forces >passing to Kuwait and combining with the Third Army command that is moving >out of Atlanta, Georgia. The 70,000-strong US Third Army is being >transferred to Kuwait with several hundred Abrams and Bradley tanks. This >relocation of strength ought to be wound up in early January. Third Army >units will be taking up positions at additional points in the Middle East. >Elements of its elite 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions will be posted in >US bases in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, centering on the giant Sharm >el-Sheikh air base at the southern tip of Sinai, with the northern Red >Sea, western Saudi Arabia and southern Jordan in its sights. Reserves of >those two Third Army divisions are on notice to report after New Year’s >Day for duty in Sharm el-Sheikh. The action is tentatively scheduled for >mid-January. > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk CASI's website - www.casi.org.uk - includes an archive of all postings.