posted on May, 25 2003 @ 10:13 PM
The United States plans to increase its military force in Iraq in an effort to stabilize the country.
U.S. officials said nearly 20,000 troops would arrive in Iraq over the next few weeks. This would increase the U.S. force level to about 163,000
troops. Currently, about 145,000 U.S. soldiers are deployed in Iraq.
U.S. troops have disarmed a militia group affiliated with pro-American Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi, as part of a campaign to impose law and order
in Iraq, a political official said Sunday.
But fighters of the biggest Muslim Shi'ite group, trained by Washington's bitter foe Iran, reacted warily to the U.S. military's June 14 ultimatum
for Iraqis to surrender their weapons.
www.worldtribune.com...
(I'll give you a hint, it has nothing to do with stabilizing the region so much as continuing the build up prior to going into the next OPEC
nation... Notice that returning forces are very minimal, but we are STILL mobilizing forces into the region????)